Okay, here's an anomaly: I followed that link, got to the list of alternate forums ( https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/forum-list.html ), checked to see if Ramble was on it ... got to a site that looks like this one, active forum, called Raddle. No listing for Ramble. There's probably a whole bunch of alt-universes through Tor ... is there a Razzle, Raggle, Raddle... ? Seems like there should be more crossovers.

To start off, it's probably best if you throw this away and don't read it, because you probably don't want to know how this works. "Foreknowledge is the flowering of the Dao. But it is the flower of folly. The wise man takes the fruit, and leaves the flower!" But if you must...

Every sentient organism experiences two related phenomena: free will, and qualia. These two things are temporal inverses of one another, and they both result from precognition. Picture a machine can read a ticket with a number printed on it, and print out a ticket with the same number a minute before. If you take the ticket you got out of the machine in the past, back into the machine in the future, you create a loop. No law of physics says what to put on the ticket. No random numbers are generated to decide the value. Yet there is a value. Where does it come from? Outside the universe. It is a boundary condition. When you do it that way, it's free will. But you could also resolve to write your own number on the ticket. You get a ticket out of the machine that matches your number. Then you put either ticket in the machine. That's qualia. You are taking information out of the universe that goes into the loop. This is I/O for the universe, basis of sentience.

Now normally people don't suffer from precognition in their daily lives. Why? Because it's dangerous. And it causes all kinds of annoying little syndromes. The things that stick out are bad things - like someone dying - and if you see them before they happen, maybe they happened "because" you saw them. Note causality is bunk - there is only one future - yet which universe we live in is the result of free will as we experience our other dimension of time moving through the parallel universes, but I digress.

Some free thinkers may get the unfortunate notion to try to suppress the repression mechanism in the brain that stops them from remembering the future. (It is just like remembering the past in operation) Additionally, judging by massive gyrations in the economy, QE, Covid, Hong Kong suppression etc., I am suspicious that some of the people raising brain organoids (fetal brain like things up to 200 days old) are trying to use them to play the market, with predictably awful results. (I don't know that)

Any kind of "magic" or "psi" is a manifestation of precognition, without exception. Dowsers can't dowse if you don't eventually tell them if they were right. And telepaths who think they are getting a message from someone at a certain time have simply remembered hearing the time, and been affected by it when they saw it was actually that time.

The precognition end of the loop is like memory, but it can be painful from excess blood flow. That isn't affected by the emotional importance of the memory but by its technical complexity. Like a "training" method is you try to pull out a result from a search engine using four words that have nothing to do with the search term. Picking the right file out of a million files ... ouch. The retrocognition end feels like a sort of drunkenness. You get this weird sense that you are hallucinating something into reality. Because you actually are.

Paranoia is a defense. You precognition fear very well, and if you remember being afraid you'll get hit by a stray bullet, that competes with the risk you really are, which reduces the notion that you're a walking magnet for pulling something like that in at yourself. Or increases it, in terms of perception.

When two preaks get together, they can do a thing called psiduel where they start weirding each other out. The loser should look at the sky, first thing created or something, I mean, it seems soothing somehow.

Precognitive feedback is when there is a congruity between past and future. Like, you just miss a shuttle bus, and you remember the next time you'll miss it, and ... before long, you literally miss it by a few seconds every single time you go at it, without exception, because past and future are all mixed up.

Precognition is hard to cure entirely. Main method I know has to do with the Diocletan Persecution. It turns out that Christians making the sign of the cross can interfere with precognition. NO idea why that should work, but you may in fact find it effective.

If you are in the mood for a different and seemingly less hazardous psi excursion, try looking outside the frame in your dreams. Our free will comes from comparison between very similar parallel dimensions along the chain of creation. When you dream you're getting chased by a monster, you may actually be sensing thoughts from your parallel-dimension self who is watching that as a movie. Sometimes you might get a bit during the day. You're never far from your self in the parallel dimensions! Try to take down the music, make notes on the architecture... in this era of Covid, the most memorable movies I've seen lately were in a parallel universe. :)

I bet per dollar of revenue gained it's still cheaper than sales tax.

Well, its 2 days since the second dose, and so far, no obvious problem. Very slight soreness in the muscle, and I know that could continue longer than with a regular vaccine since the muscle is what's really making the vaccine protein. Better muscle making vaccine protein than myocardium making virus, no?

No problem. Will join #saltr

Sorry for your loss.

