They use different sets-of-software, & different software-package-management-apps.

Which means that not-only am I wanting what they ( all of them ) consider non-standard, their system-maintaining apps are different ( RasPi vs Ubuntu ), & I’m betting nothing on their behaviors being identical.

Being incapable of installing build-essential in Lubuntu 25.10 on x86_64 is utterly braindead: that’s one of the most-fundamental packages in the entire Ubuntu ecology.

Somebody’s not doing things right, obviously…

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar_II#In_Jewish_and_biblical_tradition

Possible…

hadn’t considered that…

but then-again, human history does tend to repeat the same “events”, just in variations…

Roman Empire & US Empire both being the great monster with steel teeth, & deteriorating substance going down, until clay feet…

Trump as a replay of that … similar but I think the fundamental current is different-enough that Trump’ll be remembered, if humankind survives this-century, rather more strongly…

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I hadnt thought of that:

good point!

Not that anybody’ll actually do it, but it could be done.

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Herdbeasts are sentient: they are “others”.

They don’t want to be slaughtered: we care more about using meat from their bodies for a momentary meal than we care about their lives-themselves.

That is OUR values.

& our being sociopathic doesn’t make sociopathy universally-right or universally-valid.

( I’m not vegan, but universe has beaten learning into me until I’ve come around to seeing the prejudice in our whole “civilized” “relationship” with reality )

TTBOMK, vegetable-tanning isn’t done as much because it costs more.

& the original person’s comment about chromium-salts looks spot-on, & was ignored by your counter.

Just pointing out some stuff for objectivity, is all: integrity’s a precious-resource, & it takes all of us being loyal to it, to make it remain in our world.

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Chromium-based tanning is only 1 kind of tanning, but yeah, chromium’s one of those chemicals which needs to be limited more-carefully, among our ecologies.

Vegetable-based tanning also exists, & I’m no expert, so there could be multiple way I don’t know about.

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“TreeLeather” or something like that, was 1 brand of the cellulose “leather” stuff…

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When they attack you and delete your question or lock it because they don’t want “your kind” polluting their forum, that isn’t meritocracy: that is national-narcissism.

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Toxic-culture won.

Period.

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Simpler & clearer:

Intelligence is solving-the-problem-efficiently/quickly…

Wisdom is realizing we’d been solving the wrong problem, & working-out what the right-problem is…

Wisdom’s meta-intelligence.

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Why do billionaires/oligarchs do it?

Principle of Least Effort.

It isn’t particular to the “lower class” or to the “less educated” or to any particular faction of the population.

That’s normal.

Some people, no matter how you “slice” the population up, still act so fucking stupid.

'Tis a fact of life, is all.

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Upper-middle class is doctor/lawyer/professor/diplomat.

Upper-class is power, not job.

Totally different categories.

Oligarchs are upper-class.

Monarchs are upper-class.

To the upper-class, job-people are hirable-dogs, not equals.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/class-paul-fussell/1111206189?ean=9780671792251

Read that long-ago, & it has proved its right-framing consistently since then.

He got the fundamentals right.

There are other sub-class-systems, however:

The academic-class system, the financial-class system, etc.

But the fundamental givaway is this:

Power is what “validity” means in the upper-class.

Institution is what “validity” means in the middle-class. ( so, PhD is high-status within the middle-class, school-dropout is contemptible-inferior in their eyes ).

Money is what “validity” means in the working-class.

Underclass has its own hierarchy, too… street-bosses, etc…

The parent-child relationship is a class-system!

But Fussell’s right on the fundamental 3 categories in the class-system, & their “validity” anchorings.

The whole “Ivy League” thing is that it isn’t the skills you have , that make you valid, it is being in the power-clique that does.

That is upper-class.

So, there’s Venn-diagram intersection between raw-oligarchy & jobs … so truly-upper-class could well have jobs, but … it’s the power, not the grind, that true-upper-class is.

When your power-connections are more important than your in-organization-day-to-day-decisions, then you’re probably upper-class in mode, though your instinct may still be upper-middle-class, or financial-class ( which is above upper-middle-class ).

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True-upper-class is more likely to have a “job” than a job.

“Official Role”, but not accountability, or daily-grind/stress.

Arthropods, for instance… Fish, too…

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It’s either new/fresh, or old, eggs, that are hardest to peel.

The ice-bath after boiling is right, too, as it shrinks the egg within the shell, so peeling it is easier, as it’s already pulled-away…

You either got a too-new or too-old egg, & the white bonded to the shell-lining membrane.

The only method I know-of for defeating such impervious opponents, is simply to use a spoon inside the egg, to slice-away the egg from the inside of the shell.

