THEN they NEED to have ultrasonic sensors, activated at … say … 1/2-metre intervals, because LIDAR may be blind to float-glass that isn’t at a right-angle to it, but SONAR isn’t blind to sheet-glass.

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( the things might harm the hearing of animals, hence the limiting it to a chirp-every-1/2-metre idea: minimize noise-pollution that we are “blind” to, see? )

THIS is the problem with not having explicit criteria for contributing, & therefore explicit criteria for NOT contributing:

HAD other NATO countries publically insisted that there was a real, workable, objective framework for dismantling the war as a prerequisite to contributing … THEN Trump wouldn’t be able to false-frame it this way.

He was, being a Russian asset, fundamentally, already committed to dismantling NATO, & that inaction handed him leverage to swing more of the world with…

Yes, MAGA’s got more ideological “ammunition”, now, thanks to that mental-mushiness.

grr…

Best-practices CAN make difference, in many contexts!

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Wrong-criteria.

As the elderly Richard Feynman proved, truth can be saved by geriatrics.

It isn’t age which makes people unfit-for-authority: it is DarkTriad/DarkTetrad { narcissism, machiavellianism, sociopathy-psychopathy, sadism }, & if you WON’T filter-out to prevent psychopaths like Putin & Netanyahu having power, but you pretend that age is what the only filter ought be, then you aren’t competent to decide who’s got the right to have power.

Sorry to be blunt, but humankind’s working-on earning a whole-species-wide DarwinAward, right now, & after the tippingpoint is crossed, it’ll be all-hands contributing to that work.

Which is solving the wrong fucking problem.

& all it’d take is making systems-questions be settled as systems-questions, preventing DarkTriad/DarkTetrad types from having authority-over-others, & getting issues solved outside of political-wrestling’s “dominion”.

Sometimes the oldest around are the wisest people around.

Ignoring that, in order to have an ideologically-convenient oversimplification, doesn’t make humankind more likely to survive this Great Filter century ( the next 6-ish decades decide it ).

You’d remove Bernie Sanders from the US Congress!

Idiocy.

Solving the wrong problem.

Sorry to be blunt, but the more people won’t right-frame this, the more percentage of humankind who dies, in the next 6 decades of wars.

& that isn’t OK.

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Buy 2 good books ( different authors ) on becoming a private investigator.

Read them.

Hit Nolo press, & buy their book on legal-research.

Read it.

Now you have 2 understanding-sets that normal-people don’t have, & you can begin digging into institutional-crimes much more competently than normals could.

BellingCat would be an advisable set-of-learnings, too.

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Then they are IDIOTS at understanding crypto.

Bitcoin is the ecologically-costliest/electricity-costliest/machine-costliest cryptocoin to standardize on: it’s nearly used-up.

They’d have been much saner to have standardized on some other crypto.

I’d prefer that Algorand-type ones were standard, but they can be attacked by country-level attackers.

For anybody who wants outside-the-hype-bubble view of what crypto is, & how its ecology works, PLEASE read https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain-bitcoin-blockchain-ethereum-smart-contracts

The reason that Steampowered stopped taking crypto, is plain, in that book.

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( PS: I’d enforce that there be an Algorand-type crypto for recording accounting-records with, country-wide, so that books couldn’t be “cooked” between closout-of-the-books & reporting. & I’d want to make daily closeout normal, if possible. Cisco did that, years ago, so it is possible, but some will scream against such economic-integrity measures, of course… )

Remember that infinite-greed is part of the equation, though…

IF revenue MUST increase, no matter what the cost-to-the-world, THEN … the example of covid supermarket-profits-skyrocketing, while people couldn’t afford food, comes to mind…

That is part of the problem with concentration-of-wealth-archy paradigm & moneyarchy paradigm: they’ve both got infinities in their goals, that is infinite-concentration-of-wealth, & that breaks civilization’s viability.

The 2 equation-classes are incompatible.

Public-benefit-companies are where we ought be, but … there isn’t even that category of incorporation in Canada, ttbomk…

We, globally, have NOT been solving the right problems…

Internet-itself, & social-discussion-forum ought be considered required-civil-infrastructure, removing it from narcissistic-depravity’s control, … but nobody’s got the spine to understand that countries are automatically highjacked, otherwise, by the platforms that the country’s social-nervous-system is.

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I’m NOT for just-becoming-the-ruling-gang.

