Obviously, ignoring security is pervasive, well-established, S.O.P.

Incompetence wins, because it is “normal”?

I read only a sample of this book https://www.manning.com/books/secure-by-design and its whole fundamental understanding is that our world has been using the wrong framing of security, all along.

It isn’t paint you put on finished-work, for nice highlights ( my metaphor, not theirs, I’m just trying to communicate the idea of what we’ve been doing )

Rather, it is a set of concerns that need to be kept-in-mind throughout the entire development-process.

So, more lives will be subject to identity-theft, wrongful-accusation/conviction-of-crimes, robbery, etc, because corporate institutions refused to be responsible…

Will anything make the irresponsible-authorites accountable?

Of course not: establishment protects its own.

Force-altering the framing of secure development, however, that does look like it can make our future investments be significantly less corrupt.

I have not bought that book, I have not read more than some of the sample, I’m not saying it definitively is the understanding we’re needing.

I AM saying that what the authors were saying in the part I’d read definitely is on-the-mark about us solving-the-wrong-problem, producing wrong-results ( I’d say pretending to solve problems, as what we keep proving we’re doing is fundamentally more-corrupt than merely solving the wrong problem, but … )

Manning has specials, periodically, so it should be possible to get the ebook for 40%…50% off, if one is patient, & persistent in checking their website.

I want the results we’re making to be better.

If anyone knows better means for making our results better, please correct my comment.

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I realized that my incompetence-in-communicating probably added this mis-communication:

The inquisitors were Christian, right?

The fact that what they were doing went against everything their root-guru’s religion was made-of, doesn’t have any bearing, to them.

Nazism is Christian, in identity.

The KKK is Christian, in identity.

Identity has deep roots.

Cambodia’s Buddhist.

Has been for centuries.

Yes, I know that Pol Pot was Communist, but when you raise communism in a country as deeply Buddhist as Cambodia, … you end-up with many of the people in the ruling-regime having “Buddhist” identity, fundamentally in them.

THAT is what I meant:

it was the underlying Buddhist-identity, that I was attacking, and not, in any way, pretending that Pol Pot was claiming Buddhism ( which not-even an idiot would claim ).

You simply can’t raise an institution in any culture, without having that-culture being the underlying identity in the people of that regime.

That is why Chinese Buddhism is to me partially an oxy-moron:

Confucianism ( form/tradition/authority/establishment ) is sooo much of the bedrock of the fundamental Chinese mind, and Buddhism is the opposite ( essence, instead-of form, centered ), that the 2 modes of mind are fundamentally mutually-exclusive.

( this doesn’t mean that Chinese Chan Buddhism is somehow worthless: it’s got some excellent insights for us!

However, if one is working at dissolving-beyond-form, then being fundamentally of the form-and-establishment-and-authority-are-LORD religion that Confucianism is, & I’ve linked on other sites to a pair of legal-cases which show Confucianism’s bedrock instinct…

both in Japan & in China, both Confucian-culture ( Japan’s fundamentally more Buddhist & also Shinto ), people have been convicted of murders that they confessed-to, … and then the person they’d “murdered” returned to town, or was found alive.

In Confucian culture, authority is the LORD.

Authority beating people into confessing is “valid” ( and cost authority some “face” in those cases, when accountability came knocking ), for authority to do.

In OUR culture due-process is more real, in Confucian culture … it inherently isn’t.

Same with truly-Buddhist cultures, like Cambodia.

Any truly-Buddhist culture which is temporarily ( for a few generations ) highjacked by some physicalist/materialist ideology … the underlying identites of the people staffing the regime is going to remain rooted in the underlying-culture, isn’t it?

That goes all ways, not just to the traditional-religions, it goes to moneyarchy, it goes to legalism-archy, it goes to physicalism’s religion, it goes to fundamentalist-atheism, it goes to all axiom-based, system-of-meaning that rejects falsification

( which is my definition of “religion” ).

You can’t instantly get the underlying identity out, no matter how you change the apparent identity: it takes generations to do that.

( the Soviet Union lasted long-enough to change the fundamental-underlying-identity in people, not completely, but significantly )

So, you’ve proven I’m incompetent at communicating:

I meant underlying identity, underneath the party-affiliation or otherwise “flag carrying” “identity”,

but I appeared to mean something fundamentally-different.

