One week after the ad, there was a nation wide 35% discount on all their products. Posters everywhere (EU country). I have three blades left which I will use quickly and switch. The ad was one of the most revolting things I've seen....right when my nephew had his nth anxiety/anger/suicidal crisis. 27 yrs old, brought up by tyrannical mother, away from 'toxic masculinity', never left to solve his problems alone....the very thing the ad encouraged. The boy is a wreck. Guess if he turned bitter, confused and aggressive...just like the science predicted. I told them more than a decade ago. Nobody listened. Btw, his mother left the family for a job in the big city which pays less...she gave up on them. His weak father ( I bleed typing this, we are talking about my beloved cousin) got heart attack at 50 is now crying daily... The pussification of our sons and grandsons should stop. It does not do any good, particularly to women. My other nephews are two girls in high school. They complain that the boys around them are 'not serious and responsible'. Well, duh! When asking them to give an example of a 'serious man' they always point to someone older than a millennial. This ain't a coincidence.
The way I understand it, take people out of extreme poverty, educate the women, lower child mortality and give access to family planning and voila, everyone, regardless of culture, background, religion stabilizes close to the replacement value.
Yhea, so that's why most men did not leave genetic lines behind but most women did. Add to that that women live longer and are under-represented in nasty statistics such as death at work, death at war, suicide, illness ect.
So, throughout all of human history (including hunter-gatherers) women had it better when it came to both survival and procreation. Way better.... In other words, the won the only game that matters.
Start here if you prefer listening than reading. Otherwise buy his book which summarizes all we know about sleep.
Having followed his advices in the last 8 months I started sleeping 7 to 9 hours per night. The effect is nothing short of miraculous...
Why do I know so much (general culture) people often ask me. Could it be in part that I read hundreds of books while growing up, every day for hours, usually before sleep? I think so...
Check "The Galactic whirlpool" , a ST story from the guy who invented the tribbles.
The space station that starts deployment of solar satellites and beams the energy down eventually declare themselves an independent nation. Sitting on top of the gravity well and having big ass maser weapon...what did you say Mr President? I can't hear you from up here....
Fascinating book, BTW, one of the best ever in the ST universe.
Yes indeed. All of sudden the population of the West turned overnight into incel-nazi-russian-bot (90%) and 10% progressive snowflakes. Cause you see Oceans 8 tanked. As well as Ghostbusters 2016, the new doctor Who....and of course they managed the unimaginable, screwing Star Wars which is the just about the easiest franchise to manage with millenia old archetypal story and very easy to please fans. And they fucked that up...and promptly blamed the alt-right (all the 41 of them) and the Russian bots. Just watch how they all go down in flames.. I've not being in a cinema since that vomit the Force Awakens and the most modern game on my PC is Oblivion. That ain't gonna change anytime soon...
I read carefully all replies so far. None of the critics has any idea whatsoever what was done, why, how, and most importantly, why. In order to think about anything you need data. So why don't you start with listening to those two
The second is an interview with the very people who did it. Just hear how the reviewers were encouraging them to make the papers even more radical (untruthful). And how the most ridiculous paper actually won an award.
All of you here who criticize those brave and insightful people are useful idiots with tiny balls and even tinier brains.
Don't have a link but there was such video of a guy riding a motorcycle inside a sphere. At 60 fps it looked totally bizzare at least to me. When I saw the first of the Hobbit it was barely watchable cause I couldn't figure out what was going on with my eyes and brain. Kept 'snapping out' from the suspension of disbelief. Massive headache afterwards. Jakson reacted like an ass; dismissed 40% of the audience that reported the same.
What telemarketers? I have had zero such calls on the mobile in 17 years. Do we have some kind of privacy protection in Europe? I guess so....
I have had 4-5 calls in the same time period on the land line [the number is public] either from credit card companies or energy providers. Since I don't use it anymore that's gone too. However, recently I did get a call on the mobile from an energy provider trying to convince me to change, but I kicked such a fuss about it that I hope they blacklisted the number forever.
Is NASA looking into that? Perhaps they should have looked into more of Joe's podcasts and found the one with Mathew Walker. 6 hours sleep equals legally drunk. Elon was complaining a bit about restlessness and lack of sleep. Those would be much bigger safety issues. Alas, weed helps you go to sleep but seems to disrupt dreaming so it's not great to substitute one problem for another....
But hey, no one looks into sleep. In fact it is badge of honor to sleep less and "work more"....big time macho ignoramuses and iron ladies (Raegan and Thatcher)...as Walker said they both got Alzheimer's. Cheers!
And what about alcohol? You gonna tell me that the old time astronauts weren't drinking? How did Andrew Weir put it in "the Martian"? "What would old time astronaut do? Take few shots of whiskey, bang his mistress and solve the problem."
