Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-11 Thread Marcus Daniels
Lefkoff Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 11:21 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead Why won't education make (a?) difference? On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Robert J. Cordingley <rob...@cirrillian.com&l

Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-11 Thread Gillian Densmore
Just to poke fun at this whole thing: I love being a skunk good amount of experience but it's pretty wonky keeping my modest career going. A man in his 70's, arguably neurotic and xenophic, possibly Autistic as well, has a history of tanking what ever he does? Sure no problem be the countries

Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-11 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Why won't education make (a?) difference? On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Robert J. Cordingley < rob...@cirrillian.com> wrote: > “Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” ― Aristotle, > The Philosophy of Aristotle and from Psychology Today a build and an > argument to get

Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-11 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” ― Aristotle, The Philosophy of Aristotle and from Psychology Today a build and an argument to get control of the media too: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-rest/201303/give-us-kid-till-shes-7-and-well-have-her-life

Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-09 Thread Steven A Smith
Steve: You might like the RedNeck Liberal. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA Thanks! His line: "being prejudiced against poor white poeple with a twang, still counts as prejudiced" hits home. I might identify with "country" but not with "southern". I hear the voices

Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-09 Thread glen ☣
Have you turned on Payments? And if so, how much money are you spending? On 01/09/2017 10:20 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > It will use bitcoin for funding content providers brave users visit via > micropayments. -- ☣ glen FRIAM

Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-09 Thread Joe Spinden
@Owen What can you tell us about the Brave browser ? Joe On 1/9/17 10:00 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: Interesting, thanks Tom. BTW: Breitbart is apparently famous for malvertising, ads with malware. That's why I unabashedly use an ad blocker, and better yet, use Brave, the browser of the

Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-08 Thread Marcus Daniels
Gary writes: “From the standpoint of this on-the-fence liberal, it would be nice to have the luxury to be able to see the "other side" as being evil, so that I wouldn't care how they feel. The problem for me is that I can't, since many of the people I grew up with, including nearly all of my

Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-08 Thread Steven A Smith
Gary - I remember a recent Facebook post by one of my cousins that said something along the lines of "people have forgotten what an alpha male is like, and Trump is going to show them." I have been enjoying this kind of rhetoric among my Trumpian friends. It gives me the opportunity to

Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-08 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Our ideas and beliefs are governed by many variables, and change is very hard. I grew up in rural South Carolina. I think the key to being a good person who does not cause additional harm in a very scary world, is a good education that teaches us to be as open to new ideas as possible. On Sun,

Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-08 Thread Gary Schiltz
Merle, I think a lot about what makes ultraconservatives the way they are, since as I said, the majority of my family is of that mindset. I grew up on a farm in Kansas, so I do relate somewhat to the people I grew up with. However, I left that life behind decades ago, and have come to see how

Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-08 Thread Tom Johnson
How to Destroy the Business Model of Breitbart and Fake News Many companies don’t know that their ads are appearing next to abhorrent content. Tell them. http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/opinion/sunday/how-to- destroy-the-business-model-of-breitbart-and-fake-news.html

Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-08 Thread Gary Schiltz
What really worries me about the USA is how polarized the society there is, so "mass resistance" will certainly, at least in the short term, increase this polarization. From the standpoint of this on-the-fence liberal, it would be nice to have the luxury to be able to see the "other side" as being

[FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-08 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Bekah Wolf January 8 at 7:17am A year ago, an action against deportations: https://www.facebook.com/toni.arenstein/videos/10208311021676102/ 2017 is going to be the year of mass resistance. This is only thing that