Exploring a TikTok Alternative on the Fediverse: Design and Advertising
The Fediverse, a decentralized network of independently operated servers that use open-source software to communicate with each other, presents an intriguing platform for developing alternatives to mainstream social media applications. This network architecture, known for promoting privacy and reducing dependency on centralized platforms, could serve as a fertile ground for launching a TikTok alternative. Such an initiative could align with similar motivations behind an Instagram competitor in the Fediverse, like PixelFed.
Designing a Fediverse-based TikTok Alternative
The primary appeal of TikTok lies in its short-form video content and highly personalized content delivery algorithms. A Fediverse alternative would need to replicate these core features while emphasizing user control and data privacy - central tenets of the Fediverse philosophy. This alternative could be designed to allow users to contribute to or even customize their content recommendation algorithms. Open-source development could further ensure transparency and foster trust among users.
Moreover, integrating features common in social media platforms, such as likes, comments, and shares, would be essential. However, these should be implemented with a focus on fostering community interaction and reducing the emphasis on viral metrics, which can negatively impact user experience and mental health.
Behavioral Economics in User Adoption
Understanding user motivation through the lens of behavioral economics is crucial in encouraging the adoption of a TikTok alternative on the Fediverse. One key factor could be the 'ownership' element - giving users more control over their data and the content they see without the overt manipulation of a proprietary algorithm. This could address the autonomy and competence needs of users, enhancing intrinsic motivation to use the platform.
Another aspect could be the network effect, where the value of the service increases as more people use it. Early adopters could be drawn from niches that prioritize privacy and data ownership, potentially creating a ripple effect as they influence others within their social circles.
Distributed Self-Serve Advertising
Monetization is a critical aspect of sustaining any social media platform. A Fediverse-based app could innovate by implementing a distributed self-serve advertising system. Advertisers could use the platform to create ads, set budgets, and target audiences based on interests rather than intrusive personal data collection. This system could be transparent, with costs, reach, and efficacy openly available to all users, which would build trust and potentially attract ethical brands.
Combating Click Fraud Effectively
To ensure the viability of the advertising model, reducing or eliminating click fraud is paramount. Techniques like anomaly detection, which uses machine learning to identify patterns that deviate from normal user behavior, could be employed. Another method could be the use of decentralized verification systems, where multiple independent nodes verify the legitimacy of clicks, similar to blockchain transactions.
Further, creating an environment that rewards genuine interaction rather than mere engagement metrics can reduce the incentive for click fraud. This can be achieved by adjusting how user engagement is measured and rewarded, focusing more on qualitative engagement rather than quantitative.
Conclusion
The creation of a TikTok alternative on the Fediverse offers a compelling study in how decentralized social networks might challenge the status quo of internet monopolies. By leveraging open-source technology, prioritizing user privacy, and fostering a transparent advertising model, such a platform not only offers an alternative but could also pioneer new ways of thinking about social media dynamics and monetization. The success of this venture will largely depend on user adoption, driven by the platform's ability to align with the values and needs of potential users, especially those concerned with privacy and data sovereignty.
What Is Unified Perception?
Unified Perception refers to the state of mind where the perceived duality between the self and others dissolves, revealing the oneness of all existence. In the realm of illusions, the ego sees separation, conflict, and individuality. However, through the process of forgiveness and the relinquishment of judgment, a transition occurs from fragmented perception to unified perception. This transformation is not instantaneous but unfolds as one learns to extend love unconditionally, seeing beyond the veil of differences to the unity that binds us all.
In unified perception, distinctions between self and other, us and them, or even between the observer and the observed, cease to hold meaning. This perception is not a denial of the physical senses but a deep recognition that beneath the surface differences, all beings share the same divine essence. It is the realization that each person, object, and experience is a part of God's perfect, indivisible wholeness. Such awareness brings about a profound sense of peace and compassion, as it acknowledges that every encounter is a holy encounter, an opportunity to recognize the divine in all.
Unified perception does not fluctuate; it is constant and unchangeable, reflecting the eternal nature of God's love. For some, it is the ultimate goal of the journey through the book A Course in Miracles, where the world is seen not as a place of separation and strife but as a classroom for learning love, forgiveness, and the reality of our shared being. This journey is marked by miracles, understood as shifts in perception from fear to love, which serve as the milestones of our spiritual progress.
Achieving this state is not through intellectual understanding but through the application of the course's principles in daily life. As one practices forgiveness and learns to see beyond the ego's illusions, the light of unified perception gradually illuminates the mind, revealing the world in its true, unfragmented form. In this light, peace is not just a possibility but an inevitable outcome of recognizing the truth about ourselves and our brothers. Each step taken towards forgiveness and understanding is a step towards the realization of our unity with all beings, leading to a life filled with limitless peace, joy, and love.
