• Paragone@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    I think you’re missing the fundamental-intent:

    learned-helplessness.

    A population which has been beaten & brainwashed into learned-helplessness, is a population who can be mere-carrion, fed-upon long-term.

    All the battering we’re getting from apparently-intentionally-wrong-design, UI & UX, and all the endless-battering from AI’s displacing reality from our world, well, if the point is to make certain that we don’t resist having our worth “appropriated” from us by the corporations which feed on our lives … then it’s working, isn’t it?

    It isn’t us using as tools the good stuff, it is us not-having-any-say-anymore, & just aquiescing to anything that is decided on our behalf, re continual-machiavellian-licensing-alterations, re UI & UX, re everything!

    The point is that we stop having any say, & get used to being used/abused.

    Globally.

    In all contexts.

    Battered into all-pervading helpless aquiescence.

    That is the intent which matches the implimentation we’re being subjected to.

    “the benefit of the doubt” expired years ago, now.

    This is DarkTriad war against our meaning, & validity, enforcing its totalitarian dominion through the tech our infrastructure is.

    Because not-for-profits are as machiavellian as the for-profits ( as sickening as that is ), then there is NOBODY competing against the machiavellianism, displacing that malicious infrastructure with good infrastructure.

    Marginal-competition isn’t counting in the world’s economy ( PieFed.social, Lemmy.World, etc, do NOT compete against Reddit at the economics-scale, & the “journalism” of the world is helping to enforce non-competition, too. )

    Our gov’ts have gone full-in backing that rigging of our world: no alternative, in their policy’s eyes.

    Ideally, some not-for-profits would begin competing against machiavellianism, & would begin simultaneously competing against the machiavellian infrastructure, but they’d have to do it against ALL the required-infrastructure, all the big-platforms…

    What establishment would tolerate that?

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      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
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        Its a form of short hand in text stylization to emphasize words.

        Think of it as when someone quickly bites off a word to drive a point.

        Much like have someone would CAPITALIZE a word to over emphasize something as if raising one’s voice.

        Or italicize or put to help over enunciate a word as if to speak it slowly and with pressure on every syllable.

        Short hand verbal text communication is literally the body language of text communication. Hell it’s become so common place that many modern fiction novels now use it.

        And just like any other language there’s even dialectics to it. So while it can be somewhat confusing to wander into a different community online and see different symbols and formats being used they are almost instantly understandable if you understand whats happening.

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          23 hours ago

          Sorry, that’s got nothing to do with it:

          Thoughtshapes are themselves, & some are more “atomic”, & others are more “molecular”, & others are merely-associating.

          I have to fight the urge to use “=” as double-hyphen, to indicate more-atomic, & “-” to indicate still-atomic-just-less, to try to communicate what thoughtshapes I’m meaning, & how their forms work/are.

          Translating from thoughtshapes to English … is clumsy-as-hell, breaks many meanings, & prevents entire categories of meaning from being expressible.

          I’ve been told by multilingual-people that what I’m describing exactly matches their frustration with getting meanings from 1 language into another.


          White psychology holds that there are only 3 innate-mind-languages: VAK…

          • Visual
          • Auditory
          • Kinesthetic

          but there are 4, at-least:

          • Abstract-Shape cognizers
          • Visual cognizers
          • Auditory cognizers
          • Kinesthetic cognizers

          Each of those is mind-blind to things that the other kinds can see.

          Temple Grandin did a TED Talk on exactly that, but didn’t mention the abstract-shape cognizers, iirc.

          https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=temple+grandin+ted

          She COULDN’T have put the Fukushima-reactor emergency-generators at the bottom of pits, beside the ocean, because she would have SEEN that the tsunami that hit the building, which those generators were supposed to provide power after, would have drowned the things.

          Obviously, non-visual-cognizers made that decision, mind-blind to the consequences, obliterating the usefulness of them.

          From what I’ve been able to discover, abstract-shape cognizers are common only in physics.

          There aren’t many ( I’ve met 2 others, that I’m certain of: I asked them, because their thinking was so different from the VAK types ), & it seems to be the only place where such kind-of-mind has significant … either advantage, or familiarity, not certain which.


          So, TL;DR is:

          using hyphens in trying to communicate which thoughtshapes are more-atomic, vs which are merely-associating, using the clumsiness of English’s words & grammar/syntax/punctuation,

          so you people can get the actual feel for the intended thoughtshapes, themselves.

          ( instead of the English-bound approximations of them )

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