Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "PowerfulJRE"
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I'd take the temperature of the comments, just to see who I was appealing to and what it brought out in them. But I think beyond a certain point, you're going to have a pretty good idea of the kinds of criticisms you're going to get, and know your own faults more acutely than any of your critics.
This makes me think about student evaluations of teachers at the end of every semester. After 30 years, you know what your strengths and weaknesses are. You can be fooled into thinking something's really working great, even when it isn't, because 5 people sing your praises. You can think something sucks, when it doesn't, because lazy students don't understand how many reps it takes for them to master a skill, or they'll tell you that they're fine with the homework, but the test questions are just too hard, even when you went out of your way to just tweak the numbers on homework exercises on the tests.
Administrators try to emphasize student evaluations, but other than the most egregious cases of bad teaching that TERRIBLE evaluations can flag for you, they really don't help you improve your teaching craft. I know - as a hoary old goat of a teacher - exactly how to play the students if I want great evaluations, just by planting suggestions and creating an atmosphere of "You're doing great!" even when they're not. I don't have it in me to lie to them. I just act kindly towards all and give them what they earn. It's important to never take anything away from anybody. Just award them the points they EARN, like it's a job.
If I were Joe Rogan, with a nice income, I'd probably hire somebody I trusted to monitor the comments and create an irreverent, but welcoming place. It's not that hard to do, and it's as easy or easier to ban bad actors (like the guy who sees Zionist conspiracies everywhere, and quotes Revelation all the time) as it is for the trolls to come up with new identities. Just one person could probably monitor 3 or 4 pretty beefy channels for a uniquely open and troll-free experience.
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It's all kind of strange how the Carter administration is judged.
I think it all goes to the price of oil and the fact that USA regulations locked up all the oil that would have made OPEC a lot less of a threat to the American economy.
There was "old oil" and "new oil." You had to sell "old oil" at "old oil" prices, so if inflation made everything go up, you still had to charge the same old price for oil from your existing well. This really drove up prices, because they'd just cap the old wells, and have to explore for new sites, while the government simultaneously made it more and more expensive to open up new sites. Regardless of that, they should have been able to charge market prices for the oil.
A lot of people think we should nationalize the oil. All that would do is make a switch from people in it to make an honest profit to government contractors, overseen by Congress, which would just see dollar signs and a giant piggy bank to buy votes with. In the end, you still end up with a private outfit, only cut off from being responsible to its customers to being responsible to politicians. This is always a bad idea.
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Making you wait 2 or 3 days to see your doctor when you're coming down with something is how you get REALLY sick, if you're GONNA get really sick. The medical "authorities" got this wrong in every conceivable way.
I've had a lot of injuries over the years and always tried to be a good patient. My last stay at ONE hospital, I actually started fearing for my life. Weird things kept happening. I'd wake up sweating and it was almost 80 degrees in there. I'd ask them to turn it down to about 68. I'd wake up chilled, and it was set at 60. This happened several times. It was like "Am I crazy?" Then I got to thinking they were gaslighting me and enjoying my misery.
I finally found one RN and one LPN who seemed pretty forthright. Family finally flew in a few days in, and things improved, remarkably. To this day, I'm not sure I'd've made it out of there without family there by my side.
Even getting OUT of there was a nightmare. I needed a wheelchair-accessible van, because BOTH legs were busted. (Don't ask.). I asked them to arrange it. I sat out in the freezing cold in front of the hospital for a half hour before the taxi - a SEDAN - pulled up. I had NO way of getting in and out of that sedan. The RN I mentioned saw me waiting INside, asking for help, and she kicked some asses. Sent me back to my room to wait. Finally got a wheelchair-accessible bus ride home.
I don't know what I said or what I did to those people, or if they just look for vulnerable people to fuck with. I tell everyone I know not to go to that hospital.
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Catch-and-release is also bad for fish, especially as those waters receive more and more pressure from more and more "purists." This is especially true on the Gunnison, in Colorado, where you catch a fish and see the marks from previous catches-and-releases. "A lot of fish with sore mouths, here." That's why I like going to remote places, where you can catch and keep, and there's not much pressure from anglers. Do the outdoors thing, and yeah, catch and eat a couple nice fish. Hard to find such places, and harder, yet, to fish them. Like Ouitas Creek ("Weetus") in Idaho, a stone's throw from the Montana border, a stone's throw from Missoula.
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There was a gal at work who only drank coffee if she didn't get any sleep the night before. She kept a Mr. Coffee in her closet and she'd break it out maybe once a month. All it took was one cup and she was wired for the whole day, a day she couldn't get through, otherwise.
