Born too late? Every age had its moment. This one is ours. An Art Deco retro-futurist music video.
I spent weeks training Grok Bot and ran several rounds of video generations, and eventually it was doing 90%+ of the work. I came up with the idea and reviewed every cut. @grok
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A snippet of fun from Unit 731:
"Human Experimentation and Atrocities
Victims: Referred to prisoners as "marutas" ("logs"), consisting mainly of Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Allied prisoners of war, including men, women, and children.
Vivisections: Subjects underwent live organ removal, amputations, and surgeries performed without anesthesia to study trauma and pathogen progression.
Disease & Biological Agents: Captives were deliberately infected with bubonic plague, cholera, anthrax, typhoid, and syphilis, and tested with gas chambers, flamethrowers, and explosive devices.
Field Testing: Biological and ceramic bombs filled with disease-carrying fleas were dropped on Chinese cities and villages, causing widespread epidemics and tens to hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Casualties: At least 3,000 to 14,000 people died directly from experiments in the facility, while field tests and germ warfare campaigns killed hundreds of thousands more. "
我很愿意认真回答这位德国朋友的疑问。
你的第一个问,其实是在说,由于中国是一个威权政府,因此人民在政治上不受认真对待。
这个命题本身就是错误的。威权政府,并不意味着人民不受认真对待。民主政府,也不意味着人民就受到认真对待。
新加坡是威权国家,菲律宾是民主国家,难道新加坡人的处境,不如菲律宾人吗?中国是威权国家,印度是民主国家,难道中国人的处境,不如印度人吗?
你的第二个问,你的发问本身并不严谨。不能笼统地说,中国人没有政治自由。这个问题要分两个维度来讲。
1、政治参与自由。
从这个维度讲,中国任何人有参与政治的自由。中国人都有权利申请入党、考公务员。筛选规则与民主制度不同,但不等于中国人没有参与政治的自由。
中国制度与民主制度的区别在于:
民主制度下,一个人只要有钱,可以在任何时候参与政治。就像川普一辈子没有从政,老了突然想要竞选总统,他就可以参选,而且成功了。
但在中国,任何官员都必须从基层公务员做起。一个人无法因为有钱,就能一步登天当上高官。
这种制度的好处有:
A、公平性。
中国有大量的高层领导人出身平民家庭,如胡锦涛、温家宝、汪洋、李强,等等。像习近平这种红二代,反而是个意外。
B、专业性。
任何一个高层领导人,都必须经过几十年不同级别岗位的历练,他对国家各个层面的情况的了解,以及他的治理经验,不是一个企业家、一个明星,或者一个未治理过一个城市的议员,所能相提并论的。
C、远见性。
由于领导人不受制于短期的、非理性的民意,因此可以规划长远的发展战略,并以唯一执政党确保该战略的长期、有效的实施。
D、政策不受资本干涉。
你选择从政,就不能从商。你选择从商,就不能从政。这样一来,资本的归资本,政治的归政治,资本无法干涉政治。
2、政治权利自由。
当然,中国制度有其“表面上”的代价。为什么只是“表面上”的,后面再说。先说这种代价。
代价就是中国人不拥有谩骂政府、抨击政策的自由。我们可以批评政府,但必须在一种就事论事的理性语境中。我们不能喊“习近平下台”或者“共产党下台”。
我们也不拥有全民选举的自由,建立政党的自由。
这些“代价”为什么只是表面上的,可以从一则寓言说起:
一农场主临死前问儿子;猪抱怨饲料太差,牛报怨活太重,鸡报怨窝太脏,怎么办? 儿子说:“喂好饲料,干轻活,清理鸡窝。” 农场主摇摇头说:你啥都别做,给他们选票,让它们选择你或者你媳妇管它们,让它们以为这个家是它们做主。
这个寓言让我们思考,作为人民,我们要的是什么?我们要的其实是更好的生活,而不是选票以及骂政府的自由。
回到开头那个举例,新加坡缺少很多民主国家所具备的政治自由,但没有人会认为新加坡人受到压迫。
这就涉及到自由的定义,自由到底是什么?
