more and more we're finding mental disorders and weaknesses aren't poor decision making or weak moral fiber but a sign something is broken. For millennia we've blamed the mentally ill for their faults unless they were so stark raving mad we couldn't do anything but laugh. As a lot of smaller behavioral problems are traced to physiology I wonder if our society and our political narratives will adapt.
when he said 'both sides are bad'. Heck, he's getting up there in the years. I could excuse the first 'both sides are bad' comment, but he recently doubled down on it.
When it comes to Nazis, and I mean literal Nazis like what we saw in Charlottesville, there is no way you can ever say 'both sides are bad' and not come out smelling clean.
But what shocked me wasn't Trump's response. I expected that from him since it was angry white male voters that put him in office and he's playing to his base. What shocked me was the tepid response from the Jewish community to both him and the events in Charlottesville as a whole. I'm not even Jewish and it scares me. There was a time when a few punk kids spray painting swashtikas rated a response bigger than that.
I'm pretty far left, and I sorta thought my side of the aisle would have stronger allies from the Jewish side. But I'm not seeing it. Do these guys not realize what happens when you've got millions of angry white men with no jobs, no women and no prospects for either? We've got 2000 years of history where that's happened and it's never ended well once.... Seriously, now is the time to do something about it before it's too late.
is there's been a _lot_ of antisemitism going around (PewDiePie even engaged in some of it himself) and this has got way more attention. Both are pretty terrible, but I've been pretty surprised how quiet the Jewish community has been with all that's going on. I mean, we had folks marching and chanting "The Jews will Not Replace Us!" and our president himself gave them a pass. Did they get complacent or something? Do they not know/realize that was how it happened last time?
Now that said, I'm guessing PewDiePie is doing this on purpose. He's probably courting the alt-right crowd since as he ages his core demographic of pre-teen girls who think he's cute are going to lose interest. He's done way too much of this crap (I hear about it all on my videogame podcasts while I'm out on my bike) for this to be an accident or just some Swedish guy who doesn't know better.
No amount of nice legs would get you CSO of a security centered firm with no experience and an unrelated degree. The ruling class take care of their own. Always have. I sure wish the working class did the same...
nobody is expecting Machine Learning to be put to use in making people's lives better. More productive, yes, but not better. We're expecting three things from Machine Learning:
a. Prices will go up as ML makes it easier to figure out the maximum you can get away with charging and control/constrict supply chains.
b. Wages will go down as ML increases productivity per working.
c. The 1% will use ML to skim even more off the economy leaving the rest of us with less and less
When I was a kid there were discounts and sales everywhere. Real ones. Bargin bins where just full of cheap Chinese junk, they were full of oversupply. Bags of Halloween candy that used to be 90% off are now 20-30% off and there's damn few of them. I don't see 'manager's specials' or those cheap bags (yes bags) of donuts I used love. Maybe if you didn't grow poor you didn't notice any of this. But for anyone living poor (which given America's $59k median household income is a lot of people) you notice.
ML brings massive increases in efficiency, but for most of us that's actually a bad thing...
So far as I can tell Bitcoin's value is mostly tired to illegal things (drugs, ransomware, money laundering, tax evasion, etc). I base this on the fact that there's very little else I can but with it. It was only a matter of time before it got too big for its own good. And I'm not sure I'll miss it. Fiat currencies are a lot more stable since they'll stable so long as the country and it's government are...
of antisemitism there, but none the incidence have been traced to left leaning groups and the staff has consistently denounced antisemitism even if they don't outright ban it. As for why banning it isn't helpful, well there's a good reason why right here. Letting them hold their little rallies and seeing how few show up to rally is way more productive then banning them.
because of slave labor in China & Mexico combined with corrupt national politics. That's what hurt the Unions in Detroit. That plus high power Union busting ("Rigth to Work"). Somewhat hilariously Canada recently demanded we put a stop to "Right to Work" laws to level the playing field between our employees and theirs as though we're a third world country. And ya know way, we kinda are...
why can some people eat anything they damn well please while I'm at the gym 4 days a week and eating 2000 calories a day and still 30 lbs over weight. Answer: Gut Bacteria. How do we know? Poop transplants. Seriously. They found out when they did one from an overweight person to a skinny girl and the skinny girl got fat without changing her diet.
