It was ?yesterday? when it was being reported, here, how the UK had caught 3 Russian submarines mapping what undersea-infrastructure to cut, to sever the UK’s vitals??

UK’s on rickety “strength”, it seems… MUCH greater threat than merely having fuel-costs rise…

same as Canada is, after having spent the last century betting-the-farm on US being our automatic ally…

Stupid tunnel-vision indulging…

coming to bite us, soon…

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“Peace” that looks just like Tibet’s erasure … may be a bad bargain AND worthless karma.

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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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Now I understand: Mom was devout Christian, & we went to Anglican churches, until Dad ditched us, then Catholic ones…

Finally I understand the 1st Christianity I was brought-up in…

Thank you for your explanation.

It clarifies why Protestantism always seemed … broken, somehow: I’d only ever known Anglicanism & Catholicism, so my view wasn’t as diverse as I’d assumed.

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It’s funny:

The end-times prophecies are clear-as-day, now, & they WHO ARE WALKING INTO IT are ignoring the consequences??

Here’s the 1st-Seal thing, with the Time of Conquering, & the Conqueror ( Trump’s ONLY addiction )

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+6%3A1-2&version=CJB

& here’s the prophecy about Trump’s “mortal head wound” & pending “miracle cure”…

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+13%3A3&version=CJB

The funny part?

IF their 2nd Coming appears … he’d be war-incarnate against them ( the guy-on-white-horse-with-double-edged-blade-of-Cutting-True-Speech-projecting-from-his-mouth ), fighting “the beast”, which they hold to be “lord”…

they don’t even know their own prophecies.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+19%3A11-15&version=CJB

THAT guy would be the LAST thing those abomination-loyal ones would want to see coming into our world!

( caveat: John of Patmos was filtering everything through his unconscious-mind, so the distortions are … kinda rampant. Jung & I both experienced the same kind of distortions, in our VISION-dreams. I’ve no idea if that King of Kings guy is 1st-Seal, aka The Great Filter’s 1st Yang Stage, XOR if it’s later in humankind’s “cell-division”, splitting between the murder-life-for-authority’s-lordhood kind & the LivingSpirit-loyal kind, the WAR stage, which should begin in 7-ish years, after the Regional Consolidation Time is finished, or if it’s in the 3rd stage, the no-food-chain-left stage, where people are living off of greenhouses like Silent Running ( movie ) had, but on Earth…

The fundamental point, though, is that anybody doing what Hegseth’s doing, to bring the 2nd Coming … pouring “blood and destruction” into the world … is warring against that guy in the 3rd biblical-reference, above. )

Interesting Times!

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PS: I’m calling this pope Good Pope Leo, because from what I can see, he is: & I’m not Catholic.

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PPS: I just read the beginning of that chapter, & it looks-like that’s the stuff for the 2070’s, NOT for this end of “the tribulation”/“armageddon”/The Great Filter, so … no point in getting our hopes up.

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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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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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“heavily damaged” my arse:

That’s DESTROYED.

quit weasel-wording everything, “journalism”!!

Fucking unbelievable.

That airframe’s unrepairable.

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https://en.idi.org.il/articles/54250

The Situation for Women in Israel: More Violence, Less Representation and Growing Exclusion from Public Service

It isn’t trying to respect individual-rights as much, any more: fascism & male-supremacism consistently go together…

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Someone who gets it.

Ideology oversimplifes, so that it can reduce the world to reacting … but that is what mere-animals do.

I wish there was more the world could do, and would do, to help the good Israelis who oppose Netanyahu’s “Israel”, but are outnumbered, living in fear of their lives, within their own country…

but at this point, it looks like the kindest & most-responsible thing to do, would be to get them, and the Palestinians, and the Lebanese, and the Syrians, out from there, & let the violent-psychopaths just butcher each other, until none of them were left, & then go back to re-settle the destroyed-but-unpopulated place…

I’m saying that in bitterness: there’s NO hope for well-rooted peace, until the DarkTriad/DarkTetrad authorities are removed for multiple-generations,

& there’s no way to produce that result…

The only method that could have worked, in my eyes, in Palestine, would have been for the UN to be all the public-service, & to disallow ANY ideological-bias from ANY operation in the territory, for … 3 generations?

Until the murder-objectivity-for-ideology’s-supremacism people were all force-retired-out from influence…

Absolute neutrality, no zionism, no hamas, no islamism, no racism, no gender-racism, no skin-racism, no nothing, interfering with best-for-human-potential cultivation in civilization.

& it would definitely have taken 3 generations to accomplish, given human nature…

Here are a couple links which can show people that Jewish & zionist are competeing against each-other, while both have “Israel” as their identity-anchor:

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2026/02/26/the-reality-in-gaza/

For over 28 months, the Israeli military has not only murdered Palestinians en masse, but also systematically destroyed and restricted Palestinians’ access to their homes, to clean water, food, medical care, schools, Internet, fuel, and electricity. These are all tactics of genocide: destroying the conditions required for life.

