Mike Trainor

@KarinExile @biggestballerik @avidseries Oh, I know, words. Ideas. Stuff. Thanks for the time and energy, tiger. You’ll have to describe the L.

@sup_serendipity @biggestballerik @avidseries Take the L, kitten

Anyone who thinks this doesn't debase the institution of the presidency has got a screw loose.

Naturally there’s no room for confusion. You’ve got to train them well BEFORE battle to be independently competent and make targeting decisions or else you’re just throwing them away. If one has to intervene in the heat of the moment you’d probably want to delve more into Sun Tzu than anyone else.

@StarWarsDaily_ when you're targeting enemies there's no room for confusion

It starts with most people being too cool for school. Many build their careers and personal lives on moxie. We are a recovering ‘service economy’ and the following concepts are not represented as well here: • Shokunin katagi — 職人気質 • Kodawari — こだわり • Kaizen — 改善 • Hitozukuri — 人づくり Everything is a race to the bottom for many people. I begrudgingly use the ‘collective we’ to say that we regrettably respect status more than dedication to craft. Extrinsic reward over intrinsic. There’s just so much money for the taking if you’re willing to compromise and little to no shame in compromise that’s actually thought of as shrewd clever wit. Beyond the normal Level of societal friction I feel that in the west cynical sarcasm reigns over all else. And in that head space of nothing is real anyway there are people who want to simply pick and choose whom they wish to represent winning because with this brand of person they have no sense of intrinsic success that isn’t rooted in negativity. For them there’s only one definition for the virtue of pride rooted in selfish ego. So it doesn’t matter who they prop up because anyone else doing things is not really achieving but rather they’re spuriously accused of stroking their own ego. Success is admonished because to them it’s synonymous with oppression because they’re zero sum and think anyone making something is taking it from someone else. • Shokunin katagi — 職人気質 • Kodawari — こだわり • Kaizen — 改善 • Hitozukuri — 人づくり We have them but they’re notions to be worn and not codes to live by.

Why in Western societies are Africans free to commit crimes? Are Africans gods and white people lower-class slaves? Japanese people find this completely incomprehensible. Why don't they launch Tomahawks into their nests like they did in Venezuela or Iran?

@japan_nobunaga When there is no solution you need to be the solution.

A Japanese engineer invented something you scan almost every day, then gave it away for free. In 1994, Masahiro Hara and his small team at Denso, an auto-parts company in Japan, built the QR code. The idea came from the black and white stones of a Go board. Here is the part most people don't know: Denso held the patent. They could have charged the world for every single scan. They chose not to. They kept the standard open, for free, forever. That one decision is why QR codes are now on menus, tickets, and payments on every continent. A gift from Japan that we all use and never paid for.

@StevenJosephR @RealEmirHan Is he as much of an asshole as he appears to be in all these photos or is he just that guy people like to show photos of in such a way to make him look like an asshole?

@RealEmirHan Perhaps you have to be super tall to convince people that you're Superman

Henry Cavill once thought Clark Kent’s glasses disguise wasn’t convincing enough to be realistic. And he tried to test it. Nobody realized who he was. “I wore a Superman t-shirt and no glasses, and stood underneath the giant wraparound Batman v Superman posters in Times Square.” People thought he was just a fan. “I got stopped twice. Once by someone exiting the subway asking for directions to Central Station.” “And the other time was in a coffee shop where someone said, ‘Could you please stop taking photos?’”

@RealEmirHan Maybe they realized and just don’t give a shit.

@TheLaurenChen How old are you? This was a common talking point back in the day. I’m sure it’s evolved now into something else but 20 years ago this was absolutely a thing.

Even the Vatican has repeatedly stated the concept of alien life poses no threat to Christianity. I've never heard a Christian argue otherwise. Who are these "Christians" that would have their faith shaken by aliens?

Let’s explore more. Why do you say trump? Why not say this act is worse that something else you’ve clearly defined and then present an objective analysis of what we’re talking about outside of all the loaded sentimentality. Saying “trump bad” in every step and every breath of every utterance about everything ever is as far as anyone can get in the dialectic process. It’s a nuke button and it means nothing anymore if it ever did.

@sup_serendipity @avidseries I have no idea what you’re even trying to say now. There is no false equivalency. There’s no equivalency at all. Trump is simply much, much worse.

@nurse_mdt @circlecrules @avidseries Deciding how one should vote before they decide on what this is called motivated reasoning and not critical thinking.

@circlecrules @sup_serendipity @avidseries However there really is no way to do it~ because the left does it too ~ so how do you vote? There are no viable options

@PhilMiller2911 @avidseries I have a feeling that you’re confusing low information and low brow or hoping I can’t tell the difference. If one can’t distinguish them one is low information. If one can but one proceeds with a false equivalency anyway then one is just arrogant.

@sup_serendipity @avidseries I have a feeling that your definition of a “low information” person would be anyone who doesn’t consume conservative media. In any case, pretending that Trump hasn’t destroyed political and institutional norms in an unprecedented way is simply denying reality.

