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Priya Parker's book, right near the beginning, identifies how the court, itself, its configuration, its process, is rigged to reduce its social-value,

& that a specific court tried altering the setup, & got wonderful results..

Here's her TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/priya_parker_how_to_come_together_in_a_meaningful_way

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This looks like a Divide & Conquer tactic?

Keep the due-process out of it, & let personal-politics/manipulation decide a much greater percentage of what ends-up being enacted?

NOT above-board looking, that's for certain..

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There is a "convenient" presumption in the article, and in what I'm replying-to:

That audio is uploaded to big-tech, after someone speaks near their phone..

Why TF would they need to do that, if they can cram a "hey google" audio-to-logic routine into mere kilobytes, within their neuro-DSP??

The Active Listening system mentioned in the article needs to:

1. have the onboard ai listen for voices,

2. differentiate significant items ( for whatever values of "significance" they want to manipulate )

3. upload .. what, a YAML file, .. of spoken keywords, & maybe an identification of if it was the owner or not who spoke them?

Something like that..

4. NOT react to vocal bots, or other idiocy ( a recording repeating something endlessly ought be immediately-ignored, as .. from the Active Listening manipulation-system's perspective .. mere jamming )

The "we aren't seeing audio being uploaded" is a fucking red-herring, & any competent geek nowadays, who understands that the neuro-DSP chips in our phones can accomplish stupidly capable term-recognition on near-zero code, when in active-sleep ( or whatever that energy-state is called, screen off, but things still running in the background ), and that's all they need.

You know how in Google AdWords you pay for specific keywords?

Guess what: the same system could easily be implimented within that subsystem which says "Sorry, the microphone is turned off", when you say "Hey Google" after turning off the mic..

it's ALWAYS listening, it uses tiny power, & when it matches, then it activates other subsystems..

Selling that ads can be show on phones/tablets that someone recently spoke a keyword for, would be idiot-simple for Google or Apple to impliment, & profitable-as-hell to boot.

IF the "Hey Google" audio prompt can work in a specific energy-configuration of a device, THEN this could too, as it's the same subsystem.

https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeSTT

as an example of something related to what I'm talking about, but not identical..

Remember that personal-computers, and therefore programming were just becoming significant, then..

Programming is labyrinthine..

It was part of the zeitgeist, back then

( so was the cult of impersonal-money, among other people, etc..

There wasn't any "single" zeitgeist,

but rather different cultures each had their own, & coding is nothing, if not labyrinths of logic )

TTBOMK, it isn't just the mass of emissions,

rather one has to convert it all to CO2-equivalent ( the 20-year equivalence for methane is 82.5x as great as it is for CO2, iirc the statistic correctly ),

which makes the methane from livestock MUCH worse than the CO2 from aviation..

BUT .. aviation's emissions are high up in the atmosphere, where they do more harm.

IOW, if one is comparing simple masses/ratios, then one simply isn't seeing accurately.

Same as people who look at the global temperature increase, & assume that that is the total global energy increase, when late in the 1900's suddenly there was an increase in atmospheric kinetic-energy, as recorded in seismographs near the coasts ( of waves pounding the shore ), as recorded in the greater number and violence of hurricanes, etc..

The more I learn, the more complicated real-understanding of the details becomes..

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National Film Board stuff, that is one of the deepest treasure-wells we've got, in Canada..

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Please get the kindle-sample of Woodard's book "American Nations", on the 11 nations inhabiting North America..

then go to the map, near the beginning of the book, showing which counties in the US are owned by which nations, & see that Canada's also covered, generally, by these cultures..

Go taste each of those cultures, uniquely, before deciding you want to live-for-years in any 1 of them.

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The Galloping Gourmet!

( reading this page is hilarious, btw.. : )

Another vote for Kids in the Hall, the sharpest humour I recall from all of TV-era..

Wayne & Schuster.

They were fun!

I'm Vajrayana, but have fond memories of the subreddit: such spiritual focus in living, such I value..

I'd say that it's somewhat relentlessness of practice ( not identical to "consistency", as erratic still produces results, just not as much as consistent, but it is keeping picking-up the practice again that counts most, in the long-term, if you see .. the long-term average has to be positive, see? : )

that matters most..

