The Daily Meme #694!

So, I've been following the most powerful curator's curation trail for a few days and I've noticed that nearly all of the authors with reps higher than 70 have less than ~2000hp.

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I haven't asked around for the exact math, but by my napkin calculations, if you have a rep in the 50's you should have ~1000hp, if your rep is in the 60's you should have ~7500hp, and if your rep is over 70 you should have a minimum of 15k hp.

These numbers represent minimums.
The actual amount of hp voted to them will be higher.
Any account with less than this has powered down.
To get to those reps at least double that had to be voted to them.

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As far as I am concerned anybody that powers down to sell at these prices doesn't deserve rewards, at this point in the adoption cycle.
The reason for that is that too few people have far too much power in the hive now.
'The community' decisions are made by fewer than 20 accounts.

Unless the newbs power up and help distribute the distribution by voting their hp, hive will centralize and not reach its potential as a worldwide, all encompassing technology.

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Do you like how fiat has been distributed?
Why would you support that same distribution in crypto?
You wouldn't.
Snap out of this hero worship.
A fat wallet is more likely to evidence character flaws than to convey any hero status, imo.

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For those that will plead the impoverished, I ask the question:

'How did they eat all the days before finding favor in the hive?'

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Clearly they have been eating something, or they wouldn't be capable of typing.
Rewarding dumpers lowers the price for everybody else.
The only reason that hive trades for less than 6usd a coin is because more people are dumping than buying.

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Who do you figure are buying those dumped hive?
You?
Don't make me laugh.
Anbody that has been here knows that buying stops at .2usd.
More than that and the power to price ratio is prohibitive.

Those that already have too much are buying them.

That's not all bad.

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BUT, there is a point where no new money will come in because too few people hold too large a percentage of the coins.

Look at xrp.
Who buys into that distribution?
People that can't math.

The same for eth.
Btc is a fee trap for small holders.
All power to the hive!

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The most powerful curation account in the hive is rewarding those dumping what they get.

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I guess there could be a number of different valid reasons for doing that assuming the various viewpoints available.
Maybe the top 20 accounts taking 50% of the rewards intended for all of the rest of us is not a bad thing?

Maybe we will get a direct answer as to why this dumping is being rewarded?
Maybe my day would be better spent at the beach.

You can check my math here: https://hivetasks.com/@freebornsociety
Just look for the 3% votes, hover over the author's link, and a popup will show you how little hp these people being favored by the most powerful curator on the chain actually hold.
They care sooo much about the rest of us they hurry up to dump what is voted to them.

Smdh.

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Are you are tired of paying your masters to bomb children in far away places?
Perhaps it is time you pushed back on that.
A simple way that anybody can do that is to hoard your coins.
A dollar of change in your pocket is a dollar of value out of the banksters' pockets that force us to pay them so they can play in the amusement parks from hell and shop in the human grocery stores.
'Aint that fresh?'

Metal in your own possession will always have more intrinsic value than digits on a bankster's ledger.

What's so civil about war, anyway?

Hunter's song

Why crapitalism is doomed to fail.


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I have a 70 rep and just a little over 17K hive power. I also have some in HBD though. I've never powered down and I have bought small quantities from time to time. However, I don't pay much attention to what the authors I vote for do with their hive. I just vote for the content I like. For me that's the only way hive works...at least the social media aspect of it. But then I'm not one of the largest holders either.

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It is my understanding that to go from 70 to 71 takes 10x what it took to get to 70.
From 71 to 72 the same 10x.
Getting to 80 takes many powerful votes.

I understand the urge to be a 'normie' user, but somebody has to pay attention to what is happening around us.
It's why hivewatchers has to be a thing.
'Normie' curators won't check to see if they are getting scammed, they just vote what makes them happy.

I suggest that the same is needed for dumpers.
The people dumping are the people preventing the price from rising.
This behavior harms those not dumping by devaluing hive in the marketplace.

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Hmm
You may be right but I think those reputations work based on how you post and engage
For example, my HP is less than 500 and my rep is 60

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Rep is a function of who votes you with how large a vote.
Pure money and popularity.
Lots of smaller votes still don't equal one large vote.
The reputations system is worthless outside showing if you are invested in the tech, or not.

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I think I need a consultant for handling my wallet. I never look into it, actually. Just now, when I read your posting. I need to power up with what there is to make a power up, right. How would you know if I never powered down or up, actually? Since I left Steemit and do not take any tool to observe single transactions in voting and other behaviors I totally lost track. Sometimes I find this self chosen intransparency state of being quite useful.
What is it with discord? You moved away from it?
Bummer, I just thought to join you there.

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On peakd there is a yellow and red box with a black blob in it, that is chat, it works nearly as well as discord, but it is private, no corporate overlords listening in.
I'm still active on discord, if you wanted to dm me there.

Records of powerups/downs are in the chain, peakd has a filter for them.

