This book clarifies how to solve project-equity-for-contributions sanely, in startups.

It, therefore, also helps with solving how to do equity in FLOSS/OSS projects.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/slicing pie handbook

Any project which may in the future be wanting to be paid full-time for some people, please understand that book.

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Put posters up, to ask the local community, like at the supermarket, if anybody’s got books like that, that they’d be willing to donate.

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IF Ukraine sends only defensive-drones, THEN Iran may be pressured into walking that back.

IF not, THEN not.

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ANDDD…

Iranian drones blowing-up Ukraina didn’t make Ukraina designate Iran as a legitimate war-target??

Iran ought now be a legit Ukrainian target, if that’s Iran’s position.

Ukraina’s selling defensive drones, not assault ones, from what I’ve been seeing.

This is mere ideological-convenience/gaslighting, not accuracy-of-view.

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Bower or Bowers wrote a book debunking the “hypnotism doesn’t exist” pseudoscience, decades ago.

Basically, if you get 2 populations, & have 1 population go into hypnosis-session intentionally faking it … and you don’t have the other population going into it faking,

& the hypnotist is competent,

THEN the measurable difference-in-behavior between the 2 groups is proof that it’s real.

Hypnosis is as real as multiple-personality-disorder, or as different-personality-while-in-shock-from-trauma.

It’s just a more unconscious-mind dominant state, is all.

Dreams are real, too, btw.

Lack of visual-imagination doesn’t affect hypnotizability.

I’m aphantasic: it’s wrongly-named.

It means “no imagination”, but the truth is we’ve plenty of imagination, just not visually.

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IF the distro’s .deb is recent-enough, THEN go with that.

IF it’s generations out-of-date, then you may have no choice but to go with the flatpack.

OS-integration ( with apt, for the .deb ) is to be preferred, generally.

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Are you old enough to remember all the machiavellianisms committed by Microslop corp?

As a relatively-recent example, their Windows Vista would secretly inform MS of all the search-queries done within windows.

And … for some incomprehensible reason, that wasn’t prosecuted as a criminal offense.

So, MS was being informed of things like …

• hospital searching for “William Smith, bone cancer” & the search found the right file, & THAT kind of information was being forwarded back?

• police searching for “Bob and Alice, classical physics violators”, & THAT kind of information would be forwarded back to MS?

You don’t engineer-in machiavellianism like MS has done, for … it’s 40-years now? something like that … without making SOME people understand just how religious some corporations are, about being DarkTriad ( narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy-psychopathy ), in nature.

& they aren’t the only ones.

Nowadays, any corporation which violates DarkTriad … is considered … perhaps “mentally ill”, by market standards?

I’m only using MS as an example.

Remember when OpenOffice.org became the property of Oracle?

LibreOffice.org was born in a week or 2?

Cynicism absolutely is warranted, nowadays.

I’m old-enough that MS’s stealing of Stac Electronics’ disk-compression algorithm, but they fucked-it-up, in their DOS 6.20 bit me.

Assuming altruism on the part of some company … that is mental-illness, nowadays.

I’m not agreeing with the assumption-river of the person you’re replying to, but I am saying that their reaction has basis/validity, nowadays.

I found out, after using LM Studio, that LLM’s can access everything on one’s own system.

I don’t know to what degree that’s true with LM Studio, but 1 time I gave an internet-address, & the LLM told me what it had found on the site I just told it of.

I hadn’t known it had unrestricted internet-access.

Later, I learned it could probably read every file on my system, too, & some AI-attacks get the LLM to get info from people’s personal files, single-out the credit-card, address, contacts, etc, information, & have the LLM forward that to a server out there…

That isn’t a security-concern that normals would even consider.

NOW I know that if I ever fire-up my desktop again, I’ll have to rip-out the LLM’s from my normal user-account, & create a completely-separate locked-down account, with NOTHING ELSE in it, only for them.

& keep EVERYTHING personal in a different account, that they can’t even see.

That isn’t an LM Studio specific thing, that is apparently required for ALL the things.

& nobody’s warning anybody about this?

I think it was on The Register that I found that out, last year…

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It won’t exist, in 8 years.

Civil War Part2: confederate reverse-takeover & vengeance

the war of annexing Canada & using Greenland to enforce that annexation ( severing Canada’s EU-lifeline & using Alaska & Greenland to seal-off Canada from ALL international-trade, to break our life quicker )

the imperial-expansion wars into Central & South America…

Because of a fundamental-fact of human unconscious-mind/pyschology: destroyer-rage has MASSIVE advantage over responsible-sanity, for the 1st while,

the destroyer-regime’ll keep “winning” until it implodes.

