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Cigarettes create A LOT OF MONEY (usually about 15-20% is taxed on them and goes to government per pack!).

A lot of money is generated and gets spent on military sector & equipment as a result...

There is correlation from when cigarettes were not popular or even accepted that a campaign to "support the troops" used cigarettes to represent 'freedom' or even women liberation (see posters on my war posters collection page: http://freeschool.0id.org/world-war-ii-poster-collection-ww2-lessons/)

Those tanks and jets, jet fuel and metal flying overhead are not cheap to build or buy and then maintain! A bad circle if you ask me. Got a cigarette mate?

My Tank Man tribute (pictured)-
"No Tanks" in form of Cigarettes

WHAT'S SO SPECIAL ABOUT CIGARETTES?
You pay taxes on everything you buy, so what's special about cigarettes?
Heavy Tax (called 'Duty') % is taken from cigarettes and similar products of toxic pleasure (like Alcohol, Petrol etc) and it directly goes to funding war equipment and personnel (if your country also spends about 50% of tax on military!).

POINTS List:
- Was massively pushed as product to support war initially and directly EARLY 1900'S,
- Women's liberation / Suffragettes / Feminist hijacking propaganda ("do your bit" / "support the men" / "for the cause" type emotional stuff)
- Fashion sponsorship
- Movies
- Formula 1 motorsports BIG money and tech (eventually minimised but was big money advertising with MALBORO on side of F1 cars going round and round!)
- Higher taxes on these drug type things (= higher duty)
- Same setup in each country / it's a template for war funds

Very lucrative and self-perpetuating as problem habits = more money.
This income is system supported.

Again the World War posters encouraging people to start smoking and support war, if interested see and other posters show mentality which is still around today
http://freeschool.0id.org/world-war-ii-poster-collection-ww2-lessons/

#art #posters #tanks #tax #economics #business of #war

EXTENDED / LONG READING (OPTIONAL):

So for the symbolism this is mainly written and to show the tax part AND also individuals can stand to the problematic circles

Modern versions including holding up police vans in street, cycling in the middle of street pretending not to hear sirens or busy main in a critical mass protest.

The physical presence vs. mental perseverance - it does matter.

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Some comments I got from another page:
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- One of the most iconic image of the century! That man standing in front of a Military Tank! What bravery, what defiance! Truly inspirational

- He was stopping the tanks leaving the square. Ironic much?

- You know what? This shows more the restraint of the army than the heroism of the individual.

- His name was Wang Weilin (王维林). Never forget it

- Historical momentous scene of 20th century that inspired millions to resist

MORE COMMENTS FROM OTHERS:
https://nitter.snopyta.org/carlzha/status/1134582926325104641

Add Mastodon logo to your website as contact method!

E-Mails are getting blocked or have lack of management (some don't even check it at all !).

Add logo to menu / sidebar / floating social site list, whatever!..

If you believe in Mastodon - add it!

My Mastodon pictures and variations can be found here:
http://freeschool.0id.org/mastodon-pictures-logo-remixes/

Why is SELF-HOSTING EMAIL AND SPAM such a problem?

BASIC SOLUTION BELOW /
INCREMENTAL WAY

How about setting up white-list almost exclusively instead of spam protection and clever filtering?

(so no need for spam protection if only expecting what you add as 'ok' on incoming whitelist...)

- just people you know are added manually to list as you start emailing them and adding-as-you-go
- and never expecting email from anywhere else

+ even a temporary 'Allow All' switch if really needed and for subscribing / registering to places online...

and then switch back to 'Block All but Whitelist' (or equivalent option) when done

What do you think ?

(especially as a 2nd more-private account could be easier rather than filtering etc!)

#email #spam #Vegetables

(Picture is a virtual thing I made - different slightly to text topic but I dream of Mail + Mastodon MERGING!...)

"there’s a simple pleasure in focusing on something tedious."

This magically captures a kind of efficiency and wonder in the world I have. It's the spending of time well without too much scale or amplification or leverage.
The wonder of focussing on small almost boring things which at the end are great / timeless / modest / repeatable re-creation / sustainable.

https://tedium.co/what-is-tedium/

If you like strange and unusual descriptions of common things, explained in extreme depth, the Tedium newsletter is a great place to look for those, because it’s what we specialize in. Rather than focusing on viral things, we instead write about things that would never go viral on their own, that need context and storytelling around them to highlight their importance.