按照罗斯福的定义,自由包括:言论自由、信仰自由、免于匮乏、免于恐惧。
在我们计算一个社会的自由度时,我们计算的是自由的总量,而不是单项自由的含量。
举个例子,很多非洲国家拥有选票和骂政府的自由,但人民生活贫困,出行只能靠双脚。我在中国,生活富足、商品丰富、服务便捷、社区安全,我坐3个小时的高铁可以抵达一座大城市,我也有经济条件时不时出国旅游。
你认为非洲人自由,还是我自由?
诚然,中国还有很多人口,在物质生活上并不自由,但这是经济发展不充分导致的,不是政治压迫导致的。一个贫穷地区,无会因为给你民众选票和骂政府的自由,他们就变富裕了。
因此,当你谈自由的时候,你要计算自由的总量,不能单看一项自由的有无和多寡。你也不能将经济问题,归咎于某一项政治自由的问题。
坦率讲,我觉得你们的民主制度,已经病入膏肓了,中国人并不羡慕你们那种制度。
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不懂人性
永远都是废物
1、不要碰任何贫穷的东西,包括人。
其实贫穷不是缺点,贫穷是所有缺点的总和,
一个人的缺点太多了,自然就贫穷了。
贫穷的背后是一套麻烦的系统。
认知低下,思想混乱,边界缺失。
2、穷人总喜欢跟你谈感情、谈善良、谈道德、谈关系,就是不跟你谈钱,谈价值交换。
穷人一直穷,原因只有一个,
就是他们一直没有意识到,
人与人之间,利益才是一切交往的根本。
3、一百年过去了,田里站着的依然是闰土,
考场里坐着的依旧是范进
街上蹲着的仍然是祥林嫂。
高校里走着的,依然是孔乙己,
马路上跑着的,仍然是骆驼祥子。
4、牛马羊不生崽,最着急的却是豺狼虎豹!
什么是好人?就是他们占尽你的便宜,
而你没有反抗,他们才管你叫好人
5、当下环境别冲动创业,开奶茶店、花店
二手市场,九成新的设备都是这些人甩卖的!
6、旧社会,很多女人宁愿嫁给富人做小妾,
也不愿意嫁给普通人做正妻。
解放后立了婚姻法,实行一夫一妻,
目的就是让底层的布衣,都能找着媳妇儿。
一段时间内解决了问题,
但刚刚过去几十年乡镇光棍成堆,
城市剩女如云,宁当剩女,不嫁布衣。
2000年来,进步不足一厘米,
从春秋战国时期到现在,人性没有实质性改变
7、婚姻是长期的价值交换,这话虽毒,
却戳破很多人的幻想,两个人搭伙过日子,
本质上就是一场价值博弈,
你没有必要弄成爱情的样子。
8、和女人玩,如果你发现她漂亮、情商又高,
说话滴水不漏,让你感觉很舒服。
千万不要觉得她对你有好感,
亦或者是你的魅力让她蛰伏。
这种女人能练就如此手段,
一般都有极其丰富的经验。
你以为能把住这种女人,
殊不知你在她眼中才是猎物。
9、瞎子一旦恢复视力,
第一件事就是扔掉他手上的拐杖,
哪怕这拐杖,曾帮了他很多年。
10、社会的本质就是人吃人,
你没本事,谁都会欺负你,包括父母。
11、当事态不利于你的时候
尽量闭嘴,静就是吉,不乱就是不错。
真正的强大不是对抗,而是允许一切发生。
允许遗憾、愚蠢、丑恶,虚伪,
允许付出没有回报。尤其是心,千万不能乱,
事缓则圆,顺时多做事,逆时多看书。
12、层次越低的人,反驳欲就越强。
如果别人说你两句,你就受不了,
被别人两句话干扰了,
吃不好,睡不好,你得有多脆弱。
何必计较呢?在乌鸦的世界里,天鹅也有罪,
思想不在一个高度,尊重就好,
三观不在一个层次,微笑就好。
不要和不重要的人,计较重要的事。
13、越是亲近的人,越难接受你突然发达,
更容易嫉妒和记恨,人性复杂,
在他们眼里你和他们是同一个水平的
为何你现在过得这么好,他们却不能。
14、什么才是最烂的底层家庭
就是给不了你资源、底气和退路
更不可能给你去撑腰
却给你罗列了一箩筐的规矩
教你如何懂事、教你如何忍让
教你别出头、教你凡事都要委屈自己
从头到尾都在教你怎么吃亏,
小心翼翼的把你养成一头温顺的绵羊。
等你长大了直接把你丢进狼群里,
最后却反过来问你,为什么那么没用?
