Women fighting is sad to see.
For me as an American I am shocked when I see women fighting in a mixed martial arts contest.
I was raised to believe that women were the fair sex and were to be taken care of and protected. Doesn't mean that they are weak, but they are not as strong as men and to be protected from men.
I remember when my children were little my oldest son and and my second child, my daughter, had a fight. My oldest son hit my daughter. And was swinging punches trying to hit her more.
When I got home and was told about this I found both of them sat them down on the couch. And then I stood in front of them and glared at my son and threatened bodily harm if he ever hit my daughter again. Is very upset! I told him that you don't hit girls. Ever. Even if they hit you. You don't hurt them because they're not as strong as you. And they can't defend themselves the way you do. And if you do something like that you can expect to be shot or have the crap beat out of you by me and other men that were taught to protect women.
It's just the way we were raised. It's just the teaching that was done for so many generations. Today there are people trying to teach that everybody's equal and there's no difference between men and women and equality is the way. Sadly, that's not true. And if you buy into that you're probably just trying to control people around you.
Take care of the women. Because they're beautiful, and because they do so much to take care of you. It's what an American would do.
Monday, December 30, 2019
Monday, December 23, 2019
Willpower removed
As I learn more about the brain and self-improvement I'm learning that we have a limited reservoir of willpower that is drained by decision-making.
Are all of the games and choices being thrown at us to wear us down? Will AI enable companies to better predict when our willpower will be the lowest and then deliver thought-influencing ads and notifications to us in their continuous effort to part our money from us?
Hmmm
Are all of the games and choices being thrown at us to wear us down? Will AI enable companies to better predict when our willpower will be the lowest and then deliver thought-influencing ads and notifications to us in their continuous effort to part our money from us?
Hmmm
Monday, December 16, 2019
The N word
I selected a different playlist in my online music player of choice there other day and immediately heard the N word in the lyrics. The artist was black/African-American. The song had a great beat, good hook, but that word was used repeatedly.
Did you ask what word? It starts with N, has six letters, and it's defined as "Slang : Extremely Disparaging andOffensive . - a contemptuous term used to referto a black person.
a contemptuous term used to referto a member of any dark-skinned people.
I was offended even typing the word and won't let the whole thing exist in my blog.
So why is it OK for rap and hip-hop artists to use this word in their entertainment?
Why is it OK for young children to call each other this as they ride bicycles in the street?
Where are the cries out outrage over this?
Did you ask what word? It starts with N, has six letters, and it's defined as "Slang : Extremely Disparaging andOffensive . - a contemptuous term used to referto a black person.
a contemptuous term used to referto a member of any dark-skinned people.
I was offended even typing the word and won't let the whole thing exist in my blog.
So why is it OK for rap and hip-hop artists to use this word in their entertainment?
Why is it OK for young children to call each other this as they ride bicycles in the street?
Where are the cries out outrage over this?
Monday, December 9, 2019
Moment in history
So many people try to claim that this is a new moment in history year this is a historic moment and try to make things out to be bigger than they are. They're trying to sell advertising or get their numbers or get attention.
Is all of this an outgrowth of the generations that grew up with parents applauding them when they did anything? And then trophies being given to everybody despite them losing?
As I watch the latest iteration of technology make recording video ubiquitous if you want to use a big word it's shocking how much kids are growing up in front of cameras. As a 50+-year-old man I've watched the effects of cameras. They draw out the extremes and unusual behavior that changes things from a normal outcome to an abnormal outcome. An example: my oldest son and I would always tangle because I, as a parent, wanted to take pictures of him as he grew up. He wanted to make funny faces every time I took pictures. And so I would get upset with him and tell him to stop making the damn funny faces and just smile. As an adult he now has this goofy looking grin expression that is not his smile that he makes in almost every picture that he has taken of him or takes of himself to post on social media. And I can see in his eyes that he's getting back at me instead of smiling normally.
Cameras change behavior. When people know the cameras are on traffic lights they actually stop for red lights. When people know the cameras are aimed at them they behave differently.
I've seen this tried in other ways in the past. I remember a news story about Rio de Janeiro Rio hiring mimes to go and stand on street corners of busy and dangerous intersections to stand there and wag their finger and point accusingly at people doing things that were risky in order to cut down on accidents. It actually worked! Death count went down and the city was a little bit safer.
