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The idea is a non profit company that takes in donations, buys up IP, and releases it as creative commons. Could even offer something like a netflix alternative that simply maintains a legal torrent tracker and seedbox of all liberated content.

My comment here: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CDC-2020-0029-0001

I’m sure you’ll ignore our comments, being just another corrupt government agency.

We have criminalized the basic human desire to ease the pain of our friends and loved ones and ourselves.

We have made effective compassion illegal.

Pain management choices should be ENTIRELY up to the medical professionals and patients, not medically uneducated deeply corrupted bureaucrats with purely self serving agendas.

Safe opioids/opiates are cheap generic medications at this point and that is the reason for this so called “epidemic,” patents. It’s a policy choice brought about by the infinite and soulless greed of drug companies and the myriad government officials they own like so much livestock.

The only real harm of opioid “addiction” is a direct or indirect result of criminalization. The rest of the civilized world has proven that addiction when treated exclusively on a MEDICAL basis as opposed to an economic or political one, is so tractable as to be nearly a non-problem.

This entire issue is nothing more than political corruption and astounding ignorance, colliding with common sense and basic human decency.

Cigarettes and alcohol and even Tylenol and nsaids are more far far more dangerous. The only reason opiates and opioids are unsafe is because we make them unsafe via criminalization, which virtually precludes proper safe usage.

This idea that medication class is the problem is nothing more than a repugnant metastasizing of psychopathic drug law into arenas which should be ENTIRELY medical.

I disagree with the notion that violence is by definition counter productive in contrast to protesting peacefully in the modern world.

The whole reason strikes work is because they are costly to the capital owners, and threaten even more cost, ongoing cost, but with robots replacing everyone that power is undermined. Strikes aren’t really peaceful, they are a threat.

Peaceful protest is the illusion of power. It might as well be an angry letter for all the good it does. An effective protest on the other hand is by definition a credible threat. That’s why they work better when huge, depending on the power of the opposition. But if a protest is committed to peaceful conduct and the authorities know that, then the threat has no credibility and no concessions will be made. Proof: The Iraq War Protests: Worldwide, Huge, Absolute Failure. Occupy Wallstreet: Peaceful. Failure.

As for looting: Most people live in debt and thus don’t own anything really. Neighborhoods are owned by speculator land lords and other capitalists. So when the owners make life hell, burning their profit margin to the ground is legitimate and effective as far as I can tell. Only power is relevant. And the only reason the people ever got respect is the threat they collectively represent.

In today’s context, anti-police riots, attacking property creates opportunity to document over-policing, which police then GREEDILY SADISTICALLY pounce on, which in turn gets more publicity and fuels more protest, and thus we inch closer to social reform, as the threat of civil war escalates. This fear is what drove the entire cold war era. The plutocrats are terrified by the notion of revolt.

When the President puts up a 10 ft fence around his house you know your threat is credible. This would not have happened with a purely peaceful protest.

Peaceful protest alone accomplishes nothing in the modern world. Force underwrites all reform, good or bad. The only reason democracy evolved is because of the violent potential of the masses. It’s written into the very fabric of reality. It’s as hard and cold as mathematics. Two working together is worth three working apart.

A huge protesting mob working in unity is Dangerous, and that’s the ONLY reason they ever make progress.

“See? Now you respect me, because I’m a threat.”

Syndrome, The Incredibles

Physically as in physics, random isn’t a thing. Thus nothing can be random. God doesn’t play dice. Probability is a shortcut patching over ignorance. It’s a deeply useful idea, given our staggering levels of ignorance in need of patching over, but ultimately, each unit of possibility only has one outcome and “time” reveals it. Physics works the same backwards and forwards, that’s why one past and many futures is absurd. There’s one past and one future. More likely there isn’t even past and future. Just one huge holographic now we move through perceptually.

Just sayin.

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I’m never going to be able to work and qualifying for disability seems unlikely since I can’t make phone calls or drive to fetch the data they want or assemble medical records.

So this is me basically doing something, anything, trying to make a living. It’s also a test of whether or not I have silent readers that care. Everyone who writes with reform as a fantasy imagines they have readers, real fans, who just lurk.

I never really believed that but of course I thought about it, and loved ones assert they exist as a way to be encouraging. (Thank you.)

Is this the place the ghost town I think it is? I guess we’ll see.

Thanks for skimming.

I don’t have a name for this process but the goal is to replace the brain cell by cell as they die with prosthetic neurons.

Here’s the quick and dirty idea: You wear a scanner that monitors each neuron and builds a simulation of its activity, when a cell dies or demonstrates severe dysfunction a synthetic neuron is deployed to fill the vacancy.

Over time through natural attrition the brain is upgraded. This should bypass any problems with the notion of copies and originality. This process should give no more pause than day to day living.

It should also sidestep any upgraded transhuman concerns because the prosthetic cells need not be especially more advanced than natural neurons. Though of course if you could harden the brain vs stroke and the like, why wouldn’t you, on the grounds of preventative medicine.

This process could apply to any organ of course, for example the gut, which is proving to be part of the mind as well, though most organs we’re fine with hard swaps philosophically. I am not my liver. I am my brain. (And gut?)

I’m making peace with the fact that I’m too low rank socially to be preserved in such a way. And I’m too old to last until it’s cheap and ubiquitous. Still, maybe this information will help in the distant future when we have the technology.

Thanks for reading, please comment your thoughts.