Steve Bannon talking about atmospheric change in 1995. As I suspected, this guy is part of the alien vanguard. Atmospheric conversion is critical to the survival of his species.
“Earth is being acclimatized. They are turning our atmosphere into their atmosphere. Deplete the planet. Move on to another. They want benign indifference. We could be pets. We could be food, But all we really are is livestock.” —They Live!
Life on oxygen-rich planet Earth clearly hasn’t been kind to Bannon.
Originally shared by Jeff Zahari
It’s this guy’s fault.
Beck, the former crazy guy has just himself found a new niche as a voice of reason in the era of Trump: the Conscience of a Conservative schtick. It’s an another great acting stunt where he can pretend to be Edward R. Murrow.
While there might be an element of risk going up against the Donald, I think Beck is canny enough to know where the market will be in two years time. Trump will continue to polarise Americans and some of the alienated will become Beck’s happy customers.
Originally shared by Peter da Silva
Never look back —Steve Jobs
OK now I am overjoyed. I am invoking Poe’s Law but on a new variant strain.
Originally shared by colin mcdermott
A brillant article from Greg. Did we have a recession? No GDP did not drop… but what if we look at other measures… Oh we experienced the effects of s recession.
Conspiracy is the word we give to an emergent self organising property of large systems. You are faced with nefarious dimwits and brainless masterminds, few of whom know one another but who collude for their own collectively selfish ends. That’s not to say that there isn’t a conspiracy, it’s just that it’s a conspiracy of idiots.
That said, the tendency to deny that there is any conspiracy going on at all is also a fallacy and possibly a sign of a mental disorder. Its clinical term is hypersheepism.
Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger
Several years ago, I was having dinner with a friend prone to conspiracy theories. She started explaining to me how this coalition of shadowy figures running oil and arms companies were secretly bankrolling the entire war in Iraq when I had to stop her with the bad news — what she was describing wasn’t a secret. You could read about all the things she was talking about on the front page of any newspaper, with the principals’ names right there in black and white.
You would really think that we long ago passed the Poe Threshold, beyond which satire and reality are indistinguishable.* Conspiracy theories require a number of rather odd assumptions: that a lot of people are capable of working in secret to achieve some kind of end without this leaking (highly unlikely, if you’ve ever seen people try to keep secrets or do things in large organizations), that this end is somehow different from what the public sees (increasingly unlikely, because to be any more nefarious than what you see people advertising on their own websites you’d have to be sacrificing babies to bring about the return of the Old Gods) (and even that’s pushing it), and that this conspiracy is somehow hyper-competent and secretly controls all things (incredibly unlikely, if you’ve ever seen how governments, companies, and so on actually run).
The sad truth is this: if there really were a secret conspiracy, it would be being run by complete idiots. The really nefarious stuff isn’t done in secret; it’s being done by people who boast loudly about it on social media.
(cf also “Real Names,” as in “… are supposed to cause people to behave better.” It turns out that the world’s real assholes are quite proud of their assholism)
* That’s named for Poe’s Law, named for Nathan Poe, not Edgar Allen Poe.
h/t Eli Fennell and Xenophrenia.
Elections bring clarity. If your point of view was x in October then it’s definitely X now in November.
No party holds on to the presidency for more than two terms°. That’s especially so during an economic depression°°. If voters were looking for a little hope and change in 2008, they were looking for somebody to kick the whole system in 2016.
This makes the Democratic party’s choice of going with Hillary Clinton totally incomprehensible. Far from being a candidate of change, she could only ever be a candidate of more of the same.
This was a change election. And Trump was the change candidate. To me, this is the single most important number in the exit poll in understanding what voters were thinking when they chose Trump. Provided with four candidate qualities and asked which mattered most to their vote, almost 4 in 10 (39 percent) said a candidate who “can bring needed change.” (A candidate who “has the right experience” was the second most important character trait.) Among those change voters, Trump took 83 percent of the vote to just 14 percent for Clinton.
° Yeah a gross simplification but still, it’s really really hard to get a third term and since they put in term limits, near impossible to get a fourth.
°° Yeah it’s not a “depression” but it sure as hell isn’t a normal economic period. Technically it’s known as “secular stagnation”.
For those of you laying out web pages using a grid system (e.g. Bootstrap but there are about a million others) how about giving flexbox a go? It’s well supported in browsers these days.
That said the flexbox spec is a little complex to learn quickly so I wrote a CSS library that allows you to do flexbox layouts with a minimum of fuss and with sensible defaults. You can layout out something as easily as this:
<div class="toolbar f-row f-middle f-padding“>
menu
<strong class=" f-grow “>Welcome to f-layout
<img style="width:56px;height:56px;border-radius:50%;"
src=”https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/f850593bdae3…..b4acfdfdb98? s=80″>
Which is the tool bar section of the layout shown below.
The classes f-row, f-middle and f-padding mean “lay things out horizontally, vertically centred and with some padding around each element”. The f-grow class on the title “Welcome to f-layout” means expand to fill the all the space. The other stuff is for showing icons and my gravatar.
f-layout is installable by Npm or Bower. Give it a shot and tell me what you think.
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