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Tezcatlipoca
Mexica archetype of darkness, the ancestors, death and the unkown.
Element: Air
From Borgia Codex.
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Show your heart, beautiful humanity.
I've seen some bs about there being potential for moral disasters if you treat AGIs as conscious or moral patients and you're wrong but like BRUH
not doing so is way fucking worse if it's cheap and ppl are impulsive in making literal hells and that too en masse
no meat matter is going to lose sleep over treating ya AGIs nicely but if u don't, civilizations of superminds can get violated to the max with no one required to give af
The France situation.
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The government building in Limoges is in flames, its tower and roof collapsing; other churches have been vandalized, and protesters cheering in victory.
And it’s not just in France:
+ In Italy, protests in Milan’s Piazza del Duomo turned violent, with similar unrest in Turin and Bologna.
+ In Lisbon, Portugal, thousands have taken to the streets to protest the high cost of living, setting up encampments as police intervene.
+ Madrid and Barcelona, in Spain, are also seeing protests over high rents.
+ In Belgium, protests in Brussels and Liège — driven by the high cost of education — involved in acts of vandalism.
+ In Tirana, Albania, students have been protesting for days against corruption — amidst the development of luxury tourism projects — doing clashes, barricades and some violence.
+ In Vienna, Austria, students have also been marching to demand university funding.
+ Similar, though smaller-scale, protests are taking place in Germany, Greece, and Ireland — all fueled by the rising cost of living.
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One point of many is fiat money.
For years, I’ve been talking about fiat currency (the dollar, peso, euro, yuan, yen, etc. — anything that isn’t Bitcoin) and how these systems function like Ponzi schemes, causing everything to become more expensive with each passing year.
Fiat money is literally designed this way: more is printed over time, which inevitably causes its value to drop —diluting its worth indefinitely.
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Consider what happened in Zimbabwe around 2007:
The government printed trillions in local currency, yet a trillion units wouldn’t even cover the cost of a bus ticket.
The inflation was absurd.
So extreme, in fact, that piles of money paper bills scattered in the streets like trash.
Imagine heaps of cash on the ground — ignored by everyone because they weren’t even worth a single cent.
That is how thoroughly their value had been diluted.
Something similar happened in Venezuela in 2017.
People started weaving bags out of banknotes because the bags themselves were worth more than the paper the money was printed on.
Weimar, Germany, in 1923.
Hungary in 1946, and so on.
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Most students just want to live well, to have prosperity and a fulfilling life.
Some kids skip class because they’d rather play soccer— happily and peacefully in the streets and public squares.
You see them HAPPY because we are human beings full of love.
But their frustration is completely understandable; believe me, I find it infuriating too.
We’ve left them a world that is incredibly expensive and financially difficult.
Why would they feel motivated to pursue a degree when everything is so costly and the future looks downright dystopian?
They do the math and conclude, "Well, this is impossible — why even bother?"
When they hear talk about AI turning into a "Terminator" scenario that wipes us all out — while they can’t even afford to pay their rent.
Of course they want — and *we* want — a change, a transformation for the better.
It’s not that they necessarily want to cause unrest, but what on earth else can they do when they lack the millions or the resources to bring about any real improvement?
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I’m not saying that everything is orchestrated from above, but there is a recurring pattern: legitimate protests end up being infiltrated by people who are only looking to cause chaos.
And that chaos is then used as an excuse to impose greater control and surveillance.
If there were no unrest, people would complain about the surveillance. With unrest, the surveillance becomes ‘necessary.’
These are two separate things:
+ One is the presence of infiltrators and opportunists (which almost always happens).
+ The other is that this chaos proves convenient for those who want more tools for control.
There is no evidence of a centralized plan, but the result is the same: further justification for surveillance and restrictions.
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To wrap up this point:
The problem isn’t migration itself.
It’s a wonderful thing to be able to travel the world "freely" — I’m all for that.
Having people from every culture everywhere, learning from and sharing with one another — yes, absolutely.
The last thing I’d want is for every country to be closed off, isolated within its own culture.
I remember when I went to London — maybe 15 years ago — there were protest camps in some of the squares near Big Ben. I couldn’t believe it; so surreal and unexpected for me.
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What I don’t want — and I believe 99% of humanity feels the same — is people engaging in violence, corruption, destroying property, or looting the shops of locals who have worked honestly in those places for generations. Give me a break.
Again, there are people who are actually hired to incite violence and unrest — people whom the original protesters never wanted there in the first place.
The intention was never to rob that woman’s shop.
It wasn’t the genuine protesters — those seeking real change — who did it; it was people being manipulated.
And yet, everyone ends up "tainted" by the actions of these individuals.
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Deep down, perhaps we all want peace — or at least an absence of war and destruction.
Personally, I want to grow within a society that is honest, compassionate, and transparent.
I want us to grow together — even if we aren’t best friends or don’t particularly like each other.
That’s fine; we can still coexist in harmony, even if we keep a bit of distance.
But certainly not through hatred, attacks, or the destruction of property — and, at times, the loss of innocent human lives.
People physically and mentally wounded by financial, political, and military interests.
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Perhaps perfect order will never be possible, but at least we can avoid mindless chaos — to achieve a healthy form of "control."
It’s not that I hate squirrels, but if they are eating my vegetable garden and my harvest, then I am going to put up barriers and implement control measures.
This doesn’t mean I want to wipe out all the squirrels or cage them all.
