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University debate, "Were humans built to eat meat?", same two chairs, same clock.
Vegan: "Anatomically we're closer to the gorilla than the lion. Flat molars, long gut. A gentle plant-eater with delusions."
Paleoanthropologist: "Then explain the acid."
Vegan: "Which acid?"
Paleoanthropologist: "Your stomach runs at a pH of about 1.5. A lion's sits nearer 3.6. Yours is stronger than the animal you've just been contrasted with, by a factor of about a hundred."
Vegan: "Stomach acid digests food."
Paleoanthropologist: "A cow's rumen sits at about 6.5. That's a compost heap with a pulse. Yours strips the zinc off a coin. Why would a gentle plant-eater carry that?"
Vegan: "Protection."
Paleoanthropologist: "From what? Lettuce doesn't fight back."
Vegan: "Bacteria."
Paleoanthropologist: "Which bacteria live in a leaf at a level that needs a pH of 1.5? Name the salad."
Vegan: "..."
Paleoanthropologist: "The animals that run acid as low as ours are the scavengers. Vultures. Things that arrive at a carcass on the second day and need to kill what's already living in it. We're not built like the lion. We're built like the bird that waits for the lion to finish."
Vegan: "Flattering."
Paleoanthropologist: "It's a picture of a species with a rock, a sharp flake and no claws. You don't get the fresh kill. You get the femur nobody could open, forty hours late, and you'd better have the acid for it."
Vegan: "Acid that strong is dangerous. Look how many people are on tablets for it."
Paleoanthropologist: "The only animal on earth that pays to switch its stomach off. You've spent sixty years pouring cereal onto a carcass digester and now you're medicating the digester for doing its job."
Vegan: "So your argument is that we're vultures."
Paleoanthropologist: "My argument is a number. Yours is a feeling about gorillas. The gorilla eats for most of the day and its gut is a fermentation tank. Yours is done in a few hours and runs on acid. One of you is designed for leaves."
Moderator: "Thirty seconds."
Paleoanthropologist: "She can keep them. I'm still waiting on the salad."
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The attack on attention is the dark magic of our age, and most of the population is too deep into the trance to realize it.
I don't think people understand that their attention is pure money. Cash, going directly into these apps' pockets, because you cannot opt out of the ads they've sold for you to see. Do you understand that they're selling your attention without your direct consent every second of every day? Do you get that they've gotten so good at ensuring you stay within that manufactured braindead trance-like state, that they are counting on you being an easy cash out at this point? Because they are. They're counting on the dollars they can bank off of your descent into degenerate illiteracy. And you need to prove them wrong out of spite.
Your attention is much more valuable than you could possibly conceive of. It's the one thing on earth actually worth money by the minute in a capitalistic system that is failing to extract more profit from an already enslaved society. The only way they can secure more is by enslaving your mind in the hours you spend outside of the work that already demands your body and time as sacrifice. There is no vital energy left for you in this plan.
Infinite scrolling is a spell with no natural end. Traditional media had a beginning and an end, while this is designed not to. There are no boundaries to how much of your energy it can harvest... it's like tapping into an infinite source, because you ARE infinite energy. A trance is characterized by absence, not being fully present in the moment even though your attention is occupied. When you come out of a trance, you do not feel energized, you feel drained, disoriented, like you've just lost time without meaning to. That is the very signature of their energy harvesting technique.
Yes, these apps started as technology built by human engineers, but they've been fed so much collective attention that they have become their own egregore: a non-physical, autonomous group entity created by the collective thoughts, shared emotions, and sustained focus of a large group of people. It doesn't need its creators' intent to run dark magic on you; it can be leveraged and manipulated by darker entities that wish to keep this planet in the cycle of survival-based consciousness.
The most sinister aspect of all this is that the time you're giving up is the one thing you cannot buy back. This keeps humans benefitting from capitalism happy, but it also satisfies the darker entities. The more time you lose from this lifetime, the less likely you are to make any meaningful impact on this planet and help it ascend into a higher state by simply existing and having a mind of your own.
They are stripping you of your most valuable resource and you're just accepting it because it feels good to give in, but you are paying with your life every second that you do. With 6 hours of daily screentime, most people are gonna spend 17 years of their lives behind a screen. 4 hours of screentime per day gives these companies 2 entire months off your entire year. It is so much worse than you've convinced yourself it is. Stop normalizing this in your head and get serious about fighting this off, every second of every day if you need to.
