Paragone

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Paragone , to No Stupid Questions in Who would win: every human in the world vs. every animal in the world?

We're already IN the 6th great extinction: humans ARE exterminating the marine & terrestrial ecologies.

Paragone , to World News in Brutal cuts and anti-woke agenda buoy Argentina’s rockstar leader

His tactical-plan is that he won't be accepting any of the consequences of his policies.

You don't improve a country's economic-engine by eradicating education's foundation.

But so long as he''s rich, & his privilege is protected, he can't care what damage is done to his inferiors..

Kinda similar to the ones doing likewise north of there, eh?

Paragone , to Ask Lemmy in When was the last time you hugged the person you most want to give a hug to?

There isn't any someone I want to be hugging.

It's a nonsensical concept.

Closeness..?

you require sufficiently-related identity/ego underlying you, for that.

People who are too different, one cannot be close with, obviously

( extreme case is when prejudice is between people, but the underlying principle holds much more solidly than just-that-case )

I'm not putting this here for any "pity": I'm putting this here so that if there's any other person who's in the destroy-unconscious-ignorance-no-matter-the-cost kind of life, that they can see what happens, when one keeps going.

Eventually you reach a condition where collaboration with others still is entirely possible, but "belonging" has become gone.

Keep going: they integrity one can earn, the conquering of one's own unconscious-mind, it is worth it.

Some might relate it to being a time-traveler: one'll never fit-in, in the people one lives among, but it is itself, not any fiction thing.

Cracking one's unconscious is sooo far outside what "acceptable people" do, that .. if you go far enough, then you .. are just too different.

Divergeance is fine, though, so long as living is fine.

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Paragone , to No Stupid Questions in What would happen to your body if you only ate 750g of 2% cottage cheese every day for a month?

some brain damage: malnutrition tends to aggravate or cause brain damage.

I'm a brain damage survivor: it sucks, it takes decades to undo ( neuroplasticity takes time to do rewiring ), and life is never going to be what it could have been.

Don't damage people's brains.

'tis a good rule, eh?

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Paragone , to Canada in I asked Justin Trudeau’s Liberals why they broke a promise to ban three controversial police practices. Their answer says a lot

The problem is partly that the entire-framing of what a working government requires is wrong..

A political-party with a leader..

that isn't working, never has worked for the best of any first-past-the-post country, & never will.

Just as the Indigenous peoples often had different kinds of Chiefs for different dimensions of their lives..

  • Peace Chief for maintaining proactive/strategic harmony
  • War Chief for dealing with existential threats from others
  • Shaman for dealing with the deep end of reality
  • Grandmothers for dealing with the questions that neither males nor young-people were competent at understanding
    .. etc ..

What the world actually requires is a system whereby the different kinds of leaders required to competently lead a country ALL get put in place.

Jugmeet Singh's a people-person, and he could be there both for, & with, people better than anybody else I know-of in Canadian federal politics..

but he isn't the guy who I'd put in charge of Strategy, or the person whom I'd put in charge of Implimentation, or the person I'd put in charge of Emergency Services & Military..

the right-framing would require a team, not an individual.


There's a book "Rocket Fuel" which is on how nearly-all businesses get 1 thing wrong:

most businesses mistakenly ignore that a visioneer usually isn't an implimenter.

Implimenter's closer to bean-counter.

Visioneer's closer to .. lunatic.


The book Change Intelligence identifies that people-people are 1 of 3 major kinds of leaders required...

the other 2 being thinkers/visioneers, & the implimenters..

You REQUIRE all-3, or you're not having enough traction to accomplish what you're supposed to be doing!


The business-culture's incompetence, however, is that it presumes that the COO of a company ( who is an implimenter ) ought be the next CEO ( which is kinda what happened to Beoing: they ended up with no engineer-visioneer, only bean-counters, & the whole religion of the company became poison.. NASA did the same thing when it compromised engineering for "business" culture, with the Challenger shuttle )

The problem is that you can't put a person whose nature fits only 1 of the required-roles, into a different required-role.

NONE of our countries bothers differentiating between the required-roles & then works to get the right person into each of those roles, none!

That is, at global scale, Darwin Award territory.

We KNOW the more complex the leadership, or management, problem, the better-quality the team required, we KNOW the structural-diversity of the team is key to having it be more-capable in different ways..

we won't do what's required??

( PS: never expect any political-system to tolerate required-evolution.

World-death would be preferable to political-motivation, compared with actual transformation to a different apolitical kind of system,.

