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Is it possible to simulate a sensory deprivation tank in your bathtub?
  • Float-tanks are this:

    Imagine a bigger-than-normal bathtub, so you can sprawl-out ( arms & lega akimbo ) without hitting the sides..

    the water-density is upped with brine, instead of plain water ( the float-tanks place I used to go to used sacks of "bitter salts" & the texture of the brine was damn-near oily, and DO NOT EVER shave shortly before going into a brine-soak, or you're going to discover what stinging really means )

    also it is brought up to a person's body-temperature, or close to it.

    When there's no temperature-difference, & you're floating sooo high that drowning is much less likely ( the Dead Sea is probably the prototype for all float-tanks, btw ), & you aren't bumping into the walls, then you're in blissful sensory-deprivation ( total dark, too, obviously, probably use a timer, limit it to 2h max ), & meditation can be awesome in these conditions.

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  • 676 Banned Books List
  • Putting it into a spreadsheet would allow you to sort it any which way, depending on mood, which might help organize the list better?

    just a thought..

    Thank you for making this post, to make this more visible..

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  • MAID lawsuit shines spotlight on faith-based health organizations - Under 1995 agreement, B.C. allows organizations to withhold services that conflict with beliefs, values
  • By definition evidence-based-medicine is supposed to be evidence, not belief, based.

    Criminalize all authority-based medicine gaslighting about being evidence-based medicine,

    criminalize ideology-contradicting-evidence based "medicine" being state-backed.

    criminalize scientific-fraud, too, or the other-2 don't even have any valid basis.


    IF you want to do your belief/ideology/authority based "medicine", then you pay for it out of your own church or your own pocket.


    Get all ideological gaslighting out from government-services!!

  • How can I get into the sailing scene?
  • Please invest in Dallas Murphy's ebook "Plain Sailing".

    https://www.amazon.com/Plain-Sailing-Sail-Trim-Manual-Sailors-ebook/dp/B00593YTJG/

    It gives you all the fundamental-understandings, & by making you basically-competent-in-understanding sailing, it gives you significant advantage over everybody else looking at having a bit of sailing-time on someone's boat.

    Authors to know of include:

    • Tom Cunliffe ( I can automatically recommend anything instructional of his, & he has a youtube channel )

    • Nigel Calder, if you're looking to invest in a cruiser for yourself, you want to read his books.

    • John Kretschmer's books are excellent.

    if you want to have a cheap boat of your own, then there are 2 books I recommend, the white-cover book by Dynamite Payson & the Building an Outrigger Canoe book.

    https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Boatbuilding-Dynamite-Payson-Paddle-ebook/dp/B00UYB5EGK/

    https://www.amazon.com/Building-Outrigger-Sailing-Canoes-Construction-ebook/dp/B00CKMG7E4/

    Do keep in mind that in some jurisdictions, human-powered hulls do not require registration ( canoes, kayaks, rowboats, etc, ), whereas powered hulls ( including motor AND SAIL ), legally do.

    Between those 2, you should have some understanding of how to get yourself afloat, affordably.

    Please do not compromise safety, though: alcohol massively multiplies the death-rate on the water, so segregating alcohol from operating-aquatic-vehicles is a good thing, see?

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  • Oklahoma schools head Ryan Walters: Teachers who won't teach Bible could lose license
  • Then teach the parts of Isaiah which show clearly he held in contempt the people, of his day, who were doing what the "Jews" who convicted benJoseph, did, & what the "Christians" who identify as Republicans are doing now.

    Teach how benJoseph called biblical-legalists "Hypocrites!" right in the bible.

    Teach them all the things in their own bible which identify the "Christian" fascism as being the enemy of their own root-guru/Christ.

    Here is Isaiah 1 from their bible, so you can see that what Moses fought against a couple millenia earlier ( if one happens to remember that stuff from other readings ), happens this time not within the people of Egypt, but within the Israelites..

    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah+1&version=AMP

    Obviously, now it's happening within the "Christians".

    Notice, here, that nearly-all teachings on Hypocrites! are in the New Testament..

    https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=hypocrite&version=AMP

    & here is a phrase, right in their bible, of the whole "they call themselves Jews, but are gaslighting" sentiment,

    which, as anybody with integrity would understand, is an accusation which can be placed on many of ANY human religion, including the Dharmic religions ( including my own beloved Vajrayana ), including the Abrahamic religions, including the people who claim Science but embody/enforce Scientism's gaslighting, etc..

    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+2%3A9&version=AMP

    It is a particular kind of dishonesty, and it isn't limited-to any tradition or culture, no matter how convenient to some ideologies that would be.


    Find all the parts of the bible that contradict the gaslighters who call themselves "Christian", & teach only those bits.

