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Comment on This: Why is the US So Stupid?

After four days in Guangzhou, I realized just how effectively the Chinese are transitioning to electric vehicles and renewable energy sources. Why are we still dragging our heels when they are going to bury us in good cheap affordable electric vehicles?

I’ve been back in Guangzhou for the past four days. I hadn’t been back in three years. China just dropped their quarantine requirements sometime in the past year making it a reasonable prospect to actually go. Since I had left money in a bank account there, I had some incentive. #COVID19 made it impossible to get the money out when we left in July of 2020. The banks were all closed. The school…

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#COVID19 #Cambodia #China #Comment On This #Electric Vehicles #Fossil Fuels #Great Fire Wall of China #Guangzhou #Khmer New Year #Renewable Energy #Social Points

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Autism Appreciation Month: What makes Autism a Mental Health issue?

This one is a bit of a stream-of-consciousness thing kinda like Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying." And, it involves the IRS, tax avoidance, and autism, so there's that.

Autism Celebration Month: The Great Big Smoking Hole Where Social Perception Should Be I guess I’m hitting a perfect storm here: I’m fixing to retire, so I’m of the age rage where Erik Erikson says that we should be taking stock of our lives and figuring out whether it was a life well lived or not or something like that. Yeppers, that’s what I’ve been doing. Just seems to happen naturally.…

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#Autism #Autism Acceptance Month #Autism Appreciation Month #Autism Awareness Month #Chrometophobia #David Rosenhan #Erik Erikson #Failure to Thrive #IRS #Martin Seligman #Mental Health #Neurodivergent #Neurotypical #Pathological Demand Avoidance #Retirement #Tax Avoidance #Taxes

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Comment on This: Russian Propagandists are Coaching the GOP

Less than 2 minutes With all obvious and explicit support for Putin's goals in Ukraine, can there be any doubt that Russian propagandists are tutoring the GOP?

Can anyone doubt that Russian propagandists are talking directly to members of the Republican Party? The crap that members of the party from the Chair to Members of Congress to state legislators are spouting comes directly from Kremlin talking points and directly Putin’s objectives. Just check these three articles quoting real live GOP members either spouting Putin on Ukraine or accusing real…

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#CNN #Comment On This #GOP #Kremlin #Newsweek #Politico #Propaganda #Propaganda Techniques #Propagandist #Putin #Republican Party #Russia

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Trump's Narcissism Apparent in His Campaign Strategy

We all know Trump is a textbook narcissist, so why does anyone wonder when he pursues asinine goals in asinine ways? He's a narcissist surrounded by sycophants who are eager to pick up whatever crumbs they can from him and goose-step them out back & shot.

SUMMARY: Why isn’t Trump following conventional campaign wisdom and trying to grow his coalition by appealing to more swing voters instead of doubling and tripling down on the fascist racist violent anti-democratic rhetoric that has lost every election since 2018 and caused the 6 January Insurrection? The answer, as to every question about Trump, is that he’s a narcissist. Review the signs and…

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#Campaign Strategy #Election 2024 #Mock Paper Scissors #Narcissism #Narcissistic Personality Disorder #Symptoms #Tengrain #Trump #Wayback Machine

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It's Autism Appreciation Month, y'all and Time for a Shift in the Paradigm

The Rich Inner World of Autism, Its Gift to the World I don’t know if it is just plain too hot and dry here in Phnom Penh this month — April is the last month before the monsoon rains come, so it is generally the hottest — or whether it has been organizing Autism Awareness Day activities for our school or whether it has been anticipating Autism Appreciation Month for the past year or what it is,…

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#Autism #Autism Acceptance Month #Autism Appreciation Month #Autism Awareness Month #Autism Spectrum Disorder #Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity #Paradigm

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Comment on This: House Resignations Show Republican Cowardice

Many bits and bytes have been spilled, much bandwidth has been filled, and a lot of schadenfreude glee expressed over the resignations from the House by Republicans in the midst of their raging dumpster fire of a cock-up in governing. Unfortunately, as fun as the schadenfreude of their resignations is, we’ve got the questions and interpretations wrong. Could Republican resignations flip the…

