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  • Me and a Kiwi friend joke quite a bit about how New Zealand is basically southern hemisphere Britain.

    But after thinking about it a little more I think there's a bit of truth to it. Peter Jackson did choose New Zealand as the place to shoot for the Shire, which the Shire is the representation of the English countryside. I wonder then... if New Zealand's countryside is instead the idealisation of the English countryside?

    This is an interesting video. Personally? I do not believe there should be Free Speech in these places. They are rarely political dogfight arenas, so politics shouldn't be brought up much in the first place(I say much because there's situations where, like with one of Biden's executive orders all American-based software projects must cease any active development with Russians, which hits a lot of OSS organisations). They should be focused on software, putting forward a small set of legal rights around the software that offer some freedoms of use... But, if you're going to allow political dogfights(as these places can't resist doing and sensationalising), you'd better be willing to take that with free speech, otherwise it's a dogfight against strawmen.
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    The man looks like a literal soyjak hahahaha
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    Yeah, I think he's just setting up some strange facial expression on frame 1 of the video and uses that as the thumbnail for the video. Either way he has a point
    I recently learnt a random writing trick for getting "punchier", more "ancestral memory" in writing. Get an Anglish wordbook. The wordstock contained within has a more bewitching effect. For context of what Anglish is, it is a "purer" form of English that's a reality-based conlang. Where an old english word hasn't fallen out of favour, but sees relative disuse compared to their French, Latin, Greek, German and so on loan words... that's an excellent time to use it.
    Nearing day 200 in my BTA world. Also here's my Norman Castle I've built in it
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    As part of a small commission for someone, I have put together some Werc bootstrapping scripts for use on Debian, that gets the dependencies for, and sets up Werc with all the main apps(gallery for image listings, dirdir for wiki and site organisation, goralog for blog posting) for use with it. If you've been meaning to set up a blog... or find the style of my site or the various cat-v.org and related sites bewitching, or plain and simply enjoy werc and have found the plan9-ish side of things intimidating about it, this should hopefully ease the starting steps for it.

    You can find those bootstrapping scripts here.Tagging @dug and @Eden in case this interests either of you two too
    WikiTok. It's like TikTok and Wikipedia mixed together, probably a lot better for natural discovery of random interesting wikipedia articles than wikipedia's built in ones, and probably slightly better brainrot than tiktok
    It's meloonics monday again
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    The abolition of private property, is also the denial of charity and generosity. Additionally the private ownership of something transfers the pride in its quality to its owner- no wonder public infrastructure in the West is declining, there is nobody who privately owns it, and their pride is tied to it, just as much as their desire to uphold their responsibility to it. Then people would ask "then why does privatisation not work", but privatisation goes to publicly traded companies... companies not owned by a single or few people who would hold pride in good quality. As such, they are beholden to shareholder value, and also lose accountability, responsibility and pride too. This form of privatisation is this Thatcher-like... Ronald Reagan-like economic policy- these are the same sorts of people in common society called conservatives(but they don't really conserve much of anything do they? It is like calling a communist a conservative). The state publicly own this infrastructure, is just as rubbish as they divide their accountability, pride of ownership and desire to uphold their responsibility through many sieves of bureaucrats so that responsibility is so finely lost in the process. When it's presented like this, efforts to privatise or publicise infrastructure effectively becomes... do you want it controlled by corrupt incompetent people or competently corrupt people?

    All these roads lead to people owning nothing(except perhaps their living quarters which is why they are decorated so thoroughly with walls of Funko Pops and all sorts of stuff. Surely I'm not alone in noticing how the youth who own little often have well decorated if garish rooms). It's the same play by the WEF- "You will own nothing and be happy". The same play by the Communists. You see something similar in ones own- that expression meaning their children and not some strange concept of "publicly owned children" that by putting them in the care of teachers and care givers for most of their childhood who have just the same amount of motivation as you'd expect them to have of kids who aren't their own... Well the results speak for themselves. They match the fall of the Soviet Union with their fertility rates dropping from 2.1 to 1.2 from 1965-2000(meanwhile South Korea, which is the common benchmark for this kind of accelerationist decline nowadays was at 1.48)

    No wonder if we live in a society that wants us to "Own nothing and be happy", all the way from top to bottom, that it would bleed into raising our own. This point also goes back to those wealth inequality and oligarch issues which I've commented on in other posts on the forum too- though with these it's slightly rephrased from abolishing private property into the everyman owning nothing, and the megarich owning everything(which isn't much different or much better than the state owning everything).

