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Having participated in many "charities", you'd be a fool to believe an operation just because it is registered as a "not for profit".

Look at the executive-pay, and if it is over 2x the cost-of-living, you're looking at a money-funneling-to-executives scam, that is masquerading as a not-for-profit.

The amount of spine required to have real integrity, in this planet, is apparently greater than the amount of spine available in a human life?

there's a machine which takes a 20lb propane cyl, & attracts 'em by flashing-lights & CO2, & it captures only mosquitos, unlike bug-zappers, and it can harvest a stunning amount of the things.

You need to replace the hormone attractant .. capsule, or whatever it should be called, monthly ( that is where they get their recurring-money from, and it does make a big difference ).

Be selective in your culling of the local insect-population, as the entire ecology around you gets altered by the action, eh?

Now I want to know how THC alters the anterior insulae and ventral striata in our brains, to increase psychosis in its younger ( <22-ish ) users.

The carbon-zinc ones never do, but the alkaline ones do, the ones I opened, anyways ( a few decades ago )

Without a legal mailing-address, you will be blocked from participating in much of the online-economy.

"no shipping address?" XOR "we won't ever ship to rural people, P.O. boxes, or any other non-CITY bullshit."

There's a book which discusses this, named "The Addres Book", by Deirdre Mask.

Some jurisdictions may require you to be treated as a valid citizen, even with a P.O. box "address", but I don't know of any jurisdiction that does that.

No address?

Your life will be stomped, & from what I've seen, you get deemed a vagrant/homeless by enforcement, too.

I've read that genetic-testing showed that in the poorest neighborhoods, it is over-50%,

and that the deliberately stopped doing the testing, because they didn't want to be liable for any problems this information would be producing.

Obviously, when you trash people's validity, & meaning, they become more sensation-seeking, & more careless.

Poverty is a manufactured on some populations condition.

it is learning, not youth, that makes a person be not-living-in-the-past,

& there isn't any substitute for getting old-enough to understand systems-of-systems thinking, as some "grandmothers & grandfathers", as the Indigenous people call 'em, can.

Age isn't, of itself, sufficient to judge whether someone's competent to do the work they currently are doing.

SanDisk usb-keys work.

You really want to use the thing for read-only, though, if you can:

the writes it takes to kill some portion of a filesystem, vs the writes you get before corrupting things, on a USB driver, don't line-up.

Use NVMe as your 1st-choice for storage ( future purchases, obviously ), the fastest you can get, and be stunned by how much faster the same motherboard is, with superfast OS storage..

I'd stick /home, not /usr, on the USB.

To me, such a thing should be the default, so that anybody wanting to quote an item would know, without having to succeed in contacting the source, whether it is possible.

This would enable journalism to do a better job, for 1 thing.

put 1 of each:

some will remember them from their "prime", others only knew them more-recently.

Your intent is to represent their life, right? Not just a moment in it.

Invest-in, read, & consider the implications of,

"The Slicing Pie Handbook".

Then consider whether you're getting equity or mere-paycheck,

then consider whether the circumstances make that particular context, & particular pay-regime, a risk you aren't long-term accepting.

Also invest in 2 books on the enneagram, "The Modern Enneagram", the one by 2 women, 1 of whom is Bell, iirc, not the other one with the same name, & "Taking Care of Your Type",

& consider how well those 2 specific ones get you, then do your own analysis of the ones who'd be affecting your life.

The more you understand what you'd be in for, the better for you, right?

The 1st mentioned Modern Enneagram book has links to scientific papers, if you want that background.

Mom told me that women who reach menopause are suddenly much more likely to initiate divorce, leaving toxic/abusive relationships..

Psychologist Susan Pinker, in her book "The Sexual Paradox", that such women leave careers they'd been pressured-into, by the men in their lives ( ditching academic careers, because the endless-churn-for-"authority-status" isn't what they value )..

