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gwiss (48)in #society • 7 years ago
Bill Cosby versus Roman Polanski
Source @dana-edwards had a post yesterday about whether Bill Cosby was guilty of rape or not, and in the process of trying to find out whether there has been any objective…
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gwiss (48)in #philosophy • 7 years ago
Spiral Dynamics and the Houston flooding
I read a post by @luzcypher this morning about what level of conversation most people enjoy and it got me to thinking and researching about spiral dynamics and the theory of…
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gwiss (48)in #philosophy • 7 years ago
Woodstock versus Charlottesville
I read a comment by @aedroberts in a recent post about books that will help your children see the wisdom of anarchy , and his comment was that Orwell was actually a Statist…
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gwiss (48)in #philosophy • 7 years ago
Gender Confusion
Source Having read recent posts by @kyriacos about transgender issues and by @lukestokes about the role of women in society I was struck by a contradiction. So let’s…
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gwiss (48)in #philosophy • 7 years ago
Star Trek Snowflakes
Image link Matt Novack at Gizmodo did a piece recently on William Shatner talking about Shatner's attacks on Social Justice Warriors. Shatner apparently has a distaste for…
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gwiss (48)in #economy • 7 years ago
Heroin and Economic Cycles
The poppy has been a part of human civilization for a long time -- the Sumerians in 3400 BC called it hul gil , or "joy plant", and tablets found at Nippur describe the…
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gwiss (48)in #society • 7 years ago
Technology and the Generalist
@kyriacos had a post this morning about how thinking critically is more important than citing references and it got me to thinking about the nature of the world that lies…
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gwiss (48)in #economy • 7 years ago
Seattle can't stop shooting its own toes off
First they hurt their minimum wage workers with an ill conceived mandatory minimum wage increase. Now, they passed a 2.25% tax on the wealthy. Guess that's one way to…
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gwiss (48)in #steem • 7 years ago
Future of cryptocurrency
None of us here on Steemit are surprised by the reality that fortunes are being made by cryptocurrency traders. But the question I have is: What will authorities do when…
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gwiss (48)in #science • 7 years ago
Pesticides behind bee deaths
Neonicotinoid pesticides, often used as seed coatings, is likely cause of bee colony deaths being seen in many countries. Quote from study: Overall neonicotinoid…
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gwiss (48)in #politics • 7 years ago
Taxation, Representation, and Negative Feedback
I was reading a post last night from @calaber24p about hardfork 19 and voting and it got me to thinking about systems design, which got me to thinking about back when the US…
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gwiss (48)in #health • 7 years ago
High Intensity Training
@kafkanarchy84 had a good post about running and detoxification. It made me think about the physiology involved with running, why it is good for us, and what it does to the…
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gwiss (48)in #education • 7 years ago
School is broken
@krnel had a good post about school bullying recently, and it got me thinking about how school functions now and what it might function like in the future. The current US…
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gwiss (48)in #economy • 7 years ago
Corporations -- vital or parasites?
Corporations are an ancient concept. They were widespread in Rome, the concept being that when a group of people band together they form a body (corpus) that is treated as a…
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gwiss (48)in #society • 7 years ago
Separating Cream from Crap
@dana-edwards had a post a couple of days ago about whether centralized pyramid style organizations favor psychopaths, and it got me to thinking about how the reward structure of…
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gwiss (48)in #politics • 7 years ago
CNN Producer: American voters are "stupid as sh*t"
So this is what we get when we combine a perpetual sensation of low danger, a society where all of the corners are padded, with a relentless corporate drive for profits at all…
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gwiss (48)in #philosophy • 7 years ago
On getting Forked...
I was watching the video of the Playboy reporter and the White House press secretary Sanders, and was struck by something he said: Come on, you’re inflaming everybody right…
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gwiss (48)in #politics • 7 years ago
Victim Mentality versus The Village
So let's imagine that we are all part of a small village in the jungle. One of us keeps licking toads, and every time has to be tended to hand and foot for a few days until the…
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gwiss (48)in #society • 7 years ago
Gratuitous Suffering
A recent post I read made me start thinking about the effectiveness of public protesting as a means to change society, and if society isn't better off by spending time solving…
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gwiss (48)in #health • 7 years ago
Vaccines -- choice or required?
So I noticed a recent post about vaccine injury that I thought was great, but also noted that most of the comments were anti-vaccine -- which was surprising (and heartwarming) to…
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