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    @LiraTirsoCaduceo I agree. This is part of why you need some kind of resource allocation system. Capitalism is one that punishes failure(less and less nowadays with governments bailing out large companies that fail, and especially large banks that fail). The punishment of failure being the responsibility of the person who owns the work, puts the onus on them to do well and good work. Communism and systems that distribute responsibility and accountability, don't take any onus for failure, and actually often protect people against feeling the effects of failure. To one degree, these protections should exist, and historically with serfs as an example their social welfare of sorts was how they were tied to the land, and couldn't just be evicted, they should exist around the lower classes who will feel the effects of failure more strongly(but they should still feel the effects of their own failures because if they don't... where is the negative reinforcement in the environment preventing them from wasting their resources?).

    What you mentioned Lira, reminds me of group projects in school, how in a large group of like 10 or so people, 1-3 of them would actually pull their weight and do most of the work and be incredibly disenfranchised because of how the other 7-9 of them reaped the rewards and did nothing, sometimes injecting themselves into discussions and actively harming the work. When the ratios are like this too, no wonder abolishing private ownership of things is a relatively populist idea, when that same 7-9 who do nowt, will feel short-term benefits each time they do things like these(but over the long term the disenfranchisement of that 1-3 who pull their weight will trickle into every crack in society(as another note here, even when you do try to split things accordingly, it's often done by that poor proxy metric of time. Time in the work isn't equivalent to the quality of the work, so efficient, "lazy" and effective workers as is very common among the better programmers is common and ends up making them bitter too))
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    Antice
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    You read Nietzsche? Our value system is fucked and we further exploited it with every generation. A lot of "Gen Z traits" like near autistic pragmatism and directness are the result of human nature snapping back at the corporate world. Or my favorite quote to annoy religious people: "If God truly wouldn't want it to happen, there would be no possibility to even do it. No law above Nature!"
    Was playing some Better than Adventure 7.3 earlier
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    The modern style of mob farms are possible once again in it. This is a weird set up, where I'm using a flinged redstone block(like my previous wheat cannon design), but it gets caught at the peak of its fling by a cobweb, which delays it long enough for the mobs to be flushed. The block that's flung is detected by 4 motion sensors which activate the 4 activators. I have tried to figure out a cheaper design that works with 1 motion sensor but couldn't figure anything out that doesn't run into BUD-issues.

    It also doubles as a squid farm because squid seem to spawn in it too lol. Unfortunately it's not cheap. Each layer requires 4 motion sensors, and so far in my survival world I only have 16 motion sensors. You can roughly see from the middle image, the design has a capacity of 8 spawning platforms(at least before it runs into weird issues where the block is at the peak or bottom and the motion sensor only triggers once).

    I have also been contemplating the following things:
    • A nearly fully automatic tree farm(as activators mean placing saplings and doing bone meal is now possible)
    • Sand and Gravel farms as crushing with reinforced pistons results in them(cobblestone -> gravel -> sand). I could probably make this a seperate design so I don't have cobblestone production speed limitations.
    • Some kind of trommel factory
    I was also playing around with a couple of decorative ideas(Aquarium via gold mesh, toggle fireplace with embery coals behind it, grandfather clock via gold mesh). I think the Gold mesh works... ok as a poor man's item frame
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    I have read Acts 17 with a friend earlier today. Paul's time in Athens in Acts 17:21 resonated with me. It feels that the Internet as a whole is a "New World Athens" so to speak. That there is nothing here but to talk and listening and not much else. It made me think I'm a bit of a glutton for talking and listening to other ideas, and the internet as a whole seems to encourage this sort of gluttony- then it also leaves me wondering how or if this feast of mostly context-free and action-free information has caused me harm. Sometimes I feel disgusted with myself for engaging or partaking in it, especially after with hindsight- I gave nothing valuable in it, and what I take just weighs upon me for the rest of the day. I think it may also be that this information has TV's hypnotic effect, with a Gambler's stakes of interaction- both in making some sort of a response, rather than asking if it's even worth the time, and being pulled into giving it time. Perhaps, I was primed to see that, because I had been thinking a little of tossing out as much social media usage as pragmatically possible this morning. Why this morning? Because I noticed I had felt so tired, even though I did very little that Sunday, besides actions befitting a citizen of "New World Athens". I wonder if that information fatigue is the same thing as "brain fog"...

    Returning a second to action-free information, I wonder also if people are stuck between cycles of self-help books and inaction, because learning action-rich information feels like action, it is, it's optimising a process that is not(and may never be) in motion- but this action feels like it is that motion. The same thing happens in programming with premature optimisation all the time...

