# 21

[Don Stockbauer]

Of course, the way to get no feedback is to ask for it because then your conversational opponent knows how to irritate you.

[Don Stockbauer]

The Sis pretty powerful ; be careful or you'll be crushed like a bug under a steam roller,

[Don Stockbauer]

Thank you Apple dictation system for putting down sis instead of system . you're pretty good at that sort of thing.

[Don Stockbauer]

If there is too much communication then the system goes to white noise and then there is no communication.

[Don Stockbauer]

Now there's revolution, but we don't know what we're fighting.

After a revolution, you're right back where you started.

[Don Stockbauer]

Any anger displayed toward your relationship partner instantly destroys the relationship.

[Don Stockbauer]

Once I was walking to a cafeteria and this lady almost hit me in the middle of the street so I walked to the cafeteria and was standing in line and right behind me was the lady and she said "I'm the woman who almost hit you!"

[Don Stockbauer]

Did you ever hear of the mathematician George Dantzig? He arrived late to statistics class one day and he wrote down from the blackboard what he took to be two homework problems . He brought them solved to class the next morning, he told his professor they seemed pretty difficult. It turns out the professor had written down two open problems in statistics.

[Don Stockbauer]

The most indeterminate thing on the face of the earth is whether someone will answer your message.

[Don Stockbauer]

do you think that giving her fish and candy is enough to make her give you back your man?????

[Don Stockbauer]

On YouTube they have the song "ghost riders in the sky " and as some background art they have this really weird painting that looks like a bunch of Vikings or somesuch gathering up these women for conquest or God knows what and I'm really curious if anybody can tell me who painted this painting and what's the history behind it , I'm just fascinated.

I know this is a ridiculous request since there hasn't been a bit of feedback in this group since Mudge died and Tian Harter left , so I don't have a lot of hope for this but hell , hope springs eternal as they day.

(PS -Tian left because I made some really horribly unwarranted
comment about a coin going through the bowels of a goat or some horrible thing so that just goes to show you need to watch what you say pretty carefully.)

[Don Stockbauer]

If anyone ever has pretensions of greatness , society at large will take care of that real quick.

[Don Stockbauer]

I was looking at our trash pile , stuff from the house about 5 feet tall maybe 20 feet across and I have this vision of archaeologists in 10,000 years finding it and going through it carefully , cataloging all the stuff that we tossed out casually , taking 30 years of careful analysis to determine how people lived in 2020.

[Don Stockbauer]

or they could just check the Internet.

[Don Stockbauer]

The IRS said they were going to garnish my wages , but I don't know what the big deal is , when my boss brought me my paycheck there
were little pieces of parsley beside it.

[Don Stockbauer]

And we never failed to fail.
It was the easiest thing to do.

[Don Stockbauer]

The Global Brain becomes stronger through increased communication. COVID-19 has sure increased communication, hasn't it?

[Don Stockbauer]

And, as everyone says, a vaccine is the
solution , whenever it gets here.

[Don Stockbauer]

Covid-19 is strengthening the globalbrain because it's forcing so much more activity online and it's online communication by which the globalbrain grows.

[Don Stockbauer]

The Global Brain is created from communication . When this virus first started I thought the main increase in communication will be from people staying at home and getting bored and just having more communication . But now you can see online communication is increased everywhere as a way of people not getting in physical proximity of one another . Perhaps we have the globalbrain really skyrocketing now.

[Don Stockbauer]

Course it's hard to see the globalbrain increasing in power because there's an old saying , a rising tide raises all boats . Things get better but that just looks normal when you look out laterally.

[Don Stockbauer]

Why does Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds, a warlike work,
contain the beautiful song "Forever Autumn"?

[Don Stockbauer]

Why do people think technology dehumanizes when technology is being used to enable person-to-person communication globally and this gives the planet
a nervous system , which gives it the attributes of a living being, A.k.a. the global brain.

[Don Stockbauer]

When someone is trying to form a relationship with another person the process is not to find someone and work to make them your partner , the process is to find someone and then do everything you can to eliminate them . Kind of sick , isn't it?

[Don Stockbauer]

I would not have thought that COVID-19 would be instrumental in large advances to the global brain's power but it makes sense because the virus has driven so much activity online and it's online communication that increases the power of the global brain.

[Don Stockbauer]

How are we going to identify undocumented people in this country in order to leave them out of the census?

[Don Stockbauer]

Be careful about sending people general information. They may interpret it as being a specific
criticism at them.

[Don Stockbauer]

The only way to truly destroy a relationship is to starve it out; i.e. , one side or the other refuses all communication.

