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Unseen, that is true. But a sharp decline will cause people to evaluate all of their assets.

Unseen, that sounds good but i think you have to ask what happens when the market crashes. I doubt bitcoin will react with the market as a whole. It will either perform much better or much worse. My guess is worse but i should stick to what i know which is race horses.

My friend tried to buy bitcoin when it was just beginning. Would have made a bundle but could not get transaction done and got frustrated and said fuck it.

I don’t profess any expertise in this area but bitcoin strikes me as tulips without the tulips. It is nothing but it is being treated like it is everything. When the crash comes and surer…[Read more]

Back to the topic of monarchies in the present.

Again it is not the most significant issue but in an ideal world we would have no vestige of monarchy in today’s government. Even as figureheads monarchies are an affirmation of a system of government that caused so much suffering and enforced social norms of unspeakable inequality. In fact in…[Read more]

Enco, consider the world as it is versus the world as we perceive it.

Whether it is a chiropractor or a respected orthopedic surgeon the medical opinion will be set aside if it is not consistent with the diagnostic tests. Adjusters examine medical reports, medical notes and radiology reports carefully. In the ordinary course of events after a…[Read more]

Chiropractic medicine is a good grift. It is not as bad as the priesthood though. But both rely on bullshit and ask their customers to believe. Evidence? Fugettaboutit. According to Forbes in 2017 average salary of 86k and in R I 148k. Not bad. And i am sure some of the better priests of back cracking are F’ing their patients-some consensually…[Read more]

Reg, good tip, good article.

My only issue with the author’s article is that having a subluxation does or can affect health. Those who are not ambulatory or less so due to back pain for any extended period suffer the consequences of being sedentary.

Enco., I am not sure how how you think chiros promote perception of victimization or misuse safety nets. Maybe it was in an article you linked?

I am only telling you what i observed. Chiropractors are excellent at promoting their business. They are not reluctant to advertise. In both the medical and legal profession there is a funny notion that…[Read more]

Simon I agree that mental disorders are not best defined in the simplest terms and most convenient definitions. Autism is seen as being in a spectrum. The neat little categories of other disorders are not as neat and tidy as perceived.

Tongue disappeared.

In my experience chiros are unabashed business persons. And they do play ball with the P.I. attorneys. They give high permanent partial disability ratings when the patient has concluded treatment. They tend to relate injuries to accidents and or aggravations of preexisting injuries. Those ratings along with causation are a significant aspect of…[Read more]

I agree Unseen. Trump would sell out his base in the same way Martin Luther sold out the peasants.

Man, that chart describes a woman who wreacked havoc in my life. Be gone Satan. Long gone.

Yeah, what an advantage psycopathy is if the objective is simply to “get ahead”.

Even if you are a dull witted psychopath you can become a demagogue. His orangeness is a prime example. For the masses to receive a charismatic leader it seems that leader is best served being meretricious, suspicious, vicious, malicious and perhaps seditious.

In…[Read more]

Unseen, i brought up psychopaths because according to some psych. literature they do it without drawing on empathic feelings/emotions and if the sci-fi like prognostications of super intelligence/singularity emerge then they will too.

You may well be right about how it will be disposed to homos or you may be wrong. If it is like we are then we…[Read more]

Is experiencing feelings/emotions necessary for understanding those feelings/emotions?

Psychopaths understand when it benefits them to do so.

I have little doubt that AI will understand because emotions are a result of evolution and they will understand evolution on a more sophisticated level than we do. But it is interesting to contemplate…[Read more]

Davis, it seems we agree. Same perception of the Greeks, in agreement with your big 3. I am assuming without knowing that you imagine a humanist civilization will not be as warlike and will cooperate especially when there are existential threats. I also assume we are in agreement that it is not fair to bring up the religious apologists’ examples…[Read more]