Utilizing the Bitcoin Cash Blockchain for Source Code Storage: An Analysis
In the realm of blockchain technology, Bitcoin Cash stands out for its low transaction fees and efficient processing times, making it an attractive platform for a variety of applications beyond simple cryptocurrency transactions. One intriguing possibility is the use of the Bitcoin Cash blockchain for storing data, such as strings of source code, within the memo part of transactions.
This concept opens up a discussion on the practicality and cost-effectiveness of leveraging blockchain technology for data storage, especially for developers looking to immortalize their source code in a decentralized ledger. Member.cash was a website that utilized memo.cash like technology to store articles on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain by stringing Bitcoin Cash memo data together to form paragraphs; this technology has motivated the following analysis. The following is an approximation based on anecdotal data; please provide constructive feedback if any of the following may not reflect reality.
The recent average transaction fee for Bitcoin Cash, a key factor in the feasibility of such an endeavor, is remarkably low, at approximately $0.013 per transaction. This cost-efficiency presents a unique opportunity for storing data on the blockchain; however, it also necessitates an exploration into the technical and financial implications of this method, particularly for larger data sizes such as source code files.
When considering the task of uploading five megabytes (MB) of source code to the Bitcoin Cash blockchain, one must delve into the specifics of transaction capabilities and associated costs. Given the blockchain's design, each transaction can carry a memo or OP_RETURN field, which has a size limit that traditionally stands at about 220 bytes. This limitation is crucial for calculating the number of transactions required to upload a significant amount of data.
By breaking down the numbers, if one were to upload five MB of source code, taking into account the memo size restriction, approximately 23,831 transactions would be necessary to complete the upload. The total cost for this operation, given the current average transaction fee, would amount to roughly $309.81. This calculation underscores the feasibility from a technical standpoint but also highlights the financial consideration involved in utilizing the Bitcoin Cash blockchain for data storage at such a scale.
This analysis serves not only to evaluate the potential of Bitcoin Cash for storing large data files like source code but also to stimulate further discussion on the innovative uses of blockchain technology beyond its original financial applications. As the blockchain landscape continues to evolve, exploring these unconventional applications could pave the way for new methodologies in data storage, distribution, and preservation, offering developers a novel approach to securing their source code for posterity.
Coercive Psychiatry and Christianity
Many Christians have contradictory goals with respect to religion and psychiatry in modern society. Many or most Christians ostensibly want to maintain Judeo Christian political and cultural supremacy in a supposedly secular culture, and also allow quasi secular psychiatry to enforce Judeo Christian suicide prohibitions through psychiatric coercion (psychiatric slavery and effectively torture) . In his book The Myth of Psychotherapy, Thomas Szasz notes that psychiatry is effectively a fake religion which is hostile to and destructive towards real religion. There are multiple articles of faith in psychiatry, which psychiatry pretends are objective and scientific. Psychiatry is scientistic, not scientific.
Secular ethics can be utilized to morally justify why harming others should be and remain illegal. Honest secular ethics, in Truth, cannot be utilized to morally justify depriving adults of bodily autonomy and enforcing suicide prohibitions utilizing psychiatric coercion, force, and confinement (pseudo medical slavery and pseudo medical torture). We have a separation of church and state; we should also have a separation of psychiatry and state.
Consensual voluntary psychiatry should remain legal. Coercive psychiatry has unintended consequences. Psychiatrist Peter Breggin has written and published articles like, “More Psychiatry Means More Shootings”. Coercive psychiatry is incompatible with a peaceful secular society. Christian theocracy ruled nations for hundreds of years. Various theocracies exist on Earth today. Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz wrote of a “pharmocracy” (the rule of medicine and/or doctors) and “The Therapeutic State” (which is sort of like a “police state” except instead of police, it is doctors and medical professionals that have too much power).
It will be good if we can reduce suicides to zero using persuasion, reason, and kindness. Psychiatric coercion should be outlawed. Consensual voluntary psychiatry should remain legal for adults. According to Dr. Szasz, civil commitment and the insanity defense form the foundations of psychiatric slavery, and psychiatric slavery should be outlawed.
Fable of the Dragon Tyrant, Vitalik Buterin, Twitter, and SENS Research Foundation
Greetings. Vitalik links to Fable of the Dragon Tyrant directly in his Twitter profile it seems. Awesome! that fable has a moral that can relate to aging/healthspan potentially.
https://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin
Is his top pinned Tweet, he also tries (unsuccessfully) to link to (@)SENSTweet (SENS Research Foundation).
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1273742863688499203
(@)senstweet is the correct link. What you link to for SENS is wrong Twitter handle. I hope Vitalik might notice and fix that to help educate humans about radical life extension.
Vitalik has a lot of social influence due to Ethereum and he is really doing all humans a favor by helping to educate humanity about the potential of longevity escape velocity and rejuvenation research. He was recently on a cast with Aubrey de Grey as some of you might know.
