Empiricist Old-Testament Vajrayana, battered enough by life to have grown-up some, in my nearly-6-decades, autistic geek, philosopher who finds that Western philosophers are nowhere near at the level of correct-thinking of the Vajrayana stuff, & will be tearing-into Marx, etc, for their brainos ( Marx found that capitalism alienated workers, so he replaced capitalism with communism, which somehow “didn’t” alienate workers?? I’ve already cracked the underlying error, but that is a long article. It’ll happen. & so will the dismantling of the other philosophers’ bogons, the whole lot of 'em. : )
It isn’t the number-of-studies that makes it insignficant or significant:
it is the number-of-lives-altered-by-the-condition, & the degree-of-alteration, which combine to make it either insignificant or significant.
I think that if that quote rightly represents what they did, they may be guilty of malpractice “science”.
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There ought be a do not follow recursive links switch for it, Hoomin…
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That utter-desparation is engineered into our civilization.
What happens when you prevent the “inferiors” from having living-wage, while you pour wallowing-wealth on the executives?
They have to overwork, to make ends meet, is what, which breaks parenting.
Then, when you’ve broken parenting for a few generatios, the manufactured ocean-of-attachment-disorder manufactures a plethora of narcissism, which itself produces mass-shootings.
2024 was down 200 mass-shootings, in the US of A, from the peak of 700/year, to only 500.
You are seeing engineered eradication of human-worth, for moneyarchy.
Isn’t ruling-over-the-destruction-of-the-Earth the “greatest thrill-ride there is”?
We NEED to do objective calibration of the harm that policies & political-forces, & put force against what is actually harming our world’s human-viability.
Not what the marketing-programs-for-the-special-interest-groups want us acting against, the red herrings…
They’re getting more vicious, we need to get TF up & begin fighting for our species’ life.
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There’s a “philosopher” who the far-right techbro-oligarchs rely on, whose blog is grey-something-or-other…
I tried using wget & there’s a bug or something in the site, so it keeps inserting links-to-other-sites into uri’s, so you get bullshit like
grey-something-or-other.substack.com/e/b/a/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/etc…
The site apparently works for the people who browse it, but wget isn’t succeeding in just cloning the thing.
I want the items that the usable-site is made-of, not endless-failed-requests following recursive errors, forever…
Apparently one has to be ultra-competent to be able to configure all the disincludes & things in the command-line-switches, to get any particular site dealt-with by wget.
Sure, on static-sites it’s magic, but on too many sites with dynamically-constructed portions of themselves, it’s a damn headache, at times…
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Big platforms will aggressively sabotage any country who tries taking their malwares from the population: better to go scorched-earth than to TOLERATE alternative/competition, right?
I won’t be surprised when entire-countries’ devices are bricked to teach the country a lesson, while the Russia+Trump alliance begins their total-war on that country…
Countries have already accommodated allowing all critical-infrastructure to be proprietary, in tech…
they are owned, & cannot get out of that with the incompetence that they got into it, with…
Exactly as the tech-oligarchs intended.
I’m a geek, & it makes me want to puke, what’s been accomplished, against humankind’s viability, by tech-people…
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Comically, there is a Scientifically-Testable-Prediction in the Christian bible’s book of Revelation, about ecological-collapse:
it stated that both marine & terrestrial food-webs would collapse, simultaneously.
That wasn’t possible before the Industrial Revolution, & ( in my opinion ) the Industrial Revolution became inevitable as a result of the Roman Empire ( which was its own Industrial Revolution, in my eyes ).
It just took 2 millenia to happen, is all…
So, this century ( closer to the end of it ) we get to see exactly what John of Patmos predicted, about 2 millenia ago…
Won’t stop the “that can’t happen” zealots from prohibiting that such an ancient prediction could ever come true, will it?
There’s an American Indian saying: only when all the food is gone, will Whites understand that money isn’t food. ( very coarse paraphrase ).
Identity’s actually the root problem: All non-Indigenous cultures, that I know-of, have prejudice against Indigenous cultures/people, along the lines of…
" they are native to Earth, we are divorced from Nature/Earth, & that makes us better than their kind. "
Certainly what I grew-up in…
it’s lie-based, though: as 1 American Indian man pointed-out: “We’re ALL children of Mother Earth.”
How the hell could that statement be somehow “wrong”, as it is deemed to be, among most “civilized” cultures??
Identity-based-“validity” is the root problem.
India’s “advaita”/nonduality’s a good direction: understanding that the ecology we are participating in, affects us, is affected by us, & it is symbiosis between it & us, not some kind of “oh, we’ll just buy a replacement planet when we kill this one” kind of reality…
would be progress!
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