There is no way in hell that all the brouhaha about Elon's puff is not deliberate and therefore sleazily hypocritical. He really must be one of the greatest and most useful for humanity people on Earth if so many want to see him down. That's the times we live in - the more someone is attacked and smeared the greater people they are [e.g. Jordan Peterson].
BTW, I though this was a property of the communist ideology (cause any disparity in outcome MUST be oppression and privilege) - when I was growing up I quickly learned not to display talent and excellence....but really, communism in America! Oh, wait! Oh, shit!
Interesting! You see if Zuckerberg has any sense he would never agree Facebook to be paid service. Even if all users pay him, say 10$ per month, but then he is not allow to collect ANY data, no ads, no nothing...say 1 billion people use it that's 10 billion per month. In 1 year you are ahead of Bezos. Same for Google.
You see, that would never happen. Because the personal data are simply priceless. Truly, utterly, absolutely priceless!!! I cannot think of anything else that compares or even comes close. Having the data makes you more powerful than the whole of the rest of the world combined with all their economies, armies and nukes. You can change the entire society in a very short timespan (that's happening right now in the West; in fact I think it is over, now follows the descent into hell). You can sway people's opinions however you like; you control the information flow (in English; soon in other languages); you control who has access to platforms; you can blackmail anyone with their data if you please (something about 5 lines written by the best man comes to mind).
You are simply the ruler of the world. When an algorithm can learn more about you than you know about yourself, discover the blind spots in your worldview, your fears, insecurities, ambitions, likes, dislikes, desires, political leanings, diets, travels, your mental and physical health, who is your family (and everything about them, of course), who are your friends, where do you work, what is your education, what do you work on (do you think that when I use sometimes Google translate for work - something I am very reluctant to do but there is no alternative - they do not store that somewhere and link it to me and the company?), where do you shop, what do you buy, how much energy you use at home and when, your exact address, what is your income, every query you ever put in a search engine, every site you ever visited, every post you ever wrote, what movies do you watch, what books do you read, what music do you listen to, how much you exercise, the drugs you use (both medicine and narcotics), how fast you drive your car...I think I can go on for quite a while...
Never before was anyone capable of collecting, handling and exploiting so much data. Now the machines are more than capable of doing this and they get faster and more sophisticated all the time.
And somehow the whole world was scammed to give away the most precious thing we have for "free" service. All the above is the reason I never joined any of this. I lost all my friends, I missed hundreds of parties, I have very small social circle (which is murder for extreme extrovert as me). But I'd rather have that than betray myself to evil. And yes, I know that Google knows everything about me and Facebook is running shadow profiles and basically I am just as screwed as you are. But at least I saw it from the very beginning and resisted and talked about it. Can't do much more...
May I ask all those who gleefully go about "stupid scientists that keep on correcting themselves", "climate change conspiracy" and so on...
Do you know of any other system of acquiring knowledge about the world that is willing to disclose all its results and methods and corrects itself in the face of facts? Gazillion times. Until what remains IS the truth or the closest model to reality there can be. Do you know of any other system that has produced anything even remotely as useful as science?
WELL, DO YOU?
Feel free to explain to all of us how the other systems (magic, philosophy and religion) are superior.
"Truth is female, since truth is beauty rather than handsomeness; this, Ridcully reflected as the council grumbled in, would certainly explain the saying that a lie could run around the world before Truth has got its, correction, her boots on, since she would have to choose which pair - the idea that any woman in a position to choose would have just one pair of boots being beyond rational belief.
Indeed, as a goddess she would have lots of shoes, and thus many choices: comfy shoes for home truths, hobnail boots for unpleasant truths, simple clogs for universal truths and possibly some kind of slipper for self-evident truth.
More important right now was what kind of truth he was going to have to impart to his colleagues, and he decided not on the whole truth, but instead on nothing but the truth, which dispensed with the need for honesty.”
Slashdot Mirror
One week after the ad, there was a nation wide 35% discount on all their products. Posters everywhere (EU country). ...just like the science predicted. I told them more than a decade ago. Nobody listened.
I have three blades left which I will use quickly and switch.
The ad was one of the most revolting things I've seen....right when my nephew had his nth anxiety/anger/suicidal crisis. 27 yrs old, brought up by tyrannical mother, away from 'toxic masculinity', never left to solve his problems alone....the very thing the ad encouraged. The boy is a wreck. Guess if he turned bitter, confused and aggressive
Btw, his mother left the family for a job in the big city which pays less...she gave up on them. His weak father ( I bleed typing this, we are talking about my beloved cousin) got heart attack at 50 is now crying daily...
