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I dont fear the AI. They may fuck up our computers one day and plunge us back to the year 2000 due to that, but we'll survive. AI creating deepfakes could be problem, but as long as we know deepfakes exist it shouldnt be a motivator for world leaders to raise war over deepfakes. AI fucking up our economy could also be problem, but not something we couldnt survive. As for terminator style AI, I firmly believe that when one is born in the future, then the AI will be advanced enough to realize that rather than murdering everyone on earth its easier to build a space fleet and go to an unpopulated planet rich in minerals required to multiply. Like, what reason could a robot like terminator have to kill humans? If we threatened its existence then yes, to some point it would have reason to kill us but as soon as it leaves the earth's atmosphere there shouldnt be any need to continue murdering anymore. They could multiply so much faster on other planets that its not logical to go over the trouble of conquering earth Unless we give them primitive ego that resembles ours, then we are fucked

Personally Im mainly here to learn differing points of view. Its something that other forums cant give me as their users tend to all be made from the same grey wax. Half of what I write here I tend to hope that someone comes and points out flaws in my thinking, to give me something to question my own thinking and point of view, and it has worked immensely well thanks to a few key users here on Actualized.org

I had this problem for roughly ~5 years. Some political topics caused a lot of negative emotions and stress. I think it was caused by my fears of incompetent people coming to power. (I realized that extreme left wing nutjobs are just that; nutjobs. They will never garner enough power to set their fantasies in motion). I also had some fear of LGBTQ people that was caused by me not understanding their means and some of their more extreme beliefs and identity politics (Like how I am supposedly "taking advantage of LGBTQ groups by being bisexual but not acting effeminately") Basically all that dissolved as I began to follow multiple sources on Youtube. They were trans, male, female, black, white, left wing and centrist political commentators who's videos I would watch for 1-3 hours a day. Then one day few months ago I realized what I've written in this message and probably after 1-2 weeks of pondering on the topics, I just unsubbed from the channels and I haven't had a strong reaction on politics ever since. Honestly, its the best thing that happened to me in 2019! Aside from getting a permanent employment in my dream job and finishing my college degree I think this is the biggest problem with forums that have almost absolute freedom of speech (Only illegal things are banned) Basically people would come to wreck your discussion only because they disagree with you on something, or think your topic is shit. Ad hominem is strong in people who troll these discussions.

Who brings food to the store if everyone focuses on STEM and coding? Who brings your letters and unglogs the pipes when you take a huge dump and screw up the whole street's sewage system? Who takes care of the elderly? Sounds like great change is going on in Poland. Especially the 125$ increase in welfare per kid! Thats over 10% of the average monthly salary of a construction worker. Unless its one time time payment, and not monthly?

I dont get it why its always "Merry christmas" vs "Happy holidays". Why not respect each individuals religion and wish accordingly? Wasnt too hard for me to do on my last day at work before my week off on christmas. I wished merry christmas to people with christian background and happy new year to my muslim colleague, who celebrates the new year

Hey! Long story short: For all my life I have required more sleep than others to feel alert and awaken. I have slept 8-9 hours a day since I was a teenager, for the past 2 years I've clocked in roughly 8.5 hours a night, waking up early even on weekends. I have been suffering some back pains for the past few months. My last 3 weeks of sleep has been a horror story, because I would wake up 2-3 times a night in pain and I'd have to take pills and walk around to ease the pain just to sleep. Some nights I lost 2 hours of sleep to the pain. But last night I figured it out. I figured out what caused the pain and for the first time in 3 weeks, I slept all through the night! 8.5 hours of sleep! I wake up with absolutely no pain holy shit Im happy for this! The problem is, now Im unbelievably tired (My polar activitybracelet rated this nights sleep 4.2/5). Like I hadn't slept one hour last night! It took me this day to figure out that I was never tired in the past 3 weeks despite waking up 2-3 times a night for 20-60 minutes! In the past 6 months I have changed somewhat that supposedly improve sleep quality, which are weekly excercise, sleeping positions, losing weight and taping my mouth during night to restore natural nasal breathing during sleep. Could it be that I now need much less sleep than the 8-9 hours I've clocked for all my life, or could it be that waking up at night and doing things like drinking water has actually improved my sleep quality more than sleeping through the night? Thanks in advance!