Typical…

My inability to think the way proper, acceptable, valid, western-minds think, keeps creating miscommunications & problems.

That isn’t likely to cease, as long as I continue earning more-complete understanding, instead of remanufacturing me to make me be acceptably-conforming/“belonging”/etc.

That underlying-level & surface-level both affect outcomes, is to me sooo obvious as to be automatically-assumed.

Normals don’t assume any such thing.

Incompetence-at-communicating can have many causes.

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A ( metaphoric ) point that I find humankind is ignoring/denying:

WHEN you’re on a bus that’s being driven by 1 or another gang, & those gangs are fighting each-other for supremacism/dominion, & they don’t care whether anyone survives, because it is their ruling that is the only thing that matters to them,

AND THE PATH THEY’RE TAKING IS FATAL TO THE WORLD,

it doesn’t matter “who” drives the bus when it leaves the cliff: the “stampeding off the cliff” is fatal to the whole herd, see?

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is something that needs to be having ALL gov’t policies tied to it, when judging what is authorized, & what isn’t.

AND it needs to be the test for moralities, too.

Does something amplify the still-accelerating ClimatePunctuation?

IF so, THEN it has to have sooo much benefits that it’s worth it.

Does it protect the millenia-established male-bullying-female?

THEN it costs both current & future lives, and rights, and our species’ real-viability.

As many have pointed-out, male-bullying-female automatically shuts-down 50% of our brains being allowed to contribute to our surviving this-century, & that is idiotic or worse.

ALL the problems have to be seen, & balanced against each-other.

What Russia’s doing to Ukraine ( & soon to the EU as a whole ), what Trump will shortly be doing to Canada ( same as Russia->Ukraine, for the same colonial-imperial motivations ) are survival-grade problems.

Different election-systems/processes have long-term-morality consequences… making particular-futures more or less likely…

There’s an English mathematician ( redhead, kinda roundish, moved to Glasgow for professional reason, it was a yt video of his, aweful video, stupendous insight ) who identified that there is exactly 1 thing that all the most-successful complex-projects do, that none of the unsuccessful ones do:

create a functionally-complete visual-spacial model of the required system, leaving no kind of function out,

and only then begin the scaling of that model into implimentation.

Even questions of morality can be dealt-with this way, identifying that some choices extinguish us, & when people can SEE that, then our thinking changes.

It isn’t hearing-about this-issue, or that-issue, or whatever, it isn’t being reminded and holding-everything-in-our-heads,

it is SEEing it, as a visual-spacial model, so that the consequences become implied in how the representation looks, and then we can begin judging things objectively.

Now consider 2 allowed-futures, 1 where 50% of the human-lives have their life-potential stomped-on by male-supremacism, & the other where ALL humans are allowed contributing to our viability…

Which is more-likely to survive this-century’s Great Filter ( when a species that won’t grow-up has nuclear-level technologies, & does a multi-stage global tantrum-pogrom to beat/break/smash “god” into obeying unconscious-ignorances “godly” ENTITLEMENT, as the tantrum-toddler it is, that OUR OWN unconscious-mind is now enacting )?

That’s objective, not mere-opinion/cultural-opinion.

Here’s an example of competing-moralities:

Some want all internal-combustion-engines killed, today, no matter the cost.

Others want a phased switch.

I’m with the phased, but aggressive switchover people, simply because I know that if you kill all of them, immediately, then you’ve just executed the economic-viability of remote-regions, & their people.

City people don’t have a problem with policies which butcher rural lives: this is consistently proven…

& the remote lives of people who live … say in the Aussie outback, or in Canada’s north, or offshore … why should international-policy respect/value them, when they’re not where the money is, right?

But to me, you have to look at the whole overall, & consider all the effects, & balance the whole.

You can’t hold that women’s lifeworth “isn’t important enough to count in the world’s balance-sheet, because men never counted it in the past” … that isn’t good-enough.

Here’s another example of competing-moralities:

Which should we do?

Oppose the genociding of Palestinians, XOR oppose the genociding of Ukranians, XOR oppose genociding in Sudan, XOR oppose genociding in the Congo region, XOR oppose femicide in either China, XOR India, XOR here in the West?

The framing is the problem: it presumes that only 1 can be chosen.