15、你越会说话,别人就越舒服,
在你需要帮忙时,就越会帮助你。
16、没必要感激任何人,养猪只是为了吃肉,
并不是让猪过幸福的生活。
19、能够伤你很深的人,
往往是那些与我们关系亲近的人。
20、你如果在某一件事上获得了成功,
你就会觉得世界还算公平。
21、做人,心要冷一点,
不要轻易与人交心,深谙人性。
成年人的世界里利益为先,不论对错。
22、赚钱本身就不是讲道理的,
法律是赚钱的底线,道德同样不可忽视。
23、出来混是要靠背景讲关系,
这句话在一定程度上
反映了社会现实中的某些现象。
24、你不优秀认识谁也没有用,
真正优秀的人,更容易吸引他人的注意。
25、不要逢人就说自己穷,
因为每个人对金钱的需求和欲望都是不同的
26、不要总想着去搞人际关系,
其实如果你的实力配不上,
再好的人脉关系也难以维持。
100%. Cato the Elder spent most of his life mocking Greek culture, then learned Greek as an old man anyway. Hard to think of a bigger ego to climb down from than a Roman censor. The older I get the more I think the beginner phase is the fun part, you just have to stop caring who's watching. Lesson in there.
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In many cases, you'll find the only thing preventing you from learning is your ego.
No one enjoys feeling foolish, but attempting something new requires that you climb down from your perch and struggle as a beginner. You must ask questions that reveal your ignorance or attempt skills that make you look uncoordinated.
Learning demands the willingness to live in a brief state of discomfort. You must believe that looking like a fool for an hour will not ruin your reputation for life.
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Hard Marriage Truths:
1.A peaceful home needs two calm people, not one. 2.Ignoring problems makes them permanent.
3.Marriage cracks when small problems stay unspoken. 4.Respect matters more than love during fights.
5.If only one person tries, it won't last.
6.Silence used as punishment destroys trust. 7.Outsiders ruin marriages faster than arguments. 8.Unequal effort creates hidden resentment.
9. Money fights usually mean deeper issues.
10. Love survives honesty, not pretending.
11. Two people must grow, not just one.
12.Apologies mean nothing without changed behavior. 13. Emotional laziness kills more marriages than cheating.
14. Your tone matters more than your words.
15. Keeping score turns partners into opponents.
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wild ruling out of Seattle that @PHLCouncil needs to read. a builder put $39M into 254 low-income apartments locked at 60% AMI for 30 years. from 2015 to 2018 it worked, collecting ~94% of rent.
then Seattle stacked on "tenant protections": banned criminal background checks, banned winter evictions, required 180 days notice for rent hikes + 3 months relocation pay, and forced the owner to let unscreened roommates move in and take over leases.
result: rent collections dropped from 93.9% to 44.1%!!! the building lost nearly $6M through 2023 ($2.7M in 2023 alone) and is now appraised as functionally worthless. the city bankrupted actual affordable housing lol.
the appeals court just ruled the owner can sue Seattle for an unconstitutional taking. when you strip a landlord's right to screen, collect rent or remove non-paying tenants, it's not "regulation" anymore, you took the building…. Philly has half these laws already 🙄 courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/8…
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为什么说智者不入爱河?
