Please, please, please, flag all foreign-owned media, especially foreign-owned "Canadian" media, which is part of the strategic-machine they're running..
( no, I don't mean as national-operations, I mean as operations intended to highjack the whole damn world, for sake of oligarchy's dictatorship, which now I know to be an actual strategic-operation, .. and I didn't need any more depression-inducing "medication", just now, thanks, world. Bah. Humbug, too. )
1 of my Soul's/Continuum's previous-incarnations was as a bee/hornet/wasp life, & I got to experience a taste of that sentience, decades ago..
I'd say no, for the simple reason that their sentience-on-brain is so incredibly efficient, & there's no .. material-basis .. wasted on that specific kind-of-mind..
There is hesitancy, but ?fear? .. it doesn't fit the Soul-memory right..
( the bee/hornet/wasp family is cladistically/genetically flying-ants, with mutations, so this is actual-relatives )
When you see opposing kinds of ants, each with their fighters lined-up, opposite each-other..
that's about as close as you could get to "fear", right?
In that role, there's applying-threat/force & there's hesitancy, balancing between, but .. I'm not finding, in my Soul-memory of that category-of-life, fear.
Notice, also, that when an ant comes back with an injury, other ants will prune their limbs to limit risk-of-infection, if required.. ( recent news, that ), so they're kinda really pragmatic about things like amputations, you know?
Here's a simple method for usually getting someone of the bee/hornet/wasp family out from your home, if they get in..
I'm presuming a house, not an apartment-building with sealed-outer-envelope/wall..
make certain you haven't got what they register as FOOD or something smelling openly, as scent overrides thinking, throughout much of the animal-kingdom, so no perfume, no open garbage-can with whatever they eat ( wasps eat meat ) overriding their will..
block & darken the paths you don't want them going
brighten & open the paths you do want them going ( porch light on, to lighten that path, e.g. )
if you have to wave your arms gently, wide, to catch their attention, to get them to intentionally-look-there, do so, then simply have one's arms at one's side, & hold still ( you don't need to move slowly for them: they live MUCH quicker than humans do: I saw a man falling, & it was taking ages, in that previous-incarnation )..
keep your eyes slitted, as they'll try flying into your eyes, because the dark-pupil looks to them like a home-sized opening.. ( a beekeeper told me this single point, all the rest is of my Soul-memory/experience )
they should "swim" ( it feels like swimming, to them: sentience feels wet, in their crustaceans-living-in-the-air lives ) into the open-luminance, leaving your home, happily..
I've tried this, & it only works with that family: it doesn't work with blackflies, it doesn't work with mosquitos, it doesn't work with beetles, etc..
So, it matches my Soul-memory experience's prediction of their sentiences' behavior.
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I think you're ignoring the stage of the world, right now: The Great Filter's where we're at, now.
Imagine a giant "cell", a world with too-many humans to be able to support them all, because humans got adult technology, multiplying humankind's effect 10,000-fold, but .. humans are still part-toddler & part-pubescent tween..
Except now, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current ( AMOC ) is shutting-down, Greenland's melting into the North Atlantic ( which will wreck the North Atlantic's ports, later this century ), the actual CO2 & methane levels in this world's atmosphere nail the planet's equilibrium-temperature to between +8C & +9C, most of { California, Texas, Sahara, Saudi-Arabia, India, Outback of Australia } become uninhabitABLE by about +4C, & the political-tantrum, the ideological-tantrum the "religious"-tantrum, etc, all are stacking-up on top of the panic-migrations that are going to be forced shortly..
& then ask the Russia question..
What's actually happening, is that humankind is going-through
etc..
Pick a view, in other words..
I don't believe that country-nationalism CAN survive The Great Filter: I believe that it has to be Blue Marble Earth "nation" or it's going to be factional-supremacists exterminating humankind for their own "authority" and "supremacy" and "importance" until humankind's completely nonviable, & functionally finished..
The Kahneman1-mind, imprint->reaction mind, lower-forebrain, ideology/prejudice/"religion" which "doesn't need to consider: it INHERENTLY just knows" ..
is fighting to force-extinguish Kahneman2-mind, considered-reasoning mind, upper-forebrain, studying-and-accepting-evidence mode, because Universe is sooo much more complexer than we default to ignorantly assume..
( Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking Fast and Slow" is part of the root of this understanding: it's literally a species-wide fighting-off of growing-up, to "return to the animals-&-tribes-times", that the "biblical" people want to enforce, but it's ALL ideologies wanting to enforce, the non-thinking REACTING nature of it )
Now ask:
IS Russia, in the crunch-time of this world, going to suddenly replace ideology with critical-thinking-education & considered-reasoning??