Caving on ANY of these is … disintegrity, to be polite.

& caving on any of these will have strategic-survival consequences for our future.

The leaving-Somalia-to-piracy, and not providing them with any alternative, meant that they did convert to piracy, & now that piracy-economy can’t be removed: it’s now a whole world shipping problem.

The leaving-northern-Mexico-to-the-drug-cartels and not breaking that from ruling that country’s civilization, means that now those drug-cartels can’t be removed.

What we allow to set-deep-roots bites our future in the face, with venom, consistently…

All this to say, that … yeah, sometimes morality is objective, in spite of what the absolute-relativists pretend.

Red-meat based diet isn’t only economically strategic-suicide, & health ( yes, the heart-attack-rate is increased by eating red meat, no matter which country one is from ), but it’s also ecologically-suicide.

Opposing those facts is ideological/moral for some factions.

But objectivity must override ideology, XOR we, as a species, are … finished, this-century.

In Science there is a fundamental-principle: IF the experiment contradicts the theory, robustly, & it isn’t some confounding-factor, THEN the theory’s falsified.

Feynman was big on that.

Ideology-based “science” IS NOT Science, see?

All who hold that all questions of morality are only-cultural-opinion, & that there is no objective-standard that can validly be applied… the evidence contradicts that.

“it’s all relative” is an ideological position, but the fact that some choices produce greater-slaughter whereas other choices reduce harm … is real, is objective, is fact.

So, no, I do not accept that morality is only opinion/culture-habit, and is not in any way objectively-testable or objectively-measurable…

The problem is in finding which values are long-term, vs which aren’t,

in finding which values are concentration-of-benefits-to-few/eradication-of-benefits-from-many & forcing the measurement-system to correctly-identify that as narcissism, as it objectively is ( instead of the propaganda-is-“journalism” system we now have, brainwashing all the discussions )

in finding which values uphold the LivingPotential in all lives, vs the values which only value some lives’ potential…

etc…

Eventually patterns of bias become visible, & then one has to remember that universe’s Natural Selection law is going to be the final judge.

Our opinion isn’t what kills us when we stampede-off-a-cliff, right?

It’s the fact that we indulged in making-believing & now our bones & body-lives are broken, right?

The question of whether incompetence/intentional-ignorance is a socially valid decision, however: certainly it’s socially valid.

Stupid, but socially valid.

Humankind has every right to force its own extinguishment, while making-believing in ego-games, all it wants!

But there is “morality” in that snuffing-of-all-future-generations, too, isn’t there?

No, I do not stand with the “it’s all relative: no objective-standard for any moral-question exist, nor can it ever exist, & we ought just accommodate prejudice until it ceases perpetuating-itself, that’s the proper moral stand”.

Exactly as Martin Luther King, Jr, stated: accommodating injustice anywhere, is a moral crime: it means that fundamentally, one is accommodating injustice, & that has consequences everywhere.

Our world’s in a survival-of-the-fittest stage, natural for this level of population-saturating-the-planet, & which morality survives this-century will be decided by questions of moral-darwinism AND by questions of did-humankind-survive-or-not.

Women having equal-validity increases the odds of humankind-surviving this-century.

Women not being allowed equal-vality decreases the odds of humankind-surviving this-century.

The same is true of the question about oligarchy/corporate-feudalism/monarchy/etc … various concentration-of-rights-and-exclusion-from-rights paradigms.

Objective-morality requires that civil-rights stand against such privilege-rules-exclusively paradigms.

This, itself, is objective morality, in action.

( everybody, feel free to block me, as all logged-in people can do … see only what you want to be seeing, right? )

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I knew, when writing, that some salts are functionally insoluable ( lithium-fluoride, I’d read, pretty-much doesn’t dissolve in water ).

I’d hoped that I’d phrased it carefully-enough, but obviously didn’t.

Definitely thank you for identifying that the salt specific to thorium-salt reactors isn’t at room temperature going to be easily dissolveable into our environment…

but … I’ve also learned that hot-chemistry can be drastically different from room-temperature chemistry, & after all the … gaslighting … of various industries, through the past decades…

I want systematic & thorough testing to see what that salt can react with, under its entire temperature & pressure regime, before anybody signs-off on it.