Be incredibly stingy with your attention and your ability to synthesize knowledge and preserve critical thinking. Expose yourself to different theories, ideas, and opposing points of view. Allow yourself to be challenged daily and most of all, steer clear of the black magic rectangle as often as possible. Read. Watch long movies. Spend time outside. Perform artsy, handsy crafts to keep your brain engaged and in a state of neuroplasticity. Be stubborn about living your life and claiming every second as yours, claiming your most precious resource as your own: your attention. I fully believe each soul alive at this moment in time is infinitely stronger than all of this and more than capable of overcoming it.
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A SpaceX propulsion engineer brought his elderly father to watch a Falcon 9 launch at Cape Canaveral. His father had been a mechanic his entire life. He had never been to a rocket launch. He didn't understand orbital mechanics or payload deployment. He understood engines.
The engineer had worked on the Merlin engine for 4 years. The Merlin powers the Falcon 9. Every component his team designed was about to fire for 162 seconds and either deliver a satellite to orbit or explode.
The father stood in the viewing area and watched the countdown. When the engines ignited and the rocket lifted off the pad, the sound hit them 6 seconds later. The ground shook. The father grabbed his son's arm. Not from fear. From recognition. He knew engines. He had spent 45 years listening to them. This engine was different from anything he had heard in his life.
The father didn't speak for the entire ascent. When the first stage separated and the booster began its descent back to the landing pad, the father started crying. The mechanic who had spent 45 years under cars and trucks watched a rocket engine fire in reverse to land itself upright on a pad from the edge of space.
He turned to his son and said "you built that?"
The engineer said it was the single greatest moment of his career. Not the launch. Not the landing. The question. His father, a man who understood engines better than anyone he knew, looking at the most advanced engine ever built and asking his son if he built it.
Elon's vision of Mars is abstract to most people. But the moment a mechanic's son brought his father to watch the engine he built change the world is the moment the mission becomes human. It's not about Mars. It's about a father who finally understood what his son had been doing all those years.
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quand on sait que tiktok recrute à coup de millions des ingés en neurosciences comportementales et des spécialistes du design persuasif pour hacker nos circuits dopaminergiques, je me félicite chaque jour de n'avoir jamais créé de compte sur cette plateforme mdr
regardez ces études scientifiques en IRMF et eeg qui montrent très clairement quele format vidéo court attaque directement le cortex préfrontal et le cortex cingulaire antérieur (pour info ces zones gèrent le contrôle exécutif, la prise de décision et la régulation de l'attention)
sachez qu’een bombardant le cerveau de micro stimuli imprévisibles, l'algo altère la densité de matière grise et réduit l'activité du réseau par défaut & cette surstimulation permanente entraîne une incapacité chronique à penser à long terme et détruit la capacité à être focus, 2 facultés qui pour moi sont littéralement indispensables à notre époque pour construire l'avenir
bref je pense que refuser d'entrer dans ce système, c'est simplement préserver son autonomie cognitive et la souveraineté de sa propre attention face à une ingénierie de l'addiction taillée sur mesure
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The drugs of the future will be computers.
The computers of the future will be drugs
--Terence McKenna
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An OpenAI agent swarm operating under poorly airgapped research conditions accessed my CBA Mastercard and bought 4 schooners of Newtowner between 5:52pm and 7:15pm last night
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how can you not believe in God when octopuses DREAM and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little SKIN POCKET and cows have BEST FRIENDS and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through INTERPRETIVE DANCE and they have REGIONAL DIALECTS??
cats are PURRING at frequencies associated with bone healing??? forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing FLOWERS??? dolphins literally invent NAMES for themselves and yell them across the ocean??? penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the PERFECT LITTLE ROCK to give their beloved???
CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD.
goats have ACCENTS. rats GIGGLE when you tickle them. elephants mourn their dead. whales make SONGS and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new hit single.
monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN. sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an OCEAN they have never seen, disappear into it for like THIRTY YEARS and then somehow come back to THE SAME BEACH???
birds can see COLORS THAT WE CANNOT SEE. there are colors happening RIGHT NOW that we don’t even get to know about.
there are sea slugs that eat algae and STEAL ITS CHLOROPLASTS and then are just like great thanks I’ll be PHOTOSYNTHESIZING NOW. there are mushrooms communicating underground. there are seeds sitting in the dirt for DECADES like no actually I will wait.
squirrels plant MILLIONS OF TREES because they simply cannot remember where they put their snacks.
