• Pimsleur language learning ( learn at instinct-level, not the prompted-stuff or memorizations that many other language trainings work at )
• Tandem app ( probably not great for privacy, been awhile since I tried it ), you help someone learn your language, & they help you learn the target language one you want
• simplified short-stories, books of collections of the things…
• TV in the target-language
• songs because they wire-up your other-hemisphere ( right-hemisphere for the 85% of people who have language in the left ) with the language, & that reinforces the language’s patterning
• flashcards for the stuff that actually requires you to remember specific arbitrary things, like difficult words, or whatever, for random moments throughout the day

Some of this I got from a book by a guy who knew … 29 or something? … languages & worked for the CIA.

Other stuff ( songs ) from science news, & my discovering that language-destroyed-by-stroke people could sometimes still communicate through picking a song which had the idea they were trying to communicate…

I have a bad time learning anything through hearing, though, so … language-learning seems itself to be kinda broken ( I learned English before anything, & it was my 2nd wave of braindamage which took much learning from my life, not the autism 1st-wave ).

These are the best tools I know-of.

I wish I could learn languages.

I wish everybody learned other-languages, to understand just how diverse humankind’s meanings can be…

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Ah, the prejudice in the claim that it’s invented…

https://youtu.be/ADYdypHZb2A

Chase Hughes ( the video ) is as autistic as me.

He cracks different problems than I do.

That video is th 5 truths that religions in EVERY region tried-and-failed to cram into language.

I watched Chapters 1 & 2 of it.

Since I’m working on removing my continuum’s/soul’s imprisonment in reincarnation-cycle, that was enough for me…

Excellent video, really ought be seen by all the people who are considering any of Dawkins’s prejudice, too…

See past the “makeup” to the underlying-universals.

& see that there really are universals being consistently identified in the different religions.

AwakeSoul/Buddha Gautama was the most-absolutely-ruthless Empiricist who ever lived, in my eyes.

That ability to stand outside paradigms/interpretation-regimes, & see what universe-itself was saying, puts Gautama waaay beyond the prejudice in the materialists/physicalists/existentialists and their mind-regimes.

Evolution’s existence, consistently, for billions of years, demonstrating anti-entropy itself is evidence, but ignored, within all the mind-regimes which disallow that to be significant…

Downvote away…

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Bird-urine is white, their poo is brown/dark.

Washing-soda or baking-soda ( & if kids are going to be playing on it, or someone’s going to be picnicking on it ) in a weak HE-laundry-detergent solution.

( urine is acidic: the alkali in the washing-soda or baking-soda neutralizes it )

scrub/soak

then rinse.

hth.

You are presuming that the economic-configuration would be the same…

That isn’t correct.

The Deep South’s slaves weren’t allowed any economic-autonomy, were they?

We’d be mere-property. mere-slaves, no rights, & just mowing-us-down-with-bullets if we protested, if it got far enough.

You know, the way communist dictators mow-down their own farmers/food-producers ( Stalin ), or their own intelligentsia ( Mao ), or the way fascist dictators mow-down the woke.

Most currence is mere-leverage, & with that-fake an economy, they can certainly come-up-with something that locks us out.

Trumpcoin, e.g: either you use trumpcoin XOR you’re ICE’d, if you see what I mean…

If they have to manufacture criminality, in order to “justify” some more “enforcement”, well, for bullies, that’s called entertainment, right?

the economic-phase/paradigm we’re currently-in is only 1 phase of many.

The barter-system the Indigenous peoples ( who hadn’t come-up-with a currency of any kind ) works, for low-intensity economies…

the “economy” that functioned in the nazi concentration-camps ( people traded for pieces-of-paper, or cigarettes, etc ), or in prisons, is an economy…

Underground-economy’s likely to be present in nearly-all economies, especially the ones rooted in class-based-validity…

( in the academic-class-system associating-with-an-important-name is a kind of “currency” )

The intent is total-segregation-of-privilege-&-power to them, from all-others.

Why should they care if the all-others part doesn’t work, or isn’t sustainable?

So long as it works until they die, … they won, right?

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EVERYthing made by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Keaton

We’ve got laws, now, against the insane shit they did on-set, back then…

Lives were too-cheap, back then…

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Correct about being dead-inside, on some of those chemicals.

Mind-you, sometimes medication is the currently-right-answer, but I find psychiatry’s devotion to a perpetually-medicated population to be the wrong paradigm.

IF medication’s required, THEN can it be made to be not required, in the future, through engineered-healing, somehow??

That isn’t how Western medicine worked, when I was engaging with it ( I’m autistic, then a brain-injury survivor, & spent much of many days catatonic, for years, late last century ).

