Bobh

Recent Actions

• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Since Daniel Kahneman just died, broken mental models are again a thing. Up thread, Greg doesn't get how USians could be so crazy. At 828 Troutwaxer thinks my trucker friend is likely an asshole. On a personal level, definitely not....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Monument to fearless Leader: There is already something close. A friend who does art drawings of sculptural memes whose sell date has passed, told me about a monument in Greenwood Cemetery (Brooklyn) called "The Triumph of Civic Virtue Over Unrighteousness"....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Putin's Investment: 2016 was pretty cheap, and he met his goal - destabilizing the US. But that's not the same as absolute chaos. IIRC Putin actually said he preferred Biden. Makes sense. Biden is predictable. Trump thought he could A-bomb...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  PHK @ 786 Canada's contingency plans. I wonder if they plan to build a wall. The best wall, ever..., 787 Robert Prior - "US broken mental model". Makes us look/act crazy. There's the Evangelical/Dominionist "City on a Hill"/Prosperity Gospel/ Christian...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Howard NYC. I'm in NYC as well. Canada? Kids? Get real. Adopted abused/neglected minority kids from NY foster care. No way they're getting to Canada. What future do they have if Trump, and/or climate change floods my currently REALLY valuable...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Mod: Delete one of 774 or 5. Pressed Submit and 200 entries disappeared. Did I do that? Hit Submit again. So sorry. [[ done - mod ]]...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  "threat of an actual theocratic-fascist government" I would add to what David L said. For some, theo-fascist is a feature, not a bug. Both promise ORDER, and putting conditions and values back to some golden age. The trains run on...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  "Bill Gates, who applies engineering approaches, to non-engineering problems, sometimes with disastrous results" . Not so sure Gates was totally off. Worked for an international children's rights group. Consensus of development experts was what improved the lives of "third-world" children...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  There's lots of twists you can do on a "loving god" who has other motives, or whose followers do. Funny how self-sacrificing hippie rebel Jesus became Pantocrator, killing heretics and Jews (Christ killers) once he was absorbed by the Roman...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  325: Scaling up. I think that's the job of ART, including science fiction. Creating memes. Charlie's cited a bunch of early SF memes we shouldn't keep repeating. Can we find more positive ones to replace them? Charlie often references Prisoner's...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  "major problems these days have to be solved by specialists in the humanities." Sort of what I was talking about in describing family therapy. People frame problems as it's the other guy's fault, they started it, I had to respond.......
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  "better ways of doing things". STEM vs Humanities = As a kid I had the same experience of reading every SF book in the public library. A pilot? (nope; bad eyes). A rocket engineer? (9th Grade algebra teacher made everybody...
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  IEPs also require evaluators to correctly diagnose problems, and teachers to know how to implement plans to address them. One of my sons got to second grade in a limited size special ed class that he loved, began tantruming at...