...but not completely there yet. She's figured out that Lefties are fueled by vile thinking, and that this is characteristic only of that side. What she and I believe you haven't fully connected the dots on is the deceit. TFAuthor writes as though she believes the extent of lying on the Left is only on behalf of its set of sacred cows. And in the absence of attacks on those, Lefties will level with you, such that it even makes sense to converse with them, as long as you stay away from or make allowances for their reactions to those touchy areas.

And there's another! Why don't these people think of these things? It's like they apply to appear on the show, but they're never watched it. So it's like they're oblivious to the same kinds of problems each pair runs into.

Maybe it's that if you've got the guts and confidence to volunteer for something like that, you think you don't need to learn anything from prior contestants/victims. Strangely, no one dropped out voluntarily on N & A's first season, and they didn't have any way of knowing what it would be like from watching a previous season. Later seasons find people going in all cocky, and then tapping out, and they have the benefit of knowing in advance what they'll be in for! (And some of these people wussing out are survival instructors; to fail at what you claim you're good at, on national TV, can't be too good for that part of your career!)

I kinda glossed over the plastic sheet thing, but that's brilliant too. All the people on these shows are actually amazingly good at making shelters, but they can leak a little in a downpour. Would make a good inner liner, from the rain as well as wind. And bugs, if it was big enough. Which leads me to the last puzzling thing I'll mention; in some locales the bugs eat them alive, and in some they freeze their butts off at nights, and I can't help but wonder, how come no one has ever gone subsurface with their shelter. Some, esp. in jungle areas, have made very cool raised shelters, I guess because of army ants and venomous snakes. But there's nothing insulating like earth.

(p.s. You might also be thinking using the plastic sheet to condense steam. One guy on Dude You're Screwed had a plastic baggie, and put some juicy leaves in it and left it in the sun, and got a bit of fresh water that way.)

Sure, I don't mind at all when the mfr's release teaser images of a new model, for example. There's no commentary with it; you decide if you like the style of the new whatever, or if you think it could grow on you, or not. But for a "review", entailing pros and cons, and including comparisons with competitors say, I'd rather listen to third parties (even though some of them can be bought and sold by a given advertiser and/or already be predisposed towards certain mfrs).

Ads are one-sided, and that's their deficiency (to their recipients). Movie trailers can portray a movie a lot funnier than it is. I watch all the movie trailers I come across, and keep a list of movies I haven't seen that might be worthwhile, but they only tell me if it *might be* worthwhile. I've got burned a few times with some real zonkers, because I don't generally seek out reviews of movies first.

Taking this a little broader, realize that, generally speaking, ads totally suck. They're not for you and me. They're meant for the vast masses of dummies. They only have a short time to convey a winning impression, and it seems like the people in the ad business, like the people on the Left, almost always opt for trying to fool you about or into something. Things like "if such-and-such is great on this, just imagine how good it would be for that" don't work on us, because we're logical enough to know that that's not a real reason, and that a 30 second spot has completed and they've made no actual claim.

Watching ads is like watching FNC only, or watching anything but FNC only.

Reminds me, my sis's in-laws are those certain kinds of people who wallpaper their small homes with dusty old bookshelves and books, of wildly varying, esoteric topics.

What will today's hipster youth do when they're older to peacock (yes, I just verbized that) their bohemianness or whatever.

Methinks KATE was repurposed from its former role of predicting ocean level rising.

Which is fine in social media, but it's also the case at my workplace!

The District of Columbia might be a counterexample of that.

I guess you're saying the lower levels of governance would have the militias and the territory to support them, and the higher levels wouldn't, and the lower levels would use them against the higher levels if they overstepped their levels of what they were responsible for handling.

Seems like some lower orders might side with an overstepping higher order, for competitive gain. Civil wars might be occasional rather than practically never.

So these quarantine containers won't be needed by our troops being sent there, because they won't be working with people directly, just handling their bodily fluids. That's a relief!

Holy crap, apparently it's a colloquialism for a large, sprawling set of freeway onramps and offramps! Now that I'm looking at the pattern, I think I know where a half "cloverleaf interchange" is in my area.

That's okay, we're never been on the same wavelength (like for example, doesn't it seem like this got strayed awfully far from what I was posting about, or what you journaled about in the first place?).

Fine, you can't do an aircraft carrier as a craftsman. But you can do it as craftsmen. Vice say how AFAIK auto assembly is typically done, for example where one guy is responsible for bolting in the right front seat, and that's all he does, all day long.

Wondering what this has to do with scaling the society in general, and in particular how it prevents or mitigates a class struggle from emerging.

(If I've been intruding, and you're really only interested in talking with DR about things under this topic, just say so. It's your journal, you should get to do as you please with it, and I'll apologize for... not being able to read your mind! ;)

p.s.:

"put in a cloverleaf at your intersection of choice"? What. The. Fuck!?

I used to be floored by your astounding level of obtuseness, and not in a good way. But now I'm in amazement of it! :)

I wonder what technology you're thinking of that is too taxing on the human brain to be done by one person. Or what you're thinking is solved by people specializing more than we already are.

I'd like to see us instead being a craftsman society. Then maybe there'd be pride in quality. I'd rather things lasted and repairs were cheaper than a higher initial cost, vice cheap junk that we just throw away when it breaks. Capitalism on its own will make everything, and everyone, disposable. People ought to watch out for that.

I also wonder how all of this prevents a class struggle from emerging.

Maybe you meant to answer someone else, as I made no reference to a problem of scale. But on that topic of your link, of division of labor, I side with Karl Marx. Capitalism's "progressive" force towards never-ending greater and greater efficiencies, no matter how dehumanizing, is a major downside of this economic system that needs to be kept thoroughly in check. Capitalism should serve us, not the other way around.

And I have no idea what that other stuff means.

I don't get it.

A la what I posted in smitty's latest JE, I don't think there's anything that can limit your "limited but strong", given human nature.