THEN they NEED to have ultrasonic sensors, activated at … say … 1/2-metre intervals, because LIDAR may be blind to float-glass that isn’t at a right-angle to it, but SONAR isn’t blind to sheet-glass.

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( the things might harm the hearing of animals, hence the limiting it to a chirp-every-1/2-metre idea: minimize noise-pollution that we are “blind” to, see? )

Want to know what possibility for harvesting a particular element is, from the ocean?

click on it in https://www.mbari.org/know-your-ocean/periodic-table-of-elements-in-the-ocean/

( scroll down a bit )

& see a new page open up, identifying how abundant/not it is, & the top-to-bottom-gradient of it…

Rare-earths may be sufficiently harvestable from the ocean using Metal-Organic-Frameworks, for coastal de-salination plants, or tidal-power-plants, if done at scale…

( which would break national-monopolies, wouldn’t it? )

just don’t bother trying to mine iridium through that method: you’ll never get enough to make it worthwhile.

All the apps using QT, so therefore QT.

Lighter than KDE ( which I used back 'round the turn of the millenium ), & sane.

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It takes generations to dismantle prejudice, of any kind, gender included.

Keep working on it!

Never give up.

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Wrong-criteria.

As the elderly Richard Feynman proved, truth can be saved by geriatrics.

It isn’t age which makes people unfit-for-authority: it is DarkTriad/DarkTetrad { narcissism, machiavellianism, sociopathy-psychopathy, sadism }, & if you WON’T filter-out to prevent psychopaths like Putin & Netanyahu having power, but you pretend that age is what the only filter ought be, then you aren’t competent to decide who’s got the right to have power.

Sorry to be blunt, but humankind’s working-on earning a whole-species-wide DarwinAward, right now, & after the tippingpoint is crossed, it’ll be all-hands contributing to that work.

Which is solving the wrong fucking problem.

& all it’d take is making systems-questions be settled as systems-questions, preventing DarkTriad/DarkTetrad types from having authority-over-others, & getting issues solved outside of political-wrestling’s “dominion”.

Sometimes the oldest around are the wisest people around.

Ignoring that, in order to have an ideologically-convenient oversimplification, doesn’t make humankind more likely to survive this Great Filter century ( the next 6-ish decades decide it ).

You’d remove Bernie Sanders from the US Congress!

Idiocy.

Solving the wrong problem.

Sorry to be blunt, but the more people won’t right-frame this, the more percentage of humankind who dies, in the next 6 decades of wars.

& that isn’t OK.

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PS: part of the problem is the ideological-position, that conforming-with-opinion is the only valid option, & the alternative is being-against…

whereas in Science, diversity-of-perpsective is how we outsmart ignorance, & how we win.

That objectivity, that taking-multiple-perspectives, has to be IN our culture, for us to win.

Otherwise, it’s only this-conforming against that-conforming, ideology vs ideology, & that’s just herdbeast-herds-butting-heads-with-extra-steps.

Externalizing issues, de-politicizing them, so that people can SEE that losing-food-security-produces-migrations-and-wars, & it has nothing whatsoever to do with being “woke” or not: it’s a SYSTMS question…

that kind of thing’s required, too, but no discussion-forum is coded to provide the required-means, so … that potential dies, the way we’re doing things.

Too bad, it’d have been nice to be more-viable, but if it “can’t be afforded”, then Status Quo will have to be our epitaph, right?

< shruggeth >

Sociopolitical-strongarming prefers emotionally-loaded “debate”, whereas issues are things that just are, even when we’re ignoring them, & that requires a totally-different method-for-mitigating-the-problems-living-in-them.

Without sociopolitical-strongarming. & making that the proper place for issues to be seen/discussed, so that there’d be none of the “just keep in your head the context & the principles, & fight over whatever it is that you’re currently-remembering” … instead it’s all caused to be more rational.

That is a whole-society problem, though: countries which could have been saved by such a change, die, groups too, regions too…

It’s the same principle that Stephen R. Covey identified, decades ago, when he pointed it out that the lowest-3%-in-effectiveness didn’t externalize their goals, but the top-1% all of them did.

Countries need to externalize the issues, in issue-diagrams, instances need to do the same, industries, projects, communities, regions, etc, as a standard method for de-toxifying things & making the problem and not the politics be what people are concentrating into correcting.

Whatever…

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You can manage, or control, whichever, your-own territory: you can’t control other people’s/factions’ territories.

Fact of life.

It isn’t that anybody “can” make the internet safe, or healthy, rather, it is that we have to make good internet successfully compete in the ecology, & therefore remain viable when the DarkTetrad motivations { narcissism, machiavellianism, sociopathy-psychopathy, sadism } are trying to gut/murder good from the world.

