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Comment Re:Old and funny subject (Score 1) 243

lol, I am definitely not fighting, just deferring to the awesome intellect of luckyo, who is busily googling to support their claim

I am pretty comfortable with the concepts of NLP, and really do not feel like googling a few dozen links to support NLP's use of modalities in putting information into people's thought processes, which is reflected in almost all advertising these days oops ;)

Comment Re:Old and funny subject (Score 1) 243

Neural Linguistic Programming often refers to is as VAK Modalities

BECAUSE people are different and often respond to one modality over another, NLP practitioners have to learn to message across Visual Auditory and Kinesthetic experiences

It is OK if you are not a visual person, just do not try to deny that of others

Comment Re:Old and funny subject (Score 1) 243

Artists usually have to separate their concept of an apple from the image of an apple in order to draw an apple that other people can recognize

One method to develop this ability is to draw the object upside down. According to Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain , this confuses (or delays) the normal recognition of the apple and gives yourself a chance to draw the apple without your normal conceptualization of the apple to override what you are seeing

In many cases there are clear benefits in separating the visualization of an object from the conceptualization of it

Comment Re:Nope (Score 1) 243

This was a concept that I learned as a teen by reading (and practicing) The Art and Practice of Astral Projection by Ophiel

In the book, they have you meditate at several different spots, and combine that 'experience' with a particular color and smell for each location

You are then to practice remembering those places as you fall asleep, resulting in dreams where you are first, able to visit those spots, then later to be able to travel other places in your dreams

This has also been called lucid dreaming, and it also draws on the core concepts of neural linguistic programming/hypnosis as promoted by Milton H Erickson

This has been a boon to me throughout my life, as I moved from land surveying, to Computer Aided Design, to Geographic Information Systems, and finally to database programming by leveraging prior experiences to train myself into different visualization and modeling techniques to both understand different systems and design computer based solutions on them

It is hard to tell my boss that "my brain is full and I need to dream about this before I can program it", but that is part of how I work now

Comment Re: Supply & Demand (Score 1) 266

You should look into the long history of the US government involvement in supporting anti-democratic dictators in central and south America at the behest of American corporations

TLDR, people are fleeing violence in countries, where the US was instrumental in destroying the rule of law, or to put it poetically, The US actions have come home to roost

Comment Re:Supply & Demand (Score 1) 266

You should look into the history of immigration as reflected in race relations along the US/Mexican border for the past hundred years

During a Hearst Press infused race panic hundreds of thousands of US citizens of Mexican descent were deported from the US border states to Mexico

Similarly, Americans in states that are away from the border region are being worked up into a fear driven panic as waves of fentanyl addiction are hitting them and they are confusing immigrant workers (who are largely social conservatives and decent people) with 'cartel killers' although most of the fentanyl distribution in those states is being handled by Americans

At this point, most undocumented workers in America are having social security and taxes taken from their paychecks, which they will NEVER being able to lay claim to. Undocumented workers are NOT eligible for social security, welfare, etc... and the people who are pushing these fears are more than likely right wing shills from PACs like FAIR

Comment Re:Supply & Demand (Score 1) 266

Don't forget that corporate America reserves all foreign worker slots for jobs that compete directly with the American degree holders so that they can undercut their wages, um I mean... *cough* cut costs

I suspect that those newly minted degree holders would face a robust job market if the available migrant job slots were allocated to construction, farming and food services

It would likely put a dent into illegal immigration as well

Comment Re:Japan and Germany are ditching electric (Score 1) 343

Comment Re:Japan and Germany are ditching electric (Score 4, Insightful) 343

EVs that charge from a fossil fuel electric grid are a benefit because the large power plant operates at about over 60% efficiency compared to an ICE with efficiency around 25%

It just gets way better when you also have solar panels and use that to charge the car

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