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- Thu Feb 23, 2023 4:46 am
- Forum: Social Sciences
- Topic: The Nonsensical American Media Experience
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5493
The Nonsensical American Media Experience
Here’s another thought to chew on. Yes, we can metaphorically chew on thoughts: “ The grand juror who might have said too much” That’s my today’s daily Politico Playbook email feed headline/subject line. The first part of the email/story/article reads this way: “ Did EMILY KOHRS just save DONALD TRU...
- Mon Feb 20, 2023 10:31 am
- Forum: Other Sciences
- Topic: Psychological Manipulation for Profit
- Replies: 2
- Views: 551
Re: Psychological Manipulation for Profit
I may as well add this YouTube video clip from Second Thought, entitled, “Why There’s No Such Thing as an Ethical Business under Capitalism”. https://youtu.be/idBdAw5PuTI At 11:48: “Under a capitalist system you cannot be unprofitable. And that will always take precedence over any concern for social...
- Mon Feb 20, 2023 7:25 am
- Forum: Other Sciences
- Topic: Psychological Manipulation for Profit
- Replies: 2
- Views: 551
Re: Psychological Manipulation for Profit
This YouTube 11 min video isn’t a perfect followup to the previous link about manipulating gaming participants for profit, but it is the same general track. It is titled, “YouTube Ads are Getting Insane and I Hate It”: https://youtu.be/_--LvdAHfVo The general idea in this video is that Google (which...
- Mon Feb 20, 2023 7:04 am
- Forum: Other Sciences
- Topic: Psychological Manipulation for Profit
- Replies: 2
- Views: 551
Psychological Manipulation for Profit
This YouTube video is titled, “What Went Wrong with Gaming” … I could have posted it in several places but I chose “Other Science” because it’s generalization is all about publicly manipulating human nature specifically for profit … I encourage members to hear it all or at least scroll through it: h...
- Sun Feb 19, 2023 9:23 am
- Forum: Purpose
- Topic: One idea of human purpose, and the purpose of life more generally: reducing entropy
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1299
Re: One idea of human purpose, and the purpose of life more generally: reducing entropy
Ben, I would like a little clearer picture of how you see the 2nd Law affecting the direction of life or affecting the direction we might choose to take in life. I have usually viewed life as having to overcome the 2nd Law’s drive towards lowering entropy in order to “accomplish” new feats, like exp...
- Sat Feb 18, 2023 5:43 pm
- Forum: RNA Education
- Topic: We can’t teach ‘em if we shoot them
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2673
Re: We can’t teach ‘em if we shoot them
Twice now elementary school children have brought loaded guns to their classrooms (both times in Virginia as it turns out): “Another six-year-old boy brings gun to school in Virginia” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64685367 The first time the child fired the weapon injuring his teacher. ...
- Sat Feb 18, 2023 5:11 pm
- Forum: Forum Feedback
- Topic: Start Chatting!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2735
Re: Start Chatting!
I will continue posting things which I hope invite vommentary and exchanges of ideas. However, I will slow down just a bit to hopefully allow a cadence to develop. So others, including newcomers … create some new topics and/or extend some of the existing ones. The Forum should be a great place for n...
- Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:20 pm
- Forum: Music
- Topic: What makes a song have a Religious Naturalist theme?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2368
Re: What makes a song have a Religious Naturalist theme?
Tony,
Thnx. I agree. I moved tge Q to the RNA Central Story section under RNA Core, and cited a piece written by Ursula for NPR back in 2014.
Later,
- E
Thnx. I agree. I moved tge Q to the RNA Central Story section under RNA Core, and cited a piece written by Ursula for NPR back in 2014.
Later,
- E
- Sat Feb 18, 2023 11:08 am
- Forum: Social Sciences
- Topic: Climate may swamp all other social issues
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5347
Climate may swamp all other social issues
Here is a recent PBS clip on melting permafrost as a tipping point issue. Melting permafrost isn’t actually new science or even nee as a climate topic. It hasn’t played a large role in climate models mostly due to lack of data, not lack of theory. The lack of data is mostly due to the lack of fundin...
- Sat Feb 18, 2023 6:49 am
- Forum: RNA Education
- Topic: Can’t teach kids what facts are when media giants mock facts
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6259
Can’t teach kids what facts are when media giants mock facts
Once again, this may not be the right category for this, but … we really can’t expect teachers to be able to teach our youth about facts and inferences and truth when the role models, like media giants and political leaders at all levels snd cotporate executives almost everywhere … don’t even try to...