因为人到了一定境界,很难再爱上一个人。今天分享《悉达多》。
爱是一种因信息不对称而产生的崇拜感,但当你打开上帝视角后,这种崇拜感就消失了。
人达到一定境界,你看到的大千世界不再是热闹和繁华,而是众生皆苦。你会看到的大多数人都是可怜之人,很多人看起来光鲜亮丽,但你跟他深入接触,就会发现他的内心已经千疮百孔。
你看到的众生,每一颗心都渴望被理解,每一个灵魂都需要被救赎。从此,你逐渐放下了红尘心,生出了慈悲心。
因为人世间就是那么一堆破事,人一张嘴就是那些东西,要么是贪嗔痴慢疑,要么是名利权情,要么是傲慢与偏见,千篇一律,毫无新意。
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これ対女でも同じ。女は1対1の関係で一度男を舐めて軽んじると徹底的につけ上がってまともなコミュニケーションが成立しなくなる。男が構成員として一目置かれている仲間や仕事の人間関係を見せると途端に大人しくなり分を弁える。調子に乗った女は集団の力関係に組み込んで「分からせる」と良い。
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妻子问老公什么叫认知低,老公举了一串例子:
1、我提建议,你当我在管你
2、我说事实,你当我在否定你
3、我指出问题,你觉得我在怪你
4、我给解决办法,你觉得我高高在上在教你
5、我讲道理,你觉得我带着偏见针对你
最后老公总结了一句:我满脑子想的是怎么让咱们越过越好,你满脑子想的是怎么证明我是错的
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My uncle did a mission trip to Africa to teach a village how to raise pigs for food.
They flew in with a bunch of pigs, built pens for them, Food and water troughs, and taught them how to breed them so they could always have meat. Two weeks of work and teaching.
They went back a year later to check on the village. They had thrown a giant party the night after my uncle left, slaughtered and ate all the pigs, sold the feeders and fencing, and were really pissed off that the mission didn't bring them more pigs.
Unstoppable force meets immovable object. Ancient China had a word for it: máodùn, spear + shield. Literally how they say contradiction.
Some merchant swore his spear beat any shield and his shield stopped any spear. Guy in the crowd goes ok try them on each other lol
Mine happens at 5am. Bladder vs warm bed.
Took a lot of redos training @grok and my bot on this one. Walls, trebuchets, rockets, water on stone.
Follow for a new song every Friday.
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If, by the way, the same situation that just happened in Brazil had happened but with the parties switched -- if Bolsonaro had won last night's election and then a pro-Bolsonaro judge sent the Federal Police to seize Lula's passport and bar him from leaving the country -- every major western media outlet and liberal NGOs would be screaming about the authoritarian attack on Brazil's elections and the destruction of basic freedoms.
>be Lula
>get convicted of corruption
>get sentenced to 12 years
>get released by the STF on procedural errors
>never actually acquitted lmao
>beat Jair Bolsonaro in 2022
>Jair gets thrown into jail over an alleged coup attempt
>Congress votes to cut his sentence
>Lula vetoes it
>four years later, face his son
>during a debate, threaten to also lock him up if he loses the election
>election day
>former private lawyer, now STF judge, extends voting by 2 hours nationwide
>request came from Lula's own coalition
>win by 4 million votes in a runoff with no paper trail
>next day, Moraes orders the losing candidate to surrender his passports
>victory speech: "we're going to regulate social media"
>"democracy" lmao
>RIP Brazil
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Highest forms of intelligence:
1. Obsession
2. Game theory
3. Pattern recognition
4. Delusional optimism
5. Admitting you’re wrong
Took me a few months of running bots to learn this.
Gave one 40 rules for my kids' book art. It froze up and ignored half. Gave another one line. It drew a three-armed giant.
The sweet spot is a short job, a few hard rules, and checking its work. Like a new hire.
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