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relevantusername.bsky.social
Are you sure?

en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:36...
Lore:36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 30 - UESP Wiki
November 9, 2025 at 6:56 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
The reason there is a "deficit" is US govt is nonfunctional & instead of taxing excess wealth, they borrow

Causing the oroboros w/ "interest payments"

That the US is ranked highly in global measures is a testament to how distorted it is - the vast majority of us have zero real freedom or "wealth"
https://www.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/1n7mcyu/comment/ncg7r4h
November 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
relevantusername.bsky.social
#philanthropy #fraud #scam
#HowAboutFuckingPayTaxesIfYouHaveAnyMoneyAfterTrebleDamages

#UnionsTaxesAndHumanRightsAreTheNonViolentSolution

#facts

See the link (ie the linked post above & the link below this text) for fun news stories from the fourth dimension (do it)

www.loc.gov/resource/sn9...
philanthropy is a scam
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
relevantusername.bsky.social
This graph in particular made things very clear

(though missing much of the context explained in the other parts of this thread as well as my voluminous posts everywhere)

(Also very relevant to recent elections, like Zohran Mamdani who is apparently a bit younger than I am)
A graph (taken from the link in the previous post) showing the average age of members of congress at start of term 1947-2013 where there was a significant dip in average age around 1980 that has since gone far higher than it was at the beginning of the graph
November 8, 2025 at 7:07 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
But here's a screenshot that was one of my more recent uhh what I'll call "clinchers" that pushed my personal conviction from mostly suspecting to more or less knowing
screenshot of an article about different terms and concepts discussing societal uhh organization in China where one of the terms is listed with the Chinese characters that when translated says "people born in the 1980s or 1990s that are not trusted"
November 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
It is relational and relative (but also, that is, itself, illusory)

Which gets awfully complicated (but very simple) with modern communications technology :)

>"The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason."

bsky.app/profile/rele...
If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite happiness in skinning a cat, then the religious philosopher can only draw one of two deductions. He must either deny the existence of God, as all atheists do ; or he must deny the present union between God and man, as all Christians do. The new theologians seem to think it a highly rationalistic solution to deny the cat. In short, oddities only strike ordinary people. Oddities do not strike odd people. This is why ordinary people have a much more exciting time ; while odd people are always complaining of the dulness of life. This is also why the new novels die so quickly, and why the old fairy tales endure for ever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy ; it is his adventures that are startling ; they startle him because he is normal. But in the modern psychological novel the hero is abnormal ; the centre is not central. Hence the fiercest adventures fail to affect him adequately, and the book is monotonous. Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad ; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers ; but creative artists very seldom. said that free will was lunacy, because it meant causeless actions, and the actions of a lunatic would be causeless. I do not dwell here upon the disastrous lapse in determinist logic. Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
!Also me

books.google.com/ngrams/graph...
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%21%2C%3B%2C%E2%9D%A6%2C%E2%9D%A7%2C%E2%97%8A%2C%C2%A7%2C%E2%80%BD%2C%E2%80%A1%2C%E2%80%A0%2C%C2%B6&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=0&case_insensitive=false
November 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
#standards #formatting #webdev #tech #harm

For example here is a screenshot of an article I was reading as presented by default in my browser and a screenshot of the entire text of that article copied into notepad, where the entire article is visible on my screen at once.
a screenshot showing three paragraphs total a screenshot showing all 20,952 characters at once
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
ia804601.us.archive.org/27/items/fai...
https://ia804601.us.archive.org/27/items/faith-certainty-and-the-presidency-of-george-w.-bush-the-new-york-times/Faith%2C%20Certainty%20and%20the%20Presidency%20of%20George%20W.%20Bush%20-%20The%20New%20York%20Times.pdf
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
relevantusername.bsky.social
Almost all statistics are probably mostly close to accurate, probably

The highlighted text and what I'm definitely not implying idk what you're talking about certainly does not have majorly consequential extrapolations for an increasingly diverse population
“That was really fulfilling,” says Snook. “I get such satisfaction out of identifying someone who thinks they have got away with a crime.” Porritt and Smith would like all new and existing police recruits to be tested for their facial recognition skills. “In 1902, when fingerprints were first used to solve crime, there was a lot of scepticism,” says Smith. “I believe super-recognisers are the way forward.” If about 1-2% of the population have super-recogniser ability, and there are roughly 48,000 officers and police staff in the Met, “we have 480 super-recognisers lurking around that we need to find”.
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
relevantusername.bsky.social
I'm not out of order, this courts out of order or something
I've read a decent amount about Trump and his history. By which I mean - in addition to my generally higher than average ability to figure out "what makes people tick" - I think I have a fair understanding of the type of person he is and was. My first thought about this article was the younger Donald would not like the current one. But as with most things, the first reaction is close - but not quite. The second is about as good as it gets. Rule of thumb: after two things only become unnecessarily complicated. Except when there's three - but never four. It's complicated Anyway, my second thought was the younger Donald would love the current one. Why? Because he would be able to scam the shit out of him so goddamn easily
November 4, 2025 at 5:19 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
I think this'll be all from me til after the conclusion of my next sleep

