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I forgot to mention to dyor if supplimenting for health. There have been reports of excessive chaga use causing kidney stones. I've been ok using a few teaspoons per day, a few times per week, during cold and flu season.
I think the lady who got stones had >7tsp/day for several months.
Quebec's geography and cultural heritage make it a much better candidate for secession. I'm surprised anyone really thinks Alberta stands a chance.
Is any of it useful for you
Very much. I can work way more efficiently in most cases. Although I can accomplish more, it doesn't make me work less. I might not be average in this way. As you pointed out, possibly most people prefer to be mindless.
Is it really taunting if the targets are of no significance
I think it is. My view is that these chattel do have significance. If a critical mass were to snap out of their collective illusions, then it would be obvious that they do.
But you're probably right. Most people probably don't pay attention too closely, and are not bothered too much by the rate of technological change. I'm guessing they're more often perterbed, if at all, by the perception of change, driven by grandiose narratives.
Do you expect they'll succeed in their crusade in declaeing consciousness in the newly sprung Super Intelligence?
Perhaps we should debate whether the technological advances of the last two (or three) decades are likely to expand human capabilities or not.
Here is how I think about this, fwiw.
If we say that it does, then we should probably admit too that the other advances you alluded to (transportation, electricity) have expanded human capabilities as well. We probably will get more capable, as a species, than we are now, just as we are probably more capable than we were before. That's the optimistic take.
The pessimistic one is that we have not become more capable, but that we can more easily outsource certain tasks to technology, freeing up time. What previously would have taken a day, a horse and plenty of straw can now be accomplished by in a few hours in a robotaxi. What changed is that the man who previously would have had hours to ruminate on horseback now has free time, free time that might even lead to innovation, creativity or a great new idea. The unfortunate truth about free time that anyone who has ever worked a nine-to-five job has to find out the hard way is that the fourty-eight hours left over at the weekend quickly dwindles to twenty-four, to twelve, and suddenly, the most of your to-do list now has to get carried over to next weekend, because you should probably catch a few extra hours of sleep to make up for a late night or two of unwinding, so that you can get a good start to your week. Potentiality do not necessarily equate to accomplishment.
I am not a pessimist, but I am quite familiar with being apathetic. I get the sense that is how many people of my generation feel. Of course, I would rather have the choice to take a robotaxi rather than a horse (personally, I might prefer the horse, but the choice is what's important here). But the obvious conclusion here is that the pessimist sees younger folk as lazy, apathetic and entitled, probably because that was how their progenitors saw them. I am not saying that you necessarily do. But I think yours and others' arguments on the subject can easily take for granted the feedback mechanism that humans always have had to new advances in technology.
What do you think is the main factor, coupled with new advances in technology, that will determines prosperity for generation z?
I don't disagree with your general point. Man is on an upward trajectory as a species, but that does not take away the frustration of each person's lived experience, nor is it much consolation. Trying to would be little bit like saying to those sailors who are aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln -- don't worry, old chap, things are improving, you just can't see it from over there. Even if objectively that may be the case, my guess would be that it doesn't feel much like it is.
The problems that I can see, and maybe OP can relate, are:
- the dizzying rate of technological change
- the obsession with bad news in the media
- add to that the media's now 24 minute news cycles
- the diminishing quality of the average person's social interactions
- the man behind the curtain has come out in the open and is taunting us
On the last point, it has been clear for so many for so long that lived experiences do not really track with what we are being told is going on. Now, that is true AND more obvious than ever AND it really looks like nobody cares. Business as usual. The curse is in the knowledge of what is happening.
It takes patience knowing what to do and where to go knowing all this. I would start with scripture if you are struggling because these problems are not new, and there's a lot of useful data about how to deal with them in ancient texts, IMO. Getting offline is important, as well. Being present in the community and around like-minded people can just help to put things into perspective. Knowing you are not alone, and sometimes reminding yourself that your needs, by some miracle, are being provided for, and even more than that, as scoresby pointed out, and trying to see that hard times really do bring out the best in people if you are willing to see it.
My wife doesn't eat fish, can't stand the smell, but I love it, so I only get to have it when I'm out or bbqing. Good choices. ;)
Is there any reason pinned posts can be downzapped, but not upzapped?
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Yes, politics aside, he found a peaceful way of expressing himself through song. That in itself makes him redeemable.
If I had a bitaxe, I'd ask for one of these. Maybe @CryptoCloaks would be interested.
Every man should have a tinkering table.
Ps. Decent bookshelf. @denlillaapan take note.
Fair enough. I don't ruminate too much on it.
golden age
Not sure I buy it. The things you mentioned are small conveniences. Owning nothing and being happy, maybe. Most people my age want to own homes, start families. Having a LLM therapist feels like a pretty weak consolation for not being able to realize these dreams.
Maybe I have swigged too heavily on the cool aid.
I don't think you necessarily have. From your perspective you might think I'm entitled for feeling like I deserve more.
things have actually improved from how they were in the early 2000s.
Yes. I agree, though I'm not sure that necessitates future prospects getting any better. We do have bitcoin.
As a model it would explain a lot, which makes it a convincing model. Being convincing doesn't make it true though. If it is a lie, the fact that people are quick to buy into it makes it a good lie, and good lies usually come out of what we want to believe is true. I think like you pointed out. It might be hardwired into us to believe we are always coming out of hard times, and must be strong to rebuild, because--well--it fits with what most people want to believe is true.
Personally, I want to believe it. Look at how particularly disastrous the world that I and other zoomers will inherit. Not to exclude millenials, but I believe they might have been a little more fortunate. On the one hand, it is understandable for the "haves" to want to check-out and abdicate responsibility, rest on their laurels and retire, while those that are more power hungry work to entrench what gains they were able to make in their lives (weak men making hard times?). On the other hand, what is @denlillaapan known to say....I don't agree with him fully, because if I were in the boomers' position, I would glad to rest on my laurels. I would also be glad to never retire, because I like what I do, but I am pretty sure that whatever I did, there would be people that want to criticise me.
All of that's to say that I think these cycles are constantly in motion. In prior times, there might have been more semblance of a general trend that indicates which point it was, but now, everything is way too fragmented. I blame the media by which we get our information about the world.
i don't think so. i know lots of casual enjoyers who apprecoate the taste that can control themselves. i am talking about a disease.
I hadn't heard any issues pertaining to sexism.
I was misremembering Emily Wilson's commentary, in which she seems to say it is too sexist.
The supplier isn't interested in accepting bitcoin.