Fake news, as always. This is not a “generational divide” (a lie intended to create generational resentment and conceal the truth) but a class divide. Honest reporting would show something rather trivial, that trans-generational wealth (old money, not old people) is immune to interest rates. One should also add foreign investors into to the mix.
I do not believe that the leaderships of China and the USA/NATO are opposed to each other’s interests. They seem to use engineered antagonism to advance the objectives of the global ruling class. The only political conflict that I know is real is between the global ruling class (including but not limited to the global banking cartel) and the exploited people in every nation, whose perceptions must be carefully managed to perpetuate their covert exploitation. It is not unthinkable that the ruling class actually believe they are bringing about some kind of salvation to the humankind. I guess at some point money is not enough; one wants to be God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBe93FMiJc
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Ned Beatty's NETWORK speech-by Paddy Chayefsky
As true now as it was in 1976.
The Turing test is only as good as the subject conducting it, each identifying with the level of his own irrationality and perceiving anything else (both higher and lower, and different) as not quite human. Most people define Humanity based on similarity to oneself (Athropos: one who is alike), biased to whatever properties one values the most about oneself, but since there are degrees of similarity then Humanity is also a matter of degree and subject to ideological bias. Without an objective standard of value we behave like artificial intelligence, promoting our own errors as values, and degrading the objective value as error.
Pharmaceutical companies are indemnified from being sued for any harm caused by their vaccines only insofar as the vaccines are approved as “covered countermeasures”. “Covered Countermeasures must be […] authorized for investigational or emergency use, as those terms are defined in the PREP Act, the FD&C Act, and the Public Health Service Act…” If it could be shown that the vaccine administered is different from the exact composition of the product that was approved, indemnity no longer applies. If it were shown that different batches of the vaccine were not identical in their composition, that would be a prima facie proof that indemnity does not apply. Something for lawyers to ponder… https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/04/15/2020-08040/amendment-to-declaration-under-the-public-readiness-and-emergency-preparedness-act-for-medical
Those who violate the human rights of others implicitly deny their own human rights, which is a poor strategy of survival when the tables periodically do turn.
PRIDE is not a pursuit of mutual respect for what makes us human, but an assertion of innate superiority and a pursuit of domination. PRIDE is supremacist.
The argument that artificial intelligence is dangerous because it may ‘amplify marginalisation of some communities’ and be used to determine ‘which lives are dispensable’ is oblivious to the fact that the underlying moral bases were almost universally abandoned during the Covid spectacle. The majority has already accepted (demanded) that some people can be marginalised, excluded from social participation, denied not only equal rights but human rights, a minority killed, provided that the killing and discrimination benefited the majority. The only arguments that can now convince must defer to fundamental principles, the common structure of being, and show how the utilitarian path is contrary to the ultimate self-interest of all.
Like with every scam, there must be a bait, something desirable to motivate humans to voluntarily relinquish their mortal agency in favour of machines. A well planned scam may first engineer a problem to make the bait irresistible, amplify the perception that humans who are granted political power become corrupt and depraved, and only then present the bait: a machine that starts making 'good' decisions, decisions that everyone would perceive as a massive improvement over the leadership by humans institutions. The pièce de résistance in this marketing strategy, the absolute winner of the disgruntled masses, may simply be an unprecedented show of 'justice' by artificial intelligence: the unmasking, prosecution and spectacular execution of all leaders involved in Covid tyranny, in the enforcement of lockdowns, mask and vaccine mandates, and enforcement of transgender madness, found guilty of crimes against humanity. Following this Auto-da-fé, executed by intelligent machines, with not a drop of blood on any human hands, the leadership status of AI would be cemented in the hearts of the masses as a just system. Then the backdoor into the 'machine mind' would be accessed by the elect few, the architects of the scam, enabling them to hide behind the 'will' of the Good Machine, like they used to hide behind God.
The value-judgement that artificial intelligence makes better decisions than humans is still only a human judgement, and this human decision is subject to the laws of logic, refutable, false unless proven a priori.