“hands off” is a very polite way of saying it, Hoomin…

& I’d never thought of marble as a salt, you got me on that point!

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Then I ask you to read a few communities here on Lemmy.World and sort-by-new, and then sort-by-contraversial, & see both the current & the most-strongly-reacted-to items:

• https://lemmy.world/c/news
• https://lemmy.world/c/nottheonion
• https://lemmy.world/c/politics
• https://lemmy.world/c/world

Once you see the acceleration that’s going-on, then maybe you’ll understand what I’m seeing.

The culture that Pol Pot was of, was Buddhist.

The country was Buddhist.

The regime took people from Buddhist culture & created that.

Cultural-roots do count.

Ideological-roots do count.

That is exactly why Trump is succeeding in his religion’s possessing of the US of A: cultural-roots are leverage.

To me, the “Christians” of Trump’s regime, the “Buddhists” of Pol Pot’s regime ( was the country culturally communist-party, before his regime, for the 3-4 generations required, to define the culture? No? then there had to be many still “Buddhist” people in that regime ), the “Jews” of Netanyahu’s regime, etc, are all playing the same game:

they are having motivation opposite-to what they are purporting to be.

That is significant, in my view.

Historically significant, & significant in whether our-kind survives this century, or not, too.

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Sorry, my point is that there are fundamentally-different-motivations, & that fundamentally-different-motivations have to be treated differently, legally … exactly the same as people-without-family can probably work significantly more hours per week than can people-with-children-to-care-for.

It isn’t a question of just putting overtime above 40h/week, it is a question of having 2 distinct populations in the same workforce, & you don’t make the law ignore 1 of them, not the with-family people, AND not the without-family people.

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From the Abstract:

“Our analysis reveals three critical success factors: (1) higher carbon prices per capita are essential for carbon reduction, (2) the necessity of penalties on carbon price per capita from EUR 20–EUR 100, and (3) expanded market coverage maximizes impact. To address global disparities, we propose a Uniform Carbon Pricing Mechanism under the Global Carbon Resilience Framework (GCRF), based on carbon price per capita tiered pricing: EUR 100/t (developed), EUR 30–50 (developing), and EUR 5–15 (least-developed countries). This balanced system supports vulnerable regions while cutting emissions, proving that fair carbon pricing is crucial for climate goals and economic stability.”

Those points look sane, to me.

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The whole “dark factory” thing was invented by the Japanese, decades ago, ttbomk.

Huge factory, no lights on in it, simply because there weren’t any humans in it.

Patrols for surprise-errors/mistakes/malfunctions were done by flashlight.

Japanese-management got things down to a few cosmetic-blemishes per million units back in the VCR days.

Their quality-control was 2nd to none.

That other Asian industries can learn from the Japanese, in ways that our culture prohibits us from doing, shouldn’t be surprising.

All the people who insist that the only thing that China produces is shit-quality “Chinesium”, iPhones were produced in China for years ( no idea if they still are, & don’t care ) and those things were far tighter quality than anything I’ve ever built, or than anything ANY of the North Americans I’ve worked-with have ever built.

China produces a spectrum, ranging from shit-quality to stunning-quality.

Same as we do.

Ideological “glasses” blind us, they don’t “help” us see what’s actually going-on.

& as another already-identified, “robotics” in no way implies humanoid.

Car-manufactories have been using giant robotic-arms for series-spot-welding for … decades, now?

I’d do all the fuselage-riveting of old-style sheet-aluminum aircraft by robot, if I was a manufacturer of those things:

once you get the programming right, then you don’t have “human error” sabotaging your product-integrity.

It’s the same at all scales: what we are good-at, isn’t what robots are good-at, & either we segregate the work so that we are doing the adaptive/innovative/human-process-centered stuff, & leave all the mechanical-repitition to robots, XOR we’re sabotaging our own competitive-ability.

Exactly as the “strategy” of letting the short-term bottom-line now proves, when Asian industries invest strategically, in future-competitive-capability.

Decades-ago there was an example of the US steel-industry: they coasted on their establishment, while Japan invested in more-precision-chemistry & better foundries, then … after some years, those investments came on-line, & the US steel industry, which couldn’t compete with that, just got the US gov’t to establish protectionism, to tarriff the Japanese steel industry, to protect the anti-strategic US companies.

