WindTalk

WindTalk wrote

This is insulting reactionary bullshit. Just block me. OK. bullshit talker. I'm not buying your bullshit.

You seem confused, I'm not selling anything, so there isn't anything for you to buy. You, however, are posting here selling the idea that "everything is bullshit I don't agree with" and a hate-filled reactionary reply attitude.

You seem to really like to label discussions bullshit as fast as you can! It's the first word in your post, and the last in your replies.

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WindTalk wrote

Remember we live in multicultural cities of many faiths.

Maybe you do, but I do not. And I think there are faith systems people just don't declare. Such as faith in lies and deception. Most of the history of religion hasn't been based on truth at all, it's been based on parents educating children and children being extremely loyal to what they learned in their childhood.

It's exceedingly rare for a mature set of adults to create a new system and institute it. Jonestown comes to mind, so does Scientology. But these approaches are more about cult to a specific book or personality - but that could also be said of classic religions.

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WindTalk wrote (edited )

OK ...I've seen this stuff before. Weird abstractions is right-libertarian sophistry.

You seem to constantly exercise dismissing individuality by just slapping a name-label on people. I wasn't giving you simple answers, I was showing you just a couple examples of how limited your approach seems to be. Starting off a public conversation by using wildcard words like "bullshit" to mean anything you want doesn't help. Your attitude keeps coming across in all your replies on this topic: "anything I don't agree with in 1/2 page and 45 seconds of thinking" is summarily dismissed.

People have been trying to build new social systems for thousands of years, we still have books explaining their ideas from long ago. It isn't trivial, easy, simplistic.

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WindTalk wrote (edited )

Are there (non-AA) resources on problem drinking?

I'm sure there are plenty of books, blogs, and magazine articles that are resources on problem drinking that are non-AA. YouTube videos? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt99YhCRzCw

You could hire a psychologist or psychiatrist in most parts of the world and sit with them as a resource. Many places you have to pay for this.

There are rehab clinics that do not follow AA. Find for one that specifically doesn't use faith, religion, etc.

I think for in-person you are going to find a lot of groups - but they may not draw many people or may not be close to your work and home. Or, they aren't free. It isn't just an issue of dreaming up a different kind of group than AA - what makes AA such a big player is that they actually have many participants.

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WindTalk wrote (edited )

The fact that people learn to manage and lower their reactive impulses during stressful moments does little to change the dehumanizing effects of the culture itself.

You say "during stressful moments". Ok, let's say your team just won or lost a key bowl or cup game in a sport. Positive or negative stressful moment. People tend to be de-individualized and become gangs of " reactive impulses".

Similarly, all over the world, how do individuals behave when war breaks out? Do they typically resist and promote peace, or go along with the crowd?

I think you are dividing up along poor lines. Without being free of crowd behavior under what you call "reactive impulses", there can't be an end to participation in group violence - the kind of escalation/revenge that violence and hate frequently draws.

bullshit spirituality

A lot of oriental spirituality, I can speak for Buddhism, educate one on psychological impulses and how to be more self-aware of raising behavior. To not just act out on impulses but to develop a system of self-control through awareness. And I don't mean just learning yoga alone (that many do today), but also the words and teachings that go along with it.

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WindTalk wrote (edited )

A radical movement would be to become the mental health support system the country does not have.

"the country", as in a specific one. But a critical concept of human minds and spirituality is that they are universal.

A radical movement would be to become the mental health support system the country does not have.

Let's apply that thinking to radical Islamic terrorism. A radical movement that focuses on a change of the spiritual and mental health system, such as making adjustments to sexual interactions in public. And the support system being a hierarchical mosque system. What it promotes is to dismiss individual freedom of choice, individual beliefs, and individual challenging the collective system. And it survives the raise and fall of nations and works across multiple nations.

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WindTalk wrote (edited )

I agree the whole framing is simplistic. You are raised dependent on your parents, if you can't see there is a path of individuality that requires you to be self-aware and break free from your parents language, thinking, teaching, religion, etc.

the collective can erase individuals as history will show again and again and again

That's how I see it too. Freedom and liberty don't have a great track record with humanity when it comes to spirituality movements and ideas. History shows again and again that people claimed that their view was for the entire planet, but once travel and telecommunications became standard - we found that ideas of spirituality were much more like languages - regional. Converting between spiritual systems has often proven both violent and crushing toward dissenting individuals. The most recent large-scale progress has been to identify violence itself as an objective to eliminate from group behaviors, but it surely has not been widely adopted by populations.

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WindTalk wrote

The liberal mental-health narrative focused on individuals is bogus.