I've heard several stories like yours, and I believe what happened to you was real. There is obliviously a evolutionary advantage to knowing when one in your group dies. We know many insects like ants and bees have a well understood way of communicating about the death of one of their own. Humans being a higher level animal are harder to understand.

Another commonality in these stories tends to be that few and usually only one family members tend to experience this phenomena. Maybe you are a uniquely perceptive individual. Maybe you were closer than you realize to the person who passed. Maybe the person who passed wanted to thank you personally. Either way, you should be honored to be a part of it.

I've never been religious or spiritual person, but I've recently started feeling that what I can only describe as evil exists in my world. Hopefully what you got to experience was the opposite of that.

I thought I was the only sane one on this godforsaken site

Looks like I missed you in #ramble. I don't lurk it often, and haven't been at my desk much lately. I usually just idle in it 24/7.

#saltr is where it's at though. It gets active. It's I2P+ chat 'technically' but we all shoot the shit in there and talk about everything.

Sadly it is not possible to actually ban a federal law. Missouri has only banned local law enforcement from enforcing federal gun laws but the ATF can still come after you in Missouri. If all red states passed bills like this, the laws would be harder to enforce, but the ATF could just prioritize going after political dissidents.

I see secession as the only solution, to this problem and others, regardless of how unlikely or difficult it is.

IRC2P's #saltr I also have #ramble on the same network.

I’m sorry to hear that. It’s great that you were there for them near the end. I’ve heard of stories like this. My old friend said that he got a sign when someone in his family passed. I think he saw some animal or something which he took as a sign and then it turned out that the person had died.

I’ve always hoped that some unusual experience would happen to me so I could experience it firsthand. When hearing about paranormal experiences second hand, even from trusted friends and family, I always have to acknowledge the possibility that it’s a delusion or lie or that there is more to the story. Or of course that it’s a coincidence. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" and all. People die and have accidents regularly. When no one predicts it, no one notices that no one predicted it. Also, when people get a feeling that something bad happened or will happen and then it turns out to be nothing, people don’t take note of that either. Only when someone has an unusual feeling AND something happens does the story get passed around. But it’s great that you thought to jot down the time. Most people don't think to do that. Now you have stronger evidence that it wasn’t a coincidence. It must have been really interesting to the doctor you showed as well.

I think it could be a combination of coincidence and science. If you saw this person earlier in the day, or the previous day, you could have subconsciously picked up on cues that they were doing worse than before. The subconscious mind can be much better at figuring things out than the conscious mind. Many victims of violent crime describe having had a bad feeling about the perpetrator prior to being attacked or prior to getting in a romantic relationship which later turns out to be abusive. Often the feeling is brushed off because it seems unfounded and irrational.

You could have picked up body language or something about how they were breathing, or something about their voice. Maybe even a smell. So lets say your subconscious picks up on the fact that they are going to die in the next 24 hours (just throwing a number out there since I don’t know how accurate the subconscious mind is). 24 x 60 = 1440. 1/1440. So you’re probably going to get the feeling that they died at some point since your subconscious picked up on the likelihood earlier. Then you have a 1/1440 chance of getting it on the exact minute. Even if you didn’t get it on the exact minute, it probably would have registered as a remarkable event.

That is the most likely naturalistic explanation I can think of. But if you feel like what you experienced was more spiritual or paranormal in nature, then that is very understandable. If I had that experience, I would probably become more interested in exploring spirituality and religion. The mainstream scientific view is that psychic abilities are pseudoscience, but scientists do not fully understand how consciousness works or what it is, so they can’t claim to know everything about how one consciousness can interact with another consciousness. Some philosophies say that everything is one consciousness. I’m guessing Buddhist monks understand more about the nature of consciousness than most scientists who study it.

You may be interested to read about Operation Stargate and Grill Flame. The CIA was studying psychic abilities for years- mainly remote viewing. Apparently the results in the lab were statistically significant but the program was still not useful enough for them to continue. What you are describing, where two people have an emotional connection and one dies… that is a harder thing to study and there is not the same national security incentive that would encourage lots of research on it.

