My interests: Journalism, Politics, International Relations, Urbanism
1 - The New Yorker is the best magazine in the English-speaking world. They employ incredibly good writers.
2 - Without The Guardian, British democracy is utterly fucked. The Brits just don’t know it. Most UK papers are owned by shady characters such as Jonathan Harmsworth. The Brits even have a paper (The Independent) owned by a politically-connected Russian mobster (Evgueni Lebedev).
The Guardian’s non-profit structure gives it more freedom that most UK papers. They often investigate stories the rest of the UK press just won’t touch: Paradise Papers, Panama Papers, Cameron’s tax evasion, etc…
3 - The two best newspapers in France are Le Monde and Mediapart, hands down. Mediapart is a non-profit. Le Monde journalists have special rights and can’t be removed by shareholders. These 2 newspapers are more independent than the rest of the french press.
4 - The Financial Times is the favorite newspaper of elites worldwide. CEOs. Billionaires. Millionaires. Presidents. Prime Ministers. Everyone reads it. And honestly, it’s very solid. The information is always extremely reliable. The FT is also the most expensive newspaper on the planet. But they sometimes publish free stories.
5 - The editorial section of the Wall Street Journal is directly controlled by Billionaire Rupert Murdoch. The WSJ is the jewel of his global media empire. Fox News and the New York Post are for influencing the masses. WSJ editorials actually allow him to have influence over US high income readers.
6 - If you read WSJ editorials, Rupert Murdoch’s ideas are very simple. Labor unions must be crushed. Corporate concentration is good. Netanyahu is a brave man. US military spending is good. Unions should be restricted by tough laws. Environmental rules are bad. Slash taxes on large corporations. Of course, he doesn’t write it openly. But this what virtually most of the WSJ editorial content boils down to.
7 - Many talented reporters work for the Wall Street Journal and end up deeply ashamed of it. It feels like prostitution. Many would much rather work for The Financial Times, New York Times or ProPublica.
Rupert Murdoch employs great reporters at the Wall Street Journal simply because he needs them to acquire credibility in order to influence readers through his WSJ editorials. If the WSJ was 100% full of trash, american high income readers wouldn’t purchase it.
8 - The best coverage of Silicon Valley is an online newspaper called The Information. If you truly want to know what Meta/Adobe/Microsoft executives are up to, read The Information. Most of their readers are very wealthy investors and rival tech executives.
9 - 90% of leftists who attack the New York Times are wrong.
"The New York Times doesn’t go after powerful people"
They literally took down Harvey Weinstein.
They literally went after Rupert Murdoch
“The New York Times is very pro-israel”
They exposed Israeli war crimes.
The Israeli Prime Minister says he hates them.
“The New York Times didn’t warn americans against Trump”
They did. They really did.
“The New York Times doesn’t cover labor rights”
They exposed how the biggest US Corporations illegally use child labor
They exposed Starbucks vicious war against unions
I’m not saying it’s a perfect news organization. A perfect news organization does not exist. But it’s a very solid one. 90% of leftists who attack it are using bad faith arguments.
10 - When it comes to television and radio, public media (PBS, BBC, NPR, CBC) is often more professional, more serious, than corporate media. PBS or CBC make outstanding documentaries. Stuff US/Canadian private networks just wouldn’t make.
11 - Generally speaking, journalism that you pay for is far better than journalism you don’t pay for. This is a general rule, not a law of physics. There are exceptions. The Daily Mail has subscribers. It’s largely non-sense. ProPublica is free. They do stunning investigations.
12 - AIPAC is a powerful lobbying organization. But there is limit to their power. There was an intense AIPAC campaign to stop the President Obama from signing a nuclear agreement with Iran. And he defeated them .
13 - Most Trump tweets aren’t written by Donald Trump. They are written by a dude named Dan Scavino. Most americans have no clue who Dan Scavino is. They wouldn’t know him if they met him in the supermarket.
14 - Having a lot of resources is a curse. Countries that have natural ressources (Iran, Algeria, Nigeria, Russia) tend to be highly corrupt and exploited by a small elite. It’s simple. The elite can take control of the oil fields, the gas fields, the mines. Just sell ressources. Shoot protesters. No need to invest in anything else. It’s much better to live a country with limited resources (Taiwan, Japan, Switzerland). Lack of resources force the elites to invest in science and education. The most unlucky country in Africa is Congo. It’s full of diamonds, forests, oil, gas, lithium, cobalt, rare earth. So Congo has suffered horribly because of that. In fact, it’s still being looted.
15 - If you want to transform an authoritarian regime into a democracy from within, the number 1 tool you need are powerful labor unions. Powerful unions can basically go on a general solidarity strike and shut down an entire economy.
16 - Everything Barack Obama predicted would happen if the US didn’t sign the nuclear agreement with Iran actually happened. Trump left the agreement. Iran started enriching nuclear fuel. Then a major war happened.
17 - Many Middle Easterners are very tribal. Most Israelis see themselves as Jewish first, Israeli second. Syrian druzes think of themselves as Druze first, Syrian second. Many lebanese Shias see themselves as Shia first, Lebanese a distant second. And so on. Their loyalty often lies more to their tribe than to the State they actually live in.
18 - Imperialism was bad. But imperialism didn’t actually cause instability in the Middle East. The most stable period was actually Ottoman Imperialism. For 5 centuries there was commerce and peace. Then, there was the British/French empire. Apart from some episodes of violence, it was stable. But when imperialism ended, it was basically a mess. Jews vs Arabs. Christians vs Sunnis. Arabs vs Persians. Jews vs Shias. Arabs vs Kurds. Alawis vs Sunnis. To this day, many of them have this tribal mindset.
19 - Saying “we don’t speak with terrorists” is completely dumb. Many terrorist organizations later became peaceful. Many terrorist leaders later became statesmen. It’s wrong to say “We can’t make any peace with those who hands are stained with blood”. Get out of here with that non-sense. If you truly want peace, seeking only decent leaders means you aren’t going to find anyone at all. Criminals make peace. This isn’t Scandinavia.
20 - The most ugly, polluted and noisy cities in the world have one thing in common. They have cars everywhere. The best cities in the world (Singapore, Geneva, Copenhaguen) all have one thing in common. They try to aggressively reduce car ownership. If you want to improve the cities, you need to increase parking costs. Pedestrianize streets. Build bike lanes. The hard part is the politics. Car owners see the short term pain. They never see the long term gains.
What are things you know because of your personal interests that most people have no idea about ?
I know more than I ever planned on knowing about audio equipment.
The first thing you need to know is that you cannot defeat physics with marketing hype. I don’t give a flying fuck how many wave guides Bose talks about or all the technology under the sun, you need a big speaker to make deep bass. There is nothing anyone can say or do to change this.
And when you look up audio equipment, ignore the “music power” because they will state what is the momentary maximum power the speaker can handle… but we don’t play micro seconds of MAX power music, we play steady audio… what you need to know is the RMS power the device can handle or output.
Furthermore, audio cables are a complete sham. You can take any power cable from a discarded vacuum, boom, you’ve got speaker cable. But but gold connectors… Yeah no.
Yeah, there’s a lot of snake oil in the audio world.
You’re spending five thousand dollars on solid gold cables that were soldered by blind monks then braided by trained gerbils, in an attempt to get the highest fidelity possible. Meanwhile, the album was recorded using the cheapest 10¢ per ft star-quad cable the studio could find, and $4.50 Neutrik connectors that were soldered by the studio’s unpaid intern.
There have been multiple instances where I have seen someone asking for advice on trying to track down an intermittent buzz in their system. They had people saying they needed to totally rethink their entire system, they had to buy thousands of dollars of new gear, completely change how they had everything routed… When all they needed was a 5¢ ferrite bead.
Chef’s kiss on this comment. I have been selling high-end audio gear for 2 years since I accidentally got good at it
I have never met a single person through this entire adventure who even knows what these are, and I’m continually laughed at and questioned why I would save them lol
They are inductors.
IF you put enough inductor 'round a cable, you can choke the change-in-current-flow in the cable, thereby removing frequencies from its transmission.
You will notice that inductors are used in power-supply-filtering circuits, along with capacitors, to reduce the changes in the supplied power…
Putting them on signal cables, means they have to be calibrated to what frequency they are trying to oppose, around that conductor…
People who just add them, for “magic” reasons, may have the right underlying idea, of trying to filter-out noise, but … you have to understand how noise is interacting with a specific signal, among specific conductors, to know how to stop it, right?