I expect Netanyahu to nuke Iran when Trump gets fed-up & ditches Netanyahu, … within a month?

& Netanyahu would then be wanting to nuke ALL Muslim countries, the MINUTE they launch retaliation against his “Israel”,

so the Middle East’s likely to be radioactive, soon, like Chyernoble’s region…

That’ll leave Trump free to concentrate on destroying all civilrights in the Americas, without any distraction.

Which will remove ALL backing from the EU.

China needs the West broken, so they’ll make Putin an offer he can’t refuse, since he’s economically-powerless, now:

China supplants Russian gov’t, & Putin’ll be allowed to keep warring against Europe all he wants, with whatever lives he can scrounge, so long as they aren’t CCP lives.

He’ll agree.

Asia, ditched completely by the West, will be on China’s plate.

Then about 7y of that Regional Consolidation Stage go on, until the “Caucasian Serpent Time” is finished.

I expect Trump to be replaced about 1/2-way-through that 7y cycle, by Musk.

Putin may be replaced too, if that’s what China needs, in their “Russia” vassal-state.

( “Caucasian Serpent Time” you can ask the Indigenous People about, & some of them will understand, probably having heard of the “White Serpent Time”: it’s the same thing, just with slightly-different terminology. Different traditions use different labels, is all )

So, 7+y from today, the Americas Wars implode, & the wasteland remaining has to be rebuilt, but … China’d be IDIOTIC to NOT launch EVERYTHING their then-empire’s got, against the West, wouldn’t they?

They are not idiotic.

That is the “CCP Serpent Time”, aka the “Red Serpent Time”.

It lasts about 4+decades…

Exactly as Ukraine NOW is TOUGHER than it was 5y-ago, so-too will the West, as a whole, in 7y, what’s left of it…

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Oligarchism is just 1 face of concentration-of-wealth-archy: monarchism, communist-party-archism are other variants of it.

The REAL enemy is our unconscious-nature, our unconscious ego-addiction-to-ignorance-preventing-accountability-or-responsibility-while-assuming-inherent-authority-and-inherent-validity.

ALL prejudices are rooted in that, not just class-prejudices.

Until human-nature is force-changed, as it is going to be by the end of this century ( The Great Filter ), we’re going to keep enforcing DarkTriad’s rule for OUR supremacy, no matter what kind of “us” it is that we are identifying-as, gender, race, class, age, culture, ANYthing!

Nothing can change that.

It’s simply our world-species equivalent-to-puberty.

EITHER some subset of humankind force-grows-up COMPLETELY, this-century, XOR… whole-species DarwinAward.

Ever seen an addict fighting for their own life against their own unconscious-mind’s addiction-to-obliteration-and-nonresponsibility?

We’re looking at planet-wide equivalent, now.

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Please invest in reading https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-anatomy-of-genres … & then see movies through new eyes, “eyes to see”.

You’ll be astonished at how high a percentage of movies are bad, once one understands what he’s giving, in that, about the 14 genres that the West has anchored on, & why each genre concentrates only on 1 specific dimension of human-meaning.

( & that was the genius of Star Wars: it included multiple-genres of stuff into its Space Western genre, which it created, from scratch )

Truby’s other book, “The Anatomy of Story” is also required for anybody wanting to make story work properly.

People who won’t learn from the best-of-the-best, never reach their true-potential, because they’re hobbling their leverage.

Ego consistently hobbles leverage, in order to assert that it didn’t “need” any other.

That’s like ignoring math, while designing aircraft: incompetent.

Stand on the heads of giants, & reach farther into the “sky” of our potential.

Those 2 books ought be required-reading in highschool.

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There are multiple levels going-on:

Surface-level is mere “makeup”/distractions.

Underneath that is the ideologies level.

Under that is the fight between animal-reactions vs upright-correct-reasoning, which is what is required of our-species, to survive The Great Filter, which is the next 6-decades of wars.

Within the ideologies-level, ideologies are fighting to break whatever it is that they hate.

As was explained in some book published years ago, the Kremlin began investing in Trump in the 1980’s or so.

That’s paying-off, now.

Apparently there’s some gameshow movie, which shows that upper-middle-class people, even when competing against each-other, will join together to break their class-inferiors, beneath them.

That is true of all identity-politics.

The Academic-class-system does it ( just ask Sabine Hossenfelder, who was fired as a physicist, for not being a man ), gender-identity/politics does it, race-politics/identity does it, etc.