Lots and lots of the stuff we blame on poor moral character is turning out to be physiological. I'm wondering if this will change our society's outlook on life?
Seriously though, no. Both sides are not bad. Antisemitism is almost exclusively a feature of the right. That's because the left when it encounters it works to purge it from it's ranks. The right embraces as another part of the Southern Strategy. It's how they divide the working class...
does it get me better signal? Because my $225 LG runs everything I throw at it except the Dreamcast & PS2 emulators and those don't run on Apple w/o a jail break anyway. So a faster processor on an iOS device doesn't seem like it matters much. And I can't think of any other reason to have a super fast processor on a phone. Wake me if they get OSX and all it's software running on it and it becomes a desktop replacement...
To the US If we hadn't deposed the dictators of Iraq no and Libya (still a right bastard to his people but so are the Saudies and I don't see anyone calling to liberate then). We backed him into a corner. He knows that without nukes he'll eventually get deposed and hung when a US president needs a way to keep him and his party in power.
but this is why you want liberal arts majors. You've got millions of folks who just aren't sharp enough for science & engineering but they _can_ make it through a liberal arts degree. Believe it or not critical thinking is a skill that can be taught, it just takes time and effort. And there are advantages to having an electorate who's learned that skill.
why the random, seemingly unrelated dig against liberal arts majors? Anyway, they do serve a purpose. There's millions of people out there who aren't smart enough to do science and engineering but can get through a liberal arts degree. When they're done they're still better off intellectually than if they hadn't got the degree.
Now let me ask you this: Would you with your engineering degree rather have a country of 10 million like minded engineers, 10-20 thousand members of the ruling elite and 290+ million uneducated buffoons or at least get those 290+ million through a liberal arts degree? Do you have enough bullets to cut them all down when some Stalin style strong man comes along and mobilizes those uneducated buffoons against you? Wouldn't it have been better to head that off at the pass with education?
it's doing useless work. Science is either throwing a bunch of shit at a wall to see what sticks or waiting a thousand years for some genius freak of nature to advanced the species. The latter takes too long and the former means spending money on stuff that's probably worthless. Folks hate that. They give it names like 'pork barrel' and demand it stop right now. But you're gonna lose the good with the bad because if we could tell the difference we wouldn't need research in the first place.
the problem isn't governments per se, it's that the ruling class (the one we like to pretend doesn't exist) doesn't want to pay for basic research. And make no mistake, they're the ones that have to pay. The working class spends most of it's money either living or saving to live when they can't work anymore. You can't get much more out of them than what's needed to cover basic services (police, fire dept, roads, schools, etc). That leaves the idle rich on the hook for anything else.
They were paying those bills because we had two world wars and they were desperate to get enough tech built that the other side wouldn't come over and take their stuff. But the age of world war is over. The ruling class is global now and crosses national boundaries effortlessly. So with the threat of war gone they've lost the only reason they had to support basic research, and they've spent the last 40 years pushing tax cuts and taking back 'their' money.
Since it means our best physicists are basically doing two jobs. It also means less physicists at work, since they now have to fight for a teaching position to get funding for their research...
which is indistinguishable from pork projects since they're generally too complex to tell the difference between somebody playing around with physics puzzles and the next big leap. The best part is even the physicists don't know which is which.
I just see it accumulating at the top. You make a good point, but don't forget all the gov't research we used to do and stopped (gotta cut all that pork, after all). Folks like to forget how much basic research was done on the public dime.
you're doing better than most. 40 years of the non-stop shitshow that is the US Economy for the working class has done a good job shattering those for a lot. There's plenty who would move. What we don't have is people willing to move and _able_. I moved from one city to another 5 years ago for a job and it cost me $3 grand (gas, uhaul, apartment deposits, etc, etc).
each and every one of these businesses will get sweetheart deals with massive subsidies that pay for the wages and land paid for by bonds taken out against the taxpayer's future earnings. What was that old quote? "Capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich"...
