The capital city of the US & the capital city of Latvia are … kinda different in order-of-magnitude…

Further, city-limits are kind of bogus, when metropolises tend to be sprawling ( try finding that actual-limit of Tokyo, as 1 extreme example ).

I believe the sanest way to discover the “size” of a city is simply to physically be in it, & then get to the contrasting-city, & be in that one…

I’m saying this as a person who used to live in a city generally known as Toronto, but which used to be multiple cities ( Scarborough, East York, Toronto ( proper ), etc, until it got amalgamated into the GTA/GreaterTorontoArea, & managability went out the window ( if your city-meeting’s agenda is now over 2,000 pages long, you aren’t managing anything, anymore, & that’s what happened after amalgamation )

All this to say, it’s probably density and area which define whether a “city” is big, or not, & not the “official boundaries” of the legal-demarcation, or the population-ignoring-density… which don’t have much relation to reality, in many cases.

( an interesting argument underlying this I came across years-ago:

The ONLY way to discover where London England actually has its limits, is to physically survey residents, & ask them whether they’re in London or not, & then draw the boundaries where the residents deem themselves to be in vs out.

That the official-boundaries are … not rooted in the citizen’s actual reality.

I’d never have thought of that angle, & it’s true. )

The population-density is about double, in Washington D.C., than it is in Riga, Latvia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riga

so I absolutely accept that Riga’s nowhere-near as intense as Washington is.

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Exactly.

& both Putin & Trump stand to gain, globally, from having Orban continue his gutting of Hungary.

Rather more musical than how I’d have said it, but spot-on.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book

& more recently https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/the-person-to-weaken-america-what-the-kremlin-papers-said-about-trump

I remember the 1st personal-meeting between Trump & Putin: how he ordered that there be ONLY Russian security present during the discussions, NO secret-service…

that has been scrubbed from the internet by the mainstream “journalism” sites, of course, but it raised quite a ruckus, back when it happened.

No matter: he will get his “miracle-cure”, & then the world will be in the “palm of his hand”, in amazement ( the Christian Rev 13 prediction ), & the 3 living Democrat presidents … well Daniel 7 ( Jewish prediction ) says that “3 horns ( rulers ) will be pulled up by their roots”, so you can connect the dots as to what’s going to happen to them, shortly.

The tipping-point will be crossed.

& the far-right will rule much of the world, because people who do ideology rather than correct-reasoning prefer “power” to objectivity, & power-over-others is exactly what “drug” fascism, including party-fascism ( communist-party’s fascism: same totalitarianism, same eradication-of-critical-reasoning, same eradication-of-rights, only party-centered instead of individual-centered, so I won’t participate in the pretence that it’s somehow different in what it does ) is.

Ideological-drug.

That’s humankind’s choice?

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Universe’ll hold that to be valid, exactly as universe’ll hold that a herd which stampeded off a cliff committed its will validly.

Natural Selection, at the whole-planet scale: The Great Filter.

Humankind isn’t passing the test.

& political-systems which select for DarkTriad rulers, is intrinsically anti-human-viability engineering.

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Same as bulldozing homes in Gaza, in my view:

Find people who have nearly-nothing, & destroy what little they DO have,

& use what you take from them for reinforcing the wealth & “authority”-over-others of those who did the demolishing+taking.

The root-guru of the Christians was a guy who got physically-violent on the people running the temple as a commercial-operation…

He spoke pointedly about how the wealthy had no access to The Kingdom of G-D, Within, because their wealth was their true lord…

Nothing changes: Roman Empire, or nowadays: same values, same principles, same pseudo-“uprightness” of establishment.

Until circumstance has enforced that human-nature, ie collective-unconscious, as Jung called it, change, profoundly,

… then … still nothing will have changed.

“Bandaids” & “makeup” do not make a skeleton ( humankind’s actual-nature ) change from 1 kind to another.

It’ll be end-of-century before the ocean-of-wars we’re manufacturing has force-changed any of our racial-meaning, significantly.

Until then, this kind of class+racism’s going to remain normal.

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One of the commenters said it was fundamentally gross to them…

It’s fundamentally depressing to me: intimacy’s … unending.

There’s no such thing as “a 1-night stand”, or “just a fuck” … you’ll never be unmixed with that someone…

& doing it as mere-transaction, or mere-physicality … ??

but apparently that view that most of a someone isn’t physical, & most of sex isn’t physical either, is deemed to be nonsense,

& pretending that merely-physical is “all that exists” is actually common …

so, my perspective is deemed lunacy or idiocy by this world.