( this is from one of the strategic-management textbooks of Blackwell: it’s literally a reference-text case )

Accountability won’t ever be tolerated by opportunistic-authority, including industry-incumbents, therefore “protectionism” damages the market to protect the anti-strategy of the incumbent players at the cost of our world’s finite-opportunity.

That is normal: S. O. P.

Different cultures value different things.

Some people value making things right, whereas other people value corrupting everything that they can, as much as they can, for sake of how much the “get away with” ( the word “shoddy” is actually the real name of a guy who established that paradigm in the US )

We wouldn’t invest in what Asia’s invested-in: why should we have any ability to compete?

That is our “strategy”.

And when we are economically-butchered by our “strategy”, then … then the oligarchs will simply protect themselves, & exploit the then-current situation, same as now.

Nothing changes, fundamentally…

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Yeah, but WE pay, the oligarchs, in their privilege-bubbles, don’t.

That’s why they’re into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism , aka torch-us-so-they-get-golden-rulership … style of driving our lobbied/bribed “governments”.

WHEN one ideologically-rejects that souls have any future-Eternity, any “reaping of what they have sown”, as the root-guru of the Christians rendered the concept “karma”,

THEN torching-our-entire-future-for-narcissistic-momentary-pleasure is logical , rightttt?

Political-systems invariably divorce authority from accountability, and that itself proves political-systems unfit for ruling our world.

Responsibilityarchy’s the only survivable alternative.

Human-habit opposes responsibilityarchy, with its automatic-accountability mechanisms, more-fundamentally than it opposes ideology-rule, by far.

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The principle of what you identified … is mindblowing.

Criminal law, civil/common law, civil-rights, everything, all blanket “no longer applies” to the actual-enacters of anything.

Anybody standing on their hind-legs, in court, claiming any such thing, should probably be deemed guilty-of-treason against constitutional-rights, against civil-rights, against rule-of-Just-law, … holey moley, they’re going far.

& when that is combined with gov’t’s rejection-of-accountability & rejection-of-responsibility, it’s … outright exemption-from-all-civil-rights-regimes, fundamentally…

This isn’t “slippery slope”, this is “coffin-nails being hammered home” territory.

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I expect that if he doesn’t get out of the US of A SOONISH, he … probably won’t live long.

Dictatorship 101: exterminate all who compete against one’s dictatorship, including influencers.

That time is coming shortly, it appears.

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It is delusional to pretend that “recovery” is possible, now.

Trump is about 3/16ths of the way through his legal term, & has nearly-finished setting-in-place his ABSOLUTE DICTATORSHIP.

US citizens will be worshipping Trump, in fear of their lives, soon.

There won’t be any 2028 election.

Trump may use his new laws to remove citizenship ( his “de-naturalization” law ) from all non white-Republicans, & then just order his cult to use everybody else for target-practice, & legalism would be fine with that, so long as enacted-law declares that all those millions legally are not US citizens, no matter what they were the day/week before, & he’s removed human-rights from non-Republicans/non-citizens.

Tossing damp leaves on a Chyernobel-grade nuclear-fire, to tamp it down, is … sooo utterly futile as to be idiotic.

The Democrats’ making-believing that they’ll just get the country back “next time”, … it’s absolutely too late.

It’s equivalently irrelevant action: wasted-effort.

Prepare for Civil War Part2, now.

You’ll likely live a little longer, then…

I’ve no idea whether he’ll have a 10-mile long concentration-camp like Auschwitz-2 ( the rebuilt, 2nd-edition of it ), in his emulation of the nazis…

but I know that there’s going to be Trump-worship, & I know there’s going to be literal-human-sacrifice happening in his portion of this continent, soon.

What SurfaceMind is doing is irrelevant-details:

it is what unconscious mind is doing, that decides everything.

Here’s an example, from a different domain:

Hamas’ conscious SurfaceMind had no actual strategy in striking Israel, only feelings & ideas, ignoring Israel’s Dahiye-doctrine ( or however that’s spelt )

but their unconscious-strategy was this:

use the Palestinian people-&-nation as “bait”, for Israel’s narcissism/sadism/machiavellianism/psychopathy/nihilism/systemic-dishonesty/etc to get its bulldog-teeth into, & then, eventually, the entire region would be turned into willing-martyrs in ANNIHILATING Netanyahu’s “Israel”.

