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This movie ain’t got shit on the original. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098206/

Elon doesn’t want to father more children. He has to. For all of us. It’s not pleasure, it’s sacrifice. While the rest of us squander time on hobbies and Netflix, Elon is out there, tirelessly dipping his dick, impregnating the future. He’s not just building rockets. He’s building humanity, one personal reproductive mission at a time. Call it what you want. He calls it a legacy payload.

I’m calling it. Trump is going to attack Iran. What do y’all think would likely unfold if that were to happen?

Marketing is like pickup, but the goal isn't to sell yourself to one individual, but to sell a solution to many. It isn't inherently bad, but since the masses are low conscious, they are easily manipulated. But you can do marketing without being shady. I like books like this: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/printed-books/click/ Nudge If the masses were high-conscious, deceptive marketing tactics would backfire, which would manifest a more honest and good-faith marketplace.

It’s interesting you say that. I’ve arrived at a similar recognition. I wrote down on a whiteboard 2 years ago “everyone is for you”. It’s still there and I glance at it from time to time and I say to myself “ yes, that’s true, but I’m ignoring it for now”, and I continue on with the npc filler. Sometimes I’ll be doing some mundane task like washing dishes and think of how I’ve gotten lost in irritability towards them, and I’ll recall that it’s all for me, then contemplate why, and my best hypothesis is transcendence. Postponement is a good word. I’m doing just that.

haha, yeah, I never wanted to admit it either. I just always told myself they were all capable of seeing the same things I see, their thinking just needs to be adjusted. They don't care because they can't see, I thought. They're so petty because they haven't contemplated it. All they have to do is contemplate it, right?? 😂 There were multiple opportunities to join, and I tried many times, but in the end, I couldn't betray myself even if I wanted to.

While Trump throws himself a military parade in D.C. for his birthday — tanks and all — the rest of the country is rising up. On Saturday, June 14, Americans in over 1,600 cities and towns — red, blue, and everything in between — will take to the streets in a mass, nonviolent protest to say: 🛑 No more authoritarianism. 🛑 No more lies about having a mandate. 🛑 No more silence from us. 🗺️ See how massive this is: 👉 View the protest map You’ll probably find an event within minutes of your home. Last time, on April 5, 5.2 million people marched nationwide for our rights, our Constitution, our health care, our bodies, our immigrants. This time? We’re aiming even bigger. If you're thinking, "I'm just one person, it won’t make a difference,” or “Someone else will go,”—understand this: movements don’t need perfect people, they need present ones. You don’t have to chant, carry signs, or stay for hours. Just showing up—even for 10 minutes—adds one more visible body to the crowd. That’s what shifts perception, what gives courage to others, what makes the media pay attention. Staying home is exactly what they’re counting on. So if you’ve ever said “I care,” this is when it counts. 🔗 Find your protest + RSVP here: https://www.nokings.org/ https://indivisible.org/ 📢 Share this map. Talk to your neighbors. Bring a friend. June 14 isn’t just a protest. It’s a correction.

@DocWatts I understand all that and agree in principle, but I’m not sure if the polarizing effect will backfire. For many who have tuned out of politics, they do so to avoid having to be at odds with their MAGA family, neighbors, coworkers, etc. As we saw last election, majority of apolitical people sided with MAGA. Seems polarization would do more harm than good in winning them over, especially if they voted for Trump in 2024. If the numbers are there, then it’s fine, but if they aren’t, it’s risky IMO. I just wonder if another angle could have been more effective. Maybe something about protecting the constitution. When tuned out people hear “no kings”, then look into what it’s all about, most of them walk away thinking its the hyperbolic, catastrophizing left making a big deal about nothing. At least that’s what it seems like gauging responses on social media. It is being dismissed out of hand due to the name. I think we have to stop attacking Trump directly and start attacking ideas. Seems more effective, but maybe harder to build movements that way.

In hindsight, I think the protests were not good. The goal was to galvanize resistance, but it should have been about cross-partisan persuasion (harder sell, I know). The protests served to re-entrench MAGA even deeper. Not sure what the best move would have been but something that was less polarizing, if that was even possible.