But seeing women being used for mere-physical sensation by random strangers, as a purchased-transaction … that’s depressing…

I wish the world didn’t work that way.

I’m with all the people who want prostitution not-criminalized, who want it taxed & regulated, & I’d add that I want pimping criminalized: let women form cooperatives, or something, but nobody should coerce anybody into the biz of being used bodily.

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But nobody’s suing the schools for their textbooks-with-needless-“updates” extortion-rings?

OPEN TEXTBOOKS EXIST, & school-systems ought be legally-obliged to either use those, XOR justify coercing students into economic-abuse for sake of fancier ones.

OpenStax.org

LibreTexts.org

etc.

This SHOULD be cutting both-ways: lawsuits going up AND lawsuits going down.

Since it’s only axe-chopping-down, then … obviously, then the people doing the “representing” are NOT representing the citizens in their ridings, but rather the established-special-interest-groups who’re profiting from the extortion students are currently subject-to.

Fundamentally, beyond all copyright-law, platform-exclusivity, etc, fundamentally, IF G-D put immense LivingPotential in a life, THEN it’s our obligation to be honoring that LivingPotential.

NOT to be snuffing it unless money is concentrated to a particular class, or pseudoperson, or cartel, or institution:

It isn’t that “information wants to be free”, rather, it is that LEARNING ought be free, for upright, proper, honest learning ( not evil/abuse/similar ).

The Scandinavian system whereby nobody can buy their way into higher-education: it’s merit-ONLY, & the public-education-system cannot be bypassed by money/status, THAT is more right, but I’ve no idea how they do learning-materials/textbooks.

Further, it ought be that learning & certification are decoupled: one ought be able to get learning at any institution, or even on one’s own, & then get certification independently of that-school’s-institution.

“Conflict-of-interest is the root of corruption” is a good rule for understanding why learning & certification need to be segregated, to break the cartel-system from education.

( that does, of course, require standardization of required-learning-for-specific-certifications, & many might balk at that, but if driver’s-licenses & pilot’s-licenses can be standardized, then I’m willing to bet that degrees can be standardized, in many subjects, too. )

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ttbomk, emojis are legal function-names in both Swift & Julia…

The Swift example was damned incomprehensible, & … well, it was Apple stuff, so making it look idiotic might have been some kind of cultural-exclusivity intention…

The Julia stuff, though, means that you can use Greek symbols, etc, for functions, & get things looking more like what they should…

Also, I think emojis are actually better than my all-text style, for communicating intonation/emotion ( I’m old: learned last century ), & maybe us old geezers ought to adapt a bit, to such things…

That does NOT mean that cartoon “code” is good-enough, whether it’s cartoonish in plaintext or in emojis, though…

I’m just trying to keep the cultural-prejudice & the code-quality being distinct-categories of judgement, you know?

( & cultural-prejudice is an actual thing, though it’s usually called “religious wars”, isn’t it, in geekdom? )

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TheRegister had an article, a year or 2 ago, about using AI in the opposite way: instead of creating the code, someone was using it to discover security-problems in it, & they said it was really useful for that, & most of its identified things, including some codebase which was sending private information off to some internet-server, which really are problems.

I wonder if using LLM’s as editors, instead of writers, would be better-use for the things?

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I think once he moves to take Greenland, it’ll be more of an extermination than a colonization:

He wants the minerals, with no debate/frustration,

he needs the leverage to snuff Canada’s EU-lifeline, when he enforces his annexation of Canada ( “51st state” my ass: he wants total-destruction of autonomy from all territory, & he wants total continental kingdom, no matter what )

He’s put in place the 2-sides of the “coin” he needs to be genociding the “woke” from within the US:

the de-naturalization law & the ICE paramilitary for eradicating all whom he will denaturalize…

Framing it in 1900’s colonialism, instead of nazi-style industriousness … is profoundly missing the point.

Everybody who isn’t worshipping Trump, soon, is going to be fighting-for-their-lives, in the Americas, & that is going to be continuing until Trump dies, once the tippingpoint is crossed: years later.

( & then Musk’ll probably take Trump’s place as king/“president” in the Republican regime, to continue the ideological-war )

The ONLY chance that the civilrights people have, for surviving what’s coming, is to also do a 2-sides-coin:

1. alliance, of all whom Trump’s cult will be militarily-rampaging, together, &
2. no-weak-points combined-arms fight, fighting-for resilience among the allies, & fighting to break the enemy’s machine.

