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September 21st, 2018 12:11 PM Ok. I woke up late. It’s noon. And now I have to work on Tort Reform for the rest of the day. which means I’m going to get into another bad mood from contemplating how our people are abused.
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September 21st, 2018 12:08 PM —“I hope everyone who reads these posts on natural law realizes how precious this wisdom is.”— John Mark [T]he idea that natural law is discovered science the result of which produces a formal logic of decidability in all matters of sentience is very hard to grasp given our history of…
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September 21st, 2018 11:46 AM AGAIN. USE OPERATIONAL LANGUAGE TO AVOID THE FALLACIES OF IDEALISM, CONFLATION, AND PRETENSE OF KNOWLEDGE [We] can speak truthfully, we can claim others speak truthfully, but it is our speech about existence, or experience, or the imaginary that ‘is true’ (coherent, consistent, correspondent, operational, and complete) or not. No such…
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September 21st, 2018 11:28 AM CODDLING AND CAUSE by John Mark [T]his coddling Haidt writes about is a result of the West, particularly American parents, taking for granted the results of our world-leading rule of law (yes, far from perfect, but still fantastic compared to most of the world) and incomparable power for granted, and…
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September 21st, 2018 11:11 AM LANGUAGE IS CALCULATING WITH MORE DIMENSIONS (worth repeating) [W]e tend to think of mathematics as calculation (it is) but language is also a form of calculation, and we have just (or I have just) begun to understand that language is a means of calculating (transforming inputs and outputs) in a…
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September 21st, 2018 11:01 AM —“There is a significant error in Peterson’s calculation. He claims that Jews with IQ’s of 145 or above are, in percentage terms, commensurate with their proportion of millionaires / billionaires. However his baseline for the total is merely the Jewish and White population. However, White Americans now make up little…
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September 21st, 2018 10:40 AM —“Isn’t it great that for the first time since maybe Barbara Bush we actually have a REAL “lady-like” First Lady? And Melania is sooooo much more beautiful than all of them.”— Nick Dahlheim
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September 21st, 2018 10:38 AM GREAT QUESTION OF THE DAY —“Which is more valuable credit or debt”— Justin Fortune [T]his is an interesting question. The to the creditor it represents income in exchange for risk. To the debtor it represents consumption in exchange for risk. To the debtor and creditor both, it represents dependence upon…
My Favorite Find of The Year:
September 20th, 2018 7:07 AM MY FAVORITE FIND OF THE YEAR: via #SteveStuWill http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf
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September 20th, 2018 9:14 PM Worked on Consumer Protection yesterday and Tort Reform today. And, it made me furious. I mean. Our people are brutally abused.
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September 20th, 2018 9:10 PM THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND. —-“I said this two years ago but it’s worth repeating; The left thought Trump was OUR last hope. These idiots didn’t realize Trump was THEIR last hope. We aren’t scared of conflict. We’ve been pretty tolerant. This is literally their last chance.”— Arthur Roddam
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September 20th, 2018 7:16 PM —“Maryland shooter of 3,and suicide, was african american Snochia Moseley, 27, using pistol with extra magazines.”— Odd that this happens in big cities every day but in a workplace it takes dozens of law enforcement.
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September 20th, 2018 6:31 PM —“Friedman, like boaz, marx, freud, mises, rothbard, block and numerous imitators use a fairly simple but effective technique of telling half-truths that rely upon suggestion invoking altruistic responses in the listener, which circumvents our skepticism, evidence and reason. This technique evolved in the religious era and is central to the…
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September 20th, 2018 2:00 PM THE DAILY CIRCADIAN RHYTHM —“On average, after the workday begins, employees take a few hours to reach their peak levels of alertness and energy – and that peak does not last long. Not long after lunch, those levels begin to decline, hitting a low at around 3pm. We often blame…
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September 20th, 2018 8:14 AM [T]he distribution isn’t quite even. I love how they take from 85-115 as average. that’s ridiculous. 106 should be the dividing line, so that we talk about quality more so than the flatness of the distribution. Really 95-105 is average and we need 100-110 to be average.
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September 20th, 2018 8:10 AM [W]ell, if parents are spending disproportionately more time with children but children are getting WORSE, then what does that mean?
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September 20th, 2018 8:09 AM [F]un conversation last night with folks on the Propertarian Discord Server. Need to be more careful when I complain about keynesianism because I’m complaining about the Saltwater School and it’s abuse of Keynesianism to destroy human capital, and obtain power, in favor of expanding the socialist state. Still was interesting…
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September 20th, 2018 7:59 AM –“…. we have been treated as second class citizens”– Ricardo Rossell, Governor of Puerto Rico Well. ‘Cause you are. You are south americans not americans. And take your ‘immigrants’ with you. No statehood. End the possession of puerto rico. We do not need another hostile state. Independence for Puerto Rico.…
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September 20th, 2018 7:49 AM MEN JUST CARE MORE – BUT NOT A LOT MORE (why? as in all things, specialization and bias for genetic fitness of a woman vs bias for productive fitness of a male) Sex Differences in the Desire for Physical Attractiveness. Wrong Interpretation: Men just care about looks, women about other…
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September 20th, 2018 7:17 AM SORRY LADIES, IT’S ALL NATURE AND NO NURTURE Mothers need to feel it’s nurture. But largely you can make your kids worse, but not better. So nurture is largely an effort not to let kids play in traffic. Otherwise it’s just genes. —“For a majority (69%) of traits, the observed…