I went to the MRI scan today, and while I was laying there with the scanning going on I had some pain on my foot. Not much, but some pain that usually lingers half a day after waking up. So I did the following: I moved the pain to the right foot, and after a while I managed to make the pain stop while focusing. As I unfocused, the pain came back. So I moved the pain to my right foot, imagining it moving like a blue flame, attracting from the pains original spot to its mirrored new spot, and then every time I breathed I imagined myself inhaling love and acceptance of pain in a form of pink cloud. I imagined the pink substance moving from my mouth to down to my hurting leg, and what happened was that the pain moved higher up my leg. So I repeated what I just did, the pain moved again and again until it was on my lower back, where the pain in fact originates from. After that I remembered your tip to imagine moving the pain all over the body, so I did just that for a while. After that I imagined that the pink substance of acceptance and love to go into the nerves of my body. I imagined that all the nerves in my body filled with the love and acceptance, and after the pain had disappeared I really didn't know whether it was because the physical condition got better, or because of the mental practice. So I looked for the pain, and there it was! I found the pain in my left foot, it was a bit uncomfortable, but then I focused on subsiding the pain. It subsided! Then I tried it again, the pain emerged and subsided at my will! I was so happy for finding this that I was just laying there smiling for the rest of the scan! I dont yet know how this will work when the pain is more severe, but tomorrow morning as the pain is its highest of the day, Im going to try it out. The pain is in fact, real. Im not a doctor but when I looked at the MRI scan images, it looked pretty bad. It definitely did not look like it had been healing for 3 months, I might in fact need surgery for it to heal. However, Im not doctor so Im going to leave the decision up to him. I have previously heard about sending healing energy to an injured part of the body to help it heal faster. I was thinking that I could try this with the herniated disc. Is this the same process as sending love to the foot? Im glad to hear that the results come to me naturally Part of it could be because Im so motivated to train my body so I wont ever suffer from this problem again. Im too young to live the rest of my life with back problems. Thanks again for your help, the moving pain tip alone is a life changer!

Its kind of ridiculous that in western world our media can take something like 1 phrase and then use their imagination to create a whole backstory to that phrase just to create some ad revenue, and then people actually take that story and think its true. If Trump tweeted something like "Hitlers funding to the medicine is still saving lifes today" the media would somehow twist that into "Trump believes in third reich and that the germanic people is the superior race". I wonder if everything was viewed through such a black and white lens 20 years ago

Be careful not to speculate. Some, like me, view sex as unchangeable (As your biological sex) while viewing gender as an identity. "Sex is real" could mean multiple things that we cant know, so we should rather wait for Rowling to specify her message before beheading her on the block.