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more and more we're finding mental disorders and weaknesses aren't poor decision making or weak moral fiber but a sign something is broken. For millennia we've blamed the mentally ill for their faults unless they were so stark raving mad we couldn't do anything but laugh. As a lot of smaller behavioral problems are traced to physiology I wonder if our society and our political narratives will adapt.
when he said 'both sides are bad'. Heck, he's getting up there in the years. I could excuse the first 'both sides are bad' comment, but he recently doubled down on it.
When it comes to Nazis, and I mean literal Nazis like what we saw in Charlottesville, there is no way you can ever say 'both sides are bad' and not come out smelling clean.
But what shocked me wasn't Trump's response. I expected that from him since it was angry white male voters that put him in office and he's playing to his base. What shocked me was the tepid response from the Jewish community to both him and the events in Charlottesville as a whole. I'm not even Jewish and it scares me. There was a time when a few punk kids spray painting swashtikas rated a response bigger than that.
I'm pretty far left, and I sorta thought my side of the aisle would have stronger allies from the Jewish side. But I'm not seeing it. Do these guys not realize what happens when you've got millions of angry white men with no jobs, no women and no prospects for either? We've got 2000 years of history where that's happened and it's never ended well once.... Seriously, now is the time to do something about it before it's too late.
is there's been a _lot_ of antisemitism going around (PewDiePie even engaged in some of it himself) and this has got way more attention. Both are pretty terrible, but I've been pretty surprised how quiet the Jewish community has been with all that's going on. I mean, we had folks marching and chanting "The Jews will Not Replace Us!" and our president himself gave them a pass. Did they get complacent or something? Do they not know/realize that was how it happened last time?
Now that said, I'm guessing PewDiePie is doing this on purpose. He's probably courting the alt-right crowd since as he ages his core demographic of pre-teen girls who think he's cute are going to lose interest. He's done way too much of this crap (I hear about it all on my videogame podcasts while I'm out on my bike) for this to be an accident or just some Swedish guy who doesn't know better.
right here
No amount of nice legs would get you CSO of a security centered firm with no experience and an unrelated degree. The ruling class take care of their own. Always have. I sure wish the working class did the same...
nobody is expecting Machine Learning to be put to use in making people's lives better. More productive, yes, but not better. We're expecting three things from Machine Learning:
a. Prices will go up as ML makes it easier to figure out the maximum you can get away with charging and control/constrict supply chains.
b. Wages will go down as ML increases productivity per working.
c. The 1% will use ML to skim even more off the economy leaving the rest of us with less and less
When I was a kid there were discounts and sales everywhere. Real ones. Bargin bins where just full of cheap Chinese junk, they were full of oversupply. Bags of Halloween candy that used to be 90% off are now 20-30% off and there's damn few of them. I don't see 'manager's specials' or those cheap bags (yes bags) of donuts I used love. Maybe if you didn't grow poor you didn't notice any of this. But for anyone living poor (which given America's $59k median household income is a lot of people) you notice.
ML brings massive increases in efficiency, but for most of us that's actually a bad thing...
So far as I can tell Bitcoin's value is mostly tired to illegal things (drugs, ransomware, money laundering, tax evasion, etc). I base this on the fact that there's very little else I can but with it. It was only a matter of time before it got too big for its own good. And I'm not sure I'll miss it. Fiat currencies are a lot more stable since they'll stable so long as the country and it's government are...
of antisemitism there, but none the incidence have been traced to left leaning groups and the staff has consistently denounced antisemitism even if they don't outright ban it. As for why banning it isn't helpful, well there's a good reason why right here. Letting them hold their little rallies and seeing how few show up to rally is way more productive then banning them.
because of slave labor in China & Mexico combined with corrupt national politics. That's what hurt the Unions in Detroit. That plus high power Union busting ("Rigth to Work"). Somewhat hilariously Canada recently demanded we put a stop to "Right to Work" laws to level the playing field between our employees and theirs as though we're a third world country. And ya know way, we kinda are...
why can some people eat anything they damn well please while I'm at the gym 4 days a week and eating 2000 calories a day and still 30 lbs over weight. Answer: Gut Bacteria. How do we know? Poop transplants. Seriously. They found out when they did one from an overweight person to a skinny girl and the skinny girl got fat without changing her diet.