Sad but true. )

Paragone , to No Stupid Questions in What would the IRL (in real life) of "real life"/offline life be?

The opposites might be:

  • centered-in-appearances/distractions
  • centered in one's profoundest-fundamentallest-awareness

Framing it that way, then yoga-practice augmented meditation would be as IRL as one could get, for meditators..

and RMind-mode sentience, a sentience where words-communication doesn't even exist as an appendage of one's mind , where ONLY what-is is real, and this is reachable through working-through the exercises in Betty Edwards' "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the 4th Definitive Edition", but use charcoals, I've no idea why she doesn't understand how much better they work to help facilitate the hemisphere-dominance-shift into right-hemisphere-dominance-mode..

that timeless sentience is .. inexpressible in symbol-streams, which is what the "online" experience holds reality to itself be..

The people who proclaim that RMind is just pop-psychology bunk have never done the experiment , AND won't do the experiment , AND they refuse to differentiate between scrawlings done in LMind & the actually-visible-different-results of RMind

https://www.drawright.com/before-after

allows you to use the "prev" & "next" buttons to scroll through a gallery showing the sentience-difference, the what-actually-is centrism of RMind.

Those horrid scrawlings that used to populate New Scientist magazine, back when I subscribed, had nothing to do with right-hemisphere-dominance-mode.

Those who "debunk" RMind do so using Scientism's method of substitution-of-the-actual-question:

they test scrawling, measure that it isn't different from normal LMind, then pretend that that "proves" RMind doesn't exist.

See those image-pairs, in that gallery, though: that is EVIDENCE, which is supposed to be the basis of real Science.

Do the experiment, & it'll open an entire dimension of meaning in your life, that "education" had blocked-out from most lives, quite effectively.

( I'm autistic: what her "killer class" can do with a neurotypical in 5 days, took me 3 YEARS to equal, because sentience-mode-shift made me want to scream.

I dropped it.

Now I'm trying to re-learn, and it's grindingly slow.

Better grindingly slow than dead, however, eh? : )

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Paragone , to Canada in ASIRT recommended charging Lethbridge officers who spied on MLA, but Crown won't prosecute: letter

IF anybody has the resources to do this...

in Canada, when the state won't prosecute criminality,

THEN individuals can hire lawyers to be the prosecutors.

Some criminals have the ( unofficial, of course ) protection of the authorities.

Unless some independent(s) pay lawyers ( who usually work as defense lawyers ) to be the prosecutors, .. well .. then "justice" can rot, is Canada's actual position.

I found out that if the authorities won't prosecute criminality, & you haven't the resources to hire lawyers to prosecute, then .. the criminality is actually protected by establishment.


( this kind of establishment-centric "establishment itself is the LAW" religion is visible in all political-systems, btw, it isn't created by our system being Canadian, or generally centerist or moneyarchist .. Isaiah railed against this a couple millenia ago, in the Abrahamic-religions bible, & Arjuna, in the Bhagavad Gita had to pit his life against his own family.

Rot/decay is normal.

The impersonality & correct-systems & objectivity-oriented-continuous-corrections required to counter this fundamental animal-instinct are not in-place, anywhere.

Nobody's got the spine to enforce that integrity displace political-muscle-dominion.

So, it'll continue ruling our .. fate.

It may end up being our species' epitaph, late this century.

shrug )

Paragone , to Ask Lemmy in What are the best alternatives to Amazon for buying new (or used) books?
Paragone , to Ask Lemmy in What Seasonal Things Should be Available Year Round?

There are now exactly 3 antihistamines I recommend, for different reasons..

  • Cetirizine Hydrochloride
  • Desloratadine

Those 2 are a recent-generation of antihistamines, & both are remarkable compared with the make-you-incompetent-to-fucking-walk-straight antihistmines I grew up with.

  • Benadryl

I've read that immediately chewing your max-dose of Benadryl can help with things like allergic-reaction to bee-stings, snake-bite, etc, & therefore should be in one's 1st-aid kit.

Now they've got liqui-gels?

Maybe I should fix my 1st-aid kit, then..


Oh, from what I've read, the Desloratadine is better than the Loratadine: it has been noted to produce fewer side-effect harms, in studies.

ttbomk, Loratadine requires more biological processing by our bodies, to do its work, so its biochemistry cost is higher, to the one taking it.

I've found the generic brands of Cetirizine & Desloratadine work fine, for me.

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Paragone , to Ask Lemmy in How do you recover from seeing something awful on the Internet?

