#paranoia
Disgusted by some Swedes in France blaming the problem of bed bugs in France on African migrants.
The racism in Sweden is spreading even among those living in France too!
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/30/travel/france-bedbugs-paris-intl-hnk
#France’s health minister says country not ‘invaded by #bedbugs’ and urges calm
France’s health minister has assured the French public that there’s “no reason for widespread panic” as #Paris reports a “widespread” rise in bedbugs.
Speaking to French radio station France Inter, Aurelien Rousseau condeded that “when you see them around you, when you have bedbugs in your home, it’s a nightmare” but assured listeners that “we haven’t been invaded by bedbugs.”
The National Institute for the Study and Control of Bedbugs (INELP) told CNN on Monday that the level of bedbug infestation in France is worse than previous years but treatable.
“Bedbugs have been increasingly present in France for two or three years now, regularly peaking in the summer. But this year, we’ve gone beyond all other years,” INELP president Marie Effroy said, adding that the jump started “at the end of August, beginning of September.”
Effroy went on to say that “there’s a bedbug problem, but at the same time, there’s a kind of #paranoia going on because people hear about bedbugs.”
#Pentagon Sees Chinese 'Spy Cranes' At US Ports As "Trojan Horse"
Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/pentagon-sees-chinese-spy-cranes-us-ports-trojan-horse
According to national #security and Pentagon officials, the ship-to-shore cranes, produced by #China's #ZPMC, are equipped with advanced sensors capable of detecting and monitoring #shipping containers, raising alarms that #Beijing could gather #intelligence about the materials being transported to or from the US ports or #military bases.
"Cranes can be the new #Huawei," Bill Evanina, a former top US #counterintelligence official, told WSJ.
#news #spy #Transport #trade #paranoia #dod #usa #problem #Trojan #defense #technology #equipment #sensor
After over a decade of hiatus one of the best Progressive Rock bands is back, Steven Wilson's Porcupine Tree with new songs and some songs with interesting lyrics commenting on our times.
#StevenWilson:
"Lyrically, 'Herd Culling' is about a very specific event in #history, but it also deals with the broader theme of #paranoia in the #modern #age - someone or something is coming up your driveway or in your front garden, and their/its motives are unclear."
Taken from a comment: "this song makes reference to #SkinWalker Ranch, a place in Utah, which is famous for #UFO (UAP) sightings and also is supposed to be cursed by a SkinWalker (Some kind of native american witch doctor) in the past. There are claims of big wolf like creatures roaming the ranch and killing the cattle, as well as the cattle mutilation found in several locations where UFO (UAP) presence is known."
#JohnForbesNash #nobelprice #1994 #diagnosis #paranoia #schizophrenia #1960 #recovery #1990
“Es wird stets die Idee vermittelt, dass Personen, die geistig erkrankt sind, leiden würden. Dabei ist Verrücktheit doch auch ein Ausweg: Wenn die Umstände schlecht sind, kann sich der Verrückte bessere vorstellen.”
“The idea is always conveyed that persons who are mentally ill would suffer. But madness is also a way out: when the circumstances are bad, the madman can imagine better ones.”
« L'idée est toujours véhiculée que les personnes atteintes de maladie mentale souffriraient. Mais la folie est aussi une issue : quand les circonstances sont mauvaises, le fou peut en imaginer de meilleures.
John Forbes Nash
https://gedankenwelt.de/die-wahre-geschichte-von-john-nash-einem-gequaelten-genie/
Schizotypal Personality D O (Youtube)
The only video I found so far where an actual patient is shown. All others were just descriptions from a psychological point of view.
I'm not (yet?) diagnosed with this.
Seeing myself in this man doesn't mean that I share the official view on said disorder, especially about the "oddness" of my beliefs. I think this is rather a communication problem.
