Southkraut
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"Behind our efforts, let there be found our efforts."
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Southkraut
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12hr ago
“Giftedness” (unusual abilities in music, maths, arts or abstract thinking)
5/5 of the “Major Psychiatric diagnosis”: Autism, ADHD, Bipolar, Schizophrenia, and Depression.
Hypermobility/Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (aka double-jointedness)
Hormone disorders
Sensory processing issues
Anxiety, Cutting and Eating disorders
Autoimmune disorders, Asthma, Allergies, Mast cell activation disorder
Gender dysphoria, fluidity, Same-sex attraction
Sleep disorders, Chronic fatigue
Left Handedness
This is such an eclectic collection of traits, I challenge you to find one Mottizen who doesn't qualify.
Southkraut
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1d ago
Are they? Why? What makes them so? Base matter seems sufficient for perception and thinking. I'm not saying there is no non-material aspect to life, but the "things" you named...seem doable by material means.
Die Staufer: Glanz und Elend eines deutschen Kaisergeschlechts, by Johannes Lehmann.
It's a historical work about the medieval house of Hohenstaufen, and especially about the emperors, with Friedrich I., known as Barbarossa, serving as the headliner. It's pop-sci, but very dry, just the way I like it. Tries to draw from as many different sources as possible, compares them dispassionately, usually shrugs and admits that there's no way to know for sure, and then goes on to recount the history of those rulers in a workmanlike fashion. It's unexciting, calm and goes for accuracy instead of shock value. Thus my teutonic heart gets all warm and fuzzy. What a comfy read.
Also, my wife pulled it out of a book stop, so it didn't cost me anything.
Southkraut
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1d ago
Replace "antichrist" with "literally Hitler" (meaning: "not literally Hitler but morally Hitler-equivalent") and see what numbers that gives you.
Southkraut
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1d ago
So, do you deny that the hard problem exists and is indeed a problem? Because from a straightforward logical point of view, it's one of the most impossible gaps for materialism to cover. How do we perceive or think at all, if we're fully material?
Excuse my ignorance of the subject, but why should perception or thinking be impossible for a material creature?
Southkraut
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4d ago
It occurs to me that I have no idea what you're even talking about.
Twitter I've seen occasionally, but Bluesky? Mastodon? truth.social? I suppose they're also social media of some sort, but I've never visited those sites. If they even are sites, rather than apps...if that distinction even matters. Could someone please spoonfeed me with a three-liner about what those actually are?
Southkraut
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5d ago
No, my last comment was of course meant to reflect the state of last week.
This weekend, I got nothing done because I herded kids all day every day. And on weekdays...well, same as you.
Southkraut
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6d ago
No, that's not clear at all.
"Proactively provide evidence in proportion to how partisan and inflammatory your claim might be.".
Southkraut
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7d ago
Only until the time comes to denounce the whites.
Southkraut
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7d ago
Please explain.
Southkraut
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8d ago
Honestly I'm confused what the point of Leonardo Di Caprio's character was.
The character had no point. Leonardo Di Caprio did. And it was getting consumers to actually show up and consoom.
Southkraut
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8d ago
Yes, thank you. My fingers outpaced my eyes.
Southkraut
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8d ago
No progress last week, since I only really have the weekends and I spent that on a trip.
Southkraut
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8d ago
Maybe in some hypothetical world, but not in the real one. The secret true-believing nazi who clandestinely influences procedural outcomes from a position he obtained by hiding his power level might have been an observable phenomenon in the early days of the Federal Republic, but not one that secretly handed on his antisemitism to the current generation of woke anti-zionists. I don't believe that this ideological lineage can actually be traced.
Southkraut
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8d ago
Let me know how it goes. It is a heart-topic of mine, as the Germans say.
Southkraut
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8d ago
Please tell me what you think of them so far.
I recently read the Sea-Wolf, and was of two minds about it. OTOH, there's some interesting bits in there. OTOH, the POV character is insufferable, and I suspect that large parts of the book could have been excised with no meaningful losses.
I can only say again what I keep saying over and over only to be told that it's impossible:
Don't even try to look at your phone when kids are around.
