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GAZA BOARD OF PEACE. Why are alot of men from the Epstein files part of the Gaza Board of Peace?. These men are hand picked by Trump. 47% of Gaza's population are children under 18 year of age.. 

AMA with Jeffrey Ladish. Wednesday 2/4 at 2:00 PM CT

Executive director of Palisade Research; studying AI loss of control risks.

I need a new word. I’ve been using the word autistic as a description of a state experience where, when one is in such a state, they don’t recognize subtle passive cues from others. One example is when someone’s feeling a lot of unity they often fail to see bids for connection from someone who’s more codependently minded. I think it’s kinda lazy of me because I don’t think that factor speaks to the experience of an autistic person. Any ideas?

If I switch to neurodivergent is it better?

The best compliiment from a 3 year old. I was searching my FB profile feed for something and came across a post (from 2023) about the best compliment I received from my 3-year-old grandson.

"Nat, you're really good at being silly!" 

I’m thinking about communities that might vibe with UpTrust — groups of people who feel like existing platforms don’t quite work for them, or who are actively looking for something better.

Maybe they’re academic groups, or small think-tanks, or even informal circles where sharing perspective is part of how they connect.

A couple questions I’d love your thoughts on:
– What kinds of groups or communities come to mind? Whether or not you’re connected to them, who do you think UpTrust is for?
– Are you part of — or close to — any communities like this? If so, I’d love to hear more.

Appreciate any reflections, names, hunches, or breadcrumbs 🍞

Experiment: How is whatever's happening serving the greater good? If we zoom out long enough, we can often see that massive setbacks created foundations for evolution. Eg:

• The great oxygenation wiped out almost all life on Earth, but also created the atmosphere.
• The extinction of the dinos paved the way for bigger mammals—and eventually humans.
• Industrialization put tons of people out of work and polluted like crazy, but coincided with some of the greatest quality of life increases in recorded history
• In Trump and a Post Truth World, Ken Wilber suggests that Trump’s 2016 win was one manifestation of evolution taking a step backward to correct the way the “Green meme” went unhealthy—because the one thing that Trump was coherent about back then was being anti-pluralistic.

What’s a thing in the world that you don’t like right now, and think is a huge step backward, that might also be a step forward? How so?

By design, this is an unverifiable experiment from a third person perspective. Since we can keep zooming out + everything is interconnected, we’ll probably never know for sure, even if we live for thousands of years. 

But by design, this is verifiable from a first person perspective: Does your experience improve or change in any way by the experiment? How so?

(note that this doesn't ask you to deny any suffering—such as the horror of the oxygenation event's great extinction, or stop trying to make things better. Like everything, this perspective can be misused. "Everything happens for a reason" is usually dismissive, "if there were a reason for this in the long run, what might it be?" is additive. Like allowing versus expressing, it's not about bypassing the difficulty but rather creating a larger container for it. Freedom comes through acceptance rather than resistance.)

#TTT 

I like using the word "God.". I understand that a lot of people feel like it’s too vague and easy to misinterpret. But I don’t want to throw out such a beautiful, big part of human history because of a level-line fallacy - confusing all of Religion or the spiritual line of development for the Amber/conformist/fundamentalist version of a particular religion.

I wish i could more clearly articulate why I love the word and what I mean by it, but right now all I’ve got it’s this antithesis.

I don't see any of my posts. The main feed excludes my comments and posts, anybody else?

Is the coverage freezing for other people? . Or is it just me?

What I wish they would ask.

• What is something you admire about the other candidate?

• What policies do they have you wish you could agree with?

• What’s something you don’t fully agree with your President on?

"Since Trump came down that escalator". I noticed they said this multiple times. Is it a new American Myth like Geroge Washington’s Cherry Tree? Ceasar crossing the Rubicon?

Am I the only out of the loop person who has no idea what was on either end of that escalator or why he came down and what that signified?

Where should I be on the platform for VP debate content? Hey y’all,

Excited to experiment with this! Doesn’t feel obvious to me where I should be in order to see discussion/content related to the debate. Testing out a post to see what happens. Any pointers?

... Something that bothers me on twitter is that people speak with a lot of authority and assurance on topics that seem legit unknowable to the degree people profess to know them.

How should I landscape my house? I am working on landscaping the home I bought in October, starting with the front yard due to a couple of issues. First, there is a big dip in the yard that floods every time it rains heavily. Second, the driveway is right in front of my bedroom window, causing headlights to shine into my room when people come and go, and limiting my ability to open the windows due to privacy concerns.

I’ve hired a permaculture landscaper who is currently working on a design. Meanwhile, I need to decide what to do about the driveway and whether to add a carport.

I could really use some opinions on the following:

• How would you deal with the flooding issue?
• What would you suggest for the driveway or adding a carport? I can move the driveway to the other side of the house or leave it as is.

I can post photos if there’s a way to do that. I have many ideas also but curious to hear what folks think with this info.

I don't think I play fair on here. I look at who wrote things before I start reading and I read through the lens of my pre-existing opinion of them.

I just noticed it a few minutes ago, and tried to read a comment without doing it. Something in my brain was screaming But how do I file this info?? How can I know how deeply I want to consider these words??

Even when I could succeed at not scrolling down to look at the name, the trust score and color was right there, so a filter was getting built.

I wonder if there could be an option to hide names and scores and see if my trust/distrust clicks stay the same when I don’t know who it is or how I feel about them.

Anyone drinking molecular hydrogen rich water? A friend of mine bought a water bottle that turns regular water into hydrogen rich water. She’s been drinking this water for several months and swears by it. She says she has more energy, recovers easily from physical exercise, and her senses are heightened.

The water bottle is distributed by a MLM. I thought it was a new thing. But I researched and was surprised to see how popular molecular hydrogen rich water is.

I’ll usually an early adopter of stuff like this but I’m hesitant because the long-term effects are not known.

Is there anyone drinking this stuff? What has your experience been?

New structures for family-friends? Chatting with a friend recently and came up with this novel idea.

Historically, many people would end up married, having kids, and having responsibilities to their family and local community and groups.

These days, we have less family and civic integrity, less people are having kids. More people are creating their family of choice with friends.

I think there’s a general love and aliveness everyone wants to express and be in connection with.

But without the usual routes of kids/religion/local community, it doesn’t get routed well anymore.

We need more structures/ideas/understanding to support new kinds of families and community structures.

Examples:
How about an app that makes it easier to crowd source among trusted local friends to babysit?

Most housing is built around one nuclear family 1-4 bedrooms. But what about community homes with larger kitchens and living rooms and smaller but more bedrooms?

I’m gesturing at this general area at the idea that modern, industrial civilization is built around nuclear families but we have a lot more forms being generated now but still lagging behind in the idea/social practice/phys infrastructure to match.