Scott Adams Thread (Garfield Cartoonist)

[freebeard]

What do people pledge their allegiance to? In almost every case, what they've been brainwashed to. Brainwashing is absolutely crucial to all functioning societies.

What you are referencing is social normalization:

Normalization
Sociology
Normalization refers to social processes through which ideas and actions come to be seen as 'normal' and become taken-for-granted or 'natural' in everyday life. There are different behavioral attitudes that humans accept as normal, such as grief for a loved one's suffering or death, avoiding danger, and not participating in cannibalism. Wikipedia

Brainwashing is the subversion of the normalized individual.

Brainwashing
Brainwashing is the controversial idea that the human mind can be altered or controlled against a person's will by manipulative psychological techniques. Wikipedia

[Piotrsko]

Not sure normalization is actually brainwashing since my observations tend me to think brainwashing as a modification of an existing belief. Could be brainwashing if it differs from accepted norms. AKA damned pot smoking hippies.

Unsure about the level of force statement. You can brainwash subtly or even by observing the direction of your environment.

However, both methods are the similar in how the concepts implant

[freebeard]

AKA damned pot smoking hippies.

The conduit at the time was Life magazine. The Sexual Revolution was a rug-pull.

Episode 2763 at 53:18

I like this reframe. Turn a hot war into a win-win business deal. It puts Roscosmos and NASA in a closet for Seven Minutes In Heaven.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Episode 2763 at 53:18

I like this reframe. Turn a hot war into a win-win business deal. [/URL].

Yeah, that's one of the better takes Scott has had.

Russia and Ukraine need a reframe that allows both to feel good about the deal, and especially Putin to save face.

What I want to see is win-win-win (I'm adding economic prosperity for the US). I suppose it would be ok if the rest of Europe were better off too, though I don't want them falling back into feeling superior to the US while remaining entirely dependent on her military and economic might.

If Europe can be made better off AND grow up, that would be ideal.

[freebeard]

I [heart] DataRepiblican.

That deaf-mute girl sure plays a mean pinball.

Since they doxxed her, we now know why the Cajun Navy had said they were protecting whomever it was.

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Speaking of spitting truth (the Supermarine Spitfire was named after a sassy little girl), S2 Underground is especially good on the disclosures today.

The Wire - February 27, 2025

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I hope you're not using Firefox. The Lunduke Journal

Mozilla
History of the Mozilla Project
History of the Mozilla Project The Mozilla project was created in 1998 with the release of the Netscape browser suite source code. It was intended to harness the creative power of thousands of programmers on the internet and fuel unprecedented levels of innovation in the browser market.

[freebeard]

I'll admit it -- I'm using the thread for a link dump.

I'm currently listening to five hours of Gypsy Ska at x.75 Gypsy Ska Jazz Orchestra: Energetic Harmony and Soulful Melodies, and thinking about how the Beatle's lyrics to Get Back cut a little differently today:

Songfacts
Lyrics for Get Back by The Beatles - Songfacts
Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman But she was another man All the girls around her say she's got it coming But she gets it while she can Oh, get back, get back Get back to where you once belonged

[Piotrsko]

Your version of what they mean will be as accurate as anybody's. Apparently a lot of different scholars have a lot of different answers and the author(s?) has left many trails of crumbs while not actually admitting to any.

By any chance Hungarian gypsy Ska?

[redpoint5]

SA touched on one of the subjects that irritates me more than most, is more important than most people realize or care, and then provided the very dumbest solution.

Congresses A1, numero uno, most important duty is to set a budget in accordance with revenue. Scott gets this part right. Congress has failed their primary purpose for existing every year except 2001. Deficit spending fighting Nazis in WWII is understandable. What is the existential crisis we are fighting to justify deficit spending now?

Scott proposes that we pay a bonus $300,000 to every member of congress when they perform the most basic task they were elected to accomplish, as an incentive to do their job.

If I hired someone to mow my lawn and paid them every week, but every week I look at the grass and find that it was not cut, then ask why, and was told that instead of cutting the grass, they spent their time rallying for men to access women's showers, and promoting cosmetic surgery that renders organs non-functional for confused children, I would stop paying them.

The correct solution is to not pay people who are not performing the job they were hired for.

[freebeard]

By any chance Hungarian gypsy Ska?

Follow the link?

I clicked the first link in the upper left of my home page and watched 3/4ths of the Episode before I realized I'd seen it before, when he talked about Boring Co in Dubai. So two simultaneous sips.

Shows how much I retain.

What is the existential crisis we are fighting to justify deficit spending now?

It exists, but justifies the opposite.

[Piotrsko]

Tend to not follow posted links. Keeps them softly wares uncorrupted in my machine.