UPDATED: See Mastodon account (below) to get regular range of interesting subjects tio choose from by following Ernie:
https://mastodon.social/@ernie

TL;DR version - People like to believe life is possible only in it's short and simple version... No life is not!
It's a chain of lots of things, so better get learning it all (in small AND ALSO bigger chunks)
(... with people's emotions and connected things!....)

Longer version - People prefer short writing but overlook it's
a) not the whole story
b) not a skill everyone has

(give this author a break and I don't mind you skip reading the rest!)

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IF YOU SEE SIMILAR WRITING LIKE THIS WRITTEN ELSEWHERE THEN LET ME KNOW SO I CAN SIMPLY LINK TO IT INSTEAD OF THINKING IT IS HARDLY SAID / ANALYSED

THANKS
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And even if you have the skill of summarising (which I don't think everyone has) telling people in short can feel rude, out of context, or abrupt, misleading, disrespecting more things in that actual process

Usually the main thing is realising who you audience is and what it's for but almost ONLY of it's under tight control conditions but otherwise the whole of the Fediverse means it's also more upto those readers who enter the realm of blogging to see / speak with some people to see if they are a 'good egg' and go from there rather than expect something PERFECTLY short or emotionally clear as crystal !

We're humans remember (unless you're culturally machine-like like Germans or parts of STEM mentality that actually cut out human parts <--- partial joke about Germans but many culture or engineering processes or languages don't care about nature or people)

TL;DR short descriptions I think are very often possible and worthy to try and add but is a mini-art in itself risking it with the assuming skill of writer and if writer can categorise it well (this post could fit a few things)

Writing I guess should always be explored or not taken at face value for those that would like to write and explore things themselves) so 'writing' in itself doesn't match TL;DR which is 'shorter writing' (it's almost opposite to writing unless it's a status update or functional "I'm out to the shops - be back in 20mins"

Short descriptions need thinking what light to write it in...

This brings us to the next main point that LIFE is a communal / shared thing - it's not just my view (even my view is made from yours and 1000's of others, and if suffering etc is also constant naturally and less-naturally as humans then it's collective view and concept not just me detached from environment or me detached from you even! <---in a roundabout way )

Usually facts or mechanical ways are preferred in TL;DR versions but this doesn't suit a lot of life!

So if it's a life thing (full of chains / domino effects) or emotional things.. then what do short descriptions expect? To reduce the emotions or write generically for everything 'emotional feelings about xyz' ? (ok that actually seems to work but then you would still have to read more !

So TL;DR for many parts of human life becomes just another title for what the post title or intro would be anyway... probably

I like that the short version 'forces' me to right key parts but still it's like saying this post is about "hitting bat with ball" but needs lots of description and additional video to explain that process or which bat and which ball, the side-effects (spin / trajectory etc) and for humans that's emotions and internal stuff, not technology external stuff.

I wish Mastodon had a 'Show more' option (like the CW / Content Warning does) but so far no luck on that... even though it would be exactly same as CW just without the status of CW... showing a show more button... technology also encourages good practice sometimes even if box below the button could lead to more details.

Emotions are not short, and therefore forcing TL;DR modes is like cramming human thought through thin mechanical tubes, instead of more appropriate therapy like sessions where you get to the bottom and answer why a human gave such output at the beginning or expression (by going through the HUMAN layers and also helping people see what they mean too)

TL;DR for it's inappropriate usage (more-human things) is simply cutting out this process or expecting people to do all the humanity work (which itself is listening and responding - or harmonising). Machines are the one's with 'perfect' protocols so as humans one must assume more time and less skill in various ways.

P.S
IF YOU SEE SIMILAR STUFF LIKE THIS WRITTEN ELSEWHERE THEN LET ME KNOW SO I CAN SIMPLY LINK TO IT INSTEAD OF THINKING IT IS HARDLY SAID / ANALYSED

Did write it fast (today was a monster day of writing about TL;DR / short version - just the other posts out even if it's just for the pictures lol you TL;DRer!

#TLDR - TL;DR or tl;dr - "too long; didn't read"...

