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Agile goes on about how if you aren’t connecting-with-customer, while you’re coding, then you’re doing exactly what that article is bitching about.

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He speaks about spreadsheets being malleable-documents…

IF you do any calculating & basic-programming’s something you’re OK with, then PLEASE invest in understanding https://plutojl.org/

& if you decide to dig-in, then please try a good book ( the Design Patterns one is good ) & hit Exercism, & you’re good to go.

MASSIVELY better than spreadsheets, in my view.

Mind-you, I think Julia’s better than spreadsheets AND Python, because it’s cleaner, stupendously faster in execution, etc…

& that suits my aesthetics just fine.

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IF I think I’m going to learn something from seeing their frame-of-reference ( like: HOW it’s wrong ), XOR their reasoning ( ditto ), certainly.

How’m I supposed to learn anything if I only remain within comforting meanings??

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This is why relying on “political will” to enforce accountability is incompetent.

You’ll notice that Noem is now facing possible perjury-prosecution, but the in-favor/in-power ones aren’t…

Politically-based “accountability” is accountability-to-power’s-narcissism, only, in the end.

It has to be done automatically, at the system-level.

It had to be automatic that he couldn’t even be eligible for election, instead of “saying sorry after gets shit done, whereas asking permission gets one prevented” kind of thing.

DarkTriad/DarkTetrad people have to be automatically & systematically prevented from authority-roles.

Society-wide.

No “political” alternative prevents the problem anywhere-near so efficiently.

So, to your question “is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out”, no: it’s too late.

Any attempt at impeaching him, now, would trigger his invoking of The Insurrection Act, & activating total-dictatorship.

Which he is going to do regardless, once his frustration reaches high-enough intensity.

“a penny’s worth of prevention is worth a pound/euro of cure” is still true.

But at-last the lessons of what the Christians call “armageddon”, these next 6-decades, will be significant…

Once the tippingpoint’s crossed, I expect the Regional Consolidation Time to be Trump ditching/ignoring all the rest of the world except for his wars on conquering the Americas. ALL of them. Civil War Part2: confederate reverse-takeover & vengeance … will only be a sub-plot, not the whole thing.

About 1/2-way through the 7-y cycle, I expect him to be replaced with Musk.

The problem isn’t them: the problem is humankind’s collective-unconscious-mind’s ego-games, its “apocalypse” “proving its ego’s IMPORTANCE”, that “nothing is more god than ego’s TANTRUM/POGROM is!!”.

So, fundamentally, it’s The Great Filter: our underlying toddler-nature breaking the world to “beat god and make god obey!!”.

Trump, Putin, Millei, Farage, Orban, etc, highjacking the world for their exclusive-wealth/oligarchy … that’s only “makeup”.

The communist-party’s imperialism, in various national variants, is every bit as “fascist” in its DarkTetrad as individual-centered-fascism is.

The fundamental difference between individualism vs collectivism doesn’t make imperialism somehow become not imperialism.

Party-imperialism’s murdered millions.

What’s the difference between how bad well-accomplished-sociopathy of the left is, vs the right?

the well-accomplished-sociopathy’s the same, only the political-left vs political-right is different.

So why ignore the underlying sociopathy??

As ideologues consistently do.

It’s foolish, in my opinion, to think that Putin & Trump are going to remain contradicting: their underlying goal is the same: competitive-nihilism & competitive-narcissism, at EVERYBODY-ELSE’s expense.

But they’re only 2 of many representatives of that “church”.

See the overall-picture, not the only-local view: it’s global, the forces are implacable, & humankind’s positioned to … not do well, this century.

Unless someone massively changes humankind’s viability…

which would take dimensions of competence, & dimensions of self-conquering, that normals never allow anyone to earn ( far too “outlier” )

So, humankind is “walking the plank”, now.

Other paths were possible…

Does anybody understand that preventing genociding in Palestine would have required about 6+decades of the UN being the only gov’t there, & NO ideology imprinting anybody, not through education, not through prejudice, not through abuse, not through apartheid, not on either side!