So, please maybe Vitalik might notice if some of us (more than just me), Tweet to him on Twitter and note how much we appreciate all he does for longevity/healthspan research, and also suggest he perhaps fix the link to (@)SENStweet so more humans can be educated about and onboarded to the idea of healthspan/longevity research more effectively.
Cheers and serenity.
A DAO to Promote and Accelerate Bitcoin Cash Adoption?
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO’s) may be the future of business. Laws and regulations need to start catching up to the current economics realities of cryptocurrencies and mass adoption of Internet and smartphone technologies.
What if we could create an open source business plan that entrepreneurs in developing nations could utilize to earn profit for themselves while also promoting Bitcoin Cash?
Perhaps the Bitcoin.com Register could be setup to voluntarily send some small percentage of sales (maybe .1% to .25% perhaps) for the first year to whoever helps to onboard the merchant?
Perhaps BCHpizza.org can be a model for how to drive adoption for Bitcoin Cash. There are perhaps many ways to reach the same goal. Perhaps EatBCH could be utilized as a model to help accelerate the adoption of Bitcoin Cash. Perhaps programs like EatBCH could be implemented in hundreds of cities in dozens of developing nations. Perhaps local organizers could be financially motivated to organize EatBCH like programs in many localities. Perhaps the Bitcoin.com Register could voluntarily (opt-in) send some small percentage of sales (maybe .1% to .25% perhaps) to both the individual onboarding a merchant and also to a theoretical DAO which could help to fund EatBCH like programs in hundreds of cities. This is just one potential idea. There may be an infinite number of ways to structure a DAO that helps to accelerate Bitcoin Cash adoption.
Unlike Bitcoin Core with transaction fees often over $10 USA fiat dollars, Bitcoin Cash can function as peer to peer electronic cash for the hundreds of millions of humans earning less than $5 per day.
Perhaps a DAO can be initiated to help drive the adoption of Bitcoin Cash while also benefiting many stakeholders financially. This may become even more realistic once SmartBCH goes live with a mainnet. The Bitcoin.com SLP Dividend Calculator may be more useful too, once the SmartBCH mainnet goes live. Perhaps Smart Contracts with SmartBCH could automatically pay dividends in Bitcoin Cash.
In certain ways, the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem is sort of a DAO in an extremely loose sense of the term.
More states and nations need to catch up to Wyoming of all places, in creating mainstream legal frameworks for DAO’s to exist in harmony with existing political realities. Decentralized organizations can perhaps help drive Bitcoin Cash adoption if initiated in a creative and thoughtful way.
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Psychiatric Drugs and Dehumanizing Aspects of Psychiatry
Research the correlation between psychiatric drugs and violence. Correlation does not equal causation, of course.
Think about this. There are no causes of illegal violence, there are only reasons for illegal violence. Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz manifested this thought in my mind through his writings. If you think about it for a significant period of time you will eventually realize that this is True.
Drugs can not cause illegal violence any more than demon possession causes illegal violence.
However, coercive psychiatry is a dehumanizing force. Even non-coercive psychiatry can be dehumanizing when it sends implicit and explicit messages that people are not responsible for their own behavior - that individuals are not responsible for their own thoughts and behaviors. We have control over our behaviors. We have a great deal of control over our thoughts.
My theory is that there is a significant correlation between psychiatric drugs and violence because the implicit and explicit messages that psychiatry spreads regarding personal responsibility increase some individuals reasons for engaging in illegal violence, and decreases some individuals motivations and reasons for not engaging in illegal violence.
Illegal violence should not happen. However, perhaps it is at least partially an unintended consequence resulting from dehumanizing aspects of psychiatry.
It seems to me that the dehumanizing aspects could largely be mitigated if nonconsensual psychiatry and the insanity defense are outlawed and banned.
Do you have a better theory?
Bitcoin Cash, DAO’s, and SmartBCH
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO’s) have a lot of potential. SmartBCH is software that will help to bridge Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum.
Ethereum enables some pretty amazing things with Solidity and Smart Contracts. I was using Ethereum when fees were around $0.30 to $0.60. The fees seemed sort of high, but not so high as to make Web3 unusable. Now with transaction fees around $12.00, Ethereum seems much less useful for decentralized finance.
DAO’s with Bitcoin Cash can be especially interesting, since if transaction fees for SmartBCH can stay near where they are for Bitcoin Cash, then those Earning less than $5 per day can start to participate in Web3.
Ideas for DAO’s with Bitcoin Cash include the following. Incentivize the development for open source designs of vertical farms. Use DeFi (decentralized finance) to allow investors to fund vertical farm building in developing nations. Investors could earn profit and help to eliminate hunger. Another DAO idea is to have open source learning and teaching materials, and also to fund research - sort of a university DAO perhaps.
Wyoming has recently passed legislation to enable DAO’s to exist within mainstream legal frameworks. https://www.coindesk.com/wyoming-dao-llc-law-passed
How can decentralized finance help to facilitate social entrepreneurship?
What sort of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations might you like to see started on SmartBCH?
