urbanwanderer (50)in #rajsik • 4 months agoUnderstanding Rajsik, Tamsik, and Satvik GunasWorking just because things work is called rajsik guna. I.e. doing things just for profit or even just for maintaining superficial social justice creates an unstable equilibrium. Basically society remainsurbanwanderer (50)in #materialism • 4 months agoExtreme Materialism Death of god or more precisely death of soul i refer to what is extreme materialism. The day and age we live now. I mean we live in such an age where even our emotions and thoughts are also not consideredurbanwanderer (50)in #warfare • 4 months agoInformation WarfareInformation warfare operates within the cognitive domain, exploiting fractures in perception to grow division. Cyber warfare is a truly mind-bending reality we live in now. Its hard to imagine that insteadurbanwanderer (50)in #industrialisation • 5 months agoThe Impact Of Industrialization On Birthrates The thing is when countries industrialize, they tend to have birthrates below replacement rate because they don't need to have children to have farmers. The reason the population of the world is stillurbanwanderer (50)in #mind • 5 months agoUnderstanding The MindThe way the mind works is that our experience of being ourselves in this world is dependent on a psychological factor of wanting and attaching, craving and clinging. when the mind acts out of personalurbanwanderer (50)in #wine • 5 months agoMy Sparkling Wine Recipe Source My recipe for the sparkling wine is stupid simple. Grape Juice with no preservatives (5 gallons for $32ish USD) 1 package of wine yeast ($1.35 USD for a pack that can do up to 6 gallons) 10 cupsurbanwanderer (50)in #wine • 5 months agoSparkling WineSource I got ten more gallons of sparkling wine going the other day. Trying a red this time, and added a bit of peach into the white to see how it turns out. The red is breathing a LOT faster than theurbanwanderer (50)in #war • 5 months agoPsychopaths In ControlWars and destruction are solution to scarcity and psychopaths aiming for power. It is only a serious issue when the two things that promote psychopaths to power are being used: Government Money When Youurbanwanderer (50)in #social • 5 months agoSocial Norms Social norms are what instituted and what ended slavery. They don't come from social norms but rather exist as long as social norms tolerates them. Lack of understanding, lack of wealth, lack of discourseurbanwanderer (50)in #philosophy • 5 months agoWar and Violence War and violence are not part of being human, otherwise we wouldn't have had 2 million years of relative peace during prehistory. The "violent" nature of humanity is a product of the social andurbanwanderer (50)in #innovation • 5 months agoWhat would big companies need the agility for in a free market?Without IP or Patent laws, innovation becomes a race to meet customer demands and stay ahead of competitor. Big companies would need agility to quickly adapt to changing market trends, consumer preferences,urbanwanderer (50)in #corporations • 5 months agoHow Corporations Divide People I honestly believe anyone who describe himself as any type radfem or whatever has fallen for a trap set up by evil corporation to divide people and keep them arguing on the internet, these kind of genderurbanwanderer (50)in #election • 5 months ago Sotomayor’s dissent: A president should not be a ‘king above the law’So I've got a lot of feelings about this. First, Sotomayor is taking an extreme slippery slope argument and presenting it as factual. There are many other issues with her words anyway, but at the veryurbanwanderer (50)in #votng • 5 months ago The Structural Barrier to Third Party Success"This caught my eye, I don't know if it's been addressed further down. First past the post/winner take all voting structurally causes third parties to either be irrelevant or ascend to take the positionurbanwanderer (50)in #technology • 5 months agoTechnological SingularityDo you think we will reach some sort of technological singularity and will there be new mass scale movements against ai taking over human jobs or will they just accept getting replaced You see not everyoneurbanwanderer (50)in #privacy • 5 months agoPrinted USD or Privacy CoinsPrinted USD is extremely hard to trace. The US government agencies, credit card companies and banks hate it because they can't track your spending habits. Granted I don't use cash for large transactionsurbanwanderer (50)in #power • 5 months agoThe Reality of Political PowerPeople vote in rigged elections, whose electoral mechanics are decided by the people who have the job, not the people who vote. They are granted immense and immeasurable power…urbanwanderer (50)in #health • 5 months agoMicroplastics, Fast Food, and HealthThere is microplastics in tap water and most bottled water too, and a good water filter is probably an easy couple thousand bucks If you’re rich you can almost afford to not be poisoned. I mean it'surbanwanderer (50)in #btc • 5 months agoMy view on BTCMy current view on BTC. I think it is very likely we go sideways for next 4 months, Yeah we might get to 75k but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really mean anything. It is still very much toourbanwanderer (50)in #btc • 5 months agoBtc Supply and DemandBecause BTC relies so heavily on supply and demand with a limited supply, Vcs, and companies are all buying BTC, Boomers are now buying BTC due te ETFs, so the supply cant j crease but the demand keeps