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[Paashaas]

Coronavirus update:

- There are 93,083 confirmed cases worldwide, including 3,203 deaths.

- New day more countries infected: Chile, Argentina, Liechtenstein, Ukraine and Gibraltar.

- 6 cases in Sweden, 2 in Ireland, 4 new cases in British Columbia, Canada, 2 in New Zealand,  8 cases in Norway. 23 in Netherlands, 2 in Barzil, 10 in Denmark. 13 in Belgium. Singapore 110, Thailand 43. (Numbers piling up accross the globe)

- Japan confirms new case, bringing total to 1,000. South Korea reports 516 new cases total 5,328.

- A ninth person with coronavirus has died in Seattle in the US. North Carolina reports first case of coronavirus

- Twitter has told its employees in Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea to work from home.

- San Antonio declares health emergency.

- The Fed just implemented an emergency 50bps rate cut. The last time the Fed did this was October 29, 2008. The Dow tanked with 2.9%.

- UAE closing all schools for at least 4 weeks due to coronavirus.

- Spain reports first death from coronavirus in Valencia.

- England's National Health Service declares the highest level of emergency. UK case total hits 51.

- India, the world’s largest maker of generic drugs, restricts exports of some common medicines on fears coronavirus will causes shortages of ingredients.

- Iran plans to mobilise 300,000 soldiers and volunteers as number of cases passes 2,300 and 23 members of the parliament infected.

- Pope Francis has tested negative for coronavirus.

- Italy mulls cancelling all sporting events for a month, Juventus vs A.C Milan postponed.

- China’s services sector collapsed.

[jojo69]

half a bil seems kind of light to me

[Phil_S]

Commie!

Says the man raised on government cheese.

They should try it once. Should be fun. They can pretend it's from Bill Gates.

They already tried it, iirc, in 2001 and again in 2008.

Mailed lots of checks: $300 per person, $600 per married couple.

[nutildah]

Poor Bernie. The tide has turned against him today. America get ready for another round of your favorite presidential election game: Giant Douche vs. Turd Sandwich.

I don't see Biden as being "sharp" enough to beat Trump. Which is quite a sad testament to the state of things. Basically, politics as usual...

[JSRAW]

^^ https://twitter.com/larrydaliberal/status/1229234337859674115   

[Phil_S]

Logic.

[OutOfMemory]

Poor Bernie. The tide has turned against him today. America get ready for another round of your favorite presidential election game: Giant Douche vs. Turd Sandwich.

I don't see Biden as being "sharp" enough to beat Trump. Which is quite a sad testament to the state of things. Basically, politics as usual...

Biden's about only chance is to act as the "sane" guy. Trump has to look like a clown besides him. He tries so hard to look serious.
Or America is really that stupid, then it's "good night", like in Mike Judge's "Idiocracy"  

EDIT:
While it's not sunday
i'm in mood for a haiku
Waiting for pumps, too

 

[nutildah]

Biden's about only chance is to act as the "sane" guy.

That's a very tall order. They could make each other look not sane, senile, and gross, and they would both be right.

Or America is really that stupid, then it's "good night", like in Mike Judge's "Idiocracy"  

The Idiocracy effect has been slowly underway for the past couple decades.



The bright side is, according to the movie, we still have a few hundred years to go before people are really that level of dumb.

[Ibian]

The intro to Idiocracy explains it all. Life is so easy that it's better from a reproductive perspective to be stupid than intelligent. That is literally the entire explanation for everything going wrong today.

[Phil_S]

Biden's about only chance is to act as the "sane" guy. Trump has to look like a clown besides him. He tries so hard to look serious.

Who tries to look serious? Trump?

He's gone full Jerry Seinfeld, and seems to enjoy his new gig:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfl13QyQZKc

He will roast Biden to ashes.

[goldkingcoiner]

The intro to Idiocracy explains it all. Life is so easy that it's better from a reproductive perspective to be stupid than intelligent. That is literally the entire explanation for everything going wrong today.

The problem is that humanity is selflessness. Instead of kicking sick worker bees out of the hive, we do everything we can to treat them. We are going only as fast as our slowest member.

If we had a colder approach, I can't begin to imagine the kind of progress we would make.

But then again, if the goal is reached one way or another and the only difference is that kindness slows us down some, then thats fine with me.

[Ibian]

The intro to Idiocracy explains it all. Life is so easy that it's better from a reproductive perspective to be stupid than intelligent. That is literally the entire explanation for everything going wrong today.

The problem is that humanity is selflessness. Instead of kicking sick worker bees out of the hive, we do everything we can to treat them. We are going only as fast as our slowest member.

If we had a colder approach, I can't begin to imagine the kind of progress we would make.

But then again, if the goal is reached one way or another and the only difference is that kindness slows us down some, then thats fine with me.