So, the communist-party-imperialisms of the world work at exterminating any “other” who competes against them ( see Tibet, the Uyghurs, Hong Kong, the cultural-expression of Brutalism throughout the USSR, etc, for stark evidence of communism’s imperialism ), AND the fascists, with their cult-of-personality centrism, & their imperialisms also do this.

“Horseshoe theory of politics”, that extreme-left & extreme-right are actually near-indistinguishable-in-behavior-towards-others, is oversimplification:

it’s partly authoritarianism, which both are devout to, and imperialism, which both are devout to, AND it is rejection/extermination-of-diversity.

That new law in China that ALL must learn Mandarin, is simply part of the communist snuffing-of-diversity, which the USSR did quite well, too.

Once the far-right understands completely how breaking all non-fascist-will from all authority is their tactical-NEED, then there will be no pretence of Russia being Trump’s enemy, anymore.

He’ll invoke the Insurrection Act, PURGE all who would threaten his kingdom ( that is “Dictatorship 101”, & I’m quoting a textbook-on-dictatorship, with that point ), & then … enforce his all-Americas “manifest destiny”.

• annexing Canada, using Greenland to sever our EU-lifeline
• Civil War Part2: confederate reverse-takeover & vengeance
• imperial-expansion throughout Central & South America

Why should he care about the other regions of the globe, when he can enforce his absolute “god”-hood, here?

He wasn’t kidding about “Cuba is next”.

Nor was he kidding about Venezuela.

Or Mexico.

Or Greenland.

Or Canada.

Part of the problem is false-framing:

There is NO true-democracy in the West: representative-republic ISN’T democracy, it is 1-times ( minimum ) removed from democracy.

In actual-democracy, the CITIZENS vote on the ISSUES.

In representative-republic, “representatives” are elected, & then they decide on the citizenry’s behalf, what the citizenry’s being ruled-by.

Totally different paradigm.

Nowadays we’ve got the technology to make actual-democracy possible, but nobody’s got the spine to do it.

Worse, exactly as pilot’s-licensing dictates who can vote on managing an airliner ( the passengers, who outnumber the pilots, have NO say in managing the aircraft, due to not being competent, not being responsible, & not being accountable for that work ), the same principle is required in civil-voting.

People whose loyalty isn’t to the country, but instead is to some-other country, or to oligarchy, or to some ideology, cannot be permitted to vote, XOR the country’s inescapably-highjacked: it’s only a matter of time.

The US is demonstrating this, shamelessly.

But that would mean being able to measure loyalty in people.

Now that can be done, with psychology & tech.

The deepest level, though, is animal-reacting fighting-off upright-correct-reasoning.

The whole unconscious-mind ego-apocalypse-fighting-off-moral-anxiety thing, that is manifesting through all the different ideologies/religions, is this.

Unconscious-ignorance is working itself into THE TANTRUM/POGROM TO BREAK GOD AND MAKE GOD OBEY!! its totalitarian-domion.

THAT will exterminate nearly-all humankind in the next 6-decades.

The piddling little violence we’re seeing today ( 2026-03-13 ), is NOTHING compared with what we’re going to be seeing by the end of April, from the looks of it, as THE WHOLE WORLD swings into the Regional Consolidation Wars { Americas ; Europe, with China backing Putin to mow-down the European threat to future Chinese planet-dominion ; Asia, once the West abandons it, is China’s ; Africa will be owned by Saudi Arabia, too, in 7 years }

Unconscious-mind is the RULER of our world.

It’s ego-games obliterate more lives than ANY other force in the world.

We “can’t afford” to make industry accountable? The egos in authority won’t allow it.

We “can’t afford” to regulate anything correctly? ditto.

( hint: to win a NASCAR race, you need the most-tightly-regulated/maximally-efficient/maximally-effective engine+drivetrain you can get. Sloppy LOSES races. Same with economies. Sloppy economies lose. Efficiently regulated economies can FAR outclass sloppy ones, whether communist, fascist, party-oligarchic or individual-oligarchic, monarchic, or any other ego-concentrates-wealth-to-itself paradigm.

EU’s inefficiency is boggling.

US’s corruption is boggling.

Neither can compete with harnessed & maximally-efficient economy.

Paywalling standards, as the ISO does, is anti-efficiency.

Balkanizing tax-filing for for-profit-parasite’s benefit, harms the efficiency of the economy.

You “can’t be loyal to 2 contradictory gods”, right?

