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Yeah, I find that I get squished between increases in responsibility without corresponding increase in power to achieve those responsibilities. :/ at work, anyway.
I guess I could learn lots of things by dividing learning tasks up
Yeah, I find that I get squished between increases in responsibility without corresponding increase in power to achieve those responsibilities. :/ at work, anyway.
I guess I could learn lots of things by dividing learning tasks up
I thought about this and sometimes I really appreciate having someone to offload executive function to (like a personal trainer). Maybe we could take turns.
It would have to be a lot to change the local society, since one of me struggles in this job market and more of me will increase costs without increasing income (unless they all get a welfare cheque). More of my projects would finish (money notwithstanding), and I guess we could do heists. I’m not too fussed about who is the alpha, I think I could die tomorrow and have lived a kinda sad life and be OK with it.
Genetically, yes, if I was born into a settler society, was accepted, and was given carte blanch to merk kids etc etc. but fortunately by existing I wound up with a bunch of critiques of nationalism. Orders are easier to follow if it’s not just your commanding officer but also your entire society telling you to shoot the kid. Your friends in the unit and in wider society will call you a hero and buy you drinks and will laugh at your jokes about it. It simply isn’t the same as your CO telling you to shoot and you having a 60% chance of pulling the trigger, let alone eagerly do it. (on this point, Milgram talks about the appearance of “legitimacy” of authority, for the experiments to work you have to believe in the legitimacy of the “Scientist” actor, which requires that you have beliefs about scientists in the first place)
While I think there is some validity to Milgram’s experiments, they were typically run on a particular sort of person brought up in our modern hierarchical society, who believe in the moral character of those hierarchies etc. They are also not a total explanation for why say… it is Israeli snipers are doing this routinely. It also doesn’t explain where those orders come from and why. Also, you don’t know if they’re being given orders or if they’re just shooting at opportunity targets of their own volition.
That’s not to say I’m immune to propaganda or whatever. I am, however, probably immune to Israeli propaganda at this point (at least the sort that would lead to shooting 5 year old Palestinians in the head). I have a hard time even thinking of how I would justify killing a 5 year old even if they were a die hard reactionary, let alone lazily headshot one in the street because I felt like it. The IDF tiktoks and telegram videos are pretty gleeful and snipers are rarely considered the most compassionate soldiers. That’s not to say I couldn’t ever have been, in the right environment and the right military giving orders, but at this point I don’t think I could be.
(Also, I hate that Milgram and the Stanford prison experiment get lumped together, the Milgram experiment had controls and structure and was repeated a bunch of times with different groups and victims, whereas the stanford experiment had no control, structure, and had a lot of active involvement from Zimbardo who somehow had a career after it. Obviously they’re both cases of experiments that would not pass a modern ethics committee.
There is some more writing on this outside of Milgram. Teddy Adorno did some writing on “The Authoritarian Personality” which talks about hierarchical thinking, including following orders (but also about giving orders and how legitimate you view orders). He does some of his own science, but I thought it was pretty shoddy tbh, but he does a literature review as well and offers a passable critique and conversation. There’s also discussion (in other books) about the Einsatzgruppen, which suggested even in pretty Nazi operations, only about 20% of people eagerly followed the direct order to execute partisans, 60% of people were pretty grumpy about it and were psychologically negatively affected, and 20% would kick up a fuss and you’d likely remove them from execution squad. One of the reasons for the mechanisation of the final solution was the psychological harm firing squads were doing to German soldiers.
This is all from memory, sorry, I used to be more interested in this subject directly)
I will say, if you put Reagan, Bush Senior, and Clinton into a blender and spat the result into a pre-Obama movie that features a POTUS, Biden would be pretty close. Jack.
(Death to America)
I imagine for security best practices, software prefers update on open (if not update on checking a central update server regularly like yum -whatever update), but for user convenience this would be better for so many things.
Is Dr Manhattan’s power stored in his glutes? wtf
Doesn’t quite vibe with the post, but with the title: More industrial software and operators manuals and stuff. I’m honestly having a hell of a time finding them.
I find the act of making the list is helpful for prioritising tasks, but I wind up referring to it very little if at all.
Usually I make it while waiting for food or on public transport
If you want to be mad, you can read Merchants of Doubt. The documentary is less maddening and shorter.
Just the most audacious shenanigans.
Huh, in Australia I feel very comfortable asking my GP about multiple things in a ten minute slot, usually multiple prescription renewals
I have had this thought, but also add a massive dose of fawning behaviour. At least, that’s how it vibes to me. Sometimes. As someone with ADHD and a lot of fawning behaviour
Haha my first thought
Thanks! My brief adventures into the TAFE library and my university’s library’s website searches were unsuccessful!
I’ll keep it in mind. It’s so weird how gated it is
I can’t find copies of Australian standards books :(
Nods sagely
I made a generals map based on a dream. It was ok.
Probably The Prince, followed by Debt. For whatever reason, it broke my brain, and I stopped being intensely angry at rules breaking (by others or by myself). Growing up, I had this fairly common internal experience of viewing rules (often social rules, often implied) as being immutable moral truths. I would be furious if I had been taught a rule “Don’t do X when Y”. I would be both furious and distraught if someone did Y and was either not punished for it or even rewarded. Now it’s very much tied to context and power. It’s still frustrating when people are treated differently, but it doesn’t keep me up at night in the same way.
I think this was also around the time I started watching Adam Curtis documentaries. Whatever else I think about him now, he does talk about power and society a lot, and the liberal confusion that occurs when they try to ignore power in their explanations of society.
Worth a read and taking evidence from, but yeah, this isn’t going to convince any NATO guy on your facebook or whatever (curiously, mine are mostly women)