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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • The lack of observation has a clear effect on thoughts and behavior. There is even an English saying “when the cat is away, the mice will play”. I think that there is no such thing as " freedom of speech" or “freedom of assembly”, if a malicious actor is silent notes taking at all times.

    And because harvested data goes to the rich, or the cops who care about convictions more than the truth it is a reasonable assumption in my threat model that data observation is malicious observation.

    Also from a citizen development perspecrive, if your citizens are always watched, then they never develop the " moral muscle" and the only morality remains in the hands of those with the power to observe and enforce their will.












  • The YouTube video “the story of stuff” describes how the great depression was caused by people buying things once, and once the idea of buy the same thing every few years then trash it became a thing, well the economy keeps rolling

    Even if we stop 100% of all co2 production today, we may have a lot of hard times ahead until the co2 gets recaptured somehow.

    A lesson taught over and over to me is rich people fomo - if you don’t “invest” in personal productivity, then you will be poor and irrelevant pretty soon then you will get sick and poor people don’t live well when health gives a jackhammer to the face.

    I am not as bad as you describe, but I may be more consuming than I could be as I try to maximize wealth.