Hopefully SmartBCH will move from testnet to mainnet as soon as realistically possible; and hopefully SmartBCH will live up to its seeming potential to enable Web3 to exist without ridiculously high transaction/usage fees. Bitcoin Cash can help to effectively bank the bank and maybe even enable DAO’s in which billions of humans can participate, even with incomes less than $5 per day. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and cryptocurrencies may be the future of business.
Oregon Should Respect Constitutional Carry of Firearms
Oregon should have more a movement to implement Constitutional carry. Obey just laws. Repeal unjust laws. Implement constitutional carry of firearms in Oregon. Constitutional carry means not needing a permit to carry a concealed firearm. Permitless carry is another label for Constitutional Carry.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
What about decentralized militias? From about 2001 to 2006, the United States Army had a slogan, “Army of One”. What about being a “militia of one”? The internet enables decentralization; it seems that decentralized militias are something now possible. Cryptocurrencies and smart contracts have enabled the creation of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO’s). Why is it unrealistic for a militia DAO to be created? If many citizens become “a militia of one”, then like minded single member militias can swarm together as needed for mutual self defense and protection.
Are the Constitutional rights of financial struggling individuals being respected if there are fees to obtain a concealed carry permit? Are individual rights being infringed upon by not respecting the idea Constitutional Carry?
There should be a movement in Oregon to have Constitutional Carry become law. We can change unjust laws in Oregon. Tweet to politicians about this important matter. Call their offices. Write them letters. Meet with politicians in person if possible. Do not break any laws when attempting to change unjust laws. Do not get yourself into trouble. We can change unjust laws using authentically peaceful means. One can still be respectful to politicians, and at the same time, inform the politicians that they are not enacting enough just laws and behaving immorally by tacitly approving of laws that violate Constitutional Rights. Politicians should fully respect citizens' right to keep and bear arms.
If societal breakdown happens in a significant way, will those that have not gone through the process to obtain a concealed handgun permit have their Constitutional Rights to keep and bear arms respected?
Ghost Gunner, Defense Distributed, and 3D printed guns are perhaps a way to help ensure governments ultimately cannot violate citizens’ Constitutional and human rights to keep and bear arms. Second Amendment rights are being infringed, it seems. There are too many unconstitutional laws perhaps. Obey just laws; repeal and change unjust laws.
Help to repeal unjust laws that violate the Constitution. Become a leader in helping to implement Constitutional Carry and permitless carry in Oregon perhaps. Political organizing can bring about social change. Permitless carry should be implemented in Oregon. Help to have Oregon implement and respect Constitutional Carry.
Goals and Resurrection
So I have a few goals. And if you want to support me dedicating time to these goals, please support me on Patreon. Thank you much, if you already support me on Patreon.
I have four primary goals which may have many sub-goals.
1. Help to defeat aging.
2. Outlaw psychiatric coercion and nonconsensual psychiatry.
3. Help to implement universal basic income.
4. Help humans to see with spiritual vision.
I have realized recently that resurrection technologies (scientific or spiritual) may be quite fruitful.
According to the book A Course In Miracles, we can resurrect those that have died.
If we are just information, then in theory, science could be utilized to resurrect those that have died.
Perhaps aliens resurrected Jesus to fulfill prophecies and to help humans stay on a path towards increasing harmony and peace.
Even if Jesus was never resurrected, humans have in their consciousness the idea of resurrection.
Perhaps resurrections can be achieved through spiritual and/or scientific means, or some combination of such means.
Resurrection of ethical decent caring humans seems desirable, especially once off Earth colonization is achieved.
I have stated my four primary goals above and I believe resurrection fits in with these goals, especially helping humans to see with spiritual vision.
I will likely write more about this sooner than later. Resurrection technologies seems desirable.
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Ideas about Psychiatry
Read the book Pharmocracy by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz.
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Will you read the book Psychiatric Slavery by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz?
Szasz wrote about "psychiatric rape".
Don't earn money from nonconsensual psychiatry.
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I am ok with voluntary consensual psychiatry.
In his book Antipsychiatry, Thomas Szasz mentions "psychiatric rape" as accurate language to describe psychiatric coercion effectively.
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How does one define "a bad" mental health professional?
Are you familiar with the psychiatric survivor movement?
Were those that performed lobotomies in the past bad? The inventor of lobotomy won a nobel prize.
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Nonconsensual psychiatry should be outlawed. Read the books Suicide Prohibition and Psychiatric Slavery by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz.
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Read the book Heresies by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Psychiatric coercion should be outlawed. Suicide should be respected as a human right for all adults when done in private. The insanity defense should be outlawed.
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According to psychiatrist Thomas Szasz psychosis is sort of a language to be de-coded rather than a brain disorder. Unless a brain disorder is found. Maybe study the history of neurosyphilis.
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Nonconsensual psychiatry should be called "psychiatric rape". "Rape" can mean an "outrageous violation".
