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Almost all possible mind states are chaotic and completely meaningless (what we'll experience when we die - unless action is taken while we're alive).
Most non-chaotic awareness states are also useless, even if they're accurate.
Awareness is the brain's truth, the subjective essence of everything, through the rejection of almost everything.
A mind is an Omniverse divider, a universal reality sampler, defining the most precise location in reality.
Everyone senses this in full - and really nothing else.

It's the more normal version of multiple personalities.
When people finish a major project (or even just finish tidying up), they feel as if they've organized the whole universe - or at least as much of the universe as can be organized.
For a while it's even true, as their mind was completely filled with the task at hand.

Identity is always changing, but most people have only a few dozen identities (the types should be recorded for everyone).
If someone gets shocking news, the aftermath changes their brain as if it was on drugs, at first reducing the impact.
Then a new identity may be created.

This is clearest when remembering the lost past.
Nostalgia can feel as bleak as death, because that's exactly what it is.

It would be a two-stage ultra-heavy rocket that would launch from Cape Canaveral, or a new spaceport in southernmost Texas (they would have an excellent view of each launch just south of the (now perhaps unlikely) Mexican border wall).
This rocket would be three times as heavy as the Saturn 5 from half a century ago. The engines would be less powerful but more efficient than the mighty F1 first tested in the late 1950s.

The first stage would turn around after separating from its payload, and make a vertical landing back at the launch site.
The second stage (three times as heavy as a space shuttle) would enter orbit to perform its mission, before re-entering and also landing back at the launch site.
It would have to do this five times to deliver enough fuel to perform the main mission. For this post, I'm assuming the fuel will be delivered to an orbiting depot, an array of giant tanks.
Five space shuttle flights would cost over ten billion dollars. Enough shuttle flights to perform the fueling would cost over a hundred billion.

Then a different version of the second stage would be launched, dock with the fuel depot, fill up its tanks, and fly straight on to Mars. There it would slow down by airbraking before re-entering the atmosphere and landing vertically.
Elon Musk hopes this version of the second stage (empty weight of a 747) will be able to carry 100 colonists to Mars.
It would then refuel using the local atmosphere and fly back to Earth empty, to repeat the mission. This massive launcher would also open up many other possibilities.

If SpaceX manages even a single unmanned test mission to the surface of Mars it would be the greatest human achievement of all time, even if they make no effort to refuel and fly the stage back.

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As tens of millions of surplus males from polygamous lands stream into the West, Pope Francis of the Cuckholic Chirch is acting like some diabolic parent figure, admonishing Westerners to make them at home.
This labor is not our gift but their right, the Biblical duty of slaves. Passive resistance is sinful.
Meanwhile, Evangelicals continue to adopt mostly male surplus babies from the poorest lands, further skewing the sex ratio.

In the past, the reproductive age surplus of men over women was kept in check through violence and war. Now there's less violence, and it's more gender-indiscriminate.
The ever rising male surplus is causing strange effects, as millions of loners are pushed from the dating pool.
This might be good, if it causes them to subsume their sex drive into inventing new technology.
For demonic reasons, the mainstream media ban all discussion. It's taboo to talk about this eco-tastrophe. Just kidding, their reasons are worse than demonic.

The world is evil, but it could become almost tolerable. Large parts of the change would be easy, and every part could seem easy.
So why not? Read the first sentence of this paragraph again.

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When Trump loses in 3 weeks and 5 days, this is what we have to do:
Become more radical. Extremely radical.
Especially if your life is already kind of shit anyway because of the ways of the world.
If a million people become politically radical enough, they can't all be prosecuted.
Diplomacy is not showing people how much you disagree with them. It is the highest form of lying, necessary in a fundamentally defective Horrorverse . . . but only up to a point.

WARNING: Windows 10 will randomly delete files without your knowledge or permission due to a defect.

In my opinion, computers are barely improving in the responsiveness of the user interface. I have been suffering under the tyranny of inadequate microchips sold by deceiving merchants since the early eighties.
They just won't work. The simple things they are supposed to do, they won't do.
Windows 10 is no better. The whole operating system is incredibly slow on my new Acer desktop PC, worse than anything this century. It may run programs better, but is slower than XP.
Software makers choose to be evil, but this goes beyond that.

Here's how Windows 10 secretly deletes or loses your files:
In the old days, you could just indicate a file by clicking on it, and it turned blue. Then you could move or activate it.
Now there is a sometimes-hidden checkbox in front of each file that you click on to indicate the file.
Microsoft has set things up so the folder checkboxes are incredibly "laggy". It takes a second or two to activate a checkmark in front of a file or folder, and even longer to deactivate it.
Nothing has ever been more dangerous in the world of software (with the possible exception of the USAF making their nuclear codes all zeroes).

Sometimes this system freezes. Clicking a checkmark a second time will not deactivate it, but you won't notice.
If you try to activate the checkbox in front of a file or folder, Windows 10's defective software may still have active checkboxes in front of other files or folders, beyond the visible part of the screen.
What this means is that when you are deleting a file, Windows 10 will also delete other files and folders you never intended to mark.

After a while you may notice some of your important files and folders are missing.
If it's not too late, you can scour your recycle bin to find them. Of course that only works if you haven't emptied it yet.
IMPORTANT USER WARNING:
If you use Windows 10, you should NEVER delete a file. Instead move it to a big inactive folder. I challenge anyone from Microsoft to comment here.

That's when things get easy.
Freedom is having nothing left to lose.
The essence of pain is the perception of HAVING to do something. Fully realized, there is no worse feeling.
That's why I think relief is the best possible human feeling, and why I hate bureaucracy more than anything except outright torture.
When you're feeling down, when you're in the dumps, overwhelmed by a tsunami of troubles created by others . . . rejoice in the fact that you have an abundance of worthy enemies.
Nothing else matters.

There was an alien around the corner.
Moving his head, the man studied the light from the room's doorway. It illuminated the hallway floor, the uneven rectangle of electric light continuing to rise up the opposite wall.
Was that a shadow of furniture?
The security door at the end of the hallway was wide open, seemingly undisturbed woods beyond. He felt a draft and ignored the trembling of his phone.

Six minutes ago he had been sitting in the public library's reading room, when Jake the homeless man had tugged on his shoulder. There was a look on his face that had never been there before, immediately undeniable urgency.
Bending down, Jake had whispered his unthinkable message for reasons quite unrelated to the reading room's code of silence.
Getting up, every TV and computer screen in the library now displaying an unrecognized symbol, distant shouting, the thumping of a helicopter. That had been only minutes ago, but seemed like a different age.

In his memory, he tried analyzing Jake's face for clues as history ended directly ahead. The second hand on the wall clock continued its countdown.
Finally, he noticed another shadow on the floor over the shadow of the conference room table, a moving shadow containing more information than every book in this building.
With a falling sensation, he found he couldn't turn the corner.
It would take ten billion years to turn that corner, trillions of days of evolution in a single second, a short circuit across time to reach the result of a calculation like a god.

To transcend death, it's necessary to reject the limits of life.
That means quality of existence is far more important than quantity. However, the second can be used to amplify the first.
What that means is that after The Singularity, there will be an anthropic reason to run many identical (or similar) copies of the best and most meaningful posthuman experience simulations in parallel.
In fact entire converted star systems may be dedicated to this purpose.
And it all begins right now, or at least in the near future when we can convince some more people this stuff is important. We expect early adopter benefits will be HUGE.

https://backupyourmind.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/mind-backup-and-the-dream-of-mental-immortality-going-against-nature/