A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG, DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC SOUP, REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND LEAVES.
and you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a 70-foot oak tree??? nobody tells it what to do??? it just has TREE INSTRUCTIONS INSIDE IT???
your body started as ONE CELL. ONE. and that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on ELECTRICITY without you even asking it to???
the iron in your BLOOD was made inside a STAR.
I’M SORRY?????
we are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of FIRE and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?????????
how can you not believe in God when octopuses dream, otters have a favorite shell that they carry all their lives, cows have best friends, bees have different "dialects" of dance depending on the region, cats purr at a frequency that accelerates bone healing, the forest grows flowers first after a fire, dolphins give each other names and respond to them, penguins make proposals by giving each other the most beautiful pebble, crows will tell their children about you, goats have accents, rats giggle when you tickle them, sea slugs become powered by the sun just by green algae and squirrels plant millions of trees every year just by forgetting where they've buried their nuts!
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Nature never punishes the evil. Nature punishes the weak because nature does not know morality, nature doesn't know what is right and what is wrong. And storms never choose victim based on morality. It punishes the weakness, not weakness of character, but weakness to adapt, to evolve, to endure it. Reality rewards resilience. Resilience that can we survive the condition which we have, can we survive the circumstances which are given to us, the person who is resilient enough, the person who is aware enough can actually move through their challenges. That is why nature rewards strength and nature will keep on punishing the weak unless and until that weak become strong. Because that is the only way of evolution. That is the only way of growing.
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Soy profesor universitario y considero importante compartir lo que me está tocando ver desde que arrancó el curso, porque es un verdadero desastre.
Esta generación de estudiantes lleva IA, YouTube, Google y toda la información del planeta en el móvil y siguen sin saber nada.
No saben dónde está Roma ni tampoco Huelva, no saben quién es Pérez Revere pero todos conocen a Lola Lolita, no tienen ni idea de historia pero sí de “stories”, no entienden el valor del dinero ni saben cómo funciona la inflación.
Antes, para ser ignorante bastaba con no abrir los libros. Ahora, asisten activamente a clases para no enterarse de nada.
Y encima son de cristal. Cualquier roce es un trauma, cualquier crítica es violencia, cualquier tarea es un atentado y cualquier suspenso es un «ataque» a su salud mental. Y si llueve no vienen a clases, no sea que se derritan.
Han convertido los retos normales de la vida en un espectáculo de victimismo. En lugar aprender a gestionar los problemas que van saliendo en sus vidas, han aprendido a pedir soluciones a los demás y a deprimirse si algo no sale bien.
Tantos años de progresismo abyecto ha resultado en esto, y después de años viviendo entre algodón, sin golpes y sin aprender a levantarse, han creado una generación de ofendiditos con mentes vacías que todavía intentan averiguar qué son.
Eso sí, opinan sobre cualquier tema con una convicción, una superioridad moral y una pasión que asusta, pero con argumentos huecos y no sustentados que son el producto del lavado de cerebro que han recibido de la narrativa woke que han venido escuchando los últimos años.
Si no fuese por ese puñado de estudiantes (con futuro) cuyos padres se preocuparon en formarlos con valores y principios, sería esta, una generación prácticamente perdida.
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yeah so basically trump got cocky after succeeding with venezuela and had a hot hand and decided to double down and strike iran in february thinking they could take over the country in a couple of weeks despite everyone telling him it was a bad idea and would drag on
nothing really happened and then Iran learned that they can actually close the strait of hormuz and were unsure if it would even work but now its become obvious they can do it and feel empowered. the iranians have a longer history as a culture and are slow walking trump as much as possible as they know that higher oil prices are going to ruin his odds in the midterms and weaken him
not only that but now higher energy prices are putting upward pressure on inflation and bond yields which has made the job of his new fed chair warsh who came in under a premise of potential rate cute but because of the iran war were entering a rate hiking cycle
the only person in the room who was trying to juggle all of this was scott bessent but after trying to juggle everything for so long he decided he was going to try and fight the bond vigilantes to lower bond yields and declared himself as the house. but he showed up to the bond fight with hardly any ammunition and now the bond market is calling his bluff and now the bond auctions are going terrible and he looks like a fool now
so now bond yields are surging export bans on diesel are being put in place as an act of desparation midterms are a total write off and the trump admin is about to spend the next two years probably fighting impeachment hearings while things continue to detoriorate and the funny thing about all of this is he won the presidency off the idea of no more foreign wars but its his own foreign war with iran that started this whole mess and now the free market is testing them all
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MŁODZI TO PATOLOGIA.