TL;DR Awards - Richard Stallman
[2022 Winner... so far]

The "Too Long Didn't Read" award goes to Richard Stallman for:

- Time killing
He would read what would be enough from my side and then ask "Can you write that in 10 sentences or less..." when it was said in many ways he could summarise instead of asking for more text he couldn't handle lol)

- Illogical Repetition
Even in less than 10 sentences he did not answer many things which would seem very similar / aligned. That was measurably strange / illogical for me.

- Spent time writing many emails to me but seemed that was mostly it (felt like he was waiting or not sure but never said)

- For not jumping out of text and into audio chat or another way to alleviate limits of text (which I believe many in technology don't even see the point of... like 'why to talk?' or 'forget being human just text only'

- Didn't see it saves time to talk or even try it.

So for unsaid reasons...despite answering whatever else he wanted to answer in my previous emails... I declare a lot of TL;DR here and possible selfishness (though there may be another 2022 winner hold tight!) and again I wasn't expecting much but the fact someone doesn't say fuck off is also an indicator

- Saying himself he doesn't know how to deal with many emails
(*despite my solution* of just audio chatting for 10/20mins instead of 10's of emails at least with me which killed time on both our side. I gave him Jitsi link to audio chat (or BigBlueButton would be ok) but no bueno and no answer why not to try.

- Mr. Stallman didn't even say why not for many things or even accept it would save time of 1 chat instead of 10's of emails incoming and outgoing (reading and writing etc) ^_^

I have to admit there is a heart in the picture because:
- He did reply
.. but there was *some* *very selective logic* and you probably assume any hero's or fame is sure to overwhelm people

BUT when we solve the email problem (which for me is audio chat) then progress can be made).

I told Mr. Stallman on a lack of will or trust basis I felt I had to withdraw.

Overall very fast to respond but was a bit avoidant at many DIRECT questions I even repeated simply in 1 line and asked politely !

(I wouldn't care if he would say a bit about why not or even no or something but would continue as if I didn't write - and that's a sure TL;DR person)

Nice guy - can't do his emails (as most can't) and can't jump into audio chat after 10+ short AND long emails.

Gotta learn to change weapon sir Stallman of the Good-Guys.
Time is ticking.

#TLDR Awarded / Didn't answer many parts / Could use audio chat instead

I could re-write this but it's probably not worth my time until I'm motivated- but at least you got some insight for now and if you have a brain can pick the best and learn from it, unlike some people... ^_^

What is TL;DR - A Series of Habits

e.g. Long Text Obfuscation
(deliberate use as a weapon or trick against others to build walls / rules / punishment programs using layers of text / paperwork as a buffers from the bullies / abusers who would like to distance themselves from their targets and keep hands clean using middle-men enforcers)

e.g. Legal Construct / Legalese /
(same as above but used against people by demanding more time and intelligence to understand AND/OR requirement to use expensive lawyers who always swear allegiance to the 'Court' or authority they are a member of + often also play an inside game / collude internally / can be bought)

e.g. Complicated Computer Code (a mix between user and developers code to lock others out - not always intentional but can end up being 'for the people' but unusable 'by the people')

All the above have a mixture of...

a) natural complication in understanding / transferring any theory or practical, which can naturally reduce tolerance or add a higher boundary to jump in any understanding but helps *when readers continue even if they don't know why it's useful* and seeing how believing it's worth reading actually can get them there in the end... (like teenager that doesn't want to start anything and then suddenly is all in to it and doesn't want your help any more).

b) deliberate layering to hide / nest intentions and trick people / make it more demanding / exhaust people effectively weaponising it against people from those creating and those unable to effect or have a say.

(which still doesn't mean it's ok to not to read or not to at least acknowledge a problem / deliberate tactic because it needs dealing with / incrementing in life and *NOT* ABONDONING*)

#TLDR

What is TL;DR - A Series of Habits

e.g. Lack of self-motivation
e.g. Lack of self-direction
e.g. Not seeing the point / sticking to themself / "I'm OK Jack"
e.g. Not finding interesting points of relativity (between others or subjects)
= #TLDR

What is TL;DR - A Series of Habits

e.g. Colourful Pictures Only = #TLDR

What is TL;DR - A Series of Habits

e.g. Not listening #TLDR

"We believe that it is the inalienable right of the Indian people, as of any other people, to have freedom and to enjoy the fruits of their toil and have the necessities of life, so that they may have full opportunities for growth.