No?
THEN Russia is warring for the obliteration of considered-reasoning.
Do the same question for EVERY nation in this world, & add-up the results.
You will find that the white-blue-white Russians are committed to considered-reasoning, but the white-blue-red Russians are not..
Same with all countries: there are some who want their animal-reaction obliterating all competitors from the face of this Universe, there are others who understand that the Copernican revolution ( no, neither Sun nor G-D revolves around "the world of Man". ) never went far-enough, & that we have to accept that in the Great Scheme of Things(tm), we are .. sentient dust!
& if we accept that we are much more likely to be developmentally-backward citizens of this Universe, objectively, & that is too-much of an ego-hit for the animal-reaction ideologues..
Ask about the Confederates!
Ask about the CCP!
Ask about the Rupert Murdoch populist-dictatorship people! ( the elegant & brilliant remapping of Leninism from left to right, from proletariat-dictatorship to populist-dictatorship. Both Leninism & Murdochism are evil, in my eyes, but the efficiency with-which they eradicate uprightness from civilizations: they're like efficient cancer!
I want considered-reasoning, & Issue-Diagrams, & responsibility-archy, & accountability, they want authority-without-accountability-or-responsibility, so they're on the opposite side, but .. you simply have to admire efficiency when it's that much greater than one's own side's work, even while working to counter it..
maybe people who aren't systems-creatures won't understand that, but systems-people .. effectiveness can itself be beautiful )
So, what I see is that focusing in Russia is actually like moving tables on the sinking of the Titanic: solving the wrong problem.
The Global Fascist Alliance, with Putin, Trump+Musk, Millei, Farage, Le Pen, Orban, etc.. they've got real strength in this world, & they're going to GUT civil-rights from our planet, permanently, if they can.
The left is .. making-believing that it isn't a survival-situation, that "the next election we can just take it back" .. but anybody who sees just how stunningly fast the shredding-of-the-US-civil-society is progressing..
https://www.project2025.observer/
See on there that they're assuming there's going to be an election to replace Trump?
Idiocy: there isn't.
That's the kind of making-believing I'm talking about: comforting making-believing while being herded into the abbatoir.
Russia & the US are solid allies, & NATO is their enemy, now.
Period.
This was predicted by some, for the last few years.
The quicker that the rest-of-NATO realizes this, the greater the percentage of their people will survive.
Within 3y, the US will be waging total war on Canada, because only through possessing both Canada & Greenland can the US corner Europe between Russia & the entirely-continental US of A.
Annihilating the hated-by-both-Putin-and-Trump woke EU means that they then get to be the only "kings" left in the West.
Trump's annexing of Greenland isn't for ice-rights, or mineral-rights, it is for military force-projection against Europe.
The EU's trojanned, with Orban, so they're hamstrung.
England gutted itself with Brexit.
The multi-dimensional-assault is elegant..
for the soft-force, butcher Europe through politics, but .. the physical-butchering of the EU is obliged, apparently, in Putin & Trump's hearts..
Arm to the teeth, & fight to the death.
That is the only real way left.
1st Ukraine, then .. Canada & Europe, ie TrueNATO.
IF we remain standing when the US's war-against-itself implodes it, THEN we'll be standing to be having the CCP throwing all their Asian Empire ( the US should be able to be rampaging our Western world until .. sometime in 2031 or so? & with the West all "occupied" by that, China can simply smash all "independence" from Asia, without our being able to do ANYthing about it. ) against us, when the US fails..
So, it'll simply be like those idiotic "opponents" in computer-games, who wait at the side, until you've dealt-with the current one, then the next one piles-on..
IF CCP waits until the Russia+US alliance collapses, THEN .. it gets to wallop an already-exhausted TrueNATO, right?
Even better, it gets to finance Russia's rampaging of Europe, while pretending it isn't "involved", the whole time that Russia+US are warring against TrueNATO, & then once that bit's done, it can overtly own Russia, its now-economic-vassal-state..
Sorry this isn't lining-up with "what to do about Russia" as it was intended.
but surviving this century requires we get guts, drive, & upright instinct, pronto.
We need to become more like Ukraine has been, but not the naive-fool that Zelenskiy is being, in assuming that the US is somehow his, & not Putin's, ally, now.
( I pray he gets his head out of the sand, immediately )
This is a literal deathmatch, a war-of-attrition between enemy-intents who .. most of them .. simply don't care if nobody survives on this world, so long as nobody of the others survives.