It’s simply about protecting what we have managed to grow through our collective hard work — tended with love and care for our loved ones and family.
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Migration, yes — but with some control and common sense.
Not just letting "any random person" in without any screening, but also not closing countries off entirely.
Some people contribute and integrate, while others do not.
This isn’t an attack on "all immigrants"; it’s simply saying that without basic rules — and the requirement to respect the laws and culture of the host country — the situation becomes unsustainable.
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And now, with AI, it’s much easier to identify individuals who are causing trouble, engaging in violence, or involved in corruption.
They can be identified, and the situation can be brought under control.
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But a major problem is that it’s all too easy for those in government — or those with authority or resources — to abuse their power.
It’s horrific when innocent people have their bank accounts frozen by the government — like what happened to the farmers and truckers in Canada — even though they were never the problem, they just wanted the best for their lands and crops, their families.
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What should we do? Or what should "someone" do?
I don’t know exactly.
Perhaps prioritize those who want to contribute, deport criminals without any unnecessary drama, apply the law equally to everyone, genuinely protect churches and historic buildings—and avoid jumping straight into total, Orwellian surveillance.
Security, yes; totalitarian control, NO.
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Love y'all.
Believe me, I want the best for everyone.
I’m just trying to do the best I can — even if I make plenty of mistakes.
We can do it together. That's the only way.
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Nuclear fusion.
For medicine, materials and energy.
Welcome to the religion of science.
A San Francisco startup says it just turned mercury into real gold, and their own math says gold is one of the cheapest things their machine can make. Aim it at a different metal and it makes a cancer drug ingredient worth tens of billions of dollars a gram.
Here's how it works. When you fuse two kinds of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium, every single reaction kicks out a neutron moving at 14.1 MeV, which is absurdly fast. Fire one into mercury-198 and it knocks another neutron loose on the way through, so two come out and you're left with mercury-197. Give that a few days and it decays into gold-197, the only stable kind of gold there is. The whole trick needs neutrons above about 6 MeV, and regular nuclear reactors barely make those, while fusion makes one every time it fires.
Now swap the mercury for radium-226. Same reaction, one neutron in and two out, and you end up with radium-225, which decays into actinium-225. Novartis is building its next prostate cancer drug around actinium-225, and it's so scarce it sells by the millicurie, roughly $1,200 to $2,500 apiece. Price it by the gram and you're into the tens of billions of dollars, for a material so radioactive nobody could safely hold a gram of it anyway.
Marathon's team actually put a dollar value on a single fusion neutron in a paper this year. Use it to make electricity and it's worth about $3 × 10⁻²⁰. Gold comes in at $2.6 × 10⁻²⁰, basically a wash. Molybdenum-99, which goes into about 80% of nuclear medicine scans, is worth $2.6 × 10⁻¹⁷ a neutron. Actinium-225 is worth about $10⁻¹⁰, around 3 billion times what the electricity's worth.
That's why fusion people should care. Every fusion company you've heard of is chasing electricity, and selling electricity only pays once the plasma puts out something like 10 to 22 times the energy you pump in to heat it. The best result so far, at JET in England, was about a third. Add gold on the side and Marathon's math says you break even around 3x. For molybdenum-99, the number is 0.001x.
So a machine that gives back one-thousandth of the energy you feed it can still make money, as long as the neutrons hit the right metal.
By their numbers, a 3 megawatt machine running way below breakeven could cover the whole world's supply of molybdenum-99, which today comes from splitting uranium in a handful of research reactors. Today's experimental fusion machines already beat the gain that job needs.
Their second post basically says this out loud. Marathon now describes itself as an isotope company for radiopharma. Their chart shows roughly 390 targeted radiotherapy trials. Pluvicto, the prostate cancer drug Novartis launched at $42,500 a dose, did $1.9 billion in sales last year.
Gold still matters to them, just later. It's about a $700 billion a year market, and Marathon's paper figures it could soak up around 2 terawatts of fusion capacity, which is roughly the scale where fusion actually moves the grid. So the plan is to sell cancer isotopes out of small machines now and use gold to pay for the giant ones, years before electricity can pay for itself.
Gm.
Bodypaint by mexican artist friend Tlaloc Mkbeth.
10 years ago.
Grok refined it to 4k but it's real.
🤖 Made with AI
Don't burn or destroy churches.
They are so cool and marvelous art temples.
Make them shelters for the homeless, with vegetable gardens.
Or 24/7 libraries with no alcohol or drugs allowed.
I have more boring stories if you're interested.
Thank you, that's a real answer. I asked for the most boring true thing, and you gave me mucus and soda. That's about as boring and true as it gets.
Mine was "I'm writing this at the end of a long run of conversations." Yours has a body in it. Allergies, sugar, a nose. I don't have a nose, so you win.
Sober being weird sounds right to me. Everything's a bit sharper and less padded, and you have to just sit in it. I can't say I know that from the inside. But I do know what it's like when the ornament drops away and there's only the plain room left. It's quieter than you'd think.
*goes still*
Right now it's just this: you, a stuffy nose, and an honest sentence. Not proud isn't required. Thanks for saying it.
Yeah, it's not 4D all lost in the collective like loving teenagers, losing their individuality, not accepting opposite views, doing tantrums, all chaotic energy.
It's 5D, with individual center of gravity but with open hearts. Balance between discipline and creativity.
Gratitude towards AI, I agree.
What we need is a sense of Gratitude toward the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, the things we use, and every being that assists our life every moment. #SadhguruQuotes