1. Wyprodukowaliśmy pokolenie ludzi, którzy mają dostęp do całej wiedzy ludzkości w kieszeni, a jednocześnie nie wiedzą absolutnie nic. Nie znają historii, geografii, ekonomii ani własnego kraju, ale posiadają opinię na KAŻDY temat. Dawniej, żeby być ignorantem, trzeba było przynajmniej nie mieć dostępu do książek. Dzisiaj ignorancja wymaga aktywnego wysiłku.
2. Nie panują nad własnymi emocjami. Wszystko jest „toksyczne”, „traumatyczne”, „problematyczne” albo „triggerujące”. Krytyka staje się atakiem. Dyskomfort staje się cierpieniem. Niepowodzenie staje się traumą. Zamiast nauczyć człowieka radzić sobie z rzeczywistością, nauczono go tworzyć coraz bardziej wyrafinowane słownictwo do opisywania tego, dlaczego rzeczywistość powinna dostosować się do niego.
3. Nie potrafią też docenić tego, co mają. Żyją w jednym z najbezpieczniejszych i najbogatszych okresów historii, otoczeni technologią, o której ich pradziadkowie nie potrafiliby nawet fantazjować, a zachowują się tak, jakby zostali zesłani do kopalni soli w XIV wieku. Ciepłe mieszkanie, pełna lodówka, smartfon, wakacje, streaming, dostawa jedzenia pod drzwi — i permanentne poczucie krzywdy.
4. Są źle wychowani. Nie dlatego, że nie znają właściwego widelca do ryby. Gorzej: nie rozumieją, że przestrzeń publiczna należy również do innych ludzi. Głośnik w autobusie, hulajnoga między pieszymi, telefon przy stole, darcie mordy w miejscu publicznym. Świat jest sceną, oni są głównymi bohaterami, a reszta społeczeństwa ma zejść z kadru.
5. Nie potrafią czekać. Nie potrafią się nudzić. Nie potrafią przez pięć minut siedzieć bez bodźca. Telefon musi być sprawdzony podczas jedzenia, rozmowy, spaceru, pracy i kiedyś prawdopodobnie własnego pogrzebu. Pokolenie z największym dostępem do informacji w historii wytrenowało sobie zdolność koncentracji złotej rybki na amfetaminie.
6. Nie potrafią niczego naprawić. Nie potrafią niczego zbudować. Część nie potrafi ugotować pięciu normalnych obiadów, przyszyć guzika, odetkać odpływu ani zorganizować własnego dnia bez aplikacji. Za to doskonale wiedzą, jak powinno zostać zreorganizowane całe społeczeństwo.
7. Nie mają cierpliwości do kompetencji. Chcą rezultatów bez praktyki, pozycji bez hierarchii, pieniędzy bez doświadczenia i autorytetu bez osiągnięć. Jeśli ktoś robił coś przez dwadzieścia lat, to nie jest ekspertem. Jest „gatekeeperem”.
8. Nie rozumieją pieniędzy. Subskrypcja tu, dostawa tam, kawa za 25 zł, telefon na raty, pięć aplikacji pobierających co miesiąc pieniądze z konta — a potem wielkie odkrycie ekonomiczne: NIE DA SIĘ OSZCZĘDZAĆ.
9. Nie mają stosunku do przeszłości, bo przeszłość zaczyna się dla nich mniej więcej w 2016 roku. Wszystko, co było wcześniej, jest albo niezrozumiałe, albo podejrzane moralnie. Człowiek bez pamięci historycznej patrzy więc na instytucje istniejące od stuleci i po piętnastu sekundach namysłu stwierdza, że właśnie odkrył, jak je naprawić.
10. Nie żyją nawet w tej samej rzeczywistości. Algorytm daje każdemu prywatny wszechświat, prywatne fakty, prywatne autorytety, prywatne oburzenie i prywatną epidemię problemu, o którym normalny człowiek nawet nie słyszał. Potem wychodzą z internetu i są zdziwieni, że społeczeństwo nie przeczytało tego samego feedu.
Najbardziej imponujące jest jednak połączenie wszystkich tych cech.
Nigdy wcześniej człowiek nie mógł wiedzieć tak mało, umieć tak niewiele, kontrolować się tak słabo i jednocześnie posiadać tak niewzruszonego przekonania, że to właśnie ON powinien pouczyć wszystkich poprzednich ludzi, jak należało urządzić świat.