I’ve been wanting to dive deep into cognition and map out all the ways it can be used. Consciously choosing various modes of cognition is one of my most-wanted skills. Ideally, we could choose the type of cognition required for our goal, but we have cognitive habits we’d have to break to achieve this. To describe something, you could think fast or slow. Slow might be to just stay preverbal and see how it’s fits in reality, structurally. Once you have the structure, consider the structure of the presentation. Once you have that structure, maybe look for adjectives for use in assembling your description. This reflects: Preverbal awareness — perceptual immersion without jumping to language Phenomenological noticing — tracking how the thing shows up in reality Structural modeling — noticing shape, texture, relationships, behavior over time Then: Presentation modeling — how you might present it clearly and meaningfully Then: Lexical assembly — deliberately choosing adjectives or framing language to reflect that structure

It is unethical. You told the guy your level of effort would be 100 but it turned out to be 5, and you used your LOE as justification for the price. So yeah, that's unethical. You probably wouldn't have a problem being open to a friend of family member about this, and you wouldn't charge them nearly the full amount, right? That said, it's the survival game we're operating in. I'd justify it like this: You've got just as much right to survive as everyone else. Capitalism is the system we must operate in, and in this system, we have to find exploits, like finding better sources for goods or developing more efficient processes. As long as you deliver the agreed product or service, the means by which you produce are irrelevant, even if you priced the product based on your means of production. Maybe next time, figure out how to omit LOE altogether in the price. Not sure how though. Seems tricky if you have integrity.

Seems Elon Musk's propaganda was effective. Looking at my local Newspaper's Facebook post of the event, a common thread is all the protestors were paid $200 to show up. Negative comments outnumber positive 10-1. And half of them have no clue why these protests are even taking place. lol. Be glad you don't live in a fucking place like this:

The shooter can simply get a pardon if he pledges his life to Trump.

Regarding the pursuit of spirituality, it seems people are motivated by: Attaining a permanent state of awe (replacing negative emotion with positive) Exploring and finding easter eggs within consciousness (fun times) Getting high from cracking the puzzles and discovering new insights (fun times) Traversing the complexity of consciousness (fun times) I'm sure there are more, but these seem to be dominant. So what is the point? Mostly seems like hedonism and running from pain, masquerading as purpose. Seems to me, the higher pursuit would be to ground spirituality in physical reality and use it to make oneself an instrument of good in this world rather than seek to "transcend" it all together. Unless there's some point besides just chasing some state some guru talks about. All the theories you find, and all the states you experience — no matter how intricate and beautiful — seem like a waste of time if not grounded in the real world. Essentially like a traveler traveling the world in pursuit of evermore beautiful landscapes. Eventually, with enough awareness, the traveler realizes that making the point of life to cast one's eyes upon a landscape is ridiculous.

Get out there Small town in red state (population 25k) had about 250 people show up. Key West had about 2k. Gonna be interesting to see the national numbers.

“The US will defend itself and Israel if Iran retaliates” - Trump

Everyone take an hour out of your day tomorrow to join the No Kings protest. Most are only lasting an hour or two. I live in bumfuck and found one 30 mins from my house. Take friends if you got'em. I'm showing up solo with a black face covering so the reds can't target me.

@Natasha Tori Maru I've noticed things like this too. Not too long ago my right hip was hurting for no apparent reason and that same day, my mom started complaining about her right hip. This has happened many times. It's as if the mind can be attuned to pick up on things to come or things that are, outside oneself. Like there's a radio transmitter and your mind is a receiver. Sometimes, I have not just one but a cascade of synchronicities. I'll have synchronicities about my synchronicities and I can have like 5 in a single hour. I'll ask a question and all of a sudden a TV show or a song could easily be interpreted as addressing it. And it seems they cluster around something in the material world. Like a person, a show, or a song. Wheel of Fortune speaks to me. lol. The other day, I was toying with the question: How do you actually embody a whole new mindset and live from it?" As I was thinking about the answer, some dimwit on Dexter said something like "You have to set your sights on who you want to be and lock in on it and don't take your eye off it". They seem to be random and come in spurts, although lately I noticed an uptick after I was emotionally relieved of stress and when I let go of it. It always feels like something from the outside is triggering them. It's easy to misinterpret these things as well. One time, I was laying in bed and for no reason at all, the word "requiem" popped into my head. I never used that word and didn't even know what it meant. Trying to figure out how it got in my head, I searched through my web history and saw a site that mentioned the word 2 weeks prior. Also, being high in pattern-recognition can explain many synchronicities or why some things just come to you, which can feel mystical. The other day, I was standing behind my mom who was sitting in her recliner, and while staring at the TV, I felt an overwhelming sense of being tired, which is unusual. I immediately asked myself "what the hell is this, why did I get tired like this?" and the first thing I thought was that it came from the outside. So I asked my mom if she was asleep (she never sleeps in her chair), and she said "yeah, I dozed off". What happened there was my subconscious detected her breathing slower than usual and her head tilt was 5-10 degrees off from usual. Then, mirror neurons kicked in to make me feel tired. Anyway, about the synchronicities, there really seems to be no reason for them, at least that I can penetrate. I never thought of them as "not mine" though. I feel like they are specifically mine and only mine. Everything is for everything else but it's all for me. That's my current understanding, even if I don't actually live from it.

