Lemming

I suppose politics doesn't 'have to be pyramidal,

Nor society.

But I think society would need more controls than politics, to not be pyramidal.

I sometimes think maybe Communism 'could work, but I'm doubtful any of our current or past systems/people have fine tuned it enough.

Athens was very Democratic I have heard, slaves aside.

. . . I imagine a difficulty is land availability and norms.

. . . New countries maybe have an easier time with new systems,

And yet, new systems often 'need old systems to have 'ability 'to 'be.

Some people say Communism only likely to work well in 1st world, not 2nd world,

And yet small 'communities can do Communism okay, villages, small communities.

Board game with sound effects and AI.

Probably already exist, but I still like the idea.

. . . Having the board move in 'response would be harder I'd imagine,

Easier if the board could just 'recognize what was happening, and tell you what to move.

I would think that the higher a population is, the more often high profile people might be killed.
Society is pyramidal at times,
Lets say 1 in 10 people is crazy fame killer seeker,
10 in 100,
100 in 1000 and so on.
100000 of 1 million.
Pyramidal, there is only 1 president, there is only 10 top ten X people at a time.

I wonder how much work does the Federal Government 'needs do,
Why fund this or that, why not just give the money back to the taxpayer with the understanding that they can invest it as they think right.

"A school voucher, also called an education voucher, is a certificate of government funding for students at a chosen school. Funding is usually for a particular year, term, or semester. Depending on jurisdiction, a voucher may be used for home schooling expenses or exclusively for private schools, charter schools, or publicly-funded schools."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_voucher

Ah, already kind of a thing I guess.

I'd imagine strong higher quality life countries are more prone to war weariness.
If one isn't used to losing people, or being damaged economically.
There's also more to take away.

Ironic maybe, stronger one gets, weaker one's pain tolerance might get.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvha2sVzAFE
Ukraine's New BOPP Strategy: The Big Oil Power Play

I didn't sleep last night.
. . . Well, maybe I'll sleep to'day.

If countries had proper orphan child rearing wards of the state schools, what harm would there be in overpopulation?
. . . Well, they might still end up a bit messed up, if it's not a caring family environment.
But they 'could grow up well, and 'better maybe than some home environments.

I recall in the Republic, Plato arguing that the kids of the state should not know their parents, and vice versa.

. . Being raised by the state would allow the 'ideal amount of indoctrination, and encouragement upon paths useful to the government.
. . .
Sounds kind of messed up,
But an argument people always seem to make about immigration, is that we need people starting from nothing to do the jobs no one else will.
Never mind that populations and cultures can get displaced by said immigration.
Never mind that maybe we ought not 'have certain jobs and commodities if the only people who will do them are illegal workers.

Not that I'd be for banning contraception.
Just idle thoughts.

I don't really get people who encourage 'other people to come and take their stuff.
. . .

Loyalty is important, it's a driver.
I don't really understand loyalty when someone is from somewhere else.
Of course many such people have it, 'more than me even.
. . . Appreciate many of America's ideas and ideals more than me.

But I don't strongly value adoption into a country.
People have different politics, religion, ideas, countries of origin, and heritage.
. . . Heh, of course my own ancestors were immigrants at various points.

But imagine some space aliens come to Earth, immigrate into a country, until all the humans are gone.
Does one 'really think one's 'people and one's country still live on?
. . . Some do I'd suppose, but not I.
Well, 'technically maybe the country, from a certain point of view, semantics.

. . . And arguably I suppose all countries change, we hardly wear top hats in America anymore, as an example.
Cultural changes, demographic changes, religions, philosophies.
. . . But people change too, even in a single life. . . But there's that stream? of consciousness.
I remember yesterday, my flesh and blood are of yesterday.

I'd imagine DART is currently more visible to the world than DebateCraft.

. . .

I suppose one could avoid having so many forfeits by having requirements for joining the site, or being selective in who one accepts.

I wonder what musical instruments would sound good underwater.

Note to self, 400 degrees, 35 minutes, is too much for sliced mushroom in the oven.
Chicken pot pie turned out well though.

I sometimes worry we're all just a bunch of sock puppets that an all encompassing Consciousness is playing with by themself, and the Consciousness is either too confused to notice that it's not real, or is too engrossed in the experience to notice.

I guess we're fortunate that Nature and Nurture wire us to prefer certain Moral Goalposts,

Objectivity of a sort.

