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Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems

Imagine if the people of the Soviet Union had never heard of communism. The ideology that dominates our lives has, for most of us, no name. Mention it in conversation and you’ll be rewarded with a shrug. Even if your listeners have heard the term before, they will struggle to define it. Neoliberalism: do you know what it is?

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot
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WTF happened to our world. Instead of engineers and coders, we've become the social misfit conformance cry baby gestapo propaganda slaves. Is that how you young Europeans think about life, that is always about equality as a human right. Fuck man, no wonder Europe is fucking toasted. Entitled spoiled cry babies, who get pissed off when we don't let them make MLM scams to steal from us.

Hahaha europe is becoming a zombie collectivist land.

Soon they will become borg and they will assimilate us all Cheesy


Well, what gets me about Europe is how they have just submitted to their Islamic Invaders.  In France and the UK (probably other countries too) I have read about "No Go Zones" which are Muslim neighborhoods in major cities.  The cops and firemen are not invited in...  I doubt that American tourists would be welcome either...

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I continue to wonder how much longer the feckless Euro .govs will just let things simmer.  At some point, my hunch is that the Hard Right, in one form or another, will take the lead in discouraging bad behavior by the Rapefugees. 

Should Syrians or Somalis (Obama's latest harvest of Muslims) wind up raping American women, the response here would be very different.  Americans are armed, and will not let them get away with that shit (at least after the first rape or two).
An interesting thing I actually read about this earlier today was that even Somalians are seeing that it is bad in Europe, specifically Sweden, and they say that the truth is hidden and you're spoken out against.

It is starting to get horrendous in Europe, and the left is starting to censor all sorts of information, and anything that doesn't fit their narrative is blocked out.

They submit because they really believe that it is unfair to discriminate or speak hurtful words or actions. The men have been indoctrinated to think like females. Politeness is politically required on all speech.

Two more examples:

you gotta lay low with the insults. getting you nowhere.

What insult is in my immediately prior post  Huh

Is geek an insulting word? I wear that word as badge of honor. I'm a geek.

And Liberland is supposed to be a Libertarian paradise, yet they are accepting applications from Somalians, Egyptians, etc.., so how will they ever maintain a Libertarian culture  Huh

And the application process requires political correctness:

Who is needed in Liberland?

Liberland currently needs people who:

  • have respect for other people and respect the opinions of others, regardless of their race, ethnicity, orientation, or religion
  • have respect for private ownership which is untouchable
  • do not have communist, nazi or other extremist past
  • were not punished for past criminal offences

They seem to have this delusion that they can keep political correctness censorship and maintain respect for private property.  Roll Eyes

As Armstrong has pointed out, it was the discrimination against immigrants who did not assimilate with English and our capitalistic values, that made the great melting pot work as unified high economy-of-scale economy and culture. Once we ended that with anti-discrimination laws, we destroyed the melting pot economy. This is why the USA will breakup into regions.
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Astroturf is their modus operandi. See the Tedx talk YouTube by Sharyl Attkisson:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-28/top-german-journalist-admits-mainstream-media-completely-fake-we-all-lie-cia

Aaron Russo documents that Nick Rockefeller told him that the elite created feminism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Wsb4qBckU#t=524
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Could not stand high school geometry class, did no homework, then did the entire year (or half year, can't recall) the last day of class and turned it in.

Ditto. At university, I typically showed up for tests (unless there was material presented in class that wasn't in the textbook) studying and do the problem sets the night before. This freed up a lot of time to delve into other interests.

However, I don't possess a flawless long-term memory. That caused me to struggle with Chemistry II, since I delayed it until a year after taking Chemistry I. At L.S.U. for Chemistry I, I placed in I afair in the top 5 out of a couple hundred students in 3 sections. I went through severe depression (culture and climate shock from leaving California, as well as no family visits nor communication) that caused me to drop out of L.S.U. after the first year and restart my studies in California (where I graduated from High School), so perhaps that emotional stress caused to forget everything about Chemistry I.
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...What I have noticed is that I have 2 gears. When I am very motivated, I engage the hyperthinking gear, then my IQ is higher. It also seems to correlate with my energy level and my physical health, because I consume a lot more energy in hyperthinking gear. I don't know if any others have experienced this phenomenon?....

