A quotation from Pratchett, Terry
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Equal Rites [Granny Weatherwax] (1987)
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Science doesn’t supply happiness; but neither does its lack. The same can be said of social utopias: they aren’t created by science, but neither does lack of science provide them. Science has cast up dangerous and cruel knowledge, which has been exploited for warfare and dictatorial power; but so have cultures so little gifted with scientists that they either make do with imported weapons or rely on clubs, axes, and daggers. Scientific information about our mistakes — for instance, that deforestation invites mud slides and deserts, that overfishing depletes fish stocks — doesn’t guarantee we will avoid such mistakes or correct them, but that is owing to failure to heed what science uncovers.
Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) American-Canadian journalist, author, urban theorist, activist
Dark Age Ahead, ch. 3 “Science Abandoned” (2004)
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We see that we have been thoughtless,
Straying from the path of #mindfulness.
We have stored up #afflictions and #ignorance,
Which have brought about so much #aversion and #sorrow.
There are times we have been weary of life
Because we are so full of #anxiety.
Because we do not understand others,
We are #angry and #resentful.
First we try to #reason with each other, then we #blame.
Every day the #suffering increases, making the rift greater.
There are days when we are unwilling to speak to each other,
Unwilling to look at each other in the face.
And we create internal formations, which last for a long time.
--- from the book Chanting from the Heart: Buddhist Ceremonies and Daily Practice
I agree. I hate GNOME 3. They also ignore XDG (freedesktop.org) standards.
GNOME is one of the worst offenders, and ignores even the now widely supported idle-inhibit protocol. (This is either due to a combination of malice and incompetence, but since implementing this protocol would only take a few lines of code, it is most likely the former. You will also notice how GNOME advocates react offended whenever their sabotage is pointed out, which indicates either hypocrisy, or even worse ignorance.)\
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Such incompatible desktop environments (i.e. which ignore standards) typically require using a DBus API. This is ridiculous in several ways. The immediate practical problem is that it would require adding a quite unwieldy dependency for a DBus library, somehow integrating its mainloop into mpv, and other generally unacceptable things.\
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However, since mpv does not officially support GNOME, this is not much of a problem. If you are one of those miserable users who want to use mpv on GNOME, report a bug on the GNOME issue tracker: https://gitlab.gnome.org/groups/GNOME/-/issues
#gnome #gnome3 #standards #malice #ignorance #screensavers #idle-inhibit #bug #mpv #de #desktop-environment #hypocrisy #sabotage
Meanwhile..... in the #GQP Looney Bin formerly known as OUR HOUSE
Uff.... Here is the "thinking, MTG for "dummies" &/or those #GQP #cultists as mentally scattered and dysfunctional as she.....
#delusion #psychopathology #ignorance #TrumpVirus #cult #traitor #MTG
#agnotology #silentweapons #theyareusingyou
TABLE OF STRATEGIES
Do this: To get this:
Keep the public ignorant | Less public organization
Maintain access to control points for feedback | Required reaction to outputs (prices, sales)
Create preoccupation | Lower defenses
Attack the family unit | Control of the education of the young
Give less cash and more credit and doles | More self-indulgence and more data
Attack the privacy of the church | Destroy faith in this sort of government
Social conformity | Computer programming simplicity
Minimize the tax protest | Maximum economic data, minimum enforcement problems
Stabilize the consent | Simplicity coefficients
Tighten control of variables | Simpler computer input data -- greater predictability
Establish boundary conditions | Problem simplicity / solutions of differential and difference equations
Proper timing | Less data shift and blurring
Maximize control | Minimum resistance to control
Collapse of currency | Destroy the faith of the American people in each other.
but hey, #MaybeTheyCare
#destroying : #family #faith #freedom #funds #fun #publicorganisation #defense #wealth #resistance #democracy #republic #constitution #intelligence #education #autonomy
#creating : #conformity #control #ignorance #problemreactionsolution #reactions #pricemanipulation #destitution #desperation #dumbeddown #dumbdown #plasticwrap #consent
much more to see in the document, but that table (as #vobes highlighted) is quite concisely telling.
https://educate-yourself.org/cn/silentweaponsquietwarsmay79.shtml #1979 #1954
saw it on https://rumble.com/v3s6cjj-how-they-secretly-control-us.html
En France, seule 1 personne sur 1000 sait répondre correctement à des questions sur l'immigration, mais 62% trouvent qu'il y a trop d' #immigrés.
Comme toujours, l' #ignorance, le lit de la #Haine...
Suffit d'être honnête, et de suivre cette vidéo, graphiques et données à l'appui.