As … Senger? something like that ( philosopher ), noted in his book on effective altruism, sometimes opposing evil-regime means taking-position-within-it & doing what one can to make it ineffective.

Ideologues ( of the left ) have fairly-consistently disallowed that position as valid, but it’s correct.

All the people of the left who got out of the Republicans’ way as a means of “protest” against Trump’s regime’s excesses, GAVE them leverage, while pretending that that is what “protest” means, & the newspapers used to be having multiple stories on that sort of thing, for awhile…

Better to be the “sand in the gears”, remaining in-place, than to get out of the machine’s way & help them have more velocity in their mission.

Canada ought be arming the people of the north: Trump’s going to be doing all he can to get in everywhere, while bombing Canada’s south, later this year…

The idiocy of pretending that “status quo” will “protect” us, & this will all go back to some reasserted-normal…

…many-lives-obliterating delusion.

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From what I’ve read, there are 2 chemical-kinds of nicotene, 1 of which is called “freebase” nicotene, which hits quicker, & therefore is more addictive.

Yes, cigarette-tobacco has been bred ( if not engineered ) to increase the freebase nicotene ( can’t remember which company it was that got caught on that, their actions demonstrating that it’s a drug they were optimizing-for ),

& vape-companies intentionally engineer their products to be as addictive as they can be.

Children don’t have fully-myelated-brains ( until about 21, which is why outlawing drinking until 21 so drastically reduces slaughter of lives on the roads ), & holding that they just have to “be more adult” when their brains literally can’t be, is either denial or machiavellianism ( depends on the person’s motivation ), AND victim-blaming, in my view.

What Mexico’s doing, effectively, is GIVING a chunk of their economy to the drug-cartels.

Which is idiocy.

Decriminalize everything, tax it to death, do whatever, but we need to be gutting, not increasing, organized-crime’s economy.

Nicotene kills the nervous-system of the gut, & it’s likely doing the same kind of damage to the rest of the nervous-system ( Dr. Gershon’s incorrectly-named book “The Second Brain”, about the nervous-system of the gut, which is the original brain! )

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I think there’s another bluntly-pragmatic angle:

Consider it dimension-by-dimension:

Trade ( 1 dimension, according to the “normal” view )

contrast that with:

Trade for expensive, high-value, high-markup things/svcs, what the upper-middle-class, financial-class, & upper-class can afford.

Trade for inexpensive, low-value things, what the working-poor can afford.

You CAN’T sell European appliances to people who can only afford cheap means.

For all the working-poor, price is the primary-decider of what they can afford.

Made in Japan often means … magnificently-right, but unaffordable, for many.

Unaffordable’s the same with Made in Europe.

That’s why the new Apple factory, in the US, was actually designed to be mostly-robots: it was the only way to make its products sellable for profit, into the market they’re targetting, while having the factory in the US.

They couldn’t employ people AND produce what they need to produce, for their market, so they designed it to not employ people.

I think people aren’t undstanding that there are different kinds of “market corrections”:

financial-correction, the “normal” kind, but also

re-orienting entire markets, when some delusion pops.

& I think they interact with each-other…

We’re in for BOTH kinds of them, in a month or so?

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Beauty, eh?

Same “game” in different contexts:

Ditching NATO, every country going it alone, for sake of self-centered-gain, but then everybody ends-up poorer,

& doing the SAME thing, within a NATO-fighter program.

See?

Humankind’s too ignorant/retarded to be viable in The Great Filter, which is about to begin its Regional-Consolidation Stage!

IF the “GoodGuys” WON’T work right,

THEN the BadGuys automatically win, by default.

That’s how ignorance is able to secure the everybody-dies “win” for ignorance, that “proves” there’s “NO alternative!” to it’s dominion.

Retarded.

IF you DON’T trust your “allies”, THEN YOU AREN’T REAL ALLIES, ARE YOU??

UK: either get-in, XOR get out.

Italy & Japan: IF UK won’t get-in, THEN get some OTHER partner.

Perhaps UK should do a more-complete Brexit?

NO trade with ANYbody??

Wouldn’t that suit the isolationists better?

You were better-off within the EU, but ideology derailed that, right?

sigh

I think England’s monarchism is making objectivity impossible in that country.

Either that or it’s making correct-reasoning impossible…

or maybe it’s contaminating both?

probably…

As Leonard Shlain pointed-out in “The Alphabet Versus the Goddess”: women’s rights DIDN’T really get going in Latin culture, with its gendered-language & gendered-culture: women’s rights DID get going in English language ( not everything-gendered ) & culture.

