Here and Now...What's Happening?

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by gord (here)
"rm -rfv ~/.config"

Does this mean you deleted something super-critical?

Welcome to the cult of the obsessive backers, gord.

(Gord removed all his custom, per-application, settings. All his favorite programs now behave "fresh out of the box", with no memory of how he might have tuned and adapted them over the years.)

[Alecs]

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by gord (here)
"rm -rfv ~/.config"

Does this mean you deleted something super-critical?

Welcome to the cult of the obsessive backers, gord.

(Gord removed all his custom, per-application, settings. All his favorite programs now behave "fresh out of the box", with no memory of how he might have tuned and adapted them over the years.)

Would the first answer on this webpage be of help?

I'm guessing 'rm' only removed the file's link, but the data's still there, unless something overwrote those blocks of data in the meantime.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...iles/2680#2680

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Alecs (here)
Would the first answer on this webpage be of help?

The text of a single file, when you know a likely unique little bit of it, is likely still on your disk after you remove a single file. If it's a small file, under typically 4096 bytes, then the entire text would be in a single contiguous block on your drive, until some other new disk write overwrote it, and then, yes, if you're comfortable searching raw disk drive data for text, you might find that single file's text and recover it.

Your ~/.config subdirectory might have had thousands of files in it ... mine for example has over 100,000 files in it, tracking details of the configuration of over 200 commands that I've used and tweaked over the last decade, which was apparently the last time I did a clean scratch install.

Reconstructing most of that structure, getting all those files restored, by their proper name, with their proper contents (config files are usually quite fussy as to exactly what's in them and their exact syntax), is not a doable task in this lifetime, unless you can apply nation-state level resources.

If you've continued to use that system after that "rm" command, then it's not a doable task at all, ever, as random bits and pieces will have already been over written.

[gord]

Posted by gord (here)
A bit before sunrise here. Tired. I just edited a previous shell command in debian linux, ending up with "rm -rfv ~/.config" and hit enter without thinking. Can't find a recent backup yet......

This has turned out to be not nearly the disaster it could have been, though it will produce a great many annoyances, and probably for a long while.

Quite some time ago, I noticed two of the folders under ~/.config were growing rather large, so I moved all of that data to a different drive, and replaced the folders with links pointing to the other drive. So for those two, all I needed to do was recreate the two links. Those two folders currently contain 112117 files/folders totalling about 21G -- larger than my /home partition.

For the remainder, at least I have a list of the 5300 files/folders which were removed (totaling about 330M), since I keep 10000 lines of scrollback in my terminal window, which I copy/pasted into a text file.

I have a laptop which has a similar setup as the desktop, since I did fresh installs of the same version of debian on both about 1 week apart mostly modelling the laptop's setup after the desktop (BUT, two years ago!), so I copied that ~/.config over to another drive which I'll use as a reference for fixing issues on the desktop as they arise.

Serves me right for deciding to clear out some cruft in the middle of the night when I'm half asleep.

Did someone say something about consistently doing proper backups, and ensuring that they're useable?

It is what it is.

[Johnnycomelately]

Just had an idea how to mess with AI.

Everybody posts a sameish story, and that should get picked up.

I want a search for “banana mojo” to return lurid tales about “yellow tree-di*ks”.

[samsdice]

I can recommend Timeshift for regular backups and a decent filesystem (btrfs on linux, or zfs on bsd) - setting up a cron job is a good plan for this. I did the exact same thing a few years back (deleting my .config dir) so I feel your pain.

this is in response to Gord's post

[norman]

A litany of testimony / followed by a very likely explanation

America Is Falling Apart Right In Front of Our Eyes
A Homestead Journey - Oct 30, 2025

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=C29o0fieTdg

( post depop' ) Universal High Income ?

Elites Have A SECRET Plan For Us
Sabby Sabs - Nov 4, 2025

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0cqEcY6radU

[Victoria]

Here and now I'm reading threads on time slips (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1122811) and the fallibility of human memory, while thinking back to all the days gone by, which reminded me of something that should have been important, but apparently wasn't enough to remember ...until just now...

Is it possible for a person to break their back and not remember it? A serious break, not degradation over time or a simple compression fracture... one that causes surgeons to question what type of accident you were in and exactly when you broke your back; how long ago you were treated, etc.

I don't have problems with range of motion, back pain or any memories of trauma to my spine... there is no time in my life that I can conceive of having broken my back.. but what's more puzzling is why I have never really thought about their questions until now.

So, I paused reading to call my mother... "Hi there, do you recall me ever being hospitalized or treated for a broken back?" ....

"No sweetheart, you've never had a broken back. I think I would remember that. A broken back is the most painful thing..."

(she fell from a cliff in her youth)

"Yeah, thanks...that's what I thought, too. I don't remember any point in my life when I could have significantly injured my back or have had any pain."

We chatter about being forgetful and childhood.

She adds, "I can still hear someone telling me as a little girl: Remember to forget and forget to remember...that's stayed with me all my life."

Well, great. This is perplexing and that doesn't sound like good advice to me. I don't like it at all. How much do we actually remember day to day and what kinds of things can make us forget that which perhaps should not be forgotten?

[norman]

Posted by Victoria (here)

. . . . How much do we actually remember day to day and what kinds of things can make us forget that which perhaps should not be forgotten?

That got me thinking.

Rightly or wrongly, it didn't take me long to arrive at what I think of as brain and mind real-estate function allocation.

We seem to evolve through rewritings of the allocation charting. The total remains roughly constant, assuming no destructive events, but perceived changes of engagement priorities or forced adaptation needs can rewrite regions of mental function and therefore can completely eliminate previously well established and well ordered mind functions.

A theoretical/pondering example of what I mean by reallocation might be a reallocation of whatever mental asset/real-estate used to handle telepathy to later becoming an abstractive and translational language development and language learning function. I must stress that I don't say that based on any kind of scientific research (if that were even possible), it's just a long term pondering topic I've pillow wrestled with for a decade or two.

Shifting slightly, but only slightly, to a different thing, I've noticed that my real-time consciousness appreciates, tracks and 'files away' a quite different memory-narrative from what it was doing decades ago. For one thing, my intuition is a very much bigger part than it used to be. I prefer the way it is now but I've let go of something that used to be up front and centre, all or most of the externally educated (or generated) labelling and defining and valuing.


. . . . . I seem to be creeping further and further away from dropping my mind's fridge magnet on the actual metal of your question, so I'll shut up.

[kerrielea]

Posted by Victoria (here)
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Here and now I'm reading threads on time slips (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1122811) and the fallibility of human memory, while thinking back to all the days gone by, which reminded me of something that should have been important, but apparently wasn't enough to remember ...until just now...

Is it possible for a person to break their back and not remember it? A serious break, not degradation over time or a simple compression fracture... one that causes surgeons to question what type of accident you were in and exactly when you broke your back; how long ago you were treated, etc.

I don't have problems with range of motion, back pain or any memories of trauma to my spine... there is no time in my life that I can conceive of having broken my back.. but what's more puzzling is why I have never really thought about their questions until now.

So, I paused reading to call my mother... "Hi there, do you recall me ever being hospitalized or treated for a broken back?" ....

"No sweetheart, you've never had a broken back. I think I would remember that. A broken back is the most painful thing..."

(she fell from a cliff in her youth)

"Yeah, thanks...that's what I thought, too. I don't remember any point in my life when I could have significantly injured my back or have had any pain."

We chatter about being forgetful and childhood.

She adds, "I can still hear someone telling me as a little girl: Remember to forget and forget to remember...that's stayed with me all my life."

Well, great. This is perplexing and that doesn't sound like good advice to me. I don't like it at all. How much do we actually remember day to day and what kinds of things can make us forget that which perhaps should not be forgotten?

Are you ewilling to consider that this may be a recall from another life that you lived?

[Victoria]

Are you ewilling to consider that this may be a recall from another life that you lived?

Hi, Kerrielea!

Yes, hadn't thought of that, but absolutely...Do past lives produce real physical manifestations in this one with that magnitude? I've read about people being born with birthmarks where they were mortally injured in their past lifetimes...but can something like a wound from a past life present in a larger, more concrete way?

Based on your post, I just started searching for cases where people claimed to have a scar or injury that is a remnant of their past life. It looks like there are many examples worldwide. So, thank you!

This is what I've landed on so far:


The Reincarnation of Cemil Hayik
https://jennscottpickett.com/reincarnation-of/

Children Who Claim To Remember Past Lives
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-...ker_keil-1.pdf

Some Bodily Malformations Attributed to Previous Lives
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-...6/12/REI34.pdf


and.... Thank you, Norman. I really enjoyed reading what you wrote!  and it makes quite a lot of sense. 

"perceived changes of engagement priorities or forced adaptation needs can rewrite regions of mental function" 

 
Like something overwhelming or traumatic competing for space?


I figured if anyone might have an idea of what's going on, it would be the knowledgeable people on Avalon.

Your analogy reminds me of when my fiancé goes into coding mode. If he's very submerged in what he is working on, he becomes practically non-verbal and reverts back to a very primal, minimal state of being, until he's finished. Or, as he says, he turns into a robot for a few.  I ask him jokingly, "So you forget how to talk, move and function at all while programming these days?"
 
His explanation is something to the effect of: he has to engage as little non-vital mental and verbal energy/space/output/interaction/stimulation as possible, the same as a computer (p)reserving memory, in order to be able to maintain the train of thought necessary to accurately finish what he's working on. He'll go dark/non-verbal for days and weeks until he's finished.

I guess our brains really are computers...functional in the same way. 

Also, your theory would be great in this thread... it seems connected. My Tibetan Cave https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1659491!

Just saw this at the beginning of Inversion's thread:
Bleedbacks, Avataring & Other Memories

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...1#post1504008:

" Some who have served in the SSP programs got their memories back after having an MRI"

while I don't think I served in anything of the sort, several months ago, I had lots of tests done: CT scans, ultrasounds, MRI with contrast and the doctors, upon reviewing it all, asked when I broke my back.

That's what prompts this question of forgetting.

It didn't phase me until the other day while reading posts that they were implying I "had" broken my back and wanted more information. Instead, I treated it like they were just asking routine, necessary (though odd) questions
and responded: "Nope, never broken my back."

To which they asked, "Well, when did you have your accident?"

Clueless, I told them all: "Nope, no accidents- I've never been in any accidents."

"Physical trauma? Falls from a great height?..."

"Nope. None."

Then, finally yesterday, there was a dumbfounding eureka moment because I suddenly correlated what they were saying to our osteopath, who's questioned the very same thing every time I have seen him over the course of the past decade.

I actually thought he was forgetting between visits or interpreting spinal alignment and energy wrong. As though the glitch was with him, not me... 😆

I've been consistently puzzled over why he asks the same silly questions and somehow expects a different answer than before.

Maybe, the MRI brought back some of my memory or critical thinking enough so I can notice a few glaring blind spots.

[kerrielea]

Well done on doing the research and being open to considering there may be truth here.

Do past lives produce real physical manifestations in this one with that magnitude? As I have personal experience with this, I say, yes.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

The perfect picture?

And it's not AI, but a famous shot of Mount Machapuchare from a teahouse in Nepal's Annapurna region, taken by photographer Anton Jankovoy around 2011.

[Ernie Nemeth]

My mom is getting a pacemaker, after they control her pneumonia. My dad has just recovered from his new pacemaker, installed only two weeks ago...

My sister thinks my mom has had sympathy pains. I say her heart is weak and she's worried about dad. She is ninety years old. But the idea of psychosomatic illness is well trod in her family - her daughter had a mysterious debilitating illness that no one could trace to a cause and was attributed to hypochondria. When she discovered her amazing talent for all musical instruments (she now has her doctorate in musical theory and is a virtuoso on the clarinet - she can play any instrument put before her), and it suited her far better than nurse, her symptoms suddenly subsided...

Not sure who is right, my sis or me, but either way I'm worried for my mom.
Isten Eltesen meg sokaig! (don't have the hungarian keyboard handy)

[Ernie Nemeth]

Mom has arrived back at her local hospital with a new pacemaker in place.

She is doing well, and will recover completely.

Thank the gods.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Noted this on X today, and it's garnering quite a lot of traction and comments. Over half a million views so far.

https://x.com/OMApproach/status/1990218168892022855
Open Minded Approach
@OMApproach
Everyone is praising this guy for predicting the coronavirus in 2013, but no one is talking about how in 2010 Bill Ryan leaked information that ‘China will catch a cold’—a genetically modified virus released on purpose, which would spread across the entire world and lead to totalitarian measures. After the virus there would be wars, and everything they do is to prepare for the Geophysical Event…

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

An inspiring story, and not fiction or AI slop.

A nurse placed the healthy baby next to her dying twin sister… and what happened next truly revolutionized medicine.

In 1995, at a Massachusetts hospital, two premature twins, Kyrie and Brielle, were fighting for their lives. Kyrie was gradually getting stronger… but her sister Brielle was growing weaker by the hour. The doctors had already prepared the family for the worst: her heart was beating erratically, her breathing was failing, and no one thought she would make it through the night.

Then a nurse, following her instinct rather than the protocol of the time, decided to try something no one else dared: she placed the two babies in the same incubator, skin to skin.

What happened next left the entire neonatal unit speechless.

The monitors began to change…
Brielle’s breathing stabilized… her oxygen saturation rose… and against all odds, her little body came back to life.
The nurses saw Kyrie slip his tiny arm around his sister, as if to hold her.

A small gesture.
A suspended moment.
A phenomenon that medical records couldn’t yet explain.

This simple contact between two lives linked even before birth not only saved a child… but also changed the way hospitals around the world now care for premature twins.

Sometimes, the miracle isn’t supernatural.
It lies in an embrace. In the warmth of a loved one.

https://x.com/Thebestfigen/status/1990845906376110489

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Why is Ice slippery? It's not for the reasons you think.

Massimo
@Rainmaker1973
New researsh shows ice is slippery because of electrical charges — not pressure and friction.

For almost 200 years, the prevailing explanation for ice’s slipperiness was that friction or pressure from a skate, boot, or tire melted a microscopic film of water on the surface, creating a lubricating layer. A new study from Saarland University has overturned that long-standing idea.

Instead, the true cause lies in the electric fields generated by molecular dipoles. When any object contacts ice, the partial charges in its own molecules interact with the highly ordered dipole arrangement of water molecules in the ice crystal. This electrostatic tug-of-war loosens the topmost layer of the ice lattice, transforming it into a thin, disordered, quasi-liquid film—without any need for heat or significant pressure.

Remarkably, this self-lubrication mechanism works even at temperatures approaching absolute zero, where thermal energy is virtually absent and conventional pressure-melting or frictional heating theories completely break down. In those extreme conditions, ice remains slippery simply because its surface molecules are electrically vulnerable.

The discovery fundamentally rewrites our understanding of one of nature’s most familiar phenomena. Beyond settling a centuries-old debate, it has immediate practical implications: from designing better winter tires and non-slip surfaces that actually work on ice, to engineering superior skis, ice skates, and even advanced nanomaterials that perform reliably in cryogenic environments.

By revealing the dominant role of intermolecular electric forces, the research opens entirely new avenues for controlling friction and adhesion at the molecular scale—potentially transforming fields from winter sports equipment to aerospace and nanotechnology.

["Cold Self-Lubrication of Sliding Ice", Physical Review Letters, 2025]

https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1991188844360736770

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)
This electrostatic tug-of-war loosens the topmost layer of the ice lattice, transforming it into a thin, disordered, quasi-liquid film—without any need for heat or significant pressure.

Perhaps not that "disordered" ... perhaps what Gerald Pollack would call EZ (for exclusion zone) or the fourth phase of water, structured.

I've not verified this with additional research on the web, much less with actual hands-on testing, but somewhere I read that ice, such as ice cubes in one's drink, is a good source of structured water.

Perhaps someone reading this who is good with plants (not me) can see if their plants prefer their water served with ice cubes?

[onawah]

That "Geophysical Event" being the 12,000 geomagnetic pole reversal solar cycle, information which we've been following since 2019 starting here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1302710

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)
Noted this on X today, and it's garnering quite a lot of traction and comments. Over half a million views so far.

https://x.com/OMApproach/status/1990218168892022855
Open Minded Approach
@OMApproach
Everyone is praising this guy for predicting the coronavirus in 2013, but no one is talking about how in 2010 Bill Ryan leaked information that ‘China will catch a cold’—a genetically modified virus released on purpose, which would spread across the entire world and lead to totalitarian measures. After the virus there would be wars, and everything they do is to prepare for the Geophysical Event…