Yes, please powerup everything you can afford to powerup, the more you take from the pool the less centralized the governance.
Voting authors you support is the second half of powering up, it gets you 9% on top of the 3% staking rewards.
For a total of 12%.

Your hbd is safer in savings due to the three day lock, and it pays 20%, so I would sure recommend that move.

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Thank you.

Must I be ashamed to say that I am a dinosaur in using still the official Hive frontend? I remember I was about to make the move to proofofbrain and later verifiyourbrain (or something like that) but then for some reason I stopped blogging there and also on Hive or did it with less frequency. So, I am hesitating to change to peakd because I don't like the dark design of it (don't laugh). HaHa!

So, you are saying that I shall power up my savings, right? I am realizing how immobile I became in handling the wallet since I stopped observing the market. Which was fun back in the Steemit days.

If discord is "listening" I maybe will think more about to dm you. Not that I have anything specific in mind. LOL :D

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Yes, the hive is better powered up due to the dilution of the inflation.
Pob and vyb are nearly ded.
They still function, but the crowd in the hive is too small to split into active subcategories.
Excepting those that buy their friends with votes powered by the ninjamine.

All corporate services come with your data being sold to others, it's how they monetize a 'free' service.

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All corporate services come with your data being sold to others, it's how they monetize a 'free' service.

It's not the I don't know that. It's only different when you hear someone saying it. :D

They still function, but the crowd in the hive is too small to split into active subcategories.

True. No masses here.

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Yes, until something impacts one personally it is an abstract idea.
The scientologists call it 'getting mass' on the subject.
They make the preclears use models to model ideas to increase the mass.
Seemed kinda ephemeral to me, but it does work.

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What do they call "getting mass" on the subject? To get you thinking about abstract ideas?

what is "preclears"? Why is it ephemeral for you?

LOL, I guess you have to explain your comment to me. Sometimes it's very painful to be a non native English speaker. HaHa!

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"getting mass"

Learning for one's self.
First hand learning.

Preclears are people that haven't jumped through the hoops to be clears.
Basically it involves reducing the electrical charge of past traumatic experiences.
The theory is that when one is traumatized an electrical charge is stored in memory that later acts on one to influence behaviors, often to the negative.

Ephemeral is fleeting in nature.
I can give you an idea, but if you forget it as soon as you get it, that is ephemeral.

I don't know if you noticed, but you can highlight words, right click them, search your search engine of choice, and get definitions.
I do it alot, once I learned that I could.

https://search.brave.com/search?q=getting+mass&source=desktop

This is what I got when searching 'getting mass', as one could expect it is not relevant to my usage of the word.
I blame that on the narrative never giving escape knowledge to the slaves.

But, on more mainstream ideas the search works ok.

Just to be clear, the churches of scientology have personnel issues, but the technology seems sound, imo.
It gives structure to thoughts that one can't get elsewhere.
https://stss.nl/stss-materials/English/Books/Science%20of%20Survival%20SOS.pdf
They probably have that in german at stss.nl.
Which is important because the concepts and definitions vary based on language and cultures.

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I am always skeptical towards such theories. I think it's a simplification of the complexity of the human organism and its dynamics. I already started reading that book and was taking side notes some few weeks ago (I must already have downloaded it through your former recommendations).

Basically it involves reducing the electrical charge of past traumatic experiences.
The theory is that when one is traumatized an electrical charge is stored in memory ...

There is even talk of eliminating it. I don't think anything is "stored" as memory, it's more a memory mystery of all the dynamics involved in the body, which, according to Sheldrake's morphogenesis, for example, doesn't take up any actual space in the body itself. Rather, it corresponds to the phenomenon of communication that goes beyond one's own body, because my body and all other bodies also communicate with each other. And memory is nothing that can be stored in the sense of a materially manifested memory location. He has investigated some phenomena coming from the animal kingdom. I tend more towards his theory than that of Theta/Mest. Since I did not understand it all fully, I remain being skeptical. LOL

that later acts on one to influence behaviors, often to the negative.

Only, if you state that this kind of reactive mind is inferior to the analytical mind, while I would state that it's an interplay of the two. It's widely spread that people "mostly react impulsively" and that this is "bad". I would not make a bet that this is so. It is a matter of relation, I would say. Not sure about it, of course.

In the book it says:

One would agree that one would be healthier and happier if all the physical pain and painful emotions of a lifetime were eradicated from one's life. Dianetic processing does just that. Dianetic processing is very simple in its elements.

(I retranslated it as I just copied the formerly from English to German translation, so the citation could not totally match the original text).

Here are my side notes:

If one understands engrams as something that is connected with a sensory event, by which, apart from feeling the body, smells and tastes are also meant, which is the case here, then one would also have to erase the smell memory at the same time, which is connected with a stress-triggering event. But that is not possible.