There seems a group of people here who think that dehumanizing and attacking "liberals' is the biggest accomplishment in the world. Funny how you criticize certain directions of focus, individuality without group, but don't see your own extreme out-group focus.

Do you mean moral liberalism? Or politics? or? As much of the planet for the past 1500 years has lived under various forms of orthodox authority of god, and liberals / heretics against such orthodoxy I (and many others) consider significant progress against misinterpretation of stories.

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WindTalk OP wrote (edited )

Thank you for taking the time to share. My thoughts are: UUID takes more storage, so RAM caching is going to be hit. And the overhead of doing the 'next number in sequence' is only on the insert, right? In this example, a user is going to be reading forum_subscription membership table every time they refresh their home page for new posts (reading from server RAM cache) - but inserts are very rare (joining a new forum)... so it seems to me the bigint has the greater advantage?

http://thebuild.com/blog/2015/10/08/uuid-vs-bigserial-for-primary-keys/

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WindTalk OP wrote (edited )

Emma,

If you have a minute, can you review my changes. This is an attempt to add a new database field checkbox that clones the database layer of 'sticky'. It is named 'subhidden', a Boolean to do 'hidden submission'. The logic to act on this isn't added yet, I'm only trying to get the entry/edit forms behavior correct at this point.

https://gitlab.com/WakeRealityDev/Postmill/tree/AddDatabase0

~~The only problem (that I know of) that I'm having is I can't figure out how to populate the English translation. The system is showing messages implying I didn't set a phrase, and the HTML output doesn't show my translation. ~~ Ok, I figured out where to insert the translation phrase. translations/messages.en.yml Thank you.

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WindTalk OP wrote (edited )

Reply to Features by WindTalk

When editing an existing comment, the preview being above the submit button can result in a kind of user-interface race.

  1. I click edit
  2. no preview exists at first
  3. I change one word in the edit box
  4. Postmill reacts by creating a preview
  5. This preview shoves the Submit button down by the length of the comment

This results in me moving my mouse to the Submit button and it jumping down. As there is a delay between steps 3 and 4.

I almost suggest moving the Submit button to stay fixed, above the preview?

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WindTalk wrote (edited )

Agreed. If you visit places like Kuala Lumpur - in a large grocery store - they have cafeteria eating areas. There are signs posted saying you aren't even supposed to eat pork in front of others. Even though pork is sold in the meat section meters away.

If people came to America and demanded that pork not even be eaten in front of them, Americans would tell them to "go to hell".

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WindTalk OP wrote (edited )

Emma,

I did a fresh git checkout and fresh PostgreSQL database creation. Via the front-end interface, I added a test category and submission. I have not modified the code at all yet. When I run:

bin/console doctrine:migrations:diff -q

It complains about existing issues off the current git code?

In AbstractPostgreSQLDriver.php line 76:
                                                                                                  
  An exception occurred while executing 'SELECT min_value, increment_by FROM "comments_id_seq"':  
                                                                                                  
  SQLSTATE[42703]: Undefined column: 7 ERROR:  column "min_value" does not exist                  
  LINE 1: SELECT min_value, increment_by FROM "comments_id_seq"                                   
                 ^                                                                                
                                                                                                  

In PDOConnection.php line 106:
                                                                                  
  SQLSTATE[42703]: Undefined column: 7 ERROR:  column "min_value" does not exist  
  LINE 1: SELECT min_value, increment_by FROM "comments_id_seq"                   
                 ^                                                                
                                                                                  

In PDOConnection.php line 104:
                                                                                  
  SQLSTATE[42703]: Undefined column: 7 ERROR:  column "min_value" does not exist  
  LINE 1: SELECT min_value, increment_by FROM "comments_id_seq"                   
                 ^ 
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WindTalk wrote

Thanks for the thoughts.

So, I noticed when reading your reply to me that context seems absent. The inbox page does not show the name of the forum and the title of the post you replied to. Was it a conscious choice to go with such minimalism, or just haven't gotten to that level of fleshing out?

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WindTalk wrote (edited )

can't find a *.env file anywhere.

That's your problem. It isn't "something .env", it starts with "." in the name. It's a hidden file, Linux hides files that start with a dot. From the shell, do "nano .env" in that working directory (nano is an editor good for remote shell, ssh, remote servers).

(Next step) What version of PG database did you install? the line you put in for DATABASE_URL should reflect that. I suggest version 10 ... https://gist.github.com/alistairewj/8aaea0261fe4015333ddf8bed5fe91f8

P.S. As a convention, hiding a config file for a server software app is a poor idea. OpenSSH server software doesn't hide it's config file (/etc/ssh/sshd_config). Who thinks it is a good idea to name the file ".env" in the first place? The name "env" is also not that great, why not "app_parameters" instead?

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