    Just some food for thought. I'd be curious to hear what other people make of this.
    Hey, curious to hear from others who have a steam Deck. How is Nucleus for doing split screen LAN gaming on it? I'm considering setting it up to play some Split Screen Don't Starve Together, or some split screen Halo 3 with some friends. I also ideally want to set up some split screen Minecraft, but not sure what the best way to do that would be. PS3 emulation of the PS3 Minecraft version, and using their native split screen?
    Been playing around with the new Better than Adventure minecraft update
    Reinforced pistons for flinging objects makes for this pretty simple 0-tick pulser, which you can then combine with a sticky piston for a basic toggler. Timing for it is based on how high up that top basalt cobblestone is, so you can make ticks slow. Also survives when you save and quit(unlike some redstone circuits...)
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    Building on that 0 tick pulser design... the WHEAT CANNON:
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    Activators also work on the cows too, so you can harvest buckets of milk that way. Plus BUD detecting sugar cane growth isn't hard... got me thinking that I can make a Cake Factory...

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    Our great grandparents must have seen tens of kisses before they had their first.
    Our grandparents must have seen hundreds of kisses before they had their first, with the advent of TV and Film.
    Our parents must have seen thousands of kisses before they had their first, with mainstream TV, Films and the advent of social media.
    My generation must have seen tens of thousands of kisses before they had their first.

    No wonder our generation ask "am I doing it right" when they have their first... suddenly they are very self-conscious if they kiss right. No wonder a kiss has been devalued from an intimate act. And then I wonder why people don't show any sensitivity to the world, when the answer is in the frequency.
    The word Addict, comes from the Latin Addictus, which means to devote, be indebted(enslaved) to, or to sentence someone. It's an interesting word, I've seen it used about monks for their zeal and devotion to God. I'm pretty sure it's in Romans somewhere that all men are either a slave to Sin or a slave to God- slave, indebted, servant all being words for similar things here.

    I think it's interesting that nowadays the word Addict, is now used for those who are breathless(literally and metaphorically) slaves to drugs and devote themselves entirely to it, rather than those bound by a debt, or for the zealous. Fascinating etymology that goes from Roman debt-bondage slaves, to metaphor in Christianity, to people tweaking out.
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    In Vegas, they like to say, "get even, or get even worse!!"

    But in regards to your post, I think the orthodox-Christian notion of being a slave to Christ, or indebted to Him in some way, has been degraded because of antinomianism.

    (Calvinist/Reformed ideologies thinking, "Well... Christ paid it all on the cross, I don't NEED to do anything; and even if I think I need to do something, I'm not saved" many such cases...)

    This sort of "salvation by theology" concept, entirely separate from action, softens the weight of something like "Slave to Christ", ergo the phrase is only useful for something severe like ur cousin Ricky's relationship with opiates
    Andy Kaufman
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    I German we don't use the noun often (Süchtiger/Abhängiger), we rather say that someone is addicted = süchtig.
    It comes from the verb "suchen" which means "to search for". There's also the word "sehnsüchtig" which translates to "longing for something"

    So our interpretation is someone obsessively searching/longing for the source of their addiction.
    mesaprotector
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    I remember our French teacher tiptoeing around the definition of "accro de", just saying it meant "to like a lot". My crush immediately said she was addicted to chocolate. I didn't figure it out until a week later.
    I've been thinking a little bit about people and works who are ironic. I think it is a pretty awful mindset to have- it is often self-deprecating, and is usually used to deconstruct, attack and criticise something, without offering any solution. This is even worse when the work or the person itself does this against themselves as they are almost inoculating themselves from criticism, as they criticise themselves first.

    The result is you have these people and these works who are very insincere and inauthentic- for the people it erodes their sensitivity to the world and sends them down a dark path of not taking people or themselves seriously. They have become Devils advocate to themselves, and hold no belief- it's no wonder the mindset of an ironic jokester is so close to that of an existentialist or nihilist. For the works, they become hostile, corrosive and empty.

    I think people call this irony poisoning... that's just asking for a comparison to lead poisoning or mercury poisoning, nibbling away at the mind and soul. I think it is sad that irony is so dominant in western culture.
    Eden
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    @LiraTirsoCaduceo You can indeed hold sincere beliefs and at the same time be ironic, or make ironic works. The perception of cringe, goes back to what I said about inoculating yourself or your work from criticism- you can't criticise it as cringe, if it's already been called ironic-- unless you know they are doing things this way. I've already described the value of irony: It deconstructs and criticises, now if you use it to build up these broken pieces towards something else, that works, but most of the time I don't see this happening.

