Let’s drop the Jr. Good short message from Jillian Michaels. RFK takes testosterone, not sure how healthy that is. Still like him and support his plans. ABN
Viewing nature as a signaling network shows its advantage with this question.
Instead of asking where our moral sense comes from, we ask instead what makes for a good signaling network?
The answer is “good organization.”
By “good,” I mean efficient, well-made, good use of resources, easy to maintain, rational, etc.
You are a signaling network.
A well-organized you will probably tend to be morally pretty good and wanting to get better at it, depending on your conditions.
Of course some people view “morality” as whatever is in their best interests. And that is a type of moral thinking. When it is found out, though, most other people, very reasonably, do not like it.
If we view nature as the evolution of signals and signaling networks rather than as the evolution of matter, we will see that changes in signal organization are fundamental to the evolutionary process.
In this sense, it is the most ordinary thing in the world that you, a complex signaling system that is conscious, would consciously seek good organization and/or want to adapt your organizing principles, both objective and subjective, to conditions that impact you.
Conditions that impact you are signals being perceived by the signaling network you think of as yourself.
Your adaptations, both small and large, will encompass many moral considerations and choices.
Morality can be viewed as a kind of organization. The networks that make up your being must organize their relations with the world around them and other sentient beings. We make many moral decisions when we do this. These decisions are an integral part of how we are organized.
Last night I heard a drunk swearing at his friend from the street. “You fucking bastard…” etc. Not well-organized, but still he was yelling a local version of morality and this was fundamental to his networks and behavior.
UPDATE 11/09/22: The above shows that what we scientifically think of today as evolution does not contradict what might be called spiritual evolution, or Buddhist evolution that happens in three ways combined: through 1) morality/ethics; 2) concentration/mindfulness; and 3) wisdom/understanding. Karma is the path of our mind as it wends through its various and numerous realities, sometimes tending toward goodness or the Tathagata, sometimes tending away. By consciously contemplating our signaling networks and describing them to ourselves and close friends we can make our signals clearer and more ethical and thus become wiser, have better understanding. The act of doing this is a kind of concentration or mindfulness. It really doesn’t matter what your religion is, including atheism or even oblivionism, honestly analyzing your signaling will change you probably for the better. ABN
KTM has been in trouble for a while now. But in its most recent financial statements, it seemed as if with a little restructuring, more layoffs, and a few changes to its lineup, things would likely even out in the next year or so. Sure, it’d be rocky ahead, but the brand’s parent company, Pierer Mobility AG, would be on firmer footing soonish.
That’s, apparently, absolutely not the case.
Just a few weeks after Pieirer released its Q3 financials, ones that denoted a serious drop in revenue and an increase in acquired debt (welcome to the family, MV Agusta!), the brand released another statement essentially saying, “We’re truly and properly screwed if we don’t find a substantial cash infusion.” So yeah, I think KTM, as well as GasGas, Husqvarna, and the newly acquired MV Agusta, might get sold in the coming months if not weeks…
The plandemic boosted motorcycle and bicycle sales, but the trend has not continued. Motorcycles are technologically better by far than years ago but they also cost more and new riders may not understand the value of the added tech or know how to use it. ABN
…Christianity did more than end the cognitive decline of Imperial Rome. It reversed that decline and launched an upward trajectory that would last throughout the Christian Era from Late Antiquity to post-medieval times. Thus, with each generation, the average person became more and more intelligent.
The new faith restarted cognitive evolution by banning polygyny, which had usually involved elite men and lowborn women. Elite women thus gained in reproductive importance. The Church thereby changed the culture not so much by making radically new rules but rather by reviving old rules and enforcing them more effectively.
Keep in mind that Christianity was much more rules-based than the old faith, particularly the watered-down paganism of the Imperial Era. Pagan Romans were more interested in developing a transactional relationship with their favorite god: “do this for me, and I’ll do that in exchange.”
This paper argues for: leverage change to build new, better forces for the 21st century, allowing for deep spending cuts of \$400-500 billion. This approach enhances the U.S. military’s competitive advantage in future warfare and improves American national security by ending open-ended interventions without attainable political-military objectives. Assuming Congress acts wisely, the resulting annualized savings can both pay down the national debt and reorient U.S. military power to new forms of warfare.