So, make some practice for yourself, whether daily or weekly, not longer than 1/2-moon intervals is best, moon-ly is 2nd-best, & make it consistent that you breathe-out the damage, the harm ( see Taisha Abelar's "Sweeping Breath" practice for a more-advanced version of this ), & you breathe-in pure clean sunshine, or LivingSpirit, or whatever it is you find makes your Soul whole, see?

One has to let-go, in order to fill-up with new meanings, right? ( that old Zen story about some Westerner going to the Zen-master, to ask lots of questions, the Zen-master poured tea for the guy, & just kept pouring, with the cup overflowing, & finally the guest burst-out "it's full! it can't hold any more!" .. to which the Zen-master replied "as your mind is: you have to empty it out, to pour new stuff in", or something like that )

Another thing which helps me is that now, finally, I'm understanding that one has to differentiate between the-personality/the-person on the 1 hand, vs the Continuum/Soul on the other hand, & one can have unconditional-love for the Continuum/Soul, which did induce lessons/realizations, without being entangled-up with the personality/person, just letting them go, & opposing them, if required ( all the evil-pushers in our world, e.g. )

Here's another item, which took me decades to learn: ritual is required for unconscious mind to work-through its meaning.

A true master-of-inner-yoga doesn't bother with ritual, it's completely unnecessary.

However, someone whose mind is mostly-unconscious ( because life hasn't yet grinded them through 0.6 or more of a century of "education" .. I think 2-Saturn-orbits really is the basic-threshold for maturity, now .. ), then ritual can be a means for getting one's unconscious-mind to be engaging that kind of function, see?

So, e.g. "baptism" is just a ritual that is enacting a symbol-representation of what Souls do, when they immerse themselves in OceanOfAllPhenomena/Universes..

Souls do it, climbing "down Jacob's Ladder", until they experience their fundamental Soul-ignorance, then when they get fed-up with that condition's result, they begin climbing "up Jacob's Ladder", until they "return home", to their Origin, see?

The Christian "Prodigal Son" parable is also about Souls, just centering on an individual one, which climbs down "Jacob's Ladder" & then later, when it turns from "the kingdom without" to "the kingdom within", climbing up it, into inner-realization..

it's all just symbol-representations, metaphors, & once the key is understood, you find that many of them are actually just different cultural-appearances on top of the same root-meaning..

Find the root-meaning you need your unconscious-mind doing, & make a ritual for getting it to engage that meaning, is the point of this bit..

You may find the books of Gottman, on relationships, to be useful in improving your life-process's quality .. you may find the 5 culture-levels identified in "Tribal Leadership", by researchers Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright to get your life up a notch in both spirit & quality, & you may find the book "Immunity to Change", on our unconscious-mind's fighting-off of growing-up, a dysfunction-protection mechanism, & how to convince it to allow the growing-up to happen .. by researchers Kegan & Lahey to give your life leverage..

Each of these I'd require all high-school students to at-least encounter, so as to give their lives better leverage for their own, autonomous, evolution, you know?

I wish you well, & hope that whatever leverage you need, you find..

maybe this is sufficient: LivingSpirit is ALWAYS offering healing-blessings, to ALL lives, see?

The problem isn't that LivingSpirit "isn't offering", rather the problem is that we're blocked-up, we default to locking/blocking our own hearts, & we then can't find healing, when it's being offered to us, endlessly, Universally, all the time..

So, all we really ought do, is simply stop blocking, get honest, & openly accept LivingSpirit's continuously-offered healing, see?

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Bluntly: because we who could be competing against it, aren't doing-so, allowing the parasites & valueless to rule the younger-minds' attention, & therefore evolution.

( in my case the excuse has been un-destroying my health, including enough PTSD that I spent 1/3-decade homeless out in the bush, putting my unconscious together enough that I could then survive living among humans, & since then, working on finishing-the-work.

Soon, soon, I'll be contributing: nearly finished the 42y+ hellwork : )

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He invented MOVEABLE TYPE .. the printing-press was an Asian invention

( block-prints, I believe? )

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