Nyarlathotep wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:34 pm
Getting increasingly tempted to join Corps and Abdul in enforced irrevocable exile, albeit for different reasons
Same here
still working on Sophrosyne, but I will no doubt end up with Hubris
Eh...it isn't just about "woke nutjob" behavior. Sociopathic media is rife with examples of identifying people who "ain't got their minds right" and causing them to lose jobs, etc. In corporations that require certain attitudes, one can be disciplined and/or fired for not having their minds right, and I know of one example in which persons openly wondered if it would be legal to screen applicants for their microaggressions. I can understand why someone would want to erase as much of their online personas as possible...and I use the woke example as an example, knowing full well that the "other side" is just as capable of punitive actions against anyone who ain't got their minds right.
Pay attention to the "fringe"--it tends to become mainstream.
Nothing the next world war won't cure.
The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
Pyrrho wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 1:13 pm
Eh...it isn't just about "woke nutjob" behavior. Sociopathic media is rife with examples of identifying people who "ain't got their minds right" and causing them to lose jobs, etc.
I agree. I should have finished my thought. "I ain't worried about some woke nutjob, it's the government and Ministry of Truth corporate nutjobs that are actually scary."
still working on Sophrosyne, but I will no doubt end up with Hubris
The commies have always wanted to be able to monitor (spy) on everyone, because communism is fascism, and if you don't know what everyone is thinking you can't have total control over the population
Technology has reached the point where it's almost possible to control everything, the dream of every fascist
still working on Sophrosyne, but I will no doubt end up with Hubris
robinson wrote: ↑Thu Feb 11, 2021 1:49 pm
Just wait
The woke will be cancelling retirement payments before too long
Yeah, I wouldn't put it past the U.S. government to end favorable tax treatment for retirement accounts or eventually even just start confiscating them South American style.
As I've said before, I'll probably stay in Japan as long as I think my kids still need me.
The most likely scenario at this point is either retirement in Japan or splitting time between Japan and somewhere else. But I doubt it will be America.
I also don't expect Japan to go full "woke" anytime soon.
Well fuck me dead, gone fer a gdam week and look what happens. It's snow. I always knew that stuff was disliked by cats and chihuahuas. But the internet too?
... The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light ... The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. It was a kind of religious experience. There was a magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has never left me. Never ever left me.
Carl Sagan