In reddit, I’d discovered that some people would karma-farm that way…

Annoying-as-hell, when the deletion of a post doesn’t delete the karma-farmer’s accured-from-that points, in my eyes: it distorts things in favor of the machiavellians…

No idea how these instances deal-with that kind of thing…

( I’ve not deleted any post, after getting an answer: just trying help with info : )

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Learned-helplessness: IF you keep battering a population from some principle, using incorporated-sociopaths, or bots,

THEN they’re going to yield from principle, because organisms AREN’T machines, & machines crush organisms, including minds.

Why is it that now no government really cares about mitigating the still-accelerating ClimatePunctuation??

Learned-helplessness.

Why is it that the popuation in Argentina didn’t vote-out Millei?

Learned-helplessness.

Why did sooo many younger voters not vote against Trump?

Learned-helplessness.

Why do privacy-raping apps now happen to be the norm?

Learned-helplessness.

this means that ANY abuse will win, given enough battering of the minds of the majority, if only it keeps hammering away to win.

it can also be INcorrect most of the time!!

ANY mind “educated” by ingesting the internet … isn’t going to be high on accuracy!!

People NEED to understand that getting parts of reddit out of LLM’s proves its untrustworthiness!!

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Forgot, sorry: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/thinking-in-time

The 1st one, above, is the key to developing right-instinct in one’s understandings,

this one is key to understanding complex-unfoldings based on actual-historical-evidence of human-behavior & reactions.

Both recommended.

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https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/superforecasting

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1. pull-paradigm, &
2. combined-arms.

One. pull-paradigm: don’t do what you hate: you’ll stop returning to it!!

Find exercise you LOVE doing, & then MAKE it have regular-place in your life, see?

Two. combined-arms: combine the same pull-paradigm in your diet, your fitness-practices, your friendships, you HEALING, see, and make there be sooo-many dimensions in your pulling-your-life-into-healing, that you can’t help but be healing/becoming more!

( :

For the depression, get outside-in-daylight for at-least 30-mins every day, if you can ( or use a SAD light, when it’s gloomy ).

I had to live “in a lightbox”, with 500-watts of fluorescent daylight lighting, in my room, to keep me functioning at all, after I ditched the anti-depressants…

but it worked.

Make your waking-up alarms be lights, which are silent, instead of noisemakers:

warm-white, 1st, then a 2nd timer, 5+mins later, with daylight: it alters your melatonin balance ( the researchers who discovered that yes, in fact, light does alter melatonin, in spite of them not having accepted that as true…

shone lights in behind people’s knees, & even without “light receptors” in the skin there, the effect kept being measured.

Light is THE wakeup-input that people SHOULD be using, not noise! )

The details that you put on those 2 principles, are your details, but getting those-2-principles right massively improves your odds of holding-to-it for the entire-season it takes to gain usable-momentum.

Wishing you well,

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1. Consider perspectives that are DRASTICALLY different, in roots, from what you were culturally-formed in.

You mentioned Alan Watts, please read this book, which he called his “I TOLD you so!” reference, written by a woman who was exploring the far-East back when women didn’t have legal-personhood…

https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/download/Buddhism-Philosophy-and-Doctrine/en/Alexandra David-Neel - The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects.pdf

There is a truth in that book, in one of the footnotes, which David-Neel gave only half of:

There are 2 kinds of people in the world:

• moderate-path realizers, &
• steep/savage-path realizers.

IF you are a moderate-path realizer, THEN do NOT take the savage-path-realizer’s “medicines”: they are deadly poison ( her term ) for you.

IF you are a savage/vertical-path realizer, THEN do NOT take the moderate-path-realizer’s “medicines”: they are deadly-poison for you.