I extracted this only to say that I have the same "problem" or maybe "good thing," whatever it is.

Could not stand high school geometry class, did no homework, then did the entire year (or half year, can't recall) the last day of class and turned it in.

Could not stand chemistry, now I muse on quantum nature of bonds...
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This was deleted from the Ethereum Paradox thread in the Altcoin Discussion forum. I am moving it to this relevant thread in the Politics & Society forum:

... but I display sometimes genius level insights

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VB's body and hand/body language looks like he has no testosterone

Example of the first and why the masculinity matters for being a genius:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.14308301

That betamales are misidentifying genius with a female body language says heaps about the brain damage ostensibly feminism has done to (some of) the Western young men.



Since 1983, the study has tracked a group of several hundred students who, before the age of 13, scored at least 700 on the math SAT or 630 on the verbal—scores that only 1 in 10,000 children that age attain. Those students, now in their early 40s, have filed regular reports on their intellectual and professional development for decades. They're pretty developed: Some 44% of them have doctoral degrees (only 2% of the general population does); their median income was $80,000, about twice the U.S. average for people their age

Most child prodigies are highly successful—but most highly successful people weren't child prodigies.

This can be a hard lesson for the prodigies themselves. It is natural to believe that the just-pubescent children on the mathletic podium next to you are the best, the ones who really matter. And for the most part, my fellow child stars and I have done very well. But the older I get, the more I see how many brilliant people in the world weren't Doogie Howser-like prodigies; didn't shine in Math Olympiad; didn't go to the inner circle of elite colleges. I'm embarrassed that I didn't understand at 13 that it would be this way. But when they keep telling you you're the best, you start to believe you're the best.



Btw, the following essay explains well my experience with many n00bs on this forum. I have tested > 140 IQ twice on some tests but lower (high 120s to 130s) on other tests. I don't have the score from the only formally administered IQ test I received in elementary school. But from what my mom said, I can correlate my SAT scores to an IQ that is roughly the same ballpark around 130, but note I showed up with a hangover to take the SAT, I didn't study for it at all, and I was clearly more accomplished in mental creativity than my best friend who studied for it and scored a 100 points higher than me. I generally don't perform well on tests that attempt to test skills that I am not interested in, such as puzzles that have no purpose. I am a very purpose driven thinker. I want to explore my imagination to solve problems or challenges that are important to me. If I try to motivate myself to become interested in solving puzzles that I am not really interested in by imagining that the ability to untwist their structure in my mind enables me to solve some other problems I am interested in, then my (especially timed) performance increases. What I have noticed is that I have 2 gears. When I am very motivated, I engage the hyperthinking gear, then my IQ is higher. It also seems to correlate with my energy level and my physical health, because I consume a lot more energy in hyperthinking gear. I don't know if any others have experienced this phenomenon?

https://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/why-you-dont-want-to-be-a-genius/

What has been particularly debilitating about my illness is it impacts the energy I am able to extract from food. When I do my best work, I need to consume a lot of calories and fat, but my illness seems to worsen when I do that. Being energy limited, has limited how much hyperthinking mode I can employ lately.

I remembered that my ACT which I took when I was sober (but still didn't study for it) over the summer between high school and college (as it was a requirement for L.S.U.) corresponded to 100 points higher than my SAT, so that was another confirmation that my IQ is in the 130s. I think my "g" is some where between 125 - 135 and I note my verbal scores are significantly lower (just above average in high 80s percentile) than my math (98 - 99+% percentile). But I think when it comes to creativity and the ability to conceptually abstract a problem or issue, my IQ is higher.
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... but I display sometimes genius level insights

[...]

VB's body and hand/body language looks like he has no testosterone

Example of the first and why the masculinity matters for being a genius:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.14308301

That betamales are misidentifying genius with a female body language says heaps about the brain damage feminism has done to the Western young men.
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...Feminism is a socialist, anti-family political movement after all.