"reflect reality"

Yep, this sure is a-round what is true. Nice, inoffensive, unfalsifiable, unverifiable, #phalanx type reasoning.

Un-less

www.etymonline.com/search?q=ref...
reflect(v.) late 14c., reflecten, "turn or bend (something) back, reverse;" early 15c., "to divert, to turn (something) aside, deflect," from Old French reflecter (14c.), from Latin reflectere "to bend back, bend backwards, turn away," from re- "back" (see re-) + flectere "to bend" (see flexible). Of mirrors or other bodies or surfaces, "to shine back light rays or images," early 15c., later also of heat or sound. The meaning "to turn one's thoughts back on, resolve matters in the mind" is from c. 1600. Related: Reflected; reflecting. Middle English also had a separate verb reflexen "refract (light); deflect" (early 15c.), directly from Latin reflexus, past participle of reflectere.
November 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
Amusingly the title of the chapter following that explanation is "The Return of the Demons"

Which, though I haven't read it (re: arbitrary impediments), I am going to guess TLDR:

We fear what we do not understand

More on that later (or earlier if you read my reddit comments)
...conceived law of causation, society has not found a new rational basis to replace the mechanical rationalization of the world which disappears with the collapsing belief in capitalism and Marxist socialism. The destruction of the order in which the individual has a rational place and a rational function necessarily invalidates also the old order of values, which was a rational order of rational values. Freedom and equality, the two cornerstones of this order, are values which are intelligible and endowed with meaning only as applied to a rational society. Can they have any meaning to the bewildered, isolated individual in a society that has itself lost all rational meaning? And how does the individual react, how is he affected by this destruction of his own rational existence? Which ends that chapter, the next one titled "THE RETURN OF THE DEMONS"
November 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
I would elaborate these next points further but arbitrarily imposed technical difficulties are impeding my reading

Therefore I will err towards less is more

#Spooky action at a distance as explained in the book

"The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism", 1939
There's more on the page, but specifically referring to: Whatever the physicists may mean by their denial of causation and its replacement by Chance, they imply that they have reached and even overstepped the limits of a mechanical conception of the world. In the same way in which the physicists cannot find a new rational substitute for their mechanically... (continued in next post)
November 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
Or they're old which is another major issue. Excuse me sir your time is over

But nah it's cool, it's not like old people refusing to give up control or help younger generations is having any severe irreversible effects on human life
October 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
For example, I'm a literal tree hugger but green energy regulation is largely a flat tax on energy which means it makes life unaffordable.

Just don't pollute, clean it if you do

Govt tax incentives are a blight

For reasons best explained a long time ago:

en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._L...
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis
October 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
First is tangentially unrelated, the second's nice & simple

(More good word stuff at No. 2's links)

One of the oldest principles in law that (supposedly) states (TLDR) the aggressor is always the guilty party (duh?)

Surprise! It isn't the lion.

Remember Cecil? Maybe I am a time traveler.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1jgfcfq/comment/mj11ucw/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/1jwegu6/comment/mmj1fsa/?context=3
October 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
relevantusername.bsky.social
Page three had some of the best though. Not only - definitely not - but specifically one using a word very popular in modern times w/ certain a type of person.

Be cause it doth re lightened my mynde of another olde ayse booke I quoted a lounge thyme a go on yonder reddit
shout out my homies vice, common sense, praise v profit (hmm), compassion v reality (hmm), consideration begat the egg, and of course the philosophers stone which follows the egg the one I was referring in the post text will be explayned at some point in the future assuming the apocalypse doesn't strike me dead so I can get magick powers and smite the dipshits or whatever before I get to it
October 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
relevantusername.bsky.social
I then did what I do & searched a key word

In this #case: #contempt. Three results and all surrounding text is as wise as expected. I started to highlight some of the best, but by halfway down the first column of page one I had highlighted almost all so I stopped there.
alt text machine broke follow the link alt text machine broke follow the link
October 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
relevantusername.bsky.social
I've been made aware one of my toxic traits is sharing a thing lacking context, but not intrigue. Then Irish Goodbye
idk what it means (probably) but it's provocative it Kanye West and Jay-Z song
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
Idk what the code does beyond what I can sorta grok (lol)