There are plenty of civil leverages which the left … perhaps won’t … exercise, when it reaches the point of mass-butchery ( like hiring private-investigators to GET the evidence of criminality of the worst in-authority-role scum, & prosecute them, because the establishment won’t, then hiring good criminal-circuit lawyers to secure their convictions ).

There’s a tippingpoint … I think it’s 1/20 of the population, when that percentage of the population is protesting, then the mainstream begin adapting-to, & adopting, the protesting-position’s views.

The fundamental cause of people behaving the way they do, is that they, themselves, are ruled-by-peer-pressure, & they therefore presume that applying-peer-pressure cannot be disobeyed.

The left’s assertions reek of this…

The left’s institutional “authorities” also reek of this “this institute asserts that such-and-such-a-country MUST obey this assertion” kind of thing…

Delusional, & narcissism, both.

Action’s required, but it ought be effective, strategic, civilrights and civilaccountability centered action not just mobarchy, or your-gang-replaced-with-our-gang political “revolutions”, which never EVER produce the civil benefits the raw-potential would enable.

Solving the wrong problem is Traditional, iow.

& nobody’s ruthlessly-strategic-enough-in-altruism to solve the right problem, … so, therefore nothing’ll change, it looks like …

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I’m predicting that it’ll be the Trump-kingdom which is using the guillotine on people, not anyone resisting it…

I’m also certain they’ll be machinegunning down protesters, & possibly napalming them, too.

Everybody who believes that the power of the great-god Status Quo will reassert, making the world “normal” again … is going to be in total-denial, … while being rounded-up.

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PROOF THAT COUNTRY-HIGHJACKING IS AN ACTUALLY-DONE THING!!

“hooray.”

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar_II#In_Jewish_and_biblical_tradition

Possible…

hadn’t considered that…

but then-again, human history does tend to repeat the same “events”, just in variations…

Roman Empire & US Empire both being the great monster with steel teeth, & deteriorating substance going down, until clay feet…

Trump as a replay of that … similar but I think the fundamental current is different-enough that Trump’ll be remembered, if humankind survives this-century, rather more strongly…

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I hadnt thought of that:

good point!

Not that anybody’ll actually do it, but it could be done.

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Herdbeasts are sentient: they are “others”.

They don’t want to be slaughtered: we care more about using meat from their bodies for a momentary meal than we care about their lives-themselves.

That is OUR values.

& our being sociopathic doesn’t make sociopathy universally-right or universally-valid.

( I’m not vegan, but universe has beaten learning into me until I’ve come around to seeing the prejudice in our whole “civilized” “relationship” with reality )

TTBOMK, vegetable-tanning isn’t done as much because it costs more.

& the original person’s comment about chromium-salts looks spot-on, & was ignored by your counter.

Just pointing out some stuff for objectivity, is all: integrity’s a precious-resource, & it takes all of us being loyal to it, to make it remain in our world.

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Chromium-based tanning is only 1 kind of tanning, but yeah, chromium’s one of those chemicals which needs to be limited more-carefully, among our ecologies.

Vegetable-based tanning also exists, & I’m no expert, so there could be multiple way I don’t know about.

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“TreeLeather” or something like that, was 1 brand of the cellulose “leather” stuff…

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Legally VP8 is beginning to look like the go-to format for video…

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I believe the error was in the AV1 license NOT having a “if you enforce patent-license-fees on this codec, THEN you can’t use this codec” type of coercion…

( I may have got the logic wrong, but there’s some kind of license that works that way, which other open codecs have used, apparently )

Just ignoring that predators exist … provides NO protection from them.

You have to make your license-agreement break abusers, … or you’re just helping them.

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When they attack you and delete your question or lock it because they don’t want “your kind” polluting their forum, that isn’t meritocracy: that is national-narcissism.

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Toxic-culture won.

Period.

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Simpler & clearer:

Intelligence is solving-the-problem-efficiently/quickly…

Wisdom is realizing we’d been solving the wrong problem, & working-out what the right-problem is…

Wisdom’s meta-intelligence.

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Why do billionaires/oligarchs do it?

Principle of Least Effort.

It isn’t particular to the “lower class” or to the “less educated” or to any particular faction of the population.

That’s normal.

Some people, no matter how you “slice” the population up, still act so fucking stupid.

'Tis a fact of life, is all.

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