We used to kill them. "Hunting accidents" in tribal times, sacrifices to the gods and burning people as witches as we got more advanced. We abandoned that for capitalism where the weak died on their own merits.

And it worked. We went from banging rocks together to form a sharper rock to everything we have now. Simple darwinism at work.

The problem is that they are the majority. It's the pareto principle, as the number of people increase the number of people with positive value increases linearly, and the number of people with negative value increases exponentially.

It's not simply a matter of things slowing down. They are actively trying to destroy their own culture, kill their own people. That's what metoo and deplatforming and all the other stuff is all about. They want to kill us, even if they risk becoming victims of their own creation.

The ultimate expression of this is communism. Just outright rounding people up and shooting them. And culture always moves to the left.

[Phil_S]

And what is that super-important goal?

I'd understand if we had to sacrifice our current comfort, because we're preparing for imminent alien invasion. Then we might need to go full Sparta.

Other than that...

[Ibian]

And what is that super-important goal?

I'd understand if we had to sacrifice our current comfort, because we're preparing for imminent alien invasion. Then we might need to go full Sparta.

Other than that...

Long term? Eventually the sun is going to die. Technology absolutely must progress far beyond where we are if we are going to survive long term.

In the short term, it would be nice if the west didn't turn into a bigger version of the soviet union. Just sayin.

[OutOfMemory]

Biden's about only chance is to act as the "sane" guy. Trump has to look like a clown besides him. He tries so hard to look serious.

Who tries to look serious? Trump?

He's gone full Jerry Seinfeld, and seems to enjoy his new gig:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfl13QyQZKc

He will roast Biden to ashes.

This video is actually a good example of what i was meaning.

The problem is that humanity is selflessness. Instead of kicking sick worker bees out of the hive, we do everything we can to treat them. We are going only as fast as our slowest member.

If we had a colder approach, I can't begin to imagine the kind of progress we would make.

But then again, if the goal is reached one way or another and the only difference is that kindness slows us down some, then thats fine with me.

We used to kill them. "Hunting accidents" in tribal times, sacrifices to the gods and burning people as witches as we got more advanced. We abandoned that for capitalism where the weak died on their own merits.

And it worked. We went from banging rocks together to form a sharper rock to everything we have now. Simple darwinism at work.

The problem is that they are the majority. It's the pareto principle, as the number of people increase the number of people with positive value increases linearly, and the number of people with negative value increases exponentially.

It's not simply a matter of things slowing down. They are actively trying to destroy their own culture, kill their own people. That's what metoo and deplatforming and all the other stuff is all about. They want to kill us, even if they risk becoming victims of their own creation.

The ultimate expression of this is communism. Just outright rounding people up and shooting them. And culture always moves to the left.

It worked in that society/state of evolution. But we're in a new age, an age where we are not forced to use our brains to survive and achieve "security", because we already have. But our brains go on, running wild, in any imaginable variant. A high developed brain in a world lacking of challenges creates challenges, and their carriers start to believe that their (current) personal life-challenge is real, so brainfuckery and reality gets mixed up.
We need to stop acting unconsciously and start to observe what our mind really does to us. This is the next step in evolution and it might take us thousands of years. In between we might get anywhere between the jetsons and the flintstones, possibly more than once.

And what is that super-important goal?

I'd understand if we had to sacrifice our current comfort, because we're preparing for imminent alien invasion. Then we might need to go full Sparta.

Other than that...

Long term? Eventually the sun is going to die. Technology absolutely must progress far beyond where we are if we are going to survive long term.

In the short term, it would be nice if the west didn't turn into a bigger version of the soviet union. Just sayin.

Don't worry. It's constantly swinging. We already had enough of that socialism, now we consider this as "normal", the pendulum starts to swing in the other direction again. History repeats itself. When the ww2 generation extincted, its grandchildren are ready to do it wrong all again.

EDIT:
There even isn't anything like "wrong" or "right", but just "results" of events.

[Ibian]

Biden's about only chance is to act as the "sane" guy. Trump has to look like a clown besides him. He tries so hard to look serious.

Who tries to look serious? Trump?

He's gone full Jerry Seinfeld, and seems to enjoy his new gig:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfl13QyQZKc

He will roast Biden to ashes.

This video is actually a good example of what i was meaning.

The problem is that humanity is selflessness. Instead of kicking sick worker bees out of the hive, we do everything we can to treat them. We are going only as fast as our slowest member.

If we had a colder approach, I can't begin to imagine the kind of progress we would make.

But then again, if the goal is reached one way or another and the only difference is that kindness slows us down some, then thats fine with me.

We used to kill them. "Hunting accidents" in tribal times, sacrifices to the gods and burning people as witches as we got more advanced. We abandoned that for capitalism where the weak died on their own merits.

