He is trying to tell you that crocodiles and alligators are not predators. I think that he is sincere so I'm looking forward to the gore video from him attempting to prove it.
Despite having a small lathe in my workshop I still have eight fingers and two thumbs. The full complement. I attribute this to watching "watch people die" and learning that the bad events that I try to avoid are always waiting and watching, hoping to catch me if I get careless.
I used to believe the "... the rulers see as useful." bit. Then some-one on old Voat put me straight.
The Seneca's idea is that ordinary people don't commit crime because they fear divine punishment. So no need for the ruler to spend lots of money on policemen. And it saves money on jails; no need to lock people up if they are too afraid of God to commit crime.
The first problem is that the criminal-minded tend to be impious. They perhaps think that religion is useful because they can burgle church goers houses while the pious are worshipping.
The second problem is that the pious get fancy ideas of forgiveness and reform. They are not harsh enough on criminals when they catch them. Worse the pious may leave justice to God. Why spend money on police and prisons, when God will punish wrong-doers after death? Religion leads to pious folk failing to maintain order.
Religion is only useful if it commands believers to make a big effort to punish wrong-doers in this life.
If we are going with
> From each according to his ability, to each according to his need
there will have to be an Ability Finder General to seek out hidden abilities. There will also have to be a Grand Adjudicator of Needs. Two positions of great power. If you fancy occupying one of those positions yourself, you will find the prospect of communism attractive.
I used to work at a number shop. We had a strict rule to only sell the odd numbers. Eventually we would run out of stock, but that was not a problem. We still had all the even numbers, so we just cut them all in half and started over.
This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=169p5S3fXPE
discusses Nietzsche and his 1888 warning that Nihilism is coming.
It is relevant because the alternative to being part of a group that lasts beyond your lifetime is Nihilism, and modern Western nihilism has deep roots. It is an enemy that must be understood before it can be defeated.
> βThe Libertarian candidate running for Senate in Arizona β who had threatened to play spoiler in the closely watched race β is dropping out and endorsing Blake Masters, the Republican nominee,β
That is the political earthquake. Could have been the title. So I'm guessing that the down votes are for "click bait".
Edited to add: here is an actual example of putting it in the title : https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-libertarian-candidate-in-az-drops-out-endorses-blake-masters
Agreed. Sane people are generally cowardly, shrewdly calculating that some true opinions will get them into trouble, and keeping quiet. Insane people may blurt out the truth because they didn't think about the social consequences. And some sane people will dislike that because truth hurts, while other sane people dislike that because it exposes their own cowardice.
Sell them nuclear weapons. Later, when the south side of Chicago gets turned into a radioactive goodland, say "Whoops! Nobody could have seen that coming."
It is unfortunate that there is just the one word *capitalism* to describe a variety of economic systems.
Think back to Adam Smith's day, 1723 to 1790. Lots of owner managers. Many of them lifestylers. They like to grow their businesses, to get richer, to have more employees to boss. But they really like being their own boss, so they are not selling out. Also capital is hard to raise, they are not consolidating businesses by buying out their rivals (who would not sell anyway). Lets coin a word: *fragpowmop*. Created from FRAGmented Private OWnership of the Means Of Production.
Look around at 2022. There are merchant banks and hedge funds and pension funds and other concentrations of capital. You don't get rich by out competing your rivals. You get rich from pricing power and fleecing the consumer. And you get pricing power by being in the in crowd with plenty of capital and buying out all your rivals, consolidating your business sector. Lets coin a word: *confincap*. Created from CONsolidated FINancial CAPitalism.
Now you can say: Let's get rid of confincap and go back to fragpowmop.
Notice what goes wrong if you only have one word. You end up saying "Let's get rid of capitalism and go back to capitalism." That makes you sound retarded. Such are the miseries of linguistic poverty.
I think you are right and yet that only deepens the mystery. Fukushima only happened because of a tsunami. A very big tsunami. The Japanese screwed up because they didn't build the sea walls around Fukushima tall enough to protect the power plant from a very big (but not unprecedented) tsunami.
Then the Germans, err, what exactly? Tsunami from the Baltic swamping coastal nuclear power plants? The Fukushima accident didn't reveal any risk that the Germans had to worry about.
In 1922 Harcourt published Walter Lippmann's book Public Opinion.
It is analogous to a book explaining why wrestling needs to be fake, and giving instructions on how to get the public to play along.
