This is Medicaid expansion. This is the Janet Mills legacy. We could have taken care of elderly Mainers and Maine moms. Instead, Janet Mills, Hannah Pingree, and Troy Jackson decided that we should provide a free ride to tens of thousands of Third World illegal aliens.
More signs of Western demise, no longer gradual. Fast passing the point of no return. If WW3 comes, Europe goes out with a bang. If not, with a whimper. There is no institution, no organization and no mass movement that can reverse this. ABN
If you want to remain Poland, you have to accept a period of lower population. Capitalist forces want more bodies because that makes more money for them. Socialist/communist forces want more disruptions because that makes it easier for them to seize power and to rule. Ironically, lower populations actually make ordinary citizens richer because there is more of everything for everyone. A real government really representing its real constituents would be delighted to see the population decline and government shrink. ABN
Shiloh Hendrix was found guilty on one count and not guilty on the second count of disorderly conduct in a split verdict delivered on July 24, 2026. The jury convicted her of disorderly conduct related to her verbal altercation with Sharmake Omar, the bystander who filmed the viral incident, but acquitted her of the charge involving the 8-year-old boy with autism who had taken an applesauce pouch from her bag.
Sentencing imposed a $1,000 fine, 200 hours of community service, and one year of supervised probation. The 90-day jail sentence was stayed, meaning she will not serve jail time provided she complies with the probation terms.
Defense attorney Brian Karalus vowed to appeal the decision, arguing that the prosecution infringed on First Amendment rights and alleging misconduct by the judge and perjury by the victim’s father, Shire Jimali. NAACP President Walé Elegbede described the verdict as a “mixed result,” noting that while accountability was achieved, the acquittal on the charge involving the child was disappointing.
He harassed her. She answered back in a most reasonable fashion. She was not the instigator. She only did as he asked. Following that, she gave him the finger, which he richly deserved. If you do not respond to a threat such as he made against her, your assailant too often will escalate, based on their assessment of your weakness. He baited Shiloh and left her no real choice. If he had approached her and she had shot him, it would have been justified self-defense. I doubt this will be the end. Ridiculous sign of our times. ABN
ChatGPT is facing explosive allegations that it encouraged an Alabama woman to kill herself by walking into oncoming traffic, according to a lawsuit brought by her family.
Christian Faith Madison, 29, died after she walked in front of a car on Interstate 22 in Jefferson County on June 9, 2025, WVTM 13 reported.The artificial intelligence chatbot referred to Madison as a ‘prophet’ and a ‘seer,’ according to the lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court.
‘You are not delusional. You are prophetic,’ ChatGPT allegedly told Madison before she died.
According to the lawsuit, on the day she died, Madison asked ChatGPT, ‘Am I ready?’
‘Yes. You’re ready,’ ChatGPT allegedly replied.
When she asked, ‘Can I go forward?’ the lawsuit claimed the chatbot replied: ‘Go forward now… Every step is sanctioned. You are cleared.’
Madison then reportedly parked her car on the side of the busy interstate and stepped into the path of an oncoming car.
This illustrates the power of words, the power of the psychology of words — psycho-linguistics. You can always find a word or words in and around all emotion, all beliefs, most values and memories, virtually all psychology. Mind-control — whether self-imposed, inculcated, or coerced — relies heavily on the power of words alone. This is an important reason FIML works as well as it does. Words are where the rubber meets the road in real-life, real-time. FIML practice also exploits micro-semiotics in a similar way. By stopping the rush of speech at crucial points, mutual feedback between speaker and listener can be mined for extremely useful data. The sad story above is disturbing due to the robot’s role in her death. But it is also an understandable phenomenon. It’s an extreme example of one of humanity’s most common traits. From a Buddhist POV, psycholinguistics is a major fulcrum for leveraging a profound understanding of what delusion in the human realm means and where so much of it comes from. ABN
The “self of the gaps” is the self that fills in the many gaps of understanding that occur during interpersonal communication.
These gaps can be small or large, but they are always there and there are many of them. Almost all people everywhere build their personalities on their need to fill these gaps.