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Psychiatric slavery is legal. Maybe read the Psychiatric Slavery by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz.
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Read the book Suicide Prohibition by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz? It will be good if we can reduce suicides to zero, using persuasion, reason, and kindness. Suicides are tragic.
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A lot of humans “find out” they have schizophrenia by force. The process is often nonconsensual. Nonconsensual psychiatry is how and why many individuals “find out” they have schizophrenia. There are no objective medical scientific ways to diagnose schizophrenia. Maybe read the book Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. According to Thomas Szasz “schizophrenia” is a pejorative stigmatizing label, rather than an objective medical disorder. Psychiatry is scientistic, not scientific.
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NIMH and APA are effectively the psychiatric Vatican. I support the separation of psychiatry and state, just like we have a separation of church and state. We should outlaw psychiatric coercion. Read the book Psychiatric Slavery by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz perhaps. Coercive psychiatry is effectively a pseudo medical cult.
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Have you studied much counseling theory in academia or continuing education?
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Coercive psychiatry is morally deficient.
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Maybe our public education system implements psychiatrized education. That's a problem
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Know about The Science of Lies.
Psychiatric Drugs and Illegal Violence
There seems to be a correlation between psychiatric drugs and illegal violence. I think the theory to mostly likely be true is that psychiatric dehumanization and psychiatric injustices motivate illegal violence. I don't believe drugs can cause violence just like i don't believe demon possession can cause violence. I suggest more individuals study the book The Art of Peace however, and learn lessons from ideas it offers.
Oregon Should Respect Constitutional Carry of Firearms
Oregon should have more of a movement to implement Constitutional carry. Obey just laws. Repeal unjust laws. Implement constitutional carry of firearms in Oregon. Constitutional carry means not needing a permit to carry a concealed firearm. Permitless carry is another label for Constitutional Carry.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
What about decentralized militias? From about 2001 to 2006, the United States Army had a slogan, “Army of One”. What about being a “militia of one”? The internet enables decentralization; it seems that decentralized militias are something now possible. Cryptocurrencies and smart contracts have enabled the creation of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO’s). Why is it unrealistic for a militia DAO to be created? If many citizens become “a militia of one”, then like minded single member militias can swarm together as needed for mutual self defense and protection.
Are the Constitutional rights of financial struggling individuals being respected if there are fees to obtain a concealed carry permit? Are individual rights being infringed upon by not respecting the idea Constitutional Carry?
There should be a movement in Oregon to have Constitutional Carry become law. We can change unjust laws in Oregon. Tweet to politicians about this important matter. Call their offices. Write them letters. Meet with politicians in person if possible. Do not break any laws when attempting to change unjust laws. Do not get yourself into trouble. We can change unjust laws using authentically peaceful means. One can still be respectful to politicians, and at the same time, inform the politicians that they are not enacting enough just laws and behaving immorally by tacitly approving of laws that violate Constitutional Rights. Politicians should fully respect citizens' right to keep and bear arms.
If societal breakdown happens in a significant way, will those that have not gone through the process to obtain a concealed handgun permit have their Constitutional Rights to keep and bear arms respected?
Ghost Gunner, Defense Distributed, and 3D printed guns are perhaps a way to help ensure governments ultimately cannot violate citizens’ Constitutional and human rights to keep and bear arms. Second Amendment rights are being infringed, it seems. There are too many unconstitutional laws perhaps. Obey just laws; repeal and change unjust laws.
Help to repeal unjust laws that violate the Constitution. Become a leader in helping to implement Constitutional Carry and permitless carry in Oregon perhaps. Political organizing can bring about social change. Permitless carry should be implemented in Oregon. Help to have Oregon implement and respect Constitutional Carry.
Being Antipsychiatry Does Not Mean Being Pro-Suicide
I am not pro-suicide. I hope that all suicides stop happening. I am against psychiatric coercion. I am against psychiatric slavery.
I want to see an Earth that is so awesome that no one wants to engage in suicide. No one is motivated to engage in suicide. Implementing a universal basic income could help significantly to produce these outcomes. That is mostly the subject for another book however.
I am not writing and creating this book to be controversial. In fact, I would rather like to not be controversial. What is so radical about stating that only consensual psychiatry should be legal? What is radical about stating that peaceful, law abiding adults should not be locked up in a hospital against their will? Psychiatric units at hospitals effectively function as jails for those that do not want to be locked inside.
If we want to live in a quasi-theocracy then yes, let us indeed keep suicide prohibitions in place.
Judeo-Christian beliefs influence laws regarding suicide. Psychiatry deals with theology implicitly, since suicide leads to death, and death involves an afterlife, or lack there of.
If it is indeed saving a soul from hell, to use psychiatric coercion on them, and to effectively use violence on them, then yes, perhaps suicide prohibitions should remain in place. However, I do not even believe in Hell. There can certainly be human created misery here on Earth, however. Additionally, why would a God who is loving allow more suffering to happen to someone who has already subjectively experienced a lot of suffering?
