Key phrases: Research, strategy consultancy, inequality, poverty, violence, cruelty, povertyism, misogyny, diversity, bias, othering, discrimination, sadism, ageism, decision-making, otherization, marginalisation, ableism, inclusivity, gerontophobia, stranger-stalking, aggression, sadistic stalking, zen approach, misogyny, governance, hate groups, fairness, racism, justice, philosophy, law, hacking, homophobia, contempt, bioethics, health inequalities, cruelty, homelessness, politics, public policy, policing, science and biotechnology, conspiracy beliefs, speciesism, light pollution, callousness, security, mechanical pollution, hate, violence, safety, chemical pollution, conspiracy thinking, social security, forensic psychology… and 20+ years of experience in earth and life sciences as well as nearly two decades with what appears to be "sadistic stalking" or whatever. Some of those crazy nihilistic extremist sadistic networks involved, possibly? (This website is currently paid for by an anonymous sponsor who appears to have full access.)
Everyone’s been found. Four injured, one severely. The latter one is in hospital. Six escaped successfully.
Also, the total number of people affected was lower than initially assumed on the basis of videos. Some people reported in to the police that they were safe and sound.
About 200 rescuers had been digging for any missing people.
I am posting this because it is news that I haven’t seen on the home pages of the BBC, CNN, and The Guardian. It’s not local news. Lots of foreigners go to Lech to ski.
There’ve also been three or more incidents involving guns in the Netherlands in recent days, but that is local news. One was a home robbery, involving three kids; money and goods were taken. At least one was a police shooting. In a shooting in Amsterdam, a 17-year-old got killed and a 16-year-old arrested. Sadly, there is a lot more major crime activity there these days than there used to be. One of the latest new trends there is the use of explosions rather than shootings in cases of retaliation and intimidation.
13:02: I just spotted the avalanche news on The Guardian’s home page.
Just now, as I was in bed and quickly wanted to check the overnight weather to decide if I wanted to open the window a bit, and went to BBC.co.uk/weather, the following suggestions popped up when I wanted to enter “Portsmouth” in the search window on the page:
Willem
policing
tentacles
WTF?
That’s mighty weird.
This is the phone that I have just started using because my regular one – which has more memory and was able to run lots of apps – got “killed”. (It does still seem to do texts and calls but nothing else.)
(This newer one that is only able to run two or three apps is also compromised. I don’t actually know what number its English SIM has; I’d have to look it up.)
I am constantly buying new phones and SIM cards desperately trying to stay ahead of the stupid hacking.
Those who have no good command of English should still be able to work with their fellow Ukrainians in the UK in their professional capacities of psychologists etc.
Many do speak English and some speak several other languages. While their expertise may not translate directly into the British practice, someone who for example was a lawyer or business person in Ukraine, can still serve well in Britain too by making use of their professional background, their insights, their brains.
They don’t necessarily all need to work as retail and restaurant staff or meat factory workers.
There is no more place for neo-colonial thinking. Colonial thinking belongs in the 19th century.
Remember… in terms of prosperity, Poland and Slovenia are about to overtake Britain. Many other EU countries have a great deal more prosperity already. Hence, Ukraine may not at all be as “backward” as some of you may be telling yourselves either, right?
I’m not allowed to interact with anyone (but him/them) and I am not allowed to do anything that I enjoy. It can only be stupid dull crap that he approves off (such as translating books about dull topics or topics that he thinks will upset me and typing my ass off, so to speak, barely moving a muscle for weeks except the ones in my fingers, because hey, I speak Dutch), that gives him the opportunity to make me look like an idiot (by changing stuff when I am away from my computer for a minute) and that at the same time allows him to keep tabs on me.
My life’s been in the claws of whoever this is for nearly 15 years!!! I want my life back!!!
Years and years of asking people for work unpacking boxes in the back and stuff, so that I won’t be spotted and interfered with by this anonymous prick. (There’s little else, in Portsmouth, but that’s beside the point.) In places where you don’t have to worry about people adding urine to your coffee or whatever. Leaving stupid hand-written notes all over the place so that he won’t know about it and can’t interfere again. Years and years of begging, begging, begging. Because I needed FOOD!
Why did he get angry? Or, anxious, rather? Because he can’t change himself. He wishes he could. He wants to be accepted the way he is. That is the overriding drive in his life. It overrides any concerns he may have for the well-being of others as well as for himself.
How can you counter that?
Like this, sometimes. Anything that soothes children (hence also distracts) will likely do.
How right-wing media in the US describe what’s been in the works for months:
Do they have a point? Yes, and no. Yes, because sure, Trump will play the martyr who’s the victim of a conspiracy again. Yes, because maybe he is best ignored. No, because it does not matter whether Trump will play the martyr. No, because the bigger picture is much more important.