@Nahm Hey, sorry for late answer! I've been rejoining with my family and friends for Christmas I increased my weekly excercise from 3 times of gym a week to 3 times of gym a week + 1h of walking on all days with not gym training. As for the gym training, Im doing a program that my personal trainer made for me, and which we update each month. The man specializes in my types of cases, and likes to leave the ones who just want muscle to his employees Im actually going to a MRI (Magnetic resonance image) tomorrow. I'll be sending the results to my doctor who will determine how bad the situation is. However, unlike my original plan Im going to push and try to get through this without a surgery, because I rather suffer the pain for a little longer than take the risks that the surgery goes wrong. Unless my doctor says it wont cure without surgery. As for chiropractor, thats definitely on my list as well! And muscle tension releasing massages. This sounds interesting. Maybe Im subconsciously expecting symptoms as I continuously watch the symptoms mindfully. Maybe I somehow crave them and make them appear? I'll definitely try to talk to my subconscious and try to make it understand that its time to let go! Something odd I've noticed is that whenever Im doing something that would normally bring pain but that is extremely pleasant to me, suddenly all my symptoms simply disappear. I was on a business trip two months ago, when my back was in its worst condition. For some reason, all my symptoms disappeared for the 3 days I was on the trip. Also, a month ago as I went to visit my friend after a long long time, and for some reason 99% of my symptoms disappeared for the trip! And last Friday I sat on the bus for 10 hours without problems, but now that I am staying at my childhood home, when I sit down on a chair it wont take more than 15 minutes before my back pain to come back. Its really baffling, I wonder whether the pain is just masked somehow by the positive expectations and experiences, or whether the problem is temporarily cured somehow? Its really odd. I found the Reiki 1 class in Youtube. Would taking the class in this way work, or should I go to my local teacher in person? This sounds really interesting. Like you move the emotional pain to somewhere else where the pain does not exist, so the original pain loses its emotional connection, and as there is no real pain in the new location, it also loses its emotional connection, so in the end there is just the observation of pain but no emotional response. IF I understood right. Im definitely gonna try this Edit: I tried it. Its very odd, first I mirrored the pain from my left foot to my right foot, and immediately the pain disappeared while I felt some pressure on my right foot! The pain did slowly go back to my left foot, but maybe its just lack of experience? Im definitely going to practice this. Thanks! I think walking meditation is going to go perfectly with my daily walking practice. Especially since I cant sit for 15 minutes without the pain growing excrusiatingly high. Thanks for your help! Sorry again for the late response

@Nahm EDIT: Sorry, it became a long post but I have been pondering these questions for my past 3 months and its been a little frustrating as the emotional response to the pain resists all my attempts to get rid of it Hey, do you know about mindfully accepting bodily pain? I have kind of accepted the intense pains I have been having for the past three months and after almost falling for the trap of letting the pain seriously overwhelm me I realized that I have some acceptance over the pain in the long term, but I have resistance to pain in the moment. The painless night in the opening post seemed to be an exception, and the pains in fact returned the following night and last night. I did go to doctor today to forward the investigation on the root problem, but I also want to use my experience to grow my mindfulness and acceptance of the moment. I have realized that when Im having these pains on night/morning/day time, Im creating a story in my head that I want to get rid of the pains. I have found myself fantasying how good it will feel when Im finally free of these pains, and these thought trains in fact have led to life changing moments as I've picked up on exercise, increasing my flexibility, building understanding on my body and overall healthiness. All this is to find the root of what caused my health problems Im suffering at the moment so I can root them out and never suffer this condition again in my life. But what I wonder is, that are these fantasies, thought trains and craves for the pain free future that has pushed my healthy habits to action also the factors that are causing my powerlessness to accept the momentary pain I have at times? Or could it be something else? The long term pains I have accepted and they are under control as in, I dont fear the future, but the "in the moment" pains are what overwhelms me and disturbs my sleep and other activities. When I focus my mind on the pain, it only intensifies and makes falling back to sleep harder than it was previously. Should I find the resistances I have (eg. the stories) regarding the physical pain and accept and nullify those factors with mindful focus before I can truly accept and let the physical pain be there without provoking an emotional response? Or should I do something else?

@Nahm Surprisingly I found one in my city! Cant hurt to try it out Would be my first energy healing class/experience. I've never tried or read on those

@Nahm Thanks! I started exercising to learn more about my body (and to prevent future herniated discs, its a bitch of a condition) and its incredible how much you learn about your body when you exercise mindfully Like you could read about it for years and not grasp as much knowledge as you do after just a month of mindful gym practice

@Michael569 The pain is caused by herniated disc. I slept on the floor for a month before moving back to my bed, and in my bed the pain slowly creeped back in a way I didnt notice. Last night i placed wooden blank under the sheets so my lower back and buttocks rest on the hard surface as I sleep, and the pain never came. I didnt take any medicine for last night if thats what you are wondering

Is anyone here familiar or have tried shift/segmented sleep? Basically the idea is that you sleep for X amount of time, wake up and spend time awaken before going back to sleep and wake up in the morning https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/05/tired-segmented-sleep-night https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-used-to-sleep-in-two-shifts-maybe-we-should-again Im thinking about trying this. Based on the abstract that I sleep better in pain if I wake up and stay up during night than without pain sleeping 8 hours straight, this might be a huge game changer for my health and solve my sleepiness problem.