Same as when I was a boy & offered a tiny 9V battery to help start a car: I didn’t understand that the current required was thousands of times greater than what I was offering.
( this is for anyone who wants to know what those things are: they’re ferrites: iron-oxide inductors, that people put around cables, to choke harsh noise from them, for specific frequencies, for specific material-variations ( there are several kinds of ferrites ), for specific cables )
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Oh, for the people who say that waveguide-boxes for speakers are identical to closed-boxes for speakers, … the textbooks I’d read, years ago, had different equations for solving those 2 categories of speaker-box, so, no, I don’t buy that they are identical.
It’s entirely-possible that I’m wrong, but that is what the evidence I encountered in the domain gave me.
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John Carver torpedoed the “golden ear” self-deluded class, one time, purrfectly…
He had them appear to review/compare a pair of prototype amplifiers…
They did, eventually coming to the consensus that 1 was categorically better than the other.
Then John Carver removed the covers, & the ONLY difference between the amps, was the packaging they were in: the circuit-boards were identical.
He had ZERO respect for all the snake-oil bullshit stuff going on.
I’ve dug-into speaker-builder books enough to know that yes, waveguides do make difference in acoustics, & yes, you can hear that difference ( compared with plain-box speakers that are closed, all 'round ).
I have not paid-for any of the speaker-builder software ( & Linux has some FLOSS stuff, in that domain, anyways, now ),
but yes, it is actual-fact, that to make lower-frequencies of sound, you need bigger speaker-drivers.
For high-fidelity concert, I’d want 15" drivers, or pairs-of-12"-ones, on the sound-reinforcement speakers, if it were needing good quality bass. ( for a Liquid-Jungle genre concert, or something )
( I can’t hear low-enough to hear the lowest human-hearable frequencies, but others can: it’d matter for them, right? )
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Be careful with that makeshift speaker cabling though. If you’re using small gauge power cables, you could easily melt those cables with a powerful enough audio signal.
You’d be hard-pressed to find an amplifier that could output so much power it would melt a vacuum power cable or lamp cord lol
Light-duty power cables can handle like 1,400-1,800W you’re never going to find anything that can output even close to that… unless you are the audio/hardware guy for outdoor concerts.
Of course, don’t use angel-hair wires
Would you use this as speaker wire?
https://www.amazon.com/Conductor-Electrical-Oxygen-free-Automotive-2AWG-32-8FT/dp/B093LCQQFY/
I wouldn’t.
I’m just saying be careful. Power cables aren’t all equal. Anyone doing this should understand what kind of wire they need, and make sure they’re not using one that’s too thin.
Stuff like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Cordless-Charger-XBCHGX140-Replacement-Charging/dp/B0BFDFXYR4/
Is unsafe, even though it’s for a (rechargeable) vacuum.
Use ANY shielded-cable which can handle the current, & has the right kind of connectors on the ends.
Period.
That’s the ONLY 3 criteria I care about, now.
That’s why I recommend Cat6A cable for the foil-shielding in it, to block alien-crosstalk, in ethernet setups: you don’t get speed-degradation-due-to-alien-crosstalk.
All the screaming that computer-speakers did, when a GSM phone was near them, that was due to lack-of-shielding.
Find any trustworthy site which lists AWG vs Amperage, & you’ll see what current you can put on that gauge of wire.
Match your current-carrying-capability, & don’t go overboard ( 2AWG for speakers for anything less than a DisasterArea concert, is stupid ).
Signal travels through copper at around 0.7 * speed-of-light ( impedance monkeys it, at higher-frequencies, audio’s functionally DC, for cables )
& the OP wasn’t talking about cordless-rechargeable vacuum-cleaners, but for normal vacuuming-the-whole-floor vacuum-cleaners, which have … 14AWG wire, roughly, in 'em.
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Yes, so, basically what I said. Be careful and understand what you need.
If you’re thinking from the mind of someone who understands current, of course you wouldn’t use 26 awg wire for speakers. When you’re giving advice online though, you have to think from the mind of someone who doesn’t have your same knowledge. OP telling someone “just use a vacuum cleaner power cable” isn’t specific enough, because they don’t have the knowledge OP has to understand what that means.
I completely agree with OP that speaker wire is generally a rip off, and using any suitable wire is fine. I just want OP to also say that you need to know what you’re doing, or you could start a fire.
I’ll give you an anecdote to hopefully illustrate my point. A while ago I was hanging out in a friend’s backyard on a chilly night. She wanted to provide some warmth for the guests, so she brought out two space heaters and a power strip. She plugged them in and turned them on and they ran for about 30 seconds, and the circuit breaker tripped. She went over to it and flipped it back on, and then about 30 seconds later it tripped again.
I’m not saying this to disparage her, but to illustrate that many people don’t understand current, and don’t realize what is and isn’t dangerous when it comes to electricity. It wasn’t unreasonable for her to assume that would work, and it wasn’t unreasonable for her not to understand why it wasn’t. The breaker is there for exactly that reason. When you’re talking about making your own wire, it’s too easy to get it wrong if you don’t know what you’re doing, and that could cause a fire.
Understanding that you need more conductor-cross-section to carry more current’s sooo fundamental to me, that that itself is a problem, obviously…
I’d presumed that telling people to go search for AWG that can carry whatever-current, would be enough…
The 14AWG point, though, should do for apartment-dwellers & normal home-owners.
( seriously, if you’re doing some kind of mega-installation, & you’re putting 20A circuits in, specifically for your amps, then you’d better be able to calculate Ohm’s law, for your speakers, & work-out what currents are required for them )
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You can clean dirty/corroded electronic edge contacts with a pencil eraser. Also helps equally as cleaning preparation before soldering.
Go ahead and try it yourself on an old penny, it’ll clean up and look shiny as new. Same principle for electronics.
My dad taught me this!
Awesome!
Yeah, there’s one drawback though, if the edge contacts or whatever trace was originally gold plated, the pencil eraser trick will pretty quickly wear away the gold plating.
But… If you got corroded gold plated contacts, the gold plating itself is the least of your worries, you want clean metal…
Gold doesn’t corrode, Hoomin…
If it’s corroded where the gold wasn’t … that’s different.
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I’m well aware of that actually. But if the gold plating is already worn and/or pitted, then the copper underneath will corrode through and even on top of the gold.
Plus, if it counts for anything, I happen to have an open faced USB-A flash drive on my pocket keychain, that actually does still have its gold contact plating, but just looking at it right now, I’ll have to clean the contacts once again from pocket crud before I use it again.
In that case though, I usually just lick my thumb, wipe the contacts clean, and dry it off with my shirt. Gold itself might not inherently corrode, but it can and will still get dirty, plus that plating is super thin and just regular use will eventually wear it away down to the bare copper underneath.
Please stick a cap on it, if you want it to last.
Tech that works is worth protecting.
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I learned this when I was a kid, and the only problem is that nowadays, I haven’t seen a pencil nor its eraser and probably 15 years.
Still, a pretty great tip!
Normal people use alcohol or flux
I do a ton of electronics repair, would never in a million years think that an eraser is going to do anything but make my life harder
OK… But have you tried it?
Why would I do that? So I can fuck up my precision solders on expensive boards??? I need my electrical connections to be free of dirt and debris, and the way to accomplish that is by cleaning it with a solvent or flux. Using an eraser is the equivalent of rubbing it with your fingers… you’re not going to remove the small particulate or oils. Haven’t tried it; won’t. Its piss-poor advice.
Edit downvoters don’t seem to be aware that the last thing you need on a solder site is eraser particulate. Do yourself a favor, go rub a pencil eraser on two things and then try to solder them together without cleaning with flux or alcohol. Send pics lol
We who’ve done it blow the particles away to get them out of the area.
It’s a practice used when cleaning ( by sanding, grinding, etc ) throughout industry.
The removing-film & surface-dirt with an eraser is valid, but not cleanroom, obviously.
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A good rubber eraser also takes sticker adhesive right off of most surfaces, safely.
Wait wait wait, for real? I’m 42, how did I not know this?
The real LPT is always in the comments.
Ha, yeah. Snap-On sells a 400$ tool that takes 30$ consumable rubber wheels. Or you could use a 99 cent pink pencil eraser.
Snap-On’s Snap-On: they are a BRAND-Identity, not an engineering-actual-solutions-to-acutal-problems company.
There’s a Project Farm, or something, yt-channel, where they guy just does comparative-tests of different products, to see what the truth is, & … it’s a resource all ought be knowing-about.