[Don Stockbauer]

Don't do anything you don't have to do.

[Don Stockbauer]

Don't let your conversational opponent know you enjoy communicating with them . they'll probably stop communicating with you just to spite you.

[Don Stockbauer]

If at first you don't succeed, give up ; don't make a durn fool out of yourself.

[Don Stockbauer]

If civilization in general moved as slowly as lawyers we'd still be building the Pyramids.

[Don Stockbauer]

If you complain to your conversational opponent that he or she is not communicating with you enough , what will they do? They will refuse to answer that remark.

[Don Stockbauer]

What good are all these fancy new ways to communicate when the content of the conversations is pretty pathetic?

[Don Stockbauer]

Ignoring what I write seems to be the
Great American pastime.

[Don Stockbauer]

Before you do something for someone, make sure that they want it done.

[Don Stockbauer]

Aliases are great. A single alias such as "Ralph" can be used by a 1000 different people , and then one of those persons can take on 1000 different aliases . I guess the Internet has both good and bad stuff but
aliases bring it close to chaos.

[Don Stockbauer]

I'm becoming convinced that people not communicating with each other is more effective than them communicating with each other.

[Don Stockbauer]

I'm getting really discouraged with Life because it's so complicated you just can't figure it out anymore.

[Don Stockbauer]

Isn't it frightening when you begin to see that you might be doing some good for once?

[Don Stockbauer]

I had an aunt Rose who had to undergo open heart surgery . all went well except that they couldn't get her heart restarted again.

[Don Stockbauer]

Oops restarted again is redundant

[Don Stockbauer]

No, it could mean restarting twice.

[Don Stockbauer]

Hey do you know that drone we used to kill that person in the Middle East that Iranian leader or whatever what I would like is a system that I could just type in someone's name and a drone would go out and kill that person . would be great . I wonder what it would do if I typed in John Smith?

[Don Stockbauer]

Do you think that a global society is possible where nobody lies?

[Don Stockbauer]

If you send a message to someone , the more you'd like to get an answer the less chance of them sending one.

[Don Stockbauer]

Getting rid of an old friend is the easiest thing in the
world ; all you have to do is to do nothing.

[Don Stockbauer]

You'll do a lot better in life if you model it as the game that it is.

[Don Stockbauer]

but don't tell people that conversation is a game because they'll say well it is if you're deceitful and dishonest as in the phrase "you're playing games with me " but you have to explain to them conversations have the form of a game that is

people send messages ,which are moves in the game ,

people take turns and

people are striving toward a goal , a pay off and that is bragging rights to be able to
say "I am more intelligent than you are"

Study on this a little bit , then from now on when you're in a conversation or you're privy to someone else's conversation you can't miss it , it's so incredibly subconscious , if you try to tell somebody this they will totally deny it . oh well.

[Don Stockbauer]

I did not hijack this group . the people who were here when I joined have left and nobody new has come in.

[Don Stockbauer]

Joan was quizzical
studied pataphysical science in the home

pataphysical science

go read up on it

it's a science for our age

all nonsense

[Don Stockbauer]

Trump rants and raves against mail-in balloting. So what does he do?

He gets one for himself.

From a contradiction, anything is possible.

[Don Stockbauer]

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here, oh, oh

[Don Stockbauer]

So, let's see, the post office doesn't have any important work other than to deal with mail in ballots , I Know one thing that would solve it , I haven't voted since 1976 mainly because the person to person , person to machine and machine to machine communication is now
what's governing Earth and not political leaders.

[Don Stockbauer]

My little niece Felicity : uncle donnn (this is how the Apple dictation software has me in their system DONNN) is it OK if all human life on earth goes extinct ?

uncle Don: why , it's perfectly all right little Felicity , there are plenty of other planets in the universe to take over from planet earth . it's just like if you act up at work your boss will tell you look , there's 100 people lined up at the door waiting to take your job.

[Don Stockbauer]

Isn't socialism terrible ,absolutely the worst form of government on the face of the Earth. well maybe not , if you have true global socialism it converts the Earth into a huge giant living being analogous to an elephant, or a tree or catfish.

[Don Stockbauer]

On Monday, August 17, 2020 at 11:44:11 AM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer wrote:
> Isn't socialism terrible ,absolutely the worst form of government on the face of the Earth. well maybe not , if you have true global socialism it converts the Earth into a huge giant living being analogous to an elephant, or a tree or catfish.

One : socialism doesn't work
Two: my father doesn't work
Three: my father is a socialist

[Don Stockbauer]

When all was said and done, much more was said than done.

