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‘1.|0 Let’s begin by defining the terms ‘immersion obliviousness’ and ‘hypercrafting’. When some phenomenon becomes almost totally pervasive within our environment we tend to go beyond merely taking it for granted, to the point where we never even experience an occasion to think about it.

‘2.|0 Mirror image inversion is an example. I guess that at some time or other most people ask themselves why objects appear to be ‘reversed’ when viewed in a mirror. For example if I put on a T-shirt with the phrase “Eat It” emblazoned on the front, it will appear as “tI taE (but with the letters also reversed). So I ask myself “If the lettering is reversed left-to-right, how come it is not also upside-down?” Most perplexing! But this result is due to the fact that while we inhabit a three (spacial) dimensional universe, mirrors effectively show us a two dimensional one.

Suppose I draw a stick figure human with a round head and a flag in his/her right hand, and turn it around before a mirror — I will of course see the same stick figure with the flag in his/her left hand. But why is the round head still at the top? This is due to the two dimensional nature of mirror images. Now, if I simply flip the drawing upside-down instead of left-to-right, it now will appear upside-down in the mirror — But the flag will continue to appear to be held in the right hand. The universe is very big and very strange. Nevertheless, every morning you peer at your face to check if the pimples have gone away, but give not the slightest thought to the issue of mirror inversion. This is a very typical instance of ‘immersion obliviousness’ — It’s totally obvious and almost inevitable, so you naturally become totally oblivious to it.

‘3.|0 The most difficult issues to raise questions about involve immersion obliviousness, however they are also the most important issues to question.

‘4.|0 People virtually always perceive a rather sharp distinction between the hypercrafted world and primitive features of the world. There are very few primitive objects inside ‘developed world’ dwellings — Maybe ‘non-trained’ houseplants can be primitive. Nonetheless, most every other household object has been produced by the application of hypercrafting processes. One salient aspect of hypercrafted objects is that their constituents are radically transformed from natural resources extracted from the earth. I was greatly surprised to find that many people are so immersion oblivious to the hypercrafted nature of the most common objects in their world that they become bewildered by any discussion of the simple concept of hypercrafting.

‘5.|0 Does your refrigerator look like anything produced by nature? Your toilet? Your bed? Your automobile? No, not at all. And possession of these things primarily marks the delimits of the developed world versus the ‘developing world’. And their production exploits utterly vast amounts of embedded energy, while producing landfills of highly toxic ‘tailings’, mostly discarded in the ‘developing world’. ‘Advanced’ weapons are also hypercrafted. So it takes up a vast amount of energy to manufacture concrete and steel structures, and also to reduce them to rubble.

‘6.|0 It just happens that the hypercrafted developed world, the great twentieth century blowout, the great oil and fresh water bonanza, peak prosperity, is coming to a end. There will be very little hypercrafting in the multifactorial global technospheric reversion. I wonder how the fascist ruling elito-junto will cope with the coming horse and buggy economy?

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‘1.|0 An absolutely enormous effort has lately (probably since around the early 1990s) sprung up to promote or invent particular existing or novel voting methods. One of these methods ‘ranked choice voting’ (RCV) (formerly called ‘instant runoff voting’) has received enormous financial backing. Consider the ‘FairVote’ organization, which receives millions of dollars yearly to (mostly) promote the ‘ranked choice voting’ method.

As will be explained later, this ‘ranked choice voting’ method would bring about a disaster for what is generally be perceived to be democracy.

‘2.|0 There exist other efforts (some far more acceptable) to reform voting systems, such as Math PhD Warren D. Smith’s favored ‘range voting’ (also known as ‘score voting’, and referred to here as broad range voting), which appear to be workable, but lack the simplicity necessary for the utilization of hand counted paper ballots. See:

fairvote (dot) org/who-we-are/financials/

https://rangevoting.org/ForGreens.html

https://rangevoting.org/

‘3.|0 In reality, every nation is ultimately ruled by a tolerant majority, a majority conditioned to be intolerant, or some benevolent or sadistic minority. Pathological aggressive sadistic and extremely ambitious minorities that promote intolerance and strife are always present, and populations must possess cultural resources to disrupt the intolerance, violence, and social degeneracy that they constantly instigate.