    WHEN teaching the now-legally-required-in-some-jurisdictions "10 Commandments", add this & discuss how this applies to the people who legislate in our countries:

    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+2%3A10&version=AMP


    "Those who live by the sword, die by the sword".

    Turn their own book's honest-truths against their falseness.


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  • [Suggestion] Disallow the use of sources deprecated by the Wikipedia editing community for unreliability
  • Excellent resource, thank you for linking it directly,

    & excellent suggestion.

    I request that it be put into some site-wide script,

    such that if someone uses one of those sources, the script notifies the would-be-poster/commenter that that is an untrustworthy-source, & to please find a trustworthy-source, instead.

    This would be like the beginning of an immune-system for Lemmy.world

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  • Can Biden be replaced as Democrat nominee? Who could replace him?
  • Because it is sooo late in the arbitrary-election-cycle, no matter what the Dems do, they're fucked.

    Go with Biden?

    Then they're fucked.

    Go with Kamala Harris, whom the white-supremacists have been working against for years?

    Then they're fucked.

    Find somebody else?

    There isn't time, so then they're fucked.


    This highlights the category of political-lesson that you have to "fail early & fail often" ( to use a phrase from successful serial-startup founders ) in order to find the robust candidates whom you can currently win with.

    UNlike the way the Dems have played.

    The CNN+NYT "shutting down" of progressive-issues & progressive-voices, in the last election, burned too much potential out of existence, and that traction is gone: non-recoverable.

    The mega-entitlement of the Biden insitution is buckling & collapsing with increasing obviousity.

    I fucking told everyone so, again & again & again, but it was all my "delusion" & "incompetence" & "defectiveness" & "lies", was it??

    Trump is going to become the US's dictator,

    & is going to begin the 2nd half of the US's Civil War ( the Confederates only pretended to surrender, & now are earning a "reverse takeover" ), & the butchery will probably reduce the US's population by 2/3rds, within 12y, counting all the consequences both direct & indirect ( complete failure to manage a hurricane's landfall costs much more life than does managing it competently: multiply that by a dozen per year, & you've got human-costs up the gills, without even considering atmospheric-rivers, megadroughts, quakes, wildfires, or any other kind of disaster to multiply costs on, right? ).

    it is infuriating to see people insist that "social pressure will make this work", millions of times,

    while it measurably, proveably, isn't working, but that is what Natural Selection at the species-level means, isn't it?

    Terminal Species-ending Butchery.


    Sunak's obliteration of his own party, Kim Campbell's obliteration of her own party, what was that Liberal premier who wiped out her own party, in Ontario, can't remember that one's name..

    Social-pressure never acts when it is needed, it only acts when it gets around to feeling comfortable with acting, and that is consistently too-late.

    So, when will the Democratic Party admit they need to change gears??

    After they've fundamentally lost, is when.

    Imagine running a bunch of freight-trains that way: "oh, we'll slow-down when we feel a collision beginning, but until then, we're really fine, & there's no indication of any real need to be doing anything different, is there?"

    Feelings are the wrong metric for preventing this kind of catastrophy.

    frustration-rage

    Authority needs to have hard walls, bright lines, & deadly-force biting its corruptions/entitlements/dishonesties/DarkHexad enactments, etc.

    Political-process won't ever allow any such rule, in its dominion, of course..

    And that is why political-process cannot be permitted to own our world's fate: its conflict-of-interest, & its inescapable-corruption disallow integrity from ruling, & without integrity, then only "Justice", with falsifying-quotes, the phony version of Justice, remains..


    So, The Great Filter's going to extinguish yet another world, from this Universe, is it?

    Political-machiavellianism/dishonesty's going to snuff all LivingPotential, LivingWorth, LivingOpportunity of this whole world, while the "social consensus" indulges in orgiastic clusterfucking, until existential-viability itself is gone..??

    Ah, but at least everyone will be able to feel that they "weren't responsible", right?

    Social-feelings: that's the real LORD, and so long as it's happy, then existence, itself, isn't actually necessary, right??


    bitterness

  • Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web
  • Is his personal-information on the dark-web?

    Is he saying that if his personal-information is on the dark-web, then it's perfectly-OK for everybody & their robot to be using it??

    XOR is he saying that there are 2 kinds of law:

    1 for protecting his entitlement,

    the other for disallowing rights from the lives he consumes, through his beloved herd/corporation/pseudo-person?

    ( obviously, he's already answered the latter )

  • try hitting that page in ff/android, in a tablet, in landscape format: I get a bright window top-left, all else is darkened.

    Maybe other people don't get the results I'm seeing, but it makes that page unusable in ff.

