Chroma Starlight

I knew it would happen, but I clicked anyway. What's wrong with me.

Next letter H.

That's an incredible thing you do right there. You take all the best attributes of humanity, all the best spirits, all the best culture, and you throw it out and justify the act of misanthropy because there seem to be some philistines and barbarians and misled children and those driven mad by the madness. It's like you stand with those people, those who oppose civilization. I must confess, the worst philistines and barbarians are worthy pet peeves too, you know.

So it goes with injustice. You say something because you know in your heart it's wrong to ignore, because you know you have value as a human being, because you want to live in the best possible world and best possible community. And this isn't a passing fancy, this is something you really truly earnestly want, and so day in and day out, you are authentic to your beliefs for a world with liberty and equality and justice for all. And you do expect a different outcome every time. The word for that is hope. People without hope are another one of my pet peeves.

This system has a GTX970 with 4GB (3.5GB) of VRAM. The official client reports 512MB texture memory available, but this seemed like it might be low for the hardware. Are there any other parameters or configuration directives I might set or alter to use more of the video memory for texture assets? Maybe this is a red herring-- GPU-Z reports 1665MB VRAM used generally and about 3072MB used with SL open in Grignano and a 160m draw distance.

Someone I care about very deeply has a serious congenital heart condition. Actually, two people now that I take inventory.

Why do you feel a compulsion to discriminate between the cisgender and the non-cisgender? What fear lurks deep within your heart?

"An intriguing new study from Germany offers a glimpse into how SARS-CoV-2 affects the heart. Researchers studied 100 individuals, with a median age of just 49, who had recovered from Covid-19. Most were asymptomatic or had mild symptoms. An average of two months after they received the diagnosis, the researchers performed M.R.I. scans of their hearts and made some alarming discoveries: Nearly 80 percent had persistent abnormalities and 60 percent had evidence of myocarditis. The degree of myocarditis was not explained by the severity of the initial illness." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/opinion/covid-19-heart-disease.html

I'm not sure you understand how biology and ecosystems work, friend. There's a direct connection of lineage tracing backwards from you to the first cellular life on Earth and then branching out and connecting to all other life here. I'm not sure you understand how civilizations work, either. But thanks for the conversation, and just keeping it topical, my pet peeve is razed civilization.

That's not the kind of relationship you want to have with mother nature.

You can't overwork the soil. You can abuse it, however, but the two are different things. You cannot burn away cultural problems because things in the spiritual or conceptual realm aren't actually flammable, you see. You can only make better culture.

Is that your assessment of the state of the world today? You cannot overwork the soil, the soil is life itself, but you can certainly poison it.

I don't think I used the words 'control' at any point, but there must be a philosophy that protects individual and collective rights exhaustively, and they must not be infringed. If they should be and nothing can be done, then there's neither control nor rights, which seems like the worst-possible-case scenario. I am not advocating stagnation, or over-protection. But many things, often the best most esoteric things, the things that make life meaningful and worthwhile, these things, or lives, are extraordinarily fragile, and like negentropic development, they require an environment supportive of life in order to flourish. You've gotta get your hands dirty to work the soil.

I just realized, you think that every time I use a figure of speech it's 'hypnosis' and 'brainwashing'? Could that be it? If so, how austere! Protection is a matter of best practices, a sort of hygiene and sanitation for civilization so as not to die in its own filth, if you will. That's a pretty important function.

Therefore, f it let's just give up? I disagree with that conclusion. The solution is not to suggest people buy carbon filters to keep the lead out of their drinking and cooking water. The solution is to remove the neurotoxin from their lives altogether.

I'm beginning to think you don't have an actual position, then. The voices in a village are a lot less pathological than the voices in an economy. A healthy society must be nurturing, and never exploitative and predatory.

What sort? The sort where they aren't sheltering-in-place because of a pandemic's evitable spread? The sort where they are enveloped in a culture of positive memes that continually elevate and inform their path through life? The sort where their children are raised by a village rather than an economy? The sort where the vulnerable are protected from the predators? Why does this stuff seem threatening, like 'hypnosis' and 'brainwashing,' again?

They'll want it when they realize its benefits. Be a beacon.

I think that not only does it work, but it's worked every single time. What's wrong with chromatic pluralism? Who says you need or even want to control everyone, I thought that we were talking about progress, not enslavement.

Yeah, and you'll never find a pure white paint for your walls, but close enough is pretty good.