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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Strangely, these stupid religions had a really successful path of delivering some of the most ideal traits possible. Modern, people despise religions, and feel malicious towards good intentions. But, the post-theist world - knock on wood - really knows not to use nuclear weapons. It’s amazing that these religious nuts became such epic scientists, and the recipients of their awesome powers somehow maintained the insanely creditworthy ability to hang onto integrity despite whatever storm.

    And weirdly, despite the storm being cult-mania mass-suicide level idiocy they were not even pushed over by a handful of demagogues coming to power in the recent right wing push.

    A lot of that stuff is a freakish coincidence in a world that could have delivered it’s own extinction a million times over or more already.

    And there are just as many people earnestly working on removing further blights to humanity - including that of itself and the sins of its development past. Most rational people would have already killed a few million more people a year, but the religious nuts really set up a world that cherishes human life. (Probably a shame they weren’t all more interested in wildlife protection)

    It’s eroding, obviously, as people leave religion. But they did get it to a level that’s been pretty intense considering we live in a world that’s normally an absolute warpath of idiot animals.







  • Living in a conservative country area I notice racists escaping here, and they seek sympathy with local people. They join churches and bring a lot of money, so the locals tend to rally around them with the intention of encouraging them. Older people also hang around yelling at everything wrong in the world, and younger people have to move to follow opportunities. The young families that come back tend to lean pretty far right.

    Then there’s farmers and primary producers that need left leaning people to be ostracized, so that they can exploit whatever resources without environmental oversight. They also tend to encourage the far right atmosphere in local towns.

    The remaining leftists are a minority that tend to cling to one specific town and the most populated city here. But, they even seem compromised when compared to big city leftists. Some appreciate racism, etc.





    • Muscle memory (for activity)
    • Scaffolding (in education)
    • Ableist (on disabilities)
    • Affordances (in design)
    • General education (in developed countries)
    • Digital divide (in tech and education)
    • Training (in professions)
    • Grooming (in professions and wealth)
    • Experience (broad context)
    • Immersion (in cultures)
    • Privilege (on racial divides)
    • Access (in wealth and nation)
    • Infrastructure (in development)
    • Coaching (in skills)
    • Membership (in location and groups)
    • Nepotism (in opportunities)
    • Beauty standards (in cultural opportunities) …


  • Facebook is reported to be using a shadow profile of non-facebook users. Mastodon stated that whenever you interact with a Threads user it will be recorded by Facebook. All they have to do is join a conversation as a lurker, and your data is sent to Facebook. Given a few more points such as time of day and topic they can start to narrow downwho you are. Add your profile picture, and manner of speech an AI, which they have a multitude of, can generate a probability of who is communicating. Over numerous interactions the law of six degrees of separation will have you nailed down. In some countries this is potentially a problem over data retention, but they’ll have lawyers looking night and day for a way around those trifling laws. Willingness to federate might be seen as consent by default in some cases.