Episode 2484 CWSA 05/24/24
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- čas přidán 23. 05. 2024
- Biden says revenge is not how to run a country. Okay. And more.
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Weed is a "gate-way drug" to loneliness." Proof.
"Discrimination only lasts until you open your mouth." As someone who frequently gets initially judged poorly, I can strongly attest to this. I absolutely adore when some stranger talks down to me and is dismissive, is even rude, bordering on insulting and then a little later asks what college I went to. I love the look of consternation on their face when I tell them I didn't go to college, I just have always read a lot, then ask what books are they reading and they have to search their memory for the last time they've read a book which may have been years ago.
Knowledge and intelligence can't be faked and it can't be much covered over, either. So if you're an ignorant ass and people don't like you, don't blame it on your color, own it, you're an ignorant ass, do better.
I agree with your sentiments and statements, but whilst reading this bit:
"I absolutely adore when some stranger talks down to me and is dismissive, is even rude, bordering on insulting "
my first thought was "he seems kind of masochistic, and perhaps has a shaming kink going on..."
You redeemed yourself a few more words into things, however.
Personally, I have a similar background in some ways, though I did take a lot of college courses. I won't bore you unless you respond and want to know.
It is an error to confuse education and schooling. Often the latter closes ones mind to the former. ANyone who has deep dived into the work of John Taylor Gatto and examined his source materials and references can attest to that.
When Scott said "you can't kill somebody twice" I thought about how Bin Laden was apparently killed several times, so when Scott immediately started talking about Bin Laden, I had to laugh.
Scott… Free will AND personality/talent etc. are both inborn. If I’m innately musically talented, it’s free will that either wastes it or gets me practicing an instrument (of my choice).
Yes.
"Free Will" is the ability to choose "good from evil"....even if you think you have no choice, you are still making a decision. Inaction or neutrality are still a choice.
But, why do you make the choice that you do?
I friggin love this stream.
Try PBD podcasts. Even better in some ways
@@philip7654 PBD?
I think the decline in OD's is due to something practical - the easy availability and distribution of Nalaxone, the opiate OD reversal drug, to the public. Many cities and states have made it easy to get and more families and addict groups have wisely chosen to keep it on hand when they know OD is a possibility.
College degree? That's expensive as sh** and useful as toilet paper in 2024. I'll all set.
The end date was 1997 for Hong Kong.
Scott confuses the propensity toward certain behaviors as debunking free will, but the essence of society requires suppressing natural inclinations.
The best part of his speech......"I got to get me some teeth like that".....After the two rappers came up on stage.
Wyoming, North Dakota and Mississippi have the smallest homeless populations. At 532, 784 and 982, these are the only three states where the count of people experiencing homelessness is below 1,000. Relative to an area's population, homelessness is most prevalent in the District of Columbia, New York and Vermont.
Richard Bong the WWII flying ace was not shot down in a jungle. He died as a test pilot in Burbank in 1945.
Scott’s pot must’ve had him hallucinating
If I don't vote for your guy, Navarro and the rest of the hostages stay in prison. 🤔
That's a no-go for me. Fine. If your guy can survive the prosecutorial bukkake that is our government, he's got my vote.
You like third world ghet-toe juntas I guess.
Free will: just because your brain has natural tendencies, doesn't imply you don't have free will.
Choice is meaningless and powerless without a context. You can choose to fly but only in the context of some invention capable of flight. Just because you're limited to a context doesn't mean you have no free will. It just means that free will must be limited to be possessed.
That dog park thing only works in places with nice climates. Where I live, nobody goes outside much, or stays out for long. Winters are cold, summers are hot, springs are windy and unpredictable. Our only decent season is fall.
Dick Bong's P80 primary fuel pump malfunctioned during takeoff. Bong did not switch to the auxiliary fuel pump, either forgetting or unable to do so. He ejected, but was too low for his parachute to open. The plane crashed into a narrow field at Oxnard Street and Satsuma Avenue, North Hollywood. His death was front-page news across the country, sharing space with the first news of the bombing of Hiroshima.