Ha I DID remember its name right! https://www.youtube.com/@ProjectFarm/videos
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Having a lot of resources is a curse. Countries that have natural ressources (Iran, Algeria, Nigeria, Russia) tend to be highly corrupt and exploited by a small elite. It’s simple. The elite can take control of the oil fields, the gas fields, the mines. Just sell ressources. Shoot protesters. No need to invest in anything else. It’s much better to live a country with limited resources (Taiwan, Japan, Switzerland). Lack of resources force the elites to invest in science and education. The most unlucky country in Africa is Congo. It’s full of diamonds, forests, oil, gas, lithium, cobalt, rare earth. So Congo has suffered horribly because of that. In fact, it’s still being looted.
This isn’t actually true. You can look at the Nordic countries which are very oil rich and owe a lot of their prosperity to that. The United States is pretty resource rich as well. What is a curse is imperialism, and having lots of resources attracts lots of imperialists. The “oil curse” or “resource curse” is a myth made up to whitewash imperialists and absolve them of guilt.
Strap in and let me tell you about my special interest, Iranian history. In the 1800s, before the discovery of oil, Iran was ruled by an extremely corrupt line of shahs who sold out every part of the impoverished country to fund their lavish lifestyles and massive harems - to the point that other countries had to step in and say that they weren’t allowed to sell out that much of the country. But the Iranian people were upset by this state of affairs, and staged a massive boycott, which set the stage for a mass movement in 1905 that established a democratic parliament and a constitution, with the support of an overwhelming majority, including the clergy (a fatwa was actually issued declaring violating the boycott to be haram). Iran was well on it’s way to becoming a peaceful, prosperous, democratic society - but then the Fire Nation attacked, in the form of the British and Russian Empires moving in, shelling the parliament building and dividing the nation between themselves, like a pack of wolves.
The Iranian people suffered tremendously in the following years, with major plagues, famines, and genocide conducted by the Ottoman Empire. Of course, the Russian Empire collapsed, the British took the opportunity to unify the country, propping up a shah of a new dynasty as their puppet. That shah proved uncooperative during WWII, and the Allies invaded to set up supply lines between the Eastern and Western fronts and to secure the Iranian oil (which had now been discovered), and the shah was forced to abdicate to his son, who the British found more amenable.
The British technically owned the rights to Iran’s oil, but the deal they had made was with the previous dynasty (Qajar). The one that had been selling out their country to an absurd degree, the one that had been overthrown by the people precisely because they were selling out the country, and so naturally the deal they had struck with the British regarding oil (which had been made before oil had even been discovered in Iran) gave them extremely lucrative terms. But it actually didn’t matter how lucrative the terms were because the British were just straight up stealing it. They falsified their records and forbid any kind of inspection of their facilities.
This led the Iranian people to once again mobilize in support of democracy and self-rule. As outrage over the exploitation grew, the shah, who had previously rubber-stamped anyone the British picked, began to fear his own people more than the British and appointed democratic reformer Mohammad Mossadegh as prime minister. After the Iranians had watched the British stonewall them for decades, Mossadegh nationalized the oil industry with overwhelming public support. Iran was once again on track to becoming a peaceful, democratic, independent country.
But the British set up a naval blockade that crippled their economy. Iranians, at this point, had a neutral to positive view of the US, and hoped that it would live up to its stated ideals and support them against the British. The British, meanwhile, expected the Americans to back up their “property rights.” President Truman threw up his hands in frustration, seeing both sides as intransigent. But Churchill simply waited him out, and offered his successor Eisenhower British support in Korea and NATO in exchange for the CIA launching a coup, and so Iran was passed around like a bargaining chip. Mossadegh’s commitment to democratic ideals allowed the CIA free reign, he didn’t crack down on the press despite the CIA controlling virtually all the newspapers, he didn’t crack down on protests while the CIA was hiring protesters on both sides, etc. Naturally, he was ousted (although the CIA denied it/covered it up for decades), and the shah was given much more power (which he used to hunt down and exterminate the Iranian left) and the oil kept flowing.
But after a few decades, once again, outrage over the exploitation came to a head, and the shah, seeking to appease his people, participated in a multinational oil boycott. But as a result, his foreign support was withdrawn, which set the stage for the Islamic Revolution. President Carter, against the advice of his state department, allowed the shah to take refuge in the US. Naturally, this outraged the Iranians, because the US had previously staged a coup to install the very same man as a dictator. In retaliation, some of the revolutionaries seized the US embassy and took hostages. This of course led to a breakdown in relations between the US and Iran.
And so, Iran is often held up as an example of this supposed “resource curse” that leads to political instability (not to mention the old line about “Islam is incompatible with democracy”), but the reality is that the country had multiple times in its history where it could’ve become stable, peaceful, democratic, and independent, but those chances were destroyed, not by Iranians, but by foreign imperialists, the vile colonial empires of the British and Americans. Had they simply been left alone, they would not have suffered from this supposed “resource curse.” If you look into the history of any similar country, you will find a similar story. But the history of these countries are simply not taught and not known in the imperial core, and so other explanations are invented.
There is a “Wilhelm Scream” for TV police radio chatter. It’s a sound effect that you’ve probably heard hundreds of times without realising it. I first encountered it while playing SimCity 3000 and it has bugged me for 20 years because I couldn’t work out what was said.
Here is the soundbite and an extensive list of TV show episodes and movies where it’s been spotted:
Now, I think I cracked it last year:
Please go listen to it for a few times and write down what is being said before you read my analysis
Spoiler
“Beta, scrub for one-forty-eight-nine St Andrews; prowler heard, not seen.”
She’s saying that the Beta (backup) unit(s) should scrub (cancel) their dispatch order to 1489 St Andrews because the alpha unit no longer needs backup. The complainant has said that a prowler (someone lurking outside) was heard, but not seen. Probably the alpha unit suspects it to be a false alarm on that basis.
This is only my guess, based on listening to it 1 billion times, but it seems to fit the context of the soundbite. Why she refers to backup as “Beta” instead of the NATO phonetic “Bravo” is a bit odd, but maybe that’s just her preference, or maybe current NATO phonetic wasn’t as common in policing in the 70s
This feels well known but…
Adding split screen to games is actually a very funky process.
It changes how the UI works, input setup, how sounds are handled, how some effects are done, how optimizing is worked on, it significantly increases testing and QA time because split screen may have its own unique bugs, and other quirky problems due to either the game’s or engine’s design (most of the time split screen is not a high priority focus compared to other features)
All that for something a very small percentage of players will even look at.
I often see people lament the lack of split screen games, and I do wish there were more, but its a hard sell and I can see why many games abandon it completely.
(Save for a few that made it entirely their focus, like split fiction)
I’d say that for anyone wanting to understand the archetypes, the underlying-Patterns, the “skeleton” underlying games they NEED to hit Architect of Games yt-channel, too.
People not interested in understanding how such things work wouldn’t care about what he’s giving us, but … he cuts right through appearances, to get-into the underlying level…
https://www.youtube.com/@ArchitectofGames/videos
AND understanding what kind of gamers there are, you then need to understand what Nick Yee discovered:
The 2nd video, then the 1st, here:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Nick+Yee+gamer+motivations+gdc
AND understanding the 14 GENRES is required, too…
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?query=John+Truby&fclanguages=en
( anybody who disses that book needs their head examined: there may be 2 fundamental mistakes in it,
1 being the root of humor, which is surprising-violation-of-expectations, and NOT “the drop”, which is a UK & US specific thing ( other put-down cultures, too )…
Hofstadter’s “Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” explained that humor is simply a strange loop, ie a moebius-strip, where one walks around in a “circle”, but now one’s upside-down for some reason?!?
So, Hofstadter got MUCH deeper than Truby, on that point…
& the other being that the archetype-of-village is the Tribal Mother Village, and not the US’s Wild West village.
Other than those 2 cockups, though, his meanings are profound.
Each of the genres is human-unconscious-mind working at understanding, through imprinting, 1 kind of meaning.
Horror is unconscious-mind trying to get its handle on death.
Action is unconscious-mind trying to get its handle on “morality? morality’s irrelevant: ACTION decides everything.”, ie it’s trying to find its place between inertia & action…
Detective is unconscious-mind trying to convince itself completely-enough that intellect can conquer everything.
etc…
It’s stupendously important understanding, that book…
Anybody wanting to make either a story or story-game, they’d better understand BOTH Truby’s books, & Coyne’s “The Story Grid”, too!
