Priya Parker's book, right near the beginning, identifies how the court, itself, its configuration, its process, is rigged to reduce its social-value,

& that a specific court tried altering the setup, & got wonderful results..

Here's her TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/priya_parker_how_to_come_together_in_a_meaningful_way

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TTBOMK, it isn't just the mass of emissions,

rather one has to convert it all to CO2-equivalent ( the 20-year equivalence for methane is 82.5x as great as it is for CO2, iirc the statistic correctly ),

which makes the methane from livestock MUCH worse than the CO2 from aviation..

BUT .. aviation's emissions are high up in the atmosphere, where they do more harm.

IOW, if one is comparing simple masses/ratios, then one simply isn't seeing accurately.

Same as people who look at the global temperature increase, & assume that that is the total global energy increase, when late in the 1900's suddenly there was an increase in atmospheric kinetic-energy, as recorded in seismographs near the coasts ( of waves pounding the shore ), as recorded in the greater number and violence of hurricanes, etc..

The more I learn, the more complicated real-understanding of the details becomes..

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Wayne & Schuster.

They were fun!

I'm Vajrayana, but have fond memories of the subreddit: such spiritual focus in living, such I value..

I'd say that it's somewhat relentlessness of practice ( not identical to "consistency", as erratic still produces results, just not as much as consistent, but it is keeping picking-up the practice again that counts most, in the long-term, if you see .. the long-term average has to be positive, see? : )

that matters most..

So, make some practice for yourself, whether daily or weekly, not longer than 1/2-moon intervals is best, moon-ly is 2nd-best, & make it consistent that you breathe-out the damage, the harm ( see Taisha Abelar's "Sweeping Breath" practice for a more-advanced version of this ), & you breathe-in pure clean sunshine, or LivingSpirit, or whatever it is you find makes your Soul whole, see?

One has to let-go, in order to fill-up with new meanings, right? ( that old Zen story about some Westerner going to the Zen-master, to ask lots of questions, the Zen-master poured tea for the guy, & just kept pouring, with the cup overflowing, & finally the guest burst-out "it's full! it can't hold any more!" .. to which the Zen-master replied "as your mind is: you have to empty it out, to pour new stuff in", or something like that )

Another thing which helps me is that now, finally, I'm understanding that one has to differentiate between the-personality/the-person on the 1 hand, vs the Continuum/Soul on the other hand, & one can have unconditional-love for the Continuum/Soul, which did induce lessons/realizations, without being entangled-up with the personality/person, just letting them go, & opposing them, if required ( all the evil-pushers in our world, e.g. )

Here's another item, which took me decades to learn: ritual is required for unconscious mind to work-through its meaning.

A true master-of-inner-yoga doesn't bother with ritual, it's completely unnecessary.

However, someone whose mind is mostly-unconscious ( because life hasn't yet grinded them through 0.6 or more of a century of "education" .. I think 2-Saturn-orbits really is the basic-threshold for maturity, now .. ), then ritual can be a means for getting one's unconscious-mind to be engaging that kind of function, see?

So, e.g. "baptism" is just a ritual that is enacting a symbol-representation of what Souls do, when they immerse themselves in OceanOfAllPhenomena/Universes..

Souls do it, climbing "down Jacob's Ladder", until they experience their fundamental Soul-ignorance, then when they get fed-up with that condition's result, they begin climbing "up Jacob's Ladder", until they "return home", to their Origin, see?

The Christian "Prodigal Son" parable is also about Souls, just centering on an individual one, which climbs down "Jacob's Ladder" & then later, when it turns from "the kingdom without" to "the kingdom within", climbing up it, into inner-realization..

it's all just symbol-representations, metaphors, & once the key is understood, you find that many of them are actually just different cultural-appearances on top of the same root-meaning..

Find the root-meaning you need your unconscious-mind doing, & make a ritual for getting it to engage that meaning, is the point of this bit..

You may find the books of Gottman, on relationships, to be useful in improving your life-process's quality .. you may find the 5 culture-levels identified in "Tribal Leadership", by researchers Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright to get your life up a notch in both spirit & quality, & you may find the book "Immunity to Change", on our unconscious-mind's fighting-off of growing-up, a dysfunction-protection mechanism, & how to convince it to allow the growing-up to happen .. by researchers Kegan & Lahey to give your life leverage..

Each of these I'd require all high-school students to at-least encounter, so as to give their lives better leverage for their own, autonomous, evolution, you know?

I wish you well, & hope that whatever leverage you need, you find..

maybe this is sufficient: LivingSpirit is ALWAYS offering healing-blessings, to ALL lives, see?

The problem isn't that LivingSpirit "isn't offering", rather the problem is that we're blocked-up, we default to locking/blocking our own hearts, & we then can't find healing, when it's being offered to us, endlessly, Universally, all the time..

