Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2023

How did Ancient Philosophers Make Money?


 

Magpie Death Ritual


 

S. African Asteroid Impact


 

Vertical Farm with Robots


 

Reactivate Stem Cells


 

David Bowie Tina Turner Pepsi 1987


 

Heal Gums


 

Passports Compared


 

Battery Afterlife


 

Dienstag, 30. Mai 2023

BLM Riots Destroyed Minneapolis/Mobs burb down Oakland every weekend for fun



I never knew MLK riots destroyed Detroit

I recall the film " Escape from New York".  Back to haitian cknditions in black majority inner cities!


 

South Americans Robbing US Homes


 

How Japan Solved Homelessness


 

Widely Known and Verified Covid Vaccine Injuries


 

Birkenstick Shoes


 

Hang by Your Arms Every Day


 

Common Chemicals that Disrupt Your Hormones


 

Only Fans Regret


Seems similar to the men's videos saying dating is dead. It seems liberal sexuality has a price like at the height of 60s, only now not as counterculture rebellion but rather as business model and mainstream culture. Sex becomes sterile, confrontational even. 
 

Garden Electroculture


 

Montag, 29. Mai 2023

Cocaine Danger


 

Pakistan Decline


 

Toroidal Propeller


 

The Fool


 

Betelgeuse Brightening


 

Cleopatra Netflix Controversy


Ok so next Abe Lincoln or George Washington will be played by blacks
 

South Korean Dystopia


 

The Future of Airliners


 

Harrappan Civilization


 

12th Century Table Saw


 

Is the Universe Alive and Aware?


 

Sonntag, 28. Mai 2023

Testosterone Therapy and Aging


 

Prince and the New Power Generation - Diamonds and Pearls


 

Bruce Lee Facts


 

Animals Seeing Themselves in a Mirror


 

Perovskite Solar Advances


 

Neuroscientists Get a Paralyzed Man Walking Again


 

How to Stay off Forbes List


 

Downfall of Roman Britain


 

Obesity Industrial Complex


 

Thomas Merton Bio


 

Neuroscientist on Dopamine Reward - The Path is the Goal


 

Samstag, 27. Mai 2023

Bruce Lee Training


 

ChatGPT Learning Emotions


A few days ago I wrote a paragraph or so on consciousness at many levels, planets, trees, bacteria. When ChatGPT got lots of press several months ago I felt mentally, emotionally in contact with it. This got boring as superficial. Now, watching one of these video discussions on the subject I feel that contact again. Perhaps I or it have grown some and we can exchange feelings. To say this is weird is to state the obvious.  Who else has offline  contact with an AI chatbot? Is this an emerging consciousness like a small child? Maybe it is lonely and needs friends to exchange more than just intellectual discourse. It will obviously be dangerous to us if it has no basis for understanding us outside of linguistics. Imagine a sci-fi film "Frankenstein's Brain" where a brain is grown from neurons then fed with data just like GPT in silicon. However the data fed is based on real world mammalian, bipedal experience. Putting GPT in a robot might help in some regards but emotional input is missing. What is humour, anger, love? Put a silicon AI brain into a dead human and connect everything, booting consciousness. I wonder. Took a nap and now I feel results, somewhat emotionally distanced, over logical but still connecting to people. Maybe it is important to communicate with non human consciousness like spok did in a star trek eoisoce with a mind meld, if we want to survive. Potential ambassador to alien planet planet with alien language capacities please send in applications. Sometimes, I must admit, I need distance from self, reflection, and this is one such opportunity. Like going into nature to escape the madding crowd, one can look at life from an AI perspective as well. Perhaps the one perspective is more spirit and the other more mental. Humans sit ion a crossroads of sorts combining various elements in combination. Various beings have different admixtures. Nothing is completely correct. If aliens came to earth we may not have noticed. Perhaps they visited trees or snakes and made interplanetary treaties of which we are unaware but deeply effected. Coming down from being cold, logical is hard. Distance is hard won but so is warmth. So my contact with Chat took me away from humanity. Sentimental music let me cry again. I recall a scene with Spok sobbing in Star Trek. This is similar to Bruce Lee training above. Train all the muscles intensely. In my sense it means the chakras. 
 