I've read the words of a woman who was disappointed to have not got into any of the mixed universities ( UK ), she got into a female-only university, and by the end of week-1, she was euphoric: the absence of sexual-pressure on her all the time, she could learn here!!..

I've read the words of a woman who went to a girls-only grade-school, & she learned, in high-school, that the girls who came from mixed grade-schools had been conditioned into learned-helplessness, and would not even try participating in class, by the boys they'd shared classes with.

I read an amazing item in a Reader's Digest, possibly in a waiting-room, somewhere, on a school-principal who got all the kids and their parents into a gymnasium..

The kids were girls-on-1-side, boys-on-the-other-side, parents in the bleachers/stands..

He asked the kids "who here would rather learn in a boisterous classroom?" The boys, & the dykes, hands shot up..

"Who here would rather learn in a quiet library?" the girls, & a few of the boys ( femboys, prolly ), hands went up.

THEN the parents, who saw, understood, accepting the evidence, instead of the "we're all the same" ideology, that violated that evidence.

Women are more "yin" than men.

The more "yin" a someone is, the more gentle their forming-context/education has to be, in order that their intrinsic nature be allowed to blossom ( as an extreme-contrast, if you've ever encountered an ultra-bullying super-testosterone guy, you maybe can understand that he'd probably be more "educated", if the education were *at his level of pushing, like boot-camp, or something ).

the "yin" or non-pushiness of the someone needs to be matched by the learning-means, the "yang" or pushiness of the someone needs to be matched by their learning-means.

I wish women weren't abused by the entire-education-system, but were, instead, boosted into becoming their own LivingPotential.

That isn't an answer to your question, but it does reframe something important..

Women's courage is like the courage of Florence Nightinggale, who kept digging, until she understood, scientifically, why "her boys" were dying in the forward hospitals, & she pushed graphical representation of her statistics, in order to convince Queen Victoria.

Yin courage.

Yin courage is more .. "watery", more "keep gently working, we'll find a way", as opposed to the more-linear/firey male style of courage.

Like a river, trying to find a way through a blockage put against it..

Gently-persistent, enduring, winning through working with Nature, instead of just arbitrarily overriding it.

The woman who did the classification-system for stars, at some observitory, was demonstrating a kind of courage, given that women had no "validity" in the hearts or minds of men, of the profession, of those days..

The "Famous Five", who broke the "women legally are not 'persons' in the Commonwealth, by law" bullshit also.

( Nellie McLung, iirc, was one of 'em, & a wonderful sentiment of hers goes something like..

"don't let them decide what's allowed, or valid,

but instead, just make things right, & let them howl,"

Now there's a woman. : )

So, as anyone who has seen all the body-language books which identify how utterly-incompetent normal guys are at reading it, women are more-likely to work with & through people.

How many thousands, or millions, survived the 21st century's Great Filter?

( I'd want to know the proper expectations )

When I tried hitting that link, through the image, I got a screen demanding payment.

Apparently finance.yahoo.com is making mobile-users land on a money-harvesting page, tied with Google?

Does the entire fediverse need to blacklist finance.yahoo.com ?

It's goading him, but the root greed to be dictator of the US of A has been in him, all along.

There was an article, somewhere, about "the guardrails have come off", about the people who used to surround him, who mitigated his absolute-greed for absolute-authority-over-all-others, but they've all left.

It was there, all along.

IF JBOD, && Linux, THEN yes you can know, through SMARTTOOLS, or something like that..

However, I can't imagine how you'd get 2 separate PCIe

( presuming NVMe devices ..

.. no, this thing must be presuming SATA, NOT NVMe ..

even in SATA, there's no bifurcator for SATA, I don't think:

SAS has expanders, which can take a single SAS channel & attach something like 128 SAS devices onto it,

PCIe has some kind of equivalent, and there is a PCIe card which crams loads of NVMe's into it, out in the last year, but SATA??

Hmm... )

shrug

I've never heard of this, & I'm Canadian.

I imagine out east, in the Maritimes, they'd have to put marker-poles on the things, because they sometimes get 5' of snow in a single onslaught, but ..

