Jim

TheEncogitationer wrote:
AI could provide vastly sped up analysis of drug interactions and side effects…provided, of course that it isn’t infected by Elmo Hitler. (By the way, would there be an Elmo Hitler if there were no Corporation for Public broadcasting to birth Elmo in the first place? 🤔😁)

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A tall order, but it could be done if onl…

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Reg,

I’ll be the first to say that there need to be private alternatives set up side-by-side with attempts to scale back bureaucracy, not just a willy-nilly tearing things down.

AI could provide vastly sped up analysis of drug interactions and side effects…provided, of course that it isn’t infected by Elmo Hitler. (By the way, would there be…[Read more]

@Enco – This is just another day of government plodding with a different boss.

I can’t make a very strong argument against that. But this time, while it is a different boss, it is also a new form of plodding. Collapsing the FDA will be a mistake. Reforming it should be the priority. It should have happened a lot sooner, but meaningful reform can…[Read more]

Reg,

Collapsing the FDA is also domestic terrorism.

Color me unterrorized but very disgusted. This is just another day of government plodding with a different boss.

Look, all they have to do is see that products are not dangerous when used as prescribed. Effectiveness is something that takes trial and error to determine and that should be…[Read more]

Reg,

Yes, but it is still the contents page from the “How to become a Dictator” handbook. The extreme right are all wrong.

Doesn’t make it Gospel (and, of course, The Gospel is not Gospel.). A book that doesn’t get it right about Hitler can’t possibly be any help in understanding the nature of tyranny.

What form of government do Americans want?

I asked Zonk, my LLM.

Around 21-25% of Americans favor a system where the president has unilateral power, akin to a dictatorship. This percentage is relatively consistent across different polls. Here’s a breakdown {{IE_0}}¹{{/IE_0}} {{IE_1}}²{{/IE_1}} {{IE_2}}³{{/IE_2}}:
– Support for Au…[Read more]

Yes, it’s frightening how quickly all the rich and powerful (except Rupert Murdoch) are spinelessly caving in to kiss the orange arse.  After Trump’s reign is over, they will be called collaborators.

On Friday, during an interview on CNBC, the House speaker, Mike Johnson, claimed that President Trump was among the most popular people to ever occupy the Oval Office.

The president is the most maligned and attacked political figure in the history of American politics. There’s no question about it, but he’s also the most resilient. And you see…[Read more]

In 1946, George Orwell described good writing as “picking out words for the sake of their meaning,” a practice that dictionaries catalyze and writing programs stifle. Writers consulting a dictionary make a choice — writers guided by an app like Grammarly have their choices made for them.

Where Grammarly says, “Stay on-brand with consist…[Read more]

That sign is wrong on one point and only half-right on others.

Yes, but it is still the contents page from the “How to become a Dictator” handbook. The extreme right are all wrong.

Intelligent believers: Not stupid, just illogical

Excellent article. Economic and packed with information. All of those concepts should be integral to basic education. Nevertheless i disagree in how the author chracterizes intelligence. General intelligence is ruthless in its critical nature. It does not bend over for its own comfort. It…[Read more]

Reg,

That sign is wrong on one point and only half-right on others.

Hitler didn’t start by blaming immigrants. The people he blamed for all the world’s problems were part of Germanic and European society for nearly 1000 years. Today’s Hitler would gladly bring in Islamic invaders if Germans didn’t want to do Krystallnacht.

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You’re very welcome Strega!

Thank you Reg!!!

Have a great week everyone!

@Jakelafort, I am sure that if I walked into a sociology class today, the professor would first ask for my preferred pronouns, then remind the class of the intersectional power dynamics of punctuality, and only then ask if I agreed with the modernized version of the statement that now asserts that “A system is a cohesive whole shaped by bounded r…[Read more]

And Reg as to sociology class ya took me back to my college snooze fest sociology class. I sat next to my roomate in the back of the class. The guy was always high and making me laugh. Prof thought i was a total moron. First exam got highest score. He found out i was only half way to being a moron.

Am posting like an animal spraying my scent…[Read more]

@Jakelafort, I think your posted into the wrong post (like me now)…but no matter.

Your words “Well articulated ideas forming a cohesive something something” reminded me of year one, day one in my Sociology class (it was a business degree course) when the professor announced within the first minute that “a system is a cohesive whole founded…[Read more]

Bravo Reg.

Well articulated ideas forming a cohesive something something. Only aspect i think you are generous is in assuming it requires any conditions to make people believe anything however F’ing stupid or insane although i suppose certain stressors will do just that or add tabasco to the hot tamale.

Globalize the intifada bitches!

Enco says: Conditions for entry are alright in a free society, even silly ones, but not conditions of exit. Conditions for exit are what the Mob and Muslim creeds impose and are crummy and not cromulent.

Yes, indeed, imagine all that. John Lennon wouldn’t have made that sappy song. No Heaven and Hell is a given, but I’m keeping the toaster, TV,…[Read more]