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-iran-war-is-about-palestine

The Iran War Is About Palestine

By helping Israel demolish what’s left of international legal constraint, the Iran war is hastening the dissolution of the Palestinian question.

( which is part of why Trump & Netanyahu get along: the same demolition of international-legal-constraint )

So, yes there absolutely are Jews, including Israeli Jews, opposed to Netanyahu’s “Israel” and its genocide-enforcing…

…but one can simply go & try reading Daniel, Jeremiah, & Isaiah, & see where they stand re Netanyahu’s “Israel” … & anyone’ll see:

there’s no place in those Jewish prophets’ religion for what his-kind’s doing in their name…

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, Hoomin…

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Budget? Plywood: DIY.

Can’t beat plywood for budget…

XOR 2nd-hand stuff…

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Someone who thinks!

Slightly-incorrect-framing, but you are onto something…

Having women train males in social-process-competence ( & therefore in social-process-confidence ) would be good/useful.

( I’m an old male mind, btw, not a wymmin, obviously : )

The problem’s more-fundamental than social-behavior, though:

People can be in the mere-animal stages-of-unconscious-mind-development, in which case unconsciousness, identity, hormones, & ego rule the whole world,

XOR people can be in self-conquering condition.

Civilization has eradicated that from our lives.

Tribal-villages used to allow males to measure themselves against the forces-of-nature until self-conquering was earned ( a kind of training which had a terrible slaughter-rate, for the number of successes ).

When we switched to feudalism, & industry-feudalism/oligarchy, we never put a proper growing-up-means for the more-testosterone-driven humans, so we broke self-conquering, leaving toxic-masculinity to fester…

It isn’t domineering-others, it is conquering-one’s-self, that is the ultimate Male condition, but the whole world ignores that, because the systems & processes in-place eradicate the potential from all the lives that the systems/processes can.

There was an article in Reader’s Digest, possibly last-century, & a principal at a school had failed, & failed, & failed, to communicate to parents how different the learning-process NEEDS to be, for the yin ( girls, in his mind: I’m the one who threw-away the sex/gender, leaving only the yin/yang ), vs the yang.

Finally he knew:

He got the kids divided in the gym, girls on 1 side, boys on the other, & the parents up in the bleachers.

He asked the kids: “Who of you would rather learn in a quiet library?”

Nearly-all girls, few boys, hands went up.

“Who of you would rather learn in a boisterous classroom?”

Nearly-all boys, few girls, hands went up.

NOW the parents understood!!

The process required for growing-up boys is pushier than the process required for growing-up girls!!

There’s a book ( glanced into the sample of it ) called “Balls: It Takes Some To Grow Some”, written by a trans-man, iirc…

It’s on the nature of male-culture…

The Problem, is that the “education” we’ve established on all kids DOESN’T respect yin-vs-yang nature, OR different-learning-speeds-in-different-subjects, OR truth, not institutional-authority, is THE decider of what is right ( teachers can be wrong ), OR correcting-the-learning-materials-when-they’re-wrong, etc…

The WHOLE THING is “educating” our lives into defectiveness, instead of autonomy, competence, capability, & understanding.

& when you begin with that bedrock … what kind of “masculinity” is going to grow??

Certainly-not the right kind, eh?

The more intellectually-pushy a learner is, the more-intellectually-pushy the training needs to be.

The more physically-pushy a learner is, the more-physically-pushy the training needs to be.

Etc.

With the goal being self-conquering, which isn’t even on humankind’s map, at the moment.

That social-process-training would do actual ( needed! ) good for many men, due to the wrong-education they were subjected-to is true.

But correcting-the-problem required re-engineering “education” into being growing lives, not breaking them for institutional-authority’s-comfort, as John Taylor Gatto, NY State Teacher of the Year Award winner, learned.

( he discovered, after trashing his teaching-career by telling the truth, in the research he did later, that it was the coal industry who had paid for the education-establishment, so as to prevent any more Lincoln or Franklin types from occurring, & it worked )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto#Main_thesis

John Taylor Gatto is the one who explained that a VALID ( & knowing they are valid ) child isn’t manipulateable-by-the-institution the way the institution requires, for its status, among institutions, to be produced…

but a broken child, dependent on provisionally-bestowed-by-the-institution “approval”, IS manipulateable.

THAT cracked-open much of middle-class-institution/gov’t-institution bullying, for me ( gov’t towns are worst for that ).

Social-competence, with associated social-confidence, is required, & your idea is right in correcting that problem…

but that problem isn’t the fundamental one.

( also, broken-parenting due to parents not having livingwage, thereby economically enforcing attachment-disorder, is another fundamental-cause of the problems our current world is embodying )

You wanted males NOT contributing in the discussion, so downvote me, all, but the points stand on their-own, because they test to be true, & in my values, truth has rights, including the right-to-be-seen/heard.

