Remember reading about the Stanford prison experiment?
You mean the one the participants have acknowledged being aware of the nature of the experiment and faking their behavior? The one where Zimbardo admitted to being an active participant in his experiment? That Stanford Prison Experiment?
Yeah. I remember reading about it.
I agree with the observation but disagree on nature vs. nurture. Shame serves an important social function. It enforces conformity to a shared set of values. If hard work is valued and the people who don't are shamed, they have an obvious solution: working harder will alleviate the shame.
Then came the participation trophy parenting. Kids weren't allowed to feel bad for their failures. They grew up bubble wrapped. Then they hit adulthood. They were unprepared for failing or being criticized. They feel entitled to safety because it's all they've known.
I don't think they're sociopaths exactly, but they don't understand that failure is negative and whenever their safety is threatened they break and fall back on extreme emotions. Not a mental illness but a developmental failure.
That one is from his farewell address. Whole thing is worth reading.
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/Washingtons_Farewell_Address.pdf
Every time someone pulls the "tHe fOuNdInG fAtHeRs dIdN't ForSeE" shit... yeah, they really kind of did.
It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
TPD’s Special Victims Unit set out to rescue the child, who cooperated in efforts to bring charges against the people who exploited her.
Brave kid. Good job.
Elizabeth Bascom of TPD, one of the lead investigators, called the girl’s exploitation “horrific.” She the abuse likely began even before her 13th birthday.
“This was a child, 13 turning 14 ... who worked through her birthday as if it did not exist, who worked through Thanksgiving while we sat at tables and enjoyed our families, who worked through Christmas like it wasn’t even there,” she said.
"Worked?" No. "Was being raped" is the phrase you're looking for there.
Not really a refutation because I brought up crime when you were talking about IQ. But in national IQ averages, Nigeria ties with Venezuela, Iran, Saudi Arabia and beats India by 2 points. Just a roundabout way of saying that even without immigration selection, Nigerians might beat out some US populations.
They are pre-selected. Low quality Nigerians do not enter the US, only upper-class educated people.
And if you think that a satellite is going to hit you with enough energy to power up an RFID chip and send the reply back to space... fucking lol. Passive tags have a range of around 20 feet. And even if that were possible, you could just block the tracking with a Faraday cage around the chip.
If you were going to RFID track people you would just use terrestrial readers along roadways or something like that. Oh and RFID "chips" don't even use Internet connections.
According to the article that was posted up the comment chain:
The 20 Freescale employees, among 239 people on flight MH370, were mostly engineers and other experts working to make the company’s chip facilities in Tianjin, China, and Kuala Lumpur more efficient, said Mitch Haws, vice president, global communications and investor relations.
Which doesn't surprise me at all. Malaysia is pretty big in semiconductor fabs.
Look at the wording:
Freescale’s shareholders include the Carlyle Group of private equity investors whose past advisers have included ex-US president George Bush Sr and former British Prime Minister John Major.
Carlyle’s previous heavyweight clients include the Saudi Binladin Group, the construction firm owned by the family of Osama bin Laden.
Freescale (now NXP) is a public company. Anyone can be their shareholder. Conspiracy stories love to play this trick where you quickly mention a link between to parties and then start talking about the other side of the link while just glossing over how tenuous the connection is.
I'll give you the perfect example. CNN prints shit like:
Trump has ties to drugmaker Regeneron -- and now its stock is surging
It's completely true! Except for the part where the link is made to sound sinister instead of completely normal. I have some shares of an SP500 ETF. That means I own a piece of 500 companies, including AbbVie, Gilead, Pfizer, Amgen, and 496 others (but we'll ignore those!). Those four happen to be ones working on a coronavirus vaccines or treatments, so now someone can 'honestly' report "Gilead's shareholders include ernsithe, who has ties to thedonald.win." There you have it, this site is involved in a coronavirus conspiracy!
It's the same thing with how they're talking about the chips. "These guys were all involved in the KL03 project!" "Freescale owns this other company that does military RF." Both are completely true, but those are meaningless facts. Samsung builds cellphones, but also owns Samsung Heavy Industries which is one of the world's largest shipbuilders. That doesn't mean that is some random phone UI developer falls off a cliff that it's somehow linked to their oil rig business.
They give you true facts in a way that deliberately leads the reader to draw unbacked conclusions. It's fake news at its finest.
Interesting piece of tech
What is? That article says absolutely nothing. What "patent?"
Well, for starters, the people who owned the patent to Freescale Semiconductor’s ARM microcontroller ‘KL-03′ which is a new improvised version of an older microcontroller KL-02
The Kinetis KL03 is just a small ARM microcontroller. It doesn't do anything a different Cortex-M0+ from half a dozen other vendor won't do besides being slightly smaller. And no, 20 employees wouldn't own the patent. Freescale would own the patent.
had just launched a new electronic warfare gadget for military radar systems in the days before the Boeing 777 went missing.
Really? Because that certainly has nothing to do with the KL03 and is mentioned nowhere else in the article. That's a <$2 commodity chip. Not some military secret.
This is fucking retarded.
Second highest rate of coronavirus infections
Is that the positivity rate? Or the cases rate. Both can be fucked with by testing process. Test only people who are coming to the hospital with symptoms? Astronomical positivity rate but low number of cases. Test tons of people regardless? Low positivity rate but high absolute "new cases." Can be even further fucked with by choosing if you report absolute numbers in per-capita terms or not.
Sorry Kayleigh, but it's true.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/natalia-poklonskaya/photos
I think the thing that everyone's missing when trying to explain this is that the "straight ticket voting" option is only in a handful of states and some of those are being repealed. I didn't even realize such a thing existed because I'd never seen it on a ballot.
It's a selection on the ballot to vote for whichever party for the entire ballot, for all the partisan races. So if they assigned Trump to the wrong party and then someone voted "Straight Republican" it would be as if that voter marked all Republicans down-ballot, but didn't make a selection for President.
It's how identity politics works. If you don't label everyone, how will you know who it is okay to like and who it is okay to hate?
100% external locus of control. It's why they loathe individualism and get triggered by phrases like "personal responsibility."
No. I think I'll play with the goalposts in their original positions. Making your argument is your problem, not mine.
The SPE was a fraud and citing it weakens any argument you're trying to make. That's it.