I wouldn't believe in them, would I, if my beliefs were odd to myself? Although I do see how it must look odd to some people. On the other hand, I think many people have such beliefs, or react on untraceable stimuli, more or less consciously. The problem here is that everything "psychic" is still a taboo in science, as well as in most parts of our societies.
Check for yourself.
#psychology #psychiatry #disorder #schizotypal #schizotypical #personality-disorder #psychic #society #belief #consciousness #patient #paranoia #paranoid #documentary #youtube
Viele können nicht fassen, dass das nicht mehr gelten soll. Sie schnappen deshalb über und erklären das Platzen des alten Traums mit den Machenschaften allmächtiger Drahtzieher: #BillGates oder George #Soros betreibt die Massenverarmung, und bald werden allen Menschen Chips eingepflanzt, um die Seelen zu zerstören. Die #Wahrheit ist: Wenn es solche Chips gäbe, würde kein Protest, kein alarmistischer #Podcast und kein Verbraucherschutz die Leute davor schützen. Wahnideen wie diese Chiptheorie zehren also von der geheimen Ahnung umfassender Ohnmacht der Mehrheit. Klare Analyse, klares Programm, klarer Kurs dagegen sind anstrengender als #Paranoia, denn sie stellen eine riesenhafte Aufgabe: Die Abschaffung der vorhandenen Produktionsweise, die auf #Ausbeutung, #Gewalt und #Lüge gründet.
Manche, die vom System nichts Gutes zu erwarten haben, schrecken vor dieser Aufgabe zurück und suchen ihr Heil stattdessen in Gruppenzugehörigkeiten, von denen sie sich die geliehene Kraft versprechen, die nötig ist, das, was noch produziert wird, in künftigen Stammeskämpfen so aufzuteilen, dass für sie ein bisschen herausspringt. Auf diesem Weg entstehen Manövriermassen für Klassenspaltung, für #Faschismus und #Krieg. Wer auf diese beschissenen Pferde setzt und selbst kein #Kapital hat, wird sich bestenfalls in Trümmern wundern, wie 1945.
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/wie-der-monopolkapitalismus-sein-eigenes-hirn-frisst-171902/ #arbeit #kapitalismus #nato #biden #deutschewohnen #vonovia #medien #krise
Someone told me that the fight in #ukraine is mirrored in a part of Buddhist philosophies.
I read the following and started to wonder what is talked about and who is who?
The Realm of Asuras
The Asura (Jealous God) Realm is marked by #paranoia.Asuras are hyper-competitive and paranoid. They are driven by a desire to beat their #competition, and everyone is competition. They have #power and #resources and sometimes accomplish good things with them. But, always, their first priority is getting to the top. I think of powerful #politicians or corporate leaders when I think of Asuras.
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The #belief that #Satan is behind all #negative events, or even behind #positive ones (as a #diabolical act of #deception and #seduction), is a #collective #paranoia, and a #religious social sickness. It is also at the heart of many conspiracy theories.
There is no Satan. There is only us, and the choices we make.
An interesting read.
Science has answers to why conservatives fall so easily for COVID-19 and Russian propaganda
#Propaganda #Gullibility #Paranoia #Fear #Conservatism #Politics #Misinformation #Capitalism #LowConscientiousnessConservatives #Chaos
The new world order has come!
Say hello to the new normal! A new world order, thanks to the fascist and globalist psychopaths, disguised as liberals and leftists!
#Politics #Society #Totalitarianism #Democracy #Covid-19 #Masks #Paranoia #FUD #Humour
Read this twice: a tpyo in the brandname Megatr*a*nds is real, and marks authentic networking chips.
... we validated that indeed these stickers are in the wild. Ultimately, after we brought their existence to American Megatrends (AMI) and Dell’s attention (HPE did not care enough to investigate), we now have an artifact that says that American Megatrends is honoring the license stickers and will not pursue legal action against Dell’s customers or those using them.
(via https://www.servethehome.com/dude-dell-hpe-ami-american-megatrands/)
The article is the long version of https://twitter.com/ServeTheHome/status/1445090408376176646.