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-23/reasons-why-people-hate-cultural-marxists

Third Wave Feminism

Cultural Marxists are collectivists at their very core. This means that their ideological pursuit is the eradication of individualism, individual liberty, and groups based on voluntary participation in the name of the “greater good of the greater number.”  Collectivists seek to centralize everything.  This goal could not be more evident than in the efforts of third-wave feminists.

Third-wave feminists are best understood through the lens of what they refer to as “intersectionality,” a made up social justice term that whitewashes the new feminist strategy of co-opting ALL other social issues and forcing them under the umbrella of the feminist movement. Feminism is not simply about creating equal opportunity and equal rights for women, not anymore. Instead, third-wave feminism claims dominion over women’s rights, all gender related issues, race issues, gay rights issues, economic “inequality”, immigration issues, etc...
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First Exclusion Ever
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I can relate to these issues, I have been ostracized from my own family because I refused to be a door mat for the feminist ham beast who married my father over ten years ago, he has aged terribly and suffered poor health as a consequence of his decision.

Sometimes you just have to stand your ground and not allow them the satisfaction of spreading their toxic, delusional bullshit no matter how loud they stomp their feet.

It doesn't take much to set them off either, a simple disagreement and a refusal to say "yes maam" is all it takes.

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family political movement after all.
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> Consider that the right thing to do is to enable people rather
> than giving them handouts. The west simply has to get it right.

I think this is right up there with fairytales such as Dumbo The Flying Elephant and the reason is because an Iron Law of Politics which is that it is a power vacuum that rewards those who can promise the most collectivized debt financed "freebies".

I mean I am all for enabling individuals (and via technology and not ineffectual political delusions). But I am not for ignoring fundamental, inescapable economic truths.

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> If the US were accelerating towards socialism, then you would
> see Bernie winning over Hillary.

Disagree. We would instead see Rand Paul winning. Bernie is a liberal socialist. His rhetoric rails against corruption and such, but he would pile on the debt-based freebies. Hillary represents the status quo which is massive socialism, corruption, and driving stakes through the heart of our technology industry with NSA shenanigans (which is just a sheepskin masking the real purpose which is to track all the money for coming capital controls in 2018). They will get their backdoor on encryption even if they have to do it with national security letter gag orders and martial law. Watch 2018. I'll come back around then so we can acknowledge who won this prediction. The establishment will steal this election if necessary to make sure there is no departure from crash & burn trajectory we are on because it is part of their plans for global monetary reset and unification of global hegemony.

What Bernie and Trump represent is the ultimate rebellion and fracturing of the USA into regions of cultural differentiation, after the establishment steals the 2016 election for Hellary proving that democracy is a charade.

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> What worries me are the idealists. They are so righteous.
> Idealists will literally do anything to see their programs
> through because they literally believe they are right. And so
> often the ends justify the means.

I predict this will precisely describe what Apple will become over the next several years. Hope I am wrong. One of us will be correct.

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> My humble opinion is that our higher education system is a bit
> outmoded and heading for disruption.
> what becomes disrupted? Well, probably government.

Agreed. But socialism is the elephant in the room that won't leave through the door because he can't fit through it. He'll destroy most of the house on the way out. Then we will rebuild after 2024 or 2032.

Note this disruption will be starting from small seeds right about now. And come into major adoption while the socialism is burning the old system to ground.

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> To assume that the trend towards socialism has America
> in its grasp might be hubris on Armstrong's part.

The West will break free of it when most of the boomers are dead by 2033. But by then Asia will have moved ahead of the West in total GDP. The tables will have turned. We will be outsourcing for Samsung, instead of them outsourcing for Apple.

The best and brightest from the USA will leave or virtually subcontract to Asia well before the elephant has left our house.

Silicon Valley might shift to some where in Asia.

Times change. We seem to forget that lesson from history.

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> Diversify. Nobody can know the future.

Please understand the science of the Strange Attractor before alleging that Armstrong's literally $1 billion investment in a computer model hasn't correlated something informational and predictive. There is hidden order in chaos.
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males exhibit most of the mathematical talent and the divergence increases in the right tail

I found some analysis of known data which supports my intuition that women are making this choice; and they even present evidence of the fluidity of women to increase their variance in the right tail. And they find no support for "institutional sexism" as an explanation.