Like weed or coke or many other drugs, once you're using them, daily, it's to feel normal, and you're no longer getting the full benefit.
I've been laid up in the hospital due to injury and been on demerol or whatever, just sleeping and hurting. Off coffee. Off nicotine. After a week without coffee, you're pretty much cleansed, and that first cup will make you high as shit.
You don't have to be off it for 3 months for the full kick. Just a week. During that week, you've got to be able to just lay down and sleep whenever you feel like it. Powering through the withdrawal and trying to be normal is extremely hard, and you'll probably get headaches. But if you can let down and sleep when you feel like it, it's not bad, at all.
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Evolution doesn't explain how we made the leap from organic soup to 1-celled to multi-celled to EVERYTHING. Missing links ABOUND in the fossil record. We're not really sure how those major leaps happen, although the fossil record indicates many major leaps.
Variation of species doesn't quite cover it. You don't have to be a wacked-out "Earth is 4,000 years old" fanatic to believe that there are huge gaps in the theory of evolution.
Look at trilobites. They lasted millions of years, essentially unchanged. Then they're ALL gone. And something else entirely filled up its niche(s). Paleontologists have no idea how things transitioned. They see the one thing. Then they see the totally different thing.
I think evolution fits the facts, but doesn't explain all the facts. Most of all, I think we're just damn short on facts.
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There's a deeply imbedded paradox in contemporary liberal thought. People want to be free, but they also want government to take responsibility for damn near everything. When you give up personal responsibility for a thing, you give up personal authority over that thing. You also agree to abide by the rules set by those to whom you foolishly gave the responsibility.
You can't at the same time be free and secure. Liberals want to be secure, but they're always surprised when they realize that it always comes at cost to their liberty. Christian fundamentalism isn't the ONLY traditional dogma that gets in the way of real human progress. Throw God out and somebody else - lately somebody POLITICAL - will eagerly supply you with a world view with its OWN dogmas.
Things like Med4All sound really good, but when you make the collective responsible for the cost of your health care, every cigarette you smoke, every donut you eat, every risky behavior in which you engage is at the collective's expense. One economic downturn, cigs are illegal. One bad year, people start REALLY fat-shaming, VICIOUSLY, because that person's self -indulgence is at EVERYBODY'S expense. Very slippery slope, as nice as collective responsibility for the weak and powerless.
The answer? A self-sufficient citizen with a little extra to give, who GIVES, because it's RIGHT, and society affirms their generosity with STATUS.
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This guest sounds like he's getting close to what Adam Smith was saying, but still operates under some myths about "toxic capitalism." When exchanges are voluntary between known individuals in a community, in full light of day, cheating is extremely rare. Word gets out. You need that person's business in the future. Businesses that last, under NO rules beyond basic protection of rights to person and property, are as moral or MORE moral than highly-regulated markets.
Only in a highly-regulated market do you see GMO products from big corporations get labeled as "organic" on the shelf. Only with the USDA weighing in does the actual organic farmer get labeled non-organic, because of how they filled out a form. Those rules are written by elites for elites. Written by big business for big business.
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I've been in rock fights. They're terrifying enough! Especially around the railroad tracks where there's an infinite supply of fist-sized rocks perfect for throwing. Bezing SHOT AT is a whole 'nother level of fear.
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Let's make peace between law enforcement and the community. Let's start by thinking about policies that put them at odds in the first place. I'd start with re-thinking our approach to drug addiction. Maybe more of a public-health approach than a law-enforcement approach. Cops already see us at our worst. Honest cops get a low opinion of the community. Dishonest cops have all kinds of drug money in front of them every day. Temptation. Some cops shouldn't be cops.
An old security guard at my college in the 1980s was your stereotypical Irish ex-cop. He could tell some stories. One he told (grain of salt) was that when he worked for a big-city police department, he got shipped into corrections almost instantly, because he wouldn't take the envelope. So his fellow cops wouldn't trust him on the street. (And he couldn't trust his fellow officers). He said that he ended up being a jailer because he wouldn't take money. I think the War on Drugs really fuels this kind of thing.
Gambling and prostitution are also corruptors of communities and police forces when they're illegal. Legalize and regulate gambling and prostitution, as well. Law enforcement would then only be there to regulate street traffic and investigate and help prevent crimes against persons and property. I don't care if somebody wants to stick a needle in his own arm. Not the cop's business, until and unless he knocks somebody over the head for money for his next fix. THEN he's meat for law enforcement.
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