And it worked. We went from banging rocks together to form a sharper rock to everything we have now. Simple darwinism at work.

The problem is that they are the majority. It's the pareto principle, as the number of people increase the number of people with positive value increases linearly, and the number of people with negative value increases exponentially.

It's not simply a matter of things slowing down. They are actively trying to destroy their own culture, kill their own people. That's what metoo and deplatforming and all the other stuff is all about. They want to kill us, even if they risk becoming victims of their own creation.

The ultimate expression of this is communism. Just outright rounding people up and shooting them. And culture always moves to the left.

It worked in that society/state of evolution. But we're in a new age, an age where we are not forced to use our brains to survive and achieve "security", because we already have. But our brains go on, running wild, in any imaginable variant. A high developed brain in a world lacking of challenges creates challenges, and their carriers start to believe that their (current) personal life-challenge is real, so brainfuckery and reality gets mixed up.
We need to stop acting unconsciously and start to observe what our mind really does to us. This is the next step in evolution and it might take us thousands of years. In between we might get anywhere between the jetsons and the flintstones, possibly more than once.

The current state is temporary. The ultimate driver behind any culture is the people who live in it. People today are objectively worse than in most of history. It's not just the boomers, we are all affected by whatever environment we happen to live in. Things are going to get worse as a result. How much worse, who knows, but worse.

And what is that super-important goal?

I'd understand if we had to sacrifice our current comfort, because we're preparing for imminent alien invasion. Then we might need to go full Sparta.

Other than that...

Long term? Eventually the sun is going to die. Technology absolutely must progress far beyond where we are if we are going to survive long term.

In the short term, it would be nice if the west didn't turn into a bigger version of the soviet union. Just sayin.

Don't worry. It's constantly swinging. We already had enough of that socialism, now we consider this as "normal", the pendulum starts to swing in the other direction again. History repeats itself. When the ww2 generation extincted, its grandchildren are ready to do it wrong all again.

EDIT:
There even isn't anything like "wrong" or "right", but just "results" of events.

It's not a pendulum, it's a cycle. It can't restart before it has either completed or a specific type of event happens that resets it. The "pendulum" does not simply stop at the halfway point and then go in the other direction.

[OutOfMemory]

Biden's about only chance is to act as the "sane" guy. Trump has to look like a clown besides him. He tries so hard to look serious.

Who tries to look serious? Trump?

He's gone full Jerry Seinfeld, and seems to enjoy his new gig:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfl13QyQZKc

He will roast Biden to ashes.

This video is actually a good example of what i was meaning.

The problem is that humanity is selflessness. Instead of kicking sick worker bees out of the hive, we do everything we can to treat them. We are going only as fast as our slowest member.

If we had a colder approach, I can't begin to imagine the kind of progress we would make.

But then again, if the goal is reached one way or another and the only difference is that kindness slows us down some, then thats fine with me.

We used to kill them. "Hunting accidents" in tribal times, sacrifices to the gods and burning people as witches as we got more advanced. We abandoned that for capitalism where the weak died on their own merits.

And it worked. We went from banging rocks together to form a sharper rock to everything we have now. Simple darwinism at work.

The problem is that they are the majority. It's the pareto principle, as the number of people increase the number of people with positive value increases linearly, and the number of people with negative value increases exponentially.

It's not simply a matter of things slowing down. They are actively trying to destroy their own culture, kill their own people. That's what metoo and deplatforming and all the other stuff is all about. They want to kill us, even if they risk becoming victims of their own creation.

The ultimate expression of this is communism. Just outright rounding people up and shooting them. And culture always moves to the left.

It worked in that society/state of evolution. But we're in a new age, an age where we are not forced to use our brains to survive and achieve "security", because we already have. But our brains go on, running wild, in any imaginable variant. A high developed brain in a world lacking of challenges creates challenges, and their carriers start to believe that their (current) personal life-challenge is real, so brainfuckery and reality gets mixed up.
We need to stop acting unconsciously and start to observe what our mind really does to us. This is the next step in evolution and it might take us thousands of years. In between we might get anywhere between the jetsons and the flintstones, possibly more than once.

The current state is temporary. The ultimate driver behind any culture is the people who live in it. People today are objectively worse than in most of history. It's not just the boomers, we are all affected by whatever environment we happen to live in. Things are going to get worse as a result. How much worse, who knows, but worse.

And what is that super-important goal?

I'd understand if we had to sacrifice our current comfort, because we're preparing for imminent alien invasion. Then we might need to go full Sparta.

Other than that...

Long term? Eventually the sun is going to die. Technology absolutely must progress far beyond where we are if we are going to survive long term.

In the short term, it would be nice if the west didn't turn into a bigger version of the soviet union. Just sayin.