Honestly consider which kind of antidote would work best, for that specific kind of poisonous-meaning.

Just a couple of examples, to "prime the pump", as it were..

IF the poison were white-supremacist evil, THEN the antidote might be that guy .. Daryl is his name, perhaps, who deliberately makes friends with KKK people, & gets them to honestly change.

( if there ever was an example of what the ultra-woke socialist felon Yehoshua "Jesus" benJoseph meant, in his relationships with people, this guy is demonstrating it. : )

IF the poison is the psychopathic machiavellianism of for-profit-corporations, THEN the antidote might be that investigative journalism exists, & deliberately reading "The Elements of Journalism" ( 4th edition, now, I think ), & helping to get other citizens-of-our-world competent in understanding journalism, & how it is the immune-system our world needs, right now.

IF the poison is child-abuse .. THEN .. this one's difficult: it hurts too deep, doesn't it? .. then .. simultaneously protection for children ( like that operation which liberated a whole bunch of girls from a trafficking-ring, the other year, or like help-lines for children, so they've got a lifeline to call, or like organizations/people who systematically make-accountable the perpetrators, reducing the number of them who are out ), those ( individual & institutional ) who force-the-perpetrators into visibility, thus "removing their accommodation", to be .. diplomatic .. about it, or lobbying for better legislation, or making-certain that therapy is both available and successful for survivors of abuse ( some "charities" just purport to do good, & obliterate opportunity while consuming resources padding their administration's ass by design, & torpedoing those scum would improve our world, markedly )


Anyways, you need to discern which antidote you need to be applying, & you need to understand that some lives get caught in stuff sooo horrific that even witnessing it can mangle a life..

That is the actual current condition of our world, our ocean-of-lives.

To alter our world, our world's ocean-of-lives, we need to deliberately turn the tide, and that means forcing the tide to go against the way that DarkHexad, the 6 dimensions of human evil that I've found so-far, wants:

DarkHexad: Narcissism / Machiavellianism / Sociopathy-Psychopathy / Nihilism / Sadism / Systemic-Dishonesty.

Countering ANY of these dimensions from remaining in authority on our world is good, countering the entanglement network of multiple-dimensions, together, is better, but!..

Remember Stephen R. Covey's principle!

IF your Circle of Concern is too big, THEN it is draining you, making you helpless!

IF you deliberately & strategically reduce your Circle of Concern, .. THEN .. your Circle of Influence will, as you recover, grow!

And you have your balance to earn: my balance isn't relevant to your condition, neither is your balance relevant to how I'm managing, etc.

Each is independent of others, & the whole "I'm this-way therefore you ought be, too" herd-bullying has no actual validity.


I hope that you find stable balance, & I hope that someday you become able to directly & significantly counter whatever harm/evil it is you witnessed.

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen.

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Paragone , to World News in EU ministers fume as ‘outrageous’ Hungary yet again blocks military aid for Ukraine

Hungary is aligned with Putin against the EU.

IF the EU won't admit that, won't deal-with that, THEN the EU will be more-completely-butchered when Trump guts NATO & backs his buddy Putin.

Natural Selection(tm) in action, people: they need to face actuality & grow the fuck up:

kick Hungary out.

Immediately.

They're actively treachery against the EU, DEAL WITH IT!!

( morons "willingly going to the seconary-crime-scene in the hopes of using social-process to make things go better, there"...

WHEN SOMEONE IS TAKING YOU TO A SECONDARY-CRIME-SCENE, YOU ARE GOING TO BE BUTCHERED THERE: FIGHT TO THE DEATH IMMEDIATELY.

That has been explained by good-cops for many many many years.

Nobody learns.

Natural Selection is going to be unnecessarily pruning extra European lives, as a result of the EU's retardedness, in the coming decade. )

Paragone , to Autism in Autism rule
  1. Say what you actually mean.
  2. Mean what you actually say.

For some reason those 2 rules are the OPPOSITE of how normals' culture wires people to work.

Normals' rules are:

  1. Don't say what you mean.
  2. Say what you don't mean.

It's abuse, & needlessly exhausting.


Gaslighting is just an exponential-amplification of normal-dishonesty.

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Paragone , to Technology in UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech

IF you want to create accountability among such arrogent tech executives,

THEN you need to enforce accountability, and 1 excellent way of doing it, would be to immediately, & permanently, ban the CEO of that company from having any right to any in-country right to purchase anything.

Force THEM to be subject to the abuse they enforce on "their inferiors", and .. oh, suddenly their motivations appear from "nowhere"??