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‘0.|0 This post is here to provide a slightly technical description of this blog’s ‘riffs’ and ‘posts’ labeling method for finding posts and ‘riffs’ that remind readers of concepts and terms that relate to matters while they are being discussed. You can simply ignore these labels when they are not of help, and simply omit them in comments

‘1.|0 Various passages in the posts will be marked by ‘riffs’. These riffs are short labels that refer to passages that may provide requisite definitions and expositions. This labeling scheme is optimized to expedite the find function of word processors, and also reference to passages in printed documents.

‘2.|0 In each riff ”X.|Y’, ”X’ will be in base_10 notation and ‘.|Y’ will be in base_8 (i.e. octal) notation. This is because base-8 numbers are much easier to divide by 2. Note that 1/4 is expressed as ‘0.25’ in base 10, but 1/4 is expressed as ‘0.2’ in base 8, since base_10 1/4 = base_10 2.5/10 = ‘0.25’, but base_10 1/4 = base_8 2/8 = base_8 ‘0.2’.

Note that the digits ‘8’ and ‘9’ never appear in octal numbers. This riff marking scheme will serve us well. An example of a reference to a riff is (‘vide’ or ‘see’) ‘376.|4 [^200715] (see below).

‘3.|0 Nominally ‘dated’ designators such as ‘[^YYMMDD]’ will reference designatums (‘targets’) such as ‘[*YYMMDD]’, which will be placed in posts in order to simplify reader access. Blogging system-assigned (‘platform’ or infrasystem assigned) publication dates may differ from these author-assigned reference dates.

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Extra clues for those who would rather not have to recall 6th grade ‘number theory’

The so-called ‘numbers’ written on paper are actually just symbols for designating actual ‘designatums’ that are concepts in the abstract mathematics world, not the physical one. The symbol ‘479.25’ is a physical designator of an actual abstract mathematics world (real) number. So we can use differing ‘symbol systems’ to designate the various numbers of the mathematics world.

Base ten positive real numbers can be represented as:
(…C⛌10³ + B⛌10² + A⛌10 + Ω⛌1 + a⛌(1/10) + b⛌(1/10)² + c⛌(1/10)³…)

Base eight positive real numbers can be represented as:
(…C⛌8³ + B⛌8² + A⛌8 + Ω⛌1 + a⛌(1/8) + b⛌(1/8)² + c⛌(1/8)³…)

So (base 10) ‘479.25’ can be represented in base ten as:
4⛌10² + 7⛌10 + 9⛌1 + 2⛌(1/10) + 5⛌(1/10)² + 0⛌(1/10)³ = base-10_479.25

And (base 10) ‘479.25’ can be represented in base eight as:
7⛌8² + 3⛌8 + 7⛌1 + 2⛌(1/8) + 0⛌(1/8)² + 0⛌(1/8)³ = base-8_737.2

That was great fun, wasn’t it!

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‘1.|0 Several,but far from all, of the following series of posts will be devoted to explaining the need for something called ‘trimmed range voting’. Ever since the horrifically invidious U.S. presidential ‘selection’ of 2004 I have been working very hard on voting method analysis. Only fairly recently I have discovered that others have been doing analysis of the same subject, but from completely different perspectives. Some of those people are academics, some are computer engineers, mathematicians, economists, political analysts, and so on. They have one thing in common: they are all well-credentialed, but nonetheless behaving like rank amateurs. And all of their theories are cockeyed and actually harmful. Yet many ultra-rich institutions spend hundreds of millions of dollars promoting some of their complicated, pathological voting systems.

