umm, Hoomin, that was in the 1900’s!

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Merely threaten … ball-less cowards.

They will remain owned, then, possessed-carrion, instead of owning their own autonomy…

The frog in the slowly-heating-pot is us.

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No: once a corporate-culture gets sufficiently divorced-from-reality, then they “have their heads up their asses” sooo far, that they commit blunders unless they “get a reality-check”.

Committee-culture’s fungus-minded.

The problem is that the frame-of-reference is relative, so a corporate-culture which is still immersed in outer-customers’ reality is only one “degree” divorced-from-reality.

However, if the “frame-of-reference” of a culture is other sociopathic cultures, … then … then outright psychopathy becomes recommended/pushed/evolved, in order to compete among the misperceived-context ( which is only other-sociopathies ).

So, it’s an escalating positive-feedback-loop.

Sociopathy breeds sociopathy, & when enough of the corporate-frame-of-reference is sociopathy, then psychopathy becomes primary, & eventually it is normal & ruling.

The increasing polarization in political-sphere, in religion/fundamentalism-sphere, in moneyarchy-sphere, in legalism’s increasingly shameless contempt-for & eradication-of moral/natural law, the increasing polarization of class-system/monarchy among those in-love with that, the bolder & bolder violent authoritarianism…

it’s all part of the SAME gorgon/hydra, just that each “serpent” is going in its own direction, but the fundamental change in human-unconscious is one of “fuck considered-reasoning: I’m going with ideology-enforcing!!”…

it’s less intellectually-taxing to be ideological/prejudiced “believer” than it is to remain loyal to considered-reasoning…

there’s less moral-anxiety within ideology/prejudice/belief than there is in considered-reasoning…

Overwork unplugs one from the push/pull cycle, the work-hard/rest-deeply cycle, which considered-reasoning requires…

& Microsoft is only 1 single example of progressing-through-sociopathy-into-psychopathy among our countless corporate world-possessors.

DarkHexad dimensions of human-evil:

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

Can you see how the more one immerses oneself in DarkHexad as a means of “winning”, the more one’s frame-of-reference normalizes that all?

It’s just “drift”, but in frame-of-reference, is all…

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I read that Scarlett’s family & friends couldn’t tell it apart from her actual voice.

I’d say that “Open AI” or whatever they’re called, trained it specifically on only her voice.

The seems-narcissistic-machiavellian-sociopath-CEO whats-his-face tried to get her to agree to this,

she wouldn’t agree,

he tweeted “her” when releasing the update ( after Scarlett’s movie )

she lawyered up,

he backed down…

I’d say it’s a clear case of identity-theft-for-profit of a celebrity, by a consistently narcissistic-machiavellian-sociopath who’s kinda leaving lots of corpses of “integrity” all over the place.

There’s some law which protects celebrities from use of their likeness, and rightly:

it’s their “coin” that their career is made-of, right?

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When a handful of monopolies decide that no factchecking will be seen by anybody, anymore,

and only profitable-to-their-dictatorship disinformation will be seen,

then humanity will not have any means of countering that:

it will be too late.

We are “the frog dropped into the slowly-heating pot of water”.

People pretend that monopoly is “maybe” harmful, economically, but it is an existential-threat to countries, and with globalization, now to civil-rights as a valid-category.

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I remember somebody was doing 3D-woven composites, possibly for spacecraft, some years ago…

This is essentially the same idea, but with nanotubes.

This suggests that weaving reinforcement tow through the layers of the layup would be structurally-significant, if it were done densely-in-pattern, enough…

In aerospace, maybe it’d be structurally significant ( aircraft have, iirc, only a 10% margin in structural-strength, though that may be just the aluminum semi-monocoque builds )

SanDisk usb-keys work.

You really want to use the thing for read-only, though, if you can:

the writes it takes to kill some portion of a filesystem, vs the writes you get before corrupting things, on a USB driver, don’t line-up.

Use NVMe as your 1st-choice for storage ( future purchases, obviously ), the fastest you can get, and be stunned by how much faster the same motherboard is, with superfast OS storage…

I’d stick /home, not /usr, on the USB.