I suspect that monarchism makes other countries’ having equal-validity impossible, due to the class-prejudice it brainwashes everybody into, within it.

That would fit.

How could any class trust its “inferiors” to be “on the level”, when class-“superiority” PRESUMES non-equality?

How could any monarchist-cult/culture possibly treat others as “equal”, when those-others haven’t one’s own “special, important, Monarchy!”…

I’d love to someday see experiment that could test that correctly, precisely…

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What will Trump do to distract, this time?

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Through far-left international coordination, perhaps??

Reactive-programming, using the same methods, ISN’T strategic-win: it’s just becoming the same underlying-nature, in different “makeup”.

Humankind needs to hold to objectivity, correct-reasoning, breaking ideological-programming, breaking false-framing, breaking machiavellianism ( from ALL sides ), etc,

& that takes fundamental, profound, strategic investment, & that isn’t happening.

So, … kiss most of humankind goodbye, this-century, perhaps even all of it.

It’ll be finished by next-century, probably, the “armageddon” we manufacture ( for our unconscious-mind to play “god” in ).

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Trump dictates that other countries comply & submit to his bullying, ELSE US’s tarriffs will bludgeon their economies until they obey.

Now extrapolate Trump’s curve, from the 1980’s, when The Kremlin Papers indicate Putin was investing in him, until now, & keep the acceleration in that curve.

“Majority opinion” or whatever it is that you’re believing rules, now, ISN’T what rules:

He’s on-track to break the US Constitution’s significance within months or weeks, probably by the Insurrection Act.

ICE’s purpose isn’t even obvious, yet: once he “de-naturalizes” all who won’t vow allegiance to him, directly ( as he apparently already does for senior beaurocrats in multiple federal agencies ), suddenly are “illegals”, & that means 100’s of millions of “illegals”, & then the reason he insists they have TOTAL immunity will become blatent.

Deathmatch, between his authority vs the disintegrated, not-organized, “woke”, & if everybody is destroyed, so long as nobody-else won, then he wins.

Negative-Sum game ( competitive-nihilism ) combined with Zero-Sum game ( competitive-narcissism ).

IF a country WON’T prevent DarkTriad from gaining authority, THEN that country will be ruled, & probably destroyed, by DarkTriad’s ruling it.

Karma, aka “sow->reap law”.

We WOULDN’T prevent DarkTriad from ruling our countries, .: we’re about to be getting fatal consequences.

The rules are fundamentally changing beneath us, right now, & shortly the tippingpoint gets crossed, then Civil War Part2: confederate reverse-takeover & vengeance

begins all-out.

Canada, too, gets torn up, by the prejudice-enforcers in Alberta & Quebec ( & the Anglo-supremacists who bully Quebecois validity, & the rest of the factional-supremacists: ALL sides have them, including Indigenous people, Whites, India, Chinese, ALL kinds of saboteurs of Canada’s viability… it’s natural, given how little we invested in establishing common-experience, like what Katimavik used to do )

Prep, if you want to live long in the next stage of our world: it’ll be violent, once the right-wing has shed rule-of-law for rule-of-authority, completely.

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That’s the STRATEGY.

Thank you for making it explicit.

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A geologist pointed-out a similar landform, in the US, where homes at the bottom had been wiped-out…

They pointed-out that IF you see the cliff is just raw earth, no plants or anything on it,

THEN that means it tears-off, falls, however you want to call it, periodically.

& YOU DO NOT BUILD NEAR THE BOTTOM OR THE TOP OF THAT, because it isn’t going to cease doing landslides just because you’ve put a home there.

Looking at that pic, above, it’s absolutely inevitable that that cliff would take-down some of the stuff on top: it’d be only a matter of time.

& it will keep doing that, at intervals.

All such locations shouldn’t even be buildable or insurable.

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Oh, so he’s treating Gaza & Ukraine … similarly, … is he?

& aligning more & more with Putin, his original-backer, according to The Kremlin Papers?

“surprising”, isn’t it?

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These plans all become meaningless, once Trump tosses the US into dictatorship:

the other countries in the world who will instantly toss rule-of-law out the window will be large, it seems…

Trump CANNOT tolerate the elections to happen, & the greater the threat of impeachment, the greater the pressure for him to use the Insurrection Act to enforce his insurrection agains the US Constitution, taking possession of the country completely.

That schedule’s all provisional on “normal” remaining, which it isn’t going to be.

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Freedum!!

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