We have to make whole economy effectiveness be what our gov’t is for, NOT for wealth-concentration, which is their primary loyalty, & status/validity-segregation, which is what social-class-systems are made-of )

Anyways, if you want to understand that deepest level, then https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/thinking-fast-and-slow is THE book to read.

Lower-forebrain/“System-1”/imprinted-reaction is fighting to overthrow correct-reasoning/“System-2”/upper-forebrain from all authority, so then it can tantrum/pogrom & be no-moral-anxiety-LORD, with no responsibility for what it’s done.

THAT is what’s ACTUALLY going on, globally.

All the rest is more superficial, mere “makeup”.

NO ideology will adapt to evidence, because they’re all axiom-based, not evidence-based.

THAT is the lethal “drug” that humankind’s about to be self-exterminating with, for 6-decades.

I expect 0.1B left alive, IF humankind succeeds in growing-up.

IF humankind won’t, then DarwinAward for our entire species, this century.

Surviving unconscious-mind’s obiteration-addiction IS HARD, as any dead-by-overdose life can attest.

& ego-“LORDHOOD” is the most-indellible “drug”.

The stuff that’s happening in any individual-locale, is just the appearances/distractions ON the underlying species-“puberty” we’re hitting.

That isn’t the REAL current/transformation/difficulty…

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From what I’ve seen & read, yes.

Doctors are often addicted to drugs, or just to medicating themselves.

I read an article by a woman who worked for a house-cleaning service, which ordered her to stop working too fast/competently.

So, she slowed-down, to keep her job.

& looked in cupboards, medicine-cabinets, etc.

She said that now she doesn’t want to be rich, because they’re consistently addicted to drugs/medications.

Hollow living … people trying to “fill” themselves with chemically-enforced numbness…

I don’t know if you ever encountered r/leaves the subreddit about people who’ve ditched marijuana-addiction…

“I got tired of not feeling anything meaningful” would be a good summary of many testimonies, there…

from what I can see, the story you’re working-on is viable, except the loved-one’s going to need a private-investigator or something, to level the playing-field against the streetsmart dealer.

no, they couldn’t have got the money some other way: born-into-wealth means being brought-up in entitlement: it makes one’s instincts incompetent-for-raw-survival, AND narcissistic.

( Dad was a medical-researcher & doctor: I know what I’m talking about in this context. )

Please read BOTH of John Truby’s books, “The Anatomy of Genre” 1st, then his one on Story 2nd.

Your book will be massively better if you do.

& if you want the best editing book in the world, it is Coyne’s “The Story Grid”.

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If you’re the one who did the post on that … ?Russian? 10-kg river/fishing owl, then Thank You: that was a wonderful treat!

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~ no plan survives 1st-contact with the enemy ~

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/05/04/no-plan/

This is a known fact, & among the competent, is in the basic-checklist for planning a war.

Plans based on delusion are not plans: they are delusions, themselves.

Sunzi/Sun Tzu would hold the “planners” in absolute contempt, in this farce.

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This identifies that in highschool, law basics NEED to be taught, because legal-autonomy & signed-contracts HAVE CONSEQUENCES.

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

People need to be competent in NOT being pressured into bad-contracts, & that is REQUIRED EDUCATION, in our cultures.

I wish I’d understood this years ago.

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PS: that link to Nomic is to a practice-of-law game, which gives people the visceral-understanding of how legal-regimes evolve, & the consequences of bad-law, that now you can’t get out of, because evolution sometimes evolves dead-ends.

I don’t think that Zelenskiy understands that Orban may well declare war on Ukraina if escalation progresses far-enough.

He’s got “the cards”.

He’s got the EU by the balls: they apparently “cannot” eject Hungary, AND the EU can’t declare war on Hungary for Hungary’s launching war on Ukraina for Putin, Orban’s buddy…

This is a dangerous situation, & Ukraina’s definitely at disadvantage, from what I can see.

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& why not simply

# cat /proc/partitions

while one is at it?

This has been going-on for years, & the UN only SPEAKS now??

Now I understand why the Rwandan holocaust was inevitable.

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Try getting managed-hosting for them, & you’ll see that only some can be hired.

Managed-hosting means that the hirer isn’t having to do all the sysadmin stuff for their instance, like security-updates, they’re able to concentrate on the community, instead.

Horribly-pricey, for the amount of service one can get, from what I’ve seen, but … drastically cheaper than having one’s community obliterated by a missed security-update, & then becoming irrelevant.

I wish there was massively more competition in the managed-hosting space, for fediverse servers.

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