Grand Strategy and New Thinking
Grand strategy, if it exists at all, consists of avoiding conflict, not starting wars. New thinking in defense and foreign policy prioritizes diplomacy and peaceful cooperation over military power. None of America’s potential opponents, except those with nuclear weapons, pose a direct threat to the American homeland. If international terrorism and criminality remain threats, then border security and tightly controlled immigration should be the top priority in national security.
Senior military leaders and their services cannot be expected to reform themselves and fundamentally change the military status quo—a World War II/Cold War structure that is expensive, single-service focused, and vulnerable to weapons of mass destruction. Peter Drucker, when asked how to change a large business enterprise, answered, “If you want something new, you must stop doing something old. People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete.”
In line with Drucker’s guidance, the incoming President must implement a new national military strategy that diverges sharply from the last 30 years. This strategy must scale back America’s forward presence, mandate adaptation to new forms of warfare, and address the requirement to retain and develop America’s best human capital in uniform.
UPDATE: Macgregor describes Trump’s cabinet nominees as: ‘Elite capture. There is nothing more reliable than a man who can be bought for cold, hard cash. All of these people have been bought and paid for. There have been investments for twenty years, ranging into 100s of millions maybe billions of dollars by Israel and its agents in the United States to drive us into war against Iran. Now, they are positioned to finally get what they want’. ABN
UPDATE: Maybe I am clutching at straws, but it could also be that Trump’s many pro-Israel nominees are also the best people to say no to Netanyahu, no to war with Iran. ABN
In what can only reasonably be described as a MOAB targeted directly to Main Justice, President Trump has nominated Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz to be United States Attorney General.
In combination with the nomination of Senator Marco Rubio to the State Dept., this sets the stage for a Senate situation where the upper chamber may attempt to derail the Gaetz nomination, yet Florida Governor Ron DeSantis could then appoint him to be the replacement U.S. Senator from Florida; thus, returning an angry MOAB back into the silo that derailed him.
To say the Lawfare leftists are having a meltdown would be an understatement.
This is the obvious conclusion. I have been saying it all along and am glad to hear McCullough say it so clearly today. The plandemic was anti-science PCR test fakery coupled with sophisticated scientific mind-control leading to worldwide administration of the bioweapon vax, especially in the West and by extension allies of the West. So, who did it? All we know is ultimate responsibility for it resides high up in the comitatus that controls DOD and NSA. We know it’s up there somewhere but who or what is ultimately in control is not knowable to anyone but them. It strongly appears to have been an attack on the West and Western allies, but who would do that? I do not know the answer to that question but I do know that that question is the most important question for us to answer. The answer to who did it is probably the same or close to the answer to who is bringing so many illegal military age men into the West? Who is working so hard and so consistently in the same direction — to destroy every last bit of Western civilization? One probable motive for this attack is hatred and fear. The other is total control through annihilation. If we assess the probability that this is what is happening and plot that probability against how serious this attack is, we must conclude that the probability that it is a deliberate attack is very high and that the seriousness of the attack is even higher. ABN
It is critically important to defund + investigate the NGOs who facilitated the migrant crisis with billions of federal taxpayer dollars.
Corrupt federal officials have quite literally been the architects of an incentive structure in which taxpayers pay them billions of dollars to destroy our nation.
This is why Democrats attempted to hide a $1.4 BILLION allocation just for NGOs in their disastrous border bill. That allocation was set to be disbursed by FEMA to the NGOs if certain metrics were hit such as detention beds being filled.
In other words, all the NGOs had to do to unlock another $1.4 billion is get more people to come here illegally.
Officials such as Mayorkas have been using these organizations such as HAIS for far too long to launder money and rip the fabric of America.
Defund and investigate every last NGO who received any federal funding above $10 million during the Biden-Harris Administration. A lot of people have made a lot of money off of this crisis and it’s time for transparency.
Most of these NGOs facilitating the migrant crisis have no business being called NGOs when their primary source of funding is from the government while also doing operations on behalf of the government!
A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may represent a new key milestone in the development of rotational tools – including wheels – experts say.
More than a hundred of the mostly-limestone pebbles were unearthed at the Nahal-Ein Gev II dig site, featuring a circular shape perforated by a central hole.
They date back approximately 12,000 years.
Researchers believe these stones were likely used as spindle whorls – round, weighted objects that are attached to a spindle stick, allowing it to efficiently gather up fibres such as wool and spin them into yarn.
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