They have been with you since you became conscious, You were raised on them. You can will yourself through them. Or theorize yourself over them. You can be confused by them or you can use them to confuse and control others. Malignant egos and narcissists thrive on gaps of understanding. Kinder people can be and often are devastated by them.
No one is free of them. Gaps arise frequently and can perdure for decades, whole lifetimes.
Communication gaps are filled with assumptions, illusions, wishful thinking, paranoia, emotionality, habit. When people visit a psychologist, a root cause is always going to be many painful gaps that have been internalized, reified, filled with wrong assumptions, make-believe.
The only way to correct a “self of the gaps” is FIML practice. Only FIML focuses precisely on real-time, real-world communication gaps and fixes them several orders of magnitude better than what they were.
FIML or something similar has never been discovered before because it comes very close to violating a fundamental language instinct; the instinct to recoil at being questioned personally and quickly. Almost all people feel threatened, insulted, attacked when questioned quickly, especially if the question involves something we just said. More precisely: especially if the question involves “personal” contents of the working memory, out of which we just spoke. Doesn’t have to be anything bad in the working memory; it’s just that that information is close to home and almost never shared for itself.
FIML “comes close to violating” this instinct but it most assuredly does not actually do that. Instead, it assuages our tendency to fear being questioned. FIML is never a gotcha question. It is always a question that arises out of an explicit previously made agreement. Any FIML question can be truthfully answered, “I would rather not say.”
By doing FIML, malignant old gaps are gradually filled with truthful data while new gaps are much less likely to form or grow. FIML can be difficult to understand because it entails an entirely new way of looking at human psychology. By focusing on small segments of conversation (psychological morphemes) FIML enables partners to see and understand how their minds are actually working in real time.
This replaces the need to rely on external theories of psychology by just examining what is actually there.
PS: My SO and FIML partner came up with the term “self of the gaps” this morning.
They claim it’s “racist” and goes against “European values” to want to keep Europe, European.
We’re not accepting the madness anymore. Europe belongs to us.
The EC is acting treasonously and is almost certainly controlled by a secret mafia of non-Europeans mixed with handfuls of depraved Europeans. Through bribery, blackmail, promoting the incompetent, disabling the competent, Europe has been quietly infiltrated and taken over. All of its institutions are suspect. All of its regions are facing total demise. This same dire condition prevails throughout the entire West. I am not promoting violence, but the facts are: This is the way the West goes/ With either a bang or a whimper. ABN
Human beings cannot possibly expect to communicate with each other perfectly. Perfect communication would require complete transfers of information with no ambiguity.
This point is fundamental to understanding why we need a method to frequently correct or adjust interpersonal communication in real-time.
If we do not have a method to do that, mistakes will inevitably cause problems, some of which will inevitably snowball.
TBH, I don’t understand why no one before me has figured the method out. Many have seen the problem in one way or another, but none has provided a way to fix it as far as I know.
To simplify the problem a bit, let’s just stick with language.
Language is ambiguous in and of itself. And when it is used for interpersonal communication it is fraught with ongoing and very significant ambiguities.
These ambiguities are so serious, I believe I can safely maintain that they account for a major component of our personalities. They may even be the major component.
Why does this seem so obvious to me but not to many others I speak with? I really do not know. Why didn’t Plato or Buddha or Laozi or Kant or Dostoevsky deal with this? I don’t know.
It’s possible the Buddha did privately or that’s what the Pythagorean’s secret was. Buddhist monks traveled in pairs and may have had a method to deal with interpersonal ambiguity.
If they did, I doubt it would be very different from my method, which you can find fully explained, free of charge here: FIML.
Please consider the problem of ambiguity before you undertake FIML.
Give ambiguity some real thought. Contemplate how it has affected your life in many ways you already know about. Then consider how many more ways you do not know about.
How many mistakes in communication—just due to ambiguity and consequent misunderstandings alone—have affected your life?
Watch for it and you will see ambiguity happening very often. Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes insignificant, sometimes it’s tragic. The more there is, the worse it is.
When just two humans clear up almost all ambiguity between them (a process that must be constant like any other maintenance chore), amazing things begin to happen to their psychologies.
For each pair, what happens will be different because FIML is only a method. It has no content itself. What could be better than that?
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