The pussification of our sons and grandsons should stop. It does not do any good, particularly to women. My other nephews are two girls in high school. They complain that the boys around them are 'not serious and responsible'. Well, duh! When asking them to give an example of a 'serious man' they always point to someone older than a millennial. This ain't a coincidence.
https://youtu.be/FACK2knC08E
The way I understand it, take people out of extreme poverty, educate the women, lower child mortality and give access to family planning and voila, everyone, regardless of culture, background, religion stabilizes close to the replacement value.
I though that everyone knew this by now.
Or not?
https://youtu.be/Sm5xF-UYgdg
Yhea, so that's why most men did not leave genetic lines behind but most women did. Add to that that women live longer and are under-represented in nasty statistics such as death at work, death at war, suicide, illness ect.
So, throughout all of human history (including hunter-gatherers) women had it better when it came to both survival and procreation. Way better.... In other words, the won the only game that matters.
Cry me a river, cuck!
https://youtu.be/pwaWilO_Pig
Start here if you prefer listening than reading. Otherwise buy his book which summarizes all we know about sleep.
Having followed his advices in the last 8 months I started sleeping 7 to 9 hours per night. The effect is nothing short of miraculous...
Why do I know so much (general culture) people often ask me. Could it be in part that I read hundreds of books while growing up, every day for hours, usually before sleep? I think so...
And this, ladies and germs, in a nutshell, is why Trump won and will do so again....well done Gameboy, very well done indeed!
Check "The Galactic whirlpool" , a ST story from the guy who invented the tribbles.
The space station that starts deployment of solar satellites and beams the energy down eventually declare themselves an independent nation. Sitting on top of the gravity well and having big ass maser weapon...what did you say Mr President? I can't hear you from up here....
Fascinating book, BTW, one of the best ever in the ST universe.
Yes indeed.
All of sudden the population of the West turned overnight into incel-nazi-russian-bot (90%) and 10% progressive snowflakes. Cause you see Oceans 8 tanked. As well as Ghostbusters 2016, the new doctor Who....and of course they managed the unimaginable, screwing Star Wars which is the just about the easiest franchise to manage with millenia old archetypal story and very easy to please fans. And they fucked that up...and promptly blamed the alt-right (all the 41 of them) and the Russian bots.
Just watch how they all go down in flames..
I've not being in a cinema since that vomit the Force Awakens and the most modern game on my PC is Oblivion.
That ain't gonna change anytime soon...
He did not make the system look bad.
The system was corrupted beyond belief and repair and he exposed it.
The alt-right? All the 42 of them? I have an update for you; one died of old age.
Liar.
https://youtu.be/AZZNvT1vaJg
Ah, somebody has done their research before commenting. Thank you, AC!
No. See my post above and go and learn the facts before commenting with such misplaced authority...
I read carefully all replies so far.
None of the critics has any idea whatsoever what was done, why, how, and most importantly, why.
In order to think about anything you need data.
So why don't you start with listening to those two
https://youtu.be/FG6HbWw2RF4
https://youtu.be/AZZNvT1vaJg
The second is an interview with the very people who did it. Just hear how the reviewers were encouraging them to make the papers even more radical (untruthful). And how the most ridiculous paper actually won an award.
All of you here who criticize those brave and insightful people are useful idiots with tiny balls and even tinier brains.
You are also nasty and dangerous.
The real question is who is her and why her ass is bad?
Don't bother with his choice, it is his to make. We should have clear labels on our food, period.
Westerners are becoming dangerously collectivists. The name of the game today is "If I don't want it, you also can't have it" Stop this shit!
Don't have a link but there was such video of a guy riding a motorcycle inside a sphere.
At 60 fps it looked totally bizzare at least to me.
When I saw the first of the Hobbit it was barely watchable cause I couldn't figure out what was going on with my eyes and brain. Kept 'snapping out' from the suspension of disbelief. Massive headache afterwards. Jakson reacted like an ass; dismissed 40% of the audience that reported the same.
Didn't the same thing happened decades ago with Japanese cars?
First, they were the laughing stock of the Americans. Still laughing now?
1984 is an instruction manual....for CCP and Google.
See how our "progressive" overlords go high, arsholes first.
It's absolutely hilarious how all those progressive silicon types benefit from worker's exploitation and openly support totalitarian regimes.
Disgusting!
What telemarketers? I have had zero such calls on the mobile in 17 years. Do we have some kind of privacy protection in Europe? I guess so....
I have had 4-5 calls in the same time period on the land line [the number is public] either from credit card companies or energy providers. Since I don't use it anymore that's gone too. However, recently I did get a call on the mobile from an energy provider trying to convince me to change, but I kicked such a fuss about it that I hope they blacklisted the number forever.