Lots and lots of the stuff we blame on poor moral character is turning out to be physiological. I'm wondering if this will change our society's outlook on life?
Not during National Brotherhood week!.
Seriously though, no. Both sides are not bad. Antisemitism is almost exclusively a feature of the right. That's because the left when it encounters it works to purge it from it's ranks. The right embraces as another part of the Southern Strategy. It's how they divide the working class...
does it get me better signal? Because my $225 LG runs everything I throw at it except the Dreamcast & PS2 emulators and those don't run on Apple w/o a jail break anyway. So a faster processor on an iOS device doesn't seem like it matters much. And I can't think of any other reason to have a super fast processor on a phone. Wake me if they get OSX and all it's software running on it and it becomes a desktop replacement...
The right use Ayn Rand to add a veneer of intelligence to their dog eat dog philosophy.
To the US If we hadn't deposed the dictators of Iraq no and Libya (still a right bastard to his people but so are the Saudies and I don't see anyone calling to liberate then). We backed him into a corner. He knows that without nukes he'll eventually get deposed and hung when a US president needs a way to keep him and his party in power.
it's their site.
this is a reminder that it's more or less impossible. At least for anyone that can't afford a $10,000/mo mortgage.
but this is why you want liberal arts majors. You've got millions of folks who just aren't sharp enough for science & engineering but they _can_ make it through a liberal arts degree. Believe it or not critical thinking is a skill that can be taught, it just takes time and effort. And there are advantages to having an electorate who's learned that skill.
why the random, seemingly unrelated dig against liberal arts majors? Anyway, they do serve a purpose. There's millions of people out there who aren't smart enough to do science and engineering but can get through a liberal arts degree. When they're done they're still better off intellectually than if they hadn't got the degree.
Now let me ask you this: Would you with your engineering degree rather have a country of 10 million like minded engineers, 10-20 thousand members of the ruling elite and 290+ million uneducated buffoons or at least get those 290+ million through a liberal arts degree? Do you have enough bullets to cut them all down when some Stalin style strong man comes along and mobilizes those uneducated buffoons against you? Wouldn't it have been better to head that off at the pass with education?
it's doing useless work. Science is either throwing a bunch of shit at a wall to see what sticks or waiting a thousand years for some genius freak of nature to advanced the species. The latter takes too long and the former means spending money on stuff that's probably worthless. Folks hate that. They give it names like 'pork barrel' and demand it stop right now. But you're gonna lose the good with the bad because if we could tell the difference we wouldn't need research in the first place.
the problem isn't governments per se, it's that the ruling class (the one we like to pretend doesn't exist) doesn't want to pay for basic research. And make no mistake, they're the ones that have to pay. The working class spends most of it's money either living or saving to live when they can't work anymore. You can't get much more out of them than what's needed to cover basic services (police, fire dept, roads, schools, etc). That leaves the idle rich on the hook for anything else.
They were paying those bills because we had two world wars and they were desperate to get enough tech built that the other side wouldn't come over and take their stuff. But the age of world war is over. The ruling class is global now and crosses national boundaries effortlessly. So with the threat of war gone they've lost the only reason they had to support basic research, and they've spent the last 40 years pushing tax cuts and taking back 'their' money.
Since it means our best physicists are basically doing two jobs. It also means less physicists at work, since they now have to fight for a teaching position to get funding for their research...
which is indistinguishable from pork projects since they're generally too complex to tell the difference between somebody playing around with physics puzzles and the next big leap. The best part is even the physicists don't know which is which.
I just see it accumulating at the top. You make a good point, but don't forget all the gov't research we used to do and stopped (gotta cut all that pork, after all). Folks like to forget how much basic research was done on the public dime.
you're doing better than most. 40 years of the non-stop shitshow that is the US Economy for the working class has done a good job shattering those for a lot. There's plenty who would move. What we don't have is people willing to move and _able_. I moved from one city to another 5 years ago for a job and it cost me $3 grand (gas, uhaul, apartment deposits, etc, etc).
each and every one of these businesses will get sweetheart deals with massive subsidies that pay for the wages and land paid for by bonds taken out against the taxpayer's future earnings. What was that old quote? "Capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich"...