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It makes sense from a few angles:

1. it removes that from Iran’s owning/use
2. it establishes a beachhead right-there, where they can stage/launch from
3. it gives them a base right in the crooked-straight, itself, to fight Iran’s closing of it…

but

4. it also makes them sitting-ducks, for Iran’s retaliation…

( I’m probably missing about 60 important dimensions of this, too )

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Bower or Bowers wrote a book debunking the “hypnotism doesn’t exist” pseudoscience, decades ago.

Basically, if you get 2 populations, & have 1 population go into hypnosis-session intentionally faking it … and you don’t have the other population going into it faking,

& the hypnotist is competent,

THEN the measurable difference-in-behavior between the 2 groups is proof that it’s real.

Hypnosis is as real as multiple-personality-disorder, or as different-personality-while-in-shock-from-trauma.

It’s just a more unconscious-mind dominant state, is all.

Dreams are real, too, btw.

Lack of visual-imagination doesn’t affect hypnotizability.

I’m aphantasic: it’s wrongly-named.

It means “no imagination”, but the truth is we’ve plenty of imagination, just not visually.

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I think people would be surprised, but if that can’t be recovered, it is FAR better for global-warming if it is burned-off, than if it is allowed into the atmosphere as methane:

Methane’s CO2-equivalent, in the short-term, is over 80x as strong as CO2.

So, that’d mean about 4,872,000 tons of CO2-equivalent-release, if 60kt of methane were released.

https://ghginstitute.org/ipcc-ar6-methane-gwp-tables/

see the ROW “Methane” & the COLUMN “GPW-20” which is the 20-year-equivalent to CO2.

See, also, in an earlier column, that its average lifespan is actually 11.8 years, so the 20y equivalent is underestimating its short-term effect, badly, since much of it has been destroyed in the upper-atmophere’s UV by 20y.

Just providing some counter-intuitive context.

That scientist who published that methane HAS to be stopped: leaks of it are simply TOO effective at wrecking our viability, & then his paper was attacked by ALL the establishment/incumbents/lobbyists … he was telling the truth.

https://www.research.howarthlab.org/publications/Howarth_LNG_assessment_preprint_archived_2023-1103.pdf

Please read that abstract, to understand that this isn’t internet-bullshit, that is science.

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It won’t exist, in 8 years.

Civil War Part2: confederate reverse-takeover & vengeance

the war of annexing Canada & using Greenland to enforce that annexation ( severing Canada’s EU-lifeline & using Alaska & Greenland to seal-off Canada from ALL international-trade, to break our life quicker )

the imperial-expansion wars into Central & South America…

Because of a fundamental-fact of human unconscious-mind/pyschology: destroyer-rage has MASSIVE advantage over responsible-sanity, for the 1st while,

the destroyer-regime’ll keep “winning” until it implodes.

I expect Netanyahu to nuke Iran when Trump gets fed-up & ditches Netanyahu, … within a month?

& Netanyahu would then be wanting to nuke ALL Muslim countries, the MINUTE they launch retaliation against his “Israel”,

so the Middle East’s likely to be radioactive, soon, like Chyernoble’s region…

That’ll leave Trump free to concentrate on destroying all civilrights in the Americas, without any distraction.

Which will remove ALL backing from the EU.

China needs the West broken, so they’ll make Putin an offer he can’t refuse, since he’s economically-powerless, now:

China supplants Russian gov’t, & Putin’ll be allowed to keep warring against Europe all he wants, with whatever lives he can scrounge, so long as they aren’t CCP lives.

He’ll agree.

Asia, ditched completely by the West, will be on China’s plate.

Then about 7y of that Regional Consolidation Stage go on, until the “Caucasian Serpent Time” is finished.

I expect Trump to be replaced about 1/2-way-through that 7y cycle, by Musk.

Putin may be replaced too, if that’s what China needs, in their “Russia” vassal-state.

( “Caucasian Serpent Time” you can ask the Indigenous People about, & some of them will understand, probably having heard of the “White Serpent Time”: it’s the same thing, just with slightly-different terminology. Different traditions use different labels, is all )

So, 7+y from today, the Americas Wars implode, & the wasteland remaining has to be rebuilt, but … China’d be IDIOTIC to NOT launch EVERYTHING their then-empire’s got, against the West, wouldn’t they?

They are not idiotic.

That is the “CCP Serpent Time”, aka the “Red Serpent Time”.

It lasts about 4+decades…

Exactly as Ukraine NOW is TOUGHER than it was 5y-ago, so-too will the West, as a whole, in 7y, what’s left of it…

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If you’re the one who did the post on that … ?Russian? 10-kg river/fishing owl, then Thank You: that was a wonderful treat!

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