We believe also that if any government deprives a people of these rights and oppresses them the people have a further right to alter it or abolish it. The British government in India has not only deprived the Indian people of their freedom but has based itself on the exploitation of the masses, and has ruined India economically, politically, culturally, and spiritually. We believe, therefore, that India must sever the British connection and attain Purna Swaraji or complete sovereignty and self-rule"

- The Salt March led by Mahatma Gandhi.

The twenty-four day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930 as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March

YES SALT ONCE AS CURRENCY AND RULE!

Text from Declaration of sovereignty and self-rule, or "Purna Swaraj"

Less Users, Less Business Power

I love the irony of "American Dream" which itself is the lure and trap itself for people to go there under false pretences

"Come here and we'll exploit you AND your dreams even faster"

Such a perfect game taking advantage of the dreams and presenting displaced luxury from elsewhere as the emotional impulse for people to think they can 'do better' under the same kind of rule / a *slightly* more polite kind tyranny and financial hammer to the face to stay alive.

Simple #Fridge Meme vs. My Own Advanced Story version when it comes to selling / adding price to things

This shows that free stuff or giveaway items has some important context though at first seems 'easy' (the faults of TL;DR / short stories / faults of memes)

Because even free is not a clear subject (Free as in 0 money)...

https://aus.social/@becadroit/108657446324132254

Previous comments (re-drafted this)

@rastinza
@freeschool
Are you serious? I always have to fight to find a fridge and scavenge the pump from it.
Within 2 hours from it being dumped all valuable parts are gone.
Jun 19
Freedom + Justice School

@rastinza LOL hard times :)

Depends where you are - more luck to you.... with err fridges which yeh more useful than one seems (in the right hands as always)...

Also do you mean people take the stuff out where it stood originally like getting heir screwdriver out etc and then you come to it and realise the pump you wanted is gone?

and obviously point was more about the mentality
Jun 19
rastinza @rastinza

@freeschool
Yes, people come and scavenge parts, specially metal pieces that can be resold

#Psychology / #Social Science / Next stages of Anthropology ? STEM - C (variation of Consciousness >?)

Lemmings - accept them for what they are and even enjoy them from a distance in The #Game of #Life...

For some life is more than just this animation and more about real / proper human survival in the level above short-loops / short-talking/short-texting...

That is a meta game in that sense lemmings do not get. And that's ok.

#Dos #Retro #Gaming #Atari #Amiga #PC #Amstrad # IBM
#80s #90's retrocomputing

It's like telling a lemming "Hey think for yourself !"

MY EINSTEIN MOMENT

MY ANSWER TO:
why people prefer to stay in a group
even a bad one

What we're dealing with here is a total lack of respect...

#Quotes for #Life by #TheProdigy / #Prodigy

I see heart shapes everywhere.

Well on the internet too but I've really I've seen a lot of these pictures outside that I've put on 1 page... (and I'm sure you have too!)

http://freeschool.0id.org/love-pics/

Love is everywhere!
All you have to do is look for it....

(..or just click the link above!)

#love #pictures
(to be pinned)...

For impossible things I suggest you give it more chance more often, as usually it's your perception that underestimates things and not the reality because you assume it isn't achievable or don't stick with it...

even in the extreme things which I would normally exclude it would still make sense to contact more people or leave a note on your profile is much better than 0 signal to people...

...then it just might happen or it might come to you (a person or opportunity) and at the least increments closer to it happening! Like putting more signs in more places or putting a sticker on your bag or badge on your clothing!

In other words:
- Giving 0 chance doesn't increase chances

- Casually you can increase chances (not over trying either)

- <0 chance is saying "no it can't happen" to yourself, and that "no point" even in the preparing of the thought you cut it off (making sure it won't happen)

:o ]

Give it a bit more chance and a bit more often like 1% more! Then finally do it once you see how a domino or cascading waterfall effect works!

Most people's perception is wrong and underestimating the effects of trying inside a colony of ants which has unknown domino chain effects multiple reaction person to person long-way short-way logic illogical - ways - around stuff!

#Personal #Progress