    @Eden My question to you with regards to New Sincerity- is the person chasing authenticity, not inauthentic for chasing authenticity? That they are forcing themselves to fit the mould and image of authentic, and in doing so, are inauthentic. And then my 3 follow-up questions: Does inauthentic authenticity matter? Are they more authentic than the man who has never tried to go out of their way to be authentic or inauthentic? Finally, how much value can or should be placed on authenticity?
    Eden
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    I don't think Inauthentic "Authenticity" is authentic... Like, I believe it's a binary. I think people can (and should!) work on being authentic (like more profoundly and more often). And people should be attentive and studious with assessing fake / sincerity of others. I would hope people experience the whole spectrum, in themselves and others, that "pure / innocent man" sounds unrealistic. But comparing / ranking authenticity..? Maybe useful a bit for self-improvement, but for judging others.. I don't know. Finally, how much value? It's definitely a essential element of the holistic whole, but everyone's different, cultures are different, how authenticity is expressed will be different. So a moderate amount of value? Lol, I'm a Middle / Center / Balance kinda guy, yo.
    BlackControlBoxer
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    how you gonna see shit if you cant see shit
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    @MySpace Tom I agree with your critique, it's not able to definitively conclude it. The number of people with blindness isn't loads to be too definitive about it, and a lot of the people have yet to go past the line of schizophrenia onset. We'll just have to wait and see what happens as they cross the threshold.

    I completely disagree with @LuxuriaOfDesire about the study being "One of the worst". Large population studies are hard to do logistically, the vast majority of garbage studies are small case studies with maybe a few thousand people at most without time being accounted for. The population of the UK is about 70 million, so they have done a study at the scale of 1/140th of the size of the UK. If you really think it's "one of the worst studies", when it's reproducing results of smaller case studies across a large population... can you justify why and how it is "one of the worst" some more? Personally, and I see this a lot on the internet, people are very willing to criticise science because they have no stake, and there's legitimate issues(reproducibility crisis and "trust the experts" mindset, corporate funding skewing results via p-hacking), which means you have a situation of total trust or total distrust of any attempt at science(both of which are conducive to bad science).

    Personally, I think this is actually a good study because it's doing good science in that it's looking at interesting phenomenon that smaller case studies have observed, and attempting to reproduce their results on a large population, and asking the question of what gives this protective effect against schizophrenia. Here's the large population study for others interested, it's referenced in the above website page I posted.
    Has anyone else noticed the increase in anti-immigration rhetoric being egged on by the super rich(like Elon Musk), while the super rich still want high levels of immigration(like Elon Musk with H1B visas)- so they get everyone angry at immigration by talking about illegal immigration(which you can do very little to stop anyway... because it's illegal. It's in the name). The UK Tories did the same stuff focusing on "THE BOATS!!!"

    It's an interesting situation that the super rich want to egg on anti-immigration rhetoric while keeping immigration high. Something about having your cake and eating it.
    Z0diacK
    Z0diacK
    I would say that hatred for immigration into the New World (USA) is quite odd because that country is based on immigration. Now saying you don't want immigration in a European country is quite different as the culture, history and the soil itself is still bounded by race and generation of families.
    I do understand your point, the people always focus on illegal immigrants and quite frankly, there's not alot to do about it except strengthen borders. Hating on illegal immigrants is fine, but talking about real migrants will make you too extreme for any political party in a democracy....
    Waninem
    Waninem
    USA immigration tended to historically come from European countries or places with otherwise similar culture. The problem is when you bring in folks who have fundamentally incompatible cultural or moral tenants that refuse to change (like, say, marrying underaged girls,) and do so in large enough numbers that they can just form enclaves and not be forced to assimilate due to rarity. It's only natural that people of a certain group will congregate together out of familiarity, and while this can in some cases result in cool things like Chinatowns, in other cases you get no-go zones where not even police and emergency services can enter because they've formed their own de-facto city-state and don't like outsiders.
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    @Z0diacK adding on to what @Waninem mentioned, it's also a "please close the door on my way in" sort of mentality, as they have lived experience of the country they come from, and don't like the way it is currently(not to be confused with hating their country, you can like your country's culture and hate the people, corruption, politics etc there). 2nd and 3rd generation British Indians are like this quite a bit from what I've observed.
    I think a general marker for how poor a place is... is how many places and ways to gamble are open to them in their place.
    On another note, I was joking earlier with a friend while in Newcastle, that a bank is set up right next door to a casino. Seems likely some sorry saps, have taken out a loan and blown it all in the casino.
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