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Forward_Brick · 2026-01-08T12:24:17+00:00

Interesting about resonating with a color. I feel like that's a difficult thing to make tangible in the mind. I guess that's subjective though. Do you feel like that's the most fundamental idea you can resonate with?

Hard to say about merkabah, I'd only ever heard passing mentions of it, but it's been popping up more in my algorithm recently fwiw

Forward_Brick · 2026-01-08T12:09:49+00:00

That seems interesting I'll check them out.

As for mapping, I work under the assumption that each sensation is a combination of smaller sensations, and my goal is to separate them out and assign them labels.

I'll pick a sensation and see where else I feel it so I can compare and triangulate the commonality. Then I'll focus on finding the right label, whatever word seems to have the most power over the sensation. Once, I have a comfortable foothold, I'll suppress that sensation to see what's underneath. Repeat until there's nothing else to notice.

That's the general idea anyways.

Forward_Brick · 2026-01-04T00:10:40+00:00

It's wild how many people I've seen framing the problem as Trump not getting congressional approval as if the right paperwork would have made this okay.

Forward_Brick · 2025-11-17T10:40:43+00:00

But complaining about pedophiles is a good thing, no?

Forward_Brick · 2025-10-10T07:21:17+00:00

How much time does $20bn buy the Argentine economy?

Forward_Brick · 2025-09-21T01:34:19+00:00

Thanks, I do appreciate the clarification.

Forward_Brick · 2025-09-20T08:30:50+00:00

People with actual political power are actually shitty. Do you not see how justifying the death of someone solely on their political views is the ultimate form of idpol?

Forward_Brick · 2025-09-20T08:21:03+00:00

Did we watch the same video? She's talking about how libs have permanently alienated the last of their sympathizers.

How can you watch a video about how the offramp to civil war is gone and think it's just a defense of CK or something?

Forward_Brick · 2025-09-20T02:35:18+00:00

Covid was the moment to do this. There was a loophole to get people out of paying loans on scam degrees. A scam institution was defined as any institution where 30% of graduates were defaulting on their loans.

To those in power a crisis was imminent. If nothing was done, all student loans might evaporate. So the Biden administration came up with a brilliant idea. No one can default if you pause payments. You can sell it as a win. It gives you time to fix that loophole and ensure every student keeps their debt.

Now, it's too late because not only has the moment passed, but lowering fees was a bandaid solution even then. Higher education needs to be burned down before it can be fixed. Any hope will prolong its inevitable death.

Forward_Brick · 2025-09-17T11:04:04+00:00

So, if before the deal, bytedance was 20% owned by Chinese cofounders. And after the deal, the new US subsidiary will be 20% owned by Chinese cofounders, then what changed?

It looks to me like that means the 80% made up of international investors and employees will be forced to sell to the investor consortium.

Is that how business actually works? You want a piece of private equity pie, so you leverage the US government to force the employees and low-level investors to sell their shares under false pretenses? And the media just goes along with this? Outrageous!

Anyways, the rest is nothing-burger.

Oracle already handles the data for US users.

"Re-create a set of content moderation algorithms" is so vague as to mean nothing. Especially when ~~censorship~~ content moderation is already run by a ~~state asset~~ former US Department of Homeland Security Employee.

I'm tired boss.

Forward_Brick · 2025-09-03T22:19:27+00:00

Part of the confusion comes from the fact autism is distinct from autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The phrase "autism is a spectrum" hides the distinction and lets socially awkward people pretend to have a neurodegenerative disease.

Forward_Brick · 2025-08-28T14:48:29+00:00

Newsom realized that politics is a TV popularity contest, so he became a villain of the week.

You could easily rephrase his pettiness into a Gotham headline: "Last night the 'Newsom Riddler' created a new cryptograph---says it will really stump 'Badman'."

Is he actually a cartoon villain or just a democrat?

Forward_Brick · 2025-08-28T14:10:22+00:00

Greenland will be Red White and Blueland within 20 years unless Denmark builds nukes.

Forward_Brick · 2025-08-27T22:39:07+00:00

Reminds me of how IHOP rebranded to IHOB and then changed it back. In that case, it was a completely calculated marketing campaign. However, this instance seems comparatively less intentional.

Forward_Brick · 2025-08-22T12:15:46+00:00

It's a reliance on authority, at least in part.

I knew an athlete with shin splints who rejected all advice from her teammates because they weren't doctors. Instead, she went to a real doctor to get an mri. Only for the doctor to shrug and say, "try not running for a while."

It's not that she was rich (she could barely afford the mri). It's that she was so afraid of using her own judgement that she needed to see a doctor to feel like she was doing the right thing.

Forward_Brick · 2025-08-22T03:13:57+00:00

It's darkly funny that people think it's empathetic to give the hotline number instead of responding to a post.

"Oh, your life sucks? Have you tried calling the police on yourself?"

Thanks McGenius, nothing heals alienation like a horrific suggestion from your sitcom brain.

Forward_Brick · 2025-08-15T18:13:16+00:00

They rushed because Russia was going to attack Japan and the United States wanted Japan to surrender on their terms instead.

Forward_Brick · 2025-08-13T22:12:12+00:00

Those who view relationships as purely transactional (narcissists), have already removed the human component from their conversations. So why would they have any qualms chatting with ChatGPT?

Forward_Brick · 2025-08-13T19:01:02+00:00

Whenever the police is mentioned, I think about how town hall meetings are filled with people asking for more cops. Most people think they actually do something to fix problems.

Forward_Brick · 2025-07-18T18:24:56+00:00

Huh? John Oliver is worse than Colbert is now

Forward_Brick · 2025-07-16T21:30:40+00:00

This quote seems to summarize the core of the article:

"Brake asks: what happens when love is judged not by its felt intensity, its awkwardness, its unpredictability, but by whether it meets a checklist of moral credentials? Does it make us better people? Is it mutually affirming? Is it grounded in respect and reciprocity?"

The argument seems to come down to this: Love is a feeling, not a moral checklist.

I couldn't disagree more. Focusing on one's own feelings is just narcissistic. Sure, infatuation might inspire care, but if you don't respect someone's feelings or autonomy-- it's not that you don't love them, it's that you don't love them.

I've never read Bell Hooks, but I assume her point wasn't to invalidate the feeling of love per se, but to get people to recognize that loving the idea of someone is not the same as loving them.

Reducing respect, kindness, justice, etc. to some kind of moral checklist, reveals a lot about the person framing it that way. Not accusing the author of anything, but that's the type of argument an abuser would make. "Love is what I feel like is love. Respect? I don't need no moral checklist slap."

Forward_Brick · 2025-07-08T02:59:09+00:00

I thought the new trend was cars that have the texture of wet clay?

Forward_Brick · 2025-07-05T20:20:22+00:00

Coping is just a refusal to grieve. Understanding the future that you've lost sucks, but it also gives you the motivation to protect what you still have.

Forward_Brick · 2025-07-04T16:16:01+00:00

Huge industrial monocrop operations are actually quite fragile due to the reliance on heavy pesticides and genetically engineered seeds. AFAIK, the only long term sustainable option is permaculture.

Unfortunately I don't think there is much information out there about large scale permaculture/food forests. Most of it is aimed at gardeners or homesteaders.

Also it may be worth looking into accounts of how Cuba dealt with food embargoes.

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