I could expand on this, relay my experiences on the topic, and how I am very, very convinced that this is the only remotely sensible way - but everyone nowadays is addicted to the little screen, so why bother. Nobody will follow this advice. There will be excuses.
Edit: Oh well, I ended up writing a screed anyways:
If you stick to it, it will make your life a lot easier, and your interactions with the kid a lot better.
But yes, you will have to just suck up those brief moments of "This feels like three seconds of downtime in which I could twist open the dopamine faucet." and instead tell yourself "No. Now is child time.".
Which isn't to say that the child needs uninterrupted attention. Far from it. But you have an example to set, and the example shouldn't be "Goes for immediate gratification at a second's notice." or "Turns into a drooling zombie two hundred times a day.". Either do something with the kid, or at least do something useful that the child does well to observe.
I see far too many people who are annoyed by their children, and keep bitching at them or ignoring them, because above all what the children are to them are interruptors of the dopamine flow. And that is, IMO, very unfair to the kids, and very counterproductive for the parents/grandparents/nannies. And they do it just to doomscroll. It's disgusting. I wish people would stop that. I wish I could pry my wife away from her phone in such a way that it doesn't snap back into her face at the first physical opportunity. I wish my parents would stop cracking open their notebooks and tell the grandkids to shut up as soon as they arrive at home. I wish I wouldn't see parents dragging their kids along the street with one hand while staring at their phone with the other, chewing them out all the while but never looking them in the eyes. I wish they wouldn't all park the kids in front of the TV so they can get back to staring at screens. Screens, screens and sugar all day every day. I hate it. I hate it so damn much. I can have a full and productive day with the little one, without trying to shut her off so that I can favor my addictions instead, and after such a day relax and do something for myself in the evening and actually feel that I deserve the rest. God's gift to mankind: Children sleep longer than adults. I am far from perfect, a creature of many failures, but this is one thing that I am convinced I do right, or at least less wrong than most. I wish others would follow suit.
But it isn't to be. Humanity is fucking over.
Southkraut
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8d ago
For general screen-time, I've kinda given up. I work in front of a screen for 8-10 hours a day, and in the evenings I spend 2-4 hours staring at another screen recreationally. Yay. 12h average. I wish I could afford to switch careers. I wish I still lived where there was anything to do, locally, after dark. But alas, not for now. At least weekends are mostly screen-free.
Phone-time is easy though. Don't consume shit. There, the phone is now just a regular tool without addictive properties. I just plain don't use any doomscrolling things. The closest equivalent I have is The Motte. The most addictive thing on my phone is probably the kindle app. So the phone just stays in my pocket unless someone calls.
Let me reiterate: Just fucking don't consume addictive shit. Stop it. Put it down. Uninstall it. Remove the bookmarks. Slap yourself on the hand when you notice yourself doing it. That's what my 4-year old does when she notices herself doing something by habit that she knows she shouldn't. That, or hide where I can't see her and do it anyways. But you aren't four years old! If you find yourself suddenly smoking again even though you've nominally quit, then the right move is to NOT "just finish this pack", but to spit the damn thing out and throw the pack into the nearest garbage bin, and then ask the nearest passerby to give you a solid slap in the face.
Now excuse me, I have to go on a two-hour wiki binge.
Southkraut
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8d ago
Big Ouch.
Southkraut
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8d ago
Please explain.
Southkraut
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8d ago
Pretty sure you actually can. Not saying that it's the case with Trump getting shot in the ear, but...yeah, drilling a specific response to specific situations into people is something that can demonstrably be done.
Southkraut
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9d ago
This is true, but it makes no difference. The suppression of their views was thorough enought hat whatever secret views they might have held in the back of their minds could not compete with the decidedly un-suppressed leftist tendencies of German society.
Southkraut
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9d ago
I have to agree with this. Leftism as an ideology can propagate independently of fertility. It is ethno-anything that requires fertility, and any sort of conservatism that at least favors fertility in order to promote stability. But the further you get from the ethnic component, the more you can bank on cultural assimilation instead.
Southkraut
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9d ago
Shit happens. Thanks for continuing to work on the Motte!
Ah, my bad, I didn't mean qualify for all of them simultaneously. Rather, qualify by having some undefined number larger than one of those traits. Vague, yes, I know.
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