You keep forcing a false dichotomy. You’ve picked and chosen conditions anachronistically and conveniently to argue with me that the notional sensibility that we both probably agree on is actually some kind of supremely meaningful objective truth that has only been violated just now with whatever this thing is. Got it? It amazes me that so many people say the same thing over and over and it never changes. When people get a fever people by overwhelming majority say that one should ‘take medicine’ for the sickness and that medicine they mention is fever reducer. The fever is how your body kills the actual infection but it isn’t the head space that anyone lives in and even doctors are stupid about it and will only acknowledge how dumb it all is when one pushes back with Va at and science. Yes, a fever can also kill you and is not the ideal condition to be in but that fever is necessary. You should take the anti fever medicine sometimes because when the fever gets too aggressive it can also damage or kill you. There, I’ve removed all of the strings and loaded attachments of implication and motivated reasoning and blah blah blah and given you a very real world analogy or metaphor or whatever that holds true on so many levels. Now, are you addressing low information small world people on their level to to get a positive outcome for the better good or are you seriously and soberly demanding I accept this notional value as an objective truth?

@sup_serendipity @avidseries so basically you can't come up with an example, nice

The gaslighting is saying that this is an opening salvo and not a response to media and the journalism universe calling itself independent when it clearly is not. The only distinction is some people deciding this is a red line that got crossed when in reality this line was crossed a long time ago. And because simple arguments require simple truths founded in simple false dichotomies there is never any consideration given to the objective observation and always knee jerk accusations and the specter of implied support for one thing or another. When smart people have to live amongst low information people it’s tiring. When smart people have to interact with other indignant smart people insisting we all digest dialogue built on motivated reasoning based in the weaponized interpretations for the benefit of low information people it’s pull-ones-own hair out time and there’s no other sane response. It’s absolutely like mediating an argument between my toddlers about who started what and who did what when and why and who’s right and who’s wrong. That’s fine with kids Not with supposed articulate grown people discussing such things. Ugg. Puke.🤮 on a personal note, with whom is it I should be more pissed off and indignant toward, the ones responding in kind or the ones who first violated my notional sensibilities more cleverly and more insidiously?

@sup_serendipity @avidseries Lol, the gaslighting is pretending that this is the same as anything that has happened before. You can say, I suppose, that previous administration hated people, but they hid it better. But pretending the total lack of decorum from Trump is business as usual is stupid.

So the distinction here is official vs. non official communication? And another distinction that often holds true is that One is saying “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” while the other glorifies the man behind the curtain as OUR man behind the curtain. Do we want to talk about direct administration posted crap on this whitehouse ‘electronic letterhead’ vs. federal money going to agencies and ngos doing the same thing? Do you think all sides stifle and/or silence voices or ‘other’ exactly the same way. One is more acceptable than the other? Look at this conversation. It’s insisting on arguing over a dumb superlative and a false dichotomy. It’s all bad. This here is just an honest version of what’s always happening. This is your red line presumably because your expectation is informed by a definition of decorum that values a particular face value to subversive effort dynamic. When Chapelle stands on stage and says Trump is the only one that came out of the big house on the hill and said ‘you know that stuff you all think we’re doing inside there? They are doing it and I’m doing it too.’ This is the brand. This is what they voted for. It’s not happening in isolation. It’s not unique or original. It is just one act answering another in kind from different nodes of power and/or influence.

@sup_serendipity Did you not read it? When did you ever see this sort of low-rent juvenile Dear Leader worship before in an official communication of the White House? Whose administration?

George Carlin's standup over footage of Splinter from the live Ninja Turtles show from the '90s 🤣 so good

@harukaawake They WILL save you from yourselves. Like a vegan slaughtering herds of cows to save them from animal cruelty, they will save you from yourself.

One of the greatest crimes of this century has been trying to convince people that cultures, religions and people are the same. They are not the same. They never were and never will be. If we don't reject this lie the consequences will be devastating for humanity.

Statism is the new racism and there’s powerful forces, globalists and capitalists alike, attempting to arbitrage the easy picking low hanging fruit of that infusion of cheap liquid labor markets presents when imbedded into high trust societies. Race baiting was and remains a weapon of choice but it’s now got company in their tool box sharing space with State baiting. Racism and statism is the globalists/borderless-capitalist push back to a populace that wants a richer life not a more efficient productive one.

The day my daughter came home and said "school taught us Japan is a bad country." Lowest crime rate on Earth. Literacy near 100%. We form a line in a disaster instead of looting. I asked her to tell me where the "bad" part starts. To my kids: this country is yours. Hold your head up.

Your visual acuity and observational prowess and situational awareness and powers of perception are unmatched but, with respect, in this, you are wrong. What might look like that impossible glossy globular reflectiveness of T-1000 mimetic poly alloy that violates our informed expectations on how things in the world should behave is actually just T-800’s pocket accordion, a no less spectacular presentation of Japanese precision engineering.

Japan finally developed Terminator's T-1000 material!

@harukaawake Was it delicious?

🇨🇳 A very good reason why you should avoid most restaurants in China. Some people might say this is on purpose. Likely, it's just an everyday, common mistake they make in China.

@interesting_aIl Did you just say for the first time in history? IN HISTORY?

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