Cybernetician, building liberty, love and understanding (for Computing see @ngnghm, for Cryptocurrency see @phanaero)

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Joined May 2007
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J’ai entendu dire que la France était finie, qu’il était trop tard pour la sauver. Mais la France est toujours aussi belle, enviable même. Sa grandeur n’a pas disparu, elle ne demande qu’à renaître. Nous avons surmonté en un an un problème cent fois plus grave, sans avoir les moyens dont dispose la France. La France pourrait y arriver en une semaine.
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Any simple numerical score for something that’s complex & subjective (like “quality of life”) is trying to trick you into putting someone else’s values & tastes over your own. The weighting of the factors is a value judgment. Don’t surrender to people who hide values in data.
This map ranks U.S. counties by quality of life for families using 108 indicators, including crime rates, schools, housing affordability, child care costs, health care, jobs, air quality, and other risks. How does your county compare?
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Blaming "social media" is on the same level of stupidity and evil as shooting the messenger.
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Heard this today from a smart European: Europe has subcontracted security to America. Its economy to China. Energy to Russia and its labor force to the Islamists. This model now has completely collapsed.
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If you kill an innocent, you're a poor misunderstood victim of society. But if you dare kill a criminal, you're just as evil as all criminals together (who suddenly are not poor misunderstood victims anymore).
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Hollywood and left-wing media have been spreading this trope for decades—evidence that the media and entertainment elite have been complicit in Epstein-grade pedophilia, rape and murder for just as many decades.
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Before 1991, communists were all waiting for Stalin's armies and his successors' to roll over you and send you to Gulag so they enjoy dining on top of your bodies. After 1991, they figured they had to conquer the institutions from the inside Gramsci-style—all at the same time.
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I couldn't find a good TRN for Phở, so I made one fare.livejournal.com/196764.… NB: login and/or block ads; scroll right for all the steps.
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GPT handled the HTML/CSS nonsense for me, or it would have taken me an eternity to do it.
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Some psychiatrist very hypocritically going into the Clancy stuff while saying he doesn't, just to say things that support the insanity defense. Ted Bundy was insane too. How many psychotic people kill? Not a lot. I believe the idea that psychotic people should be irresponsible is actually psychophobic. The insane aren't animals. The ones who kill should be done away with period.
As a psychiatrist, I have no interest in going anywhere near the Clancy stuff. The only things you need to know are: 1. It is too terrible for words. 2. People really can get that sick. Really, they can. 3. The very idea of it will be tormenting young mothers all over the world, who are already at the end of their tethers and stressed out of their brains.
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It's only suicidal empathy when you're the victim of the bad ideas. When you propagate them, it's murderous brainwashing.
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Giant metal monsters from the sky that indiscriminately mass murder men, women and children, and raze cities to the ground... My, where did the Japanese get this trope from?
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Que feras sera The choices you make are eggs The actions you take have legs Que feras sera What you do will be
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You'd think that this is absolutely insane, but it follows a method: Anarcho-Tyranny! Communists prosecute the innocent and help the criminals, because they hope that high crime rates will destabilize the country so they can succeed with a communist revolution.
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Al presentism is bad—including the belief that people in the far past didn't experience presentism.
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Fastest growing religion? Nah, the "my asshole is God" religion is growing even faster. In the last minute, it just grew from 0 to 1 follower, +infinity percent. You literally can't beat that. And infinity is clearly godly.
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The Greek invented vowels... and then spent over two millennia de-inventing them, but only half succeeding so far—having turned half of vowels back into iotas.
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The only solution to gun violence is gun justice.
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Why restore Israel to the "borders of 1967"? Which day in 1967? And why not 932 BC?
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