When white people (even white people that white people who love obsessing about being white loathe) do state sponsored monte Carlo terrorism against the brown people they call terrorists:

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When the brown people do terrorism to the white people who do terrorism to them:

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It must be really hard keeping yourself knotted enough to support Israeli state crimes while hating the people who do smaller scale stuff back.

I think sometimes when I try to point out that political violence underpins much of society people hear “violence is good actually”.

It’s frustrating because what I’m trying to point out is actually the opposite. Prostrating yourself lets other people use violence with no checks.

you can criticise the world without resorting to past = bad which often hides things we have lost.

Also oats are nutritious, delicious, and efficient.

How about pointing out how hard you work to afford food that is often thrown out lest it undermine keeping you slaved to “the economy” etc.

No actually I’m not done. Wanting fewer material things is good actually. Opulence need not manifest in terms of the aquisition of territory and things. What if you have a tiny home and breakfast gruel but you get idle time, community, gorgeous views, freedom etc.

the problems with society aren’t that you can’t eat figs every meal and stroll around your estate, it’s that mere subsitence demands your soul.

2 or 3 sessions a week. Not longer than 2 hours. Habits are easier to form earlier in the day.

Take the time you have, take 2 weeks off the end, in the remainder of time divide each session according to how far along it is and spend the elapsed time % on revision. Obviously don’t be pathological, one minute of revision is useless. Like at 3 months in 50% new stuff 50% revision.

Don’t revise by just rereading stuff, pick problems to do in samples of topics already selected, or practice exams etc. Old uni profs might send you some practice exams and stuff if asked.

It’s highly likely ancient people would be very well spoken, given they had to talk and convince each other of things all the time. Also most of their recreation would have involved talking to some degree or another.

So I would probably do a poetry sesh about how this fucking bonkers terrifying and um could the sun come back please?

It’s hard to be more specific without more specificity.

But if you can get your hands on a practice exam, or at least practice exams for the topics covered, then by trying those you could identity the areas you most need improvement on.

you usually work up grits. In general for edges that should end shaving sharp (e.g. kitchen, whirling) below 1k is rough work, profiling work, 1k or so is basic small chip repair etc, 3k is standard sharpen, and higher is polishing wank. You get what you pay for in general: cheap stones need soaking, the wear out fast (needing truing). Shapton makes some great splash and go stones.

However, there is one cheap 2 sided diamond stone that is actually quality. The sharpal one. Be aware diamond cuts extremely fast (good and bad), it doesn’t need truing or soaking. I recommend if you’re getting one stone get that. Learn proper bur minimisation technique and that’ll cover chip repair and get your knives sharp enough to cut seethrough sheets of tomato.

If you feel fancy add 1 micron stropping compound and a sheet of balsa wood to strop on.

Oh yeah also when marking your own stuff you have to be harsh. Mostly right is entirely wrong, do it again till it’s right etc.

Sucks but you don’t want to accidentally learn bad habits

Oh also make it easy to practice. Carry a notebook and textbook on you. Waiting for a train? do a question. Appointment running late? question etc.

Don’t rely on having the perfect conditions. Make sure you have a resilient strategy. If you have one window to study in a week and you can’t do it that week you miss the whole week. That’s bad!

Do you exam well? Like are you calm sitting them, do you know how to keep track of time and avoid sunk costing on questions you can’t answer etc?

If no you’ll want to address that.

Otherwise work through textbooks of the appropriate material. Find some and work through, I mean work through. Not speed read and nod along. Write notes and do the practice problems. Do it regularly, to learn how to do a skill you have to regularly practice. You’ll need a schedule that has you setting aside time at least a couple of times a week.

You have to regularly practice things in short sessions to learn well, and once learned repeat less frequently to maintain that knowledge. So you might spend 1 hour on the current topic, and close with 15 minutes of some practice questions on topics you already covered.

Keep notes of what you’ve done, by hand! it activates more brain shit. Talking aloud through problems can help too, or pretending you’re explaining what you just learned to a nearby prop or very patient person. If you’re struggling with a topic in your revision questions do more of it till it’s easy again.

Also I don’t exactly recommend this but amusingly prompting an llm to be an inquisitive listener and trying to explain topics and answer its “questions” might be helpful? NEVER try to learn from one though, they lie really convincingly.