Enforced-accountability against executives & oligarchs needs to be automatic, not "politically impossible, because they're the privileged ones, with real rights", the way our current dogshit for-profit manufactured "culture" insists.

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Paragone , to Ask Lemmy in A bit of a weird question: Can modern medicine be a threat to humanity long-term by greatly reducing effects of natural selection?

Your question is actually a subset of:

"Can short-term-gain actually fatally undermine long-term-viability?"

I don't consider the question incorrect, at all.

Peter F. Drucker, in one of his books, has it that the "Health Care Industry" hired him,

and one of the 1st things he did, was..

told them, bluntly to their face, directly, approximately that

( this gets the gist of it, but this is from-memory, not exact/verbatim )

"You aren't the Health Care Industry, you are the Illness Care Industry, and you aren't fooling anybody, AND you aren't improving your credibility by speaking falsely"


Does taking all kinds of chemicals, so that one can be a "better bodybuilder", and then ending up in a population who dies significantly younger than average, due to heart-failures, be considered "good"??

Obviously, to the corporate-"persons" who make money having as much of the population addicted to that distortion as possible, YES!! PROFITS!!

Unfortunately, it isn't possible, in any political system, to get decisions made by correctness, accuracy, reason, objectivity, maximum-benefit-for-greatest-number-of-dimensions-of-the-population, etc..

The lobbies won't allow that.


Remember Covid?

Remember the people who were insisting that immunization was a scam, & that people should be relying on their body's innate robust immune-system?

These were people who consider yogic-living to be corruption, and heavy-meat-eating to be "good", nitrates in meats, & all.

The lobbies have overrun all discussion, not allowing objectivity to own any territory.


I think you are right, but the right-answer to it includes simultaneously improving the health of individuals, of entire-populations, AND getting people out immersed in nature more, so as to have built-up more-powerful immune-systems, in the 1st place!

Selectively extinguish some infectious-diseases ( I'd target rabies, ebola, HPV because it causes cervical cancer, & a few others, for extinguishment ), while dealing-with as many as we viably can,

in the hopes that "surprises" will not be able to trash/wreck our innate immune-systems, see?

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Paragone , to Ask Lemmy in Who agrees that the Internet and social media are toxic?

So are people.

DarkHexad intent { Narcissism / Machiavellianism / Sociopathy-Psychopathy / Nihilism / Sadism / Systemic-Dishonesty } is significant a fraction in human-nature, itself,

and the internet does represent that,

as does the last few millenia of human history, tbh.


The only way to have a clean space, is to force break DarkHexad grip on that space.

It's exactly the same with your body's health:

IF you want to break the pathogens from sharing your body's life,

THEN you have to BREAK them from owning any territory in your body's life.

Pretending & "making nice" on them won't break their grasp/control of all they own/control.

Exactly as Western Medicine holds that whole-health isn't a valid condition, but illness, injury, & death are,

therefore one treats illness, injury, & death with drugs or procedures,

there simply isn't ANY method for producing whole-health in a paradigm which axiomatically prohibits that that could be valid.

You want whole-health?

Become a true yogi.

Harness/yoke ( "yoga" means "to yoke", or "to harness" ) your entire life to whole-health, & discover what drugs & procedures cannot make.

The same is true of clean spaces, online ( I mean places where machaivellian evil gets auto-broken from them, there's no requirement that "clean" mean "all spaces are child-friendly" ).

IF you want clean social-site,

THEN you need combined arms ( all dimensions of force, convergion to enforce victory ) making that, against the machiavellians & corrupt-values people.

That requires easy server-setup.

That requires easy administration.

That requires easy moderation.

That requires easy community-management.

That requires easy onboarding for good people,

AND easy step-by-step breaking of the malevolent ones, with proper powerlaw escalations.

That requires accountability ( machiavellians consistently disappear any evidence that would threaten them with accountability, while trying to drown others ) that is both automatic & unbreakable.

etc.

Without a cat's skeleton, no matter what musculature you put on your non-cat skeleton, you can't make it be a cat, in how it moves.

You want a cat's liquidity-of-motion?

You require, then, skeleton, musculature, AND nervous-system of cat, for your animal..

You want clean/healthy portion-of-internet?

ALL dimensions, technological, legislative, admin, moderation, users, processes, EVERYthing needs to be "combined arms" breaking the pathogen-intents from possessing it.

And because of the neverending arms-race between corruption/malevolence vs good, that needs to keep continually adapting, agilely.

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