Buy 2 good books ( different authors ) on becoming a private investigator.
Read them.
Hit Nolo press, & buy their book on legal-research.
Read it.
Now you have 2 understanding-sets that normal-people don’t have, & you can begin digging into institutional-crimes much more competently than normals could.
BellingCat would be an advisable set-of-learnings, too.
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Then they are IDIOTS at understanding crypto.
Bitcoin is the ecologically-costliest/electricity-costliest/machine-costliest cryptocoin to standardize on: it’s nearly used-up.
They’d have been much saner to have standardized on some other crypto.
I’d prefer that Algorand-type ones were standard, but they can be attacked by country-level attackers.
For anybody who wants outside-the-hype-bubble view of what crypto is, & how its ecology works, PLEASE read https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain-bitcoin-blockchain-ethereum-smart-contracts
The reason that Steampowered stopped taking crypto, is plain, in that book.
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( PS: I’d enforce that there be an Algorand-type crypto for recording accounting-records with, country-wide, so that books couldn’t be “cooked” between closout-of-the-books & reporting. & I’d want to make daily closeout normal, if possible. Cisco did that, years ago, so it is possible, but some will scream against such economic-integrity measures, of course… )
Remember that infinite-greed is part of the equation, though…
IF revenue MUST increase, no matter what the cost-to-the-world, THEN … the example of covid supermarket-profits-skyrocketing, while people couldn’t afford food, comes to mind…
That is part of the problem with concentration-of-wealth-archy paradigm & moneyarchy paradigm: they’ve both got infinities in their goals, that is infinite-concentration-of-wealth, & that breaks civilization’s viability.
The 2 equation-classes are incompatible.
Public-benefit-companies are where we ought be, but … there isn’t even that category of incorporation in Canada, ttbomk…
We, globally, have NOT been solving the right problems…
Internet-itself, & social-discussion-forum ought be considered required-civil-infrastructure, removing it from narcissistic-depravity’s control, … but nobody’s got the spine to understand that countries are automatically highjacked, otherwise, by the platforms that the country’s social-nervous-system is.
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I’m NOT for just-becoming-the-ruling-gang.
There are plenty of civil leverages which the left … perhaps won’t … exercise, when it reaches the point of mass-butchery ( like hiring private-investigators to GET the evidence of criminality of the worst in-authority-role scum, & prosecute them, because the establishment won’t, then hiring good criminal-circuit lawyers to secure their convictions ).
There’s a tippingpoint … I think it’s 1/20 of the population, when that percentage of the population is protesting, then the mainstream begin adapting-to, & adopting, the protesting-position’s views.
The fundamental cause of people behaving the way they do, is that they, themselves, are ruled-by-peer-pressure, & they therefore presume that applying-peer-pressure cannot be disobeyed.
The left’s assertions reek of this…
The left’s institutional “authorities” also reek of this “this institute asserts that such-and-such-a-country MUST obey this assertion” kind of thing…
Delusional, & narcissism, both.
Action’s required, but it ought be effective, strategic, civilrights and civilaccountability centered action not just mobarchy, or your-gang-replaced-with-our-gang political “revolutions”, which never EVER produce the civil benefits the raw-potential would enable.
Solving the wrong problem is Traditional, iow.
& nobody’s ruthlessly-strategic-enough-in-altruism to solve the right problem, … so, therefore nothing’ll change, it looks like …
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I hope he never clues-in that he could do-so!
He may simply be too retarded to understand the leverage he has.
That is a Good Thing.
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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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Twist the question:
Do you really care if your partner lives-in instagram “reality” or in what you experience as reality?!
Appearance-based “league” costs: it costs attention, focus, dedication, & resources.
Some care about experience-induced-value, others about appearance-based-value, & it shows.
Had a friend tell me once they lost a friend to modeling: it ate her brain.
Now all she could discuss were makeup & hair.
Was Einstein at the bottom, or the top, of “league”, once he’d become a philosopher?
See?
One’s values is the basis of “league”.
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