Find a conflict-of-interest or a way to profit from government regulation, and
you’ll find a way to predict the Trump administration. Remember this?
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/startup-aims-skirt-visa-limits-cruise-ship-foreign/story?id=18958353
From: Friam
Looking at PISA results, you can see that most of today's talented boys
were born and are growing outside USA. Your current government is closing
doors to everybody, included talented ones, while your teenager's results
in Maths and Science and Comprehensive Reading in PISA tests are pitiful
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and
carrying a cross." - possibly paraphrased from a 1935 Sinclair Lewis novel.
On 2/2/17 11:23 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
*“*Where are our shared values?”
Once imposed, they will be our shared values.
On 01/09/2017 02:57 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> If you try it, let us know how it goes.
I don't intend to use Brave for now. I'm fairly committed to Firefox. But
here's an interesting example of payments made by some arbitrary person on
Twitter:
“Where are our shared values?”
Once imposed, they will be our shared values.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/317542-trump-vows-to-destroy-the-johnson-amendment
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Interesting article regarding making an argument based on the values of
your opposition instead of your own. Makes sense but as is pointed out so
hard to follow through on because why argue if not because of your own
values? Where are our shared values? Are these the ones at the bottom
center
On 02/02/2017 08:49 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> when do you know something like that is fully baked.
Well, we know the answer to that is "never". We only need it to be baked
enough for some use case. If your use case is to trick someone into thinking
something that's false, then the baking
Yup:
*POSTED:*JAN 31 2017 05:33PM EST
*UPDATED:*FEB 02 2017 09:38AM EST
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> Roger: thanks for catching that. It was added after I saw the tweet and
> the article. At least the False News was avoided, but sheesh, when do
Roger: thanks for catching that. It was added after I saw the tweet and the
article. At least the False News was avoided, but sheesh, when do you know
something like that is fully baked.
-- Owen
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Steve writes:
>
>
Steve writes:
"I just hope he manages to do it without snapping off the masts and the
wheelhouse, and then careens overboard before he sinks the entire ship, rats
and all. Maybe there IS an awesome, high-tech ship-of-state or ship-of-society
just over the horizon or beyond the fog of
Steve writes:
"I learned early in life that if a canoe is tipping to one side, you
don't lean out the other, you drop to the bottom center, lower your
center of gravity. Why is that so hard in sociopolitical contexts?
Unless you want to tip into the drink!”
Except that if we tip it
Steve writes:
"I learned early in life that if a canoe is tipping to one side, you don't lean
out the other, you drop to the bottom center, lower your center of gravity.
Why is that so hard in sociopolitical contexts? Unless you want to tip into
the drink!”
Except that if we tip it over,
Homo sapiens dramaticus
And we *wonder* at why we live in such a polarized society?
I learned early in life that if a canoe is tipping to one side, you
don't lean out the other, you drop to the bottom center, lower your
center of gravity. Why is that so hard in sociopolitical contexts?
Homo sapiens dramaticus
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 8:53 AM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> REC -
>
> Why do "we" do this? I mean the part about stretching the truth to
> support our point, only to undermine our point?
>
> I don't have any trouble extrapolating from THIS story that the
REC -
Why do "we" do this? I mean the part about stretching the truth to
support our point, only to undermine our point?
I don't have any trouble extrapolating from THIS story that the ban and
attendant delays *could have* caused the death in the way implied, but
that isn't the same and
If you read the linked article, you'll see that this Mom died several days
before the executive order was signed.
-- rec --
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:44 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> We just got a lot dumber.
>
> (Terence Tao? Wow! Didn't know many of us followed him.
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