It will be good if we can reduce suicides to zero. This cannot be stated enough. It can also not be stated enough that we should use persuasion, reason, and kindness to reduce suicides. Not psychiatric coercion, force, and confinement.
Housing Cooperatives to Reduce Involuntary Houselessness
Could housing co-ops be a way for homelessness and houselessness to be reduced? Housing co-operatives could help to eradicate houselessness and homelessness, potentially.
With seven billion humans on Earth, medium and high density housing is arguably necessary until off Earth colonization happens. Condominiums housing co-ops could be built utilizing economies of scale.
Projects like Habitat For Humanity have future home-owners help to build housing to reduce costs of building housing. There are multiple novel economic mechanisms that could help housing co-ops to thrive.
Sound proofing technologies can enable humans to live near one another more harmoniously. Privacy can be quite wonderful. Peaceful adults should enjoy a right to be left alone, if they want to be left alone. Housing co-ops that have separate units for each individual or family can help humans to enjoy peace, quiet, privacy, and prosperity, potentially.
We should do what is possible to help stop involuntary houselessness and involuntary homelessness. Perhaps universal basic income can be utilized to fund housing co-ops.
How do housing co-ops differ from private housing development? What are advantages and disadvantages to housing co-op economic models? How might decentralized autonomous organizations be utilized to organize and coordinate the development of housing co-ops?
Szaszian Views
Dr. Szasz believed that mental illness is a metaphor and that civil commitment and the insanity defense form the foundations of psychiatric slavery. Szasz wrote a book Suicide Prohibition which logics as to why suicide should be respected as a civil and human right for all adults when it is done in private. Szasz wrote a book insanity that logics why the insanity defense should be outlawed. Szasz and I both believe that there should be a separation of psychiatry and state, just like there is a separation of church and state.
Realize that Aging Must Be Defeated
Realize that aging should be defeated. Aging kills about 100,000 humans each 24 hours. Aging is our worst humanitarian crisis. Read the book Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey. Help to hasten the defeat of aging.
Persuade politicians and law makers to help hasten the defeat of aging. Persuade them to fund research that could lead to the defeat of aging. Be creative in how you help to hasten the defeat of aging.
Only if it is socially appropriate to do so, let family, friends, and coworkers know about why defeating aging is the correct course for humanity to go on. Donate money to SENS Research Foundation and Life Extension Advocacy Foundation.
There are many ways to help hasten the defeat of aging. You could create a website on the topic of defeating aging, or create videos on YouTube, or post about the topic on social media. There are many ways to help hasten the defeat of aging. Once you realize that aging should be defeated, you will likely try to help hasten the defeat of aging.
Bitcoin Cash Business Ideas
I think a billion dollar start up idea might be a semi decentralized alternative to the Google Adsense and Adwords pair that accepts crypto for payments, with an Instagram alternative that functions sort of like Memo.cash does. Memo could integrate Imgur uploading into their already existing Android app potentially, like RiF Is Fun (Reddit app) already does.
An Online Learning Wiki That Integrates Bitcoin Cash?
Wikis are a sort of website that can function as a sort of social media. Wikipedia is the most popular wiki in existence. Wikis enable for the collaborative editing of documents and articles. Wikiversity is a sister-project to Wikipedia. Wikiversity is a wiki that is dedicated to learning, teaching, and research. Wikiversity does not allow for learning projects that can benefit one's own self financially. Wikiversity also has a culture that some feel is quite unwelcoming and unpleasant. https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page
Many individuals go to brick and mortar universities to increase their income potential and financial resources in life, over the long term. If someone forked Wikiversity in a way that integrates Bitcoin Cash and allows for reasonable self promotion like Reddit does, then this can be a billion dollar business opportunity. This wiki should have an open culture that promotes bold thinking and cooperative collaboration. Resources on this learning wiki that integrates Bitcoin Cash can potentially be licence under Creative Commons, just like Wikipedia content.
On this wiki, advertisements could be enabled for those that do not pay a small amount of Bitcoin Cash to the site monthly. About 90% of the net profits from advertising and profits from those that pay to not ads could be distributed back to creators on the site as a reward quasi dividend or royalty. Self serve advertising on the site could accept Bitcoin Cash for payment.
Wikiversity runs on the same software that Wikipedia does, MediaWiki. Learning, teaching, and research play an important role in society. Wikis are wonderful tools for facilitating learning, teaching and research.
Who will build this? What group of individuals will build this? When will it be built? Wikis that are meant contain learning, teaching, and research resources can be a great benefit to this universe. A wiki that integrates Bitcoin Cash and is dedicated to learning, teaching, and research could be a billion dollar idea.
Read.cash Punishes Those That Syndicate Their Own Content
Because of the non-original content detection, Read.cash punishes those that syndicate their own content.
