Vox recently posted on how the system is rigged [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/10/how-system-is-rigged.html]. What astounds me though, are the cuckservatives. A guy I knew since high school – and that’s a long time ago these days, keeps posting “TROLOLOL” and “still not the Onion” comments on social media every time a new article comes up negative about Trump. This guy is supposedly, from the rest of his stream, a true believer libertarian/conservative, and he’s hardly the only supposed cons…
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From Tampa [http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/trump-fans-boo-walk-out-on-amy-schumer-in-tampa/2298412] : > TAMPA – About 200 people walked out of Amy Schumer’s comedy show at the Amalie Arena in Tampa Sunday when she mocked Donald Trump as, among other things, an “orange, sexual-assaulting, fake- college-starting monster.” I only have one question – who in gods name found her funny enough to go to the show in the first place? She’s a vapid one-note cow who’s schtick is w…
There’s the old rule of thumb. Once is a fluke, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action. The amazing part is that it holds true even in large systems – with thousands of nodes – and no concerted guiding intelligence. If you get three instances of a program bug cropping up among thousands of computers, you know at that point there is a systemic problem, and that it can’t be written off to a vagary of the hardware, a temporary memory glitch, etc. This is important because when you tell…
Free Northerner has some interesting thoughts [http://freenortherner.com/2016/10/14/chronic-kinglessness/] on how today, nobody has power: > This is the secret of politics and modern society: nobody is in charge, no one has power, and nobody is running the show: not the people, not the corporations, not the politicians, not the bureaucrats, not the courts, not the military, not the journalists, not the bankers, not the white male patriarchs, not the SJW’s, not the Jews, not Davos, not the Bild…
Before we get into the rest of this discussion, watch these two videos. Ignore the obvious checkbox demographics, because these two ads make a very clever point – the same words, delivered in different contexts, can mean something completely different. These, among other things, makes clear the importance of “frame”, by the way. Even if you wrote out these scenes, completely stripped out the body language, the intonation, and simply described the setting and who was speaking, the differences in…