When you’re zonked on their drugs, though, you’re zonked, & it affects you consistently-enough that good cops’ll figure-out that you’re medically-drugged probably without even having to ask.

I remember seeing a newspaper photo of an arrested murderer-suspect, & immediately thought: zonked on antidepressant ______ … & then when I read the article, yeah, they were.

Going up against neurological-damage … COSTS one, but … depends on the person, you know?

Some’d rather die than live drugged ( me ), & others just want life to be easier…

Please understand this, though: alcohol & marijuana both can produce the same result.

There used to be a subreddit called r/leaves which was people who wanted to be living again, instead of deadened the way THC does…

( & all the people who pretend that THC “helps” autism, no, it hides the symptoms it doesn’t help reduce the problem and they don’t care: marijuana-cult is a cult, as I was forced to learn, some years ago )

It isn’t only pharmaceuticals which produce the effect you’re asking about…

hell, sometimes trauma can obliterate a person’s emotional-functioning!

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Not all can be rehabilitated: some just are wired THAT different, & butcher people for fun, because that’s the way they’re wired.

Ignoring that is the making-believing that makes such believers into accessory-to-murder when the not-contained serial-murderer murders yet-another.

There was a story, maybe a few years ago, a woman who wouldn’t accept that an inmate was really destructive-of-life, she befriended him, & got butchered.

Leftist got ate by leopards.

( it isn’t only the right which demonstrates idiocy! )

The problem is that categories exist, & our whole system is pretending that it’s a spectrum, instead of distinct-categories, with spectrums … sorta-overlapping … each category.

Some absolutely need to be permanently segregated from communities.

& the idiocy of putting people into a criminality-manufacturing-pressure-cooker while gaslighting about that somehow being “corrections”, needs to be terminated.

Correct the problem-motivation/wrong-mental-function, aversion-therapy may well be part of that, but don’t increase the criminality in them, & do offer them humanness-improvement opportunity & asssitance.

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That’s good advice.

I’d never have thought of it on my own, being autistic.

Thank you for telling us that one.

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Vetoing learned-helplessness is effective…

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Depends on the culture:

in empiricist/objective science-culture, that’s true, but in authority-based cultures, … that won’t work.

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IF your unconscious-mind is playing that kind of game, AND you give-in to it, THEN it gets stronger, in its subjugation of your life to its bullying.

Give it NO ground, & don’t budge on that.

All your life, if required.

The people who give-in to their unconscious-ignorance’s ordering them to murder people, because they felt if they just-gave-in, then the unconscious-mind’s bullying would relent … don’t get the result they were making-believing-in:

bullying which gains compliance, grows and that should be obvious.

that is true of all unconscious-ignorance’s bullying, small or great.

Give it no ground, & set about consolidating your control/ownership/possession of YOUR life, against that kind of thing.

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Strangled with a cord.

the photo of his corpse shows the marks on his neck from that cord.

The cloth he “supposedly” was strangled-with wouldn’t have put those marks on his neck.

There’s a yt mortician who identified this stuff.

& the fact that suicides tend to have 0 or 1 vertebra broken, but Epstein had 3 broken…

& the security-video which wasn’t supposed to have any record of the guy in orange who went into that area, but did ( somebody whose job was to prevent evidence … fucked up )

& the authorities make baldfaced “that isn’t significant” … when it fucking obviously was significant … decisions…

& on & on & on…

There’s a former mafia man, Michael Firenzese, who’s got multiple Epstein videos, & 1 of those has on its thumbnail a marionette style image, so large dark hand above, & … 2, iirc, marionettes, with Epstein being 1 of 'em…

That video identifies enough evidence that now I understand why he was able to get away with the absurd degree of impunity he had…

CIA, Mossad, AND KGB seem to have been working with him.

When the FBI wanted him put away, they were ordered to back off, being informed he was an intelligence asset…

So, then the question of who was using who? comes up…

He was using the intelligence-agencies to gain power/influence, he was getting kompromat/blackmail on everybody, he was sharing that, for a price of some kind, with multiple agencies, selectively, they were using him, NOBODY is being made accountable for raping girls, he apparently murdered multiple girls, some buried “out back” he said, & he bought 330t of sulfuric-acid … probably for eradicating other inconvenient evidence, & Maxwell ( or somebody whose perspective is identical to hers ) murdered a girl to prove herself to her “husband” … there reaches a point where there’s no point in pretending that this is in any way, whatsoever sane.

1 guy who was talking about having met him said the hair on the back of his neck was standing on end, & he knew this guy was evil.

