Yes, good point. The nice thing about "rough consensus" is that you're not fooling yourself in thinking that you or someone has the correct answer.
If you are listening to an "authority" who is using overly complex terminology or jargon to promote their ideas, ask them: "What problem are you trying to solve?"
In science, indeed in all knowledge creation we start with a problem.
Once you understand their problem, you can ask how their solution is better than the alternatives.
This will weed out hucksters, and those who don't understand knowledge creation.
Our best explanation of knowledge creation follows these steps:
1. Identify a problem, i.e. conflicting explanations.
2. Conjecture better explanations.
3. Critique the explanations.
4. Go with the explanation that best survives the critiques.
5. Repeat
ALL of our knowledge consists of explanations that have beat out their competitors. They are never proved. Not even in math. They are simply the survivors.
Nothing is ever proved. There is no book, god, machine, or 12 step program we can consult that will give us a guaranteed true, error free answer.
But there are correct answers! You can get the correct answer, you just can't know you have it!
Understand this dichotomy and you are on your way to understanding science.
The societal dangers we face, are not the old things.
Some of the ideologies are the same. Those seemingly never change.
But the mechanisms are new and different.
GM.
**Permaculture Principle: Creatively use and respond to change**
When I first arrived at the homestead, there was a ~2acre stand of mature woods which I didn't have any intention of using for production. I thought it would just be a nice area to enjoy.
https://v.nostr.build/Ktdi4AM6FAuCfopY.mp4
Once I started making maple syrup, I realized there were a lot of sugar maple trees in those woods. So, I hired a forestry consultant to advise me on which trees I could sell to promote the growth of the sugar maple trees. After the logging the forest was vastly different.
We had the loggers make paths through the woods as they dragged the trees out which we used to create a track around the woods for our horse to run on. At the same time, so much light had opened up in the canopy that there was more growth in the understory than we could have expected.
This undergrowth was a problem, because it was obstructing the access to the sugar maple trees. At the same time I had a problem managing our rams, we were moving a handful of rams every 2-4 days same as all the ewes and lambs together. It was roughly the same work for just a few animals as the large flock. There is a permaculture saying, the problem is the solution, this rang true in this instance. I realized I could put the rams in the fenced in center of the horse track to eat down all the understory growth keeping the forest clear for collecting maple sap.
Eventually golden oyster mushrooms started fruiting from the all the stumps and tops from the logging. Now we get buckets and buckets of mushrooms from this area as well. By creativity responding to the changes from the disturbance of logging we turned this 2acre woods into an incredible useful and productive space.
#learnpermaculture #permaculture #permies #homesteading #meshtadel
Very interested in hearing more.
Speaking your native language and walking are never taught, but everyone learns both.
Nearly every student wants an iPhone. Once they receive the phone, virtually all will quickly learn how to use it. Kids naturally learn about something they perceive as valuable.
Statists believe that school should be mandatory, otherwise students won't learn. Therefore, the iPhone must be demonized:
"iPhones are bad for kids." "It's an addiction."
The alternative is to admit that mandatory schooling is not needed.
Testing an old idea: NFC-based transient accounts: accounts that log off as soon as the app goes to the background, deleting all traces of the account from the phone.
It looks like this in debugging speeds: https://video.nostr.build/ef4274d150303fd28f5e7b6b02a7b0102176263dfb1b491969a0caab6b61e6ad.mp4
If you are an activist and if your phone is confiscated, they will never find anything on the phone. Not even your public key.
Walk around with Amethyst installed and an NFC tag hidden in your clothing. When you need to use Amethyst, tap the tag, insert your password and login. Lock the screen to delete everything.
The NFC has a NIP-49 password-encrypted nsec. If you need, destroy and dispose the NFC tag.
Testing an old idea: NFC-based transient accounts: accounts that log off as soon as the app goes to the background, deleting all traces of the account from the phone.
It looks like this in debugging speeds: https://video.nostr.build/ef4274d150303fd28f5e7b6b02a7b0102176263dfb1b491969a0caab6b61e6ad.mp4
If you are an activist and if your phone is confiscated, they will never find anything on the phone. Not even your public key.
Walk around with Amethyst installed and an NFC tag hidden in your clothing. When you need to use Amethyst, tap the tag, insert your password and login. Lock the screen to delete everything.
The NFC has a NIP-49 password-encrypted nsec. If you need, destroy and dispose the NFC tag.
School should help students answer their questions.
Instead, school asks for answers to questions not asked.