I am trying to lear basic HTML/CSS/JavaScript ( again, last learned HTML back in the 1990’s, am using “JavaScript: The Good Parts” & other books ),

& have discovered that you can have, on the same phone/tablet, Termux/Nginx running,

you have to feed /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/etc/nginx/nginx.conf the root-dir you want it to use

( which is actually in a proot-distro install, down below

/data/data/llcom.termux/files/usr/var/lib/proot-distro/installed-rootfs/ … )

… and then you can have your browser hit

http://localhost:8080/

and it’ll grab index.html.

Notice that that is http, NOT httpS.

None of the browsers I’ve tried can get the default connection to localhost, because they all default to https, & nginx isn’t serving https.

That wasted an entire fscking day, to discover.

Now learning can begin!

I have read that the actuality includes a loophole you didn’t speak of:

Once someoen owns shares, they can privately-sell them, or give them away, or will them to someone…

Once enough people have done this, the “private” company becomes actually publically-traded, though not on any exchange…

…creating some legal difficulties, re regulations.

From that bit, which I never would have known to even consider ( some article I read, some years ago ), then it looks like people can sell their shares to another private-individual.

Maybe some jurisdictions prohibit that.

I don’t know, I’m just identifying an angle people apparently haven’t commonly considered.

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No Triffid markers??

Normal ppl, harrumph.

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They are the greatest gift to solo-brainstorming that I’ve ever encountered.

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and how many extra fatalities in traffic-collisions were there, around it, and were they worth the money?

We’re going to have to put “circuit-breakers” on elections, if well-timed enemy-product like that can be significant.

Same as like we have 'em on the stock-market.

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I hold that this is true of all neural-nets, organic as well as silicon:

Once a person has sided with treachery, rooting it out from one’s unconscious-mind is … enduringly difficult, if not intractable.

I don’t know how many decades it takes to eradicate the roots of it, if it can be done, at all:

the unconscious-mind mechanism, that-is the Kahneman System-1 ( from “Thinking Fast & Slow” ) imprint is going to still be there, even if overlaid with another imprint ( since mind is holographic/pattern-imprints in function ).

Worse, it is the motivation that need change, and motivation is of ego, which is of identity, so many who “reform” only do-so superficially.

I’m not saying this as some goody-2-shoes, I’m saying this as a person who was raised by narcissists, and therefore embodied much narcissism, and class-prejudice ( dad was a doctor: you can’t get more upper-middle-class status-prejudiced than doctor-culture )…

…who finally cracked the root kernel of the class-prejudice in my unconscious-mind’s identity-crystal at the end of a 25d hard-line fast, out in the bush.

It took that to fracture the identity-crystal’s prejudice.

It’s been a decade since then, & I’m still fighting to eradicate its treachery from my nature.

Neural-nets are tough to purge, or clean-up & make upright.

MUCH easier to keep a neural-net pristine through all of its formation, than to try ( endlessly failing ) to clean it up, after it’s become enemy-intent in “family” clothing.

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EasyDNS.ca or if they also do EasyDNS.com

GoDaddy was a bunch of sleazebags, back in the day…

Go search http://slashdot.org/ for them, and see…

not only hosting lots of sleazebags, but also having tons of compromised mail machines, so their machines were, according to what I’d read there, the source of much of the world’s spam, and they wouldn’t fix things.

EasyDNS was recommended by one of the SysAdmin reporters on The Register, a few years ago.

He also recommended Linode & Vultr, back then, too.

This stuff in this comment is just my opinion, and my memory of what trustworthy people were reporting a few years ago.

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Replace them with SSD’s?

Your seek-time drops to near-zero,

your throughput increases to SATA ( or your motherboard’s SATA controller ) speed,

and you become absolutely-immune to such vibrations.

I cannot understand using rotating-disk drives in any notebook machine, under any circumstances, ever, for the last decade or so.

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Duh.

how could that be surprising??

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And …

… should be considered every-bit as much of a crime as home-invasion is.

Only permanent, because internet.

Nobody’s got spine, anymore, though…

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THEN their claim that they offer wages that…

…WITH TIPPING…

meet the min-wage laws,

no longer has any bearing.

Sue them to hell.

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That’s a VIRUS.

Duh…

( yes, I know they are implementation-orthogonal, but it’s the same concept. )

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