Don't worry. It's constantly swinging. We already had enough of that socialism, now we consider this as "normal", the pendulum starts to swing in the other direction again. History repeats itself. When the ww2 generation extincted, its grandchildren are ready to do it wrong all again.

EDIT:
There even isn't anything like "wrong" or "right", but just "results" of events.

It's not a pendulum, it's a cycle. It can't restart before it has either completed or a specific type of event happens that resets it. The "pendulum" does not simply stop at the halfway point and then go in the other direction.

This is a point-of-view issue. If you look at a circle from the side, with a point moving with linear speed along the circle, it moves at the speed "pattern" of a pendulum. Don't know how to better describe this in english, but the essence is that we're trying to express the same thing(s), imo.

EDIT: Or a half circle, and the moving point moves from end to end.

And all things are temporary. Almost all. I totall agree with that.

[HairyMaclairy]

Word on the street is that the Japanese government is massively under-reporting cases in a last ditch attempt to save the Olympics. Their numbers are off by at least an order of magnitude.  

[OutOfMemory]

Word on the street is that the Japanese government is massively under-reporting cases in a last ditch attempt to save the Olympics. Their numbers are off by at least an order of magnitude.  

So it's: Sacrifice the weak and elderly, overload and ruin healthcare to save the olympics?
I thought Japanese were intelligent?

[Ibian]

Biden's about only chance is to act as the "sane" guy. Trump has to look like a clown besides him. He tries so hard to look serious.

Who tries to look serious? Trump?

He's gone full Jerry Seinfeld, and seems to enjoy his new gig:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfl13QyQZKc

He will roast Biden to ashes.

This video is actually a good example of what i was meaning.

The problem is that humanity is selflessness. Instead of kicking sick worker bees out of the hive, we do everything we can to treat them. We are going only as fast as our slowest member.

If we had a colder approach, I can't begin to imagine the kind of progress we would make.

But then again, if the goal is reached one way or another and the only difference is that kindness slows us down some, then thats fine with me.

We used to kill them. "Hunting accidents" in tribal times, sacrifices to the gods and burning people as witches as we got more advanced. We abandoned that for capitalism where the weak died on their own merits.

And it worked. We went from banging rocks together to form a sharper rock to everything we have now. Simple darwinism at work.

The problem is that they are the majority. It's the pareto principle, as the number of people increase the number of people with positive value increases linearly, and the number of people with negative value increases exponentially.

It's not simply a matter of things slowing down. They are actively trying to destroy their own culture, kill their own people. That's what metoo and deplatforming and all the other stuff is all about. They want to kill us, even if they risk becoming victims of their own creation.

The ultimate expression of this is communism. Just outright rounding people up and shooting them. And culture always moves to the left.

It worked in that society/state of evolution. But we're in a new age, an age where we are not forced to use our brains to survive and achieve "security", because we already have. But our brains go on, running wild, in any imaginable variant. A high developed brain in a world lacking of challenges creates challenges, and their carriers start to believe that their (current) personal life-challenge is real, so brainfuckery and reality gets mixed up.
We need to stop acting unconsciously and start to observe what our mind really does to us. This is the next step in evolution and it might take us thousands of years. In between we might get anywhere between the jetsons and the flintstones, possibly more than once.

The current state is temporary. The ultimate driver behind any culture is the people who live in it. People today are objectively worse than in most of history. It's not just the boomers, we are all affected by whatever environment we happen to live in. Things are going to get worse as a result. How much worse, who knows, but worse.

And what is that super-important goal?

I'd understand if we had to sacrifice our current comfort, because we're preparing for imminent alien invasion. Then we might need to go full Sparta.

Other than that...

Long term? Eventually the sun is going to die. Technology absolutely must progress far beyond where we are if we are going to survive long term.

In the short term, it would be nice if the west didn't turn into a bigger version of the soviet union. Just sayin.

Don't worry. It's constantly swinging. We already had enough of that socialism, now we consider this as "normal", the pendulum starts to swing in the other direction again. History repeats itself. When the ww2 generation extincted, its grandchildren are ready to do it wrong all again.

EDIT:
There even isn't anything like "wrong" or "right", but just "results" of events.

It's not a pendulum, it's a cycle. It can't restart before it has either completed or a specific type of event happens that resets it. The "pendulum" does not simply stop at the halfway point and then go in the other direction.

This is a point-of-view issue. If you look at a circle from the side, with a point moving with linear speed along the circle, it moves at the speed "pattern" of a pendulum. Don't know how to better describe this in english, but the essence is that we're trying to express the same thing(s), imo.

EDIT: Or a half circle, and the moving point moves from end to end.

And all things are temporary. Almost all. I totall agree with that.

It's a historical issue.

http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf

We had pretty pictures of the cycle of empire recently, nobody argued against that. Why now?