The foregoing observations provide a compelling argument against continuation of the program within the intelligence community. Even though a statistically significant effect has been observed in the laboratory, it remains unclear whether the existence of a paranormal phenomenon, remote viewing, has been demonstrated. The laboratory studies do not provide evidence regarding the origins or nature of the phenomenon, assuming it exists, nor do they address an important methodological issue of inter-judge reliability. Further, even if it could be demonstrated unequivocally that a paranormal phenomenon occurs under the conditions present in the laboratory paradigm, these conditions have limited Executive Summary American Institutes for Research E-5 applicability and utility for intelligence gathering operations. For example, the nature of the remote viewing targets are vastly dissimilar, as are the specific tasks required of the remote viewers. Most importantly, the information provided by remote viewing is vague and ambiguous, making it difficult, if not impossible, for the technique to yield information of sufficient quality and accuracy of information for actionable intelligence. Thus, we conclude that continued use of remote viewing in intelligence gathering operations is not warranted.

https://fas.org/irp/program/collect/air1995.pdf

All good points.

People should be put into the recovery position on their sides

As a former EMT I know this can't be done with a cuffed suspect. Given his altered state of consciousness, he was an immediate danger to himself and the bystanders around him. Therefore, he could not be released from the cuffs either. Ambulances have soft restraints that they can use to restrain a suspect to the stretcher, but little could be done until the ambulance arrived.

a knee to the back between shoulder blades

Pressure on the chest cavity can absolutely impede breathing in a weak or sedated individual. As long as there is no previous neck trauma, knee on neck, as Chauvin did, is not life threatening. It's super uncomfortable and can lead to non-life threatening neck trauma.

"Sudden In Custody Death Syndrome"

Most people have never been restrained in their adult life. Some people freak out to the point of unconsciousness just from being placed in cuffs. This even happens to people who were calm right up to the instant of being cuffed. If the person had drugs in them or heart problems then it can definitely be fatal. However, Floyd served time in prison, so he should have been able to handle being cuffed.

I love it. Disabling notifications for apps and silencing all notifications for texts helps a ton.

I hate having stuff in my pockets so when i visit the friend that I most often see, I usually either keep my phone on the back porch or inside his house while we're out in the yard, sitting around a fire.

Disabling notifications from occuring, and silencing the ones that matter (like text/calls) help a ton. No vibrate, straight up disable or silence. That removes the compulsion to look to see what is going on on your phone.

I'm not sure they'll find Floyd's past relevant in the case. When he robbed that pregnant lady at gun point and held the gun to her belly / baby that was in Texas, I think. I know he was arrested in Minneapolis a couple years prior to the Chauvin thing. Was a passenger in a vehicle with no plates/tags, and when pulled over was caught on body camera trying to swallow a bunch of pills, pills that they also found in his seat. Not sure if there is anything else in his past beyond those two things.

I'm not certain those things will be brought up during the trial unless it is used to prove Chauvin was aware of Floyd or due to his previous violent offense (armed robbery and threatening a pregnant lady with a gun) that Chauvin felt that additional restraint was needed... or something.

Pretty sure all LEO get your info from all states when they run your ID anyway now that I think about it so it's possible that they knew that they had a previous violent felon in their custody and took measures that are now seen as excessive whereas they wouldn't had everything come back clear. Who knows?

For stability, I've always been a fan of just Debian 10. But that doesn't meet any of your requirements.

There is a Debian fork that doesn't use systemd, though I don't recall what it's called or how well maintained it is.

Could always try CentOS or RHEL based distros like Fedora or some systemd-less fork. I'm sure they exist, but I haven't used any RHEL based distros in probably six or seven years and even when I did, it was always for servers and not for desktops. Plus, there is some RHEL organization stuff going on that I haven't cared to follow up on because it doesn't impact me. Not sure what the future of projects based off it hold.

Best suggestion, especially if you have decent internet and a decent computer: Download several distros, load them up in VM's and test them out. Even if you hate Debian, can always install a stable base OS and then just load up the VM of your choice when logging in. Gives you a bit more freedom to test things out before comitting to a full blown reinstall.

The guy is fucked. I don't think he "murdered" him but he'll do time. Minneapolis will burn anyways because the mob will want him put away for life and he'll get probably get up to 10 years on some lesser charge. Floyd was a big piece of shit but in the ideal world he would have been arrested properly and then he could have gone to court to be sentenced for yet another crime.

Big if true. We need to abolish the ATF and all NFA laws!

death is a complicated thing. i dont think any of us fully understand it until we are gone. im personally atheist but i like to think about my lost loved ones looking down on me from the heavens. but as far as that feeling you experienced i had the same thing once. my mothers side lives in a slavic country and i often spend summers there. when i had left after my month to go back home to america i was sure i had said goodbye to everyone, but i guess i hadnt said goodbye to my great grandmother and great aunt. i knew it was a mistake and i had an immense fear i would never get to see them again and i had forgotten to say goodbye. fast forward 3 months or so my great aunt passed away. i had a similar feeling to what you may have described but i brushed it off as nothing because how would i know my great aunt would die. touching back on me being atheist, even though i do not believe in god i do believe there is a spiritual side to life. i believe many interpret that as god, but i see it just as an equal flip side of science or fact. so maybe that is why. but i suppose we will never really know. all we can do is ramble on.

