Tim Emiola

Father, gardener, programmer. Soil is alive; improved farming will reverse its trend towards extinction while benefitting biodiversity and climate. #SaveSoil

[Tim Emiola @TimEmiola]

@binarybodhi If someone (e.g, this writer) 'reacts' to this post

Is it because they are reacting to it;
Or are the writer (you), and the responder part of a larger pattern that carries both along ?

If so, is it possible to observe that pattern, and how does that relate to stillness

[Tim Emiola @TimEmiola]

@AlanWattsQuot Not sure about the wisdom of posting this quote on its own.
It points to the possibility of stopping anxiety without explaining how.
Might make an anxious person more so.

Explain
- engage the senses
- while truly engaged, one cannot be anxious
- structure wakefulness to be this

[Tim Emiola @TimEmiola]

@itskac Does not sound like a friend.

Why do you think anything more needs to be done than simply disassociating?

[Tim Emiola @TimEmiola]

@StuartHameroff What is needed for physics to stop being solely mathematical.

There are people working on this, who have made good progress

Find them, and adapt your ideas to their frameworks. You will make good progress

[Tim Emiola @TimEmiola]

@Heidi__Matthews Virtually all internet technology works better decentralized. What's happened is Big Tech; a bunch of people who make nice user interfaces to decentralized tech, and eventually persuade everyone that the user interface is the tech

[Tim Emiola @TimEmiola]

@JonathanRo60157 @andrewc44104127 @grok There are UK citizens, many of them elderly, imprisoned for holding up signs.
Politicians, police and various other institutions went out of their way to make this happen.

This could not happen 10+yrs ago

Concerned with being sovereign? Focus on what is actually going on

[Alan Watts 📖 | Philosophy & Timeless Wisdom ✍️ @AlanWattsQuot]

If you try to hold on to life, you lose it. You can't hold your breath and stay alive; it becomes extremely uncomfortable to hold your breath. And so in exactly the same way, it becomes extremely uncomfortable to spend all your time holding on to your life.

[Tim Emiola @TimEmiola]

@lilbruv Nearly
The whole system should get the sack. It's protected PDFs, and is now in a self-serving phase.

Imagine rebuilding the country's institutions after a devastating catastrophe. Some things wouldn't work for a while, but things would build back up community
by community

[Tim Emiola @TimEmiola]

@Jo_Marney The reason is power: the more disrupted a host country is, the easier it is to effect changes in policy. As it gets more disrupted, the easier it is hire spies and cloak - secret power begets more secret power.

[Tim Emiola @TimEmiola]

@Jo_Marney Foreign influence? which country gives UK retired ministers / civil servants honors showing their true colors

Spies are not 'James Bond'; they are people who do normal jobs, but opportunistically disrupt their host country

They've become better coordinated in the tech age

[Krishnamurti @JK_KFI]

Honesty can only be when there is no conflict of duality, when the opposite does not exist. There is darkness and light, night and day; there is man, woman, the tall, the short and so on, but it is thought that makes them opposites and puts them in contradiction. We are expressing the psychological contradiction that mankind has cultivated.

Love is not the opposite of hate or jealousy. If it were, it would not be love. Humility is not the opposite of vanity, pride or arrogance. If it were, it would still be part of arrogance and pride and so not humility. Humility is totally divorced from all this. A mind that is humble is unaware of its humility. So honesty is not the opposite of dishonesty.

—Krishnamurti
Letters to His Schools

[Tim Emiola @TimEmiola]

@CraigMurrayOrg https://t.co/MuJi8M80nS

You come from a country where countless people convicted by juries ended up not being terrorists; it took years...

Juries are amateur and not the problem, its the professionals at fault

[K @yookayperson]

Brand has been jailed for rape.

His accuser admits that she voluntarily went to a hotel with him, she consented to vaginal sex, arsehole tonguing (brand being the recipient) and blowjobs.

She rescinded consent when he initiated anal sex.

It is worth remembering that she was in a relationship at this time.

She had essentially cheated on her boyfriend up until the anal rape.

Guilt and regret can take shape in many forms, that’s for sure.

One of those shapes may be an accusation of rape.

[Tim Emiola @TimEmiola]

@MegynKellyShow @megynkelly As this happens, are we being distracted from events in the various wars that affect even more of us?

https://t.co/oheqyNmp45

... still, it's clear to all that this trial was unjust.

The 'justice' system should beware; serve justice or be discarded

[Tim Emiola @TimEmiola]

Each time a culture-wars story flares up, see if anything else happening. Sometimes the exposure is natural, other times it's a distraction; the important story is reported, but mislabeled, so as to fade from our minds quickly or form the wrong links in our memories

[Anastasia @demystifysci]

Hydrogen Is Secretly a Tiny Antenna - Dr. Hans Schantz (DemystifySci +463)

Today's guest, Hans Schantz, is back for a second time to discuss his work on how shockingly similar the hydrogen atom is electrically to a small antenna. We discuss Q factor, linewidth, and Einstein coefficients. We also get to pick Hans' brain about important paradoxes in conduction line physics a la Oliver Heaviside. This takes us through Poynting vectors, energy flow vs. fields, Hertz, interference, electric/magnetic energy balances, and the concept of photon in the radio spectrum of EMR. Hans is also hosting a conference this January, where DemystifySci will give a talk and present a manuscript that extends our work from Paradox Lost into these electrical engineering concepts. Come on out to Alabama!