As a ninja pointed-out in a book last-century, WHEN one trains in sword-fighting, one presumes that one’s opponent is going to block your cuts of them ( that you place to get their cuts off of hitting you! ).

But … all it takes is 1 opponent who doesn’t care if you kill them, so long as they cut you down … and ALL your trained-instincts/reactions are now wrong because you’re playing a game that your opponent isn’t playing.

This is also true at the country-scale.

That is why the kami-kaze bombers were sooo much harder to deal-with than what the Allies were used-to dealing-with, in the Pacific naval battles: we were trained to presume that they’d fight for their lives, & now they were using their lives themselves as weapons against us.

Once Netanyahu’s “Israel” has eradicated deterrent from the local-region, then … what’s holding their neighbors back? Nothing!

Once enough of their-region no-longer-cares what damage Netanyahu’s “Israel” does to them, they’re ANNIHILATING it, at ANY cost … then Netanyahu’s “Israel” doesn’t functionally have any deterrent, anymore.

I’ve been predicting that that annihilation would happen by the end of 2029 but … Netanyahu struck in Qatar, … that moves things up, considerably…

So, Hamas sacrificed Palestine for sake of getting Netanyahu’s “Israel” to take the bait & make the Muslim world turn against them fundamentally in a way not seen before…

But … the politicians care only about their kickbacks, etc, so therefore they have been dealing & profiting from Israel while it’s been genociding merrily along, but…

… the gradual unconscious-mind changes, that Israel has been “sowing” are still growing, & sooner or later they are going to convert into “reaping”

& that is what I see as the unconscious-mind strategy of Hamas.

( the blunt fact that Jewish scripture repeatedly identifies, in Jeremiah & Isaiah, iirc, possibly Daniel, too, that Judaism turns against its god, & then its god orders it to be torched-down, & then its remnant rebuilds, & the cycle repeats…

indicates that if anybody accepts Jewish prophets’ testimony, then … Netanyahu’s “Israel” is getting torched, by THEIR God’s wrath, embodied by whomever-happens-to-be-convenient…

… and that is directly contradicting their own narcissism: they hold that … Ezekiel 39, iirc, gives them a free ticket to genocide EVERYbody else in the world, apparently.

Obviously, wait-&-see, & if God does what it did in the past, they’re toast.

If not, then they’ll just continue genociding others with impunity.

So, empiricism: wait & see. )

I’ve seen drug-addicts destroy/obliterate their lives, to “prove” that unconscious-mind’s addiction is “BOSS” and their conscious-mind’s attachment-to-life doesn’t mean anything.

I’ve fought my own unconscious-mind in a decades-long deathmatch, & hope to kill it, outright, from my continuum’s/soul’s Eternity, this-incarnation.

Unconscious-mind’s strategy is what forms our world, not SurfaceMind’s “strategy”.

( the rude fact that Trump could monkeywrench the entire world’s economy proves that the world’s “strategy” is just ad-hoc, to begin with, on whatever the current circumstance happens to be )

Unconscious-mind’s apocalypse-fantasies, however, are going to exterminate most of the world’s population this century.

That humankind insisted on putting exactly the wrong kind of people in authority, systematically, institutionally, globally, proves that few will survive this century.

You don’t “improve your odds” by putting the politically-motivated/corrupt in charge of the bus that your lives are in, now swerving all over the place, as different corrupt-factions are fighting for THEIR exclusive-dominion over the driving, … while ALL of them are ignoring the still-accelerating ClimatePunctuation that’s ripping the “we can grow food here” rug right out from under humankind’s entire future.

You snuff our odds, by doing that.

That’s what we’re doing.

Political-process is itself corrupt.

Responsibilityarchy is required, but has zero validity or opportunity within political-regime, itself.

So, … I wish other worlds well, because it looks like this world has decided on complete ideologically-motivated self-destruction, & I’m not investing-in any addict who’s committed to “proving” that their addiction is “GOD” or “THE LORD” or “THE ONLY RULER” of the world.

IF humankind wants to butcher itself & the whole world, to “prove” that unconscious-ignorance is “GOD”, then … I’ll witness, but not play “pattycake” with humankind.

Removing one’s soul/continuum from humankind seems the only sane path left.

