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ChatGPT just presented me with the a word that describes what I have struggled with a lot throughout my personal enlightenment path. I'll give you my versions, respectively ChatGPT's version: --- My XP: I have often witnessed that the quest for freedom from shame and social punishment or judgment actually comes with extra social judgment and punishment, because trying to not care about what people think, so you do just your stuff, and very often actually that is interpreted as showing off. I hate it, and most people do it, especially whenever I feel free and by doing so making it more difficult to feel free (around them or in the future). Even more, in the past I held off from doing stuff that could be seen as showing off, but sometimes those exact things are pleasant to do for yourself and not to show off and people can't make the difference or forget to put their biases aside or forget the benefit of the doubt. --- ChatGPT: What you’re describing is a very common and s...

And Why I Ended Up Using Shutter Encoder,  AV1 and opus After testing many tools to compress my album/personal videos from the last years, I use AV1 + Opus + MKV with Shutter Encoder as my daily workflow. It keeps things practical while giving modern compression, metadata preservation, filter preview, and predictable results. AV1, Constant Quality, VBR, and Variable Framerate (VFR) AV1 is already supported by most modern devices and will remain standard for a long time. Its main advantage: AV1 lets you decide how much quality to preserve while greatly reducing file size, so the loss becomes dependent on your preference of videos. AV1 also supports variable bitrate (VBR) , where the encoder automatically uses fewer bits on simple scenes and more on complex ones. Combined with constant-quality (CQ) mode , this lets you target a consistent visual quality across the file without worrying about a fixed bitrate. It works very well with variable framerate (VFR) , where f...

Hurt people hurt people By hurting narcissist one is hurting other innocent people indirectly (and most of the hurt the narcissist did is already boosted from other people taking revenge on them). Narcissists are the kind of people that turn hurt into hurting others and it doesn't have to be the people who hurt them, anybody around is good enough. Doesn't mean one's hurt from them is worth nothing and it doesn't mean we have to let them do it. What it means, is that it is fucking hard to resolve this problem, even going in the right direction is full of kindle and oil. Narcissists are one of the most difficult people to heal or to let them heal themselves... It's ironic really, most sociopaths KNOW they are hurting people but they don't care, while most narcissists don't realize it and they would care if they knew but they think they are perfect -in their protective superficial mind, or at least better than other people- and never hurt people or they think i...

I gave myself the exercise of inventing a new word for the right balance between egoism and altruism. Like the perfect balance between caring for yourself and others. Since ego is Latin for "I" and alter for "the other" I was going into the line of nosism (we) or omnisism (everyone) and then I bumped into the word communism (communis, shared, together). Of course immediately realizing that word already exist. Wait a minute, was that maybe the purpose of the first people inventing that word? Some research shows it goes much further back than Marx and it might as well have been! So, wait a minute, maybe through times that word has been changed and even raped, especially by the US? "Communism is eeeevil" Maybe including similar words and systems, like socialism (allies, companion) and many others? (One has to know that they have brainwashed almost their whole population and even big part of the rest of the world against any form of communism as if that is t...

 You’re not broken. You’re reacting to a system built to drain you. A system that thrives when you're tired, distracted, obedient, scared, or scrolling. It sells you noise as news. Identity as product. Freedom as consumer choice. But here’s the trick: the machine isn’t smart — it’s hungry . It needs your doubt. Your clicks. Your endless waiting. Turn off the drip. Step outside the script. Look around and ask: What would I do if I weren’t being managed like a resource? That’s where your rebellion starts. Not loud, not viral — but real . You are not meant to feel numb. That’s just what keeps the gears turning.

Here we are with a new update again. --> https://v-nut.e-motiv.net First of all, we are now hosted on a vegan ethical host! Check it out: https://ethicalinternet.co.uk/ Our new algorithm now automatically picks pictures from wikimedia commons. They then can be corrrected with crowd voting. YOU can make the site better now!    Finally the requested recipe fields: persons, instructions, image£ And some minor improvements (https works again) Hey, which other scientific nutritional site gives you all these features?