( The Story Grid is THE book on editing. )
Yagoda’s book on Voice is important for people doing writing…
Weissman’s book “Presenting to Win” is absolutely crucial for anybody wanting to understand the fundamental-archetypes of presenting-information, & in stories, it can make-or-break one’s writing, too…
say one has a character who has to fail-to-communicate something, to make the story work right…
Well, if you don’t know th archetypes-of-presenting-information, then you’re likely to botch that, aren’t you?
But if you do know, then just pick from the archetypes which one suits the work, & impliment it!
There’s writing software in Linux called Manuskript or something like that, which is wonderful for helping one write structured stuff, simply because it sets the overall-structure 1st, then you are more filling it in…
not suited to all things, but sometimes it greases-the-wheels sooo good…
a good mind-mapper for always-on-one idea-capture is important, for anybody who is committed to publishing their work, later…
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Oh, & this insight was from when I was watching an AoG video, a few years ago?
There’s a game ( I’m not a gamer, at all: don’t feel any point in it ) called, iirc, Rainworld, where there are many creatures in this world one has got living in…
you go 'round exploring in this world…
the creatures have their own lives, so behaviors evolve, while you are playing, & local-ecologies can change while you are away
THAT is object-oriented programming.
Functional doesn’t work that way.
Emergent-complexity is something that OOP produces ( which is why it can be the enemy of managing-complexity ), & pure-functional-programming eradicates.
( I’m differentiating between Class-Hierarchy-Oriented-Programming, like Java, vs everything-is-an-object type programming, like Ruby/Crystal: the book on Object Oriented Programming in Ruby helped me understand the category-difference, though I never finished reading it.
CHOP is brittle, whereas true-OOP isn’t, the same way. )
So, each of those creatures had their own state, their interactions had their-own histories, etc…
That’s OOP.
Choose the tool that’s right for that job, see?
Character-engines need to be OOP!
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( a litle context for people who see that I’ve jumped-in, in-depth, in multiple domains, in this post:
I’m autistic, retired-for-many-years, & fighting-off 3 waves ( in different decades ) of MASSIVE brain-injury, through thinking & forcing-healing … where the medical-profession ordered me to just drug myself into an acceptable psychiatric-zombie, on major-tranquilizers ( like Thorazine/Chlorpromazine ), & wait until I died.
I dig-into EVERYthing I care to understand, & am not satisfied until it makes sense to me, at the grass-roots level I want.
So, yeah: lots of stuff about competent-programming, philosophy sociology, speaker-building, science, space, religions, fluid-dynamics, engineering, functional-design, safety, management-processes, leadership, ALL kinds of stuff!
You get FAR when you spend a 1/2-century studying, while others are socializing, you know?
White medicine told me that me healing was just, itself, my psychiatric-delusion: “healing isn’t possible”, for the literal-brain-decimation I’d experienced as the 2nd wave of brain-injury…
I spent multiple-years much-of-the-time catatonic ( intermittently ), so I’ve been a human-rutabaga ( eyes-open, drooling, nobody-home, fighting-with-all-my-strength-to-EXIST-in-my-brain-for-hours ).
The reason I got better is because I finally decided that they were contradicting evidence-based-medicine, which they were, & set-about engineering healing into me.
I’ve had multiple-comments deleted from this site for “medical misinformation” when I describe the DOABLE EXPERIMENT that people with autism can do, to prove the mitigation that Walsh published, years ago, actually works, … so I’ll not bother trying again:
“evidence-based” medicine means authority-based medicine, as I linked-to with this: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25433 … & Lemmy.World stands absolutely behind authority-based-medicine-that-calls-itself-evidence-based-medicine, I’ve learned.
That article became a chapter in one of John Brockman’s books, btw, so it isn’t “just” a web-page: it’s properly published, in a book, which you can see here: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/this-idea-must-die
Anyways, digging into a subject to “sufficient” depth has very different meaning for students-seeking-passing-grade, than it does for an autistic who wants to understand & command a domain’s meanings/knowledge-functions.
Anyways, as I’ve stated on another of my comments, in this post: feel free to block me, site-wide, so you never see any “pollution” of mine, ever again, when logged-in, here.
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What makes the NYT so good? And why is The Guardian so important?
NYT’s an institution, it isn’t that its journalism is better-quality or better-integrity…
I remember in the US elections, NYT was … silent … on the Progressive’s issues, & voices…
They were suppressing them, systematically…
I found this infuriating, because for me the difference between Journalism & “journalism”/propaganda is a religious issue:
Integrity’s a REQUIREMENT, self-inherently!!
Anyways, a few years later, a brainrot show called “Joe Rogan” had a guest on, who identified that CNN & NYT intentionally “shut down” ( his term ) the Progressives, including Bernie Sanders…
I’ve read that the board/committee which decides the Pulizer-Prize is stacked by NYT, in order that they remain dominant in the media-empires landscape…
& their systematic normalizing of things which should be attacked by actual Journalism, these last few years…
& finally, they make it their paradigm that only-the-paying-get-true-access, so therefore, as another here on Lemmy.World so accurately pointed-out, something like…
~ if a new & important news event happens, I can go look for news on it, but NYT paywalls it, & Fox doesn’t: so what do I have to read, to find out what’s going on? ~
( very bad paraphrase, but that’s the gist of it: I think in abstract-shapes, & that’s the English-approximation of the abstract-shape I’m remembering )
NYT’s woven deeply into the upper-middle-class identity.
You can’t defeat identity when acting within any socio-political domain…
The Boston Globe was the newspaper that broke the Catholic relocating-molester-officials story, they were excellent, I don’t know if they’re any good now, because … yet-again, the upper-middle-class news is paywalled.
Nobody seems to understand that accountability, including both whistleblowing and Journalism with a capital-J, are national security requirements, strategically…
shrug
We’re watching the “drug-addict” of human-civilization choose its disinformation-drugs instead of surviving its addiction…
This is going to be the worst century our planet has ever had, unfortunately…
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Oh, Paul Fussell’s books on the North American Class System are eye-openers, in case you want it to pop into your eyes more starkly…
( fixed a typo: eyes, not yes! Bah! : )
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There’s an existing cure for most chronic diseases. Unfortunately, no one seems to care, so it will likely never be available.
OP, given your knowledge of news media, perhaps you have some ideas of how to get coverage of the issue? I’ve written to dozens of news outlets about it.
IF that link is about fecal-transplant, to put a healthy biome into people,
THEN just taking a good pro-biotic, instead, puts a good microbiome into one ( cures diahrea in 2-ish hours ), if one takes it with a probiotic-supporting meal ( like one’s favorite diverse meal, including each of the kinds of food one eats, some starches, some proteins, etc… ), seems FAR saner, in my eyes.
The whole “you need a fecal-transplant procedure” thing is a scam, in my eyes, because pro-biotics provably work, after one’s gut has gotten borked ( by food-poisoning, by antibiotics, by whatever ), & it works in mere hours.
Repeatedly good pro-biotics have un-wrecked my gut, after things like food-poisoning ( & I’m a guy who’s racked-up 7+ years of outright-homelessness, so food-preservation isn’t always possible ).
Dad had been a medical-researcher: he taught me to think.
Getting the right diversity of microbes ( you need both Lactobacillus & Bifido strains, multiple of each ) in one’s gut doesn’t, in any way whatsoever, require any clinical-procedure.
It requires a good bottle of pro-biotics, of a good, trustworthy brand.
Doing the experiment is something that people can do on their own.
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For me, that would be Protestant Historicism and practicing the Scriptures as was intended in the First Century (I have a 1599 GNV I like to use, but also YLT using Obsidian MD).
For an explanation on this matter, me calling out the actions of Catholic and Jesuit-aligned interests had really ticked off a lot of people on Lemmy (which got me classified as a troll, despite no proof of me being a troll, and being as civil and professional as I can be… though the latter I needed to work on). I know that many of the events happening 'round the world are because of one country’s iron grip: Italy’s.
Now, you may be asking “Sokio, why Italy?” That is where the Vatican stands, where it’s been controlled by the Jesuit Superior General (the top dog in the Jesuit Order) since 1798 when he pulled off what would be the 5th Vial of Revelation (the removal of the Popes of Rome from civil and ecclesiastical power). This ended a 1,260 year prophecy that was fulfilled from 538 (after the Dukedom of Rome was overthrown by the Popes) to 1798.