Wow. Thanks.
I have loved reading your books and comics since the 1990s though I go extended periods being inattentive owing to life demands. Mostly I have missed your podcasts but have been catching up on some with the youtubes. I don't watch them live for two reasons...I live expat in a very different time zone AND because I watch most youtube content at 1.5x speed as I am impatient and most people speak too slowly for me. Five minutes in to this video I laughed out loud to myself at your "third place" dog park idea. It's not that I think it is stupid. Ever since I joined the military at 17, I have been a big proponent of Murphy's Laws of Combat (it's a real thing), and lived by them. My favourite is "If it's stupid, but works, it isn't stupid.". No, what made me laugh is the typical dank thoughts and meme inspiration that zips through my head serendipitously (or perhaps nefariously) via inadvertent congruences.
You see, your idea of "places where people accidentally meet" is great. This USED to be life in general, when people left their homes and weren't staring at screens all of the time. There were always unexpected encounters, but these happened with some frequency at nexus points...the local hardware store, the school drop off, the local coffee shop or hobby shop, the local mall, etc.
The key was LOCAL. It's possible in tight knit old school neighbourhoods (it used to be), with active churches and parishes in cities, but it's harder now because social capital has collapsed with diversity and the population growth and sprawl that accompanied these things. I could turn this into an essay on such but I probably wouldn't tell you anything you don't already know. In any case, when it comes to chance encounters and accidental meetings, in a dog park, I also thought of "random dog fights...come for the people, stay for the pit bull vs chihuahua action." I know, it is a long way to go to type a one liner, but I wanted to guide you to how I got there a little without just seeming like a dark thought asshat who sees the evil side of everything. That does describe me ever since I became a combat arms veteran...and some years before that too so I suppose that's just me, but five minutes in you had me intrigued and then laughing out loud, so I have high expectations for the rest of your stream, which I will go watch now.
Church is an excellent 3rd place.
That's my third place
It would be except for all the Christians. But Jesus is aight I guess.
@cravenmoore7778 I met my husband at a church bbq. Four kids & 5 grandchildren later, we celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary this year. 🎉🫶🏻🍀
It's my fourth place. Home, work. Gym, God's place. I can only get out there once a week,
Used to be until Feminism ruined it
The mall used to be a third place
For teens, maybe. At times, the library served that purpose. Or community centers with meeting rooms and planned activities.
Red China has made major moves on Vietnam and The Philippines.
Remember the Alamo, indeed! I'm happy that you and a few others realize what that phrase means. Some of us still remember the Alamo, literally, every day of our lives.
I love the simultaneousl sip😊
The 3rd place: front porchs, when people used to sit out and enjoy the evening cooling off with some iced tea
At a local drug store you could buy a handle (1.75 L) of vodka for $8.99. It's easy and cheap to become an alcoholic and suffer the consequences.
Oh, almost forgot. Been holding on to this one for 4 days
A handfulll of bolts in one hand, the Boeing-trained Iranian engineer questioned "Khamenei?".
To which his superior replied, ☝️
🫴
If Ayatollah once....
Taking your dog to the dog park and instead of playing with and exercising the critter, sitting down with a laptop is dog neglect. Either they sit bored or you won't see when or where they poop if you allow them to run around. 😢
The key is to get a Border Collie or some other super smart breed and tell the critter to exercise itself.
You aren't the only Podcaster saying that Hunter is an "asset"
And that clone was...Andrew Klavan. And now you know the rest of the story
What?! Really?! No. Really?
At the very end, Scott goes off the rails, without historical perspective.
China was a collection of feuding countries until Qin conquered a number of them in 221 BC and made up the name “emperor” for himself. It wasn’t until two millennia later, in 1683, China looked over the horizon and grabbed Taiwan.
Japan took Taiwan from China in 1895. Taiwan gained its independence after WW2.
The totalitarian PRC regime has NO legitimate claim to Taiwan.
Here’s what’s really going on. PRC is utterly lost. Only a third of the land has enough water to be arable.