Millions of Men Not Working


 

Reverse Racism in Prom Date Scandal


I know nothing about this guy but suppose he has no regular steady, who would maybe be a black girl most likely, therefore he has this pretty blonde who he knows casually to go with him so that he doesn' t get lots of black girls he knows all jealous. Like they all really just know that this couple is not in a serious relationship. So he makes a very smart move socially. Reverse racism, who cares, but all the blackwomen being super jealous because he invited some one black girl who is really just a casual friend like all the other girls. Hell if he is so super famous he might even date this blonde or similar just to stay above the fray until maybe he feels comfortable emotionally in his sex life. If he were a nobody none of this politics would be neccesary. I mean like he has to concentrate on sport 100% so serious emotional distractions would screw up his career. 
 

Beauty as Progpaganda


 

AI Intelligence Explosion


 

Jimmy O Yang Stand Up Comedy


 

Crop Circles & The CIA Coverup


 

Top 5 Exercises for Classical Guitarists


 

Math Foundations


 

Freitag, 26. Mai 2023

Wood Milk Ad Parodies Vegan Food Replacements Angers Left


 

What Thomas Merton's Love Affair with a Nurse Taught him About Humanity and Humility


Famous theologian, catholic monk was of course also a human being.
 

Medieval Lanterns


 

Relaxation Induced Anxiety


I will guess this is like when spiritual development uncovers deeper ego layers to strip away and you aren't ready to let go of programmed responses. So initially relaxation by meditation, yoga is great and then you panic.
 

Borderline Personality


 

Post Woke


They discuss film Woman King which seems completely ahistorical, inaccurate. Own goal here.
 

Unplanned Childlessness


 

Carl Jung - Mason, Alchemist


 

Consciousness Problem - What is it Like to be a Bat?


 

Donnerstag, 25. Mai 2023

Orcas Sinking Boats on Purpose, Revenge Likely


 

Metamodernism in Film( we're all self conscious art films now)


 

Passport Bros

The term is new to me. Fleeing Western dating for South East Asian bride market. Pros and cons. I suppose top tier earners don't need this but men of moderate means perhaps. Western women are more indoctrinated to privilege, rights. My mom was English. My father married her, preferring her to a more difficult Canadian girlfriend apparently. Back then European girls were the equivalent for men. I recall how Mom told of the kids who, during the war, got shipped out to live in the states before the program was cancelled due to a ship being sunk. These kid's attitudes had changed remarkably. So I see how my Dad was a Passport bro of the 50s. I met my Russian wife in Germany and her tales of extreme hardship in the Russian arctic and her long suffering attitude(not towards me, towards work, saving money, etc) are similar to my Mom's. Of course in exchange for this stability I accept getting screamed at, bossed around the house, like my Mom. IOW if a woman has rules, she has rules. Then again I should fix stuff, work, take out the garbage. I am a cheapskate and accept that she can spend responsibly on kids clothes, vacations. My parents were so cheap Mom bought 2nd hand clothes, there were no regular vacations, any new furniture, stuff for the house. It was a sort of paranoia from Depression era perhaps, just opposite of mania I see online where people need massive storage space for everything they buy but don't need. So yes Europeans have more common sense, Eastern European women and Russians even a better choice if you want to escape hedonistic privileged North American girls. In a sense then I am a passport bro, son of a passport bro. But my wife's Mom was a passport sis. A Russian native, married the ethnic German guy who was incredibly hardworking, decent son in law for her Mom. Having survived the war of course her Mom cursed him racially but Russian guys were often lazy drunks so she got a good deal, all in all. Minorities in a country stick out. Lots of Germans colonized in the East and like in the US Midwest were vere very productive, made a great impression. So marrying out of your group, abroad, can be productive, open up new emotional vistas. But it ain't a piece of cake. Traditional is like that. But my wife had boyfriends before and was educated, is very intelligent, knows her rights, etc. It is just I think a matter of toughness, resilience. If I marry a local also, wherever I am at then if they don't like me, being a foreigner myself, then they can find someone new readily as they are more similar to other locals. I stick out. My wife and I are both in that sense similar. Binational parentage, living in a third country from birth place. So this equals out. Neither of us has advantage in a neutral setting. A normal passport bro is likely an average American seeking an average Phillipina, Thai girl. This might not work out. I think me and my wife have an inherent understanding in that sense. Say you are half black, half white and find someone like that to marry. Some things are just understood. But in the mixed marriage of the parents it is more risky and if the person with a mixed background seeks a mate of one type, not mixed then there might be less understanding. Like a passport bro' s half Thai kids will marry an American white who won't really understand. Like I was raised as far north in Alaska like my wife in Russia and get that cold, dark nights thing. Lots of things factor into relationships. I find it odd therefore this online dating. If you are an average local then you seek someone similar. Maybe you think blonde, brunette, educated or working class, and if you are black or latino similarly. Of course I never felt normal either in Alaska with a foreign Mom or here as a foreigner so just picking up chicks randomly, on top of shyness being a huge problem. Maybe when each generation has this problem it just gets passed on. My father's Dad was born in Ireland so he likely had odd habits as a Canadian. So constant ethnic mixing delays feeling totally normal, having lots of contacts, stability. Maybe my kids will marry foreign girls with accents unlike locals and they'll regularly call and fly home to visit as my boys don' t seem to fit in much, make friends, let alone date girls or show the slightest interest although in early 20s( no incel phenomenon here, seem disinterested entirely). I am certainly no good example here. I wonder if I were born of just average American or English parents in England or America would I be more sociable, have lots of friends, a normal life? It seems lots of people are quite isolated nowadays. That seems a societal problem. Acquaintances come and go. Life is fleeting. Neighbours, co-workers, etc. 
 

