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Hermeticism is the origin of most conspiracy theories if you dig deep enough. Truly the OG brainworm
That’s, like, meta-esoteric knowledge.
at least it’s airtight
Can you explain? Sounds interesting
Hermeticism is a gnostic esoteric system and like all gnostic forms, it implies that there’s an “unknown” reality that can be disveiled through revelation. You have a perceived reality that is fake and a “real” reality that is hidden from you. This already sets the ground for conspiratorial thinking.
The second element is that hermeticists in the 18th century were relatively rich and powerful men who met in secret societies, which was something everybody did, but they also had the money to build monuments and hide their symbols in plain sight. This created the trope of a secret congregation of powerful men into esoteric shit who plot to take over society.
A lot of conspiracy theories reference Hermeticism blindly. One example is Flat Earthism, they use a lot of Hermetic concepts of the firmament to describe why the world is flat. Hermeticism is fundamentally the progenitor of modern astrology, alchemy, ‘witchcraft’ and so on.
Like the other commenter said, hermeticism relies on the belief there is an “unknown” reality that can be unveiled. This was a core tenet of ancient Greek religion and explains their tendency to practice divination, in a way a lot of modern woo-woo stuff is directly lifted off of a bastardization of ancient Greek religion. Its very interesting to do a meta study of conspiracies, people are tapping into shit they have no clue about and are rethinking thoughts and ideas made 3000 years ago by a drugged out woman in a cave filled with lead. Hermeticism was also a very popular system of gnostic beliefs during the medieval era, quite a lot of Arab philosophers for example believed in a variety of gnostic religions, e.g. Sabianism which is referenced in the Quran as being ‘people of the book’, a group of people along with Christians and Jews that should not be harmed but taxed.
As Marx said, “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”
The UK issued silver dollars once. They were dated 1804 and considered “bank tokens” as they had less silver than their denomination required at the time. They basically stamped a new design on Spanish colonial 8-real coins and passed them as five shillings.
The UK had a hard time with coin supply for most of the 1700s until 1816 when they finally downdized many coins.
Crime novelist Jim Thompson [Pop.1,280] wrote a novelization of the TV show Ironside.
If that’s not esoteric, I don’t know what is.
love this concept. ever found anything interesting?
Wow. From everything I could find that he wasn’t able to nuke, he sounds like a trip!
If you stare at the elbow of someone you are high-fiving, you’ll never miss the high five.
I don’t think that’s esoteric. It’s just ergonomics at plat
There is only one model structure that can be put on the category of small categories for which the weak equivalences coincide with honest equivalences of categories. It’s called the Joyal-Tierney model structure. You can define the suspension of an object in any model category as the homotopy pushout to two terminals, then define an abstract notion of a sphere in any model category by setting the 0-sphere as the coproduct of two terminals and the (n+1)-sphere as the suspension of the n-sphere.
A small category is a CW-complex if and only if it is a groupoid.
I have absolutely no idea what you said. But I have a really awesome friend named Tierney.
The most efficient base for a number system is e.
We use base 10 with 0-9 digits and each position is a ten’s place, and the efficiency being measured is the product of the number of digits and the length of digits needed to represent a number in a given range of values. So if we used base 2 binary instead of base 10 decimal we only need to remember 2 digits 0-1, but to represent most numbers we’ll need more digits, 11 in base 10 is 1011 in base 2. On the other side we could use hexadecimal to write shorter numbers like 11 is B, but need to use more digits, 0-F digits where A-F are the 10-15 digits.
If you try to plot a function that minimizes the efficiency the minimum is at e. So you’d have digits 0-2 and e would be written as 10 since each position is an e’s place.
This is not a great explanation of radix economy of Base e.
There is (or at least used to be) a debug command to write-protect a hard drive. No idea what it’s for or why such a thing exists, but you flip a certain bit from 0 to 1 and drive no write. I won $100 once at work with this knowledge. We had a training course about how much better the new version of windows at the time was and how much harder it was to break - so hard they’d pay $100 (in early 2000s money) to anyone who could unrecoverably break their demo windows install during the 10 minute presentation. The instructor (who worked for Microsoft) said he’d been doing this for 6 months and they’d never had to pay out that prize before, much less 30 seconds in.
Sounds like something registry editor related.
No, this was via debug, a command that’s been included in MS-DOS since like version 2.0 (before there even was a Windows, much less full-OS windows like Win95/NT/etc rather than 3.0/3.1 that were just fancy launchers that sat on top of DOS.) It can let you view and alter the contents of memory at a particular address, etc. We also used it to wipe hard drives by forcibly writing 0s to every block on the drive.
You could do stuff like that with the older DOS versions of Norton Utilities. I used to do fun stuff like set my friend’s files as the drive label. He thought I was basically a wizard.
Yup, or any hex editor that could target memory addresses (some of them were limited to run on a certain file or whatever.) But yeah I used to do similar when I was a kid, I would go into my game files (all DOS games back then of course) and change text strings you could find in there with a hex editor. I’d just change goofy stuff like ‘Copyright’ to ‘Copyleft’, ‘The bandit strikes the princess!’ to ‘The dude slaps a ho’, etc. It was endlessly amusing when I was that age. :)
the internet is bad.
ifupdown2 has a 15-character interface name limit, and the systemd predictable interface naming system uses the mac address for usb nics (giving them a 15-character name), so if you try to create a vlan subinterface of a usb nic using the standard interface.vlan naming scheme on a systemd host, it will fail, and you’ll have to set up systemd network link files to rename the base interfaces to something shorter.
I’m almost sure the backstory to how you gained this knowledge is “i spent hours debugging something, and that 15 chars limit was the problem”
Yep exactly! Setting up a raspberry pi low-performance computing cluster with secondary usb nics, going slowly insane trying to figure out why the vlan interfaces wouldn’t work when their base interfaces worked just fine, and going down all of the wrong rabbit holes along the way.
And all that just because someone decided that an array bigger that 16 bytes would have been too expensive (/s probably)
Reminds me of the ESP32 ROM dictionary only taking a 15 character limit and simply bugging out silently without any notification whatsoever. Arduino, so easy to use, great for beginners. It has got all the wild goose chases!
Tell me you had to do real work with Systemd and discovered what a steaming useless pile of millennial shite it is as a whole, without using those words. The only cure for lennart’s cancer is to cut it out.
It’s the same when creating network interfaces via the
iptool.
All contradiction is reconciled above the abyss, hence why spiritual visions can sometimes appear horrible at face value.
Wait, what kind of esoteric did you mean?
I mean I’ve spent time studying occult stuff, so I guess pretty much the trope codifier.
Turns out they mostly just like to do the macarena. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mammals generally get 1.5 billion heart beats in their lifetime regardless of size.
So is cardio shortening your life?
I don’t think so, these numbers are population averages and the relationship probably doesn’t apply at the individual level. Also humans don’t tend to follow this rule as closely due to things like medicine.
See, mega corps are simply mimicking nature by implementing planned obsolescence
And they all (above 3Kg) pee on average for 21 seconds.
My ICQ number…
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