There’s a lot I can go into, but this is the context I wanted to provide as to why many absolutely hated what I had to say on Lemmy from this point of view I’ve held since early 2025.
So are you like a crazy person?
“crazy” is what White-religion automatically deems Indigenous-religions, what Scientism automatically deems meditation, etc: it is usually just cultural-programming’s prejudice.
I happen to hold that there are 2 fundamentally-distinct domains that human-history has to be considered in, separately, in order to be able to understand anything properly in history:
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the profound collective-unconscious level, with its myths, its archetypes, its currents, its trashing-the-world-for-sake-of-its-egos-and-identities level…
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& the SurfaceMind level, of details that we pretend are the “causes” in history.
The most-perfect example of the deeper level’s action controlling our history … is that assassination of some guy which started WW1: it didn’t need to happen at the originally chosen place, it only needed to happen, & humankind’s unconscious-mind made it happen, even acting through complete-bullshit level of “mere coincidence” ( the guy being shot from a cafe, or something, after the hit-man had missed the original hit-location’s time, or something like that )
Therefore, the scientifically-testable-predictions in various religious-traditions, like “ecological collapse of both terrestrial & marine food-webs, lots more earthquakes & storms” is absolutely inevitable when it is dropped-into the original Industrial Revolution of the Roman Empire, because once humankind ( the category, on ANY world ) gains that, original Industrial Revolution, then Newton et al become inevitable, one “Age” later.
& once that later Industrial-Revolution cascade happens, … then ripping-out the until-then Climate, & altering plate-tectonics’s forces with the immense ice-removal ( thereby multiplying the earthquakes expression, during that ClimatePunctuation ) … all that becomes inevitable for the toddler-with-nukes species who’s living on that world.
IOW, that scientifically-testable-prediction can be dropped into ALL worlds who hit the original Industrial Revolution, and it will come true, inevitably in either all, or in nearly-all, of them.
The fact that that scientifically-testable-prediction happened to be in the Christian bible’s “book of Rev” doesn’t matter to me: it matters whether it tests-to-be-true.
Empiricism.
White medicine does authority-based-medicine-that-identifies-as-evidence-based, & Scientism is the same thing, only in Academia.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nindia.2015.148
White medicine is adamant that Ayurveda is only delusion, baseless “woo”.
NO amount of evidence will ever have any power to falsify that ideological axiom that White medicine stands on.
Here is an article, which became a chapter-in-a-book, calling-out medicine for being authority-based-medicine, while identifying-as evidence-based medicine ( but they didn’t have the spine to call it industrial/professional gaslighting, as I do )
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25433
So, is it “crazy” to claim that evidence backs Ayurveda’s 3-fundamental-metabolisms & 4-composite-metabolisms, as White medicine adamantly insists it is “crazy” or “woo” to claim??
XOR is it in contempt of integrity to disallow evidence, because one’s ideology prohibits that, while gaslightingly identifying as evidence-based knowing, of any kind?
HERE ARE OVER 8000 SCIENTIFIC-PAPERS WITH “AYURVEDA” IN THEM, THAT WHITE-MEDICINE IDEOLOGICALLY-DISALLOWS:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=ayurveda
Also search for Prakriti for some that are missing from that set, but not many, if you want the evidence based medicine.
All this to say that human-reality is SOOO deeply-complex in cause-effect relationships, that the sorts of things that the person you’re calling “crazy” may well be accurately describing a set-of-forces that is simultaneously beneath-our-notice and violating-our-prejudices, and be both accurate & precise in its being true, to some significant degree.
Finally, here’s a treasure, from the Christian book of Rev, that has nothing to do with religion:
John of Patmos, the Rev guy ( different from the gospel guy: totally different writing-style ), wrote of being given the Book of Truth, to eat…
so, he ate it.
It was syrupy-sweet in his face, but bitter in his belly.
Why?
Because superficial-truth, apparent-truth, ideological-“truth”, mere-idea-truth is syrupy-sweet, in one’s face,
but completely digested experience-induced-understanding is bitter, in one’s belly.
That bit in their bible was giving us one of the most important & profound PSYCHOLOGICAL truths around … and apparently nobody recognized it for what it was.
It wasn’t just “religious nonsense” as many held all to be, it was incisive required-for-growing-up Truth, of the psychology domain, right there, for all to have.
But it was seen only through “religious” glasses, & therefore rejected, even though its truth is both testable & obvious, once one has understood the meaning for what it is.
Wisdom once instructed us: “1st seek to understand…”
That consistently is true, though it also is true that once one has true understanding, one does have to act, to cut-from-our-world disinformation & machiavellianism, & narcissism…
The dimensions-of-human-evil that I’ve found testably-exist are, so-far:
- narcissism
- machiavellianism
- sociopathy-psychopathy
- nihilism
- sadism
- systemic-dishonesty
- displacement-of-objectivity-for-ideology/prejudice
- displacement-of-considered-reasoning-for-ideology/prejudice
Contrast that with the psychology-profession’s “Dark Triad” of narcissism/machiavellianism/psychopathy, & you see they outright reject many of the dimensions I’ve found testably-are dimensions of human-evil.
( yeah, that-too is specialized-knowledge that few would know, IF one takes it to be knowledge, as I do, … or as bunk, as Establishment does.
Empiricism, however, isn’t established-majority’s rule: it is Objective Truth’s rule!
Muhahahaha, eh? : )
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For all who don’t want to see any of my in-depth stuff, just block me on Lemmy.World, & the filter-bubble will protect you from perceiving any of my “polluting” your world, anymore, within-site.
For a perspective on what-was-benJoseph’s-actual-religion that is different, I’m asking you to please read these items, & see how they interlock excellently:
- the beginning of “The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible”, for the fact that benJoseph in the new testament names the bible the Essene way, & when I checked, it validated.
- a yt-channel has a video by “Paulogia” on Jesus & the Essenes
( you will notice that once one understands that benJoseph was Essene … then suddenly mainstream Judaism’s HATING him becomes … absolutely normal, doesn’t it? Essenes competed against the mainstream-establishment! )
- Cannon’s “Jesus and the Essenes” ( please disregard all Cannon’s beliefs, but simply consider Suddi’s tesimony. Suddi contradicted the Catholic-upbringing that convicted Pontius Pilate of evil-intent, but Suddi contradicts this? I dug into the Christian bible, & … in 3 gospels, it testifies how Pontius Pilate fought against rule-of-unjust-legalism, for rule-of-Just-law, & how he failed, & then washed his hands of the crime he couldn’t prevent … & in 1 of those gospels, after that evidence, it orders the believer to hold that Herod & Pilate were “of one heart”, which is a lie: they were on opposite sides. I’d never have noticed this, except for Suddi’s contradiction of what the Christian bible & the Nicene Creed, which also convicts Pilate, … had imprinted into me!