If I once know what freshly brewed coffee smells like and I am attacked from behind while making coffee, then nothing in the world will be able to eliminate my recognition of the smell of coffee. Especially since the experience of making coffee a thousand times without being attacked is also a manifestation in the form of peaceful habit.

If I have once learnt to ride a bicycle and I then fall unhappily and heavily, cycling is not per se something that evokes the pain memory, since cycling also brings about positive sensations and memories at the same time (happy feeling of speed, physical strength, etc.). Only someone who avoids cycling after a fall is performing an irrational act, as avoidance is not a good strategy.

People have car accidents and get back into the vehicle. So they should be stressed all the time when they drive. And yet I can say that even though I have seen accidents and been involved in a few, I continued to drive normally afterwards and have made countless car journeys where I was on "autopilot", i.e. I drove and then arrived, but I was so preoccupied with my thoughts that I had basically missed the journey and was making the moves and observations that I necessarily have to make when driving, but not paying conscious attention to them.

If it were the case that a traumatic experience, such as childbearing, reactivated a woman's instinctive and inferior unconscious, she would not want to have further children after giving birth.

Traumas, for example, were consciously created among tribal peoples in order to raise boys and girls to the status of adults and to give them particularly painful and frightening experiences. This is what distinguishes humans from animals, because they are conscious actions, such trials can be planned.

If one were to eliminate the pain memories, nothing would be gained, one would have to go back to the beginning, so to speak.

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It doesn't eliminate the memory, it relocates it to the analytical portion of the mind where it is available for recall.
In the reactive mind it works like a stuck keyboard key.
And not always in a rational way.
Were the reactive mind rational it wouldn't cause problems.
Instead it equates all with all, and when enough similarities trigger the reaction the reaction can be irrational, or it can be the perfect thing at the perfect time.
The reaction is kinda random in that it can't be rationalized, only reacted.
So, if you have good responses trained in, you get a good response.

The aim of auditing is to reduce the charge on the earliest traumas first because later similar traumas work as a lock on the first.
But, some are occluded and require later charges be first reduced before the main engram can be accessed.
This is better covered in Dianetics, it discusses auditing more in depth than SoS.

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I find it very difficult to come to terms with this theory, which is probably because I still consider what I have read so far and your linguistic explanation to be too mechanistic.

I probably have prejudices about the pigeonholing of the brain. "Mind" in this context is a term that is not clear to me. Therefore, for me, there cannot be an analytical and reactive part, as different parts where one can be "shifted" into the other.

Do I understand this correctly, that tones are worked with? I would be more open-minded if one could show results where a treatment has taken place, but even then, a propband would have to be studied not only over a short but quite a long period of time. And how is he supposed to bring up his improved well-being? How to classify it? That he is better able to curb his impulses (spontaneous "negative" reactions) because of this technique? What about spontaneous positive impulses? I have many questions, but they are not urgent to me. I will probably therefore have problems reading the books in their entirety, as they do not arouse my interest so much, i.e. they tend not to inspire me.

But I thank you for providing me with always new stuff.

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SoS is about how to predict behaviors in others, for the actual auditing, ie reducing engrams, that is in Dianetics.
There are lectures that are available that will probably answer most of your questions.

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how to predict behaviors in others

I'd say I am good at this already. HaHa!!! (Kidding a bit)
Though prediction of the behavior of others can make life quite boring. In particular when those others are easy to read/easy to predict. People are indeed easy to predict once you got to know them for a while. It gets harder to surprise one another once you live together, for example. So sometimes I just do something out of order for my husband, for example. Or I answer in an unusual way but I must say it's not easy for myself to change my communication style - practice needed:)

Thanks for the lectures! Good, reading made me a bit tired. Though I really like English.

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He uses a lot of vernacular that is specific to dianetics, most of the books have a glossary if you get words you don't understand.
He uses words in specific definitions peculiar to the material, so it's easy to get lost unless you've encountered the terms before.

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I don't know if you noticed, but you can highlight words, right click them, search your search engine of choice, and get definitions.
I do it alot, once I learned that I could.

Thank you. I didn't know that.

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71 rep with 25hp?!? That’s awful.
What is that… suspicious account… must have “interesting” comments and replies… 🐝

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Go to hivetasks.com/@freebornsociety, hover your cursor over author names on the 3% votes, and you will see how many people over 70 have dumped nearly everything that has been given to them.
It is not rare, it is most of the votes given by the biggest curation account in the hive.

IF we all just piss it away hive goes to zero.
Why would we support people doing that unless we want hive to stay underpriced?
The people buying that dumped hive already have too much.
The power is centralizing because we, as a community, tolerate those that vote rewards to those that dump.

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I now have a 69 rep (used to be higher...) and only about 50 Hive (used to be over 250k) but I sold the lot because I was sick of being downvoted. Glad I did, made shitloads!

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So, buy back in and vote rewards to the people not getting upvoted by their excellencies?

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