Hayden Otto, a prominent author and creator who writes and publishes about Bitcoin Cash has recently voiced concerns on Twitter about Read.cash. https://twitter.com/haydenotto_/status/1239339695235952640
It is unfortunate that Read.cash punishes individuals who syndicate their own content on multiple different platforms.
Is Read.cash intentionally attempting to discourage prolific writers from publishing on Read.cash? Is the effect accidental?
Hopefully Read.cash can be a platform that is welcoming to many different types of creators and writers.
A Course In Miracles and Third Eye Optics
Third eye optics are useful. See with spiritual vision. A Course In Miracles (ACIM) defines Miracles as shifts in perception. With spiritual vision you can see Miracles!
Depending on how one defines it, a shift from fear to courage can be thought of as a Miracle. A shift from anger to Harmony can be thought of as a Miracle.
Have infinite patience to experience more inner and outer peace.
According to ACIM, Holy Spirit will communicate with us. We try to listen to Holy Spirit, we are more likely to receive guidance from Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit perhaps communicates in symbols.
We should do what is possible to dispel illusions and to experience happy dreams of elation, bliss, and limitless peace.
Videos Related to Outlawing Psychiatric Human Rights Abuses
YouTube Videos I have published related to Szaszian ethics and outlawing psychiatric human rights abuses:
Outlawing Psychiatric Coercion and Nonconsensual Psychiatry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XaQoGHrN6ASanism
Is Bigotry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnK_A-jB0XE
Psychiatric Coercion Is a Human Rights Abuse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C97dJ0gp8M
Suicide Is a Moral and Spiritual Issue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geBIk2v-epUCreatively Help to Outlaw Psychiatric Coercion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzI8-Y1VquU Szaszian Ethics Will Not Go Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ULzmsQLew
Is There Proof That Schizophrenia Is a Brain Disorder? No!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpdD8awW3D0
Nonconsensual Psychiatry Is Psychiatric Slavery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn5ZrEql5dI&tEarning
Money from Nonconsensual Psychiatry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGxZXVvWW1QPsychiatric
Slavery Happens When People Earn Money From Nonconsensual Psychiatry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uizo4FvrIEk
Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz Will Not Be Forgotten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVA0vRdOBTQ
Psychiatric Slavery Is Legal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSpx5hhBWy0
Death Control Should Be Respect as a Human Right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-WFJoQu4t8
Psychiatrists Should Read Books Thomas Szasz Wrote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxNOY4I3zZY
Tell Politicians to Outlaw Psychiatric Slavery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC20Yq7C0xk
Listen to Audiobooks that Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz Wrote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSB_A7Er0LI
Help to Outlaw Psychiatric Coercion and Oppression
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_CefDgch50
Szaszian Theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tckILaNcvao
Psychiatric Refugees and Psychiatric Survivors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igJOnkY_LPY
Insanity Defenses Should Be Outlawed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daiVbWGbijo
Read Books Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz Wrote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aum0OgrE8Ac
What Is Psychiatric Slavery?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZmTBWuOhd0
Outlaw Psychiatric Holds and Force
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAmo_Zj8IeU
A Critique of Thomas Szasz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oUrxn_H9yA
Psychiatric Coercion Should Be Illegal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzKWvmm-_v0
Is Psychiatry Pseudo Science?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4c8nu1wIOw
Should All Currently Illicit Drugs Be Legal for Adults to Use?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8oHq19PhvI
How Are Non Consensual Psychiatry and Historical Slavery Similar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iXLBr_XOvk
Buy the Book The Myth of Mental Illness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkOiTI_76IM
Outlaw the Insanity Defense, Psychiatric Holds, Psychiatric Slavery and Civil Commitment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnJtT6PXvbc
Are Psychiatric Drugs Worsening Rates of Psychiatric Disability?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXFHio3N39o
Help to Outlaw the Insanity Defense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-8EIomqNyo
Death Control Should Be Respected as a Human Right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ8CMCtUVSg
The Theology of Suicide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvjU--_Rwgk
Outlaw Civil Commitment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1begEzNdLlU
All States Should Ban the Insanity Defense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xAwcal1g-Y
Psychiatric Holds Should Be Outlawed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxFTyaQETuI
Force and Coercion Should Not Be Used to Prevent Suicide in Adults
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hEr566V-iM
A Freestyled Song About Psychiatric Slavery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7izPLYBGBxg
Seeing with Spiritual Vision and Listening with Spiritual Hearing
This is about seeing with spiritual vision and listening with spiritual hearing. Of course, one can hear with their physical ears and see with their physical eyes. In addition to this, it is possible to listen with your metaphorical third ear, and see with your metaphorical third eye. This is third eye optics, and third ear listening.
One can direct physical sights and sounds to spiritual oriented parts of our brains perhaps. The physical sights and sounds that we see and hear, respectively, can be reprocessed into spiritual sight and spiritual hearing. This is perhaps how Holy Spirit can be heard and seen. Holy Spirit communicates in symbols perhaps.