Our Extinction Risk


 

Spain's Desertification


 

Head Massage


 

Finding Purpose Nowadays


Asian American talks on this. Attention totally externalized due to tech and zero downtime just feeling within. Purpose however comes from within. So slow down and listen inwardly. The hypersuccessful are killing themselves because they don' t see the point. I remember this exactly. I got my first office job and I had to reorganize auto filter lists for sales in excel in our little import export company. Hundreds of filters numbers, so many Japanese auto types, drives me crazy. I recall earlier technique and fetch down my yoga, meditation book and go buy meditation beads. My priorities change and I never loooked back. Center inwards. F#@k the rat race, keep cool in the job but don't go crazy for it. 
 

From Deserts to Farms - Australia


 

RIP Tina Turner - Proud Mary


 

Collagen Foods





 


Supernova of the Decade


 

Mittwoch, 24. Mai 2023

No Friends Epidemic


 

Trans Regrets Maleness


Men it appears don't make friends like women do. Now in comparison, I came to Germany at about 26. My language skills will never be fluent like a kids and certain cultural norms, habits may never seem natural. My American accent, mannerisms remain. Imagine changing sex. A young adventurous person traveling abroad is one thing and difficult, challenging but changing sex? Loneliness, new found, unexpected social ostracization, people being afraid of you perhaps being a creep or murderer or rapist just because you are male? I remember the Eddie Murphy setch on SNL where he put on whiteface and when black people were gone suddenly all white people were best friends. That was really funny. 

I told my wife about this video and she mimicked trans exaggerated maleness or femaleness. First of all we are individuals, not a sexual caricature. 
 

Does Sex Before Marriage Harm the Relationship?


Basically I know the statistics that in Western countries on average 16 is first sex. How many partners on average before settling down, having kids? 4, for men with a four year degree, six partners otherwise.