Xi must import food. For that he can only pay in low-quality goods. Workers who make those cheap goods are aging and increasing his burdens. Xi also must import energy. Does anyone here care to play Xi's hand?! That's why he makes noise about the shining example across the Strait.
He needs DISTRACTIONS and nationalist fervor to hide his failings!
Xi is not about to do anything risky. Foreign adventurism is alien to the culture.
Taiwanese people consider themselves culturally Chinese. It’s not a stretch to think China will absorb the Republic of China (Taiwans real name) peacefully. The planes and ships are they to keep the US away.
Your third place story where you could feel good with your neighbours was going well until your neighbour said “But you can’t make money from it”.
No - they found Bong's P-38 in the jungle, where it crashed after a different pilot bailed out of it. Bong was not in the crash, nor piloting the plane when it failed. Bong died years later as a test pilot, testing jet planes early in their development. He was a Medal of Honor recipient, and held the record for the most kills as an ace, having shot down more enemy planes than even the famous Eddie Rickenbacker of WWI.
Scott said Taiwan had to fall and then said neither would we let a country right over our border be an ally to an enemy. He said this shortly after said something about Cuba. Both Cuba and Venezuela show that Scott has a wrong view of this. Our example shows that clearly Taiwan could survive independently from China for a long, long time.
Scott always mentions how free will doesn’t exist. His framing isn’t correct. It’s unlikely a binary question.
The fact he gave the strategy to recenter yourself a few days ago by saying “back to reality” or whatever the saying is, shows he doesn’t fully believe in determinism. Remembering a strategy and applying it shows deliberation and execution aren’t totally determined.
There is a middle ground to the freewill question, which is a blind spot.
It’s like saying “I’m totally republicans” or “I’m totally democrats”. The reality is most people are on a continuum. Just as the abortion issue isn’t a binary question when you break it down. Most people support early abortion, but oppose late term.
Scott Scott Scott: regarding the segment about “parts of the brain” please explain how that’s not just a case of BACKWARDS SCIENCE!
How do we know it’s the brain causing the person to be a certain way and not being a certain that causes the brain to look a certain way when measured?
You actually think scientists are considering this possibility? 😂
Nürenbronx rally
Bronx folks as Nazis?
Shirley you jest.
Overdoses are down? Maybe because everyone has narcan now in case someobe overdoses..so when they say overdoses, do they mean deaths by overdose?
Maybe I'll feel better next year , I dont know why I would but it's possible I guess
Scott, spearhead 2 Constitutional Amendments: Federal age limits of both elected and civil services personnel & turd limits.
I like your #2 idea (in more than one way!)
Hasn’t been a republic since 1913.
Dick Bong was a top-scoring Ace in the Pacific theater during WW2. He was killed flying an early jet as a test pilot. Dick was a common nickname at the time. I doubt it had the same connotation.
😂
Massy isn't bought off by AIPAC
Britan released control of hong kong. Not the same as giving it back to china.
China then asserted it's authority on the territory.
No one owns Taiwan except Taiwan. But the US is saying "Don't you dare" and China keeps going "is today the day?"
Good point. There is no lease on Formosa. Moreover, there were "natives" living there when he "Nationalists" retreated from the mainland. Off hand, I don't know what part of the present population mix is ethnic mainland folks or long term Formosa folks. It makes a difference. Japan isn't Korea or China. The Philippines aren't China and neither is Vietnam.
Narcan availability...?
8:25 Really interesting point….
13:36 Not to mention Lt Col. in the…. Civil Air Patrol 🤣😝🤣She lists it like that’s the same thing as the Air Force
1:01:20 I went to China in 1998 and met with a former Red Air Force pilots who had formed a public airline. I left feeling the same. It was weird.
1:01:01
29:35 Not the free will discussion again. No, a gene won't take away your free will. The gene may cause you to have a certain urge, but everyone has the ability to override an urge. If you have an itch, you can will yourself to not scratch. It's going to be harder than without the gene, but not impossible.
I also assume single white females are not qualified since they're also included in DEI.
Church would be great without the dogma
Without the "dogma" a church is just a community center.