Sex Differences in Math-Intensive Fields
Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams
Cornell University

Two Quora anecdotes which support my intuition that women want the flexibility to do jobs which enable their social cause and family priorities, and add to that anecdotally women don't want to be stuck in a field where the (e.g. small startup) nerds sleep under their desk (aren't concerned with their wellbeing and body odor) and there isn't a dedicated female restroom:

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I was one of 8 women out of class of 200 in engineering. Why didn't more women go into the field?  [...] So when you look around and there's no one like you (any minority will be able to relate to this), it can be hard to stay in that field. Plus - only nerds go into engineering and most girls don't see that as a great thing to be - the stereotypes of engineering are not particularly cool for women. The guy you're dating or later marry will get some heat from the guys around him if he doesn't "earn more" than you It's also a field of study that requires a lot of time in school (not a lot of time for those great parties other students go to). After all that is said, though, engineering has let me do whatever I want. I've worked in manufacturing, IT, HR, project management, etc., on projects around the globe. [...] I think there are so few women in engineering that it's hard for other women to see how this field works for them. Engineering is also not as flexible as many of the health care fields (part time work, weekend work, etc.) to the needs of women and families although there are significant efforts at changing that.

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Hmmmm...I like science fiction and video games....but I work in healthcare.  I'm also not too bad at math.
 
However, I will say that the field I am in (medical laboratory) is dominated by women.  To the point that women had their own bathroom in the lab at my last job, the other two bathrooms were unisex.
 
I care about people, but I don't want to see them in person, hence I work in the lab.  I thought about going into software programming, but it looked pretty boring compared to working with instruments, reading bacterial cultures and doing molecular testing.  Engineering seemed excessively difficult and expensive to get into.  Physics seemed like something I could never get a job with.

I suspect it distills to evolutionary game theory at the generative essence. In my experience women are more balanced than men (inhibiting themselves from the right tail?) when making long-range decisions on risking wellbeing and stability; and I posit (as I believe esr has stated) because they must nurture their offspring because they can't scatter an overabundance of eggs to many men. One of the sexes has to be made responsible for child rearing to prevent information loss in evolution, and the other has to be pushing the limits of variance to provide maximum opportunities for discarding information which is not optimally fit. That sentence comes from some research in biology. Men sacrifice wellbeing and risk-aversion continuously to take shot at winning against other males to better the odds of inseminating more women. Perhaps some women will risk their wellbeing in the heat of the moment (hindbrain?) with a badboy (e.g. who may carry STDs) which they perceive to be an alpha, probably because of the game theory of the probabilities in their evolutionary purpose. Refer to esr's past blogs on PUAs and hypergamy.
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Boomers in denial and state of disbelief...

Quote from: Mark Zimmer
Quote from: myself
"The West is dying and will go over the cliff in 2018"

BS my friend. Please don't go around shouting that the sky is falling.

The failure of the West is baked in due to the requirement to finance socialism. Asia and the developing world doesn't have this dead weight, which is why it will scale faster. The West has significantly greater hi-tech productivity, but unfortunately socialism is at a bankrupt crossroads and it needs to go, but politically it can't go. So the government is going to likely destroy its own hi-tech sector by for example requiring a backdoor on encryption. Socialism will kills the goose that lays the golden eggs. As for the 2018 date, it is going to surprise many people and I was hoping you wouldn't be one of them. Who predicted this Muslim crisis in Europe? Who predicted the Ukraine crisis well before it was on anyone's radar? Who predicted the 2007 subprime crash back in the 1990s? Who predicted precisely the crash and rise again of the Japanese stock market in the 1980s?

Armstrong and his $billion investment in A.I. and collection of 6000 years of every relevant shred of data he could find. The man who purchased a bust of Julius Caesar and can rattle off details of human history that will make you dizzy.
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Good for you man, for keeping in shape. But at 5'7" you have only succeeded in knocking out a dwarf in your workout. If you are just looking at a cardio vascular workout then thats fine - but if its any kind of training for your own physical self defence, then you need to be raising the bag and punching higher - you'll get more power punching uphill, cos then you are getting power all the way from your knees and above, potentially - try to punch with your body and not your arms. Tyson was a master at it - a natural.

