You don’t want to give them religious liberties, because as soon as they can they use these liberties to curtail the same of others.

If I look at all my issues I can see without a doubt they are all a result of lazy decisions I have made in the past:

1. Financial settlement with my ex wife

2. My daughter’s mother

3. BT imaging

It’s called kicking the can down the road.

Hello

I just killed the Guardian app because it’s full of whiny opinions. It’s not that I’m not sympathetic to progressive views; I am in fact. It’s just that they take it way too far, to the point that I just can’t stomach it any more.

What I was hoping for was that the ABC app would give me an option to kill all opinion and all whining (no articles with ‘how’ or ‘why’ in the heading, for example). I just want the facts and nothing else. I’ll do my own opining.

Also I don’t want to know about an event until it’s over, unless it’s sport. Politics, for example, isn’t worth watching in my world view. I want to know who won an election but I don’t want to watch the lies in action.

Can you do this? All you would need for each article is a score between 0 and 10, from dry to wet, from facts to bullshit, or from journalism to hysteria. You could let the user choose their own global threshold so that they would only see articles with a specific score, e.g. 0-1 scores in my case.

Thanks
Ian Maxwell

PS the solution arrived as per below

False profits beget false prophets.

Polynesian canoes didn’t have a centre board as such. The crew had steering paddles which doubled as leeboards. They went straight down into the water, and were probably twisted this way or that for steering effect. Hard work but it kept them constantly engaged, which they needed to be for navigational reasons – checking the swell, wind, stars, sun, wind, water life and birds.

It’s a race to the bottom; racism can’t exist if race doesn’t exist. It’s a figment of its owners imagination.

Divorce is a type of reverse- metamorphosis undertaken later in life. It’s the butterfly cramming itself back into the cocoon, so it can reemerge as a more beautiful butterfly.

The toughest decision ever made by mankind must be infanticide on the basis of available resources .

How did they ever do this?

I believe that productivity gains in all industries is asymptoting as the easy gains have been made and we get down to the fundamentals costs that are hard to reduce, like the cost of raw materials, labor or finance.

Cost can always be reduced but the ROI if doing so slows down over time.

Averaged across all industries we see a complex productivity curve, which, as I said, started asymptoting about 5 years ago, after the easy gains in software based intermediation were executed and done.

My belief is that the profits resulting from such productivity gains can’t be reinvested in the same industry since the ROI just isn’t there.

Globally this means that in every industry there is a surplus of stranded cash with nowhere to go since the usual place are saturated. Think bonds, stocks, investment and other debt.

Whence goes this excess cash? Real estate mostly. As cash, these reserves also acts to offset public debt with private wealth, so national economies aren’t as badly off as they look.

As this pile of cash gets bigger the fundamental economic model behind our economical management breaks down. The industrial revolution finally runs out of puff.

I see trouble ahead.

On the subject of psychology, affinity groups….

In order to minimize a sense of isolation, all people gravitate towards affinity groups, where they are less likely to be and feel mad.

For the local loopy homeless person this means moving to the cross.

For your social progressive this means moving to Surry Hills and only reading your own social media feeds.

See, madness is the size of the gap between you and the rest of your social milieu. That’s it.

Said “a fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”

Barristers, they’re professional gas-lighters.

A blog from a very anxious and dull human on the subject of crime in Reykjavik, in the context of whether it’s safe to visit the place;

“Iceland averages less than one homicide per year. It has been this way for several decades.

Like any other major city, Reykjavik does have minor assaults, sexual assaults, rapes, automobile theft, vandalism, property damage, and other street crimes.

In recent years, there has been an increase in pickpocketing in Reykjavik. This is due, in part, to the increase in tourists.

There are small groups of organized crime and motorcycle gangs in the country. The government is focused on reducing its influence in the country.

There is no known international terrorism threat in Iceland.”

If you look very carefully, psychological disorders are adjudged by deviations from the norm.

The further you are away from some mythical norm, in one respect or another, the more likely you are too have a certifiable psychological condition.

Oddly there is no such thing as a perfect human, one that doesn’t deviate in any regards from the mythical norm.

The norm is this great big white space in the middle of the spider diagram, describing all the disorders. That’s because, for most of us, our extant deviations are below a threshold required for the tick of approval required to get insurance cover for treatment. But yet we do deviate a little, in more ways than one.

A certifiable human could reasonably argue that it is the cluster fuck of normal humans that have the problem. Because, in fact, it is the discomfort of these normal humans that is being diagnosed when someone gets treated or locked up for their mental health deviations.

Which brings to my primary point. I believe that we now live in a neurotic society. The norms are very high in anxiety and getting worse.

My view is that too much comfort and wealth is at such odds with our natural state of awareness and anxiety that some part of the brain trips a fuse.

It may be that the residual sane people will soon to be locked up.