So, all we really ought do, is simply stop blocking, get honest, & openly accept LivingSpirit's continuously-offered healing, see?

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He invented MOVEABLE TYPE .. the printing-press was an Asian invention

( block-prints, I believe? )

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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

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. )

There's an incorrect-assumtion in there, I think..

IF one sees a graph of crimes committed,

say one depicts numbers-of-crimes as the Y-axis, & severity-of-crimes as the X-axis,

THEN one's going to see that the most crimes are minor, right?

there's going to be a powerlaw ruling the relationship between numbers-of-crimes & severity-of-crime: the greater the severity, the fewer-instances of it..

Now .. mix-in the problem that living-wage isn't a legal-right in any jurisdiction in North America..

AND mix-in the problem that white-collar-crime isn't prosecuted the way that blue-collar-crime is ( theft which causes the disemployment of multiple people will not likely result in prison-time, but multiple retail-thefts will be more likely to do so )

What the economic-system itself becomes, then, is a "conveyer belt producing criminals", in some sense..

& the single greatest indicator of whether a person's going to be charged with crime is whether they've already been charged with a crime..

Remember the now-discontinued "scared straight" program, or whatever it was called?

Apparently it backfired: when you aquaint youth with jail, you normalize it, so you've moved the frame-of-reference, & now criminality is much more normal than it had-been, in their minds, so .. they're more likely to be going 'round criminaling on ye, see?

I think that the real tough-cases are the ones you're seeing, the ones who don't rehabilitate, & the actual most-cases isn't them.

( I also wish there was some systematic get-lives-out-from-criminality's-churn mechanism like "Doing Time Doing Vipassana" the documentary showed really works, for some people )

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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

• mitosis, with ideologues/prejudice-supremacists/"religion"-supremacists warring to force-extinguish considered-reasoning, & the considered-reasoning people accustomed to coddling, whereas not it's do-or-die survival for humankind
• The Great Filter, aka species-puberty, where some subset of humankind grows-up XOR all of humankind is "naturally selected against" this century, leaving our world extinguished of our kind
• ideological-nationalism is fighting to force-extinguish all other modes, so it can then get to "rule" the world, while the world dies..

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..

https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage-foundation-project-2025-allies-mcc-ordo-iuris-discuss-dismantling-the-eu-european-union/

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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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

• Kegan3: absorbing experience, wanting to feel liked - this is the mode of cows, who associate with validity, because they aren't bulling, themselves.
• Kegan4: bulling-boss mode: pushing-out incompatible-meaning, & instinct that if anybody else has any validity, that subtracts from own-validity, ie all is zero-sum-game for validity. This is the mode of bulls, fighting for dominance - it is limbic, not any kind of conscious-decision.
• Kegan5: systems-of-systems mode: what the best "Elders" of the indigenous people had earned, what the "elder generals" of the ancient times had earned, etc.

( 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 )

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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 ..

ANY time you have the Authority & the Consequences/Responsibility divorced from each-other...

...you inevitably get greater dysfunction/corruption/wreckage.

Governments need to be orthogonal to each-other, departments of 'em, too.

Those roads are in Tarana, they need to be governed & managed within Tarana.

Differentiate between bike-lanes-in-streets vs recreational-paths:

Recreational-paths share single-moms with babies in strollers & toddlers running around them, inline-skates, bikes, unicycles, joggers, dreamy-eyed-lovers, etc...

The speed-limit should be low-enough that NO accidental cyclist-killing-surprise-toddler happens, which is probably 15km/h?

Depends on how closed/open the local terrain is, right?

And the crowding on that day/night, too.

Bike-lanes-in-streets, however, should be up around 25km/h limit, because crash-injury goes up with the SQUARE of the speed, and keeping cyclists from becoming nursing-home-inmates ( seen a couple of lives that earned that result, you don't want to: it's depressing ).

Ebikes, etc, should be limited, on parkways/roads/rural to 40km/h, because the distances are sooo much greater outside of core-city-streets...

This would both enable & protect, balancedly...

As a former winter-bike-courier, bike-lanes save lives, without any question.

Some lobbyists don't understand that having 3 collisions per week on a bike-lane-street that has 1000 cyclists through it per week is better, statistically, than having 1 collision per week on a street with no bike-lane and 10 cyclists through it per week.

They are adamant that 1 collision-per-week is better than 3, no matter what percentage of the cyclists-using-that-pavement that is.

The collisions per cyclist/mile statistic is what those activists don't understand/accept, and it they make it more-dangerous for us all, unfortunately.

Anyways, I hope the best-for-the-place solution is chosen, and the lives there benefit from the wonderful health available through cycling!

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