    Brave has no problem rendering the page, though.

    Anyways, since it seems to be a bug in ff, and I've learned that ff doesn't want any feedback from mobile-devices people, the bug report can be here,

    or be deleted to not be fixed,

    or whatever: I don't care, anymore.

    Integrity requires that it be noted, but..

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    Mozilla Reverses Its Block on Privacy and Anti-Censorship Tools in Russia
  • Then the Kremlin will simply ban them, & the Russian people will have a worse situation than they did with the ban.

    shrug

    "Responsibility", instead of pragmatic-responsibility: socio-political-"statements" instead of remaining-in-the-game-still-pushing-for-rightness..

  • Trump Just Revealed How He’ll Attack Biden at Debate—and It’s Vile
  • No: Biden's optimal response may be that, but what his actual response is going to be, given the Dems' coasting on assumed-entitlement, could be anything.

    Never count chickens before they're hatched, right?

    Scientific Method: wait & see what the actual evidence is.

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  • UP man tricks friend to hospital, gets his genitals removed and then proposes marriage since he's a woman now
  • I would want .. 7-50y in prison, for the evil scum "friend" who masterminded this.

    Minimum.

    Psychopathic, machiavellian, given India's non-valuing of women, sadistic, narcissistic, .. you don't accommodate such terrorists-of-individual-lives.

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  • Introducing Disrespectability Politics
  • Tell them of a famous guy, the most "woke" person in the entire bible, a socialist & convicted-felon people call "Jesus" benJoseph, who called hypocrites "Hypocrites!" right in their face, instead of "turning the other cheek", a guy who got *physically violent" on the commercial-operation of the temple..

    See if they just blot that out from their awareness, to fit their ideology..

    Kahneman's "Thinking Fast And Slow" is the key book to understanding the different mechanisms of mind, in the ideology/prejudice/instinct/reaction circuit, vs the considered-reasoning-circuit, in case you want the real "artillery" of understanding what's going on in the world, now..

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  • "We need morals back": Lauren Boebert preaches Ten Commandments on Bannon podcast
  • The same "morals" as the fake-Jews, aka "Jews", who convicted Yehoshua "Jesus" ( Iosa, actually, not "Jesus", was his Roman name, apparently ) benJoseph..

    Remember in the Christian Bible, Pontius Pilate tried to have Rule of Just Law win the case, but the "Republicans" of his day wouldn't tolerate that, and since Pontius Pilate didn't have the political-leverage to win, he just washed his hands, explicitly of the case, in protest..

    What has changed?

    These "Christians" are behaving exactly the same, in motivation, as their predecessors did:

    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+27%3A18-31&version=AMP

  • How did you acquire the first 1000 words?
  • TTBOMK, there are 3 things which change-the-rules, significantly.

    1. Pimsleur. Get the Pimsleur app, get the all-languages subscription, & do 1 session per day.

    2. Flashcards, or Anki, to get the visual imprinted into your automatic-mind, for any language you are trying to learn

    Later..

    1. Tandem, where you find a speech-learning partner, you help other people learn your languages better, other people help you learn your target-language better.

    Begin with Pimsleur & with some yt videos.

    ( they have no Sanskrit, which is the one I want, unfortunately )

    Do well!

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  • No Starch HumbleBundle includes "How Linux Works", THE SysAdmin fundamentals book, 3rd edition.
    www.humblebundle.com Humble Tech Book Bundle: Networking, Sysadmin, and DevOps by No Starch

    IT pros, this book bundle will get you up to speed with DevOps, teach you Linux tips and tricks, and demystify containerization. Your purchase helps charity!

    Humble Tech Book Bundle: Networking, Sysadmin, and DevOps by No Starch

    Also includes the "DevOps for the Desparate", "Linux Firewalls: Attack Detection and Response with iptables, psad, & fwsnort", "The Linux Command Line, 2nd Edition", "Absolute OpenBSD", "The Book of PF" ( I think that's for the BSD's ), "Designing Secure Software", "Practical ulnerability Management", "Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition", "The Practice of Network Security Monitoring", etc...

    IF you can't afford the Safari subscription, which I presume would include all of these,

    AND you want thorough competence in the fundamentals

    THEN you really probably want to know some of these ones.

    I'd require the current edition of "How Linux Works" as the bedrock understanding of anyone who wanted to be working SysAdmin or DevOps, anywhere, any time.

    This entire bundle is the same price as "How Linux Works" alone is, in my local ebook platform.

    Our ignorance costs us, right?

    We can reduce the price it makes us, and our world, pay, through more competent knowing of our fundamentals:

    don't allow mistakes, or faulty-process, or malicious-actors, any leverage, you know?

    Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen!

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