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XaoDaoCaoCao
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XaoDaoCaoCao
6y ago
If you think your life ia suffering free to other beings, your existence is predicated on forms of organization and governance which inflict massive suffering aka the military-industrial-logistics system which ensures the delivery of whatev
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XaoDaoCaoCao
6y ago
Meanwhile blocks away shady people peddle crack, coke, meth, benzos, and opiates with near impunity during the night. The stance of "the man" against psychedelics for the past half century is either a cosmic joke, cosmic conspirac
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XaoDaoCaoCao
6y ago
Lol who down voted you? The use of prison/slave labor is probably a factor in the disappearance of millions of jobs. And creates a perverse incentive for kickback relationships between certain industries and the judicio-prison complex
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XaoDaoCaoCao
6y ago
Which is a bit horrific when you realize they act as sieves promoting the hire of such people in a higher proportion than the general population. Polygraphs are worse than useless and mere jokes; they are selectors for a kakistocracy amongs
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XaoDaoCaoCao
6y ago
That's a slice of the horror of our civilization lololol
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XaoDaoCaoCao
6y ago
"Modern society does a great job of discouraging and masking those qualities," Until you attempt to shake another's position in a social hierarchy (wittingly or not). Violence, vengeance, and pettiness are not only driven by
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XaoDaoCaoCao
6y ago
Sorry to hear that. Hopefully we'll learn enough to prevent such mismatches and to freely allow petitioning wanderers to become holy fools for a brief time. Note: Done 200+ trips w/ 2 bad ones in the first 10.
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
You can't control every agent in the world. You literally have to have a tolerance for the existence of a few stupid ones.
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
It is ridiculous because it's a consequence of anonymity which is still precious enough to ward off against knee jerk emotionalism. As I said, 9/11 was my lesson on how much more magnificentally messed up a sort of societal "
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
Shit humans have always existed. But claiming they support "terrorism" in the same sense that we think of organizational terrorism is ridiculous. 4chan and 8chan didn't create hyperirony (although they certainly cultivate mas
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
Lol These aren't exactly organized bands of people funneling in millions of dollars for carrying out actual training and misson planning/execution. They're watering holes where disaffected elements of society hyperbolically p
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
On the surface, it seems like a good idea especially in the face of upcoming "water wars" if some transformational technology involving cheap clean water isn't trotted out by mid-century. If Capital wants billions of new cons
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
The FBI, or law enforcement agency in general, and malice? What could you ever mean? Our professionals are the most noble automatons of integrity and never twisted by perverse incentives. Just give them the ring and you don't even need
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
A dumb boy wandered outside and went inside thr dumbest place to find shelter from heat, the inside of a car. For this you want to expose society to even more dystopian ruin by hyper-asymetrical information gatherng via GPS on a per body ba
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
>It goes without saying that a conviction should never depend on computer matching, and that safeguards need to be in place to prevent abuse and limit to legitimate law-enforcement purposes. Lol. Has the past half century or so of law en
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
It's a cultural crime that psychedelics have been criminalized for half a century or so. The expansion of certain mental faculties (3-D Visualization, free thought association, meta-thought) could have been harvested for societal benef
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7y ago
https://worldview.stratfor.com/life-expectancy-pension-retir... Is the World Economic Forum a purveyor of conspiracy theories? Is our reduced purchasing power at the level of food and rent a conspiracy theory? Edit: My apol
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
I understand that clearly. But clearly there are classes of institutions and people who... 1. Make a mockery of prudent allocation of money and get bailed out when their games get messed up 2. Mess up the purchasing power of any money you p
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7y ago
>the entire banking system promotes systematic moral hazards and has lowered the purchasing power of stagnating wages for most people "Why are people defaulting on their bills!?" The whole notion of transfer of majority respons
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
A bit of real world experience might highlight what is really offensive and garish and gruesome in the world from the masochistic pleasure of 4chan's "shocking" rhetoric.
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
Why don't you be more specific? If you get down to the guts of everything... It's all "creepy".
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
It's more that people are starting to recognize that we're more poor than a decade ago in terms of buying power AND unemployment is closer to 25% than some ludicrous politicized value. When you shove apes deeper into the pits of t
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
A big factor is "human nature in nature" and "human nature in high density agrarian societies". Civilization (so far) depends on the principle of a monopolizable surplus which allows an elite to mobilize lower ranking el
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
Maybe spending untold billions of dollars on a mass surveillance state that cows the population into authoritarian submission is a phyrric response to the threat of terrorism. Terrorism which is exacerbated by our own shadowy geopolitical a
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
Let's expand that further. They spend their most productive years paying off student loans (while inflationary policies make them poorer). But OOPS all the terrible information about nutrition and a lack of physical activity incurs fut
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
Is unprovoked violence any more tawdry because of racism? Most violence in the world stems from causes other than modern "racism". Any communication channel, by virtue of human nature, is going to enable assaulters and murderers.
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
The jokesterism is in response to a joke world. There are innumerable numbers of murders each year but somehow a spree killing is enough to slay irony? 9/11 wasn't enough to slay irony. The reaction to it excaberbated the ironic m
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
Sounds like a fun time. >So basically your average burning man tent Maybe. But did the user of this have to deal with similar levels of noise and of density of people (never been to Burning Man btw)? My "experience" has mostly
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7y ago
Indeed. The reason I used the google homepage in the first place was how uncluttered it was. Adding ads and disturbing that quality seems like a phyrric move.
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XaoDaoCaoCao
7y ago
Is it ethical to be the beneficiary of the military keeping supply chains safe and keeping supply chains open worldwide? In this world your existence is "unethical", in regards to a question like that, unless you want to live on a
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