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#Comment On This #Cowardice #House #House of Representatives #Ken Buck #Kevin McCarthy #MAGA #Mike Gallagher #Republicans #Resignations

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The Passing of Daniel Kahneman, Personal Hero and Inspiration of Ye Olde Blogge

SUMMARY: Daniel Kahneman died at age 90 on 27 March 2024. He was the co-founder of behavioral economics along with the late Amos Tversky, for which he won a Nobel Prize in economics. Kahneman’s work will have an enduring influence on the way we view decision making and human behavior. Ye Olde Blogge was greatly inspired by his work and used it to help explain and predict voting patterns, the…

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#Amos Tversky #Behavioral Economics #Choices Values and Frames #Daniel Kahneman #Decision Making #Predictions #Prospect Theory #Risk Aversion #Ye Olde Blogge

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Election 2024: Mocking MAGA Ridiculousness Key to Saving Democracy, Who Knew?

SUMMARY: The insightful political analyst Rachel Bitecofer offers some advice to Democrats who are trying to save our democracy by defeating Republican fascism in November 2024. Most of it revolves around how the Republicans have spent billions and decades building an anti-democratic information infrastructure to reify their misinformation and disinformation about the country, the media,…

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#Barry Goldwater #Democracy #Disinformation #Election 2024 #Heritage Founda #Hit &039;Em Where It Hurts #MAGA #Misinformation #Mock Paper Scissors #Mockery #Rachel Bitecofer #Tengrain

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Comment on This! What's the Over-Under on Whether it is Putin or Ivanka that Pays Trump's $454 Million Dollar Bond?

I was listening to The Rachel Maddow Show and she interviewed a guest about Trump’s inability to find a surety willing to pay his upcoming bond nearly half billion dollar bond in his New York civil fraud case. As a quick aside, does anyone believe he’s not going to stiff the Federal Insurance Company and Chubby Insurance Company for his $91 million dollar debt to E. Jean Carroll? I guess PT…

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#$454 Million #$91 Million #Bond #Bugs Bunny #Chubb Insurance Company #Comment On This #E. Jean Carroll #Investigative Reporter #Ivanka Trump #New York Civil Fraud Case #New York Times #Over-Under #PT Barnum #Pulitzer Prize #Susanne Craig #The Rachel Maddow Show #Trump #Vladimir Putin

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Election 2024: At the Intersection of Three Crises, the Fact-Opinion Guessing Game, the Outrage Industrial Complex, and Trump's Dementia

SUMMARY:  There are three factors that are colliding in our political discourse making our current situation very dangerous. These factors include the inability to distinguish fact from opinion (#ScienceFact), the firehose of disinformation produced by the outrage industrial complex, and the clear evidence of Trump’s worsening dementia. We’ll look at each individually and consider how they come…

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#Aphasia #Conservative Media #Decision Making #Dementia #Election 2024 #Fact vs Opinion #Facts #John Gartner #Opinions #Outrage Industrial Complex #Phonemic Paraphasis #Propaganda #The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President #Word Salad

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Comment on This! Trump's Feculent Touch Stopped Him on 6 January, But Did His Handlers Learn From It?

Trump has the feculent touch. He couldn't make the 6 January Insurrection succeed. He's not going to do the bidding of the conservative movement if he's returned to office. It's gonna be all the grift all the time and no one is stealing his limelight!

I think one of the big lessons of the 6 January Insurrection was how badly Trump failed as a revolutionary. Whatever you think of Trump, he absolutely failed to take advantage of a situation that was tailor made for him to overthrow the government and install himself as president-for-life. Think about it. Whoever was in the War Room at the Willard Scott Hotel that day, whoever the armed and…

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#6 January Insurrection #Cassidy Hutchinson #Comment On This #Feculent Touch #Federalist Society #Heritage Foundation #Mark Meadows #Project 2025 #Trump

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Election 2024: Protest Vote in the Primary, not in the General

Just when you thought it was safe to protest vote, Clayton Jones of Claytoonz reminds us of the actual stakes.