I never said it here, but I'm actually the creator of V-Nut , a vegan focused nutrition site. Analyse recipes, check your personal food pyramid and much more! This is the only nutrition site on the web with all these unique features, such as: Total nutritional value for a recipe! Search operators Combined sorting Sorting by nutrition value per calorie Immediately comparing search results by relative bar representation A lot of info directly without information overload. (By using hovers and accordions.) A unique graphical presentation Focus on some important nutrients for vegans Nutrients that "may" be rarer for vegans are marked. Filtering of concentrates Vegetarian food only (and some vegan filtering, though it needs some work) A more real food pyramid in your personal requirements Homepage Detail of one food Personal food pyramid Helpful tooltips R...

 This is why I think some types of activism and politics are wrong.  And let's ignore politics today not being in the interest of the people anymore. This was left by a couple spending late hours at the coast having some good times. Too lazy to get out of the car, take one step and throw it in the trash. Now, I find these spots all over Spain, national Parc, kilometers away from any houses or not and I mean EVERYWHERE! These people will always exist, especially among the young people that haven't become responsible yet..if they ever would.. Politics and activism often try to inform people, try to initiate behavioural change. But I don't believe in that (anymore for a holistic change in this specific matter). There will always be some assholes or young ones that haven't grown up yet. What we need to focus on is not allowing companies to make non-bio-degradable packaging anymore, even less bio degreeable ones. O yeah,as for the argument 'Someone will clean it up anywa...

Being a réal man  (as they say) actually requires the same strength as being a real woman , namely the strength to resist one's own nature on occasion. Only their nature might differ a bit.

The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall. - Edward Osborne Wilson American biologist, naturalist, and writer, "the father of sociobiology"

  Brothers and sisters, let's abandon the myth that insecurity necessarily comes from a lack of love of oneself! Someone that loves oneself dearly can still be insecure. Such a person has no problems accepting and loving oneself. The real problem here is that they value the acceptance, approval or love of others more than one's own. Thank you (And don't we all do -at least at times- a bit of that?)

LOVE meat, yet do not eat Disgusted by gay sex, yet pro gay rights. I'd like a housewife or off-grid hippy, yet supporting her any way I want to murder stupid people, yet tolerance, understanding and fun find me One dark inside, yet care and love prevail Be thyselve, they say... Nay, I cannot.. I am the "unreal" vegan I am the homofoob I am the sexist I am the arrogant bigot I am ! ... yet I love and I grow Bore heavy loads Given heart & soul Sought no crown ...still... There it bodes and bodes a darker hole As you look down Utopia needs darkness.. ..at least written down. - yours truly

I think dolphins and whales went back to the sea to escape humans. Alas, it was only a delay.

Another question for religious people who believe in heaven (and hell): Wouldn't it be wiser if god made sure nobody believes in him, nor in heaven (or hell)? That way he can make sure that heaven will be for those people who are really good from themselves and not because there is a reward (or a punishment otherwise)?

Honest conflict has more social value than dishonest harmony . - Joe Rogan

I HATE my feelings not agreeing with my philosophy ... (Except for this hate) - yours truly

Imperfect Impaired Bore heavy loads Given heart & soul Sought no crown ...still... There it bodes and bodes a darker hole As you look down

I see so many victims (Pain made them) Change into monsters themselves Makes me wonder Haven't most monsters been victims? Did an actual step on a toe started it? Did the few real monsters? For sure the solution is tolerance and understanding..

They say we swam, then we crawled, then we walked. Strange, because one thing that life has showed me, we're still crawling ..out of slime, ..that doesn't let go. - yours truly

I came across this video about Ecosia , a tree planting search engine : Short synopsis: Participate in reforestation by changing your default search engine to Ecosia . Really, that's all it takes! http://ecosia.org Ditching Google Search is also a good idea because they block independent sources . # boycottgooglesearch Let's not only raise our voice, but take part in changing the world. Thank you for caring AND sharing. My experience My friend told me then that Ecosia is too bad from google that he had to return to google , though he admitted that was some time ago and was curious if it is still so. So, I kept my attention high since seeing that video and putting my default search engine on ecosia and I compared . I am not sure it is as bad as it was then, but here it is... Ecosia often doesn't put the things I am really looking for on top of the results as much as google does. They appear very low, sometimes even not on the first page of 10 re...