Going for their need for stimulation, we might instigate a "cryptologically signed currency" they can only use to buy stuff on the forums, like little Ayn Rand, Stalin, Trotzki[1], Trump, Pepe the frog or Hitler badges. To get said "currency", they have to fill in forms we use for datamining, or do some of these thinks HSS minds are notoriously better at than AIs. Come to think about it, maybe I could crowdcompute my declaration of income.
Might be illegal under German law, google for skadi.net and thiazi.net[2], but we could try an US server.
[1] Err, I mentioned the Trotzkist I met whose comment about Kronstadt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstadt_rebellion
was "anarchists are petty bourgeois nuts"?
[2] Actually I read skadi.net a long time ago; googling for physical anthropology gets strange results, IIRC. Was quite illuminating in some ways.
]]>Operation Franco-Assad: Instigate some low level conflict in some hellhole nobody cares about, e.g. Detroit, exacuate any remaining sane population and motivate said people to move there and "join the struggle".
Operation Dien Bien Phu: Motivate them to join a force you can then use as cannon fodder in one pet conflict of yours.
Operation Boogie Nights Deepwater: Use their thrill seeking behaviour to motivate them for jobs most people wouldn't do, me mentioning a movie about porn production and an oil rig being not necessarily the best example.
Operation Harsh Mistress: Use them to colonize Mars, if all else fails, they can act as fertilizer.
Operation Harsh Mistress with safewords: Use them to stage a "Space Cadet"-style scenarion, but NEVER EVER end the experiment. Might be interesting to sell them out as a control population for psychological or biological research, of course, you'd have to let them sign the waivers first.
Operation Ayrton Senna: Provide them with fast motorcycle and cars, but first of, let them sign organ donor cards.
Err, I better stop here, or some people might decide I'm a sociopath myself, er, ADHS is one risk factor, you know, and there is some overlap in the symptoms.
But maybe we could agree the vast majority of humans are sociopaths for most other people. They just aren't for their in group.
]]>“[1] Err, I mentioned the Trotzkist I met whose comment about Kronstadt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstadt_rebellion
was "anarchists are petty bourgeois nuts"?
I used to be in a band with a guy who played guitar in a legendary[1] early ‘80s Southend-on-Sea based anarcho-punk band called The Kronstadt Uprising named in tribute to events of March 1921. Nice bloke, great player, a little bit, err.... “damaged”, and he’d mellowed somewhat in his political views but would still I suspect have taken exception to that... :-)
[1] Well, in Essex/East London punk circles anyway...
]]>I also understand that the NRA, in their headquarters, has, in the wall on the first floor lobby, the 2nd Amendment... but LEAVES OUT "a well-regulated militia". From what I read, back in the late seventies, as part of the counter-revolution, it became partly a lobbying agency for the firearms manufacturers, and partly for racists to keep down the ethnics. I mean, never heard them support the New Black Panthers.
]]>She did not post long, rambling things that are such utterly confused, demonstrably bs.
As a quote I've seen from Tuli Kupferberg put it, it was his prescription that didn't work well.
6 Note that Marx expected the Revolution in industrialized countries with democratic traditions. He'd have been shocked at 90+% agricultural WWI Russia.
I'll stop here.
]]>The problem with that is even though Detroit is a mess compared to the rest of the US it is still majority populated by decent people. It's the jerks who make the news and they happen to have way more than the average city.
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Though in Germany they changed the CIA guys to Swiss secret agents, and in the end they were sent to Zurich...
Err, as for the little argumernt starting, err, that's for later. For a start, can we agree that Communism is an economical theory, and a lot of what's taught as "economy" is isomorphic to religion?
The eschatology might differ somewhat, my favorite one is the interpretation of St. John Maynard, founder of the Holy High Keynesian Church, "in the long run we're all dead".
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]]>I consider the fact that making/accepting tactical nominations for Best Series a positive factor of the way the award is constructed (and argued the same when I was on the subcommittee to create it; I consider the "volume" factor a definate negative factor, particularly since it needlessly rewards authors like Seanan who publish more shorter novels and free short stories online every year per series, over authors like Martin who publish one 250k+ wc doorstopper every 4 years or so; the stories are the point, not the package they're stored in). What it does is encourage people to think about when a series is "done enough" to be considered for the award again, rather than nominating it every year where it is elligible and can get the nominations; thus the Adminstrator doesn't have to think or care about where the breakpoints are in a series, and nor are we trusting the publisher on these either; instead the fans (and by the power to decline a nomination, the author) decide.
Of Charles' series recs, I can certainly support the Craft series, at least two Mcguire series, Sanderson, and Ada Palmer (who having been nominated for best novel for her first novel and won the Cambell, is likely going to be very hard to beat next year after the fourth Terra Ignota book comes out. I personally like the Brust novels quite a bit, but they suffer from the incredibly long amount of time the series has been under construction, their number (depending on how you count it, 19, 23, or 24, I think), and the fact that while Brust is an excellent stylist, they have hardly been consistently at the same level over that period of time.
And yeah, I think one of the advantages to finally having a "Best Series" award is that it will serve as a pressure valve, allowing fandom to reward large bodies of work that could not win individually, as well as avoiding having an apples to oranges comparison (like when Wheel of TIme got nominated as a single work).
I do not choose to weigh in on what constitutes a religion at this time.
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