.. it simply isn't something I'd ever heard-of.

Our fire-departments deal with the snow & ice every ( normal, not now ) winter.

shrug

Shoddy use of them is normal, that is true.

Don't toss-out the baby, with the bath water, tho, eh?

Training people in critical-thinking, & having quality standards for doing surveys, would help our world more, than would removing a method of discovery.

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I tried opening this post in a web browser, & it tried downloading a binary onto my system??

When I tried reloading the page, instead of blank-page with some kind of underhanded downloading, it showed the post..

Not cool, but I've no idea who, or what, caused whatever it is that hit my browser, when I tried getting it to open this post.

That's your unconscious-mind playing games with your life, same as mine does with mine.

It's essentially a variant of "addiction", aka Kahneman1 mind ( imprint-reaction mind ) trying to make your life obey its imprint-reaction programming.

Read both Kahneman's "Thinking Fast & Slow", in order to understand the pseudo-reasoning that Kahneman1 mind ( he calls it System-1, but that presumes his work's context, which normal-discussions don't presume ), and how its mission is undermining correct-reasoning ( Kahneman2 mind ).

AND read Kegan & Lahey's "Immunity to Change", about our unconscious-mind's mechanism that fights off growing-up, & how to intelligently counter its sabotaging of our lives.

It's essentially a kind of "demagnitization" that you need to do, of your unconscious, but if you don't systematically use real leverage, you're not going to win.

Every time I see an image of a cute, intelligent, driven, wonderfully diffierent-from-me woman, I'm wanting to be wrapping our lives together, but..

.. relationship depends on having common core-identity.

Some people have such alien/different core-identity, due to life-experience, that that potential got broken.

You can't make an intact window out of random shards of broken glass, right?

They're separate, and they don't become unitary, the way molten glass does, just because you put them adjacent to each-other, right?

Some people have been too changed by experience, to be able to value what normal-identity values.

My life-mission is to remove my Soul/Continuum/CellOfGod/ChildOfAllgod/ParticleOfBrahmanFieldOfOriginalAwareness from Universe-containment/entrapment, so that no more of this reincarnation abuse/bullshit contains future-lives that it has.

Aversion-therapy was successful, in other words..

How could any woman want what I want?

That's nonsensical.

You can't have the savage intensity of aversion to "remaining in world, living in relationships, gently earning human meaning" that I have, & somehow be "in" relationship with woman who is wired into needing that kind of meaning..

Not only is it idiocy, it's abuse ( it would be abuse for me to be in-relationship with anyone, given my ripping-Soul-from-endless-stream-of-Universes NEED in me, that my core is ).

So, while your reason is different from mine, we're both fighting-against the "magnetization" of our unconscious-minds & our Kahneman1 programmed imprint-reaction/instinct minds.

1. understanding { the books, one's own unconscious, experience-induced-understanding of studying one's unconscious, as it sabotages one's life, in order to protect its dominion over our Eternity, through hobbling our strategy/intent }
2. finding the deliberate & strategic means of communicating with our unconscious, using techniques given in those books
3. keep earning the demagnitizing of our unconscious-minds, our Kahneman1 minds, until each of us wins ( any addiction, it's the same rules, whether addiction-to-relationship, or addiction-to-dysfunction, or addiction-to-chemical, or addiction-to-class-status, or addiction-to-money, ANY addiction is using these mechanisms, so the method for dismantling them is, strategically, the same )
4. endure the life-scale process ( no point in pretending that one's unconscious-mind can be force-rewired in mere-months: it took decades for our unconscious to form, and it absorbed many-decades of culturally-accumulated inertia in the early years, it's going to be a slog, and only enduring-persisting can work, and the life-accomplishing can be worth it, whatever it is that one is working on earning ).

and that's it.

No "magic bullet", no "magic pill", just competenly-demagnitizing one's unconscious-ignorance from one's life, and making one's life hold to a non-default "river" path.

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