Agile goes on about how if you aren’t connecting-with-customer, while you’re coding, then you’re doing exactly what that article is bitching about.

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He speaks about spreadsheets being malleable-documents…

IF you do any calculating & basic-programming’s something you’re OK with, then PLEASE invest in understanding https://plutojl.org/

& if you decide to dig-in, then please try a good book ( the Design Patterns one is good ) & hit Exercism, & you’re good to go.

MASSIVELY better than spreadsheets, in my view.

Mind-you, I think Julia’s better than spreadsheets AND Python, because it’s cleaner, stupendously faster in execution, etc…

& that suits my aesthetics just fine.

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IF I think I’m going to learn something from seeing their frame-of-reference ( like: HOW it’s wrong ), XOR their reasoning ( ditto ), certainly.

How’m I supposed to learn anything if I only remain within comforting meanings??

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This is why relying on “political will” to enforce accountability is incompetent.

You’ll notice that Noem is now facing possible perjury-prosecution, but the in-favor/in-power ones aren’t…

Politically-based “accountability” is accountability-to-power’s-narcissism, only, in the end.

It has to be done automatically, at the system-level.

It had to be automatic that he couldn’t even be eligible for election, instead of “saying sorry after gets shit done, whereas asking permission gets one prevented” kind of thing.

DarkTriad/DarkTetrad people have to be automatically & systematically prevented from authority-roles.

Society-wide.

No “political” alternative prevents the problem anywhere-near so efficiently.

So, to your question “is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out”, no: it’s too late.

Any attempt at impeaching him, now, would trigger his invoking of The Insurrection Act, & activating total-dictatorship.

Which he is going to do regardless, once his frustration reaches high-enough intensity.

“a penny’s worth of prevention is worth a pound/euro of cure” is still true.

But at-last the lessons of what the Christians call “armageddon”, these next 6-decades, will be significant…

Once the tippingpoint’s crossed, I expect the Regional Consolidation Time to be Trump ditching/ignoring all the rest of the world except for his wars on conquering the Americas. ALL of them. Civil War Part2: confederate reverse-takeover & vengeance … will only be a sub-plot, not the whole thing.

About 1/2-way through the 7-y cycle, I expect him to be replaced with Musk.

The problem isn’t them: the problem is humankind’s collective-unconscious-mind’s ego-games, its “apocalypse” “proving its ego’s IMPORTANCE”, that “nothing is more god than ego’s TANTRUM/POGROM is!!”.

So, fundamentally, it’s The Great Filter: our underlying toddler-nature breaking the world to “beat god and make god obey!!”.

Trump, Putin, Millei, Farage, Orban, etc, highjacking the world for their exclusive-wealth/oligarchy … that’s only “makeup”.

The communist-party’s imperialism, in various national variants, is every bit as “fascist” in its DarkTetrad as individual-centered-fascism is.

The fundamental difference between individualism vs collectivism doesn’t make imperialism somehow become not imperialism.

Party-imperialism’s murdered millions.

What’s the difference between how bad well-accomplished-sociopathy of the left is, vs the right?

the well-accomplished-sociopathy’s the same, only the political-left vs political-right is different.

So why ignore the underlying sociopathy??

As ideologues consistently do.

It’s foolish, in my opinion, to think that Putin & Trump are going to remain contradicting: their underlying goal is the same: competitive-nihilism & competitive-narcissism, at EVERYBODY-ELSE’s expense.

But they’re only 2 of many representatives of that “church”.

See the overall-picture, not the only-local view: it’s global, the forces are implacable, & humankind’s positioned to … not do well, this century.

Unless someone massively changes humankind’s viability…

which would take dimensions of competence, & dimensions of self-conquering, that normals never allow anyone to earn ( far too “outlier” )

So, humankind is “walking the plank”, now.

Other paths were possible…

Does anybody understand that preventing genociding in Palestine would have required about 6+decades of the UN being the only gov’t there, & NO ideology imprinting anybody, not through education, not through prejudice, not through abuse, not through apartheid, not on either side!

& keep holding that, generation after generation, until the prejudices were extingushed-sufficiently.

No other path could have worked.

Making-believing, while accommodating ideological-prejudice’s perpetual self-entrenchment sure as hell didn’t work!

It’s the same in the US.

It takes decades to create a population who can do correct-reasoning, & who is loyal-to/valuing-of it.

It takes only months to eradicate that, replacing it with ideological-prejudice.

The brain-system driving ideological-prejudice is more-primitive, more emotional.

The brain-system driving correct-reasoning & objectivity is the recentest part of the brain, the outer cortex ( top of brain, btw ).

the problem isn’t local: it’s racial. Whole-species.

Humankind’s fighting-off moral-anxiety & correct-reasoning & objectivity by digging-into programmed-reacting, animal-“reasoning”, ideology, prejudice, & ideological-“morality”.