- Thomas Ragland’s “The Eightfold Path of Christ” ( shows how the new-testament is filled with evidence of Sutra Buddhism: benJoseph put that evidence there! Does it count? Not to believers, it doesn’t. Which is more-valid? benJoseph’s actual religion, XOR the religion that the believers make, about their root-guru? Your answer to that controls whether you dig with open-heart & open-spirit, or not, doesn’t it? in Science, one’s worldview MUST yield to evidence, consistently! : )
- Karen King’s, or Mark M. Mattison’s, translation of the Gospel of Mary ( they provide the 3 key evidences. Other “translations”, like the aweful “The New New Testament”, muddle it enough to prevent one seeing the key evidences. )
- Cannon’s “They Walked with Jesus” ( again, disregard her beliefs: no, the English-monarchy ISN’T the bloodline of benJoseph. Michael Bradley’s “The Columbus Conspiracy” identifies evidence that the Templars were guarding the bloodline, but he missed 2 key evidences: Columbus had Black crew, who were buried in the crew graveyard in the Americas, that they made, & also benJosephs’s “Father, Father, why have you abandoned me?” line, which would have been inevitable, after he broke his inner-yoga to get someone pregnant. His identifying of all the other evidence backing that bloodline hypothesis stands up much better, when you see the evidence he missed. Cannon had both machiavellian/malevolant & honest/good guides, & couldn’t tell which was which, unfortunately, so her stuff’s ALL over the place, for trustworthiness. Her Nostradamus trilogy is trustworthy, IF one keeps in-mind that Michel de Notradame was living in a different history/worldline than we are ( yes, free-will is physics-real ), … IF one does that, THEN … that trilogy becomes useful for helping solve/crack some of the historical-facts we’re right-now caught-in. Cannon’s other stuff? I avoid it, outright )
- Notovich’s stuff from Hemis monastery, on how benJoseph spent lost-years 1st with Hindus, then with Buddhists, before returning through Persia, to his old stomping-grounds… ( *which is corroborated by the esoteric-buddhist stuff in Gospel of Mary: “Space Conqueror” has ZERO business being in recorded in Judea, then, … but there it is. Eknath Easwaran’s “The Dhammapada” is the excellentest intro to benJoseph’s religion, AwakeSoulism/“Buddhism” that I know-of, & you’ll see that kind of language in it, so then you understand where Mary of Magdala got it from, … & the odd use of the word “powers” fits with Beth Jacobs’ “The Original Buddhist Psychology”, though that is screamingly-advanced science ( neuroscience’s machines & Buddha Gautama both described the stages in an individual perception down to millisecond-resolution, as she discovered in university ), compared with what Abrahamic-religions culture is used-to dealing-with, & the Stainless-doctrine ( when the soul says to ignosis “you never knew me” ) in Gospel of Mary directly contradicts “original sin” doctrine of Christianity… ALL of these evidences in Gospel of Mary corroborate Notovich’s stuff. I’ve also got an aweful travelogue-book by a Hindu who in-person corroborated Notovich’s testimony about that specific scroll being there, so the White rejection of it … is itself bunk ) here is one rendition of Notovich’s stuff: https://ocoy.org/original-christianity/unknown-life-of-jesus-christ/
- Mark M. Mattison’s “The Infancy Gospels”
- CJB’s “2 Kings” ( biblegateway has CJB, which isn’t as prone to over-interpretation for ideological reasons, … though it is prone to using incomprehensible Jewish terminology. I keep AMP & EXP open, sometimes, to help decrypt CJB’s jargon. : ). Elisha was the one who asked God for “a double measure”, & benJoseph was his reincarnation, with that double-measure. Elija re-incarnated as John the Baptist, from what the Christian bible itself says, in the new testament. ( notice the using-bears-to-kill-a-gang-of-threatening-boys, & compare that behavior with the “Infancy Gospels” stuff: it’s the same soul/entity! )
- glance at Eitan Bar’s books, to see what you find interesting…
- Mark M. Mattison’s “The Gospel of Q” which is simply beautiful.
In the end, it doesn’t matter what anyone believes: souls, aka ChildrenOfG-D, are a little like pinballs: they ricochet here, there, wherever, among their karma, what benJoseph called “what a continuum sows, that continuum reaps”…
If no-one checks that evidence-avalanche & sees what it’s saying, & accepts what it’s saying, that’s fine.
Natural Selection is UNIVERSE’s LAW, & IT will reap most of humankind, this century.
However, what the evidence is showing, is that the 1st of Judaism’s moshiaches/mashiaches, the benJoseph moshiach/mashiach, was benJoseph, the root-guru of the Christians.
According to the evidence, what the Christians call “the 2nd Coming” is at the same Punctuation ( between 2-millenia-long Equilibriums, or Ages, or “generations” ) as what Judaism calls benDavid, the 2nd moshaich: they both happen this century.
Eknath Easwaran’s “the Bhagavad Gita” ( recommended & is beautiful ) directly tells us that every “age” or “generation” ( benJoseph used the term “generation” to mean “world-age”, or about-2-millenia: each “day as a 1000 years” & “night as a 1000 years” is about 2 millenia, & there have been 6 of those “day”+“night” pairs since the FLOOD when the Laurentide-ice-sheet drowned all coastal-civilization from the North Atlantic, so the coming “generation” would be the “7th day as a 1000 years”, right? ) … every “age” or “generation” gets sent its own help by G-D.
THAT ties the help to roughly-now, doesn’t it?
Centuries-ago couldn’t possibly have been when the Rev predictions fulfilled, because the cascade-of-Industrial-Revolutions ( causing ClimatePunctuation’s acceleration to begin biting-in ) hadn’t happened, yet, right?
Please understand that I want you immoveably-disagreeing with me, if you don’t find what I gave here to be true: honesty’s best, for karma!
Anyways, from what I can see, seeing the 2-layers-deep-&-surface, what G-D has rigged, is that the benDavid moshiach/mashiach & the Muslim Al-Mahdi are the same guy, & that should “separate the wheat from the chaff” pretty damn well, here, through the “1st Seal” time, the time of Conquering ( the setting-up of the Empires, represented-as-3-serpents-in-Rev ), before the time of WAR.
The Christians, however, are going to have to wait until next-decade, for their promised 2nd-coming, which matches the time of the “2nd Seal”, the time of WAR.
The Muslims predicted the sequence correctly: 1st smaller help, for less than a decade, … then bigger help, the 2nd one staying for 4 decades or so…
Daniel’s “abomination which makes desolate” & the collapse-of-all-food-web-planetwide, in Rev, are also 2 distinct labels for the same stage in this-century’s future ( waaay later in ClimatePunctuation ), & the American Indians have scientifically-tesable-predictions about all this stuff, too…
The benDavid/Al-Mahdi guy is one they describe as being some kind of sky-galloping elk, who KNOWS what’s going-on, & teaches humankind the way of galloping ( on the inner-winds, the inner-abyss, climbing the inner-mountain ) “into the sky, in enduring galloping”…
It’s the same guy … just draped in different cultural “makeup”, is all…
Maybe the concept of 2 fundamentally-different-levels expressing “history” together makes more sense, with that last view added?
~ All the forest ( civilization ) afire, all the animals ( kinds of people ) were panicking, all over the place, there was 1 great bull elk, who stood calm, knowing, certain, & people began collecting around him, then he began moving, & his people stayed with him as well as they could, & his speed began picking-up, & his people were streaming out behind him in a great river, then his hooves parted the ground, & he began galloping up into the sky, his people following him ~
is an approximation of the American Indian prophecy about the guy that Jewish prediction calls benDavid, & Muslim prediction calls Al-Mahdi.
Same-guy, different cultural-appearances/labelings.
IOW, I’m saying that what’s going-on is HUGE, & individual-cultures are blinkered-views into this IMMENSE process, see?
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I wouldn’t mind taking a look into that, actually. I’ll have Neigsendoig do the same.
I apologize for not explaining why I was investing-in putting all that there, for the person I was replying-to:
They were focused on the religion of the 1st-century followers of benJoseph.
Why focus on those followers, when the religion of benJoseph himself is ignored by all of Christianity?
Why not see the religion of benJoseph himself?
That is what my motivation was.
Thinks like Donald Spoto’s book “The Hidden Jesus: A New Life” identifying how central meditation was to benJoseph, & the Essenes being the only Jews around who had a “The Book of Meditation” ( mentioned repeatedly in the Dead Sea Scrolls stuff, but after benJoseph got back from the East, … they systematically didn’t include it in the scrolls they tried saving for future-generations. Probably simply because he’d obsoleted the whole book/scroll, when he returned. )
whatever.
IF someone prefers the followers’ religion to the root-guru’s religion, that’s entirely valid: it’s their choice.
But for mainstream stuff to systematically keep people in the dark about that root-guru, that I’ve got problem with.
As Elisabeth Haich explained, back then, people enacted symbols, so the “5000 fed, but lots of leftovers remained” symbolized that the teachings given them didn’t all get in, see?
&, of course, “baptism” is simply a symbol-enactment representing that ChildrenOfG-D/souls immerse themselves in universes, OceansOfAllPhenomena, & when they “come up” from that, they’re “returning home” to G-D.
The “Prodigal Son” parable was the same soul-immersing-itself-in-samsara, but told from a different perspective ( climbing down "Jacob’s Ladder, relying-on the “kingdom of the worldly, without” then turning, when hitting rock-bottom, to “the kingdom of G-D, within”, & climbing “Jacob’s Ladder”, see?
Same fundamental-meaning, just different appearances on it. )
See through the appearances!
See the universal, that the traditions are hiding-so-as-to-protect-their-importance.
The universal is what continuums/souls are.
The whole Abrahamic-religion presumption that G-D discards all of its children who aren’t within that religion-regime, Gospel of Mary torpedoes that: when the soul says to ignosis/soul-ignorance “you never knew me”, that’s the ultimate-truth: ALL souls return home, to their origin.
Religions which claim otherwise, … they’re rejecting the infiniteness of G-D.
Let 'em.
But don’t be fooled by 'em, see?