Once we know that cameras are watching is pretty much everywhere now in the United States, not unlike in China, I have a feeling people will change their behavior even more. And may even come up late with ways to defeat the cameras and present themselves as somebody else.
What are you doing about cameras?
Is all of this an outgrowth of the generations that grew up with parents applauding them when they did anything? And then trophies being given to everybody despite them losing?
As I watch the latest iteration of technology make recording video ubiquitous if you want to use a big word it's shocking how much kids are growing up in front of cameras. As a 50+-year-old man I've watched the effects of cameras. They draw out the extremes and unusual behavior that changes things from a normal outcome to an abnormal outcome. An example: my oldest son and I would always tangle because I, as a parent, wanted to take pictures of him as he grew up. He wanted to make funny faces every time I took pictures. And so I would get upset with him and tell him to stop making the damn funny faces and just smile. As an adult he now has this goofy looking grin expression that is not his smile that he makes in almost every picture that he has taken of him or takes of himself to post on social media. And I can see in his eyes that he's getting back at me instead of smiling normally.
Cameras change behavior. When people know the cameras are on traffic lights they actually stop for red lights. When people know the cameras are aimed at them they behave differently.
I've seen this tried in other ways in the past. I remember a news story about Rio de Janeiro Rio hiring mimes to go and stand on street corners of busy and dangerous intersections to stand there and wag their finger and point accusingly at people doing things that were risky in order to cut down on accidents. It actually worked! Death count went down and the city was a little bit safer.
Once we know that cameras are watching is pretty much everywhere now in the United States, not unlike in China, I have a feeling people will change their behavior even more. And may even come up late with ways to defeat the cameras and present themselves as somebody else.
What are you doing about cameras?
Monday, December 2, 2019
Commentary is everywhere
My wife and I recently went on a trip to see my daughter and son-in-law. We were going up there to go to a surprise birthday party for him, so we had to hide all we waited for the party. So that morning we went to the pool in the hotel we were staying in and swam for a little while.
After swimming we dried off and talked for a little bit and then we headed back to our room. We rode the elevator with a another younger couple. And while in the elevator the couple, but had been talking before we got on the elevator, sort of giggled and the guy made vomiting and his mouth sounds like he was disgusted.
I'm a sensitive guy that has a different tastes. When I swim I like to wear one of those square legged Speedo's so that my legs are unencumbered and I don't have to deal with flapping material all over the place. I was wearing that sort of bathing suit along with a tank top that covered most of it up. And being a sensitive guy it seemed like the young couple were making fun of me. And commenting on my legs and choice of bathing suit.
I've trained myself not to react to these things. I used to be that I would get very upset about this and go on and on about it. But this time I shrugged and thought to myself loser and moved on. But as I reflect on the situation it occurs to me that they were commenting on my being different from them.
In this time of the hammering of the American people over accepting others that are different from them it's interesting to experience firsthand discrimination and bigotry because of my choice of bathing suit. The lack of open-mindedness and acceptance is disappointing. But not unexpected.
You can have your opinion, but if I were to take the victim mindset like so many seem to be doing nowadays the bias against me and my kind is shocking.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
After swimming we dried off and talked for a little bit and then we headed back to our room. We rode the elevator with a another younger couple. And while in the elevator the couple, but had been talking before we got on the elevator, sort of giggled and the guy made vomiting and his mouth sounds like he was disgusted.
I'm a sensitive guy that has a different tastes. When I swim I like to wear one of those square legged Speedo's so that my legs are unencumbered and I don't have to deal with flapping material all over the place. I was wearing that sort of bathing suit along with a tank top that covered most of it up. And being a sensitive guy it seemed like the young couple were making fun of me. And commenting on my legs and choice of bathing suit.
I've trained myself not to react to these things. I used to be that I would get very upset about this and go on and on about it. But this time I shrugged and thought to myself loser and moved on. But as I reflect on the situation it occurs to me that they were commenting on my being different from them.
In this time of the hammering of the American people over accepting others that are different from them it's interesting to experience firsthand discrimination and bigotry because of my choice of bathing suit. The lack of open-mindedness and acceptance is disappointing. But not unexpected.
You can have your opinion, but if I were to take the victim mindset like so many seem to be doing nowadays the bias against me and my kind is shocking.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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