That screenshot is not from the study and the study makes no such claim. Do you have a ChatGPT subscription? Ask it if the claim in your screenshot comports with the actual study. You can use ChatGPT as a tool to make sure you’re not believing in false shit. If you don’t have it, here’s what it says: "More diversity" in this context means less internal coherence in how attitudes cluster, not necessarily that conservatives hold a wider range of views. It might reflect multiple subtypes within the conservative coalition (e.g. libertarians, populists, traditionalists), or less agreement on which attitudes define conservative identity. But it does not mean that conservatives are more open-minded or tolerant of opposing views.

Elon Musk must know the No Kings protests are gonna be huge. He's spreading propaganda trying to paint the movement as corrupt, claiming elite political backing, paying protestors $200/day. Only two options here. He's literally a dumbass or he's deceiving people intentionally. Obviously, it's the latter.

I don't see how the insight could exist without it. It’s implicit in everything I said. "Realness confronts unreality just by being in the room". that only makes sense if one frame sees through the other.

No problem! Yeah, the book talks about there being forks in the road where one can self-correct, but I haven't gotten to the part where it talks about escaping the trap yet. It seems most everyone goes through this sequence to some degree or another. What manifests seems mostly dependent on circumstance.

It seems you're projecting misunderstanding onto me again. The foundational insight was implied and I even described it: a frame-level mismatch where my non-participation destabilizes the other person’s identity through presence. Then I started adding the real-world mechanics on top of it: Gaze behavior Facial micro-signals Approval-seeking patterns Social expectations of mirroring Emotional interpretation of neutrality Unless there's something I'm missing, other than fancy terminology.

Frame Fluidity: The capacity to shift between different conceptual, philosophical, or perceptual lenses at will — including belief systems, interpretive paradigms, or internal models of reality. Attentional Granularity: the ability to modulate the scale of attention — from zooming in on a micro-detail to panning out for a macro-level view — and to toggle between them fluently. This governs how precisely a person can inspect thought-objects, environmental data, or emotional sensations. Granularity also includes the ability to sustain high-resolution focus without over-compression or blur. Introspective Reflexivity: The capacity to monitor, question, and reflect on one’s own mental activity in real time. It allows a person to not only observe their thoughts but also to ask meta-level questions about the origins, patterns, or validity of those thoughts as they’re occurring. Self-Authoring Capacity: The extent to which an individual has taken conscious ownership of their identity, worldview, values, and life trajectory. It reflects whether their beliefs, actions, and goals arise from independent internal construction — rather than external scripts inherited from culture, authority, or peer groups.

This is a good one. I was just fleshing this out a few weeks back. Realness confronts unreality just by being in the room. I've experienced strangers having a big problem with me for no reason, without ever even speaking to them. I didn't get it for the longest time but then I realized, some people see me as a threat, which doesn't make sense because I'm not aggressive, loud, big, imposing, etc. "I’m loyal to reality, not performance. I’m not seeking approval. I’ll see what’s actually here." People feel something like "Wait… this person doesn’t need me to like them. This person isn’t reinforcing the mask I’ve built. This person’s attention feels… unfiltered." Most people use their eyes to solicit approval, signal friendliness, or reinforce the other’s identity. If your gaze is neutral, still, wide, and non-seeking, it can be polarizing. That lack of neediness or approval-seeking = "This person isn’t buying into my persona." Neurotypical people subtly mirror expressions — nods, eyebrows, micro-smiles — even when they're faking interest. If you're naturally more still, contemplative, or discerning, your face becomes non-compliant. This is read as "not participating in the unspoken agreement to pretend." ❗ “He’s watching but not joining. Is he judging me? Is he analyzing me?” I think it's mostly threatening because they intuit you see their performance, they feel inferior, and sometimes they're jealous of such independence.