Nothing else works, with those ones…

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abbreviations can be visual-flags, for the reader of the item.

Makes finding key-passages quicker for them.

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Once monarchy/oligarchy has removed rule-of-law enough … then law only means anything when it’s law-against-the-power-minority … & that’s what’s being seen, more & more.

There’s no point in pretending otherwise: corruption’s lordhood in many countries won’t tolerate competition, not by rule-of-law, not by other-factions, not by civil-rights, not by anything.

That’s why destroying corruption’s rule, is a survival-issue, for countries wanting to be viable in the strategic-future.

Who’s got the spine to do it?

Not Russia, not “Israel”, not the US, not Argentina, those are certain…

< shrug >

after the tippingpoint, then the regional-consolidation wars will pour destruction into our world, & there won’t be any more pretending-otherwise left, for the sane…

Simple human-nature.

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In the minds of the politically-motivated, maybe.

Not all minds are politically-motivated.

The blunt fact that people are multidimensional, & some are high-integrity-in-work while being low-integrity-in-business, or are excellent-woodworkers-while-being-family-abusers … what a person is in 1 dimension oft has nothing to do with what they are in another.

Ideologues who insist otherwise are living within their ideology, not within actuality.

Spiders may creep many out, while their silk is one of the most astonishingly-awesome materials known.

their silk doesn’t itself creep people out…

but maybe ideologues hold that it has to be creepy because to them spiders themselves are creepy…

Cult-“thinking”.

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So you hold that ReiserFS instantly became evil when Hans Reiser murdered his wife, even-though ReiserFS was a filesystem, developed by multiple people … too?

There is a Principle, which the US Marines hold to:

nazis made more-protective helmets for their troops?

Steal the design, don’t accept their doctrine.

Someone made a better truck than we did?

Steal the design, don’t accept their doctrine.

That’s an excellent paradigm: differentiate between the technology vs the ideology.

People who hold that ideology is the whole of reality … do profoundly-idiotic things like insist “you can’t impliment efficiency, because the last person who pushed it was a nazi”.

Using an ideologue’s software to displace ideology, absolutely is valid use.

Same with any technology, like the barter-replacement called “money”: some uses are evil, others good, & some turn it into a religion, & many insist that because some make it a religion, therefore it “inherently” is a religion, & no other relationship with it could ever be valid…

Same with the technology of a “business”, by incorporating it as a Public Benefit Company, & operating it that way, even-though other corporations are operating as anti-benefit/anti-public companies.

The technology is itself, the origin is itself: they are independently themselves.

As Torvalds identified, once you release something in GPL-2, the community can’t have it taken-away from them: it’s theirs.

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1. it is THE best brainstorming tool there is for writing with.

2. it helps one discover all the weaknesses in what one has written, though not necessarily for the reasons that’d be best ( I downloaded a local LLM, tried it, & discovered that it WOULD NOT ADMIT that Netanyahu’s “Israel” is genociding Palestinians… until finally I found a quote of an Isreali military official admitting, to Israeli journalists, that yes, the Palestinian numbers were accurate, so it was 70k, not 7k, dead, of them, as they’d been insisting all along…

( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/30/israel-military-gaza-death-toll-broadly-accurate )

I don’t need ideological-torque that facts can’t even budge, in my own computer.

Fuck that shit.

3. it is brilliant for doing web-search, for finding stuff that normal web-search is too dumbed-down to find. Trying to find a specific video, or channel, on yt, & their “search” function won’t let you find it? Ask an AI. Trying to find some organization you remember reading-about years ago? Try an AI. Etc.

4. I’m hoping that somebody does a specific-LLM for each subdiagnosis, & correctly chains the things together, so it isn’t only statistically-reasonable, but accurate diagnoses, & renders doctors irrelevant for diagnosis: total democratizing of medical-diagnosis would be THE medical-revolution that our world needs.

5. I wish that bad-teaching were replaced with good personal-agents or personal/offline chat, so that ALL learners could have best-of-breed mentoring in all the subjects they want ( within limits: our world doesn’t need more evil-makers, obviously ), & learning could be broken from the “education” cartels which currently “own” it.

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Please go watch the yt video of Bernie Sanders discussing politics/society/civilization with Claude.ai

That may blow your mind…

It’s … not quite as limited as you, or I, had been believing…

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Different case, obviously, but I remember reading about an AI which can identify pending-heart-attack from x-rays … and nobody could figure-out what the hell it was judging from…

THAT is brilliant.

Specialized to the degree that it is trustworthy.

I’d be surprised if humans could possibly compete against a properly-done set-of-AI’s, which worked through, in the correct order, all possible diagnostic-reasoning.

Democratizing accurate-diagnosis would be THE medical-revolution the world needs, now.

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