I'm convinced it's magick

& specific words / names / whatever are, I can only assume, intentionally troll shit

In addition to what's alluded to in the reddit screenshot...

which I found btw #ICYMI

( #cookies #tracking #internetstuff )
Screenshot of the web browser console window with a bunch of nerd ass gobbledygook code, but the relevant part I'm indicating says : 'RaceCID' , 'ReligionCID', 'HealthCID' , 'SexualOrientationCID', 'TransgenderCID', 'ImmigrationCID', 'NationalOriginCID', 'CrimeVictimCID', 'GeneticCID', 'BiometricCID', 'GeolocationCID',
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
Right so

I wrote this comment earlier in response to a post about cookies (appropriately specifically on the WSJ website, lol):
https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1ogyflr/comment/nlk7ktg/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
Without getting into the mostly unrelated reasoning why I was reading about this, again: when I started reading just now I was originally thinking "wait - what about the implications of the highlighted text in the context of" *gestures broadly* ?:

apnews.com/article/supr...
apnews.com Supreme Court Chevron decision: What it means for federal regulations | AP News Matthew Daly 8–10 minutes WASHINGTON (AP) — Executive branch agencies will likely have more difficulty regulating the environment, public health, workplace safety and other issues under a far-reaching decision by the Supreme Court. The court’s 6-3 ruling on Friday overturned a 1984 decision colloquially known as Chevron that has instructed lower courts to defer to federal agencies when laws passed by Congress are not crystal clear. The 40-year-old decision has been the basis for upholding thousands of regulations by dozens of federal agencies, but has long been a target of conservatives and business groups who argue that it grants too much power to the executive branch, or what some critics call the administrative state. The Biden administration has defended the law, warning that overturning so-called Chevron deference would be destabilizing and could bring a “convulsive shock” to the nation’s legal system. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the court, said federal judges “must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority.” The ruling does not call into question prior cases that relied on the Chevron doctrine, Roberts wrote.
October 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
Specifically this - online "investing", gambling, and "prediction markets" is exactly why there is zero trust with govt or the tech industry.

If you're unaware how what would be called "the deep state" - if it existed - is directly involved here, you should read.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Polymarket is set to return to the U.S. more than three years after agreeing to block American users following a settlement with the CFTC for operating an unregistered derivatives trading platform. Its return also follows peer Kalshi's successful court challenge last year against CFTC, after which the latter gained approval to list contracts related to the White House race. These markets have already gained investors' interest, with Kalshi securing a $2 billion valuation from a $185 million raise earlier in the year. Polymarket also secured an investment last week from Donald Trump Jr-backed venture capital firm 1789 Capital.
October 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
relevantusername.bsky.social
Ancient Adblock makes it easier to see: actually the entire point of #Globalization is contrary to what it became

What is has become is effectively a worldwide Nazification of the financial and legal systems

It is worse because most, including the victims, are ignorant to the severity of the harms
Last week the U.S. officially moved into the eleven-month-old United Nations powwow on postwar education. To London went the State Department's broadbeamed, broad-minded Ralph Edmond Turner, a brilliant and experienced educator. He will sit as an observer with the representatives of ten other United Nations (and the still unofficial observers of Russia, China, India, the British Dominions). Chairman is British education chief Richard Austen Butler. So far no one outside the powwow knows its exact agenda or how it is progressing. But U.S. educational circles felt sure that the discussion revolved around the hopeful principles adopted last month by a major meeting of U.S. and foreign educators. Findings: Devastated countries 'should be helped to rebuild' The United Nations should rebuild Axis educational systems, eliminate Axis-type teaching, and gradually pass the schools back to the peoples as they become good neighbors in a democratic world An International Education Office should be established to keep watch for relapses into Axis-type teaching, and to help educational systems In all countries world citizenship should be stressed in addition to national citizenship That he would work toward such aims as these seemed clear from the fact that he had helped formulate them. His personal history would seem to assure the forcefulness of his work. The Iowa born economist and historian is Veteran No 1 of the bitter wars fought around the University of Pitt's skyscraper "Cathedral of Learning". There Turner made a fine record only to be fired in 1934. Investigation by a professional committee of highest standing convicted the "Cathedral" of persistent violations of academic freedom and found him a first-rate scholar and educator who had not tempered his opinions to possible sources of EXTRA endowment. The only thing his colleagues could find against him was a certain "impulsiveness," a dynamism which provoked extreme reactions, either favorable or the opposite.
October 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM