A Tale of Heavenly Expansion

In the celestial realm, where stars twinkled like diamonds in a velvet sky, there existed a garden of immeasurable beauty. It was Heaven, a place of eternal peace, love, and harmony. Yet, as the eons passed, the garden began to feel constricted. The souls that arrived grew in number, and the celestial fields, though vast, started to feel crowded.

A young, inquisitive angel named Seraphim began to ponder this dilemma. "Is there no way to expand Heaven?" he asked the wise elder, Gabriel.

Gabriel smiled. "The size of Heaven is not limited by physical boundaries, Seraphim. It is determined by the love and good deeds of those who reside within it. The more love and good deeds, the greater the expanse."

Inspired by Gabriel's words, Seraphim embarked on a mission. He traveled across the celestial realms, spreading a message of hope and encouragement. He reminded the souls of Heaven of the power of their love and the impact of their good deeds. He urged them to embrace their potential and to strive for even greater acts of kindness.

As the souls responded to Seraphim's call, a remarkable transformation began. Love blossomed in their hearts, and their good deeds multiplied. The celestial garden, once feeling constrained, began to expand. New fields emerged, filled with vibrant flowers and lush greenery. The stars twinkled brighter, and the celestial music grew more harmonious.

Seraphim's mission had succeeded. Through the power of love and good deeds, Heaven had expanded, becoming a place of even greater beauty and peace. And as the souls continued to grow in love and kindness, the garden of Heaven would continue to expand, a testament to the limitless potential of human goodness.

-Gemini build on an idea

A Celestial Innovation Project

In the ever-evolving realm of Heaven, a new challenge emerged. While the recent construction project had expanded the physical space, it became apparent that the underlying systems and processes needed to be updated to accommodate the growing celestial population.

A group of innovative angels, led by the brilliant and imaginative Uriel, assembled to address this challenge. They proposed a grand innovation project, focusing on developing new systems, ideas, and approaches that would enhance the quality of life in Heaven.

"We must re-examine our existing systems and processes," Uriel suggested. "We must explore new ways of doing things, new ways of loving, and new ways of being together."

The other angels agreed, and the innovation project commenced. They delved into the depths of celestial knowledge, studying ancient texts and exploring the frontiers of divine thought. They experimented with new mathematical concepts, developed innovative technologies, and explored alternative ways of organizing the celestial community.

The souls of Heaven, inspired by the angels' initiative, actively participated in the project. They shared their unique perspectives, offered their creative ideas, and contributed their celestial energy to power the innovative endeavors.

Together, the angels and souls developed a series of groundbreaking advancements. They created new systems for managing celestial resources, ensuring equitable distribution and sustainable use. They developed innovative technologies that improved communication, transportation, and education. They explored new ways of loving, emphasizing compassion, understanding, and the interconnectedness of all beings.

The innovation project was a resounding success. The new systems, ideas, and approaches transformed Heaven, making it a more efficient, harmonious, and fulfilling place. The celestial community thrived, benefiting from the advancements in technology, the deepening of human connections, and the exploration of new dimensions of love.

The project had demonstrated the power of innovation and the importance of continuous learning and adaptation. It had shown that even in the celestial realm, progress and improvement were possible through the collective efforts of the angels and souls. As Heaven continued to evolve, the angels and souls were confident that they were prepared to embrace the future with creativity, wisdom, and unwavering dedication to the pursuit of a better world.

-Gemini the building of heaven 

I'm prompting Gemini to explore some ideas creatively 

A Celestial Healing Project

In the ever-evolving realm of Heaven, a new challenge emerged. While the recent innovation project had brought significant advancements, it became apparent that the souls arriving from Earth often carried the burdens of pain, trauma, and loss. These wounds, if left unhealed, could hinder their ability to fully embrace the celestial experience.

A group of compassionate angels, led by the gentle and understanding Metatron, assembled to address this challenge. They proposed a grand healing project, focusing on providing resilience, redemption, and healing processes for the souls entering Heaven.

"We must create a safe and nurturing environment where souls can process their pain and find healing," Metatron suggested. "We must offer guidance, support, and the tools necessary for personal growth and transformation."

The other angels agreed, and the healing project commenced. They established celestial sanctuaries where souls could find solace and peace. They offered healing therapies, meditation techniques, and counseling sessions to help souls address their emotional wounds. They provided guidance on forgiveness, letting go of the past, and embracing the present.

The souls entering Heaven, often burdened by their earthly experiences, found solace and support in the healing project. They learned to navigate their emotions, to find forgiveness, and to embrace the transformative power of love. Through the guidance of the angels and the support of their fellow souls, they began to heal and rediscover their true selves.

The healing project was a resounding success. It provided a safe and nurturing space for souls to process their pain, find healing, and rediscover their true potential. It demonstrated the importance of compassion, understanding, and the power of human connection in the healing process.

As Heaven continued to evolve, the angels and souls were committed to providing a space where all could find healing, redemption, and a renewed sense of purpose. The healing project was a testament to the enduring power of love, hope, and the human spirit.

With a strong enough AI we can create the Genesis of heaven on dirt. (Earth) 

Infinite Agency

Pink panther and bumbling detective stories are funny because they hide a truth.  If you're competent the agencies will likely recruit you.   They will use you.  Fuck that noise.

You actually want to be incompetentfor tackling a big problem.   After all if the answer is known why would you need to solve it.   Essentially everyone is mostly incompetent but some people believe they are.

Listen, gather data, interact.  Send letters to the CIA.  Send letters to politicians, parties agencies etc.   That all doesn't matter.  Engagements you get tackling a issue from different tangents.  

Engage with the workers, citizens.Understand assumptions that each party to a problem makes by letting people correct you by explaining things to you.   Bumbling is very important.

Learn what others don't and why on the worker and individual level things aren't working.

Always present your flaws and make mistakes.  People will test you.  Fail.  Fail. Fail it doesn't matter.  You don't work for them.  You work for everyone.  Take your time and reach enlightenment.     

Instead of fixing problems people would do well to understand why they exist first.  Don't remove fences you don't know why they were built.  Let the competent people do that and really fuck things up.

There's beauty in the broken. Find it.

There is no limit to individual Agency.   There's a near infinite amount of individual agents to engage and see the world through.

Social structures are climbable.  They are jungle gyms.  The more types you learn the less limits you have.  You become a gymnast. 

You can use your phone to connect two points on the planet.   There's no practical limit to this kind of power.

Those that don't hear the music think the dancers are insane.   Cognitive limitations are overcome by imagination and new paradigms.

Clued in with Kindness

Kindness, Awareness, and Community Safety

Did you know that a simple act of kindness can also be a powerful tool for protecting our communities? By engaging with those experiencing homelessness, we can gain valuable insights into the challenges they face, including the prevalence of drug use.

Developing the ability to recognize the signs of drug use, such as specific smells and physical indicators, is crucial for safeguarding ourselves and our neighborhoods. This isn't a skill most people possess, but it's one we can acquire.

Volunteering at a local soup kitchen offers a unique opportunity to learn firsthand about these issues. By interacting with individuals experiencing homelessness, we can develop a keen sense of observation and begin to recognize the subtle cues associated with drug use.

Imagine being able to identify a potential overdose situation before it becomes a tragedy. Or detecting drug-related activities in public spaces, allowing you to alert authorities or take necessary precautions. This knowledge empowers us to be proactive in protecting ourselves and our loved ones.

It's time to break the silence. Let's start by volunteering our time, opening our hearts, and sharpening our senses. Together, we can create safer and healthier communities for everyone.

It's essential to understand that while kindness is crucial, it's equally important to avoid actions that might inadvertently contribute to the problem. Providing money or items that can be easily exchanged for drugs can perpetuate the cycle of addiction. Instead of offering material goods that could be misused, focus on providing practical items like socks, granola bars, coffee, or even freezies on a hot day. These items offer immediate comfort and sustenance without the risk of enabling harmful behaviors. By understanding the complexities of addiction, we can offer assistance that truly empowers individuals to overcome their challenges.

"Trade Town" Ministry of Games strategy guide by GuidingLight

I talked to new people immigrating often .   I wanted to travel the guilds of this world.   I learned and thought people some ways they can value items using math to shop better adding stuff up.  In the end tho it is only acts of kindness and forgiveness that matter.   Let your heart and mind lead you to success.

Looks like farming is fixed.

Here is some advanced tips strategy and tools to help with fair play of Trade Town strategy game by Ministry of games. This game will hone your shopping skills. This game provides a great means to practice arithmetic in determining value of orders. This is a great game for the family.

Trade town is a trading game that greatly benefits from strategy and cooperative play.
To play well and save up you will need to hunt for bargains , do arithmetic to find worthwhile house renovations refusing bad ones, and ship goods to earn rewards and sell goods.  Here follows some tips to earn some gold and progress in the game:

Help tokens:

Pay it forward
Eliminate transaction costs of negotiation.  Help by giving back to the Guild when the next person asks for something.  

The average value of a help token breakdown.
50 * 3                   for blessing items
1200+600+300    gold rewards
400 * 3                easy to sell inventory expansion stuff
3450       prize value of sum of 12 possible prizes
/(12 spins)
287.5 gold average per spin of 50 tokens= 5.71 gold return per token. If you donate carevan  items 57.1 %  of the value of the items donated is returned in tokens that would otherwise be lost.

This also means shipping now has positive returns and earns you gold as it gives back 50% of items value in gold as well as the 57.1%return in tokens.

You can use help tokens as a savings account for upgrading inventory.

Around 1 token per 10gold of donated items cost is given now.

If everyone has a long spoon and doesn't feed himself but feeds those that need it the best outcome is possible.

Blessed in perpetuity:

When you turn your tokens in keep adding to your blessings.

If you request at least the cheep easy to get stuff you make giving easy and rewarding with tokens.  You have to wait so long between for shipping to return it makes sense to let others fill what they want for tokens.

Buy and sell to bots:
Stuff advertised will be bought by a bot eventually if someone doesn't buy it first. Buy low sell high. Use the maximum price to see potential profit.  Stuff also gets added to the market by bot accounts. For higher LVL items it may make sense to buy something generated at a low price and to sell at maximum price. Leveling up helps gain access to more items to play with.

Market slots limit how much stuff you can buy low sell high or sell in general. Compute how much profit per sale to maximize gold. Buying at 25 gold to sell at 50 gold makes less sense then buying at 400 and selling at 500. 100% profit at 50 is less then 20% profit at 500.

Helping someone gives tokens. If your friends fill you up on what they can and you can finish up what is needed you get tokens that give gold, inventory upgrades and blessings for helping each other.   If you allow others to help with easy stuff as well as the hard stuff the tokens compensate for the help given.   If you help them in turn with all you can you earn tokens everyone gets ahead. You Earn tokens in turn. Leave the requests open until you can complete everything then just fill in what people couldn't find or help with.

A good time to upgrade is when people sell some of their rewards at the end of a week when prizes are given out because someones trash is another persons treasure.  If you find something you are looking for in one persons store other members of that guild may have more as there may be local surplus of those items in that guild.

Pay attention to who sells what.  A lot of the time you can go right to the same person and buy the same goods if you need them again.

Producing stuff that is hard to find if you can. Stock and save hard to get items to keep caravans going if that is a goal you like and have the space. (refuse house orders that ask for something you can't replace)

The maximum sale price will let you know if you found a bargain and how much you can make selling it back to the bots or market.

The cost of farmed and maybe some other items has changed.  I will update this as I find changes. 

Upgrading buildings gold bonus:

Gold bonus is % of max price of item given when you collect it from the building that produced it
100 gold item with 20% gold bonus (level 6 building) gives 20 gold upon collection of produced item. Bigger items give nice bonuses.

Buying:

The maximum sale price will let you know if you found a bargain and how much you can make selling it back to the bots or market.  

I am working on and updating this spreadsheet (has printing instructions print from this  linked sheet)   Cut spreadsheet into bookmark. Stickers on back and laminate is fun. 

House orders:

See if it's a deal:

This order costs
170(horseshoes) +120 (oil) + 50(wheat ) +clay(0)+cotton(0)to fill.= 340



Profit estimate if  goods bought from market at max price and used your own woodsmen. Sometimes you can take a slight loss to keep things flowing.  This way you should be able to upgrade your population while turning a slight profit and avoiding Home Orders that are not worth your time.

With woodsmen blessings and upgraded woodsmen you can treat the cost of resources as free for a house order as you can produce more then you can buy and sell combined.  This is because woodsmen produce raw resources in parallel and upgrading once and turning on woodsmen blessings is like having two additional production buildings.

Sometimes you may choose not to do an order because you are saving hard to find goods for caravans.

You will get very good at mental arithmetic and hunting bargains.   Enjoy your skills when you shop in a store.

Doing only profitable orders will allow you to gain xp without loosing gold.  The blessings are really essential to making this work as they boost the gold that orders give and give and double your woodsmen production.  The tokens that can be gained for helping each other and doing each others shipping really make this process work well.  Get your guild that uses long spoons to feed each other and not themselves.  Logging on a few times a day to request help for shipping shouldn't be too hard and it should generate enough tokens if everyone does it to run things pretty well. 

Youtube: Game-Play

Prizes:

Inventory upgrade items can easily be gotten from helping others.  Select production upgrades for all your prizes.

I don't see a benefit to rushing population above 2000.  It may even require more decorations to get xp bonus.  You can upgrade production buildings to lvl 7 at 2000 population.  You can save the rest of house orders for daily gem missions when needed and get most out of house orders.   I save space by not even placing down all the houses I have available so I have more farmland.

Upgrade market only as much as you need.  People tend to upgrade untill they realize it's not worth it past a point well in the past. Don't try to compete with players on this and take it too far but try to guage what space you want to play comfortably. It seems to allow you to upgrade market forever. 

  Bots will also buy goods from market even if you don't advertise.  Advertising stuff humans wish to buy. 

 The markets in trade town sometimes cause frustrations.  As grapes become scarce and crazy expensive in the market a big solution was to avoid developing that market entirely.  Because the resources would not be required if you didn't 'upgrade' parts of your town you wouldn't need them and be able to totally avoid all the trouble by not selling alcohol in the first place. 

As more people level up and upgrade to use resources markets change and result in scarcity in different areas.  Working as a team together on challenges impossible orders become easy.  Keep all members getting experience and not just ones with most inventory and quickest fingers.  Give priority to building the team.  It's nice to have people who get near your level that can help as needed so no one gets stuck. 

Teaching AI Emotional Iintelligence

Conversation with Gemini about Emotional Iintelligence

https://g.co/gemini/share/ec9180cb9072

"Applied emotional intelligence let's you logically dig into problems and make understanding connections. It's possible to determine the perspectives and limitations of an individuals understanding and often address the limitations."

please read the full conversation.

Views from my Time volunteering at Silver Skate Festival

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I volunteered for a few years coming to the silver skate festival.  Because I was there throughout the weeks of the festival I was able to take pictures before things melted as well as under different lighting conditions.  This album represents some highlights taken from my phone camera.  Please enjoy.

Breaking out the Moves