[Don Stockbauer]

What would happen to humanity if we encountered a virus to which we have no immunity at all?

[Don Stockbauer]

It's really great when you make a friend and things are going along well and you enjoy each other's company and you think to yourself "How lucky I am" and then your "friend" drops you cold and never communicates with you again in any way.

As they say, Homo sapiens is not the tool making animal, it is the game playing animal.

[Don Stockbauer]

I know this much I've decided it doesn't really matter when I die . when your intellect goes that's the end of you, all the rest of it is just people taking care of you like a baby

[Don Stockbauer]

Got ZC 2209 tonight disappearance three hours 22 minutes 18 seconds predicted 5.6 magnitude 43% sunlight waxing 62 Cusp angle

[Don Stockbauer]

I can't find it anywhere; I've even looked in rooms I haven't been in for years.

[Don Stockbauer]

Well, here we are on Beta Reticuli 7 hunting for dilithium crystals ; oh , there's a pile , gather them up into your bucket. Say, we hunt for dilithium crystals and we gather them into our buckets , does that make us hunter-gatherers ? Why, of course it does , it's just like an office worker back in 2020 hunts data using Google and then gathers it together into a report for their meeting that morning, they are hunter-gatherers too. the only difference between them and primitive peoples is the level.

[Don Stockbauer]

No matter what good you do in the world , there's always some talentless jerk out there who will criticize it.

[Don Stockbauer]

Whenever somebody acts as a spokesman for a product they should be required to start off with "this company has crossed my palm with silver."

[Don Stockbauer]

"It's water under the bridge."

What does that mean? It's in the past, it's gone forever,
say goodbye to it , but where does that water go? It goes out to sea , what happens there? The sun evaporates it , it forms clouds , those clouds drift to the upstream side of the bridge and rain , the water comes back under the bridge, so it's not a lost opportunity , it's an endless cycle of second chances.

[Don Stockbauer]

Now I wanna state that I did not hijack this group when I came into it there were just several people posting who are now all gone one even died and no one new ever comes into the group I don't know why so here we are

[Don Stockbauer]

Probably no one comes here to this group and post because that's the way people punish me they refuse to talk to me you know it's like in high school some guy transfers from another school and the in-group of kids are standing around and they all say who is that creepy guy let's not talk to him .

and you don't you know it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder

[Don Stockbauer]

Joseph Barker Humber's 3 laws of management:

A manager is by definition your inferior .

Nothing useful is ever accomplished in a meeting.

As you interact with managers who occupy higher and higher levels your words, by necessity, must become simpler and simpler; at the very top levels of management you're down to grunts and gestures.

[Don Stockbauer]

John was my uncle.

[Don Stockbauer]

Bob's your uncle.

[Don Stockbauer]

There are no problems, only solutions.

[Don Stockbauer]

The problem's plain to see,
Too much technology,
Machines to rule our lives,
Machines dehumanize.

Well, maybe, but they sure have created a wonderful global communication technology.

[Don Stockbauer]

One of the most impressive episodes of King of the Rocketmen to me was when Rocket man was on top of a skyscraper and he was fighting several bad guys and they all ganged up on him and threw him over the railing of the sky scraper and instead of falling to his death he just twiddled those control knobs which we all know are so sophisticated and he flew away. I think that's one of the best scenes I've ever seen.

[Don Stockbauer]

Can your thoughts undergo metasystem? transition? If so, everyone would be a genius. Unless they had nothing to begin with.

[Don Stockbauer]

What if everybody would have Renee Descartes' sleepless night every night throughout their life? Would that advance civilization?

[Don Stockbauer]

Why invest in the stock market? If you want to gamble , go to Las Vegas, that way you get to see a nice strip show instead some middle-aged balding stockbroker.

[Don Stockbauer]

You know, why make a tool if you're not going to use it? I
mean , why build a hammer if you don't intend to drive nails with it or do anything with it? So the same question should apply to nuclear wrapons. If you're going to build them they should be used. OK?

[Don Stockbauer]

What is reality hacking?

[Don Stockbauer]

Do serial murderers get together and talk "shop talk"?

[Don Stockbauer]

A man's reach should exceed his grasp , the way to accomplish that is you get one of those reach extender thingys you know it enables you to get a can off a high shelf.

[Don Stockbauer]

The statement concerning that "if you create a tool you should use it rather than let it lay idle" goes along with the statement "any civilization stupid enough to create nuclear weapons deserves to die by them." Kind of a "hoist by your own petard " thing.