Natural Selection! Successfully compete, & remain in the ecology!

Simple as that.

( PS: reading Logan, King, & Dr. Fischer-Wright’s book “Tribal Leadership” would be competence-growing, as it’s on the 5 culture/process levels, from gang/mass-shooter’s competitive-nihilism CultureLevel1 to “LIVING IS SELF-INHERENTLY AWESOME!!” CultureLevel5. They incorrectly call them “stages”, but caterpillar->moth is stages, these usually revert to CultureLevel2, subject-to-narcissism culture…

Here’s the book itself: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/tribal-leadership-revised-edition

& here’s the TED Talk with the oversimplified intro to that work: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_tribal_leadership

IF the people managing or leading communities were all competent in those levels, & their natures & functions, THEN it’d be easier to de-toxify our portion of the world. )

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I’m seeing that people aren’t having a good objective framework for judging evil, so here’s my dimensions-of-evil, including the stuff in DarkTriad & DarkTetrad:

• narcissism
• machiavellianism
• sociopathy/psychopathy ( to this point is DarkTriad )
• sadism ( to this point is DarkTetrad )
• nihilism
• displacing objectivity
• displacing correct-reasoning
• displacing evolution/growing from a life, or from lives
• displacing autonomy with puppetry/authority

The more dimensions of evil, the worse.

The stronger on any dimension, the worse.

More-dimensions is more worse than stronger-in-a-single-dimension, though.

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There’s a difference, now, though:

Humankind’s doing its “mitosis” thing.

Humankind is dividing-by-alignment.

That only happens 1x per world, ttbomk.

( after the original Industrial Revolution, the Roman Empire, then the “seedling” that that was, in our world eventually grew into a “sapling”, the official Industrial Revolutions-sequence…

then, as population reaches ecological-saturation & technology simultaneously reaches world-breaking power, ClimatePunctuation kicks-in…

etc

all eventually enforce The Great Filter.

& in that Great Filter, alignment polarizes.

Anti-Life polarization & With-Life polarization.

Every world of people-similar-to-our-kind would have to go through it, same as “puberty”, but for whole-species )

As the process progresses, the polarization is going to become more & more extreme.

So, until now we’ve been mixtures, every individual ( with few exceptions ), but … that’s going to be changing, until there’s zero mixture left, & everybody ( near the end of this century ) is absolutely-polarized, 1 way or the other.

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Ego.

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1. they must be competent photographers, some are not.

2. they must be competent people people, some are not.

3. they must be competent story of the wedding capturers, many are not.

4. you need to see in their work that they are these things, &

5. you need to see in the way they work with people that they are these things.

That I know-of, these are all required-points.

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Legally VP8 is beginning to look like the go-to format for video…

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I believe the error was in the AV1 license NOT having a “if you enforce patent-license-fees on this codec, THEN you can’t use this codec” type of coercion…

( I may have got the logic wrong, but there’s some kind of license that works that way, which other open codecs have used, apparently )

Just ignoring that predators exist … provides NO protection from them.

You have to make your license-agreement break abusers, … or you’re just helping them.

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That is simply part of humankind’s moral “mitosis” process.

It’s natural.

It should always happen to a world when that world’s people have simultaneously saturated the ecologies with their people AND have developed technology which nature can’t manage.

Humankind’s “mitosis” produces 2 distinct populations which are mutually-exclusive.

& then they deathmatch for owning of the world.

That’s the rest of this century, obviously.

The christofascists, the zionists, the islamists, the “buddhists” who genocide people, the hindutva equivalents… the fundamentalist-anti-theists who “NEED” to break the world to their totalitarian supremacism…

vs the LivingSpirit loyal, of all stripes.

Gonna be “interesting”, seeing if destroyer-rage has enough advantage to break the LivingSpirit loyal ones, & exterminate humankind…

Should be a close fight!

The “patient”, ie the world, is right on the knife-edge of having the ability to survive the sickness/cancer/infection/injury.

Why would it be surprising that people are pulling more toward the 2 poles, the 2 extremes, the 2 pure natures, pure-evil & pure-good, when that’s what people have wanted, deep-down, all along?

We’re making this happen, our unconscious-mind is!

It has to: that’s been its whole thing, for millenia.

It gets to manufacture its “apocalypse” now: “we have the technology”, & all that…

So, it’s happening.

Now.