& about 9/10 of humankind’s on the side of ideology, from the looks of things.

Trump’s a symptom, not a cause.

The cause is whole-species-wide: our unconscious-ignorance’s fighting-for-its-totalitarian-dominion.

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I wonder if anybody in the anarchy religion can see that AI’s are essentially anarchists with different-frame-of-reference/values, & that their lawlessness is exactly a kind of anarchy, an anarchy that is in the process of gutting our world’s viability.

( all the anarchists who adamantly insist “no-one is anybody’s boss!” have never seen a parent trying to wrangle an ornery toddler, … XOR they’re gaslighting, either unconsciously or consciously, either is possible.

It is yoga:self-conquering, not either no-archy/no-structure or no-people-hierarchy, that is required.

You simply can’t do a project as big/complex as a shuttlecraft, or airliner, or ship, without hierarchical-organization, & if all such were eradicated, for ideological reasons, then … this-planet’s population would have to be MASSIVELY smaller, to make that work. )

Anyways, evidence contradicts ideologies, as usual…

AI’s NEED guardrails, & we won’t enforce that, because it’d inconvenience concentration-of-wealth-archy, which is served by the current anarchy.

Humbug.

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There are a few excellent books on dialogue, for writers.

YOU try writing good dialogue!

Keeping-straight everything that needs to be kept-straight when writing dialogue, isn’t easy, & people who don’t even understand Shawn Coyne’s point about how every single scene in the entire story MUST pull its weight, & MUST alter emotional-value somehow ( see “The Story Grid” for that ), is something that most story-writers don’t understand properly.

Some are brilliant at it ( & the writers for that TV-show, Mad Men, iirc, were mostly women, simply because women are better than men at writing such drama ), & most are not.

Why should imitations-of-us be better at it than we are?

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That should probably be written as “for rich zionists”, NOT for rich Jews.

The Venn-diagram may be overlapping, but it sure as hell isn’t coincident.

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( for all who think otherwise, try stomaching the evidence in this biting honesty: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2026/02/26/the-reality-in-gaza/ )

As the root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, pointed-out: “you can’t orient to 2 contradictory-nature gods”, though he paraphrased the principle, some…*

IF someone in academia cares more about their-career, their-status, their-profit, etc, in any variant of institutional-narcissism, professional-narcissism, economic-narcissism, etc,

THEN the “learning institution” simply “cannot afford” to put learning 1st.

IF they care more about the next-generation’s learning, more about quality-of-research, more about next-generations DOING research, etc, then they’ll hire the grad-student & demonstrate how to limit/harness LLM’s so that they don’t compromise/undermine either education, autonomous human meaning, or science.

Actions speak louder than words, though, among those with honesty/integrity.

So, do whatever you want: & be judged on that, in the end, right?

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( the “*” was simply…

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NON-sovereignty has greater risks.

Context, including Trump, matters.

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The gov’t forces who mow-down-with-bullets protestors are NOT beautiful, in my eyes.

A surprising fact, in my life, though, is that the holiest human I ever met in-person, was an Iranian man.

I’ve spent a week in a monastery, on retreat, & I’m saying that.

A couple decades ago, there was a US right-wing commentator, who competed with Rush Limbaugh, who established that it’d be best to simply nuke Iran, preemptively, in order to get rid of the US’s problem ( that their disobedience/not-being-colony was ).

Anne Coulter?

something like that.

Sociopathy, no matter how ideologically-convenient, is the wrong path.

So is idolization, in my view…

As that wonderful African man who explains in videos, showing how DR Congo & Rwanda are tangled-up, or other African endless-conflicts, says…

“it’s complicated”.

& ideologies/prejudices reject actuality’s being complicated.

Accuracy’s possible.

More difficult, but earnable.

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That is important evidence.

I’d rule that you can report on obvious-actuality, all you want, so long as you aren’t pushing DarkTetrad agendas ( narcissism / machiavellianism / sociopathy-psychopathy / sadism ),

& that hiding that a particular building which everybody there can see was hit, is in the unacceptable machiavellianism-deforming-accuracy category.

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ROTFLMAO

REALLY??

They ALSO are leaving-out all the LLM-introduced bugs, vulnerabilities, back-doors, & other shenanigans!!

Sometimes moderate ludditism can be a GOOD thing.

Ask the security-geeks why they generally refuse to use electronic locks on their homes!

See correctly, not “fashionably”.

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I’d recommend having a banner/sign which explains why you are doing-so, so that you won’t be accused/convicted of what others assume you to have been meaning.

It’s nearly-impossible to get people to understand what one means, when one’s motivation isn’t identical with theirs.

& discovering how their-motivation is fundamentally-different from one’s-own has to happen before one can have ANY chance at dismantling miscommunication.

& miscommunications now can have years-in-prison attached to them.