Anyways, that’s the motivation: anchor to the root, not to the branch, & get a more-universal view.
If you want…
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If you want to design and build large-scale industrial plant infrastructure like pressure vessels, piping, pumps, turbines, etc., most of the codes and standards you have to meet cost money to even see -and they are NOT cheap (in the tens of thousands of dollars for a full set).
In several jurisdictions, the standards are incorporated into law by reference. Most people think that you should have free access to read the text of the law that you’re beholden to, but what happens when a copyrighted work is incorporated into the law?
archive.org asserted the law should be free to access. However, they lost a copyright lawsuit brought by the American society of mechanical engineers because they were hosting copies of these standards.
So, to read the law you are beholden to in this sector of manufacturing, you must either pay a private organization ($$$) or memorize it (impossible); you cannot make copies for yourself to reference at your leisure
Same is true for ISO standards, in EU: I think it’d cost about 10 to 30 k-euros to get the standards required to sell a sailboat in the EU.
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You left-out the critical resource of https://www.semiaccurate.com/ btw…
What a generally … outright-awesome post.
The Guardian changed-ownership recently, & cut their journalism-staff, savagely, ttbomk, AND they are now purged from DuckDuckGo??
searching for
kremlin papers trump site:theguardian.com
produces NOTHING at DuckDuckGo, now, & for the last few weeks, at-least?
& I’ve seen that FT definitely has anti-viability strategy in its pushing of distortion, in its stuff…
fscking-idiot webmastering at TheGuardian… WHERE’S THE SEARCH-FUNCTION??
https://www.theguardian.com/index/subjects/a
THAT page has a search-function.
??
WHEN I search on the keywords
kremlin papers
only-in-title, only-in-English, then click the button, then I get
So, TheGuardian IS BLOCKING DuckDuckGo for sake of kickbacks for Google-exclusivity??
Looks like it…
“Those who are ignorant of history, are damned to re-enact its disasters.” is true for our entire world, & especially true in the domain of journalism!
IF you keep disappearing historical key-information ( as for-profit, & for-institutional-status/importance, “journalisms” both do ), THEN you’re garrotting OUR WORLD’s viability!!
Scum…
The highest quality science-news is https://www.science.org/news
whereas the highest quantity of science-news is probably https://phys.org/latest-news/
( you have to fight with phys.org, as it keeps trying to prove one is just a bot, if one keeps digging into archives )
Salut, Namaste, Kaizen, & Gratitude for making this post!
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Apart from some episodes of violence, it was stable. But when imperialism ended, it was basically a mess.
Not directly relevant to your question, but for starters you should read about Sykes-Picot. The destabilizing impact of imperialism simply comes after the imperialist force and its vastly superior military leaves. Also you’re thinking of colonialism; imperialism never ended.
Now to directly answer your question, I’m a politics and history guy and the Ottoman Empire doesn’t get nearly enough hate for its role in shaping the modern Middle East. The stagnation they caused that allowed the region to be so easily swallowed by Western imperial interests is a direct result of centuries of Ottoman stagnation and authoritarian incompetence. The janissaries in particular deserve a special place in hell for their role in obstructing any and all progress in the Empire until it was too late. Those fucks are the reason there’s no Ottoman Catherine the Great or Frederick the Great.
Thank you for pointing-out that imperialism & colonialism are distinct.
I’d not understood that clearly.
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I have a lot of specific arcana about geochemistry that may sound interesting. It’s not. I mean, it is to me and my small circle of nerd friends, but we can see the people within earshot go comatose when we geek out.
ETA: like how oxidation - reduction conditions can either mobilize or affix certain minerals (based on their valence state, and other available elements) into/out of groundwater.
Also how rocks are not fixed as what they are after they lithify. Water flowing through the pore space later on can nearly completely change the rock’s characteristics. Groundwater is freaky-magic.
You got me, Hoomin:
Pretty-please geek-out!
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Reply 2… Did you read that article recently where they discovered the flexo electric properties of ice?
Wild shit.
A lot of articles are talking about lighting technology and all kinds of bullshit but my thought was… this could have very dramatic implications for atmospheric sciences…
That ice is piezoelectric should be considered with that experiment in space, where they discovered that free electromagnetic-fields reach WAAAY farther than we’d presumed…
It means we’re mis-framing electromagnetic-influences here down on Earth, in some sense…
( by this all, I mean that the piezoelectricity of ice may have MASSIVE effects for comets, but little for Earth, where MUCH stronger-signal overwhelms it,
but … in biochemistry, it may well create an entire dimension of ecological-niche-ness that we’d been blind-to, in polar ice!
& that may increase the ecological-niche-complexity of Europa, e.g. )
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Here’s another: the hot-rod/car-racing field is CRAMMED with snake-oil, & the best information is sooo shoddily converted into book-form, that is nearly useless.
David Vizard’s books, & the related books on the domain, are important-to-study, but DEAR G-D is there a RIPE market for anybody who wants to convert all that shit-publishing into quality publishing…
That’s a contributing-factor to why the entire internal-combustion-engine aftermarket is mostly snake-oil bullshit, unfortunately.
I bet the entire internal-combustion-engine industry could have made their engines 10% more efficient, average, had they studied what the inventors/racers had published, & used that information competently…
sigh
the same is true for the general-aviation industry, as a whole.
Notice that the 2 absolute innovators in these 2 domains, were Smokey Yunick & Burt Rutan: anarchists who did more research-engineering than … pretty-much the entire rest of the industry.
IF you want to become competent in sailboat-design, THEN you NEED:
- “The Principles of Yacht Design”, get the most-recent edition of it.
- ALL of Dave Gerr’s books.
- Fossatti’s Aero-Hydrodynamics of Sailing, or whatever that book is called
- probably Nigel Calder’s books, to understand what makes a lifelong sailor value a design-decision
- Tom Cunliffe’s books, to understand the difference between excellent captaining vs “good enough”, & the implications of that, on the design
- a book on windvanes, if you intend to impliment one, on your design ( for cruisers )
- “The Rigger’s Apprentice”, by Brion Toss
- “The Sailmaker’s Apprentice” or something like that, can’t remember, right now…
- the North Sails book on sails/sail-design/sailmaking
- look up the Sharrow propeller, on yt, for power-boats ( annular-box-wing prop, for outboards: no cavitation! )
- Harry Riblett’s book on General Aviation airfoils, available at the Experimental Aviation Association, if you are going to do ANYthing interesting with hydrofoiling ( he nailed the ATR-72 icing problem last-century, & that airfoil’s problem killed an airliner in 2024, with NASA still not admitting the truth about that foil )
- Julia, the programming-language, for doing your math: better than spreadsheets, can use real math symbols, & you aren’t touching any part of the code that you aren’t working-on ( in a spreadsheet, a stray typo can distort the entire sheet, & you can’t find what it is that is skewing everything unless you’re seeing the whole sheet’s equations: it’s the wrong paradigm: error-accumulation, instead of error-eradication. Julia has a learning-track on Exercism, & has a few good books. )
Getting that set of knowledge into one, will save you thousands of wasted dollars, chasing “wild geese”.
For aircraft-design, I’d say begin with Snorri Gudmundsson’s book, NOT Raymer’s.
( Raymer is careless, & you will save yourself much frustration if you avoid his books. Snorri’s is on its 2nd edition, so I’m presuming it to be the go-to book for the industry, nowadays: I can’t afford it, & may not ever, but I wish I’d got Gudmundsson’s book, instead of Raymers, now )
You’ll need Harry Riblett’s book on airfoils, as mentioned above. https://www.kitplanes.com/the-airfoil-adventures-of-harry-riblett/ Notice that the Bearhawk has his foil on it, and its reputation is awesome.
You’ll need this video-playlist, in order to understand just how AWEFUL the interference-drag is, on normal designs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZhyjYE4Le0&list=PLO-XZZWFTH5ELMG3CECqMPZoEFREgwkPn
( I think it was 67HP & 250mph, in level flight, for one of Mike Arnold’s birds. )
Once these things by Mike Arnold & Harry Riblett sink-in, then the normal designs you see in general-aviation … become unconscionable: all that wasted-opportunity, all the needless drag-inefficiency.
Harry Riblett was using Eppler’s simple software, simple simulations, & nowadays you’d HAVE TO use OpenFOAM to do your simulations, XFoil mis-represents stall-onset, apparently, & XFoil is vastly better than what Riblett was using, years ago.