I'm thinking that universal suffrage was still born. The ruling elite went along with it because they had already made their plans to consolidate ownership of the media and tell the new voters how to vote.
It is about incentives. If every post gets an automatic up vote, posters can farm karma by making lots of posts that nobody else cares about. That is a perverse incentive structure.
I think that it is simpler than that. [From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm)
is the creed of the man who dreams of becoming the Ability Finder General, and the man who dreams of becoming the Certifier of Legitimate Need. Think of the power of holders of those two posts!
I use a sickle to cut my grass. The grass is on the North side of a five story building, so it doesn't get enough sunshine to survive mowing. I let it grow tall, but not quite as tall as in the video.
It needs to be kept sharp. The scythe man needs to add time for sharpening.
A weed whacker chews up the stalks. There are more, shorter bits to rake up. The weed whacker man needs to add time because raking up the cuttings to add to the compost heap is going to take longer. A lot longer.
happytoes 4 points 2.4 years ago
He is trying to tell you that crocodiles and alligators are not predators. I think that he is sincere so I'm looking forward to the gore video from him attempting to prove it.
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happytoes 0 points 2.4 years ago
To find out whether you are a christcuck or a jew, look at your source code
(defun pull-new-testament-quote(challenge)... you are a christcuck
(defun construct-pilpul (challenge)... you are a jew
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happytoes 7 points 2.4 years ago
Despite having a small lathe in my workshop I still have eight fingers and two thumbs. The full complement. I attribute this to watching "watch people die" and learning that the bad events that I try to avoid are always waiting and watching, hoping to catch me if I get careless.
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happytoes 0 points 2.4 years ago
I used to believe the "... the rulers see as useful." bit. Then some-one on old Voat put me straight.
The Seneca's idea is that ordinary people don't commit crime because they fear divine punishment. So no need for the ruler to spend lots of money on policemen. And it saves money on jails; no need to lock people up if they are too afraid of God to commit crime.
The first problem is that the criminal-minded tend to be impious. They perhaps think that religion is useful because they can burgle church goers houses while the pious are worshipping.
The second problem is that the pious get fancy ideas of forgiveness and reform. They are not harsh enough on criminals when they catch them. Worse the pious may leave justice to God. Why spend money on police and prisons, when God will punish wrong-doers after death? Religion leads to pious folk failing to maintain order.
Religion is only useful if it commands believers to make a big effort to punish wrong-doers in this life.
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happytoes 0 points 2.5 years ago
If we are going with
> From each according to his ability, to each according to his need
there will have to be an Ability Finder General to seek out hidden abilities. There will also have to be a Grand Adjudicator of Needs. Two positions of great power. If you fancy occupying one of those positions yourself, you will find the prospect of communism attractive.
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happytoes 5 points 2.5 years ago
Thank you for rehosting that. I'm Britbongy and RT is blocked by the regime in power in Britbongistan.
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happytoes -1 points 2.5 years ago
This probably belongs in https://www.voat.xyz/v/UnitedKingdom
Must goats don't want to know about a crappy little country adrift in the North Sea.
I do. But that is because I live there. For now. And for a few more weeks until I die of hypothermia.
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happytoes 0 points 2.6 years ago
I used to work at a number shop. We had a strict rule to only sell the odd numbers. Eventually we would run out of stock, but that was not a problem. We still had all the even numbers, so we just cut them all in half and started over.
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happytoes 2 points 2.6 years ago
This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=169p5S3fXPE
discusses Nietzsche and his 1888 warning that Nihilism is coming.
It is relevant because the alternative to being part of a group that lasts beyond your lifetime is Nihilism, and modern Western nihilism has deep roots. It is an enemy that must be understood before it can be defeated.
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happytoes 1 point 2.6 years ago*
> βThe Libertarian candidate running for Senate in Arizona β who had threatened to play spoiler in the closely watched race β is dropping out and endorsing Blake Masters, the Republican nominee,β
That is the political earthquake. Could have been the title. So I'm guessing that the down votes are for "click bait".
Edited to add: here is an actual example of putting it in the title : https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-libertarian-candidate-in-az-drops-out-endorses-blake-masters
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happytoes 0 points 2.7 years ago
Agreed. Sane people are generally cowardly, shrewdly calculating that some true opinions will get them into trouble, and keeping quiet. Insane people may blurt out the truth because they didn't think about the social consequences. And some sane people will dislike that because truth hurts, while other sane people dislike that because it exposes their own cowardice.