& keep holding that, generation after generation, until the prejudices were extingushed-sufficiently.

No other path could have worked.

Making-believing, while accommodating ideological-prejudice’s perpetual self-entrenchment sure as hell didn’t work!

It’s the same in the US.

It takes decades to create a population who can do correct-reasoning, & who is loyal-to/valuing-of it.

It takes only months to eradicate that, replacing it with ideological-prejudice.

The brain-system driving ideological-prejudice is more-primitive, more emotional.

The brain-system driving correct-reasoning & objectivity is the recentest part of the brain, the outer cortex ( top of brain, btw ).

the problem isn’t local: it’s racial. Whole-species.

Humankind’s fighting-off moral-anxiety & correct-reasoning & objectivity by digging-into programmed-reacting, animal-“reasoning”, ideology, prejudice, & ideological-“morality”.

& about 9/10 of humankind’s on the side of ideology, from the looks of things.

Trump’s a symptom, not a cause.

The cause is whole-species-wide: our unconscious-ignorance’s fighting-for-its-totalitarian-dominion.

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There are a few excellent books on dialogue, for writers.

YOU try writing good dialogue!

Keeping-straight everything that needs to be kept-straight when writing dialogue, isn’t easy, & people who don’t even understand Shawn Coyne’s point about how every single scene in the entire story MUST pull its weight, & MUST alter emotional-value somehow ( see “The Story Grid” for that ), is something that most story-writers don’t understand properly.

Some are brilliant at it ( & the writers for that TV-show, Mad Men, iirc, were mostly women, simply because women are better than men at writing such drama ), & most are not.

Why should imitations-of-us be better at it than we are?

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As the root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, pointed-out: “you can’t orient to 2 contradictory-nature gods”, though he paraphrased the principle, some…*

IF someone in academia cares more about their-career, their-status, their-profit, etc, in any variant of institutional-narcissism, professional-narcissism, economic-narcissism, etc,

THEN the “learning institution” simply “cannot afford” to put learning 1st.

IF they care more about the next-generation’s learning, more about quality-of-research, more about next-generations DOING research, etc, then they’ll hire the grad-student & demonstrate how to limit/harness LLM’s so that they don’t compromise/undermine either education, autonomous human meaning, or science.

Actions speak louder than words, though, among those with honesty/integrity.

So, do whatever you want: & be judged on that, in the end, right?

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( the “*” was simply…

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NON-sovereignty has greater risks.

Context, including Trump, matters.

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The gov’t forces who mow-down-with-bullets protestors are NOT beautiful, in my eyes.

A surprising fact, in my life, though, is that the holiest human I ever met in-person, was an Iranian man.

I’ve spent a week in a monastery, on retreat, & I’m saying that.

A couple decades ago, there was a US right-wing commentator, who competed with Rush Limbaugh, who established that it’d be best to simply nuke Iran, preemptively, in order to get rid of the US’s problem ( that their disobedience/not-being-colony was ).

Anne Coulter?

something like that.

Sociopathy, no matter how ideologically-convenient, is the wrong path.

So is idolization, in my view…

As that wonderful African man who explains in videos, showing how DR Congo & Rwanda are tangled-up, or other African endless-conflicts, says…

“it’s complicated”.

& ideologies/prejudices reject actuality’s being complicated.

Accuracy’s possible.

More difficult, but earnable.

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ROTFLMAO

REALLY??

They ALSO are leaving-out all the LLM-introduced bugs, vulnerabilities, back-doors, & other shenanigans!!

Sometimes moderate ludditism can be a GOOD thing.

Ask the security-geeks why they generally refuse to use electronic locks on their homes!

See correctly, not “fashionably”.

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I’d recommend having a banner/sign which explains why you are doing-so, so that you won’t be accused/convicted of what others assume you to have been meaning.

It’s nearly-impossible to get people to understand what one means, when one’s motivation isn’t identical with theirs.

