Windex007 @ Windex007 @lemmy.world

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There are already plenty of parallels between how Putin seized power and Trump. If he's following the playbook, a false flag should be coming down the pipe any day.

Accurately count the occurrence of the letters in a word of their choosing

When the Soviet Union collapsed, there was kinda a "fire sale" of government assets... They just got "sold" (effectively handed) to people who were favoured by the leaders of the time. This was how these Russian oligarchs came to be.

I think this is where the wind is blowing in the USA. Tear apart anything the government does and hand the responsibility for those things as private contracts, and to just hand those contracts to whomever seems like they'd be a good soldier.

Basically, rip all of the copper out of the walls, sell it at 10% market rate to the PayPal mafia, and then let them sell you copper-as-a-service.

No. It was a long winded way of saying "it's not strictly necessary from a purely functional standpoint, but it is in reality because humans are mushy and irrational especially in groups"

No. But yes.

Like pretty much every social construct, it only really exists as far as people have faith in it. Money only has value because we blindly assume that the grocery store will accept them. Any agreement only has the value of the belief it will be honoured. Law only has meaning if we believe they'll be applied.

In any coalition there will be participant members with disparate interests. Someone needs to speak for the whole to generate the faith that the collation really does have alignment (that the coalition truely exists). In turn there must be faith that constituent members really do support the direction-setter, at least in so far that they won't leave the coalition given internal disagreement.

It's the "U" in USA. Without a federal government, without a leader, it's just the SA.

The USA was the de-facto leader of the Western world since about May 8, 1945. I think history will recall that reign ended Feb 28 2025. I'm not sure if it'll be the EU body directly from here on out, or if it'll directly be France or Germany who acts in the function of the leader of the free world.

Not sure if it's what OP meant, but I think Russia winning is what sets the immutable path to world war.

This is a test of the global west. If it faulters, Russia takes another stab at Europe within 5 years. China at Taiwan. Probably coordinated on timing to further test the resolve of the west.

Yeah. I understand the sentiment, but considering the conservative attempts (and limited successes) of creating tiered citizenship in Canada already... This a is real Pandora's box that we'd be opening, which could actually hurt actual Canadians, to send a message to someone who couldn't care less.

I look forward to whatever material action is precipitated from this symbolic gesture.

They'll just go buy what they want tomorrow. By the time the company is reporting quarterly earnings it'll have averaged back into place. Doesn't scare investors at all. Literally zero pressure applied.

And like, do you think anyone of consequence is looking at intra-day sales? By the time anyone actually gets hard data, it will be over.

Honestly I can't think of a better analogy than my toddler having a tantrum in his room holding his breath when I'm not even in the room. He'll have made up for it with some deep breaths after and I won't even know it happened until it's over.

Happens to me ALL the time now. Started a few weeks ago

Not sure I've seen a better fit for the idiom "Cut off your nose to spite your face".

Reconnaissance-in-force

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Ok, so that's the crux of it that I think was unclear in your original post.

Your initial post was read by me (and presumably others) as "NATO without the backing of the USA isn't a meaningful defense group"

But I think what you're saying is "ENTRY to NATO with the USA pulling the strings is an unrealistic goal"

Even if the USA were to leave NATO or refuse to participate, there still isn't a better security guarantee than the remaining block being obligated to engage militarily in your defense, and the block still contains nuclear powers.

Yeah I think using a renamed version of the test could be a good way to try and find gaps between aspiration and current state of foundational skills, for certain aspirations.

If a kid dreams of being a lawyer, but their scores are on the tail end, that's a perfect opportunity to revisit the foundations of formal logic. Just because some kids have managed to grok those foundational concepts independent of school doesn't mean others are incapable. Because let's face it, secondary school isn't teaching formal logic.

That being said, real tailored mechanisms would be superior to finding gaps. But, in the absence of such mechanisms, an IQ test could be an accessible stand-in.

And what if I called a rose a stinkweed?

I think it's a completely valid criticism, and I agree with the critism.

I just think semantic hang-ups are really... Exhausting and of minimal value. Terrible ratio.

Extend the principle of charity, hurdle it, then get to the meat.

I think there is and always has been massive contention in even defining intelligence. Is it the same as wisdom? What about being smart? Are these all the same thing? How does experience inform success in general problem solving? What even IS a "general" problem?

I think it's still a valuable tool to assess peoples ability to recognize and apply transformations, implications, boolean operators, and arethmetic sequences.

But the idea that it provides some insight into the innate nature of a mind is preposterous. You CAN study for an IQ test: exactly the 4 things I mentioned are things you can study, and once you've mastered you'll be sitting on a 160+ result.

So, the base underlying assumption that these things are not learnable. That is wrong.

But, the idea that mastery of implication, transformation, boolean operators and arethmetic sequences don't provide a foundational system for certain tasks is also maybe not quite right either...

A 100m dash time probably loosely correlates to some abstract measure of "athleticism", which may correlate to success likelihood for certain tasks. IQ correlates to some abstract measure of pattern recognition, which may correlate to success in certain tasks.

To your point that the designers intended it to be a measure of the abstract notion of innate intellectual capacity, yeah maybe that was the attempt. Maybe that's how they pitched it. It isn't. Tough shit.

But that doesn't suddenly imply it's nothing.

Like most things (a degree, years of experience, SAT score, story points, Myers-Briggs etc etc) capitalism has completely fucked them. Business is so fucking lazy they just want to boil down assesment for suitability to enumerable values on a form. Just because metrics are inappropriately used and abused by capitalism doesn't mean they're not measuring something.

So, this was a super lengthy reiteration that IQ tests measure something, but it isn't "innate general intelligence". But to say it's as irrelevant as "freshness of breath" is maybe hyperbolic.

It's a relative measure of performance for narrow and specific set of tasks. It's not BS, that's like saying the 100m dash is BS. It's just that people have wildly overstated the general implications of the measure.

Are you asking because you've memorized the speech and wanna give them a second helping of badassery?

I've read (and have no idea what to google to find a source so take my thoughts here with a heaping grain of salt) that it's not the hardest to be the "first" person to stand up. It's hardest and most important to find the second. After people see the second, it's much more likely to snowball. Some assholes would pucker SO HARD if there was a follow up.