I upvoted it because of the 1st half: there isn’t any way I would have guessed that service-dogs go get help, & that is important to know.

Thank you for telling us.

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I have read that Canadian Geographic magazine ( like National Geographic magazine, but colder ) decided to fire their photo-editor.

It’s a photo-centric magazine.

So, their quality dropped.

& that had consequences…

Since I only read 1 source for the story, I’ve no idea if it tests-out, but that is exactly the problem with hard-to-grow expertise: you don’t know how much worth it is, until you lose it, & then you can’t quickly/easily get it back.

( this story is actually a good example of why people should be tested for roles the’re not even close to working-in:

it’d help one calibrate the difficulty-in-replacing particular people, AND it’d identify if you even can replace them, & if not, get training backups or get bringing-in people, until you’ve got a backup, eh? )

Anyways, until a person has worked-through Betty Edwards’ “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the 4th Definitive edition”, & experienced the hemisphere-dominance-shift, themselves, it simply isn’t understandable how meaningful that shift is.

( also, it validates exactly what Hofstadter wrote “Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” about: that each kind-of-knowing is incapable of knowing ANY meaning which isn’t within-its-kind-of-knowing. )

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Mao, Stalin, AND Hitler ALL genocided within their own territory, whether intentionally or not ( Mao wiped-out knowledge-workers, creating massive famine, ttbomk )

The whole “horseshoe political-spectrum” is failing-to-understand that there actually is a different dimenion involved…

Considered-reasoning only lives in the middle,

& imprint->reaction-mind owns both extremes, AND it also owns many who nominally are “center”.

Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast and Slow” is on the difference between the 2 kinds of mental-function,

and to the best of my knowledge, the imprint->reaction mind is lower-forebrain, while the considered-reasoning mind is upper-forebrain.

ALL ideology/prejudice/“religion” ( religion, not spirituality, which is considered-reasoning rooted ) is rooted in the imprint->reaction bypassing-actual-thinking mind.

The Catholic inquisition, the murderers of any religion, the murderers of any political-ideology, etc…

I simply cannot understand how anybody could maintain that the ideology-genociding-of-the-left OR the ideology-genociding-of-the-right OR the ideology-genociding-of-religions OR the ideology-genociding-of-racism OR the ideology-genociding-of-gender-racism ( the inquisition was part of that, the Muslim immigrant gang-rapes committed in their new countries is part of that, the male-supremacist-vote which helped block Harris from winning in the US is part of it, the fact that rape is a pretend-crime in actual-practice is part of that, as the male authorities just don’t consider it to be a “real” crime, if its “only” against girls & women, the scum who rewrote Genesis millenia ago, to alter it from saying that women “ate of the fruit of the knowledge of Good & Evil” ( which it still says ), to instead “interpreted” that, right in the text, so that instead of meaning that women ate of moral understanding ( altruism is demonstrated to be generalized-mothering, in wasps & humans, & grandmothers in the tribe are a significant tribal-survival-advantage, through deep-time/evolution )…

Is the intentional-genociding of Tibetans & Uighurs “OK” because it is being done by the left?

Was Stalin’s force-exterminating millions of his own country’s people somehow OK?

XOR is it that the genociding of fascists doesn’t count?

Obviously, you hold that I, like the original-poster am beyond-reason, beyond wrong.

That’s fine.

I’m fed-up with being gaslit by ideologues, & ideologues are equally fed-up with all who are not within their ideology, obviously.

Which is the essence of The Great Filter, in-which humankind will either lock entirely into imprint->reaction mode & simply tantrum/pogrom until all our kind is extinguished,

XOR some fraction of humankind will do all they can to lock-into considered-reasoning, & do everything they can to continue force-evolving, while surviving the apoctalyptic-nihilism of the ideologues…

I don’t expect the total-war to cease until the end of this century, once it starts ( in the 2030’s, probably )

Party-fascism ( which is what “communism” actually is ) & individual-fascism both are intolerant of healthy-diversity.

Collectivist-evil & individualist-evil are equal-“powers”, just different in methods & in their self-programming.

… shrug …

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Years ago, Cracked.com had a page on how the “good” witch was actually the bad-guy…

https://www.cracked.com/article_18417_9-famous-movie-villains-who-were-right-all-along.html

includes some understanding of how the “Wicked Witch of the West” only wanted her now-smashed-by-Dorothy’s-house sister’s shoes back, & did NOTHING harmful to anybody, otherwise, in the movie…

https://www.cracked.com/article_18417_9-famous-movie-villains-who-were-right-all-along.html

( scroll waaay down, to get to that stuff )

Can’t remember what they identified that the “Good” Witch did, but in the article that I no-longer can find, they did detail some stuff…

( Cracked.com has a number of pages on how we just naturally slurped-up the totally-wrong/bogus view, from many movies, through the years, it seems…

& that sane considering of what’s in those movies produces a completely different view of the things…

https://www.cracked.com/article_29861_55-villains-we-should-root-for.html

https://trivia.cracked.com/image-pictofact-7330-37-movie-plot-holes-we-should-have-noticed-the-first-time

actually, that one should probably be a link to Nitremovedrs, or whatever that site was called, shouldn’t it? )

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SPOT on, Hoomin, GOOD stuff!!

lmao

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There’s now yt videos on Facebooks’ locking people’s accounts ( in early 2025 ) because they … post on Linux … which Facebook has ( perhaps because it benefits their … ahem … for-profit-partners ) deemed to be malware…

Linux Mint / Cinnamon I can recommend, & for all the old machines running corrupt MS-Windows, please get Puppy Linux on 'em, & MAKE them trustworthy!

Yes, the “controlling the populace” time has just-now begun!

( unfortunately, it is going to get much MUCH more oppressive, as this shit progresses in totalitarianism… )

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Ohh, how I wish I coulda been the 1 to make your meem’s score 1000, Hoomin…

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Everything I write is “translated”…

Normal people usually have an innate-mind-language of either

• visual-cognition
• auditory-cognition
• kinesthetic-cognition

I think in abstract-shapes, & have to translate from abstract-forms into English, & it is … frustrating & tiresome … to accomplish this,

& it’s required ALL the time.

Maybe someday I’ll go read what the discussion was, to figure-out if I was having a bad day, that day, & try correcting it…

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Isn’t that interesting…

The anbility to prevent the getting-out of evidence of what the authorities do to the locals…

Just like the unconstitutional state-laws which criminalize capturing-of-video-evidene of police executing people…

“I wonder” if this would ever be abused by anti-accountability authorities…

( remember that the whole Christian religion is founded on a guy who was a kind of whistleblower, & had spikes hammered through his wrists, in his crucifixion, for his calling the legalists “hypocrites”…

I wonder how “Christian” he’d find them to be, if he returned, & saw what they’re doing? )

Human nature & demon nature seem … related?

or is that too harsh?

… perhaps … but wasn’t the Inquisition demon-law in the name of benJoseph?

hmm…

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