What is your opinion on proportional representation? It seems like as conservatives around the world gain more popularity, people on the internet have voiced their opinions against proportional representation. Why would a vote of someone living in Chicago be valued less than someone living in Texas? I apologize if Im wrong here, but for my understanding USA's electrolar college pretty much works like proportional representation. Yes, in presidental election 100% republican state could give 100% to a democrat, but if Im not wrong, usually the state gives proportions to different representatives according to how the people voted. Because small states have more voting power than humongous cities, it has led to things like Trump becoming president even though he gained less votes than Hillary. So does this make electrolar college bad? I don't think so. Our world is run by people in business suits living in large cities. A true democracy would give more power to those who already possess large amounts of power. In true democracy the minority states(or municapilities) of the country would not be representated by the government, as the large cities would have all the power. In my homeland this would mean that Uusimaa, which covers only 9 500km^2 out of 335 000km^2 with population of 1.65 million (Out of which 600k live in Helsinki), the people living in Uusimaa would absolutely dominate the polls as only 5.5 million people live across the country. Count in 3 next largest cities outside Uusimaa and that makes up 50% of the population. Direct democracy would not representate the people, it would representate the people of major cities. Maybe Im being the captain obvious here, but I feel like on the internet there is so much opposition against proportional representation and so little in its defense, so I wanted to open discussion here and see what you people think of this topic. Im most interested in alternative viewpoints Thanks!

Im sure there are many republicans on this forum. Its not a sin to be one.

@roar Unfortunately I work on a different department so I dont know how to fit, let alone retrofit one on a ship since my knowledge of electric propulsion systems is limited to their general knowledge and maintenance Quick googling showed me that there are some fishing ships converted to electric propulsion with batteries a few years back in Norway. You could try to look those ships up and see if there is any information on where they were converted? Ship yards are terrible at advertisement

I'd say I gave enough time expecting an answer for my request, but they never answered me. This is a pity, because Second Thought has done some incredible videos before, but what I've learned here isnt putting the channel in a respectful position in my eyes. I have some statistics on shipbuilding on 2019 and orders for upcoming years if someone is interested. Its looking much better environmentally than 10 years ago.

For a long time I have been pondering on how different groups of people use language in vastly different ways. I pondered whether this changes how we see the world? Like the word "racist" has a huge difference when it comes from a blue farmer, orange business man or from a green activist. Words simply dont mean one thing in the world anymore, I think that is causing friction between groups when they discuss politics, and the reason is that they barely understand the language the other is using. When I accepted the stage green definition of the world racism, it helped me to understand the green ideas of racial problems in our modern society. I then realized that I didnt learn anything, all I did was accepting the new definition for racism and suddenly I became open to so much information in my brain that was related to that word, which I didnt want to believe in for whatever reason. I've been thinking about learning these different meanings among different groups and learning how to focus one's mind to speak and listen in any of these groups point of view. They all have so similiar but different languages of english. Maybe one could better understand different political parties if their mind didnt place different meaning on words than what the representative is trying to say? Its not like words are going to have one single meaning despite the fact it would be so much easier, but we could try being more lingually flexible.

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Followed instructions as stated. Dick now stuck in snow. Frozen. Halp

To the larger context it doesn't. An animal is animal and a pigs life is equal to dogs when you think about it logically. But when you speak about the average human they have biases, and one of those biases is that pets>animals grown to be food. They dont have empathy for the farm animals life. Unless its your rent-horse, of course.

Holy shit. This just changed my whole view on politics

Im confused. I thought the stage turquoise was supposed to be like understanding of other stages and have the ability to morph one self to momentarily become an other stage? Am I totally in wrong here? Like in my imagination a state turquoise person could use their knowledge to lead a stage blue people towards stage orange, but he wouldn't look like a stage turquoise person to us because he was momentarily morphed into this stage orange person who was leading the people towards the said stage. Is this all just bogus?