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen,

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Politicians are loyal to their own establishment, & their-establishment’s entitlement, and NOT to the citizens they pretend they are “representing”.

That is a global fact, of the political system.

It isn’t somehow unique to any particular country, or regime.

Pretending otherwise is disingenuous.

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( amendment, to explain where the hell I’m coming-from, on this:

I expect hundreds-of-millions fewer to be left alive, when the Putin+Trump alliance finally implodes, next-decade, in North America.

The principle I identified is a principle that EVERYone needs to be understanding, now.

I expect Trump to establish war against Canada, using Greenland & Alaska & navy & airforce to seal Canada off, so as to BUTCHER Canada, for sake of his continental-kingdom, possibly later this-year 2025,

I expect Tump to establish war against all non white-Republicans, possibly “de-naturalizing” everybody who isn’t in his cult,

AND I expect Trump to establish war against Central & South America, butchering as much as he can, for imperialism’s sake.

WHILE that’s going-on, I expect Russia to be butchering Europe, with China’s & … the middle-east’s backing, because Western bullying is something they’re ABSOLUTELY committed to replacing with their own dominion…

& when, in the early 2030’s, the Putin+Trump strategic-collaboration-in-butchering-the-West implodes,

then China’ll have its empire built, and it’ll then be able to begin a 1/2-ish century long war against the remnants of the West.

IOW, none of us are going to live in anything other-than WW3’s appatizer ( until the early 2030’s ) or WW3 itself, from now on.

Seen in that light … my categorical recommendation to speak carefully will make more sense. )

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Be careful when criticizing the “king”/dictator:

doing-so carefully may work, but doing-so “slamming” Trump, is likely to significantly shorten one’s lifespan, soon.

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IF it’s a salt, THEN it could easily be dissolved into whatever dissolves that salt ( like, you know, water ).

Scrap gets rained on, & salts washed away, going into the waterways…

I’m not saying that is what happened, this time, but I am saying that if they’re using radioactive cesium salt, then they’re creating extra risk, that wouldn’t be the case if they were using a solid pellet of metal.

( this, obviously, applies to the spent fuel from any thorium-salt nuclear reactor, too: salts dissolve! Containment that is absolutely proof against that, for the entire required duration, … may not be possible, for some long-duration isotopes, right? )

That it isn’t an international-criminal-law offense to have such materials immediately taken to radioactive-waste-management, … is … morally-criminal.

Allowing it to just happen, when normal people aren’t competent to either recognize, or deal-with, nuclear-radiation…

Typical rejection-of-accountability & rejection-of-responsibility, though, of authority, isn’t it?

Contemptible.

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Empires generally only live 2-2.5 centuries…

https://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf

This is the perfect, most-narcissistic, modern “stamping” of the finishing of an empire ( which will take years to take-down as much of the world as it can, with its death-spasms ) ever.

Glubb apparently deemed it to be about 10 generations ( presuming 25y/generation? ) I think … each decade or so is more a distinct-generation, so therefore it’d be about 21-25 distinct generations per empire, then?

Whatever: once the identity of the ruling-class is completely-divorced from the actual-population’s substance, then it’s finished.

( also, whomever it was who did the profile-face artwork on that image, above, it’s good skilful work, but it’s dishonest: it doesn’t represent the spirit of the real guy )

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I saw no evidence that there was any “missing chunk of flesh”:

there was a little blood,

but having a supersonic projectile tear an old-man’s skin with its shockwave doesn’t mean the bullet actually touched him.

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US of A’s Krystalnacht ( night of broken-glass ) is now scheduled for … this fall?

A “halloween” present for Trump, perhaps?

They’re certainly accelerating the highjacking of the country, significantly…

https://www.project2025.observer/en

( I don’t know if they’re still updating that thing: it was at 48% last week, too, & things seem to be speeding up )

The tipping-point has to be crossed, soon, where there’s no civil-rights left at all, except for the Republicans & oligarchs…

I wish people would understand the hellscape that’s going to be normal in the US, while Trump declares war on the rest of the Americas, to “take possession of his rightful kingdom” ( or however he expresses his presumed “entitlement” ).

& the idiocy of the Democrats pretending that there’s going to be any 2028 election… there’ll be gulags, not elections, by then…

or worse.

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