As I said, 131.
Also, I didn’t remember to mention, that FF isn’t putting entries in the Downloads listing it keeps,
either for the .pdf’s successfully-downloaded, OR for the ones it hides.
Oh, another point…
It seems that some tabs ( not on the same site: haven’t tested that, yet ) still download files, but other tabs only fake it…
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There are costs beyond the physical.
I agree with you that intimacy shouldn’t be for money.
The sexually-transmitted infections ( I cannot understand how the modern population isn’t 50+% infected with life-damaging infections, nowadays, and maybe it is, given how disinformation & “marketing” have completely replaced the value of correct-information that journalism used to have ) seem likely to rule the lives of both porn-industry participants & those who use porn as their frame-of-reference for deciding their own lives.
Getting the torquie out from the sex-work industry, however, de-criminalizing it, getting the pimps & organized-crime out of it, to make it safer for those who ( for whatever reason ) work in it, would require some serious restructuring of our cultures.
You’ve read that in other apes sex is traded by females for nutrition?
Male hoarding of rights/food/power/safety, making female trading of their intimacy for a portion of what the males had possessed as their “rightful exclusive possession”, extends well beyond humans.
The thing is, we’re supposed to be upright, not rationalizing pack-behavior, but instead dismantling it from us, making us all we can be.
That didn’t happen, in the last few millenia.
It’s possible that humankind will earn it, now ( The Great Filter, if survived, will produce this result, in about a century ).
but the prejudice is sooo deep…
You know that there is a story in the Abrahamic religions’ Book of Genesis, about woman eating of “the fruit of the Knowledge of Good & Evil”, which means MORALITY?
& sharing this eating with man?
Wasp-researchers in Panama ( from Exeter & Bristol universities ) discovered that altruism is generalized-mothering, among wasps.
Buddha Gautama stated that this is the case, 25 consecutive centuries ago: altruism is generalized mothering. The Buddhist phrase “all our kind mothers”, in referring to ALL other continuums/souls, is rooted in this.
That the Abrahamic-religion men twisted a statement in their own scripture, in order to change it from meaning that women/mothers ate of morality, & shared it with men,
TO women committed the “original sin”, & it cannot ever be revoked, & punishing/abusing women is now inherently-valid…
& holding that gaslighting for millenia…
Do you have any idea how fundamental the sex-racism is, in our religions & laws?
What culture/country holds that raising children is real economically-required-and-valid work?
Here in North America, that’s a sick joke: raising children is … treated as parasitism.
The male apes who hoard wealth, forcing female apes into prostitution for sustinance…
There’s waaay too much of that, in our cultures.
Remove the need,.
That must come 1st.
Letting people do that if they want to, but cut criminality out from it, completely: criminalize pimping, human-trafficking, certainly, hard-line, but decriminalize sex-work that doesn’t harm anybody.
( no protection against infections is harming people: protection ought be legislated, same as in any hazardous work )
do everything one can to prevent people younger than 21yo from doing it ( because brains aren’t fully-developed until about then, which is the same reason that setting the legal-drinking-age to 21yo so significantly reduces deaths on the roads: younger people don’t consider “no” to be as meaningful as people with older brains do ).
Put care in place for people who’ve been “turned into commodities” through abusive relationships, to get them out from that devaluation, instead of just letting the industry use their lives, & pretend that that’s OK…
etc…
Really, living-wage legislation would cut into the “need” for sex-work, significantly.
Oh, & I’ve read that when sex-work is suppressed, rapes & domestic-violence both go up, so there’s some displacement going on, between the categories, that way…
It isn’t a simple thing, & I wish “commerce” & intimacy were so completely distinct that nobody would ever consider a Venn diagram showing intersection of the 2 categories, but … the actual world doesn’t work right…
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“Values”.
Ugh.
Proud to have butchered those magnificent living beings…
I used to be like them…
Cultural-brainwashing’s really effective in “forming” children…
“The Rogue Hypnotist” wrote a little book on cultural-trance, to try to get more people to consider & understand its workings…
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BTW, yes, after commenting I realized that the poster wasn’t the artist,
but if the actual-artist ever comes-across the recommendation above, then good.
If not, the recommendation still stands: Truby, the son of a West Point general & instructor, who studied story, is a true researcher.
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Yes I saw the other one saying the same words…
That is incredible work.
However, I’m not interested in the instruments…
The Right-hemisphere-dominance that that was done in, is AWESOME!
The wholeness, the its-own-formed-suchness, of everything in that…
Our world needs much more of this kind of meaning!
IF you ever find yourself wanting to render stories, like manga, or something,
THEN THE books to read, are John Truby’s “The Anatomy of Genres”, & “The Anatomy of Story”.
( the equivalent for story-editing is Coyne’s “The Story Grid”, btw )
Truby’s wrong about what humor’s base is ( humor is strange-loop, or moebius-strip,
where one walks you around a circle, but … now somehow you’re upside-down for some reason??
IOW, humor is surprisingly-violated expectations, see?
Also, it isn’t US Wild West village that is the archetypal village: the archetypal village is the Tribal Mother Village, of the previous … 2 million or so years!
But the entire sea of psychology he’s crammed into those 2 books, if you’re interested in outclassing your younger-self as totally as you can, evolving as far, & as competently as possible, then please dig into those 2.
