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Dysfunctional Decision-making
by Ryan Carboni 27 Mar '20

27 Mar '20

Every society is run by an increasingly small number of cynical decision-makers. Barring a change of circumstance where cynicism is discouraged, their actions and plans are ultimately rewarded, and more power is accrued to them. Success begets success. Secrecy and immorality is incompatible with a free society, a free press is necessary to provide the necessary information for which society's members can decide the direction society may go. However if the response to a given event is to claim that it isn't happening, this constrains the freedom of action by which society's leaders can devote resources to an issue. Furthermore, it is the interests of cynical decision-makers in the accrual of power to alter society so that various leaders are cowardly and so unlikely to take an unprecedented action. Organizations that operate in accordance to inertia can be easily predicted and deviations from a course can be noticed and responded to accordingly. This is paradoxically incompatible with long-term stability, the people who desire access to the levers of power do not disappear, and if they did, cynical decision-makers do not make up a majority of society's members, they themselves are constrained from making public decisions or actions that would in it self be threatening and lead to a reaction by society's leaders to effect their removal out of a desire for self-preservation (unless it was sufficiently clear that ambition was not synonymous with hazard). Thus even the response to threats to a political order is constrained by perceptions, and this in turn constrains the allocation of resources to respond. The press, if dedicated to preserving the current political order, cannot describe a threat to the political order in terms that would allow for the threat to expand in support beyond society itself is willing to provide in responding to it. Every lock has play. The only lock that cannot be picked is one that cannot be opened.

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From Fox News - Venezuela President Maduro wanted by DOJ for drug trafficking, Barr announces
by jim bell 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

Venezuela President Maduro wanted by DOJ for drug trafficking, Barr announces https://www.foxnews.com/world/venezuelan-president-maduro-drug-trafficking-… Jim Bell's comment:Has the Federal Govt set up a system to allow a person to anonymously supply information, and anonymously receive a reward, and yet (later) show the public that everyone was treated fairly?(As per my AP idea...)

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SciTechDaily: 5 Weeks Instead of 50 Years: Neural Networks Optimize Search for New Materials
by jim bell 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

SciTechDaily: 5 Weeks Instead of 50 Years: Neural Networks Optimize Search for New Materials. https://scitechdaily.com/5-weeks-instead-of-50-years-neural-networks-optimi…

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Wuhan is down, California and Europe are down
by Georgi Guninski 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

Wuhan is down, California and Europe are down. Only few months downtime for Wuhan.

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"heroin candies are a human right" - hypothetical toddler world
by Zig the N.g 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

So imagine trying to "talk a heroin addict toddler out of eating heroin candies".. According to the Amblin Memer, this is -almost- the world we live in, which he presents in the following incisive and cutting, intellectual argument: Giving Heroin to Toddlers http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/giving-heroin-to-toddlers/ [very slutty pic, definitely NOT attached] .. You must understand this: men who defend slutty behavior in women are no different than people saying toddlers should have free choice of whether or not they eat heroin candies. These men are enablers. They do not care about fixing society, they do not care about helping women, they only care about serving women and doing the commands of women in order to get little pats on the head, as they hope that eventually a woman will take pity on them and reward them with sex. These men must also be shamed and humiliated, and called out as faggots whose minds and souls are dominated by women. Because they are lower than the sluts themselves. They are the ones making it possible for the sluts to behave like they do, and unlike the sluts, they are not even getting any benefits from this behavior. They are not getting pleasure. They are simply engaging in a masochistic exercise, due to the weakness of their character. ..

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Engadget: An enterprise SSD flaw will brick hardware after exactly 40,000 hours
by jim bell 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

Engadget: An enterprise SSD flaw will brick hardware after exactly 40,000 hours. https://www.engadget.com/2020/03/25/hpe-ssd-bricked-firmware-flaw/ Jim Bell's comment: Self-destructing SSD. My SemiDisks never did that.

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Ethically Sourced and Conflict-Free Cocaine
by Ryan Carboni 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

I don't plan on selling any. Has anyone succeeded in buying any?

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The Next Web: Snowden warns: The surveillance states we’re creating now will outlast the coronavirus
by jim bell 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

The Next Web: Snowden warns: The surveillance states we’re creating now will outlast the coronavirus. https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/03/25/snowden-warns-the-surveillance-sta…

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[Comics] [Marvel] [New Warriors] Still talking about the SJW...
by Cecilia Tanaka 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

I think everybody knows I am an old school nerd, who likes my comics, movies, series, books, anime, whatever, with good stories and interesting characters. This kind of stupid hypocrisy really makes me deeply sick. Sorry, "New Warriors" is very *offensive* in several ways, not "inclusive". <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PCWUCv1rnU> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PzmQqq96bA> <https://youtu.be/c7VWTScVLr8> OK, we have overweight, women, men, non-binary, Black, White, and Latin heroes, probably at least one of them will be gay/lesbian and/or disabled too in the next editions, but we do NOT have good characters and - For Darwin' sake!!! - a good story to be told... (+_+)* Pardon, how can I respect heroes named "Safespace" and "Snowflake"?!?! :-/ My conclusion about this f_cking waste of time? >> 目がくさる ! >:( (Hey, and where are the Asians, uh? Hahahahaha!!! ;D) Ceci, feeling "vergonha alheia"... (Brazilian expression that means I am feeling very ashamed for someone or something, like these horrible SJW comics.)

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Understanding the SJW...
by grarpamp 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=understanding+the+sjw Douglas Murray on the Chick-fil-A controversy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf59qcrAQkI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmthliNgqOY "It's not enough that they believe something, its that you have to believe it too" -- DM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q9yxF27kWY "What's the drug? The drug is the hatred, the rationalization for the use of power, the wish for totalitarian control and tyrannical rule, that the mask of virtue covers." -- JP

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