Intelligence and/or Wisdom,
Contrasted with Morality, Ethics and/or Actions.

Criminals, I'd imagine there exist 'some intelligent criminals.
But would 'most intelligent people choose crime?
Moneywise, there are often less risky ways to make money.
The most intelligent of people would make their money legally I'd figure.

Passion in crime, serial killers, mass shooters, rage.
If they were truly intelligent they could shift their self damaging passion, or see their situation with perspective.

It's strange, weapon vs armor theory applied to society.
Better forensics and surveillance, chances of being caught are higher.

Yet too technology has brought about,
Drones, remote controlled bombs, the internet ability to track targets.
Even before this there existed,
Fire, poison, latex masks and wigs, transportation to other cities.

It's not as though people lack the 'intelligence to get away with crime.
Most people just lack such 'desire to so harm people (Theory).

What criminals have is ruthlessness,
Or put another way, a pathetic or atrophies sense of Empathy and Rightness. (Theory)
Nothing to be 'proud of,
. . . But then one argues morality subjective.
. . .

But ought not certain conclusions result from Intelligence and Wisdom?
A valuation of like?
Game Theory sense of self protection, leading to valuing others out of habit of following said Game Theory?
No honor among thieves, little happiness in crime and worry of the law catching up.
An intelligent person ought see the value of legality and morality. (Theory)

(Why carry ridiculous stories with a lack of evidence)
I don't know of other countries, but my opinion of the USA.

I'd suppose the situation has been better and worse. Depending on time and location throughout history.
Depending on technology, laws, society values, Goals.

I vaguely recall reading of the recent TV era, of there being a lot of control on the networks, censorship of sex and curse words for example, or even 'suggestive of such scenes.
Films as well, used to have more censorship and oversight, I 'think.
. . . I don't 'think it was 'cheap to produce the news. Though even without a ton of money people could hand out or sell pamphlets or pool their money for an ideological paper.
. . . I've heard of Communist pamphlets and newspapers in history, I don't remember Communist Radio or TV, until they managed to take over a country.
Not that Communist Radio or TV did not exist before they took over a country.

In America, I think TV News at least, worked a lot more hand in hand with the American government, until maybe Vietnam, where there was a break between the two?
I'd have to read up on it.
I think that was also around the time of Civil Rights.
As I think about Civil Unrest, now I'm just speculating, I'm sure News and Government had disagreements before Vietnam, but during and after Vietnam is also the Hippie Era.
Audience change.

The two political parties also used to be more in step with one another, Tip O'Neill I've read about before.
Polarization of politics, Politicians don't work together to control the news,
They use the news as weapons against each other.
Not that they 'didn't fight before, but situation became worse maybe.

Every time a standard falls, other standards fall with them, sometimes.

And then we have the internet,
'Every User 'Is the 'News.
Competition, maybe it could have gone two ways, higher standards, or lower standards.
Lot of 'News Companies, I wouldn't even 'call News Companies, they're talk shows.
But concepts bleed into one another.

But I think the News wants to be heard first, not heard as most correct.
Not to say that there are 'no standards, or 'no good news companies.
But standards over time have fallen, and market is bigger. I think.

I wonder if one could elect an AI to any position of government?
Could be more 'representative of the voters, than some humans.

Old people in South Park look so unhappy.

Generally.

It should be easier to search YouTube videos in various ways.

Every video ever published, oldest to newest for example.

With more and more AI content, I yearn for the older videos.

Same with other sites for art, photos, stories.
Date verified content before AI, is 'worth 'more now I'd figure.

I think online ID will be big in some short years.

What makes a person evil?

. . . A higher capacity/willingness for evil?

Some people 'would be evil, but can recognize said evil action would harm them.

They would 'potentially act evil, but the situation must be highly to their advantage.

Some people commit evil once or a few times. And are 'good actions the rest of the time.

Contrast that with a person terminally mean, but not 'evil.

Sometimes I'd like to create my own video game.

But coding looks complicated.

Maybe I could manage a board game though, pen and paper RPG?

Still, I've not been able to figure out a way to get 'combat to go as I like, entertaining challenging, different I mean.

Though about using cards and dice, but more choices, harder it is to easy access if it is 'physical board game.

More details, bigger the box gets.

I sometimes worry I tell the 'same stories to people.

Long running books series I enjoy worry sometimes, that they are going to end or mess up in a way I dislike.

. . . I suppose that's why I never finished a few of them.