The Heaviside Conference: https://t.co/vGjFuQrGrY

00:00 Go! Antenna Laws in Atoms
00:04:44 Bubble Around the Dipole
00:12:39 Missing Middle of Electromagnetism
00:20:03 Hertz’s Energy Balance
00:29:00 Slotted Lines and Standing Waves
00:37:02 Ninety Degrees Out of Phase
00:45:10 Electrically Small Antennas
00:53:15 Ringing and Quality Factor
01:01:48 Quantum Jumps That Take Time
01:13:48 Substance of Empty Space
01:22:30 Power at the Feed Point
01:32:04 Sound of One Hand Clapping
01:39:12 Hydrogen’s 21 Centimeter Line
01:48:42 Talking to Voyager
01:56:28 Heaviside Comes to Huntsville

[Permaculture Paths @Perma_Paths]

I believe that another one of the greatest lies still being told today is that mechanized, petrol-based agriculture is necessary to grow enough food to feed the population.

I always tell people that there is enough scientific proof that small vegetable gardens (750-1000 m² or 8000-10750 square feet) are much more productive than any highly technological field. Plus, permanent tree crops outperform even corn in terms of productivity! Last but not least, if you want to enjoy grains, like rice, wheat, and barley, plant them following Fukuoka’s method.

So, we can save the world by home gardening, planting food forests, and growing “Fukuoka grains”.

That’s the craft of permaculture.

[Hiro Protagonist (至大) @augeeidos]

I wanted to prove FSD is safer than human drivers. Genuinely. I went to the data expecting to find the number everyone quotes: one accident per six million miles on FSD versus one per 670,000 for humans. Nine times safer. Case closed.

The claim cannot be made. Not "the data is weak." The comparison itself does not exist.

Start with the equipment. The "human driver" baseline is every car on American roads, and the average American car is over twelve years old. That baseline includes bald tires, worn brake pads, cracked mirrors, and drivers with no emergency braking, no blind spot warning, no lane keeping. A modern Tesla is a rolling sensor suite with the best crash-avoidance hardware ever sold to consumers. So I went looking for the honest comparison: FSD miles versus miles in comparable modern EVs with the same braking, comparable sensors, comparable warning systems. That dataset does not exist in any usable form. Nobody publishes it. Tesla certainly doesn't.

Then the miles themselves. FSD engagement is self-selected. Drivers turn it on in good weather, in daylight, on roads they trust it with. The owner's manual itself warns the system "may not operate as intended" in rain, snow, fog, and low light, which happen to be the conditions where humans crash most. So the FSD number is computed over the easiest miles in the newest cars with the richest, most insured drivers, while the human number absorbs every drunk at 3am and every teenager in a beater.

And it's supervised. Every mile in the FSD column had a human babysitter whose interventions, whose saves, get credited to the machine. The comparison isn't machine versus human. It's machine-plus-human versus human alone, with all credit assigned to the machine.

Darrell Huff described this exact move in How to Lie with Statistics in 1954: if you can't prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend they are the same thing. Rolf Dobelli in "Art of Thinking Clearly" calls the other half of it the swimmer's body illusion: swimmers have great bodies because bodies select swimmers. Teslas crash less because new luxury cars with safety suites driven by affluent middle-aged owners crash less. Selection, not software. When Forbes decomposed Tesla's own 2020 report by road type, the Autopilot advantage shrank to about four percent, inside the margin of error. Tesla has refused every request since to release the breakdown.

So here is where I landed. I wanted the claim to be true and provable. It is neither provable nor disprovable with the data that exists. The honest sentence is "we don't know." Anyone who tells you FSD is statistically safer than humans is guessing. Anyone who tells you it's statistically more dangerous is also guessing. The difference is that only one of those guesses is attached to a stock price, a monthly subscription, and a man telling you the feature will be finished next year, every year, since 2016.

When someone quotes you the nine-times-safer figure, ask one question: compared to whom, driving what, in what weather, measured by whom? The silence is the answer.

[Ethical Skeptic ☀ @EthicalSkeptic]

US All Cause Mortality continues to be elevated

1,553 deaths per week (Nominal Excess ACM)
3,939 deaths per week (Real Excess ACM)

or 5.4% elevated

Pull-forward effect (PFE) is expired by 87% and we are in the tail now. Our Average 82-year-old who died of Covid, would now have been 88, so you can see that PFE will taper to almost zero, over the next 4 years, based upon US life expectancy tables.

[Ron Paul @RonPaul]

Award-winning author Stephen Kinzer (@stephenkinzer) joins today's Liberty Report to discuss his new book, "Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine."

Prepare to hear how everything you know about the Ukraine/Russia war is wrong.

Watch below:

[Tim Emiola @TimEmiola]

@Litesout86 The recycling protocol is the same everywhere; you'll be forgiven if you start remembering it.
Stop at 7-11 or other local combini to throw small trash, carry it in a plastic bag till then.
In any country, you'll be liked more if you learn some of the language

[Krishnamurti @K__Quotes]

You have to be transformed, not by beginning at a distance but by beginning very close, by observing the ways of your thinking and feeling and action every day.