Notices by Phileosopher :verified: (phileosopher@noagendasocial.com)

@Djeep

That's actually how most things are sold. All the pros, none of the cons.

It's actually the basis for most social problems in a nuclear-deconstructed society. If everyone younger was raised by good parents, their parents' wisdom would bleed out and they'd have the sense to spot bad things before they became a popular social trend.

@DudeNamedBenNamedBen @ned

How reliable are these votes? I'm not familiar with Aussie politics, but are there ways to find missing votes in the back of a trunk somewhere like in the USA?

@ned @adam

Does anyone have a running tally somewhere of their predictions? If not, we ought to get on that!

@ned @Sophistifunk

Either you make your website offend them, or find a way to filter them out.

My personal recommendation is to discuss philosophy on your site, specifically what defines the essence of true manliness. Gets rid of them fast.

@Sophistifunk

EU startups have been plagued forever, and they all go to the US.

The problem over here is that everyone has a legal fiction attached to their SS #, which have been augmented into bureau-gathered datalist-for-sale about anything anyone does within the 50 states.

In other words, it's questionable for government to track everything you do without a warrant, but perfectly lawful to privately contract a corporation to do it.

@Sophistifunk

We've been pretty downwind from the dump ever since the EU made better privacy laws than the US has had. The GDPR now leads the way in giving individual citizens liberties.

I anticipate 1850's-style crap, followed by something like that one little war in 1861. The result of it will probably give the proles even *more* liberties.

Never underestimate the power of the unwashed masses.

I'm going to call it: we're going to have an OJ Simpson-style court hearing circus during the 2024 election. The Democrats will get more disgusted at Republicans and rednecks, and the Republicans will get more disgusted at Democrats and large institutions. #rockthevote

@victor

The problem is that there's not really another government debt-based currency that's:

1. running an economy large enough to support the world as a reserve currency (rules out most of the world)
2. has a government that other countries feel safe with (rules out China)
3. has current dominance in most of the world as a currency (rules out the EU, which is trying to edge into this).

The problem is that, in spite of the weirdness, US dollars are still popular with the unwashed.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/fitch-cuts-us-governments-aaa-credit-rating-by-one-notch-2023-08-01/

...which leads to an attempt to replace the US:

https://fortune.com/2023/08/02/9-here-remaining-aaa-countries-after-fitch-stripped-us-of-top-ranking/

Nobody thinks that'll happen, and that this is a political move, but it's still sneaky sneaky.

I guess everyone's gonna get Bitcoin now?

@ned

What I *will* agree heavily on, though, is that we do have this sort of a post-post-modernism, or meta-modernism, or something, and that's definitely a thing that trendy people are trying to do.

The problem is that being any sort of meta-anything requires lots of sitting and pondering, and refining or validating information is the LAST thing on almost anyone's mind. The results are predictably bad, and most of DEVO's lyrics could apply today.

@ned

You're right that people get what they want, but there's a very big difference between an advertised trend and an actual trend. Everyone has adopted the automotive, but not as many people were into disco in the 1970's as you would think.

I'm badly saying, in other words, that the hype train makes things sound like everything is all slanted one way, when maybe an outspoken and idiotic 20-30% are into it. First realized it after those 15 Days To Flatten The Curve.

@ned

Quotable nothings are like drums in a band, or sugar: great in small-enough doses, but can overwhelm the art and leave a state of overwhelm in your brain.

The story itself is also oddly aspirational. It's the sentiment of Dora the Explorer or Spongebob in the face of utter darkness. True heroes no longer have grit: they just laugh a lot.

But, bear in mind, this isn't millennial thinking, and is only Deep State Hollywood's attempt to perform art when nobody there integrated their shadow.

@ned

I think I can parse the style you're talking about. It birthed in Joss Whedon pop culture (e.g., Buffy the Vampire Slayer).

Imagine 2 people at a bar:
A - Got in a fight yesterday.
B - Those battles'll kill ya!
A - Girl dumped me after that.
B - I had a date with an elf once, but she was actually from Finland.
A - That's what they say about women.

It's quotable dialogue, but AT each other, with no character or world dev in it.