Cultures work differently, & the lives born-into different cultures get formed into those cultures, so that lives born into “macho” cultures cannot value female-validity as equally-valid, because the culture prohibits that…

( there is a 6-year-shorter male-lifespan in fragile-masculinity cultures, btw: it may make for some cultural “male-supremacy”, but it abuses women AND it kills men: a lose-lose condition )

I may have mentioned these to you, before, but again, they are SO fundamental, for understanding our world, that once you see the world through understanding’s eyes, you cannot go back to the “blind” condition you were living-in, before…

Lanier’s book “Foreign to Familiar” explains WHY president Carter spent literally-days talking family with the Arab Middle-East leaders he was meeting, before getting down to brass tacks…

Hofstede’s “Exploring Cultures” explains how all cultures fit-together through his cultural-dimensions theory…

& gives examples of the different-kinds-of-reactions that people formed in other cultures do,

and once one sees those examples, then one can better-understand other people, from other cultures, throughout the rest of our world.

( IOW, you’ll have significantly-less miscommunication with these 2 books IN you, than not.

You decide if altering your life that-way is worth something to you, & if it is, then invest, please. )

IF you’re from North America, THEN please read Paul Fussell’s book on the North American Class System, & see how the reactions/prejudices he identifies seep-through, & shape, EVERYthing in this continent…

& then also read Woodard’s “American Nations”, to understand-better what’s really going-on!!

The US has been highjacked by the confederates: what the corporates call a “reverse takeover”.

The clearer you underestand what’s going on, in the world, the more likely you are to survive it, right?

Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, is on the 2 thinking-systems in our brains ( see the book “Top Brain / Bottom Brain” for evidence that Kahneman & Tversky’s “System 1”, the imprint->reaction system, is actually lower-forebrain,

& their “System 2”, the considered-reasoning system, is actually upper-forebrain. The recent discovery that programming is upper-forebrain, instead of Broca’s & Wernicke’s areas, the language centers, doubly-backs this )

& when you understand Kahneman’s book THEN you will understand that the imprint-reaction-system, which is what all ideologies/prejudices/assumption-river-“religions”, etc, ARE, is highjacking the world, throwing-from-the-world both objectivity & correct-reasoning, THEN you will see that it doesn’t matter which ideology wins:

IF ideological-REACTING wins, THEN … the world’s lost.

Objectivity & correct-reasoning MUST win, or humankind’s incapable of surviving ClimatePunctuation, this century.

Finish waking up, iow!!

“The Elements of Journalism” is an important book, for understanding the process of your doing journalism, of your making-peace with the different balances between quick-understanding vs rigorously-correct-understanding…

& why for-profit journalism isn’t trustworthy, because it’s propaganda, not journalism: it’s gaslighting, fundamentally…

The book “Corps Business: the 30 MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES of the US Marines” is sooo good a parenting book, that a hippie-woman & mother whom I loaned my copy to, years ago, told me she “wished I’d read that years ago”.

Read it & do your life a favor!

Henry Cloud’s book “9 Things You Simply Must Do” is important, too.

GET THE CORE UNDERSTANDINGS INTO YOU, & then YOU own your life more, understand?

The more-competent your core-understandings are, in more dimensions, the greater your life’s freedom, in choosing its/your own path.

The whole “education” ( with the falsifying-quotes ) in the West is actually patterned on the lower caste Hindu “education”, engineered to prevent autonomous-capability…

John Taylor Gatto, who destroyed his teaching-career in his acceptance-speech for the New York State Teacher-of-the-Year Award, discovered this, in his later research…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto#Main_thesis

IF children in school KNOW they’re loved, KNOW they’re valid, KNOW they’ve rights, … THEN how could the institution possibly manipulate them, to make the institution look good??

However, WHEN the institution has broken validity, self-certainty, etc, from the children in its power, THEN it can use PROVISIONALLY-bestowed ‘validity’ to make the children into the puppets it needs … ( I’m only being slightly more bitter-in-phrasing than Gatto himself was, btw, … this concept HE caused me to be understanding… )

US education was engineered to PREVENT any more Lincolns or Franklins, to make the population into the corporate-acceptable “consumable human-resources” that such operations wanted…

It was the coal industry who paid-for the establishment of education, in the US, according to Gatto.