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For all who’ve been unaware of just how intense the conflict is between Judaism & zionism, here is the 1st paragraph from https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2026/02/26/the-reality-in-gaza/

“For over 28 months, the Israeli military has not only murdered Palestinians en masse, but also systematically destroyed and restricted Palestinians’ access to their homes, to clean water, food, medical care, schools, Internet, fuel, and electricity. These are all tactics of genocide: destroying the conditions required for life.”

All the Jews protesting “Not In OUR Name!”, etc, this is like being anti-nazi & German, in Hitler’s rise: not easy to endure, or, in some cases, even survive.

( there are books on Germans who opposed nazism from within, 1 on journalists who did it, & another, can’t remember what that one was specifically on )

Diversity’s real, in spite of ideological oversimplifications.

& that is something that ideologies hate, as it violates their reacting-programming, requiring actual-objectivity & actual-considering.

Good for someone to be pointing-out that gaslighting that the zionists have been doing.

( in my opinion, islamists & christofascists are doing exactly the same game, in their contexts: this isn’t culture-specific, this is global, & is seen also in the Dharmic religions, as well, like “buddhist” genociders of Tamils, etc )

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I expect that in 7y, Saudi Arabia will be the ONLY winner in what’s trying-to-be-born ( the region’s conflict ), now.

( every region will be consolidated, in the next-stage of this-world’s process )

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Cultures/conventions are assumption-rivers, aka “religions”.

Toxic-culture’s a habit, an ideology, a “religion”, a self-reinforcing-feedback-mechanism, & a kind of “food” for ones who want that particular substance.

Once entrenched, it’s nearly-impossible to change a culture.

Chaning a culture generally requires focus+action both at the top AND grass-roots.

Without both, nothing’ll change, usually.

( without grassroots, nothing’ll change, no matter what the leader wants/does )

& Reddit’s CEO has paid himself $1/8B IN A SINGLE YEAR, while Reddit wasn’t in profit, so DarkTriad’s their corporate-culture, fersure, in my opinion.

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“normal” for what culture?

I mean family culture, not national-culture.

It seems to me that they’re insecure, & committed to using you for their-own validation, & crowbarring you into remaining subjugated to that scam/game/manipulation.

( I had to go no-contact with both parents, for years at a time, for my survival: parental machiavellianism doesn’t have to be conscious machiavellianism. I don’t blame them, but did need to protect my life against their forcing-me-towards-breaking/failing, with all the personal-power I could muster. )

The oversimplification of “the 5 love languages”, the oversimplification being that people are somehow “exclusively 1 XOR another”, instead of being some mixture on a 5-dimension set-of-continuums/spectrums…

It seems your mother’s means of showing-love is verbal, & she felt need to have verbal-expression-of-love for her.

The “5 love languages” thing… when I found-out that some people NEED exchanging-of-things to feel loved, or to express love … WTF??

TOTALLY not the way I’m wired.

Never EVER would have dawned-on-me that some people actually were wired that way.

But… I’ve seen some people I knew who were wired that way!

Diversity-of-wiring’s a thing, right?

So, I think it was you mom being wired for verbal emotional-meaning, AND her trying to manipulate you into being what protected/fed her established-when-she-was-growing-up dysfunction-habit, AND I wouldn’t put 1 single cent on her being “to blame” for it, if she’s never dug into conquering her own unconscious-mind. I think it was probably the result of the growing-up she lived in, just repeating, in variation.

Discard everything I wrote unless something in it is of value for you.

I’ve only experience & what seems to be understanding: I’ve no academic-accreditation, but neither did Socrates, my hero, either.

But if it is of value, then may your life be more-powerfully-awakening/autonomizing, owning your future-karma, more.

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ttbomk, the companies don’t care.

It was a few years ago? when a woman in Taiwan showed a video where her co-worker could open her phone, because the face-recognition logic in Apple phones is calibrated to Whites, not to Asians.

I think that there are only 2 biometrics which ought be used:

1. bloodvessels-in-fingers/hands
2. retinas, blood-vessels again.

There are some diseases which monkey that, for people with those conditions, & injuries can monkey them too,

but making the bloodvessels-in-hands one be normal would mean that “ghoulies”, cloned fingerprints that someone wears as rubbery coverings on their fingers, iirc, would be blocked by that, so would the tape-copying-fingerprint trick…

& making it so that the retina-scan was only done in higher-security settings, & only where you have to peer into the machine, not where it’s scanning everybody who’s in the lobby ( another story I read ),

& having iris-scanning for people who have retina-degenerative-conditions/injuries, as backup…

etc…

Face-scanning’s a stupid “security”.

Got beaten-up? now you can’t open your phone.

Someone’s got you at gunpoint, & they just hold your phone up at you, & it unlocks?

That isn’t security, that is authority-theatre.

Which I’m fed-up with.

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Interesting point…

Maybe we should all have Spring Cleanup, where we get our instances to be configured to better settings, to keep tuning-up the fediverse?

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