I agree that he will likely get a lesser charge.

I just fear that no matter the outcome it will reignite additional protests and more violence from those that will ignore the evidence of why Chauvin wasn't found guilty of murder and how actions Floyd took also contributed to his own death.

I'm sure jurors will hear the 911 call where the cashier called the cops about the counterfeit money and how he believed Floyd was intoxicated. I'm sure they'll see the toxicology reports.

The only thing the MSM has shown the public is the photos or short videos of Chauvin with his knee on Floyd's neck. But not the video of Floyd freaking out when being arrested and requesting to lay down on the pavement.

Someone as high as he was should never be placed face down on the ground. People should be put into the recovery position on their sides, and I think more places are taking that into consideration now.

BUT, that doesn't mean what Chauvin did was against policy... though a knee to the back between shoulder blades would have likely caused the same outcome for Floyd. "Sudden In Custody Death Syndrome" is a real thing and some LEO do rapid assessments on suspects to gauge the level of risk they are. Factors such as age, weight, gender, drug use or intoxication, if force was used or not, etc all contribute to a point scale where the risk of death from being taken into custody becomes a greater concern. Same training will show that a restrained suspect on the ground should be in a recovery position on their side. If you take a 300lb man fucked up on pills, who resisted arrest and failed to comply, and you lay that man face down on the ground his risk of just dying while just laying there is much higher than a fit man, who complied, and is calm. That is the purpose of the whole point system scale to determine risk of death in custody.

Also, if Chauvin goes to prison he should be in Protective Custody. He'd be the target of every black prison gang, either new recruit initiation or just killed just because he's high profile ex law enforcement. Where I am, any ex law enforcement goes to PC, same with child molestors. They're the first targets in gang initiations inside prison and if put in general population are considered good targets for gang probates to prove they're willing to draw blood for their gang by attacking someone that no other gang gives a shit about.

I think they'll have to convict him on a lesser charge or declare a mistrial. He was doing exactly as he was trained. If anyone is responsible for Floyd's death (other than himself) it should be the mayor and police chief who instituted and approved of the neck kneeling. It's worth noting that both of them threw Chauvin under the bus within hours after basically no investigations.

If Chauvin gets more than 12.5 years, then we know there is no justice. Mohamed Noor shot and killed Justine Damond and only got 12.5 years. Noor was violating every possible procedure in his shooting and Damond and he was convicted less than a year before the whole Floyd thing happened. Also, she wasn't a multiple time convicted criminal like Floyd, she wasn't caught committing a crime like Floyd, she was much smaller than the officers unlike Floyd, and she wasn't in a state of cognitive impairment unlike Floyd. Considering they both happened in Minneapolis, Chauvin's actions are way less actionable than Noor's. If we believe Chauvin was 100% responsible for Floyd's death, which he's not, he should still only get three or so years when compared with the sentence given to Noor.

On DistroWatch, when you search for LTS (minimum 5 years of support per release) plus not systemd, you get all of two results:

• FreeBSD
• GhostBSD

Of these, GhostBSD is more user-friendly, but neither is particularly user-friendly -- or Linux, for that matter.

You can reduce the release model to fixed and then semi-rolling to get a few more results, but you don't have a lot to choose from.

The more stable distros have the issue of running outdated software with no way to update until the next stable release, so if you know what you're doing I strongly suggest going with rolling release ones. Unless you're fine with installing once and then never installing anything newer, except for some choice software like browsers, that get updated along the way.

Sure, but for some reason I have an easier time trusting some crazy guy coding his own operating system because God told him so, than trusting some guy cutting off his dick or some girl cutting off some of her skin to stitch together as a penis. Self-mutilation ranks higher on my crazy scale than delusions.

First of all, my condolences. I don't really know what to say more, the loss of a loved one is always harsh and hard to get through.

Secondly, I do know people from my family and outside who experienced a very similar/exact same thing. Is this a proof of existence of the spiritual world? Who knows. I try to not think too much about it, it's very easy to get lost in deliberations for hours and it is kind of scary. We humans don't like the unknown.

Though I have to admit, events like this do add some mysticity to our otherwise pretty well documented world.