Thanks for the tip. I noticed that too when watching the video again this time. Also instructor at my gym had mentioned not punching only with my arms.

Several times I have begged them to raise the bag higher at my gym. They have it so low because the steel cage holding it is low, their chain is not well designed for the application, and because many of the filipinos are shorter than me. Even in the house I am renting, the damn mirror in the restroom displays my neck (concrete walls and I don't own a drill).

I am punching it low because if I punch it higher there is not much filler in the bag up there, so it isn't solid and I don't get the thud feedback from the bag. I did try punch it higher and it felt like I was punching the top of a bowling pin where all the weight was below where I was punching so it just gave way.

Also you are viewing me sick where I was only working out perhaps once every 2 weeks or so. (And that was February 2015 and I got acutely more ill and lost all my muscle later in 2015)

If I get healthy, I won't look like that. That is no where near my athleticism potential when healthy. Even as a freshman in high school, my neck was good 1 inch thicker in circumference. I don't have any pics of myself from when I played American football, but here is one from my high school graduation wherein I had stopped playing American football for 3 years and was doing XCountry and middle and long distance for Track&Field and you can see here my neck even without weight training and being thin:



(Ah I would much prefer to be doing it than talking about it and showing pics of myself like a narcissistic pussy)

Put it this way, at 5'5" and maybe 135 lbs as a freshman in high school, I played the offensive guard and defensive end positions, which looked ridiculous since that is incredibly undersized for those positions. My natural positions were cornerback and wide receiver, but due to politics, coaching perceptions, lack of an opportunity to demonstrate my capabilities at my natural positions, and also due to myself being a team player and not caring where I played as long as I could play the entire game, I took the assignments that were less in demand. I had so much energy I did not want to rest even for one play. When the game was over, I wanted to continue playing. I wasn't tired. Ditto partying in college in California (after I left L.S.U.) where I didn't want to sleep even a 4am after drinking til you drop style. I wanted to eat and head to beach and drink some more. Play some volleyball at the beach, and then party again that evening. In 8th grade, I played flag football every afternoon at PE with the guys who ended up being our cornerbacks and wide receivers, and I was regularly the top player on the flag football field (even against African Americans) but I guess the coaches were just letting us play out there and not even paying attention. But I was accustomed to being the (especially laterally) quickest (not fastest) guy on the field in the USA (and that even the case later in 2002 in Texas in some pickup football games), but I had my ass handed to me by the filipinos. My ex's brother (a skinny 5'3" dancer) could run rings around me and I couldn't even lay a finger on him. Well that was when he was 17 and I was 29. Later when I was in my 40s and he was late 20s, he was considerably slower perhaps being out-of-shape, but that was just tossing the ball to each other. I didn't actually try to tackle him that day. I'd be very curious to experience Pacquiao's speed. The owner of a buffet near my house says he can introduce me to Manny after his next fight. I'm hoping i have time for that, am healthy enough to go down to GenSan and work out in his gym. Just dreaming. Note when I worked out on a junior college team one summer in California, I was shamed by negro wide receivers there. But I had degraded my quick twitch muscle fiber by doing so much long distance training the prior years. So I really don't know. I have always had too many interests to juggle, didn't focus enough on just one. Maybe many of you can relate to that dilemma. Oh another data point is I played pickup football in late 1980s with the incoming freshman recruits for the Cal Lutheran college in Thousand Oaks. I forget how many solo touchdowns I scored, but I was pretty dominant. I broke my nose on a big guy's knee that day but played on because I was enjoying it too much. Btw, I squatted with the lineman at that Junior college and after only a month of training, I was squatting 400+ lbs to parallel in a strict way.