You NEED to understand both Bernoulli’s principle & the Reynolds number, in aircraft-design.
There are sites with video-training for OpenFOAM: CFD/Computational-Fluid-Dynamics’s complicated, & I’d recommend that.
It is entirely possible to design an aircraft, nowadays, on your own, using X-Plane, OpenFOAM, & the choicest study-materials, & YEARS of thinking on it, until your own unconscious-mind groks that-specific-component in the problem, then get digging on the next one…
Further, IF you take into consideration what Riblett & Arnold gave us, THEN you can do better than what most of the new designs in general-aviation are doing.
There is a video, which I now can’t find, on changing Burt Rutan’s Vari-EZ or Long-EZ aircraft to have blended canards, & it noticeably reduced the drag.
That is exactly the sort of thing that Mike Arnold instinctively understood, & if you begin with that kind of instinct, then you … don’t waste the opportunity that the normal aircraft-designers are enforcing.
You need to consider Prandtl wings, too, as that’s beginning to become significant in modern designs.
All the stuff I’ve realized in both these domains is affects patentability, & therefore I’ll not give you that: I want to be able to create a not-for-profit keiretsu which makes both sailboats & aircraft ( a keiretsu is like Panasonic: an organism made of companies, not a single-company ), someday, & patent-protection’s required to break the for-profit monopoly in both industries.
Sorry I’m not just giving you a bunch of answers, instead pointing you at competent-learning-means…
but the world really is better when you learn your-own way, & others learn their-own way, & the results are more … exploring-evolution’s-potential.
Both of these domains will take you under a decade to get from beginning-learning to where you’re really knowing-what-you’re-doing enough to become able to begin competently inventing.
Don’t expect to get to that stage in less than 7y, though.
It took me 8, before everything suddenly fell-into-place, & the different fluid-dynamics-interactions fit together, for different kinds of design, etc…
But I’d rather the world have other-people doing it, … than me knowing, but not doing it, & others thinking that university-courses is the only valid way.
LibreTexts.org iirc is also a place with some good information on it, in the aircraft-design space…
Whatever: IF anybody cares to earn competence in either domain, THEN I hope this boosts you into it, more efficiently.
If not, then just ignore this.
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Forgot this stuff, sorry:
Aviation:
- you need ALL of Mike Busch’s books!
- Barnaby Wainfan, at Kitplanes: read ALL of his stuff. I disagree with some points of his ( & consider his faceted lifting-body aircraft to have been needlessly unsmooth: I like Mike Arnold’s ultra-low-drag paradigm! ), but he gives you sooo much understanding, that you simply aren’t competent in this domain if you aren’t understanding the stuff he’s giving.
- S-Glass is nearly as stiff as carbon, but MUCH tougher: consider it for your wings.
- E-Glass is radar-transparent, the other composites generally aren’t: make any radome of it.
- Turbine-engines cost about 10x as much as piston-engines, to buy, but maintenance-intervals can be MUCH greater, which is why commercial operations like them.
- All aircraft NEED redundant angle-of-attack indicators: fly that indicator, & you’re safe: nearly-all the final-approach-crashes due to stall would have been prevented with AoA-indicators on the flightdeck. ( the McDonnell Douglas 737Max fiasco is because McDonnell Douglas, now falsely-labeled as “Boeing”, they did a reverse-takeover from the inside, after the merger, allowed only 1 AoA-sensor on the airframe, & if that reading went wrong, the avionics highjack the aircraft from the pilots. People died. IN AVIATION, REDUNDANCY SAVES LIVES, for critical-avionics! )
Boats:
- there is the Kelvin Wake Angle that you need to understand: it is the angle from the longitudinal-centerline of your boat, out at an angle, along-which your wake’s peak lies. It is 19.5-ish degrees ( 19.47, iirc ). For multihulls, you NEED to make-certain that that angle doesn’t go from the bow of 1 hull to touch or get too-close to any other hull: it NEEDS to have space, xor you’re creating needless drag. Also, for slenderness, you need to be able to create that angle from your bow, & NOT have your bow’s bluntness violate that angle.
- the LWL:BWL ratios ( Length or Beam, WL means WaterLine ) of interest for multihulls are between 8:1 & 12:1. Going longer than that, as Gerr pointed-out, gives you too-much skin-drag. People who’ve studied aircraft-design know that you want the skin-drag to equal the other kinds of drag, because that’s your minimum-drag. Making a hull 18:1 means you’ve got less bluff-drag, but you’ve got waaay-more skin-drag, so you’re losing, in the displacement regime. Hydroplaning boats are different. Wave-piercing speedboats are different. The multihull designers generally target 9:1 because it really is an optimum LWL:BWL.
- Silicone-Silane is the ONLY anti-fouling that people ought be considering, nowadays ( “Silic One” is 1 brand of that kind of stuff ). NOTHING else works as well, or is as slippery for reducing drag.
- After you’ve earned you real-competence, & now you want to instantiate a business, you’re going to need ABYC membership, & if you’re wanting to sell into the EU, you’re going to need the ISO/DIN standards, which will cost you … about $30k, so you can make your designs compliant with their regulations. They intentionally constructed their standards to enforce as much buying-of-other-components-of-their-standards as possible. To me that is anti-economic-flourishing: putting needless barrier-to-entry, but they’re the ruling institution, so they get to make their economy obey their authority.
- The 1st implimentation of a boat, that vessel’s name, becomes the model’s name, so if you want to control your boat-names, then you can’t have your customers deciding on the name of the 1st implimentation of a design, can you?
- NOLO press makes books on intellectual-property, including Patent It Yourself, which includes a section on getting EU patent protection. Give yourself perhaps a year to get through that book: it’s technical stuff, and there is one hell of alot of stuff to know, in patent-applications, in order to not need to hire ( for $10k+ ) a patent-lawyer for your single application. EU patents are covered in a section of that book, but EU patents cost WAAAY more than North American patents, per point-of-application, or search, etc.
- look at the designs of Cape Falcon Kayaks: they’re elegant in ways that nearly-no boat-designers would do.
- look at the designs of Dave Gerr, if his site is still up, & see how solidly good his work is, compared with normal
- BoatDesign.net is the primary place for boat-design discussion, though … I think it was called “sailing anarchy” was a competitor to it, don’t know if they still exist ( don’t know if either still exists, actually )
- you need to study & understand composites, if you’re doing that, & I’d recommend studying some of the stuff from the aircraft-domain, too ( I got Niu’s composite-airframes textbook ), so you get much-better-than-DIY-“information” about what’s proper. 2" radius minimum for composite-carbon, & that may be pushing it, & you CAN’T mix reinforcement-fibers & get the benefits-of-both: you get the disadvantages of both, not the benefits… this one’s important & non-obvious, so I’m breaking it out into a discussion, not just this little list-point…
Say one has reinforcement-fabric with graphite fiber going east-west & kevlar going north-south.
Then the next layer is with the graphite going north-south & the kevlar going east-west.
Now vacuum-infuse it, so resin spreads forces between all the fibers…
What happens when the temperature rises, in hot sun?
The kevlar SHRINKS. Kevlar has a NEGATIVE Coefficient-of-Thermal-Expansion ( CTE ), but graphite’s is close to zero, & epoxy’s is positive…
So, now your layup is stressing, because some fibers are shrinking, & others are not, & the matrix is expanding.
Worse, when you try flexing it, kevlar isn’t stiff, so NO flexing-force is going onto those fibers, ALL of the flexing-force is going onto the graphite.
But did you calculate your layup so the graphite fibers would be able to take all the flexing that your piece needs to bear?
If not, now it’ll break.
In composites, the stiffest fibers resisting flexing, are taking ALL of the stress of that flexing, until they break, then the next-stiffest are taking all the load.
Mixed reinforcement-fibers is IDIOCY, but you can buy many brands of differently colored aramid+carbon reinforcement-fabric, from many vendors.
It is Niu’s composite-airframes textbook that caused me to know that, & the industry is pushing snake-oil bling, instead.
The only 2 cases where mixed-reinforcement-fibers makes sense, are
- entirely-cosmetic pieces, which bear no structural load, &
- pieces where you’re orienting all the stiffest fibers in 1 particular direction for stiffness in that direction, & you want flex in the other direction, so you use e-glass or something in the bendy-required direction.
Oh, & graphite-fiber’s just thinner, stiffer carbon, generally. Processed at a higher temperature.
There: hopefully I’ve given you enough so that you can compete against me better, in the future.
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?
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