There’s been a lot, and when I say a lot, I mean a lot, of pixels burned, ink spilt, clothing rent, and self-righteous smirks smirked over the “uncommitted” or “no preference” protest votes against Biden in the primary, especially in states with large Muslim populations. That’s fine. Protest vote all you want. Be as much of a sanctimonious ass as you wanna be over it as long as you remember and…

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#Election 2024 #General Election #Joe Biden #Primary Election #Protest Vote #Remember 2016

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Biden's Immigration Trap at the SOTU as told by Speaker Johnson's FACE

It was Johnson's first SOTU as Speaker and it showed. The usual reactions as part of the peanut gallery just won't due when you're on the podium in every shot with Ol' Smokin' Joe Biden throw haymakers. Dissect Johnson's tells using his body language

Ol’ Smokin’ Joe delivered a real barn burner of a State of the Union address on International Women’s Day, the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, and the beginnings of the #COVID pandemic in 2020. I wonder if Speaker Johnson thought about any of that before he invited Biden to address Congress? Many have talked about the speech. It’s successes and shortcomings and its possible effect or lack thereof…

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#Body Language #Immigration #Mad Dog Greene #Marjorie Taylor Greene #Mike Johnson #PBS News Hour #SOTU #Speaker #Speaker of the House #State of the Union #Youtube

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Election 2024: Is Smiling More the Key to Democratic Success?

SUMMARY: The uncertainty of our times, from the constant threat of government shutdown and severe weather disasters, has us all living under chronic stress. The science of smiling suggests that the simple act of smiling can positively influence our interpretation of the world. Two such studies will be summarized, but numerous studies confirming the findings exist. When we match the effects of…

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#Authoritarianism #Charles Darwin #Chronic Stress #City University of London #Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit #Democracy #Democratic Party #Duchenne de Boulogne #EEG #Election 2024 #Fascism #Happiness #On Tyranny #Smiling #Timothy Snyder #University of Essex

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Comment on This: The Lack of Choice in Election 2024 Means the Entire Country has Poor Mental Health

The entire country is stuck in a miasmatic malaise of endless government shutdowns, obviously corrupt judicial decisions, legislativeless Congresses, shrinking Civil Rights, and continual climate disasters against the thunderous backdrop of gun violence.

There are two issues colliding in my mind right now. First is that the news is STILL full of pissing and moaning and dooming and glooming about how no body wants to watch Biden knock of I2I4, the buffoonish Star Wars corruption bot out again. And, the second is just how stressed out we all feel about Trump’s judiciary having his back by unjustifiably delaying his trials and his high poll numbers,…

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#GOPDystopia #Choice #Comment On This #Democracy #Democrates #Election 2024 #GOP Dystopia #Grover Cleveland #Mental Health #Republicans #Trump

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Sex in the Psychology and Political News Recently

Sex as clickbait almost always succeeds, so here are four interesting articles: hypersexuality, the risk-taking bi's, elder sex, and Biden's sex life.

SUMMARY: The blog highlights several sex-related articles and comments on their content, inviting readers to explore and discuss each. It discusses a study linking ADHD, depression, and hypersexuality; controversial research on bisexual genetics and risk-taking behavior; the cognitive benefits of a satisfying sex life for older adults; and Joe Biden’s statement on the importance of “good sex” in…

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#ADHD #Bisexuals #Cognitive Decline #Depression #Hypersexuality #LGBtQ+ #News #Older Adults #Politics #Psychology #Sex

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Comment on This: Trump's Numbers in South Carolina are MEANINGLESS

Everybody is losing their minds over Election 2024. Trump won SC by DOUBLE DIGITS! He's UNSTOPPABLE! If he's convicted he'll lose 30% of his voters. The vote in SC was meaningless. Convince me I'm wrong.

We’re seeing the usual horserace bullshit coverage of Trump’s vIcToRy in South Carolina: He won by double digits! And, we’re seeing some push back from the more liberal and thoughtful press: 40% of SC Republicans voted against Trump! Then, the the usual scrum of 30% of SC Republican voters say they won’t vote for a convicted Trump. Seriously? Let’s all take a deep breath, and take a look at some…

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#Comment On This #Comments #Election 2024 #Nikki Haley #Republican Party #Republican Primary #South Carolina #Trump #US Census