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1. have different “houses” to represent different dimensions of the country ( by-population, by-area, nature-&-future-generations, economy-as-a-whole )

2. limit each level’s “house” to 144-ish representatives, to suppress auto-factionalism ( which begins around 150-people )

3. people vote on approval-basis only: these are OK, the not-checked are not, & then use simple approved-by-most-people to choose the winners.

4. prevent DarkTriad/DarkTetrad types { narcissism, machiavellianism, sociopathy-psychopathy, sadism } from being eligible for any election.

5. Judiciary, AND JOURNALISM, are required to be standards-based, objective, correct-reasoning, not-for-profit, & holding-to-actuality. Without honest accountability, we’ve got “civilization”-feudalism, NOT Civilization.

6. Issue-diagram forums, NO LOBBYING/bribery. NONE. ISSUES decide everything. That means that ALL debates happen in asynchronous issue-diagrams, NOT in most-alpha-personality-“wins”, TV-debates bullshit.

7. All draft-legislation needs to be done in issue-diagrams, letting anyone in the world ( real-person, or useful-insight, not mere astroturfing-by-ideologies or corporate “persons” ) help us get the points right: draft-for-1/4-year before being elegible for signing-into-law, with few exceptions ( emergencies actually do happen )

8. no enemy-agent can have citizenship, no incompetent-in-the-issue can vote in that issue ( same as you don’t allow passengers to decide the flying of the airliner: only the pilots are permitted that, same with ecologies, same with regulation, etc: if you aren’t domain-competent, you may participate in the discussions if you’re doing-so responsibly, but only domain-competent people VOTE in the domain ), & we actively devlop/provide automatic education to get as many people as completely domain-competent in all areas as possible.

9. critical-reasoning is required for full voting citizenship, & education-systems which won’t produce it are fraud, & have to be treated as such. Yes, it’s true, that high-lead regions may have enough IQ-deficit as to have a lower critical-reasoning capacity for that reason, but CORRECT THE PROBLEM, & unbreak as many lives as you can! The “education” which pushes imprint->reacting, or abdication-to-LLM, MUST be put in its place, disempowered, while putting proper development-of-human-intelligence as free as possible, as pervasively-available as possible, & as central as possible, for our civilization to remain viable, especially in ClimatePunctuation which is still in its accelerating-stage.

10. Enforcing-disinformation is criminalized. Troll-farms, for-profit-propaganda, ideological-propaganda, institutional-dishonesty, ALL of it. Accuracy, objectivity, testability, correct-reasoning, etc, are the strength-of-the-“beam” on-which civilization sits: we allow that to fail, & we don’t deserve to live through The Great Filter. Spine/uprightness is required in the individual, & it is required in the civilization, too.

Item 2 requires that the levels-of-government change as appropriate to the total-population, so extra-levels may have to be inserted, if the population expands enough, & the chain-of-representation was getting too deformed.

I don’t yet know how many each representative would have to be limited-to, to make it still properly responsible.

This is just a top-of-my-head sketch, not a fully-worked-to-correctness rendition, so it’s probably missing a few key things, & it’s probably sloppily-worded.

But it communicates the gist of it, which is good-enough for considering.

Responsibility-archy is the point.

Nothing else is strategically-viable: we’re deadmeat unless we enact/enforce responsibilityarchy for enough of humankind. At the whole-species level: gone.

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Oh, gratitude to that yt video which identified the different voting-systems, & the flaws with each, eventually concluding that the only one which mathematically could work right was the approval-voting system.

I’d never have clued-in to that, on my own.

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This is the best contribution, but it doesn’t explain some of the principles…

for the same mission surface will be less-costly than air.

Within shipping, displacement-mode boats ( slowest moving-through-water regime ) will be least-costly ecologically, & then hydrofoils, then other speedboats ( which have to push their hulls through the water, unlike hydrofoils, which lift them out-of-the-way of the water )…

Within air, prop planes are least-costly, turbofans at the costly end, helicopters higher than that…

but the question requires one to consider the mission, too:

For moving donated-organs, air’s absolutely cheaper than surface, if surface means losing the donated-organs, right?

Mission is the basis for solving costs, see?

Casual-touring, well then surface makes much more sense…

Some want to eradicate air-travel, or at-lease all fuel-based air-travel, but that’d break some dimensions of the economy…

( no more quick emergency-response to hurricane-wrecked islands, for 1 thing )

Oh, & electric aircraft ( short-haul, nowadays, & I don’t imagine that’ll ever be running cross-pacific flights ) would be MUCH less ecologically-costly than normal turbofans…

In short, surface 1st, if you can spare the time, but if not, then try to do electric aircraft, or prop instead of fan.