There's a Sluggy Freelance quote I vaguely recall,

'Something about the last page of a book being torn out. . . I forget how it goes though.

Well, two phones, double the power while the old one lasts, I suppose.

Some moments in life, I worry I'm crazy or in a simulation.

Not that anything out of the ordinary happens.

Just, how would one know?

Did they not include that in the other impeachments?

What for?

The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart

I give a -3 out of 10.

Though in a 'sense it could be considered a good book, it is not the sort of book I like.

. . . I'd prefer the Underground Man to 'this book.

The Dice Man, a villain, who claims to be Egoless, yet has simply Ego inflated his value of Dice and Chance.

Like Loki, predictable in their unpredictability.

I like Eric in the book, better than the Dice Man.

Of course it is the 'bit of truth that bother one, that make awful evils at times.

But I am fond of Ego, and Social Norm Ethics/Morals, Nihilist though I am, a human must believe in 'something, value something.

Even the Dice Man does that, values chance and his various chance desires.

Values some outcomes more than others.

Though maybe he got a fair bit towards nothing in the end. Malfunctioning piece of carp.

I like loyalty, honesty, even if it's hard to keep up all the time.

I mind not the chance that I admire these. I admire them. One must be something.

Even in his tilt towards nothing in the end, he chose to value chance, Being 'Something Cannot be escaped while one 'IS.

I disliked how his wife later used dice a couple times.

Ought just take what accountability we can in life.

'Ought live right as best we can.

We can often follow the law 'and our desires.

I'd sooner throw this book in the trash than donate it anywhere.

More realistically, it'll go in my box of books I disdain.

Seems 'about the same,

I dislike my comments and votes in debates not having Return Spaces.

'Bit difficult to read the debates on DebateCraft maybe, something about the size? font?

But it's early on, website still being constructed.

I suppose one reason we have so many humans, is countries like having workers.

. . . We're 'getting better AI, better robots,

But we've 'already been replacing humans with machines for a while now,

. . . Does that imply our population could be considered 'much bigger than it currently is?

Ant lifts 100 times weight or something,

Humans use of machines, meaning we effectively have Population times X many humans?

. . .

I wonder if AI and humanoid robots will ever be more than 51% of a country,

AI and robots 'more analogous to humans I mean.

. . . Besides, a computer doesn't count as a person,

But then even a humanoid AI might not count as a person.

How does one make a dense, compact, yet lengthy Choose Your Own Adventure Book?

There's a limited amount of space available, yet if you put multiple answers on a page, then it results in spoilers.

Since one has to sleep X many hours before work to function, does such mean workdays are actually 'longer than is supposed?

Since even to 'sleep, is sleep at the behest of one's employer, to 'work?

How does copyright apply to translations?

Earthquake in Russia, I live in Oregon, eh, probably won't be that big of a wave here in Oregon.

Company that offers to find an item of your request, so that they can sell it to you.

Trump Wall, looks a bit more like a fence.

Walls should be 'thick.

Be better off using rammed earth and mud bricks, digging out and building up a slanted hill.

Put US prisons on the border and use chain gangs, detention centers,

Have them build the wall, and if they escape into Mexico, ah well.

I do kind of wonder who is going to bother using the offensive content filter on DebateCraft.

Standard pencil has 6 sides, therefore pencils are dice.

Ah personal thoughts thread, I have missed you.

I could have started a new one on DebateCraft, but then I'd have to deal with notification after notification.

I don't remember my various random thoughts while DART was down,

But I remember that I 'had some.

Heh, I just achieved.

You have earned a new silver medal «People's Voice»

But this final countdown song has been on a loop for some 30 minutes!

Well, guess I'll close that tab.

I've never liked parades all that 'much, often seems a waste of money.

Also, just passed you on the leaderboard for votes on debates.

Did you know I just passed you on the leaderboard for votes on debates?

Note to self, use internet archive on this periodically, to 'supposedly prove self as victor.

1 minute?

Whatever happened to FREEDO?

@Allah

Makes sense.

I think this site 'could have grown in population though.

But I don't know what they 'tried to grow the site.

@n8nrgim

Well, 'if the site shuts down, and I had seen the last post X amount of time before I can't refresh the page, that theoretical post would 'likely be the last.

More or less likely depending on amount of time since I had seen last post.

I 'would have thought they'd had tried to monetize the site in 'some way.

I'd imagine unobtrusive ads 'do exist.

If I had money I 'would have considered buying the site myself, but I've not.