Encourage People To Be Truthful?

If cognitive dissonance led to dementia or Alzheimer's disease, people would probably stop lying.

Cognitive dissonance hinders logical thought. Could lead to dementia and other mental illnesses?

Cruel thing to say, but in some ways, I wish it did. Does the punishment fit the crime? Varying degrees of mental illness.

They did a study and found out that "Where Gun Stores Open, Gun Homicides Increase". Naturally.

Scientific American article - Where Gun Stores Open, Gun Homicides Increase

In factories, standing below any heavy load that is being moved or supported by cranes and such is prohibited. Minimize any danger as much as possible to reduce accidents, injury, and deaths. 

Shouldn't streets be safer than factories?

South Korea allows guns, but you have to be licensed, keep the gun at a police station for storage, and only allowed to check it out for a limited time for hunting or other declared purposes. Definitely contributes to a less violent society, in my opinion. Much still needs to be done with regards to violence and hate in the media, speech, books...

Of course, the military has guns and sometimes there are incidents involving soldiers killing soldiers or civilians. Incidents involving crossbows, bows and arrows, knives, bats...

Logical?

What happens when chimps are given loaded guns and shown movies of chimps shooting chimps?

What about humans? Less likely but...

What if gun and murder scenes in movies were illegal?

À la Facebook, movies with violence and rage make profits. 

I think religions also do it when they incite hate against sinners, abortions, and so on.

Advanced civilizations probably are not attracted to violent movies or making profit.

Meta space/time? All other dimensions or fields that coexist with the physical space/time/energy/mass that we recognize.

Is consciousness life? Is life a field and/or dimension? 

Seems to be driven by organized "signals" to certain molecules? Interesting. Signals from where? 

Or is life a bunch of infinitely evolving positive feedback systems that arose/arise by chance?

Have a headache? Some people can think, some people get headaches? Wonder why?

Maybe knowledge is power and is not readily accessible by people who would abuse it.

Who made that decision and made the world that way? That is a human-centered question. There is no who and something made? Maybe like dimensions, forces, or fields?

Knowledge vs Consciousness? Is knowledge a dimension, force, or field?

Is Consciousness a Force? Dimension?

 A force like gravity, energy? Or something else?

Animal consciousness can move physical objects, solve problems?

Is it a dimension? Like space-time, energy-mass? Energy is related to Mass which is related to Space/Time which is related to Consciousness? 

Self-consciousness? Conscience? 

Maybe another 'force' or 'dimension' is needed? Something which we probably are not able to conceptualize fully but related to Good, Better? A force in the process of moving evolution and knowledge towards better? Got a better idea?

Big Bang is now Big Expansion

If there was a big bang, there would be a hollow center somewhere in the universe as all matter would have been pushed out, according to newer explanations of the universe.

Renown physicists now say that there was almost instantaneous "expansion" of space when time started (this time around?) and then the rate of expansion was reduced to what it is now. Could the expanding space have always existed?

The other unknown?

Consciousness? Response to internal/external information?

Self-consciousness? Social consciousness? Materialistic consciousness? Subconscious actions?

Needs much more study.

South Korea -

Ruling progressive party presidential candidate Lee said that the problem of too many restaurants and too many failing restaurants should be addressed. Lee added that maybe it was time to discuss having a limit on the total number of restaurants. 

80% of restaurants close within 5 years. There is also a lot of unfair and illegal treatment of franchisees by restaurant franchise chains (many owned by business conglomerates). They also pay exorbitant rents.

Most the news media and guest commentators stated that Lee wanted to restrict the freedom of the people had advocated for a new law to limit the number of restaurants. 

Most reported Lee's statements with false assumptions and negative insinuations. 

Despite all the negative media, Lee is still neck and neck with the conservative party's candidates who claim that Lee is a criminal and should be in jail.

There must be a lot of Koreans who still don't believe the version of news that conservative media outlets are presenting.

The conservative party is focusing on personal attacks to Lee's integrity and intelligence. I think the conservative party knows they will lose on debates regarding policies and plans for the country. Also, it's the "call the other guy a crook to deflect attention from one's own corruption" ploy used so much in the past by the conservative party and also Trump.

Hell Froze!

TV Chosun is one of the most conservatively lopsided news broadcast channels in Korea.

They usually say things like "the liberal party claims..." and "the conservative party pointed out...". And insinuate the liberal party as having done something wrong or illegal on false rumors.

Well, this morning, it started being objective in its reporting and commentary. Had a former liberal party member as a guest commentator, and a frequent conservative commentator, who usually expresses anger at anything related to the liberal party, was reserved.

Somewhat like Fox becoming like CNN overnight. LOL!!!

Hope the change is permanent. 

(couple hours later) Nope. Still conservatively lopsided. Guest commentator states the current Moon administration is restricting freedom and increasing regulation needlessly, and everyone nods their heads.

Other frequent conservative guest commentator criticizing the progressive ruling party's presidential candidate and stating many people think that he is a criminal. 

All other guest commentators are also cognitively dissonant conservatives. 

But they are good at twisting words to avoid legal problems!

Explanation of light not experiencing space or time, and other things.

Against Phase Out of Nuclear Energy?

Conservatives and most media in Korea are against the phase out of nuclear energy in Korea. They state that it will result in higher energy costs, make it harder to become carbon neutral, and that advanced countries are pursuing nuclear energy.

And they are getting a significant portion of the population to agree with them. A lot of cognitively dissonant people.

You can drive across Korea in 4-5 hours. If there is a nuclear accident, then 10-20% of Korea might become uninhabitable.

Also, when a nuclear plant or waste disposal site is proposed, EVERYONE is vehemently 'not in my neighborhood'. 

Facebook, Youtube, Other Platforms Negatively Affecting Not Only USA

There are many accounts and Youtube channels in Korean that spread false narratives and attack people, mostly conservatives mimicking Trump, in Korea. 

That should be illegal. Freedom of speech should not apply to lies that attack and harm people. That is as bad as a physical assault, in my opinion.

Problems in India as per BBC News report - India: Facebook struggles in its battle against fake news

There are scammers on Craiglist - Seoul, who place posts purporting to sell pot, meth, cocaine and other drugs. I flagged them daily for over three years and wrote to Craiglist but they don't do anything to stop it. 

The cops are watching the posts, but no drugs are being sent. Only gullible people being scammed by people overseas.

I still flag the posts. Nowadays, the scammers stop for a month or so and start up again.

I can't find posts by scammers on Craiglist in the USA or other countries. Why? Craiglist polices those countries, or there are more people like me flagging such posts.

In Craiglist-Seoul, you can find posts by "sugar daddies", perverts, and other dangerous people in the "Jobs" section. I flag them also. These are easier to stop than drug scammers. The drug scammers are very persistent. 

On a bright note, 70% of Koreans have received two injections of coronavirus vaccines as of 23 October. We still wear masks and stuff. Some do not obey the rules.

Starting November, the government will ease restrictions. Forecast is for an 80% vaccination rate by December, if I remember correctly. The daily average of new coronavirus infections is around 1,300, down from over 2,000 a couple weeks ago, if I remember correctly. 

Why do people refuse to be vaccinated? Brainwashed with lies, in many cases.

Bad things don't upset me like they used to. Slightly annoyed, nowadays. They don't affect my enjoyment of life as in the past. That's a good thing. Optimistically, probably only have a decade or two to live.