https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-cigna-study-reveals-loneliness-at-epidemic-levels-in-america-300639747.htmlDIVERSITY CREATES ISOLATION
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Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 13:38:00 UTC
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-cigna-study-reveals-loneliness-at-epidemic-levels-in-america-300639747.htmlDIVERSITY CREATES ISOLATION
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 13:38:00 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 13:34:00 UTC
by Michael Churchill
Well the thinking here is a bit sloppy. Tactile people are very good at tactile jobs. You don’t want mathematicians doing gardening or housecleaning. Housecleaners are often quite efficient. Latinos have a reputation for extremely hard work ethics. So I’m not sure what he’s getting at here. You just need the right man for the job. Tactiles for tactile work, intuitives for idea work.
If somebody is lazy, well that’s different. Is laziness really correlated to IQ? Maybe but it can’t be a 1-1 correlation.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 13:30:00 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 13:30:00 UTC
Russian version of anti-Jihadist Warfare. They literally saturate the building with bullets until it’s reduced to splinters. I love russian “clarity” vs western “politic”.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 12:54:00 UTC
via Steve Pender
“The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First, that the influence of home is obstructive. Second, that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten. Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity. But I anticipate. It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated.” – Bertrand Russell, “The Impact of Science on Society”
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 12:06:00 UTC
—“What are geographic and natural factors constrains progress of afghanistan as state?”—
Land Locked. No meaningful rivers. Limited fertile land. Mountains that are very cold in winter, poor land that is very hot in summer, and worse, like the middle east sits at the nexus of multiple civilizations always at war. The systemic, universal disaster of any people conquered and colonized by arabs and islam, and the total destruction of the entire region by Mongol Conquest, a long period of decline, a failure of the british empire to civilize it as it had done in india. The russian conquest. The American ‘punishment’. I mean. really, it’s terrible. during through the end of the ice age it was a reasonably good territory. But it’s been a disaster since its peak.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 12:05:00 UTC
THE ETYMOLOGY OF AGENCY
Yes, agency, like truth, or infinity, or perfection, or godhood, or moving half-way across the couch, or half-way across zeno’s line, describes an infinitely logarithmic curve.
I always take my terms, whenever possible from the existing sciences, and ‘correct’ (redefine) the term.
In social science, one’s social, economic, and political agency is limited by ‘structure’ (institutions), and their (socialist) implication is that differences in income are an institutional choice not a necessity of human cooperation (natural law).
In social science then, we are considered to be equal in ability but unequal in institutional benefit.
So I extended Agency by correcting the falsehood of equality and necessity.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 11:05:00 UTC
THE COST OF SOCIAL OPTIMISM
by Steve Pender
Extending someone the privilege of assuming them to be trustworthy is costly (risk of theft, personal harm). Not extending the privilege of trust is also costly (extra security costs, loss of trade). Granting trust to one person but not another hinges on choosing which costs you want to pay at that time. Since humans are more averse to losing what they have than losing a potential gain, humans err on the side of protecting themselves and property, that is, they more often choose to pay for costs that reduce their losses. If you want to gain privilege, you must first convince the privilege-grantor that not trusting you is more expensive than trusting you. This means you must work on reducing your perceived risk to them. If people who look like you have a much higher rate of violence, you have 3 essential choices: 1) change your look enough that you are no longer categorized with them, 2) reduce the rate of violence of those who look like you so you are no longer categorized as a risk, or 3) increase the cost for others to perceive you as a risk. This 3rd option only reinforces the idea that you are in fact a risk (someone who imposes involuntary costs), and is therefore counterproductive.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-01 11:03:00 UTC