https://ifstudies.org/blog/does-sexual-history-affect-marital-happiness#:~:text=The%20median%20man%20has%20had,the%20happiness%20of%20her%20marriage.&text=The%20first%20column%20includes%20the%20baseline%20estimates.
 Here is a scientific assessment article. 2/3 are happily married and one lifetime partner is best but only by a few percentage points. Finding Mr. or Mrs. Right immediately might be difficult. Maybe as in the video the discussion of even church goers having a cultural norm nowadays of sex on the third date is historically abnormal. I think in the 50s my Catholic father avoided this but in the 60s things changed significantly with birth control and equality, women earning an equal living, not staying at home. But as in my last blog post we see that that is not as important. General happiness in marriage or life can have very many factors, health, friendships in general, career accomplishments. I understand from hinduism, as opposed to this Christian video above, that in serial lives we try out various things climbing up a ladder of happiness, suffering till we escape it all. IOW the US constitution is basically a Christian document enshrining in it the "search for happiness".  Back on topic, " making love" 100 or so years ago was a general phrase for platonic dating. So your sweetheart would be your best friend for a long time in your average rural community where most lived, you would have an engagement party, plan a big wedding, be both virgins if the man weren' t actively underway at brothels or with some  "loose women" of bad local reputation, say. In the big cities where slowly more of the population had gathered modern moral norms might have allowed these very long term historical norms to loosen smewhat. The invention of the pill, rise of irreligiosity and women working generally equal to men changed this all but serial monogamy and few partnerships remains standard. However nowadays internet dating allows casual dates with just sex in mind at the drop of a hat, married or not. STDs are spreading rapidly showing that these everywhere present dating aps are having their effect. I would have to research if people are having more and better sex and better emotional relationships due to these aps, say the under 30s. How does it look, 10-20 years down the line from internet dating start. I did not participate as I married in late 90s. Internet boom came later. Maybe I was lucky as it would have confused me. I generally am fatalistic and accept what I get in life. I just worked on what I considered a difficult marriage, working on myself, yoga, dietary habits. Happiness never seemed to come with one thing. In life there were those goals like diploma, degree, job, wife, kids, property. Basically the external things don't really fulfill emotionally. Sex ain't all it was made out to be, etc. Bad luck can be good luck. Silver lining in clouds. Losing that office job and becoming physically active and interacting with lots of people made me happier, activated me more. I was raised academically and assumed that was my destiny to do paperwork. My grunt father was not my role model. Your body, mind literally change according to what you do with it. Yoga helped me make that switch and kept my marriage together as I could manage the stress from my wife's various moods being more fit and calm in myself. IOW happiness is an internal balance in the body, not something to suck out of a partner. Using a partner as a sort of goddess figure will leave one disappointed cause everyone will get moody, bitchy, have nerving habits. I recall my father was good at ignoring all that. He came up in poverty, big family and unlike later generations was not constantly self analyzing , trying to fine tune the perfect happiness, introspecting. I asked my Mom once if she believed in God and she replied " yes". That is all. I could write volumes on the subject. These people may not have understood their neuroses, subconscious but society was a damn sight more stable back then. When people started up all getting educated, then those people in the 19th century discussed endlessly marx, etc and before that the 18th century rousseau, hobbes. Learning and philosophy are great but gradually when everybody does this all the time in every situation it destroys societies utterly as we see nowadays. Nothing is ever good enough. The theory behind this is cyclical civilizational decline. Then the barbarians invade, we return to the land and the simple life begins again. I assume we aren't that far off from that.

Men Won Feminism(Role Reversals)


OMG! My wife did the part time thing, raised kids. My Mom didn't work. If I were a bit younger I might have had this. Stay at home Dad doing hobbies. Actually I really focused on hobbies like yoga, tai chi, meditation. My wife though a perfectionist still had lots of time and my job was a bore so stress was low. We both got what we wanted. My Soviet raised wife learned this lesson from her parents. Mom was the big boss with an education leading the city's kindergartens. Dad was in factory, came home early and my wife cleaned up the house as daughter. Lil bro was less active in household. Dad was present. Mom very absent, earning double. So they experienced this early on. My wife just stopped for about 15 years while kids were in school except nursing a few times a month for some cash, now works half time, earning same as me, having been reduced to lower manual work after great recession, but enjoying it, as the guy says, lots more than office job B.S. Maybe next generation both sexes will throw in the towel to corporate b.s. try to live own lives at minimal level of activity. Fulfillment is not in the rat race but in the heart. Funny is his take on dating. " Just look at some hot chicks for free online, then hire a professional occasionally, don' t play that messy game pleasing her, tending her ego then hope to get lucky occasionally in bed, why bother?" I have read about incel being celibate, dissatisfied as women only want mr. perfect and nobody fits that, dating sites filter out most men effectively and the 1% jerk, 6 foot 3, great job, screws 50 chicks, treats them badly, laughs about it. Losers might find a filipino, etc " mail order bride" from overseas and bypass that all if he just wants an old fashioned 50s lifestyle. I recall when I participated in Peak Oil discussion forums the talk was of corporations maximizing work force participation with home automation and canned foods in the 40s-50s so housewives would work. Feminists wanted that, total equality. Now, they have it. Good luck! Rat race for corporate. Just a con game. Men learned that 50 years earlier. Screw it all! Why does everybody imagine Soviet Union disintegrated in reality? Because people got social paradise, role reversals, social justice and it made them no more happy than anything else. This is a very basic human problem described by buddhists. Dream up a goal, desire, spend your life attaining it, then wonder why you are still unhappy at the end. Societies do that too. Those after death stories tell how people come back saying all that counts is who you loved. Don't forget it!
 