& discovering how their-motivation is fundamentally-different from one’s-own has to happen before one can have ANY chance at dismantling miscommunication.

& miscommunications now can have years-in-prison attached to them.

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FreeDOS 1.0

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Cultures/conventions are assumption-rivers, aka “religions”.

Toxic-culture’s a habit, an ideology, a “religion”, a self-reinforcing-feedback-mechanism, & a kind of “food” for ones who want that particular substance.

Once entrenched, it’s nearly-impossible to change a culture.

Chaning a culture generally requires focus+action both at the top AND grass-roots.

Without both, nothing’ll change, usually.

( without grassroots, nothing’ll change, no matter what the leader wants/does )

& Reddit’s CEO has paid himself $1/8B IN A SINGLE YEAR, while Reddit wasn’t in profit, so DarkTriad’s their corporate-culture, fersure, in my opinion.

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“normal” for what culture?

I mean family culture, not national-culture.

It seems to me that they’re insecure, & committed to using you for their-own validation, & crowbarring you into remaining subjugated to that scam/game/manipulation.

( I had to go no-contact with both parents, for years at a time, for my survival: parental machiavellianism doesn’t have to be conscious machiavellianism. I don’t blame them, but did need to protect my life against their forcing-me-towards-breaking/failing, with all the personal-power I could muster. )

The oversimplification of “the 5 love languages”, the oversimplification being that people are somehow “exclusively 1 XOR another”, instead of being some mixture on a 5-dimension set-of-continuums/spectrums…

It seems your mother’s means of showing-love is verbal, & she felt need to have verbal-expression-of-love for her.

The “5 love languages” thing… when I found-out that some people NEED exchanging-of-things to feel loved, or to express love … WTF??

TOTALLY not the way I’m wired.

Never EVER would have dawned-on-me that some people actually were wired that way.

But… I’ve seen some people I knew who were wired that way!

Diversity-of-wiring’s a thing, right?

So, I think it was you mom being wired for verbal emotional-meaning, AND her trying to manipulate you into being what protected/fed her established-when-she-was-growing-up dysfunction-habit, AND I wouldn’t put 1 single cent on her being “to blame” for it, if she’s never dug into conquering her own unconscious-mind. I think it was probably the result of the growing-up she lived in, just repeating, in variation.

Discard everything I wrote unless something in it is of value for you.

I’ve only experience & what seems to be understanding: I’ve no academic-accreditation, but neither did Socrates, my hero, either.

But if it is of value, then may your life be more-powerfully-awakening/autonomizing, owning your future-karma, more.

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ttbomk, the companies don’t care.

It was a few years ago? when a woman in Taiwan showed a video where her co-worker could open her phone, because the face-recognition logic in Apple phones is calibrated to Whites, not to Asians.

I think that there are only 2 biometrics which ought be used:

1. bloodvessels-in-fingers/hands
2. retinas, blood-vessels again.

There are some diseases which monkey that, for people with those conditions, & injuries can monkey them too,

but making the bloodvessels-in-hands one be normal would mean that “ghoulies”, cloned fingerprints that someone wears as rubbery coverings on their fingers, iirc, would be blocked by that, so would the tape-copying-fingerprint trick…

& making it so that the retina-scan was only done in higher-security settings, & only where you have to peer into the machine, not where it’s scanning everybody who’s in the lobby ( another story I read ),

& having iris-scanning for people who have retina-degenerative-conditions/injuries, as backup…

etc…

Face-scanning’s a stupid “security”.

Got beaten-up? now you can’t open your phone.

Someone’s got you at gunpoint, & they just hold your phone up at you, & it unlocks?

That isn’t security, that is authority-theatre.

Which I’m fed-up with.

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Interesting point…

Maybe we should all have Spring Cleanup, where we get our instances to be configured to better settings, to keep tuning-up the fediverse?

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They’re wrong:

The actual problem is that they presumed that they’d be insta-embraced by the market, when in fact they have to market & grow their customer-base, same as normal businesses do.