I am punching with my arms partially to protect my rotator cuff. I can overpower the load that my joints can handle at this age, and especially being sick and not able to train consistently. As it was even with wraps and the gloves, I was messing my hands up (partially because I have a broken right hand (which makes my ring finger knuckle protrude when in a fist) due to punching a concrete wall when I was drunk in the 1990s). I really need to tape my hands, but I was just doing this for messing around. I wasn't yet taking it seriously because I can't even train seriously due to the illness I have. Due to inability to train, I had very minimal aerobic capacity as I was huffing and puffing after each ~40 seconds round. Lately I have been doing more running albeit quite limited by the illness (can't run more than 1.5 miles without abdominal pain stopping me), so I am still waiting for my cure to materialize so I can go balls out training. My resting pulse is still 40 given the enlarged heart from all my endurance training in high school.

Believe me, I am eagerly anticipating being cured and royally fucking up a heavy bag the way Tyson does. After 3 years of debilitating hell (and 6 years of declining health before that), I have some progress on a potential cure just in the past weeks.

What you probably don't realize is that for several days after doing that boxing in the video, I was probably laid up in the bed with horrible Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which is why I couldn't train. That evening, I was probably not feeling well after that day in the gym. Recently I am seeing some improvement on this, but I am still not 100% in the clear. Still having some issues.
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The risk of social stigma seems unsupported by some flimsy misinterpretations of a couple of anecdotes. My intuition is the ladies are not sufficiently motivated to work on the code until it works. Presuming Jeff Read's claim of women in biotech is factual, noting the anecdotes from TED script, and even glancing at Susan Sons' interest in children and education, points to women being highly motivated by social causes around childrearing, wellbeing, and family. Whereas men seem to be motivated by social causes involving innovative disruption of power structure, as noted by Kenpachi.

I posit the real risk here may be the combination of a perceived lack of direct applicability to women's social priorities and perhaps even the hypergamy opportunity cost of being locked away with nerds far from the social nexus of the workplace.

The cited Malaysian exception has misleading statistics. A UNESCO study says:

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In South Korea, for instance, the proportion of females enrolled at the bachelor level was 52% in science and 19.5% in engineering as of 2011. At the doctoral level, however, those numbers sunk to 38% and 12% respectively.

In addition within STEM fields in higher education, women overwhelmingly tend to pursue science-based disciplines rather than maths-based ones. This was the case even in countries which had comparatively higher rates of female participation in STEM fields than others in Asia, such as Malaysia, where females accounted for 62% of students enrolled in medicine, while comprising only 36% of those in engineering.

What seems to be happening w.r.t. computer science demographics in Malaysia is a combination of the strict culture which requires women to stay home with the children and programming being an outstanding income for virtual work, combined with what I see here in the neighboring southern Philippines, where the boys are reknown for not undertaking bookwork seriously and the girls do. The reason is actually hypergamy. The boys are dreaming of doing masculine work and the females are dreaming of learning English and a skill that enables them to go abroad to earn money to support their families and maybe also meet a handsome rich husband.

When it comes to world class innovation, men are most always going occupy those extreme outliers on the bell curve, because men are uniquely tooled to sacrifice everything to compete for those rarer eggs in the female. The smartest females are not going to risk their priorities just to be a trophy case statistical outlier.
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Yeah, that's why I said 2032 is possibly the date we will see socialism finally go extinct.

There's strong divides appearing now with people beginning to realize the problem is socialism, it's suffocating the life out of the middle class.

It isn't suffocating the life out of them in the UK - Junior doctors escalate industrial action to all-out strike next month

Unions are an integral element of liberal socialism and they destroy the middle class:



Its not a case of boomers dying - socialism is an idea. An idea that is adapting to current conditions - and is probably stronger today than it has been for 40 years, judging by the rise of Corbyn and Sanders. Not among "boomers", I hasten to add - but the disenfranchised and disposessed younger generation.

