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Real Time with Bill Maher: Generation Ass
criticalthud says...of course, we may also ignore that mental prowess is inextricably linked to the physical being.
there's a reason why older people tend to be much more conservative, narrow viewed, and easy to emotionally manipulate. it's called physical decline.
There are of course rather large benefits to experience, but experience is still just one factor in the whole.
still, what is at issue here is not necessarily "age" or "age-ism" - it's our fascination with appearance... - it's more the fact that jerry brown is butt-ugly and has no hair. he will thus lose a presidential election based heavily upon the marketing of a candidate. Since Ike and TV, we haven't had a bald president. period.
Daylight Savings
criticalthud says...despite the mind-numbing conditions, they still managed to reign in the bankers
Elite: Dangerous - Beta 3
criticalthud says...sweet jesus, bring on virtual reality headsets
*videogamedorkwetdream
10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman
criticalthud says...and to play devil's advocate:
what's with the hair, jewelry and makeup? the end result of beauty routines is to make a person more attractive to the opposite sex and garner more attention.
attention received,....just from the wrong folk.
10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman
criticalthud says...having lived in the bronx and schooled in NYC, i'd say that more than quite a few of the prolific catcallers in NYC are poorish, semi-retarded horndog construction workers, with little or no education.
best of luck in modifying their behavior
Players Gonna Play. Haters Gonna Hate. Shake It Off.
criticalthud says...hate
Walrus Flash Mob & 20 Years of Pot Research
criticalthud says...people get dependent on lots o' things
plus if you are already anti, u will gravitate towards studies that support your anti-ness.
just sayin, hank
new Borderlands pre-sequal trailer
criticalthud says...omfg
Evolution's shortcoming is Intelligent Design's Downfall
criticalthud says...we're pretty dumb when it comes to our own neurology.
a more obvious and better example is perhaps our continuing struggles to stand upright in gravity, with our inherent asymmetry.
IQ quiz for idiots
criticalthud says...if u can use a computer, you get 100 points
Sarah Palin Channel
criticalthud says...i believe euthanasia is for ending a person's pain and suffering.
we'll just need some well tuned legal mumbo jumbo to make it apply to OUR suffering, and someone else's death.
How about we just quietly euthanise everyone who subscribes to that channel?
There, there... it's ok....you're just too stupid to live.... don't worry, it'll all be over soon and you'll be with god and sarah in heaven with no nasty gays or non-christians or uppity women....
It's really the humane thing to do.
Zero Theorem Official Trailer #1 (2014) Christoph Waltz HD
criticalthud says...maybe someone who has studied terry gilliam, his process, and whoever terry gilliam studied...
cause everything is a remix of a remix
Terry Gilliam needs to make as many films as possible within his lifetime, because once he is gone there will be no one who can possibly fill that space.
(maybe Spike Jonze?)
Amazing helicopter rescue of hiker stuck on cliff
criticalthud says...whew! tenacious d will live on!
Why Does 1% of History Have 99% of the Wealth?
criticalthud says...perhaps, but first things first. Economic policy is secondary to energetic concerns. Innovation is seriously impeded if a society is primarily worried about feeding itself. You don't innovate if u spend ur time digging in the dirt for primary needs. Agrarian societies require energetic resources to become industrial.
Once that is considered, then u can argue economic policies. Until then, it's seriously premature.
The industrial age is part of 'economic liberty'.
People were free to make inventions that use coal, or use oil, and were free to market them either as products or services.
That differs from the earlier times/case where folks were obligated to participate only in activities sanctioned by their local lords. Often where they couldn't even travel freely.
Much of the math and chemistry we have comes from centuries worth of largely superfluous [essentially hobbyist at the time] higher education of the privileged classes. (eg. Boyle's/Charles' laws being a foundation of modern internal combustion engines, not used in said form for centuries after written down).
(Note : Which still continues to be the case, what we come up with in a purely theoretical form today, ends up being used in practical application much later. Although maybe it's speeding up. eg. Relativity is used in making GPS work, and that time delta isn't quote as large.)
Once the idea of economic liberty took hold, and people were free to come up with ideas that use the universes natural/physical properties to replace 'manpower', you had the industrial revolution.
The 'honor' part plays a good role too. You can witness this still being an issue today.
You can go to parts of eastern Europe, and talk with people about jobs and respectability.
There are plenty of places where a laborer is scum, and a businessman (eg. owner, who does not himself work, but has people working for him) is highly respected.
In these places, you don't see much work getting done, as a large portion of the typical western service sectors just doesn't exist.
For example, there are ~no house painters. Showing up with paint buckets and overalls would just get you strange stares and mumbles from people around you, and parents would be saying to their kids "See, this is what happens if you don't get good grades".
If you want your house painted, you gotta do it yourself. Few self respecting people are willing to do that job.
In contrast, ask people around the U.S. about who painted their house. Odds are, they hired for it.
The effects on small business are visible too. Lots of shops, the moment the owner can afford to not come in himself, that's exactly what they do.
And on top of that, they take every chance they can get to point out to folks that 'they don't work anymore - people work for them'.
It's a culture where the people responsible for productivity are looked down on, and it has a chilling effect on productivity.
-scheherazade
Why Does 1% of History Have 99% of the Wealth?
criticalthud says...False. The industrial age was primarily brought about by cheap access to energy - first coal, then oil. Not one sided economic policies.