Periodic Dosage Archive 2018-02
[The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature By Steven Pinker. At Buy at amazon ]
Why Did Korean Split and China/Taiwan Split?
Remember, Korean split, is due to selfish external forces, Russian and USA, particularly USA. Same is the China/Taiwan split.
Now that USA is at risk. You wonder, if external forces are more than happy to help you out.
massive YouTube censorship.
Should Harmful Truth be Hidden?
if truth turns out harmful, it is still better to spread it than hide it, because, long term, hiding truth is more harmful. Hiding truth gives you temp comfort.
Google, could easily, enforce hiring 50% women. But, if they do, the company would fail over night. They knew it. The hard sciences graduate are only ~20% female. The solution, is to get girls stop following @KimKardashian and @Cosmopolitan and study math.
context: https://twitter.com/xah_lee/status/965034097423761408
Dalai Lama is a Conman
the dalai lama, is a conman. He is good at saying sappy emotionally pleasing things, equivalent to kitten puppy pictures, but solves nothing. The tibet buddhism practices torture, slavery, cruelty, worse than christianity in the past, before the communist china abolished it.
context https://twitter.com/xah_lee/status/964616191024115712
for video lecture by historian Li Ao on Tibet, photos of its practice of torture, skinning in obedient etc, see Li Ao on Tibet and Dalai Lama
I think humans always have certain warmth. e.g. when disaster happens, blood donation, we can see it. While, we not willing to help our neighbors.
The sort of thing Lama spreads, is the same the extreme leftist are evoking today, “help”, “empathy”. Pure empty emotion. That humanity don't lack, but war and cruelty don't decrease by that. Lack of love and knowledge do better (as Bertrand Russell says). (that is, caring, and science)
i'd say, to know buddhism in depth, you have to be in Asia, speak Chinese or other asian lang. Buddhism is asian thing, with lots deep history and culture, and lots branches too. Similar to the history of Abrahamic religions.
Westerners, speaks of meditation, yoga, zen, etc things, as cool, fashionable things. In some way, it makes sense, in many, not. In Taiwan for example, every 50 meters, you'll see a temple or burning incense or buddha etc stuff, and a buddha platform in almost every home.
though, most of us, do not do meditation or thought about that. What westerners know about buddhism, is kinda Americanized. It's attractive partly because, it's exotic, seems peaceful, and a relief outlet for professional yuppies jaded of comfy life.
Tibet, and that Lama, rose to fame, for political reasons. First, by Chiang Kai-shek, to incite rebels as a way to thwart communist China, then by USA, for the same reason.
if you haven't seen this yet, check it out Li Ao on Tibet and Dalai Lama but as always, judge for yourself.
there are many branches of buddhism. It has origin in India, and India today has lots branches (am not too familiar. But eg idolizing a elephant headed god, you might have seen). Then, China, Japan, and South Asia (e.g. Thailand), has their own variations.
Tibet buddhism, is its own. Tibet is in a high plateau (0.5 km elevation) isolated from the rest of the world. Not until 2006, china built Qinghai–Tibet railway that opened the region.
i didn't know what Thai Forrest was. Looked up wikip. Am not sure about Dhamma. Note that, it is not scientific thing. Along with reincarnation, it's superstition, as astrology and god and jesus. But, it is a belief system. So, to me, it's up to what you believe.
the current #emacs maintainer John Wiegley, is heavily into Baha'i. you can see him posting on reddit about it. And the shen lisp http://www.shenlanguage.org/ creator Mark Tarver, is also a devout buddhism (am not sure what branch). i think he's actually a certified monk of some system.
i myself believe none of it. I think it's superstition nonsense. But, am with Camille Paglia, that i respect religion and think we should study it, because, it held humanity, for whatever reasons. And, to me, today's sjw situation in white nations, is a total collapse of that structure.
Ban Gun?
[2018-02-16 in the news, Florida highschool shooting]
woot! good old @walmart has ar-15 https://www.walmart.com/c/kp/ar15-m16
it seems, total costs of owning gun is ~$200 and up. And you can get concealed carry. https://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/gun-shots/2013/03/how-much-does-it-cost-own-firearm-state-state-breakdown
AR-15 seems to be $600 and up.
my opinion on baning gun was that i am neutral. Sure, ban it reduce death. If you ban car, reduces even more death. Real issue is the mindset health of people in the country.