‘2.|0 After 19 years of working independently of the mostly unrealistic voting theorists I have discovered that the ‘trimmed range’ voting system (or perhaps something quite similar to it) is the only method that can possibly sustain what could possibly be described as democracy. With the trimmed system, we can vote for up to (more or less) seven contenders, granting each one either five or four or zero votes. Such balloting is simple in that the votes could easily be hand counted locally — simply summed up locally — prior to being forwarded to larger tabulation pools.

‘3.|0 There must be no voting or tabulation machines involved, and mail-in voting, with its fatal security issues must be severely restricted. Most importantly, the public must be lifted out of the Disneyland political theories it has constantly been indoctrinated into. The public must learn that they always have power craving, sadistic sociopaths constantly seeking power all around them.

‘4.|0 Until the ‘trimmed range’ voting method is adopted, there will always exist ‘party lock-in’ whereby a few (practically speaking, two in the U.S.) essentially kindred political parties will always be easily able to use the spoiler effect to completely block any contenders who might actually work for non-sadistic governance.

‘5.|0 Since the trimmed range method differs greatly from the ‘single selection’ (‘choose one’, or ‘plurality’) method, some people mistake it for the lavishly promoted, but profoundly pathological ranked choice voting (RCV) scheme. The trimmed range voting method could not have less in common with preferential voting or ranked choice voting. Parse carefully where I said -// we can vote for up to (more or less) seven contenders, granting each one either five or four or zero votes //- (vide ‘2.|0). So each and every one of, say, four individual contenders could have four votes cast (and counted) for them. They do not need to be in sequence, or with each non-first-place one placed below another, which would drastically reduce voter authority. As I recall, several methods are utilized in Australia, none of them are the trimmed range method, and they have mostly led to tyranny. Trimmed range voting could be considered a special simplified form of ‘broad range voting’, whereby zero, one, two, three, four, or five votes could be granted.

Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI

TOP 10 AMERICAN SLUMS – Exploring ghettos in the USA through Google Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDqk2AxvooI

The Oakland, California Homeless Problem is Beyond Belief
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRWmKh13b50

‘AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS.’ Chris Hedges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1LUeWbOIo8

Putin stops Azovstal assault. GL collective west silence. Putin’s BIG warning Sarmat ICBM. Update 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s_uBNGxJlQ

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Why would that be?

Eleet fascist controlled Potemkin village sham democracy, and intellectual hobbling, is all you were ever offered. This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill — the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill — you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.

Global Mutiny is your only way out.

“Why can’t we just let people believe some things?”, this thoughtful man or woman wanted to know. What is wrong, in other words, if thinking and believing nice things that aren’t true makes people feel better?

“America the beautiful, or something like that.”

“Democracy”

Computer voting is safe? Computer anything is safe? Really?

They say the Russians hacked the elections. They say the Russians accomplished this by influencing the tender minds of all the American stooges. We are obliged to admit to being stooges, which is radically insulting.

That is what they say, but is not what we are intended to hear. We are actually hearing that the Russians hacked the sacred voting computers, even though that is not technically what they are saying. Because if they technically were to say that we would become obliged to go back to truly legitimate hand counted paper ballots.

Such is the awesome power of the Parallel Stealth Narrative.

“It was stated to the general public that they were making baby carriages and Volkswagen parts. There was a story going the rounds when they were there that one of the workers wives was expecting a baby. As baby carriages were in short supply, it was decided that each man would secretly take out a part of the Volkswagen and build her a baby carriage — which they did, and when they had assembled the parts, the result was a gun carriage.” (This may be a strange war rumor, or a peculiar cautionary tale, but sometimes life imitates legend.)

Here, I will explain why the massively corporate foundation funded ranked choice voting stealth political movement is fraudulent, and will only usher in democracy destruction. Also I will describe alternatives that will actually work very well.

I meant to begin building this blog this past week, but stuff happens. There’s other stuff to read in the links, however. Enjoy.