But it will have an effect on his followers. Time will tell what exactly that is.
This headline was followed by this, by the way:
Told ya it’s funny…
It sounds like this bunch at least has fallen out of love with “ORANGE MAN”. Phew.
Canseco, R., & Bellaubi, F. (2022). Application of geoethics to university education based on a mining geoethical dilemma case study in the Catalonian Potassic Basin (Spain). Journal of Geoethics and Social Geosciences, 1(1), 1–32. https://doi.org/10.13127/jgsg-24.
The internet has brought us a lot of good but it has also led to the phenomenon that strangers can now easily become obsessed with us without us having an idea of that until it’s too late and it starts impacting out lives and livelihoods big time.
A great deal of this has to do with neurodiversity, with differences in communication style and brain structure, hence also empathy, as well as with otherization and anger. Particularly if you are a kind person, you can be like a warm blanket on which someone else starts to depend without you realizing it.
Such persons often have no idea of the impact their actions can have on others. Their reasoning can be “Getting flowers is nice, so if I send someone flowers every day, that’s a really nice thing to do.” If the person they send flowers to gets angry or afraid, it causes a lot of confusion. It can also lead to anger and resentment.
It’s really a failure of our society and of our health care systems. That’s not easy to correct. Fixing it will take time.
Of course, stranger-stalking isn’t always like this at all. You may for example also serve as someone to take revenge on in a form of displaced or redirected aggression.
There are lots of simple practical things that you can do to create a buffer around you, though. They can make a big difference.
There are lots of simple practical things that you can do to shield yourself a little, though. They can make a big difference.
I wrote a guide for how to do that, for to shield yourself if you’re your own boss.
Did you know, for example, that doorbells, toys, Apple Air tags and other lost item finders can also be used to spy on you? Did you know that there’s an app that you can use to check whether you’ve been “tagged”? A person who tags you may think he is merely watching out for you, looking after you. After all, the tag enables him to come to the rescue if, say, your car breaks down. You, however, may not see it that way at all.
I’ve just updated the booklet that I wrote. You can download it from this site as a PDF file. Did you get it from Amazon? Did you import the earlier version of the PDF file into your Kindle? Check the title page in your Kindle and update the file if it still says “5 January 2022”.
Mathematics student Ginger Egberts is 26 when she’s just delivered her daughter, through a C-section. Her 2-year-old son is staying with her parents. Ten days after his sister’s arrival, he manages to pull a mug of hot soup off the kitchen counter and ends up with 11% burns on arms and chest.
Two years later, she finishes her Master’s, creates a LinkedIn profile and sees a PhD spot (which is properly paid full-time employment in the Netherlands) concerning the development of a mathematical model for the prediction of the healing of burns, leading to a decision-making tool for medical professionals. She applies and gets hired.
That was four years ago and she’s just wrapped up her PhD thesis. For her research, she’s cooperated with the surgeon who operates on her son.
She’s now put in a grant proposal to develop an app.
Practices like these – promising parents a boy or a girl – can cause parents to abandon their baby in the country where they sought to circumvent English regulations if the baby is not exactly what they wanted.
They then reject the kids as if they are a handbag or a pair of shoes of the wrong color.
Practices like these can also lead to difficulties when the child ends up with a different nationality and the parents can’t get the baby across the border.
He plays the flute. Did you know that? The video below tells you ten more things that you possibly didn’t know yet about him.
Sparkling personality
His former music teacher Céline Bognini who interacted with him for several years recalls him as very energetic and enthusiastic as well as highly inquisitive. He wasn’t particularly good at reading notes and singing, but she’s kept a photo of 9-year-old Kylian, from before he started playing the flute. She only has good memories of him, she says and calls his personality sparkling. Now contrast that with what is being said about young Kylian in the above video.
The pivot point is always that people with NPD see themselves as deeply flawed, while all they actually are is human.
Nobody’s perfect. Or, we all are.
People with NPD want to be super human and want everyone to tell them that they are.
People with NPD see themselves as deeply flawed and want everyone to accept them the way they are.
See the Catch-22?
The crux is that you can’t get people with NPD to accept themselves the way they are and as soon as you show them to the world the way they are, they tend to feel deeply betrayed. They can’t accept that they’re actually perfectly fine (and that everything else follows from that).
How can they get to that point of self-acceptance? By changing the neurological pathways in their brain a little. Very gently, little by little.
So you’re flawed. So what? Being flawed is fine. It stops the world from becoming unbearably boring.
The second Catch-22 is that you somehow need to get it through to their subconscious. You can’t be (too) open about it.
I keep thinking about neurofeedback within this context.
Alternatively, maybe it is somehow possible to convey to them that they should see themselves as newborns. Nothing intrinsically good or bad about them, and in possession of plenty of potential, also for growth and for positive change.