#americanmegatrands #americanmegatrends #tpyo #fail #nothingtoseehere #paranoia #toomanytags
I love a good conspiracy yarn as much as anyone. @Will Hill and Dr. Roy Schestowitz seem to push far into paranoia territory
The latest is this from Will: "Microsoft mouthpiece uses an old Gnome2 screen and lack of details to vilify gnu/linux".
Referring to this Verge article: "Russian malware infiltrated the Nasdaq servers, says Businessweek"
In it, Will claims:
We are supposed to think the crackers used gnu/linux and that Nasdaq's gnu/linux servers were infested with "a mess of malware".
I read the article and returned puzzled. So I asked Will:
Um. Where exactly in all of this is the insinuation that Bad People Use Linux?
His response:
When is the last time you saw a Gnu/Linux desktop screenshot on the verge? This is the first time I have.
The image, by the way, is this one best I can tell, which Will describes as "an old Gnome2 screen".
So I plugged the image into Google's reverse image search to see where it might possibly have come from. You know, stock art or something.
Actually, the source is an earlier Verge piece: "This is the most secure computer you’ll ever own". Which is obviously about Windows ME, right?
Um, no.
Tails is the secure system that protected Edward Snowden. Here's how it works.
From the moment you boot up, your computer leaves footprints....
Not this computer, though. It's running Tails, an open-source operating system designed to leave as little trace as possible, launching version 1.0 today after more than five years of open development. It's an amnesiac system, which means it's completely fresh every time you boot up. There are no save files, no new programs, and most importantly, it becomes a blank slate the moment you shut down. It's the digital equivalent of buying a new computer for a single session and tossing it into the river once you're done....
The desktop looks and feels like Linux (Tails is based on the Debian distribution), but the programs all lead you to privacy by default.
Yeah. The Verge are trashing Linux and Tails is only something Teh Badz Guise use. Um. No.
So, is The Verge, is clearly a highly focused technology website, right? Um, no. From its about page:
[Its] mission is to offer in-depth reporting and long-form feature stories, breaking news coverage, product information, and community content in a unified and cohesive manner.
You'll also learn it was founded in 2011 and is associated with Vox Media. I don't have a strong sense about Vox, but there's a Wikipedia Vox Media article. One of my favorite media watchdog sites, Sourcewatch.org has no dirt on them.
So, but still, The Verge are really biased against Linux and totally favor like Microsoft and stuff, right?
Well, there's a site search function, and using it I find (counts as of recently):
- 380 articles referencing Linux.
- 88 referencing Ubuntu
- 2 referencing Debian (one is the previously mentioned TailsOS article)
- 25 referencing Red Hat Probably the most widely recognized Linux distribution brand.
And looking at the competition:
- 7,616 Android stories
- 4,319 iPhone stories
- 776 Microsoft Surface stories
- 3,457 Windows 8
- 79 Windows Vista
Which is about the sort of mix I'd expect from a mainstream news site. You might compare these against other such, say, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC, All Things D, etc.
The response from Will so far has been crickets, while best I can tell, Roy Schestowitz has elected to block me, though I can't say when, as he's no longer among my contacts and his user page is blank viewed from a logged-in session but not when accessed from another session:
https://joindiaspora.com/u/schestowitz
As I said: I'm all for a good conspiracy yarn, and I can tell you a few. Many do include a reasonable amount of mental elasticity, but I'm finding Will Hill is reaching so far that he's encroaching on Elastigirl, Stretch Armstrong, and Plastic Man territory. I really hope he doesn't hurt himself.
As for credibility, yeah, that's pretty much all shot to hell.
People, that's all you've got here. Exercise it.
And a musical interlude: Kinks: Destroyer.
#paranoia #conspiracytheries #theverge #linux #debian #ubuntu #tailsos #mainstreammedia
