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   by blendergasket 13y ago

   To me this is one of those weird things. Basically all of this is an act of faith on our part. We either believe he's legit or we don't. We can't know what kind of weird psy-ops the government is pulling on us. I choose to be
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   by blendergasket 13y ago

   I think Fascism is the best and closest term for a system of control that is emerging that hasn't been properly defined or given a catchy name yet. Fascism wasn't a bad word in the 30s, just like propaganda wasn't a bad word
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   by blendergasket 13y ago

   This is our future. A fascist with asymmetrical hair standing in front of a hip, edgy bit of art, who's funded by a fascist who calls himself a libertarian, waxing eloquently about how good a person he is because the company he founded
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   by blendergasket 13y ago

   Social media is a danger to top down society unless the platforms reside in said top down society then they're more of a danger to the people using them to try to change that society, as China seems to understand.
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   by blendergasket 13y ago

   I use a Thinkpad T430, which I love. I especially love the extra battery I can put in. I get about 8-12 hours of battery life out of it so I can jet around cafes and not worry about having to sit near an outlet. Also, on the days I go into
6. 36.▲
   by blendergasket 13y ago

   I can't speak for the T430S but the T430 has 2 levels of backlighting and then if I click function space 1 more time the backlighting goes off and the little lamp at the top of the screen turns on.
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   by blendergasket 13y ago

   For me laziness is usually driven by some or another fear.
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   by blendergasket 14y ago

   "Scientific research is by no means tied to Christian assumptions, I don't know where you're getting this conspiracy theory from." Alchemy was actively frowned upon by the church, as was witchcraft of all kinds. People who worked in these t
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   by blendergasket 14y ago

   I think there's a ton of this kind of communication going on that we don't realize. I have been a practitioner of QiGong for about 9 months and it has opened me up to a whole different dimension of information that is passed between living
10. 40.▲
    by blendergasket 14y ago

    I see a great opportunity in this for some sort of voting mill mechanical turk like system for people who aren't political and need money to sell their vote to some fascist with an agenda.
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    by blendergasket 14y ago

    This was awesome. Thank you for writing this. I'm saving money to have a year's cash to live on while fleshing out my idea(s) and heading down the runway of making my way on my own. I'll be making the transition ("falling out of the bottom
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    by blendergasket 14y ago

    First I want to say that it's infuriating that the healing experiences described in this thread are illegal. I don't want to speculate on why this is the case, but I find it fascinating that anti-depressants are legal but drugs like MDMA an
13. 43.▲
    by blendergasket 14y ago

    And how much risk you want the people around you to assume on your behalf. I sometimes commute (40mi) home from work, mostly on an off-road rails to trails paved bike trail. One of the few complaints I have about this trek is the people who
14. 44.▲
    by blendergasket 14y ago

    I actually made a pretty good friend out of it.
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    by blendergasket 14y ago

    One thing I like to do is try to start conversations with people who believe very different things than I do. For a while I was doing weekly bible readings with a very interesting group of Christian people (I'm not Christian and have never
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    by blendergasket 14y ago

    I like your analogy of equating going after the seed cleaners with BitTorrent. I'd argue it's way worse than that also because, if my understanding is correct, the seed cleaning is an integral part of the process of reusing the seeds, which
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    by blendergasket 14y ago

    There is a fundamental problem with the way the web is working now. We're in a kind of limbo. Companies like Dropbox and Airbnb (and the company I mostly work with) actually sell a product and as you say they're good. I've been having a har
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    by blendergasket 15y ago

    I was wondering the exact same thing. I'd love to use it for the name of http://impossiblethoughts.com/
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    by blendergasket 15y ago

    France announces crackdown on people not using VPNs/TOR to access extremist websites. In other news a lightbulb went off in the mind of yet another hacker, this time in France, who decided to devote his time to liberating the internet from
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    by blendergasket 15y ago

    I agree. And when people talk about the money required for solar being so much more than the money required for carbon based fuels they don't take into the costs of controlling the resources in the middle east, the costs to take care of the
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    by blendergasket 15y ago

    I ain't gonna lie. I was imagining an iPad's guts being removed and it's husk being filled with whiskey or home made absinthe or something when I first saw this.
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    by blendergasket 15y ago

    I think maybe 3 is a little bit narrow. I agree that it needs something that sets it apart from the giant online tubes where all books come from but it doesn't necessarily have to be as much a specialty, it can be an editorial perspective.
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    by blendergasket 15y ago

    Gestalt.
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    by blendergasket 15y ago

    Anything with semiotic intent constitutes art. Anyone who says otherwise is a terrorist and needs to go die lonely in a ditch.
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    by blendergasket 15y ago

    I agree. I also think (possibly somewhat antagonizing your idea of pacifying merchants) that things like the banking embargo against Wikileaks and the probably inevitable expansion of those kinds of actions against whatever the antagonizer
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    by blendergasket 15y ago

    That sounds straight out of the novel "The Third Policeman". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Policeman
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    by blendergasket 15y ago

    Thanks for the head's up. That's sort of bizarre/interesting/frustrating.
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    by blendergasket 15y ago

    I think of this like horsetails in my Mom's garden. My mom's garden is shot through with horsetails, but it's really all one horsetail connected by a single, massive rhizome. If you pull up one horsetail stem it won't do a thing to the hors
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    by blendergasket 15y ago

    The twitter says they were led away from the main group (likely by people who wanted them arrested) and onto the bridge, which was cordoned off beforehand, where they could be boxed in and justifiably (within the situation that the authorit
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    by blendergasket 15y ago

    I can honestly say this is how I feel commuting on my bicycle. I've always been blessed with beautiful commutes, along the water or across a bridge, and it makes for an excellent way to wake up when going to work and an excellent wedge I co