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  • Atul Gawande: “The Checklist Manifesto”.

    Worth a read.

    He’s they guy who created the pre-surgery checklist, using aviation & construction’s insights, in creating his, which forced India to change their S.O.P, because that wasn’t actually competently-worked-out…

    Checklists reduce deaths, in aviation, construction, & surgery, all.

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  • Bodycams “don’t work” in all such cases.

    The Breona Taylor case had the officers claim that there weren’t any bodycams present, but 1 of the pieces of evidence collected was the camera-head of a bodycam.

    The ACLU has published on this, after a case where FIVE bodycams were claimed by police to not-work, in an incident where they were accused of crime.

    Accountability never is allowed by authority, unless authority is coerced into accountability,

    & that goes throughout ALL civilization, not just state-authority ( business bosses, institutions which mutilate rights from the lives subject to them, family-abuse even! it’s fundamental to abuse’s leveraging-more-authority-for-itself, & police-services simply happens to be 1 place where people committed to it gain extra-advantage from doing-so. )

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  • You CAN’T “prove wrong” ideology/prejudice/“religion”,

    aka any AXIOM-BASED rejecting-of-falsification, belief.

    It isn’t possible because axioms aren’t subject-to-objectivity.

    They will either force violence, enforce violence, XOR/AND have false-flag actors in-place to “prove” their “fact”.

    It is a trap.

    Civil-rights are going to get at-least-partially rug-pulled as a result of Saturday’s protests.

    IF Trump can permanently-remove any threat of accountability, & permanently-deactivate the petition to get the Epstien-files released, HE IS GOING TO.

    Social-assertion isn’t fundamental-enough, or powerful-enough to do what the left is assuming it must do!

    ( the left obeys social-pressure: that’s left-culture!

    Which means that the left can’t understand when others don’t.

    That is why Naomi Klien had to publish “Saying No Isn’t Enough” … or whatever her book was called … because the left wasn’t GETTING it.

    Courts, sousveillance, private-investigating-and-prosecuting-right-crime, THAT could apply the kind of pressure required, but social-pressure’s the wrong too to produce the required-results.

    It’s a 1-way tool: it only works against the consensus-motivated left, not against the authority-and-conforming-enforcing right. )

    sigh

    Expect the left to find the “ground” they’re “standing on” to have been gutted, by next week.

    & the escalations will only continue progressing: this isn’t the BIG tipping-point, this is just one of the buildup ones.

    ( this was all built on the shit-quality “education” that the US’s the-rich-get-good-education-the-poor-don’t paradigm enforced, through the last … century+.

    It isn’t possible to save a country’s life if its population is “educated” into the lower-forebrain’s imprint->reaction paradigm, instead of the upper-forebrain’s objectivity + considered-reasoning paradigm:

    the only question left is which ideology will gain supremacism,

    not can-ideology-the-system-be-prevented-from-ruling-us. )

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  • China announced their intent to cease exports of rare-earths at least a decade before they began implimenting it, from what I’ve read…

    The West refuses to govern responsibly in the context it exists/lives, & wants crybaby-ing to fix things when China does exactly what it TOLD US it would do, decades-ago??

    The US has rare-earth mineral-resources, they just refused to develop them, until too-late.

    Mismanagement deserves consequences.

    I’ve ZERO sympathy for pretend-responsibility authorities.

    May they reap what they have sown, to use the Christian phrase.

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  • So, either “The Insurrection Act”, or martial-law, or SOME escalation of the rug-pull of civil-rights from the US of A is going to happen this Saturday, I believe.

    & I bet the left’s protesters will be emotionally/psychologically totally blindsided by how deep/cutting/effective it is, since they presume entitlement to status-quo’s protection ( unconsciously: we all do this, but by forcing one’s awareness onto the actual-enemy-action, getting outside one’s filter-bubble/awareness-bubble/perspective-bubble, can mitigate that default-ignorance. It takes work, it is kinda toxic, but being repeatedly-blindsided isn’t competent. )

    Nobody claim, if it happens, that “it was unforseeable”.

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  • There was a “Yes, Minister!” episode on this principle:

    The new minister was having a driver, driving him to wherever, so he could use the time as office-time, in the back…

    They shamed him into quitting that, & he became significantly less-effective, which was what the attack had intended.

    IF the people are being productive in the air, then I’d put them in a set of gov’t-owned aircraft, secret-clearance all the way through, so they could do real work, while on the job.

    However, I’d also force them to use normal-airlines when going 'round for their vacations, so they get actual commercial-airline experience, so they know what they’re representees are experiencing.

    Sometimes the right answer is to convert travel-time into work-time, & if you can’t do that on a public flight, then yes, private-aircraft are the means, but it ought be gov’t owned, not personally-owned or chartered.

    It must serve the country, not the privileged, see?

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  • The most-important 2 books on understanding US politics, is Woodard’s “American Nations”, on the 11 nations inhabiting North America, & how they are stable, once instantiated,

    & Thom Hartmann’s “Screwed”, on what real national-prosperity is ( I’ve only read the beginning of that, & it’s the 1st-time I’ve understood what’s wrong with normal “economics”, as presented by everybody else ).

    IF one looks carefully, as Woodard did, one can see that the votes follow specific counties that are culturally-aligned, in these 11 nations.

    It isn’t “all boomers”, rather, it is in the Tidewater region, votes went this-way, in the New York region, votes went that way, in Yankeedom, they went this other way, etc…

    The book “The Big Sort” is on how polarization is self-creating the ultimate only-political-monocultures US of A.

    That, of course, is going to make the US’s Civil War Part2 be … more territorial in its ideological-basis, … ( & that has implications, too ), but … it’s still down to regional-cultures defining/controlling the US’s fate.

    Woodard’s book is sooo important, that I wouldn’t consider moving anywhere in North America without seeing which culture was ruling that county, now.

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  • From what I saw, through the stuff on the internet, the White-supremacists were solidly Trump, the male-supremacists were solidly Trump, AND Trump used a voter-deregistration law, through some local Republicans, to remove Democrats from voting-rolls, in key swing-states.

    AND many Democrats refused to vote.

    When all 4 of those come together, then you have the real basis for the result that happened.

    sigh … yet-again, journalism got disappeared off the internet, in order to prevent any accountability or leverage-causing-necessary-change…

    Neither DuckDuckGo nor Google can find the journalism I’d read about that voter-deregistration having already been used as a partisan weapon, with the obvious consequence that it can be used again to immense effect, in 2026 & 2028.

    Welcome to the for-profit-only “reality” we live-in…

    ( I’m going to be saving offline-copies of all such journalism, from now on, because of this bullshit.

    Without knowing history, it isn’t possible to be competent to avoid re-enacting it!

    This ISN’T it, but it gives some similar information: https://newrepublic.com/article/199247/transcript-trump-lets-slip-dark-truth-plot-rig-midterms )

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