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[Baggers]

Just going back to the subconscious mind, I think that we see far more than our conscious mind can process but our lizard brain takes it all in and spits out anything that could be important.

Many years ago, I was walking from one of the La Trobe carparks towards the library.  There was a bloke walking in the opposite direction about 200m away and a thought flashed through my brain, "I haven't seen Peter for a while."  As we got closer, I realised that it was Peter.  I don't know whether there was something about his gait or posture but there's no way that I could have recognised him at 200m.

I spend a lot of time in the bush and have had numerous encounters with snakes but they are rarely unexpected.  One close call was when I foolishly decided to walk through some scrub wearing thongs. I was in mid-step when I suddenly thought, "This is a good place for a snake."  I kept my foot raised and, sure enough, there was a smallish Tiger Snake coiled up right where I was about to plant my Japanese safety boot.  I retreated and found another route. 

I have had many similar experiences and I am sure that they are the subconscious mind using sensory skills we've forgotten we have.

The subconscious/unconscious mind has been central to my studies for decades, David, starting with Carl Jung's observations right through to today's more adventurous neuropsychologists. In a nutshell... our knowledge of the workings of the human brain are still embryonic, along with the depths of the unconscious. Sheesh, consciousness can't even be explained!

I look forward to a chat about this with you at a game we attend next year! It's quite amazing, even incredible what lies between the human lugholes.

[Mav]

Baggers, that’s the problem I have with Musk. He’s just addicted to attention. And the best way to garner attention is to act unpredictably without worrying too much about sticking to a guiding philosophy (boring!). There’s nothing better to spark outrage than being a hypocrite. That makes getting to know the man a largely pointless exercise. Sure, he’s for freedom of speech when it suits him but he’ll sack employees on the spot if they speak out. He’ll use his wealth to intimidate corporations to bend to his will but he’ll bleat about Apple bullying him by cutting advertising on Twitter (as many other businesses have done). And how about his stunt of sacking a huge part of Twitter’s staff and then demanding that those who remained needed to work twice as hard, What you’re left with is an entitled twat who enjoys behaving like a wealthy toddler.

[Gointocarlton]

Now how could I have forgotten Musk. There are two others who are definitely in my top 10, Luke Beverage and Jake Stringer. I should have clarified, these are all people with a face/head I like to smack (figuratively speaking of course, I don't condone violence of any sort but damn these pricks above make it hard).

Tame is the one that probably grinds my gears the most at the moment. The are plenty of people in the same predicament as her but dont carry themselves the way she does to my eye at least.

[LP]

Now how could I have forgotten Musk.

Musk is an interesting case, perhaps a prime example of how money corrupts.

Years ago he was a bit of a nerd icon, inventing pretty much everything to make the world a better place while making a profit. Now he just claims he invents everything to make a huge profit while delivering 4/5th of feck all, no wonder he's a Trump ally, they have both worked out you can make more money from sprouting bullcrap!

PS; I get it that SpaceX is a success, it's making some ground in the re-usable launch vehicle space, but it's offset all that good by launching thousands  and thousands of night sky polluting bits of Starlink debris into orbit just to deliver Americans a B-Grade satellite internet service.

Starlink mobile internet on the Go!
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[Gointocarlton]

People are up in arms over SEN hosts Timmy and Garry Lyon not calling out comments Johnny from Epping made on SEN on their show about Jewish recruit Sheezel. He made a comment about Jewish people having lots of money and with their backing, perhaps North no longer need the Tassie deal for money. They are calling this anti semitic, is this PC gone stark raving mad or am I out of touch and uneducated on this stuff?

[PaulP]

People are up in arms over SEN hosts Timmy and Garry Lyon not calling out comments Johnny from Epping made on SEN on their show about Jewish recruit Sheezel. He made a comment about Jewish people having lots of money and with their backing, perhaps North no longer need the Tassie deal for money. They are calling this anti semitic, is this PC gone stark raving mad or am I out of touch and uneducated on this stuff?

It ties into stereotypes of Jews being greedy, that they are desperate to make money by any means necessary, that they are penny pinching tight ar$e$, that they control the world's financial systems etc. It's an old stenotype, dating back to the middle ages, when Jews sometimes had restrictions on their economic activity and sometimes were forbidden from owning land. At times the only option they had for earning a living was through high interest loans and the like, something Christians were forbidden from doing. There's more to it, but that'll do for now.

I'm guessing that fellow's comment wasn't meant maliciously, but it's a poor comment regardless and I think Jews would find it offensive.

[Gointocarlton]

It ties into stereotypes of Jews being greedy, that they are desperate to make money by any means necessary, that they are penny pinching tight ar$e$, that they control the world's financial systems etc. It's an old stenotype, dating back to the middle ages, when Jews sometimes had restrictions on their economic activity and sometimes were forbidden from owning land. At times the only option they had for earning a living was through high interest loans and the like, something Christians were forbidden from doing. There's more to it, but that'll do for now.

I'm guessing that fellow's comment wasn't meant maliciously, but it's a poor comment regardless and I think Jews would find it offensive.

I know about the background and stereotypes behind the Jewish community, what I dont understand is how a comment about being wealthy can be offensive. Its fact that Jewish people are generally wealthy because they are smart, hard working people. Its fact that the Jewish community stick together and help one another unlike what I have seen and experienced with many other communities which I won't mention specifically. I simply put these two facts I mentioned together and come up with the reason for Johhny's comment. Nothing malicious, nothing racist, merely pointing out that if the Jewish community get behind Sheezel and the Kangas, they could provide some serious input both from a business networking perspective and financially. My first impressions were that of a long bow being drawn. Perhaps nowadays, any mention or association of a community/people and a trait (for the want of a better term) is now stereotypical and hence offensive.

[Thryleon]

I know about the background and stereotypes behind the Jewish community, what I dont understand is how a comment about being wealthy can be offensive. Its fact that Jewish people are generally wealthy because they are smart, hard working people. Its fact that the Jewish community stick together and help one another unlike what I have seen and experienced with many other communities which I won't mention specifically. I simply put these two facts I mentioned together and come up with the reason for Johhny's comment. Nothing malicious, nothing racist, merely pointing out that if the Jewish community get behind Sheezel and the Kangas, they could provide some serious input both from a business networking perspective and financially. My first impressions were that of a long bow being drawn. Perhaps nowadays, any mention or association of a community/people and a trait (for the want of a better term) is now stereotypical and hence offensive.

Stereotypes are out unless you are stereotyping WASPS.

Then they are fair game for anyone.

Even if they dont truly belong to that group.

[LP]

Is Dan's SEC plan viable, or is this his retirement plan?

Reading today various issues politicians need to find a way to stop the corporates throwing a tantrum every time some market regulation is enacted. It's clear these things should work if not for some bonus hunting executive who's pissed off because his 7 figure salary is going to be cut by 10% or 15%.

You know from the reading that the various claims that "regulation drives up prices" are bogus, prices rise because executives won't accept lower margins, so they deliberately increase prices. I feel for them, after all they are barely making ends meet and their executive bonus depends on a percentage!

As an aside, I'd like to see politician pensions contingent on not entering corporate life post politics, so politicians can't lay the ground work to feather their nest before they are voted out. Remove some of the incentive that exists to screw over the public for personal profit. Too many get life long pensions, then join the board of the very companies they were previously trying to regulate, they win both ways and the public pays. Let the politicians join charitable boards, hospitals or other non-profits, but not the mainstream corporates they were trying to regulate.

[LP]

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