Since 2017, my opinion on gun is that it should not be ban'd in USA, due to the behavior certain group.
if you think about number of deaths of gun violence, remember, to compare to Iraq war or other that US caused, by George Bush and Hillary. That's hundreds of thousands. Who do these people cry to? Sip chai at starbucks and carry on with ya iphone. By tomorrow, you wont remember a thing.
Spy vs Spy: Tech Geekers vs Spammers. ads vs ad blocking, tech war escalation
ad blocking debate https://twitter.com/xah_lee/status/964226415527907336
was against ad blocking. Cuz, 'was mostly open source FSF “free” software geek fanatics want everything free pushing for their agenda. Now am for ad-blocking, because major pop news sites have become blatant fake news sites. Everyone, install @ublockorigin or @braveXah Lee added,
context:
@lukemulks Took a closer look under the hood at http://Salon.com “ad suppression in exchange for client-side mining” today…from blocking extensions…here's how it went.
Replying to @xah_lee @ublockorigin @brave
the politics angle aside, it's more significant that ads were always a security liability. only times I ever experienced close calls with malware (before I used adblockers and NoScript) were from script-using ads -- all from “reputable” sites like Forbes, SourceForge, etc.
am unsure about that. Ads became that way, partly because it's fighting the tech geekers. This traces back to spam in newsgroups, ever since internet began. it's spy vs spy. The tech geekers only think of tech ways to fight it, not consider the whole situation.
so, what we have is escalation. The publishers, of course need money to survive, while, a lot of os/fsf fanatics, drivel about info must be free, and rip music, pirate dvd, etc, a swishing in/out of FSF ideal and stealing and anarchy. Each basically push for their own interest.
Spy vs Spy: Tech Geekers vs Spammers
ad blockers themselves need money to survive. Typically they began as nerd's hobby. When they got big, they sell out, just like nice words from big corps, saying some about Good Ads. Some, simply sold out and do things in the dark. 'this the history of adblock.
well known websites has virus ads, because, the ad market is cut-throat itself, lots spamers, scams, and with big corp such as google, each pushing for their own interest. It's a big business network. Each do nice public talking, but max $ by all means necessary.
google is a good example. From do-no-evil to extreme evil. Apple too, began blocking, well only because, they not in ad business, and they don't block their own ads. Now, ad block become popular, google get into next step, chrome, with blocking they control themselves.
When a person's sanity is at balance,
when human passion is raging,
no etiquette must get in the way.
-- Xah Lee, 2001.
Netiquette Anthropology: Tales of Tech Geekers
the meaning of the word troll has mutated over the past 3 decades. In 90s, it was wisecracker in tech, in 2000s, it's anyone u disagree with, in 2010s it became mainstream, a witch hunt, of anyone who disagree with the extreme left, connotes to bullying.
who brought the word “troll” from programing community to become mainstream “bullying”? 'was the bigshot open source fanatic tech writers. their drivel grace sites as slashdot, reddit, boingboing etc in the 2000s, and the “we wanna help” mentality nerd armies approved and echoed.
Troll Definition from Jargon File, 2003 Troll Definition from Jargon File
note the term Netiquette (and FAQ), are popular net lingoes, from 1980s to 2000s. Everyone who goes online knew. Today, most millennials probably never heard of.
Back then, most tech geekers, insist, that new comers should read faq to prevent a forum from incessant newbie questions. That's also gone, since stackoverflow in ~2007. But today, stackoverflow itself is even dumber incessant newbie questions.
why are programers sjw?
It seems to me, lots programers in SF/NY area, are sjwish, is actually cuz most of them do not know better.
They've been fed propaganda from mainstream media. Most people, don't have time nor inclination to actually see news or dig.
they hear news, and reinforced by fellow programers, and social media hole of their own.
i mean, i've been looking into just why or how there are these extreme sjw. It's complex. Basically,
- (1) from intentional rich scums, e.g. Hillary or other political leaders, or academics, or “diversity” administrators, etc, who is in it to make money or climb the ladder.
- (2) unintentional. Most young college students, and programers, or scientists. Who just been fed too much mainstream news. Gets angry. Their life is good, they have white guilt. They really just want to “help” the world.
