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gwiss
society
9y
Bill Cosby versus Roman Polanski
Source @dana-edwards had a post yesterday about whether Bill Cosby was guilty of rape or not, and in the process of trying to find out whether there has been any objective proof offered to support the
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philosophy
9y
Spiral Dynamics and the Houston flooding
I read a post by @luzcypher this morning about what level of conversation most people enjoy and it got me to thinking and researching about spiral dynamics and the theory of stages of consciousness. Seems
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philosophy
9y
Woodstock versus Charlottesville
I read a comment by @aedroberts in a recent post about books that will help your children see the wisdom of anarchy, and his comment was that Orwell was actually a Statist and that 1984 was a braggadocious
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philosophy
9y
Gender Confusion
Source Having read recent posts by @kyriacos about transgender issues and by @lukestokes about the role of women in society I was struck by a contradiction. So let’s walk through my thought process together.
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philosophy
9y
Star Trek Snowflakes
Image link Matt Novack at Gizmodo did a piece recently on William Shatner talking about Shatner's attacks on Social Justice Warriors. Shatner apparently has a distaste for them, calling them
gwiss
economy
9y
Heroin and Economic Cycles
The poppy has been a part of human civilization for a long time -- the Sumerians in 3400 BC called it hul gil, or "joy plant", and tablets found at Nippur describe the collection of poppy juice
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society
9y
Technology and the Generalist
@kyriacos had a post this morning about how thinking critically is more important than citing references and it got me to thinking about the nature of the world that lies ahead of us. Technology is slowly
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economy
9y
Seattle can't stop shooting its own toes off
First they hurt their minimum wage workers with an ill conceived mandatory minimum wage increase. Now, they passed a 2.25% tax on the wealthy. Guess that's one way to fix that pesky real estate bubble.
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steem
9y
Future of cryptocurrency
None of us here on Steemit are surprised by the reality that fortunes are being made by cryptocurrency traders. But the question I have is: What will authorities do when they realize this money is difficult
gwiss
science
9y
Pesticides behind bee deaths
Neonicotinoid pesticides, often used as seed coatings, is likely cause of bee colony deaths being seen in many countries. Quote from study: Overall neonicotinoid residues were detected infrequently and
gwiss
politics
9y
Taxation, Representation, and Negative Feedback
I was reading a post last night from @calaber24p about hardfork 19 and voting and it got me to thinking about systems design, which got me to thinking about back when the US colonists were trying to figure
gwiss
health
9y
High Intensity Training
@kafkanarchy84 had a good post about running and detoxification. It made me think about the physiology involved with running, why it is good for us, and what it does to the hormone and energy use patterns
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education
9y
School is broken
@krnel had a good post about school bullying recently, and it got me thinking about how school functions now and what it might function like in the future. The current US school system is, as far as I'm
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economy
9y
Corporations -- vital or parasites?
Corporations are an ancient concept. They were widespread in Rome, the concept being that when a group of people band together they form a body (corpus) that is treated as a separate, independent entity.
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society
9y
Separating Cream from Crap
@dana-edwards had a post a couple of days ago about whether centralized pyramid style organizations favor psychopaths, and it got me to thinking about how the reward structure of a system is what creates
gwiss
politics
9y
CNN Producer: American voters are "stupid as sh*t"
So this is what we get when we combine a perpetual sensation of low danger, a society where all of the corners are padded, with a relentless corporate drive for profits at all cost. We get voters that,
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philosophy
9y
On getting Forked...
I was watching the video of the Playboy reporter and the White House press secretary Sanders, and was struck by something he said: Come on, you’re inflaming everybody right here, right now, with those
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politics
9y
Victim Mentality versus The Village
So let's imagine that we are all part of a small village in the jungle. One of us keeps licking toads, and every time has to be tended to hand and foot for a few days until the poison wears off. Relatives
gwiss
society
9y
Gratuitous Suffering
A recent post I read made me start thinking about the effectiveness of public protesting as a means to change society, and if society isn't better off by spending time solving their own problems instead
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health
9y
Vaccines -- choice or required?
So I noticed a recent post about vaccine injury that I thought was great, but also noted that most of the comments were anti-vaccine -- which was surprising (and heartwarming) to me. And I was wondering
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