ASILE ET IMMIGRATION : UNE LOI POUR FLIRTER AVEC L’EXTRÊME DROITE
https://video.blast-info.fr/w/sdUcVsTQ91DKi9QaWLGsMk
Bon évidemment, cela n'empêchera pas les #comploplos #fachos de service, de faire une généralité d'un fait divers grave, mais après, c'est aussi en raisonnant de cette façon là, que l'on devient #raciste, donc ils sont constants.
#ExtrêmeDroite #Extrême-Droite #Droite #Darmanin #Politique #LePen #FN #RN
more the one month later, someone answered my question, how can #israel crush #hamas without #war in #gaza, finally i get the answer and itz simple
By making them irrelevant
this is the answer! this is that #white #christian #europe #ignorance, meanwhile israel is still under #attack by hundreds of rockets targeting civilians, hundreds of civilian hostages, the gaza civilians abused as #humanShields, after ca 1200 people got raped&tortured to death, israel should make hamas "irrelevant", not sure if thats just plain stupid, ignorant or antisemitic, i wonder what these guy might advice the palestinian opponents of hamas, "dont scream to loud, when they torture you!"?
https://diasp.org/posts/2b8bf0505f47013c2d8428a1592b385a#a85d7459-4865-4d3c-7189-bcf076701635
What an honor! She be best... at ignorance - and/or basic lack of cognitive horsepower...
Lauren Boebert Gets Destroyed After Being Unable To Answer Dem’s Simple Questions
nah, i doubt they'll respond well.
they seem in a hostile reactive groupthink.
limbic reflexive attacking, not considering.
but, can but offer best ways back i can.
#DigitsPoems
#Epistemology #Debate #Consider #GroupThink #Fear
#amygdala #cantgettherefromhere #ignorance #agnogeny #pedagogy #enlaketch #curiosity #humility #arrogance #research #psyop #conspiracytheory #misinformation #disinformation #malinformation #education #educatedmind #harmonicrange #reach #ahelpinghand #educatethemfortheyknownotwhattheydo #openmind #openminded #closedmind #closedminded #worldview #incurious #shills #everybodyssayingthesamethingdifferently #ideas
#weareinalotoftrouble #wecanstillmendthis #saveisraellfromisrael #middleeast #geostrategy #geoprimacy #scapegoats #collectivepunishment #sackthePNAC #washington #cowboys #villains #hegemony #homogeny #russia #ukraine #turkey #hungary #sweden #finland #neutrality #provocation #terrorism #egypt #israel #palestine #nato #history #ignorance #agnotology #duopoly #boughtpoliticians #thisisnotwhatdemocracylookslike
#thestate #thecorporation #thebank #theracket
#bigbrother #bigbaron #bigbank #bigbully #bigbot
#theareusingyou #cuibono #returnoninvestment #warisaracket #businessasusual
#democracy #ococ #ourchoice #ourcountryourchoice
(though i will add, the point he makes, near the end, about the borders and capacity to support, is in error... in the broader contexts of imperial abuses contributing to that (more walls and closed border not a solution), and eliminate the suppression of emancipatory technologies, then there's more than enough headroom to support the world many times over, and no manufactured scarcity (nor isolationism) to infect our minds manipulating us into fearful dependent obedience to our abuser. ... but other than that 1 point... this is jam packed with stuff worth your time to #consider, no matter your #politicalphilosophy ).
Steve Bell, the Guardian’s longtime cartoonist, was “kicked out” from the British newspaper, according to the cartoonist himself, due to a cartoon on Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu was newspaper believed it to be anti-Semitic.
Speaking about the story, the cartoonist wrote that “it has become almost impossible to draw anything in the Guardian that concerns Israel without being accused of anti-Semitism”
"The image itself was inspired by the late, great David Levine's cartoon of President Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) showing off his operation scar, which Levine draws in the shape of a map of Vietnam."
#SteveBell #censorship #FreeSpeech #TheGuardian #Israel #Gaza #WarCrimes #Humanity #InternationalLaw #cartoons #cartoonists #ignorance #BoycottTheGuardian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHqUO5J2L6M
Jeremy Loffredo covers an October 9 pro-Israel demonstration in New York City's Times Square, where demonstrators issued explicit calls for the genocide of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, where Israel is conducting massive bombing operations in response to a militant surprise attack. #grayzone
#thisisnotwhatthmoralhighgroundlookslike #genocide #genocideadvocates
#arrogance #ignorance #dangerousidiots #dickheads
#alwaysabetterway
A quotation from Colton, C. C.
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than non-information; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the same direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her footsteps, has further to go, before she can arrive at the truth, than ignorance.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 1 (1820)
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Letter to Mrs. Foote (1887-12-02)
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#DigitsQuips #agnotology #epistemology #humility #curiosity #certainty #wisdom #intelligence #intuition #awareness #presence #hubris #dunningkruger #alittlebitofinformation #routeone #overconfidence #noshameinthetruth #arrogance #ignorance #ignorancesquared