Numerology and sacred mathematics can perhaps be another way that we can utilize spiritual sight and spiritual vision.
Seeing with spiritual vision is a choice. Third eye optics are a choice. Listening with spiritual hearing is a choice.
Bitcoin Cash and an Instagram Alternative
Anyone interested in utilizing IPFS, Bitcoin Cash, and Memo protocol to produce an Instagram alternative as a DAO that benefits many stakeholders?
Pinata is an interesting method of interfacing with IPFS.
The History of Psychiatry
The "Father of Psychiatry" Benjamin Rush was also a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Surgeon General of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War. Psychiatry is effectively the secular religion of supposedly secular democratic nations.
Towards Achieving Longevity Escape Velocity
Longevity escape velocity is a theoretical scientific achievement; longevity escape velocity is the point at which the average human lifespan is being increased at a rate of at least one year every year. We should attempt to achieve longevity escape velocity. Once longevity escape velocity is achieved, then aging will be defeated. There are many reasons why it will be good to see aging defeated. Aging is the worst humanitarian crisis on Earth. Aging ends about 100,000 lives each day. Longevity escape velocity should be achieved. Aging is tragic.
Read the book Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey. Donate money to SENS Research Foundation. SENS Research Foundation is an organization attempting to defeat aging. Life Extension Advocacy Foundation is an organization worth learning about. https://www.sens.org/ https://www.lifespan.io/
Some will state that defeating aging is a bad idea because then overpopulation will become a worse problem. However, individuals who state such ideas do not take into account technological progress that can overcome these potential problems. Elon Musk has stated that he is trying to help humanity to colonize Mars.
Request to politicians that they help to hasten the defeat of aging. Politicians can fund research related to defeating aging by allocating government research money. Politicians can legally classify aging as a potentially treatable disease, and thereby possibly help propel research forward in relation to defeating aging.
Aging should definitely be defeated. However, whether or not it is necessary to classify aging as a potentially treatable disease is uncertain. Regardless, achieving longevity escape velocity is a worthwhile goal to strive towards.
Please do what you can to help hasten the defeat of aging. Tweet to politicians about defeating aging. Email politicians. Call politicians. In socially appropriate ways, discuss defeating aging with your family and friends. Be creative in how you help to hasten the defeat of aging.
Help individuals to overcome pro-aging mindsets. Once enough individuals want to see aging defeated, and take definite actions towards hastening the defeat of aging, then aging may be defeated in a relatively efficient way.
Social Media With Bitcoin Cash
There is a Bitcoin Cash Medium clone (Read.Cash) and Twitter clone (Memo.cash). What about YouTube, Instagram, and SoundCloud?
Memo.cash could be modified to function like an Instagram clone. Maybe an Instagram Stories clone should be built on Bitcoin Cash.
Self-serve advertising can be paid for utilize Bitcoin Cash perhaps. Bitcoin Cash payments can be utilized to not see advertising.
What if a complete social media ecosystem is built utilizing Bitcoin Cash?
A Plan to Outlaw Psychiatric Coercion and Nonconsensual Psychiatry
Here is a plan to outlaw psychiatric coercion and nonconsensual psychiatry in USA. If you find yourself being threatened with a psychiatric hold or civil commitment, demand a lawyer if you are entitled to one. Genuinely and authentically do not be a threat to your own safety or the safety of anyone else. Read the book Psychiatric Slavery by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, ask your lawyer to read the book too. If you do not mind being a Nelson Mandela of psychiatry, refuse to ingest any drug (unless YOU FULLY CONSENT to ingesting such drugs and desire to ingest them). The book Psychiatric Slavery explains why it is your right in USA to not ingest psychiatric drugs if you are authentically peaceful and do not want to ingest such drugs; the book examines a USA Supreme Court Case. Challenge your civil commitment and/or psychiatric hold in legal courts, while attempting to fully utilize your lawyer (if you have one). Ideally you will not be threatened by psychiatric coercion at all. Do your best to avoid the threat of civil commitment and/or psychiatric holds. This plan should only be implemented if you have no choice except to either ingest potentially life threatening drugs, or be confined for an indeterminate amount of time. This may not be an easy path. You should carefully consider YOUR options and ultimately decide for yourself if you want to be a Nelson Mandela of psychiatry. Do not break laws. Do not harm or threaten anyone. Suicide should be respected as a civil and human right for all adults when it is done in private. We should utilize reason, persuasion, and kindness to reduce suicides, not coercion, force, and confinement. This plan should only be implemented if you have no choices except being attacked by coercive psychiatry, or fighting for your rights in the legal system with a lawyer's help. Dr. Thomas Szasz wrote about 35 books; if you choose this path, you may want to read at least several of his books. Psychiatric human rights abuses must be outlawed. Only consensual psychiatry should be legal. How to confront coercive psychiatry ultimately must be a personal decision. According to psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, clear thinking requires courage.
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