Bjorn K Holmstrom

I think we overlook the possibility for existence beyond mind. An infinite vastness of unknown and impossible to conceptualize for the mind. I'm meaning mind as the discernment tool dividing up experience, not Mind as reality itself. Edit: nvm you included the unknown to the bottom left.

Yes, it works well in my opinion, though I'm not saying Windows doesn't. I got a desktop a few years ago from my brother, he had installed Windows for me. I set a password but somehow got it wrong and couldn't login afterwards. Since he lives several hours drive from me, I couldn't just ask him to reinstall for me, instead I remembered I kind of liked Linux and downloaded Linux Mint on my Windows laptop to a USB stick and installed it. Been happy with it ever since, minus a hiccup when a kernel update made my GPU not work properly, luckily I could revert for a while, and they fixed it in a later update. Most annoying thing is to type the sudo password for updates, since mine is a bit long, but its just up to me to change it if I could be bothered. "The operating system is great, it is the apps that are the problem." @Joseph Maynor What kind of apps do you use that you don't find well or working on Linux? I mostly use AI for research (mostly python code) and update my websites. So I only need browsers, terminal, file explorer, text editor basically. Then I sometimes play some Steam games, GeoGuessr (browser-based) and Discord games.

I don't think the OP necessarily said that rich people are tier 2? My thoughts on the OP though: couldn't someone work a regular salaried job and still be Tier 2? Like a nurse, a doctor, a gardener. I don't see why being Tier 2 would necessarily mean distancing oneself from people at other stages. If anything, I'd imagine that understanding and being able to relate to different perspectives is part of what makes tier 2 distinctive. And just as AION said just above, development isn't linear. And I'd add, it is not single-dimensional either.

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Take the question however you like. I'm curious where your imagination takes you.

I see this as a failure of our forum. I'll carry with me the things I've learnt from you. Especially this, which made me sad: """ In their eyes, I'm not Feminine enough to be a woman because I'm too competent. In their eyes, I'm not competent enough because I'm a woman. """ And what I've learnt from this thread; a willingness to always see the other person, without prejudice, is more valuable than winning an argument.

Sorry to hear that, we lost a perspective. Reading his posts they seem perhaps a bit immature and overreactive, but to me they are also funny. Maybe not so much if you are on the receiving end, nor considering the forum standards.

I've only tried japanese fermented beans, natto. Was peculiar for sure.

I'm now reading the paper a bit. It does seem physical focused, but has some sociological considerations; on page 9 about how males are earlier socialized for sports performance and on page 15 about the role of fathers and alloparents enabling female participation. The article however seems to have skipped these considerations, like you say

I know how it is to be swayed by my own agenda in the past, jumping to conclusions. But I think an agenda might be justified in certain situations too.

The paper's authors have PhD's in Anthropology. The Colonialism PhD belongs to the science writer who wrote the article about the paper, not to the authors of the paper. Not denying there might be agendas also among the researchers, just wanted us to have the facts right about what we are discussing. According to ChatGPT, the article's author has more of an agenda than the paper, which is more nuanced.

My brother's wife is a hunter.

I want to point out something important. Most people still think governments operate like households, but they don't. That way of thinking is held by orthodox economists and pushed also by the neoliberal agenda. In France it’s a bit more complicated. France doesn’t have its own currency, the French state can’t do everything a country with its own currency can do. But that still doesn’t make it like a household. The limits are mainly political and institutional, which are rules we chose. The real constraints are political will, public awareness, and actual resources like teachers and materials. Of course, this doesn't mean we don't also need to address wealth inequality, but it is made worse by falsely believing governments need to impose austerity when they should spend.

France has trouble channeling the energy of the street to actual systemic change. Protests force concessions, but the underlying institutional and economic blockages tend to re-form. Many if not most countries seem to have their own versions of systemic loops that keep them stuck.

Three things I think contribute to why Americans aren't as optimistic: There's a growing set of problems that require global coordination and can't be solved by America alone. The usual binary ideological model isn't very well suited to solving some of today's more complex problems. Some of the solutions those problems require don't sit very comfortably with the traditional American mindset.