Which is … executive-narcissism? corporate-narcissism?

Something like that.

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1 time I found the Christian bible’s thing about benJoseph’s recommendation about confession…

It was fundamentally different from Catholic confession ( yes, this is related to your point ).

Confession was recommended, but it didn’t say confession to someone.

It may have implied confession to one’s team/community.

It absolutely did not orient any such thing to any church-official.

I’ve found that confessing to LivingSpirit helps.

Research has discovered that it doesn’t matter what one surrenders-to/relies-on, it can be a soccer-ball, an imaginary-friend, or LivingSpirit as I do, but doing that with someone ( from your perspective ) massively empowers lives in breaking addiction, as 1 objective change-in-life.

( see Baumeister’s “Willpower”, & note that while he gives what the evidence says, he rejects it, himself )

Confessing socially I consider narcissistic.

However, there’s another angle to it: it may help others to see that they’re not-alone in their failings.

& that is valuable.

There’s my answer answer for you.

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Nature says: IF you want the current regime ( in any ecology! ) displaced,

THEN displace it!

Don’t like Facebook’s monopoly? Displace it.

Don’t like political-parties’ railroading our world into ideological cuckery?

Displace it!

Etc.

For effectiveness, it’d require leaders, which the anarchists prohibit from their world, so they’re not going to help displace the organized-idiocy.

Communist & fascist imperialism will do EVERYTHING IT CAN to break any threat to their eventual-totalitarian-world-dominion.

Concentration-of-wealth-archy/oligarchy won’t tolerate any such thing, either.

& worst is the rude fact that as people’s contexts change, THEY change, so it has to be lead by people who’ve earned self-conquering, who aren’t malleable in principles or integrity, no matter how much force they are plied with, or how relentlessly they are plied with that force.

The people who felt class-elevated to be hobnobbing with Epstein kept their mouths shut when they shouldn’t have, simply because they’d be knocked lower down the social-status-hierarchy if they broke-ranks, & that social-pressure was sufficient to protect the entire Epstein-Class for decades.

That mechanism is in all of us.

It can be broken, through years of relentless pushing oneself into facing-karma, & breaking one’s unconscious-mind’s ignorance-dominion on one’s life.

Just identifying some of the key forces/factors that have to be dealt-with, in order for global-grass-roots-revolution to work, among the populations who are educated well/correctly enough to value critical-thinking.

In all the regions where education did what Leninism & Fox do, prevent that ( remember how the Republicans eradicated critical-thinking from all their territory after Trump won his 2nd term? ) … thos regions are no-longer recoverable, in WW3’s next 6-decades.

One has to accept that only a fraction of humankind will fight-off ideology-displacing-reason, & that saving the rest, thanks to education, isn’t possible.

Basic principle that Sunzi/Sun Tzu/Master Sun identified, 2.5 millenia ago: IF one is outnumbered, either defend, if one is strong, or evade, if one is weak.

Critical-reasoning is, globally, weak.

We either deal-with-that XOR we hand victory to the ideologues.

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You can’t have that percentage be higher than 20%, & have it work right.

50% & you’ve already reduced that market-segment to a 2-horse race or monopoly.

You have to prevent that, XOR you’re creating a national-dependency on “too big to fail” corporation, which is certain, sooner or later, to become a national footgun.

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Industries tend to evolve into 2-horse-races or monopolies.

“Focus” by Al Ries.

Coca-Cola & Pepsi, as 1 example.

( there is MUCH more in that book: IF you’re doing a startup, please read it! then the Lean Startup stuff. )

Who is Amazon’s competitor?

Who is Apple’s, or Google’s, or Facebook’s?

Bill Gates called it “friction-free capitalism”, when unlike streets, you don’t see any competitor & that makes competition, & market-balancing, disappear

Don’t worry: what Facebook did to MySpace, the Fediverse is going to do to Reddit.

It is only a matter of earning it, & duration-until-then, now.

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