I do not trust the intellectuals. For them, thinking is a method-as-goal instead of a method toward a (sensible, inspiring) goal.

It's rare to meet somebody who is not trying to deceive another but here I am, and it's less so that others intend to deceive but what they say is often what they wish were true rather than what is real.

I'm restating that I'm not some kind of intellectual. I only think enough to know and accept everything else that I don't, and I apply my life to the fullest which is cause for adventure with its joys and no less joyful for its dangers. The world could really lose all those kinds of people like educators and priests because they misguide us into wanting something else other than what we've got.

What we've got is an entire world journeying through the stars, and this world has never failed to create beauty, or at least those who have the pleasure of judging beauty such as creatures as myself do.

Beautiful creations deserve to have beautiful creatures like you accompanying life along this so brief moment we might count on decades, in what is our sacred task to be a part of, and to feel, and come to know, in each our own way, this rhythm of eternity that is within all.

Know that you deserve this. The pity and self-deception are the waste we've accumulated in our thoughts from the educators and priests. There is much beauty in the world and ugliness too, but all have their season.

We do have individuality but there are degrees to it, more in some, less in others, and our individuality would be for nothing if we do not learn how to properly judge ourselves and find expression alongside the rhythm of the world.

One can only be guided so far until their own path is discovered, and perhaps we only guide others because we ourselves are the ones slowing down and are being met on our way by those who will go further.

FLECKTARN (April 20, 2025)
a journal of the blindingly realistic

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Soviet military signal
https://uvb-76.ru/en/

Find crimes being committed in your area
https://communitycrimemap.com/

Overlapping ecology, spirituality, and industrial society
https://www.ecosophia.net/

Let them eat cake
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/let-them-eat-cake.html

The types of people you encountered on USENET and still see on social media.
https://politicsforum.org/flame-warriors/

The non-democratic state: Platonism, Fascism, Theocracy, Monarchy
https://www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=22

Secret cat hidden in skyscraper
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/houston-williams-tower-secret-cat-architecture-16323910.php

Bibliographic database dedicated to economics
https://ideas.repec.org/

Europe has its own operating system
https://eu-os.gitlab.io/

LLM-guided scientific research
https://www.semanticscholar.org/

Org defending people unfairly accused of arson
https://www.niad.info/

Security-oriented UNIX
https://hardenedbsd.org/

Every Tuesday at 6pm PST this DVD player streams to the internet.
https://watch.dvd.social/

Track EMF around you
https://www.ntia.gov/sites/default/files/publications/january_2016_spectrum_wall_chart_0.pdf

Antartica under the ice
https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/new-map-of-landscape-beneath-antarctica-unveiled/

Cold War lore of exploding snacks
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20x5x0g3kqo

Escaping webshit
https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2025/website-fit-for-1999/

Search the federal government
https://search.usa.gov/

Digital flatulence
https://cmajor.dev/docs/Examples/CompuFart/

FLAC search engine
https://dab.yeet.su/

Racial slur database
http://www.rsdb.org/

Linux with win95 GUI
https://blues.win/posts/blue95-topanga/

Simple, transparent encrypted file sharing
https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

Off-grid communications
https://meshtastic.org/

Companies that ghost applicants
https://www.ghostedd.com/

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FLECKTARN (March 2, 2025)
a journal of the blindingly realistic

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Thunderstorms rupture pollen and cause asthma events as a result.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39391232/

Watch people spam Wikipedia in real time.
http://listen.hatnote.com/

The university says this centuries-old lingerie is similar to a 1950s-era modern longline bra.
https://www.theregister.com/2012/07/20/german_discovery/

History of perfume.
https://fragranceconservatory.com/history-of-fragrance

Run and trace 64-bit assembly.
https://x64.halb.it/

Store, retrieve, and locate data based on the fingerprint of its actual content rather than its name or location.
https://ipfs.tech/

Produce music in your browser.
https://opendaw.studio/

Scented candle wax produces as many nanoparticles as gasoline engines.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00986

For the first time in nearly 50 years, a brand new genus and species of plant has been discovered in a U.S. national park.
https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/new-flower-texas-20180155.php

"We don't think of ourselves as homeowners," Saint Arnold Brewery founder Brock Wagner told the magazine. "We consider ourselves stewards, taking care of the house for the next generation."
https://www.chron.com/homes/article/historic-estate-houston-texas-courtlandt-20168336.php

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Our world remains forever caught between symbolism (neoplatonism) and holism (Platonism).
https://www.amerika.org/politics/mind-body-dualism-and-metaphysical-dualism/

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"Each new update designed to fix the outstanding bugs ends up introducing other problems."
https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-11-update-breaks-file-explorer-among-other-glitches/

Entropy production is strongly observer dependent and deeply connects the arrow of time with the causal structure of the spacetime.
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.050406

Genetically modified microorganisms (GMM) are frequently employed for the production of microbial fermentation products such as food enzymes.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666566224000431

Later, or "classic", Neanderthals had lower diversity in their inner ear bones than pre-Neanderthals and early Neanderthals.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/archaeology/neanderthal-genetic-bottleneck-inner-ear/

"I have more Mastodon followers than on any other social media service. I don't feel any particular need to scold and/or ethically purify the weird polyglot polyethic mass of them."
https://mastodon.social/@bruces/114044027501424137

Shopping in bulk at Costco has this uncanny way of making us feel happy, often to the benefit of our future selves.
https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a63828842/what-is-costco-therapy/

Although intelligence was rated by both women and their parents as significantly more important than physical attractiveness for a long-term mate for daughters, both daughters (72.64%) and their parents (59.56%) chose the more attractive man as the best long-term partner for daughters, regardless of his purported intelligence level.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-024-00418-y

With just five years to go, the world is failing on a vital deal to halt biodiversity loss, research suggests.
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-years-world-vital-halt-biodiversity.html

"The swastika just symbolizes radicalness -- total surfing," explains Hugh Berenger, 19, a skilled EI Porto surfer who says that he and a group of about six friends secretly painted swastikas around the area last summer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1979/03/18/surf-nazis-hoarding-the-perfect-waves/545917f5-4ee4-48ca-b766-4cc8097f8bff/

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Official site
https://cnc-comm.com/red-alert-2

Play in browser
https://chronodivide.com/

Dox
https://oldgamesdownload.com/wp-content/uploads/Command_Conquer_Red_Alert_2_Manual_EN.pdf

Map editor and patches
https://cnc-comm.com/red-alert-2/downloads

Maps
https://www.gamemaps.com/ra2/maps
https://www.cnclabs.com/downloads/redalert2/
https://forums.cncnet.org/topic/3806-ra2-yr-maps-a-ginormous-collection-of-maps/

Strategy guide
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/914165-command-and-conquer-red-alert-2/faqs/9349

Mods
https://www.moddb.com/games/cc-red-alert-2/mods

Portable "Red Alert 2" (from Flecktarn)
https://archive.org/details/red-alert-2_202103