Wrong-framing means a greater percentage of humankind are extinguished, this-century, is all.
It saves zero lives, it offers less effective "comfort" than alcohol: Hopium COST the Dems in the US their country.
We need to not let it drug us, too.
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Not particularly: often they really are pertinent in both communities, & it is better to speak redundantly than to not-be-heard in 1 domain where one needs to be heard..
That isn't to say all crossposts are honest, though: spammers exist, & need to be .. um .. packaged inside cans of processed-pork, until they stop spamming?
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I think the question is backwards, & therefore accidentally missing-the-point..
( same as the survivor-bias question, back in WW2 EDIT: here's the link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P9WFpVsRtQg )
It isn't that we see most pets as cute, rather, it is that if it isn't cute, it isn't a pet.
So, we're looking-at an immensely selective subset of animals, & then framing the question on that misrepresentation..
We tend to see babies, of most mammals, as cute, because of some generic wiring in us that codes for that, it seems .. AND ..
One time, while living homeless out in the bush, I heard crashing through the leaves going this-way, then pausing, then going that-way..
unzipped my "tent" & looked out.. it was a newborn fawn, seeing the world for the 1st time..
its presence-energy was one of the most-beautiful things I've ever seen..
Notice that humans tend to prefer looking at youthful humans?
I find that there are several different reasons, but that most people aren't conscious of them..
Lack of wrinkles & scars, OK, smooth, fit, .. vital..
Right-there's part of it: vital.
Ever seen healthy kittens, & their simple clean vitality?
What civilized-life erodes from us?
Another part of it is that when you're old, like me, & you spend ages digging into things, & realize stuff like ..
.. Karl Marx honestly believed that communism meant the un-alienation of the proletariat, because he believed that communism somehow inherently meant "everybody owns everything, together", but ..
.. ask the actual-survivors of communism, & it's always "nobody owns anything, & nobody cares for anything", which is why the expression of communism is Brutalism, historically
( and anybody who pretends that the ecological brutalism of communism isn't valid evidence, can go eat rocks )..
well, the young are .. mentally blank, aren't they?
Want a friend you're not going to get into profound ideological disputes with?
DON'T pick an old human, whose spent their life being battered by life, & thinking on it all.
Instead pick someone who's still in Kegan3, but permanently ( Robert Kegan's unconscious-mind-development stages 3, 4, & 5, can be described as
( Kegan & Lahey's "Immunity to Change" book is on our unconscious-mind's fighting-off of growing-up, its sabotaging our lives, & how to work around that innate-mechanism, getting it to understand, so growing-up, moving from dysfunction to function, can happen in our lives.
It's a book I'd require all high-school kids to read at-least part of, so when they need to read it for real, they'll remember it, & find a library, & dig-in )
: )
But whom do we want as pets?
Pretty-much always we want Kegan3 ( or lower? ) types as pets: NOT people who compete with us for validity, right?
We're wanting, iow, dependents, we're wanting substitute children without the wrestling-match of actual-human-children..
Now multiply the only-cute-animals-get-chosen-as-pets * we-want-substitute-children-without-the-difficulties-of-human-children ..
& you're getting a "furbaby", right?
There's another angle to add-in..
Feral animals do NOT have the same psychology as pets: pets are developmentally-removed, more "baby-like" in their manner, their behavior, etc..
I've come across a few people who pointed this out, & considering it through the years, they're right ( I spent 1/3-decade rough in the bush: they're very right ).
So, we only select cute pets, we want them to be pseudo-children, AND we make them only partly grow-up, so they never become adult in the ways of their own kind ( usually with either ruthless killing or with ruthless herd-behaviors involved, as with horses, who'll force a reject-of-their-herd to do without food, & die, because that's the way their herds work )..
Again, we're looking through "rose colored" glasses, & seeing "the question" as being only what our distortion of reality allows..
All I'm trying to do is get people to see feral animals as the correct frame-of-reference for animals, & then see how we've babied-down/dumbed-down our pets, & how we do this for our own emotional-comforting, to have someone who "needs" us ( when we're bothering to be home where they live: when we're at work, they're just "furniture" or something?? unfair to them, tbh )..
& this is deforming our ability to understand what the true-questions are..
I agree with some who hold that experience with pets & herd-beasts is required for someone to really, honestly, understand human growing-up..
but I'm adamant that outgrowing "dependents" is required for people to earn more-complete self-conquering, more-complete growing-up.
Codependency is what people default-to, nowadays, whereas independence is the root of interdependence, what Stephen R. Covey called "synergy".