Prop is presuming NON-leaded gasoline, but the prop-piston engines usually are leaded ( 100LL, aka low-lead ), unless they are the new generation of diesels…

Leaded gasoline needs to cease. ( Canada has said that in tests manganese-based substitute-for-lead works, but the US rejected that. I trust Canada, on this one. )

The info about prop-planes is only in case any reader of this is thinking about chartering a small aircraft to get somewhere…

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The point is to

1. gain more exploitation-leverage for the big-tech owners of our civilization, while
2. making Linux illegal, because it isn’t locked-proprietary-enforcing-this-regime.

Elegant as can be.

Removal of competition while breaking the population from civilrights, too.

there needs to be an age-verification-ONLY ID, which makes it illegal for age-verifying companies to ask passport-images, or driver’s-license images, etc, so as to break the identity-theft-chain that big-tech’s working at creating, as fast as it can.

The whole thing about making operating systems be the “owners” of the authority, is to make all non-Microsoft/Apple/Google OS’s illegal.

Period.

ID should always be orthogonal.

Healthcard ought never be used for anything else.

There ought be a specific ID card for one’s province/canton/prefecture/state, which provides only the minimum-required information.

Years ago, I discovered that anybody could run a name on the local drivers’-license ID database, & it would provide a picture of said person, which is WRONG.

Secure by design, not when “lucky”.

Every ID ought be purpose-only, locked-down, & illegal to abuse.

( I also hold that it ought be illegal for the “credit rating” companies to protect disinformation, while disallowing the life in-question from fixing it with true information,

AND that legal-address ought be a right, such that even homeless people can have a mailing-address, so as to not be locked-out from the ability to get ID, or to have a cellphone, etc )

Solving the wrong problem, for machiavellian purposes, is all that this is.

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1. it’s entirely-possible that a filesystem-corruption has happened, destroying some settings by bitrot.

2. it is entirely-possible that there is a new bug in the server-instance, after an update ( don’t know if there’s been any update to its OS or to its lemmy-server code )

3. it is entirely-possible that some attack is compromising its function ( statistically it’d happen, sooner or later )

4. There is a fundamental flaw in the reddit system of “organizing” subreddits, & the replication of that flaw throughout the fediverse:

ALL users have to keep wasting time blocking stuff that we’ve already blocked, because there’s no hierarchy-of-communities.

I don’t have any ability to block the entire Gaming category, & then never see anything more in it.

Same with Hentai & Furry porn, same as AstralPath@lemmy.ca mentioned.

EVERYBODY has to keep “putting out fires”, endlessly, because the architecture prevents the right-answer from correcting-the-problem.

I’ve no problem with multi-inheritence hierarchy ( X-Plane ought be in Aviation, and in Simulation, and in Gaming ), but to sabotage the whole fucking world’s effort/resources, forever, to protect non-hierarchy is retarded.

I’d re-structure the fediverse so that some ML worked at sorting-out where every community belonged, & where it was unambiguous, let that stand.

Then people could block categories of stuff, & that’d be done.

I’ve blocked sooo many communities, that I’ve no idea if the ones which I see today were previously-blocked, or whether they’re just ones I hadn’t blocked yet.

but forcing all people to endlessly waste effort on that, when it should be category-by-category unless the person in-question wants finer-granularity control, that’s insanity.

Insanity which has been architected-into the fediverse’s servers.

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Banning it at-home, is 1 thing, but banning it while abroad & in hostile-regimes, would be idiocy: at the home-end, record the whole interaction, & make that part of official-record.

But make it impossible for the hostile-regime to get anything from either the in-their-country device, or the encrypted stream which they can’t crack.

the fact that corruption wants nonaccountability is 1 valid concern.

but the fact that hostile-regimes exist, & we’re in economic-meshing with them, means that we need to be able to have officials in those countries.

Which makes the requirement for communications which the hostile-regime can’t crack real.

Oversimplificaiton is incompetent “management”.

Don’t solve the wrong problem, & pretend that you aren’t responsible for the authority you mis-wielded.

That they were having a non-accountable-within-the-EU group on Signal, that IS AN ACTUAL PROBLEM, but there are use-cases for Signal to be needed, if done properly.

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Universe’s recycling of ALL energies ( including meaning ) contained within it is rigged: the only way to opt-out is to evolve one’s way out: force-dissolving one’s soul-ignorance/soul-ignosis…

Please read the brilliant Huston Smith book “World Religions”, the Hindu, & Buddhist chapters, & also the Primal Religions chapter, for an angle that Western-educated minds never would have thought-of…

Just for interesting-perspective, is all…

It’s a wonderful book: real mental exercise!

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