I’d believed that I’d had that kind of sense ( have evidence of having got that kind of judgement right, in the past ), but … whatever darkness-sense I’ve got didn’t work with Epstein, in that video Bannon made of him…

The repeated asking by Bannon “do you believe you are the devil” or something like that … & his careful non-response … he may have so believed, tbh…

Anyways, more info than you asked, but the whole thing has evidence scattered everywhere, & the key items need to be consolidated, properly, so people can see & understand, for real…

Years ago, there was the Iran-Contra affair… a guy who dug into that told me the more he knew, the less he could figure-out who the “good guys” were supposed to be…

This is the same, only more so.

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Years ago, I read a research news item about having looked at gut-cells, after an ultrasound, & finding that they were having an abnormally elevated death-rate.

Anybody who understands that if that holds, if ultrasound stresses cells in an unnatural way which is actually-significant, even only slightly, that having all babies ultrasounded might be a stupid idea?

anybody who knows some of the history of the X-Ray, knows that Marie Curie’s corpse is kept in a lead coffin, because it’s too radioactive,

& that medical-X-rays NOW are drasticlly lower-energy than what they were in the 1900’s ( new machines, anyways ).

I expect the same to be true of ultrasound machines: less energy, for the same view…

The point of this, though, is that the ONLY study I know-of which looked at whether cell-death is increased by ultrasound, discovered that yes, it is, & … nobody cared??

That’s the wrong response.

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For gaming, Ubuntu’s got the strongest support.

Why do I know that?

Because I tried running Steam on … perhaps openSUSE or Void, & was told by Steam that they only support Ubuntu.

Since then I’ve read that they support others, but it was only a few years ago where they told me they only backed that one.

Linux Torvalds has spoken on how you simply can’t make an app that will work on all distros: it isn’t possible.

Gentoo would except for that kind of compatibility probably be your highest-performance OS, since you can intentionally include ALL of the CPU-optimizations which test to work best for you.

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Twist the question:

Do you really care if your partner lives-in instagram “reality” or in what you experience as reality?!

Appearance-based “league” costs: it costs attention, focus, dedication, & resources.

Some care about experience-induced-value, others about appearance-based-value, & it shows.

Had a friend tell me once they lost a friend to modeling: it ate her brain.

Now all she could discuss were makeup & hair.

Was Einstein at the bottom, or the top, of “league”, once he’d become a philosopher?

See?

One’s values is the basis of “league”.

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THEN they NEED to have ultrasonic sensors, activated at … say … 1/2-metre intervals, because LIDAR may be blind to float-glass that isn’t at a right-angle to it, but SONAR isn’t blind to sheet-glass.

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( the things might harm the hearing of animals, hence the limiting it to a chirp-every-1/2-metre idea: minimize noise-pollution that we are “blind” to, see? )

Want to know what possibility for harvesting a particular element is, from the ocean?

click on it in https://www.mbari.org/know-your-ocean/periodic-table-of-elements-in-the-ocean/

( scroll down a bit )

& see a new page open up, identifying how abundant/not it is, & the top-to-bottom-gradient of it…

Rare-earths may be sufficiently harvestable from the ocean using Metal-Organic-Frameworks, for coastal de-salination plants, or tidal-power-plants, if done at scale…

( which would break national-monopolies, wouldn’t it? )

just don’t bother trying to mine iridium through that method: you’ll never get enough to make it worthwhile.

All the apps using QT, so therefore QT.

Lighter than KDE ( which I used back 'round the turn of the millenium ), & sane.

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Buy 2 good books ( different authors ) on becoming a private investigator.

Read them.

Hit Nolo press, & buy their book on legal-research.

Read it.

Now you have 2 understanding-sets that normal-people don’t have, & you can begin digging into institutional-crimes much more competently than normals could.

BellingCat would be an advisable set-of-learnings, too.

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It’s actually a different substance-of-mind active, when we’re dreaming…

1. SurfaceMind, disintegrates every few hours
2. underlying ( unconscious-by-training, among our cultures ) LifeMind, begins-forming-in-conception, shatters in death, active in Dreaming & is the “undertow” which rules our lives, when we’re operating out of the mirage that SurfaceMind is ( projected by identity+ego’s distortion, in our unconscious LifeMind )
3. doubly-underlying Continuum/Soul, the unkillable “thing” that reaps what it sows, in Eternity’s timescale, until finally it earns awakening/dissolution/enlighenment.

So, SurfaceMind is reading these words, LifeMind does the dreaming, & it’s a different “self”-substance in those 2 cases ( which is why the “reasoning” difference is sooo great: each is working its own way )

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