I don't think he made it strong/clear enough, just how independent one needs to be ( for us guys, I've no idea how it maps to women's reality ), in order for interdependence to not be codependence..
Anyways, just a bit of perspective that may be useful ..
"Once the easy-to-extract oil is consumed, then only costly-to-extract oil exists to be consumed, and sooner or later the cost becomes too-much to justify."
"Once the easy-to-extract water is consumed, then only costly-to-extract water exists to be consumed, and sooner or later the cost becomes too-much to justify."
It's the same problem.
Oil isn't self-renewing, water used to be, but with ClimatePunctuation, that's changing.
Humankind may have to abandon the praries, later this century, exactly as most of California, most of Texas, most of the Middle East, & most of India are going to be unusable.
Too-many over-40C days per year & NO water for us, both prevent a region from being inhabitable.
The 600+ mass-shootings in the US in 2023 are nothing, compared with the rampaging pogromming that's going to be going-on in the coming years, as The Great Filter continues unfolding..
There's a law, possibly international/UN or something, against making laws that retroactively criminalize stuff, so you're right, on that point.
Pretending that such things won't ever become a crime, however, when the US is at the point of criminalizing
as the next few years will demonstrate,
is naive/incompetent.
Yes, criminal-law is going to be used to enforce ideological-conforming, throughout much of the West, exactly as China, Israel, Russia, etc, now "use"/abuse law.
That tipping-point has already been crossed, on this world.
Limiting dementia's harmful intentions is exhausting.
We NEED to get software, or robots, or something doing it for people.
If not, then we're essentially sentencing a growing percentage of our population to being the full-time-keepers of brainrotted people, doubly damaging our country's viability.
The mental-health costs put on the carers needs to be a concern.
Software+carer or robot+carer is less burden to the carer, you know?
Lighten the load.
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Modi/India is committed to blindfolded-and-earplugged "strategy".
Russia is now financially-functioning ONLY because of its debt to China: China is using that to gain unofficial owning of Russia.
Russia is going to be China's vassal-state, shortly, with its oligarchs/dictator ( if he survives ) doing only what China allows them to do.
India is betting the entire survival of India on Russia provisioning it with weapons in any war against China, which is inevitable...
India is going to be gutted in the inevitable war with China, and China is going to do to India what it did to Tibet, only worse.
Churchill: "Never argue with drunks or fanatics."
Modi's only-Yes-men government, including the pseudo-journalism he allows ( or considering the actual-journalism he doesn't tolerate ), has strategic consequences, that are going to cost hundreds of millions of Indian lives, in the coming decade.
WHEN a junkie won't "get off the tracks", and you can feel the rumbling, through the rails, of the oncoming freight-train, accept that you cannot make them know other-than what they want to know .. and get away from the impending violent-destruction, so only-the-deranged get obliterated.
I'm part east Indian, and seeing the home of the Dharmic religions about to be butchered isn't good, but .. karma is karma: you earn viability, or you don't retain viability.
Krshna was right, in the Gita: uprightness is REQUIRED.
Politicians generally reject that, but ones who only allow yes-men inferiors & "journalism" .. can take entire-countries, if not regions, down with their won't-knowing devotion.
India is nearly finished as a real country.
I don't expect it to be independent-of-china in 2033.
it shows one hell of alot more than just failure of police-services/enforcement:
it shows failure of parenting, of education, of community, of journalism, of acceptance-within-Canada, and much more...
How do you manufacture violent-crime in a community/city?
Increase the young-male unemployment, and the young males will assault whomever they can take it out on.
That automatic function has been known for decades, ttbomk.
What's apparently happening is the same: males taking some internally-felt-harm & multiplying it, enforcing it onto others, who are unable to defend themselves.
I wish male-culture valued integrity anywhere near as much as it values bulling successfully, not just in this, or that, race/culture, but across all of 'em.
Thank you for highlighting the point you did, Hoomin...
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?
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WHEN a project-cost increases TO A FACTOR-OF-5-TIMES the budgeted cost,
THEN criminal-convictions should be happening.
Just as normal commercial-contracts have a "kill this contract" point, for noncompliance, so too must public-taxpayer-payed projects, at 1.4x or 2x hard-max.
Extortion isn't acceptable, "just because it is government".
Take that extra-billion out of elected-authorities' pensions & pay!
Make the ones who mismanage pay.
Accountability, right?
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They just recently changed ownership, ditching most of their journalists, apparently.
Much more profit-oriented, now, apparently, even if it isn't their prime-directive..
Here's a link: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/guardian-slammed-more-70-journalists-174822542.html