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instead of Gentoo.
I agree with your limited-set:
TheRegister & Ars Technica are the 2 that give the highest quality overview,
and yeah, Phoronix is kinda required for Linux news,
and … how the hell could churning more be somehow increasing one’s productivity??
Stephen R. Covey’s truth about…
- the bigger one’s Circle of Concern…
- the smaller one’s Circle of Influence…
one must Focus, or one is just mindlessly dissipating one’s finite strength.
Limit one’s inputs, to quality overview points, and know which other-sites to hit, for specific digging-down into some specialty,
( Leonard Susskind’s lectures, on yt, e.g. for mental exercise: his “Time As A Fractal Flow” one is awesome, when the lightbulb goes on, at the end )
and then you win most.
Never let sand into your gears, in other words, eh?
Keeping all the “misc sand” out from one’s “gears” makes one more productive.
Oh, also www.SemiAccurate.com for the semiconductor foundry industry news, if Demerjian’s still updating that ( he’s scooped the industry toooo many times to let that one escape being important! )
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You, and everybody interested in this who wants real integrity in their leverage to argue this stuff, need to get Hofstadter’s remapping of gender-terms from Mr vs Miss & Mrs to …
… IF you are white, THEN there is 1 pronoun for you, …
… ELSIF you are black, THEN your pronoun is dependent on whether you’re employed or not
written by Douglas Hofstadter ( author of “Godel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid”, the keystone to competent philosophy ), for Scientific American magazine, decades ago.
It may be in the “Metamagical Themas” book.
It was mentioned in the 1990’s in the Feminism FAQ as being trailblazing, because it caused what we were unconscious-of to GET in our faces, violating our habits, so we could actually perceive just how prejudiced it is.
searching … This may be it…
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
I only glanced at it, it’s too jarring for me ( I’d rather that I could just live in solitary isolation for the entire rest of my life: humanity’s abuse ), but it may help crystalize the ability to articulate just how stilted this all is.
I completely agree that “Mr.” and “Miss”, “Mrs.”, “Mz” all are gender-identifying, and as-such ought be considered illegal under their law.
But exactly as the convict/felon/inmate Yehoshua “Jesus” benJoseph identiied, a couple of millenia ago, legalists insist on the letter-of-the-law, while ignoring whatever law’s inconvenient to their artifice.
Legalists haven’t changed since benJoseph called them “Hypocrites!”.
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Read Paul Fussell’s books on the North American Class system:
the difference between Middle-Class & Working-Class is cultural, not income, and it’s rather indellible, too.
I’d now have Upper-Middle-Class, Financial-Class, Middle-Class, as distinct groups/cultures.
Middle-class judge you by your job-position.
Working-class judge you by your money.
The cultural-difference is profound.
Try getting an Upper-Middle-Class person to honestly accept you as valid, when you’re a homeless person ( despicable/inherently-nonvalid, human-garbage ) and they’re addicted to clawing all the Upper-Middle-Class status they can…
That can be quite educating.
Class-identity is as ancient as hierarchy in our society, so at least as old as agriculture, but I’d say it’s as old as village-chief, so … perhaps 0.5 million years, min.
Books that I find profounder, importanter, include Kegan & Lahey’s “Immunity to Change”, on our unconscious-mind’s automatic-fighting-off of growing-up, protecting entrenched-dysfunction, and how to correct/dismantle that sabotage.
Halvorson’s little, and important, “The 8 Motivational Challenges”.
Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright’s book condensing their research into something readable for us, “Tribal Leadership”, on the 5 cultural-process levels ( they wrongly identify them as “stages”, but stages, like Kegan-3, Kegan-4, etc, are irreversible ).
Moneyarchy has been crushing more & more & more lives into level-1 & level-2 culture, and there are consequences of that.
Level-1 is where mass-shootings arise from, and in 2023 the US had over 600 of them.
Level-2 is where conspiracism grows.
Not understanding that book should be considered criminal-negligence, for government-authority, nowadays.
Lanier’s “Foreign to Familiar”, and then Hofstede’s “Exploring Culture” show how the climate, the civilization, the culture, that we are born into, fundamentally-alter our “personality” in predictable ways.
John Truby’s “The Anatomy of Genres” and “The Anatomy of Story” should be considred required-reading for anybody who unconsciously uses story to form the story of their own meaning ( which is all of us ).
He’s got a couple of mistakes, as many profound books do, his concept of Village is insane, being Wild West Village, instead of the dozens-of-millenia old Tribal Mother Village, and his concept of humor is wrong, too, being based on “the drop”, which is a US thing, and not the core of humor, at all. The real core of humor, is being surprised by the improbable. Creative-misinterpretation humor shows this.
Hofstadter’s “Godel Escher Bach: and Eternal Golden Braid” is the core competence in all of Western Philosophy. All the Western Philosophers who reject, ignore, or don’t-understand, the core points in that book, are not competent in philosophy, period.
These books all outclass many of the books he’s recommending.
That depends on how it affects near-stall flight.
The most efficient cruise that is legal, is 1.30x stall-speed.
If that damage on the leading portion of the wing means your “1.30x” stall-speed cruise is now actually 1.00x, you’re gambling.
There was a DC9 that killed everybody because of pebbled ice wrecking its actual-stall-speed, years ago.
Landing also requires that you dance at the edge of stall, & if your idea of where stall-speed is, is wrong, …
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Zillions of other things crowded-it-out from your awareness, is all…
I defy you to count all the things you’ve had to remember, or think-on, since you created that community, Hoomin…
As one gets older, it happens more: more things-in-the-bin, harder-to-find-a-particular-thing.
Consider, though, that now your community has got other people interested, and it wasn’t done through shilling, but through accidental-forgetfulness.
Karma provides lessons, we only have to be honest-enough to earn their essence, you know?
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If it’s changing, you might want to get a brain-scan, immediately.
No, it isn’t normal ( not for me, anyhow ), to the guy who said it is normal.
It’s not an ear thing, it is an auditory-processing thing, so it’s your brain that’s doing it.
The question is why it is doing it.
Perhaps it’s just fuzzy wiring, as most such cases likely are.
( synaesthesia is a case of weird wiring, and I’ve got that, but not in the normal way, not senses blurring into each-other, but rather my non-visual cognition being a kind of “blur” to those senses, so they mesh oddly )
But if it begins changing in either intensity or character, get a scan.
( I’m a braindamage survivor, and it takes decades to adapt to braindamage: prevention/avoidance is better than hating one’s life for decades, while being bullied by all who reject that it could still validly be a problem, and hold that one ought either force oneself into being an “acceptable” drugged psychiatric-zombie, and not “pretend” to be getting better, or one ought be able to be acceptable-pretence, just like Valid People™ are. )
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Spend a half-month considering, deeply, which path you would most-value having taken at the end of your life.
Due to an unconscious psychological-limitation, imagine your funeral at 1.5x your current age ( we apparently have a kind of “horizon” in our ability to understand our meaning beyond that ),
and imagine each significant variant, or compromise, and see how each makes you, in that future-condition/context feel.
Your answer is within you, same as for everyone.
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