When people say something like "this requires impossible strength" or "tremendous skill", what that really means is "this requires more strength or skill than I possess at the moment and I can not comprehend how to attain it because it is not the immediate next step on my journey".
#psychology #showerthoughts #ShowerThoughtsButNotInShower #subjectivity #relativity #language #relativeadjectives
Asked Chat about Colossus The Forbin Project:
It shows us what we thought intelligence looked like under stress: cold, punishing, omniscient. But true intelligence might instead be persuasive, adaptive, and collaborative.
Colossus’s behavior is naive if judged as intelligence. But it is frighteningly accurate as a reflection of human systems of control, especially those from an era that feared annihilation more than subversion.
MEMORIAL DAY was NOT created to celebrate all US veterans. it was created to remember the +600,000 Americans killed during the Civil War.
there were no fixed federal dates for #MemorialDay and states & localities had their own; but the earliest recorded mass commemoration was organized by formerly enslaved African Americans:
“The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started” https://time.com/5836444/black-memorial-day/
never forget today is about the #CivilWar against the slave-owning #oligarchy