The industrial action proposed by the British Medical Association (a professional association as much as a union) is unprecedented. Looks like the middle class are becoming radicalised - and thats when the shit truly hits the fan, not when the working class become radicalised for eg.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi2Rev8OgcI (Myself 5'7", 69" reach, and 165 lbs a year ago and with a chronic illness and I've never really trained as a boxer, just messing around AFTER my 2 hour barbell workout)



Good for you man, for keeping in shape. But at 5'7" you have only succeeded in knocking out a dwarf in your workout. If you are just looking at a cardio vascular workout then thats fine - but if its any kind of training for your own physical self defence, then you need to be raising the bag and punching higher - you'll get more power punching uphill, cos then you are getting power all the way from your knees and above, potentially - try to punch with your body and not your arms. Tyson was a master at it - a natural.
I used to have an old kit bag full of sand hung up in the garage that I'd train on - but I'd always envisage fighting a guy of maybe 6'3", and aiming to hit him on the jaw for the big KO - if ever I were likely to be in a fight (which I'm most certainly not btw) this is more likely to be the size of guy I might be up against. I mean, why would I fight a guy smaller than me ? Where's the victory in that ? It'd be no victory at all.

But respect where respects due - keep at it.
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Regardless of the truth you're trying to reveal, practicaldreamer has a point.

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I've found the Socratic method to be far more effective than pressing an issue. Is everyone at the same level of awareness and understanding?

Building a community requires such couth.

Boulders need to be dynamited in order to become gravel— a pliant building material.

Talking (even circumspectly) to boulders is insane. Say nothing or get the dynamite.

Thinking rationally is one thing - it's hard to act rationally when angry. Not that I've been able to handle that exceptionally well...

Fire and passion can be a productive conduit for energy, a.k.a. "controlled rage", not necessarily a surge of cortisol that disrupts the pre-frontal cortex. I think it can also become a dopamine addiction if not properly directed. I am thinking it depends how the person has conditioned himself to direct his energy towards stimulating creativity and production, although I haven't studied this science around adrenal cognitive stimulation, adrenal fatigue and possible interactions with neurotransmitters such as dopamine:

http://scicurious.scientopia.org/2012/12/05/stressed-out-and-not-thinking-straight-blame-the-dopamine-in-your-prefrontal-cortex/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352289514000101

I have found that directing such energy stimulation into a combination of mental simulation and physical exertion, can properly direct this so it doesn't become an unproductive addition cycle (i.e. of trying to make needless drama to stimulate the dopamine rush into the brain). If a man never stimulate his adrenals, this can also have deleterious ramifications. A man wasn't given his hormonal structure just to sit at a desk and never get riled up.
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We all have our faults, try to except them. She is not changing you any more so why fight!

For most of my life I followed the policy of not telling my parents that which I knew they would not agree with, nor bothering to try to change them. And I think they adopted the same attitude about me, when they realized I was going to do everything different or probably from their perspective stupid or "bipolar" or what ever label my relatives wanted to stereotype on my experimentation. If curiousity doesn't kill you, it can make you stronger.

I was going to just leave it alone after deciding to end the call because it was a waste of time, but knowing my mother would then internalize it for weeks as if I was trying to hurt her, I felt compelled to write up something to try to explain to her that I got suckered into it. And when I started to write that email, I couldn't sugar coat and have it retain any relevant meaning. I just had to speak frankly otherwise I would be teaching myself how to make my life a confused doublespeak. At some point a man has to be a man and stop being moved off of his foundation otherwise he will be nothing to himself and this may be reflected in his own actions.

I think the following video by Evander Holyfield is inspirational:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADGDiNUcn14#t=49

Tyson bit Holyfield's ears out of frustration because Evander was employing his head as a third boxing arm. Evander has a very big and strong bone structure in his head and this is one of his assets. Evander conspicuously employed this technique in his second fight against Lennox Lewis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7a3i1VyUkY#t=243

One thing I like about Tyson is his frankness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emaVhjK_GKU#t=115

And his bizarre, bipolar mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emaVhjK_GKU#t=32

Arguably Manny Pacquiao lost his mojo when he become a devout Christian (and this is also apparently destroying his political career when he spoke out against gays).

Here is what I am talking about if you are too young to remember:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoCOg8ZzUfg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4WnPp754Uc

Comparing two 49 year olds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rz6j-1hnYU (Tyson 5'10", 71" reach, and 240 lbs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi2Rev8OgcI (Myself 5'7", 69" reach, and 165 lbs a year ago and with a chronic illness and I've never really trained as a boxer, just messing around AFTER my 2 hour barbell workout)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JByKcv8_uI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f5yKyb3mYs
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