The Thoughts & Quotes Thread

[MigraineMan]

Why is there only one monopolies and mergers commission?

 

[MigraineMan]

Only when the last fish has been eaten, the last tree has been cut down and the last river has dried up will man realise that reciting red indian proverbs makes you sound like a cnut.​

 

[node]

Why is there only one monopolies and mergers commission?

Big corp level sits above governments (like the City of London) The device your reading this on is powered by the big corps who regularly break the law. Never going to see any of the directors in prison. So like the CQC, they have to pretend to regulate.

 

[MigraineMan]

Big corp level sits above governments (like the City of London) The device your reading this on is powered by the big corps who regularly break the law. Never going to see any of the directors in prison.

Sad but true, I don't even know why we have the facade of lobbyists anymore, just put the real org chart up already and save us a few quid on the theatrics and puppets.

 

[node]

Sad but true, I don't even know why we have the facade of lobbyists anymore, just put the real org chart up already and save us a few quid on the theatrics and puppets.

Ex-Amazon exec appointed chair of UK's competition watchdog

Interim appointment after former head booted out for not being 'sufficiently focused on growth'

www.theregister.com

 

[MigraineMan]

The old who's policing the police..... It's like the poacher that turns gamekeeper except it's the poacher that infiltrated government. Pond scum.

 

[node]

Betteridge's law - An adage stating that any headline ending in a question mark can be correctly answered by the word "no".

Betteridge's law of headlines - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[node]

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

— Upton Sinclair

 

[utopiate]

“I have a foreboding of America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time–when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all of the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; with our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.​

And when the dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest-common-denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”​

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)

 

[node]

The word "influencer" is actually a portmanteau of the words inept, flu and cancer.

 

[Tripp]

If someone asks you if you're a God. You say yes.

The Ghostbusters.

 

[node]

Plausible deniability is the ability of people, typically senior officials in a formal or informal chain of command, to deny knowledge and/or responsibility for actions committed by or on behalf of members of their organizational hierarchy.

Plausible deniability - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[node]

”Career” (verb) means to move swiftly or uncontrollably in a specific direction, typically implying high speed or reckless movement.

Which somewhat describes mine. Yours too?

 

[node]

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti.

 

[Moon]

I’m not addicted to marijuana, I’m in a committed relationship with it. (Cheech & Chong).

 

[node]

Never attempt to win by force that which can be taken by deception.-Machiavelli

This terrible turd changed warfare + politics forever and brought PSYOPS to the mainstream... Centuries ago.

 

[MigraineMan]

Thought for the day, drug addiction, gambling addiction etcetera are seen as illnesses/failings/shortcomings, yet those addicted to money and power are lauded for their achievements, even though they are by default responsible for more death and misery.

 

[node]

“Its not what you know - it’s what you can prove.” US crime analyst.

 

[node]

Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another.

Douglas Hornton.

 

[LunaDracarys]

Tabula rasa (/ˈtæbjələ ˈrɑːsə, -zə, ˈreɪ-/; Latin for "blank slate") is the idea of individuals being born empty of any built-in mental content, so that all knowledge comes from later perceptions or sensory experiences. Proponents typically form the extreme "nurture" side of the nature versus nurture debate, arguing that humans are born without any "natural" psychological traits and that all aspects of one's personality, social and emotional behaviour, knowledge, or sapience are later imprinted by one's environment onto the mind as one would onto a wax tablet. This idea is the central view posited in the theory of knowledge known as empiricism. Empiricists disagree with the doctrines of innatism or rationalism, which hold that the mind is born already in possession of specific knowledge or rational capacity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_rasa

Ahhhh this is nice psychology and sociology inputs I love it and love the mind and the impact of this kind, nature versus nurture.