Even reading the samples of them would hook you, wouldn’t it?
( :
Notice that he explains the genres have to be understood in sequence, because of the psychological-development each one is concentrating-on…
Anyways, thank you very much for making my day much richer, with your good work to see.
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen!
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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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Multiple conflicting definitions for “Conservative”, for 1 thing…
WHEN you tolerate the:
to claim that they define conservatism,
& us who’re committed to conserving
… people are therefore defined to be not “conservative”…
then the framing has been highjacked.
Integrity-conservatives are conservatives.
LivingPotential conservatives are conservatives, who’re interested in competent education for all, instead of accommodating the obliteration of LivingPotential through shit “education”…
LivingOpportunity conservatives are conservatives, who want wastefulness-of-LivingOpportunity to be eradicated, so that we can be inhabiting it, instead of allowint it to be eradicated/wasted…
etc.
I’d begin with the correct qualification of the version of “conservative” that a person is claiming.
Corrupt privilege-conservatives ought be called such, & not let get-away-with claiming that the’re the rightful definers of “conservative”.
This should go for all “conservative” & “liberal” identifications:
Let people claim whatever variant they want, and then enforce accountability through matching their actual-behavior against their claims, with indestructible public accountability.
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This may all SEEM fine & dandy, but…
The such ocean gyres, if I’m remembering what they’re called correctly, had a normal, established-for-millions-of-years kind-of-ecology in them…
NOW, however, we’re forcing that this fungus become a dominant-player in them…
WHAT DOES THAT FUNGUS DO TO THE OTHER ORGANISMS IN THAT ECOLOGY?
( people may remember some years ago when the Purple Loostrife we imported was killing all our North American marshes, turning them into thickets of woody stems/runners/etc, & each individual plant could put out 50,000 seeds per year…
So, the Canadian Gov’t did test after test after test, & finally resolved that a … Chinese, iirc, ladybird bug ate the stuff, but didn’t eat any other plants…
so, they imported them & let them loose…
You know those new orange ladybird bugs?
the ones that bite animals?
Those are the ones, ttbomk.
They don’t eat any other plants, other than purple loostrife, but their habit of biting us means that carnivorism is normal in them, and … how does that affect the ecology??
You can’t just arbitrarily alter ecologies & responsibly expect them to remain functionally-balanced, & in-harmony: consequences tend to multiply each-other, & tipping-points do get crossed. )
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Remember Feynman’s criticism of NASA’s producing of the space shuttle disaster?
~ engineering culture is founded on … you have to prove it is safe.
business culture is founded on … you have to prove it’s dangerous.
NASA, in adopting business culture, guaranteed that something of this kind would inevitably happen.
it did. ~
You can play the same recording, and all the organizations which are so “institutional mentality”, ie their heads sooo far up their institutional asses, that they “need to do a reality-check”…
and nothing is going to change, until we’re gone.
We WON’T learn, right?
Universe, therefore, has the obligation to continue escalating the damage, until our collective-unconscious “changes its mind” about won’t-learn.
Or we become extinguished, whichever…
given how ClimatePunctuation’s escalating all the political-ideology-rabies & all the religious-ideology-rabies, AND throwing-in food-insecurity, survival-in-insane-temperature-waves, chaotic megadroughts, floodings, extra hurricanes, etc…
I’m not expecting the “ok, we’ll learn now!” option to happen in time.
You have to want to earn unconscious-mind learning, to have earning of it, right??
Ignore my comment: artwork that requires the viewer to be incompetent at the technologies depicted, has rights too.
You do not put jet-engine-intakes on spacecraft, let-alone facing the wrong way.
You do not have that many HUGE rocket-nozzles, without having the fuel-storage to back them up.
You do not create suspension-of-disbelief when you violate basic competency in the technology depicted.
This is why stories, visual-art, etc, NEED to get things like cultural-logic, emotional-logic, engineering-logic, etc, right.
Grumble.
I now know that it’s a Heisenbug:
Some tabs in my still-running browser-instance fake downloading stuff:
if I try downloading the same file multiple-times, instead of showing the
filename(1).pdf
( the “(1)” part that FF applies, to prevent a filename-collision )
doesn’t appear in those tabs, as it isn’t really saving the file in Downloads,
but does appear when doing the same download in other tabs, tabs which are saving the files in Downloads.
This means that something in the tab-instance code is being obliterated/broken, somehow,
and it isn’t affecting all tabs.
Obviously a coder familiar with the codebase would possibly be able to use that, as leverage, to dig-in & get the bug.
The fact that the FF “Downloads” list isn’t being updated properly also is a clue ( the whole subsystem seems to be corrupted-code? )
I don’t consider there to be any point in anybody bothering with this discussion, anymore, however,
since it seems to require some ??whatever??, to activate the bug, and if it isn’t guaranteed to be always-appearing, then … what proof is there that it’s real, to anyone else?
Why is it that it’s happening in some tabs, some of the time??
Why is it happening at all?
Since people just randomly trying to replicate the bug, & NOT seeing evidence, “proves” it isn’t real,
therefore … everybody should just not bother considering it.
Why waste effort.
I’ve been forced to switch to Brave to get reliable-downloads, & I hate Brave.
Cheers, people.
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