Richard Bong died in 1945 in North Hollywood while testing a Lockheed P-80 jet fighter.
The better our surveillence quality gets, the fewer terrorists they'll ever be.
@4:00 have you seen people at the café coffee shop working on their laptops barely talking to anyone else😂
Consider opening a church that has a 12 hour free food like in the sikh temple as long as you cover your head you’re welcome to the free food they offer daily
@12:00 honorary degree 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just imagine how awful CZcams would be without CWSA . 😮
Haters would just find another venue.
@fattguy21 No, I really meant that. CZcams would be full of terrible content creators. CWSA is one of the few things I enjoy on it.
Just say no to DAY ORPHANAGES
Scott needs to look up the definition of propensity.
“S-shape growth curve”?
Nope. "Third Place" is not a good name for a business. It denotes that there are two places better. Gold medal, silver medal and bronze medal for third place. Most people wouldn't "get" your meaning of third place.
That’s not what it means.
I think dr jill has an honorary doctorate.
I thought she was a PhD.
@@kilgoretrout6136 I looked it up, she had an EdD and several honorary degrees.
@@janets9179 -- Yep! I know the got the PhD in teaching. As first lady, it's almost certain she picked up some "honoraries" in the course of time.
I always found it amusing that the media routinely called her "Doctor Biden" while referring, say, to GOP folks that are medical doctors only by their names.
Maynard James Keenan is your clone now.
"Third Place" in Biden's America: Prison
Scott’s discussions of free will are always tedious and totally unpersuasive.
11:41 Nothing to do with genes? Um, wrong.
bidin wont run
Hint: hit the translate "button."
ODs went down cause the abusers croaked
Well, when 100k/year are dying of ODs, that's has to take a good piece of the market for the drugs.
Especially since yunkies are mixing those horse tranqs with the fenty such that narcan has no effect. That would absolutely raise the mortality rate.
Narcan more available
Could be. I haven't heard/seen any "feel good" stories of it saving lives. Sometimes, we see stories about the "De-Fib" machines.
@@GilmerJohn yea, I’m sure it just postpones the inevitable anyways.
@@soozig1909 -- I'm inclined to agree with you. in our "greater circle" we saw two members of one family die of ODs. One had great pain and the other "borrowed" pills from the family member with the pain. The "borrower" died first.
Why did Scott quit the gym?
Maybe because that's where me met his "ex."
He did a videotaped house tour some years ago and showed a home gym.
Scott's already in good shape, what more does he need?
@@YourPrinter -- Indeed. He seems to be "poor mouthing" his psychical condition. He's appears to be in good shape. Even if he has a "normal" income and condition in life, he would be average or above.
I understand he's a bit short but his money and talent easily cover that.
@@GilmerJohn Correct
If you are trying to impress people an honorary doctorate probably trumps a claim to be a "trained hypnotist".
Well, in many circuits an "honorary doctorate" is more impressive than an earned doctorate. That woman already had an "earned doctorate" with her law degree.
Trained implies actually doing something
@@briandavis6898 I have observed Adams` hypnotism and frankly I see no training.
@@fergalm4157 ok troll
@@briandavis6898 Your welcome.
Of course Scott can't mention the real terrorist..... Us.
Lol
Modern man has existed for about a million years and alcohol has been used for only a couple thousand years , not enough time for an alcohol addiction gene to arise from a random mutation plus natural selection.
It's not so much alcohol specifically as a general tendency for substance abuse; fentanyl is just different because it kills so quickly.
We actually don't know any of that. The assumptions with millions of years require chains of conjecture, built on other conjectures. I don't think there is any such thing as an "addiction gene", but simple propensities toward behaviour as well as epigenetics. For those of a religious bent, you can see some congruence when you consider notions of demonic harassment (temptations) and the sins of the father being visited unto the seventh generation (a scriptural description of epigenetics). Be very very wary on making any judgements based on "science" that starts by quoting evolution. I am not a religious man in any particular way, though I was educated by Jesuits, most of whom were scientists of some kind or another. When I delved into issues like evolution with an open mind in the years subsequent to my education, I realized it was all bullshit, and so are many of the fables preached to us in the name of scientism. Genetic determinism is the latest version of "the devil made me do it" to dodge personal responsibility and accountability.