- (3) lots inbetweens.
best seller now. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson.
of online political tweets, there are 2 types
of online political tweets, there are 2 types: real political issues, e.g. war/military, economics, national/international policy, government stuff. Then there's social stuff, like sex, local crime outrage, police, sjw stuff.
the national/international policy/economics/gov stuff is far more important than social stuff. Fewer people posts those. But also, nobody really understand them. Unless you are a professor of a narrow field for 10 years. (net neutrality is a example)
the social stuff, e.g. men/women, porn, people clans, the things the sjw talks about, is almost trivial, but more relevant to each person. It causes more shouting, and also blindness, and cult formation. (this would be like, programing language cult/war)
note that, of the people who tweet political stuff, are people whose life's good and comfy. When you are well fed and got nothing to do, activism is a good hobby.
the social order of human animals is fickle. It could become Lord Of The Flies overnight. Cruelty, atrocity, killing, torture. All it takes is some disaster or something that disrupt police/communication/outsiders. This is best illustrated in zombie movies.
even without zombies or big natural disaster, it easily happens locally in small scale. Evergreen State College incident is a good example. Evergreen State College Racism Controversy
Laura Loomer
ok. there's Laura Loomer. I just looked up. I don't want follow her. i followed via some retweet recently but dunno who she was. Then, she tends to be spammy n questionable stuff. Then, i looked up. Rabble rouser is the word. Though, there r worse, eg. alex jones fuckhead.
Julian Assange's Twitter Account Incident 2017-12-24 (on its own page)
Unabomber's Predictions Came True
hum... Ted Kaczynski (aka the unabomber) did just that. lol.
context: https://twitter.com/xah_lee/status/960813320776265728
but his predictions seems to have come true. I didn't believe it when i read his manifesto. the full text i annotated back then:
South Africa White Massacre
there are 3 times privite security guards than police and military combined.
looks like @Lauren_Southern is doing something important. She was just a innocent girl against sjw left. Then became more involved, became activist and independent reporter. Went thru a lot, but still mostly bland, academically or socially. But this is something different.
she went to Africa to do investigative reporting. Something about farming there, involving gov and powerful criminals.
@Lauren_Southern reporting on South Africa situation.
South Africa is going to war. Race war, with guns. @Lauren_Southern reporting.
lauren, for new footage, wear less or none makeup. It's better that way. (and you are already naturally most beautiful.) And also perhaps do less injecting your opinions. Just report. ur vid often has u “omg this is so wrong”. That's not good for reporting.
. @Lauren_Southern 's video's kinda annoying. Because in every one of them, she paints a picture, with kinda satirical overtone and facial expression, over whatever she's reporting. Stop that habit Lauren, if you wanna do documentary. We like your videos.
The Authoritarian Left, Free expression, and Gender with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
the big question, is whether the sjw is going to continue gaining power. Hard question, but i think ultimately not. There are too many problems. I think the real question is when the sjw will fall flat. Or, before sjw runs the show 100%, USA would have fallen.
takes 2 things to do a thing: willingness and ability. And, you must first have desire.
what a hollywood actress said about kill bill
on twitter, Jessica Chastain says:
I keep imagining Tarantino spitting in Uma's face and strangling her with a chain for KILL BILL. How many images of women in media do we celebrate that showcase abuse? When did this become normalized 'entertainment'?
[source https://twitter.com/jes_chastain/status/959983660005933056]
what the hell is she thinking?
in films, where men r being killed, tortured by other men. From war movie to crime to gangster to gunslinger to sword fighting. I think that's be 1k times more than women as victim. When Kill Bill came out, it was hailed as woman as hero for a change, 6 female main char vs 2 male.
and Jessica Chastain says:
When violence against women is used as a plot device to make the characters stronger then we have a problem. It is not empowering to be beaten and raped, yet so many films make it their 'pheonix' moment for women. We don't need abuse in order to be powerful. We already are.
[ source https://twitter.com/jes_chastain/status/959997879569059841]
my answer:
Hollywood movies are crafted to make money, caters to what people want to see. e.g. 50 Shades of Gray caters to female audience, and is highly successful, similar to Romance Novels that women buy. Kill Bill, is kung fu action movie, it caters to male audience.
the feminism movement has derailed since 1990s. (and thank you for fighting it since) Today became lgbtq and whatnot. It has lots deep conflicts. Any length of skirt seems wrong. Yet the focus is always skirt length. And now women dress up as vagina. 😂James Damore vs Google (on its own page)
following are now on its own page
Train Wreck in USA
in china, japan, euro, bullet trains are everywhere. USA is still heavy weight diesel train, breaks down every week, and now “electrification”
context: https://twitter.com/Caltrain/status/959507683694071808