Is NASA looking into that? Perhaps they should have looked into more of Joe's podcasts and found the one with Mathew Walker. 6 hours sleep equals legally drunk. Elon was complaining a bit about restlessness and lack of sleep. Those would be much bigger safety issues. Alas, weed helps you go to sleep but seems to disrupt dreaming so it's not great to substitute one problem for another....
But hey, no one looks into sleep. In fact it is badge of honor to sleep less and "work more"....big time macho ignoramuses and iron ladies (Raegan and Thatcher)...as Walker said they both got Alzheimer's. Cheers!
And what about alcohol? You gonna tell me that the old time astronauts weren't drinking? How did Andrew Weir put it in "the Martian"? "What would old time astronaut do? Take few shots of whiskey, bang his mistress and solve the problem."
There is no way in hell that all the brouhaha about Elon's puff is not deliberate and therefore sleazily hypocritical. He really must be one of the greatest and most useful for humanity people on Earth if so many want to see him down. That's the times we live in - the more someone is attacked and smeared the greater people they are [e.g. Jordan Peterson].
BTW, I though this was a property of the communist ideology (cause any disparity in outcome MUST be oppression and privilege) - when I was growing up I quickly learned not to display talent and excellence....but really, communism in America! Oh, wait! Oh, shit!
Interesting! You see if Zuckerberg has any sense he would never agree Facebook to be paid service. Even if all users pay him, say 10$ per month, but then he is not allow to collect ANY data, no ads, no nothing...say 1 billion people use it that's 10 billion per month. In 1 year you are ahead of Bezos. Same for Google.
You see, that would never happen. Because the personal data are simply priceless. Truly, utterly, absolutely priceless!!! I cannot think of anything else that compares or even comes close. Having the data makes you more powerful than the whole of the rest of the world combined with all their economies, armies and nukes. You can change the entire society in a very short timespan (that's happening right now in the West; in fact I think it is over, now follows the descent into hell). You can sway people's opinions however you like; you control the information flow (in English; soon in other languages); you control who has access to platforms; you can blackmail anyone with their data if you please (something about 5 lines written by the best man comes to mind).
You are simply the ruler of the world. When an algorithm can learn more about you than you know about yourself, discover the blind spots in your worldview, your fears, insecurities, ambitions, likes, dislikes, desires, political leanings, diets, travels, your mental and physical health, who is your family (and everything about them, of course), who are your friends, where do you work, what is your education, what do you work on (do you think that when I use sometimes Google translate for work - something I am very reluctant to do but there is no alternative - they do not store that somewhere and link it to me and the company?), where do you shop, what do you buy, how much energy you use at home and when, your exact address, what is your income, every query you ever put in a search engine, every site you ever visited, every post you ever wrote, what movies do you watch, what books do you read, what music do you listen to, how much you exercise, the drugs you use (both medicine and narcotics), how fast you drive your car...I think I can go on for quite a while...
Never before was anyone capable of collecting, handling and exploiting so much data. Now the machines are more than capable of doing this and they get faster and more sophisticated all the time.
And somehow the whole world was scammed to give away the most precious thing we have for "free" service. All the above is the reason I never joined any of this. I lost all my friends, I missed hundreds of parties, I have very small social circle (which is murder for extreme extrovert as me). But I'd rather have that than betray myself to evil. And yes, I know that Google knows everything about me and Facebook is running shadow profiles and basically I am just as screwed as you are. But at least I saw it from the very beginning and resisted and talked about it. Can't do much more...
May I ask all those who gleefully go about "stupid scientists that keep on correcting themselves", "climate change conspiracy" and so on...
Do you know of any other system of acquiring knowledge about the world that is willing to disclose all its results and methods and corrects itself in the face of facts? Gazillion times. Until what remains IS the truth or the closest model to reality there can be. Do you know of any other system that has produced anything even remotely as useful as science?
WELL, DO YOU?
Feel free to explain to all of us how the other systems (magic, philosophy and religion) are superior.
"Truth is female, since truth is beauty rather than handsomeness; this, Ridcully reflected as the council grumbled in, would certainly explain the saying that a lie could run around the world before Truth has got its, correction, her boots on, since she would have to choose which pair - the idea that any woman in a position to choose would have just one pair of boots being beyond rational belief.
Indeed, as a goddess she would have lots of shoes, and thus many choices: comfy shoes for home truths, hobnail boots for unpleasant truths, simple clogs for universal truths and possibly some kind of slipper for self-evident truth.
More important right now was what kind of truth he was going to have to impart to his colleagues, and he decided not on the whole truth, but instead on nothing but the truth, which dispensed with the need for honesty.”
Terry Pratchett, Unseen academicals
- Open the pearly gates, saint Peter!
- I am sorry, Douglas, I cannot do that.
Disclaimer: I assume God; has sense of humor; your mileage may vary.
Seems like a good time to learn irregular walk, so the worms won't detect us.