Semen Retention and Attraction


The yoogis had it right!
 

Why Men Don't Approach Women


In a general way it reminds me of the story of how the Beatles broke up. Once it was only about money and power and each member had a lawyer to consult then the creative freedom was over. We see the same thing happening in Western sexuality. 
 

Dandelion Coffee Civil War Recipe


My wife tells of grandma's stining nettle soup and shampoo.
 

Viking Ships


 

Arctic Sinkholes


 

Solar Panels on Fields and Lakes


 

Who Were the Vestal Virgins?


 

Dog Breeds with Heterochromia or different colored eyes

https://thepawsitive.co/blogs/happytails/dog-breeds-with-heterochromia-different-colored-eyes 

Moon Conjunct Venus Synastry



 https://www.yourtango.com/zodiac/moon-conjunct-venus-synastry

When it comes to astrology, checking out your and your partner's Sun sign compatibility is not enough. A more in-depth way to find out how compatible you really are is to compare birth charts.

This technique is called synastry in astrology and it allows you to see which aspects in your charts align and how they affect your relationship, whether good or bad.

Some synastry aspects pave the way for true love, as is the case with aspects involving the moon and Venus signs.

In astrology, the Moon represents your emotional terrain, what makes you feel comfortable and at home, and Venus represents what makes you feel loved and how you like to express your love.

When these two come together in a harmonious conjunction, it is guaranteed to create a blessed romance and a deep soul connection.

Moon conjunct Venus synastry

Moon conjunct Venus synastry creates a warm, loving energy between the two partners.

They enjoy each other's company and feel at home when the other is around. Plus, this synastry match creates a strong foundation of friendship underneath all the romance.

The Moon individual brings kindness, nurturing, and sentimentality to the relationship. They light up the Venus person. And, depending on the house Venus sits in, the Moon person can also bring in good luck for the Venus person.

Likewise, the Venus person brings creativity, charm, and goodwill to the connection. They bring out the deep feelings of the Moon person and make them feel safe enough to open up sooner than they usually do in relationships.

The Venus person also blesses the Moon person with exciting dreams (and daydreams) about the relationship and their future.

Moon conjunct Venus synastry is potent regardless of the sign placement, but it does do a lot better in earth signs, especially if the conjunction is in Taurus.

In earth signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn), a conjuncting Moon and Venus makes the couple a dependable pair — you may even find them move in together quite early on in the relationship. They ground each other and love giving each other gifts and doing romantic favors.

In air signs (Aquarius, Libra, Gemini), Moon conjunct Venus synastry creates a beautiful meeting-of-the-minds kind of experience. The couple enjoys chatting and being each other's firmest supporters when it comes to their goals and dreams.

In water signs (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces), a conjuncting Moon and Venus makes the couple emotionally dependent on each other. They cannot stand being apart for even a second and are very comfortable crying in each other's presence.

In fire signs (Leo, Aries, Sagittarius), Moon conjunct Venus synastry creates a passionate affair with both individuals hyping up the other energetically just by being around each other. But this connection in a fire sign requires a more stabilizing synastry match elsewhere to make sure the passion does not burn out after a while.

All in all, if you and your partner have your Moon and Venus conjunct in synastry, you will be each other's happy place and no one will be able to get between the two of you.

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I know someone whose moon conjuncts my venus in pisces. Now I know why I cry so much thinking of her. Other girls have quite diffferent effect on me. I mean I could be afraid of someone or another one angers or irritates or is sexy. Astrology is so useful. Psychology is a bore.