When doctors inform a typically desperate patient that he "may qualify" for some novel therapy they are using the guise of exclusiveness and privilege to gain the patient's consent to be experimented on. The language of the offer is intentionally manipulative and exploitative. An honest offer would include an explicit admission that the patient is consenting to be experimented on in the interest of the doctors and their pharmaceutical sponsors.
I didn’t know that Harvard students were screened for personality traits. Those tests were designed by the same psychologist who later experimented on (abused) Kaczynski. I wonder what traits they were looking for. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/impromptu-man/201205/harvards-experiment-the-unabomber-class-62
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Harvard's Experiment on the Unabomber, Class of '62
An odd footnote to Kaczynski's class reunion.
Forwarded from Normal (Michael Kowalik)
Some narratives are too socially damaging to be simply ignored. It is important to identify the implications and consequences of Nativist Supremacism, the core feature of Nazi ideology, which underpins the concepts of First Nations, Original People, the native title, and tribal sovereignty. The underlying toxicity needs to be unpacked and contextualised, so that people have the right vocabulary and understanding to deal with the associated social pressure and resentment. Those who live in Australia face this narrative and are forced to choose (to collude or to dissent) on daily basis. When they do dissent they need to be able to defend their position with more than “it is divisive”. If they fail this, they will become more resentful, and the narrative of resentment will still succeed in its aim. My approach is not merely to defeat the narrative of resentment but to replace it with a higher order sense of unity: All humans share the same ancient ancestors, we are all related, we are all the original owners of the Earth. Reason unites us.
Native Title in Nazi Germany. “According to the law all farms up to 308 acres capable of sustaining a family were declared hereditary estate subject to entailment; they could not be sold, divided, mortgaged, or foreclosed for debts. Upon the death of the owner the land would pass, according to local custom, to the oldest or youngest son or the nearest male relative. Only an Aryan German citizen able to prove the purity of his blood could own such a farm.“ (The purity of blood was not required, but prioritised. The legal requirement was for “kindred blood”.) https://www.dfs.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2020/08/hereditary-farm-law-09291933.pdf https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumers/holocaust_claims/laws_of_persecution
People think that low interest rates on credit are a good thing. No, obtaining credit from the banks is collusion in theft; you are ultimately assisting the banks in stealing from your own children and future generations. Interest rates are too damn low. https://t.iss.one/NormalParty/2618
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✊Interest rates are just too damn low!✊ I propose 100% p.a. official interest rate on all credit/mortgage debt. It is likely the easiest solution to the banking crisis. 100% official interest rate would compel people to borrow only saved funds from one another…
German Nazis also claimed to be victims of systemic racism and demanded reparations. The Decree on an Atonement Tax on the Jews of German Nationality (also known as Judenvermögensabgabe or JUVA tax) was promulgated. “It levied a sum of one billion Reichsmarks on German Jewry. Göring demanded that Jews atone for their hostile attitude against the German people”. https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumers/holocaust_claims/laws_of_persecution
This makes as much sense as claiming that office towers make the housing crisis worse (because they could be used for communal accomodation), that public parks cause land shortages, and that unused solar energy causes high electricity prices. There is a virtually infinite supply of habitable land in Australia (mostly withheld from public use under the nativist supremacist title) where every person willing to take responsibility for their own life could build a tiny house following instructions off YouTube without even needing a building permit, for the price not exceeding 6 months of the minimum wage (including professional quality tools). There is no housing crisis; there is a mass impotence crisis and a racist land exlusion crisis.
Civilisation puts people in a situation where they have to interact and this requires a new kind of skill that ancient tribal cultures did not possess: to resolve conflicting beliefs and reach understanding on the basis of what all humans have in common. The stress of civilisation is a creative stress, associated with the existential challenge of having to work together to close the gaps in meaning between different cultures. For some traditional cultures this can be extremely difficult, since they were conditioned to think only in their own cultural terms, isolated from others for tens of thousands of years, while others had to interact with cultural ‘aliens’ for thousands of years.