@@s.e.murphy5096 In order to have an opinion on evolution , you need to study genetics, physics, physical anthropology, molecular biology, anatomy, geology, embryology , biology .
@@chrislastnam6822 First, bullshit, because none of the people teaching evolution have that background, especially in high school and mostly in university.
Second, bullshit because none of the people who advanced, or created the notion of evolution had that background either.
Third, define "study". By that, I guess you mean take courses that teach the approved knowledge and accepted narratives and paradigms and learn to regurgitate what they say.
You should read Kuhn's work on the nature of scientific revolutions. I can have an opinion on evolution, and more than that, I have an INFORMED opinion. Interspecies evolution is bullshit.
Systems logic and irreducible complexity and the absence of ANY transition fossils, not to mention the fact that hoax after hoax has been perpetrated in the field, with no loss of credibility to the theory's adherents, or enthusiasm amongst the priests of Darwin, has resulted. That argues for the flaws in the theory. It remains a theory. In a spectacular example of the Dunning Kruger effect, Darwin assumed cells were largely generic protoplasm things because the instruments to examine them, the understanding of genetics, just didn't exist.
He came up with a theory which seemed plausible until one understands things such as the simplest cell being more complicated than the most complicated machine humanity has invented to date, let alone in Darwin's age. His theory was plausible without understanding how complex the human eye actually is, and how every bit of it is useless and couldn't have developed or been useful without corresponding neural circuitry and chemical mechanisms linking brain and the eye with translation software.
The hoaxes say so much about the field and its integrity. It is a religion, a dogma, and article of faith.
In fact, more than a century after Haeckel's drawings were proven and ADMITTED to be a hoax, they continue to be included in biology texts taught in school. They were in my schools in the 1980s, they remain in the texts of people I knew who were in high school in 2015. They were not using 100 year old texts, but texts published only a few years in advance.
I was told I needed to study engineering at university to be an engineer after I left the military. I was told that I needed to have pre-requisites and a formal grounding in myriad subjects with a checklist. That was all bullshit. I was busy and had no academic background in it (though I had an academic background and two unrelated majors). I did NOT study university, I taught myself while doing it. In less time than most people take to get a degree in engineering I had taught myself enough to be a field engineer, then systems, and then design engineer in several disciplines. Within a few years after that, I was doing R&D and was recruited into a DARPA project as an engineer.
Don't tell me what I need to know how to use my brain. You should try it some time.
Wish Scotts viewers who are leaving comments leaved a TIME STAMP to what they r referring too! 🙄
You have to look around and listen to it all
Or just click forward to each new topic
I just did..👆
Bring all Taiwanese and their chip technology to the states. Let China have the island.
Easy for you to tell others where to live, esp if they have relatives on the mainland and/or have lived on the island their entire lives and love it. Perhaps you could house and sponsor some who’d like to relocate.
@@notidentified4031 Why shouldn't we invite immigrants whose values and industry benefit the country ? I don't need to house anyone. I pay my taxes and I vote. I'm also entitled to an opinion. You an just "Stay unidentified."
@@gaylerosenthal1828Your initial comment said “bring” (compulsion)…you’ve moved the goalposts…typically poor refutation. Also, the “I pay taxes” dodge is why lefties donate less to charities than conservatives. Lefties are “let the government do it.” Now, explain why you’d uproot millions of people.
South Africa: Mandela's vision of 'Black unity' fades, anti-immigration sentiment surges, Zulus want secession
Can not govern themselves.
Can I call you shart adams
Scott knows everything later. Great brilliant mind but can't offend his neighbors by telling the truth about z io n I s m
What's wrong with Zionism?
Well, if ya have to ask! Lol. Nobody like izzyroohail, or gen o cide
@@katemccrew Zionism is legally defendable. Terrorism is not.
@@dannylgriffinit’s turned into a catch phrase. More people should look up the definition.