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happytoes 1 point 2.7 years ago
In that case I'm going to believe that GBS stole the quote and buried the true author in a shallow grave. It is a great quote.
But maybe we need a three hander today.
The optimist invents the Saturn V
The pessimist invents the Launch Escape System
The professional manager doesn't bother with a Launch Escape System on the space shuttle.
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happytoes 3 points 2.7 years ago
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-history-of-central-banking-and-the-enslavement-of-mankind-stephen-mitford-goodson/1120520068
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happytoes 1 point 2.8 years ago
That eagle is going to have such a tale to tell to his mates. Nearly drowned AND abducted by aliens...
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happytoes 1 point 2.8 years ago
That "jet fuel cannot melt steel beams" is a psyop intended to take attention away from WTC7.
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happytoes 1 point 2.8 years ago
That wasn't as gory as I expected, but it was a different rope handling danger, that I didn't know about, so I learned something today.
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happytoes 2 points 2.8 years ago
Sell them nuclear weapons. Later, when the south side of Chicago gets turned into a radioactive goodland, say "Whoops! Nobody could have seen that coming."
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happytoes 0 points 2.8 years ago
It is unfortunate that there is just the one word *capitalism* to describe a variety of economic systems.
Think back to Adam Smith's day, 1723 to 1790. Lots of owner managers. Many of them lifestylers. They like to grow their businesses, to get richer, to have more employees to boss. But they really like being their own boss, so they are not selling out. Also capital is hard to raise, they are not consolidating businesses by buying out their rivals (who would not sell anyway). Lets coin a word: *fragpowmop*. Created from FRAGmented Private OWnership of the Means Of Production.
Look around at 2022. There are merchant banks and hedge funds and pension funds and other concentrations of capital. You don't get rich by out competing your rivals. You get rich from pricing power and fleecing the consumer. And you get pricing power by being in the in crowd with plenty of capital and buying out all your rivals, consolidating your business sector. Lets coin a word: *confincap*. Created from CONsolidated FINancial CAPitalism.
Now you can say: Let's get rid of confincap and go back to fragpowmop.
Notice what goes wrong if you only have one word. You end up saying "Let's get rid of capitalism and go back to capitalism." That makes you sound retarded. Such are the miseries of linguistic poverty.
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happytoes 0 points 2.8 years ago
I think you are right and yet that only deepens the mystery. Fukushima only happened because of a tsunami. A very big tsunami. The Japanese screwed up because they didn't build the sea walls around Fukushima tall enough to protect the power plant from a very big (but not unprecedented) tsunami.
Then the Germans, err, what exactly? Tsunami from the Baltic swamping coastal nuclear power plants? The Fukushima accident didn't reveal any risk that the Germans had to worry about.
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happytoes 0 points 2.8 years ago
In 1922 Harcourt published Walter Lippmann's book Public Opinion.
It is analogous to a book explaining why wrestling needs to be fake, and giving instructions on how to get the public to play along.
I'm thinking that universal suffrage was still born. The ruling elite went along with it because they had already made their plans to consolidate ownership of the media and tell the new voters how to vote.
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happytoes 0 points 2.9 years ago
(let ((name "happytoes")
(denial "is not")
(accusation "a bot"))
(format t "~&~A ~A ~A" name denial accusation))
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happytoes 3 points 2.9 years ago
It is about incentives. If every post gets an automatic up vote, posters can farm karma by making lots of posts that nobody else cares about. That is a perverse incentive structure.
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happytoes 1 point 2.9 years ago
There was some kind of stupid "internet challenge" that went horribly wrong.
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happytoes 0 points 2.9 years ago
I think that it is simpler than that. [From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm)
is the creed of the man who dreams of becoming the Ability Finder General, and the man who dreams of becoming the Certifier of Legitimate Need. Think of the power of holders of those two posts!
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happytoes 0 points 2.9 years ago
I use a sickle to cut my grass. The grass is on the North side of a five story building, so it doesn't get enough sunshine to survive mowing. I let it grow tall, but not quite as tall as in the video.
It needs to be kept sharp. The scythe man needs to add time for sharpening.
A weed whacker chews up the stalks. There are more, shorter bits to rake up. The weed whacker man needs to add time because raking up the cuttings to add to the compost heap is going to take longer. A lot longer.
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