That only makes-sense when you understand that it didn’t want any more interference/disruption, it wanted workers who obeyed, & “education” taught obeying…

( I’m self-educated: don’t even have North American grade-11, which is equivalent to European grade-10. Decades of force-mitigating literal-brain-decimation, 7+ years of homelessness, etc, didn’t stop me: understanding-stuff’s MY addiction.

Wisdom can be an addiction. Self-evolution can be an addiction. Addiction’s just a technology: it’s neutral, itself.

What it is that one happens to be addicted-to, that makes it either bad or good. : )

Anyways, I think it was your previous post that I replied-to, before…

If so, then I’m now adding this:

I’m not going to be giving you such recommendations if I see a 3rd post of yours: either you invest in learning, undoing the encultured-blindnesses, XOR you’re on your own, now.

Mollycoddling disempowers lives.

If you want to be given everything, instead of earning it, then I ought fuck-off, outright.

If you want to know what to dig into, the others in these posts are identifying stuff, & so am I.

Pick something & DO it, honestly…

Elephants dissipate, when one is living honestly enough, from one’s room, right?

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen,

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Atul Gawande: “The Checklist Manifesto”.

Worth a read.

He’s they guy who created the pre-surgery checklist, using aviation & construction’s insights, in creating his, which forced India to change their S.O.P, because that wasn’t actually competently-worked-out…

Checklists reduce deaths, in aviation, construction, & surgery, all.

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IF you ask LivingSpirit ( whatever you call it: labels are irrelevant, attitude & relationship are the whole substance that matters : )

to bring them back into connecting with you,

AND you let-go, letting LivingSpirit do the work,

THEN you may, in future, find actual result of that.

Some people find that it works best when they write the request on paper, & after meditating/concentrating on it for … say 1.5h … then releasing it into flames, works best…

You have to let-go & trust, though: so long as you’re torquing/dragging-around LivingSpirit, it can’t do its work right, see?

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Good for them!

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Why TF are resources being wasted on digging it up??

Idiocy.

There are REAL needs, in this world, & throwing MORE resources after that narcissist-machiavellian’s coffin isn’t justifiable.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orionids

uh, you believe their assertion of that??

Malevolent, machiavellian, sociopathic idiots.

HP’s sooo far into the negative trustworthiness side of the number-line, that it’s a sickening-shame that no criminal-investigations happen on them, as I simply don’t believe that people that molester-nature are entirely-legal in all their doings.

When they began requiring to have people’s credit-card-info on-file, in order to be able to USE their printers ( I read in the geek-news, sometime in the last few years ), they murdered integrity from their domain.

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I just realized: Trump’s religion includes Apartheid.

& he thinks the white-nationalist gov’t of bygone South Africa is good…

That has implications, for what his plans are, & how he reacts, throughout the next near-decade…

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I think that male-supremacism/mysoginy is the common-principle, underlying Roman Empire cult & the alt-right.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2445637#abstract

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There is an education-specific spin of Ubuntu, iirc.

Please find it, & see if you can get it in?

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Ah, so they’ve got the actual-thing.

That isn’t merely alleged, then, that is actual-evidence.

Totally different from what the title asserted.

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Perhaps you’ve seen billionaires state that everybody with less wealth is usually clawing-for-benefits, but only among their own kind can they truly have friends.

that is, once one takes the principle & re-locates it properly, to any specific & significant kind of privilege 1 of the defining features of class-systems & caste-systems.

Class-segregation.

The prejudice I’ve been subjected-to by middle-class people, after becoming a homeless-person, is spectacular.

Class-prejudice is spectacular.

Read Paul Fussell’s books on the North American Class System, & your eyes will begin opening to what’s in front of you.

Until reading those, I was blind to it.

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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

1. entirely-cosmetic pieces, which bear no structural load, &
2. 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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