I’m not them but tying loads/things down during fierce winds, temp gardening structures, carrying stuff (weaving nets is useful knowledge), lifting stuff/holding suspended.

Idk even stuff like if crossing a stream it’s handy to have one person go first and make a temp hand rail by hanging a rope across so people slip less.

Magenta, small eco-friendly space ship, woke

Sharpening stones.

you need an edge so many times in your life. When you’re using scissors, slicing veggies, pruning trees, harvesting mushrooms, posting online, mowing grass, carving wood, cutting roots, trimming nails, scraping stoves/ovens, shaving, digging, trimming, pealing whatever.

There are so many dumb fancy arse awful tools that butcher edges and work in one specific case. No! For millenia people have been grinding edges, it is not difficult to learn it just takes practice.

Modern manufacturing means we can enjoy extremely consistent stones in well characterised grades. Go use some, and enjoy how much less effort life requires when everything that cuts, cuts easily.

The podcast maintenance phase had some great deep dives on this. On just how tiny the number of kids actually transitioning was and how the studies are based on the opinions of parents on a transphobic forum.

The vegans are killing animals! it’s the vegans!

Don’t you

enjoy scrolling

reading two

words at a time

while the website breaks

basic functionality

like find?

Everyone seems to use the words differently but in general sentience is accepted as the ability to feel and respond to one’s environment. That implies a thing which is able to feel/be aware often synonymous with consciousness although some people say consciousness is sentience + imagination etc.

I mean it as there being a thing which feels like something to be.

If you mean it otherwise could you please define it? Or if you’re happy to proceed with that definition of consciousness and sentience (which requires consciousness as defined) could you proceed with answering my questions?

This sounds like Penrose’s stuff which is umm not widely accepted.

Being alive is not a clearly defined state, it’s a classification we impose on the world. Assuming life is conscious is pretty close to panpsychism, especially when we get to organisms like fungi or plants without centralised structures. That’s not saying it’s wrong, as you say we can’t exactly go and measure it. At this stage it is not an empirical question.

But uncertainty doesn’t mean anything is equally likely. toy example: radioactive decay timing probabilities.

Most people tend to come down on assuming brains have something to do with consciousness because humans describe consciousness being modified by stuff happening to their brains and not the rest of them. If you come down on all life being conscious to some degree or another why? and where do you differ from the pan psychics who say all stuff is conscious to some degree or another?

Sure those behaviours are observed. But what specifically makes you think consciousness is likely? Obviously we can’t measure consciousness at this point, (or perhaps ever it’s quite unclear) but most people fall somewhere between “brains do it” and the more chauvinistic “human brains do it”.

This isn’t really something you can talk about particularly scientifically, the closest to that is basically that we observe that in humans people report modifications to consciousness if you dick with their brains and we tend to avoid wanting to overcomplicate hypotheses with second order things until necessary. We can then try making comparisons between human brains and non human brains but it’s all very speculative.

You can assume behavioural complexity requires consciousness but it’s pretty vibes based and drawing lines is hard. Most people also seem to not ascribe say complex algorithms, bacterial colonies, or water cycles or whatever consciousness though.

So I’m curious where you fall. Personally I don’t think pan psychism is woo but I don’t subscribe. Stuff just is conscious doesn’t seem any more or less reasonable to me than a lot of other “stuff in this particular arrangement just is conscious” type hypotheses, especially when humans can have all sorts of modifications to their brains and continue to describe being conscious (p zombies???).

I don’t want to bait, I’m genuinely interested although personally consider myself more of a fence sitter on non animal sentience. Suspecting it’s less likely but of course unprovable one way or the other atm.

Plants are living yes, and hormone signals etc happen in them sure. It’s not known what causes consciousness though, hell we don’t even know why general anesthetics work in humans and we generally only believe them to disrupt consciousness because you ask people about it later and they say they have no recollection, except sometimes when they do so amnesics are often administered as a failsafe.

What do you mean when you say anesthetise a tree? And why is that evidence of sentience? Like lignocaine will work on the nerves in my arm. You could keep my arm alive after removing it from me (at least for a while) and inject lignocaine and observe interrupted nerve signals. Most people don’t believe amputated arms to be sentient though.