https://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trump-racist-racism-history
He said it.
>A book by John O’Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump’s criticism of a black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” Trump at first denied the remarks, but later said in a 1997 Playboy interview that “the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.”
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DD2P5DI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect_nodl?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
In the iconic book Ignition! every test fire where the test stand doesn't blow up, is considered a success ;-)
Here are two of the most direct examples of Trump being racist:
From an article in "The New Yorker": "Brown also used to work in the casinos, at the Showboat, bussing tables, and at Trump’s Castle, stripping and waxing floors. “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,”
Why would the Casino managers think to do this? Either they had been told to by Trump himself (A notorious micromanager) or they had been around him long enough to learn that having black employees in public facing roles would upset Trump.
From the book "Trumped!: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump" Trump was reported to have said: "Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” Trump himself later said of the book: "The stuff O’Donnell (the author) wrote about me is probably true.”
That is textbook racism.
Good self-help books are underappreciated. They can provide the push needed to us in critical moments of our lives, e.g. to overcome short-term pain / excessive risk-aversion when making an important decision, and let us change the fundamental frames / instill useful mantras into our lives, changing our trajectories significantly. These two self-help books definitely changed my life, providing both motivation and timeless advice:
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odd by David Goggins
I recommend these to all my friends and everybody who read them so far loved them (note that for max effect probably best to space them out and to first read Adams and then Goggins a few months later).
This book was recommended on this sub previously: Make the Bread, Buy the Butter. It is.. ahem... available in other forms if you can't pay for it. Details what things can be made from scratch, and if it's worth it to bother or not.
>But but but libertarians tell me if there were no laws they would be double super honest! After all if the laws are already ineffective surely having none would be soooo much better...
No libertarians don't actually think that. They just think having a strong central government makes it easier for companies to do their bullshit, not harder. Just continuing to use the US as an example, as a dishonest corp you have to just bribe one central entity and they have vast powers to re-write laws to favor you and eliminate competition so you can do whatever you want. By contrast if you have a weak central government there isn't a strong entity to corrupt and you have a vast array of different groups to corrupt to get your unfettered access, such as the various independent organizations covering things like standards, ratings, reputation, credit, mediation, security, etc. And none of them have a monopoly they can be easily replaced by more reliable entities. Just as a real world example of what such groups look like see things such as UL (Electricity standards), ISO, ANSI, credit bureaus, etc.
Continuing with real world examples, with the EU parliament getting stronger every day, you can expect those consumer protections start to erode. It's much easier to bribe some MEPs than it is to bribe every legislature from every separate country in Europe. Article 13's just a preview of things to come. All countries naturally gravitate toward more government power and less freedom as seizing a nation's capital to remain in power as long as possible is the end goal of all politicians.
A 1991 book by John O’Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump’s criticism of a black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” Trump at first denied the remarks, but later said in a 1997 Playboy interview that “the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.”
> That's not true. I've already fact checked. Give me a source.
what source did you use to "fact check" this statement?
It's nothing new, it's just coming back into the mainstream now that they realize how powerful psychedelics are for healing. Listen to Michael Pollan's recent JRE guest appearance and pick up his recent book, it details how this research and push for re-legitimizing pyschedelic use has been happening in the background all along. Some people have even theorized that since we banned psychedelics and picked up a more alcohol-heavy culture we've become more depressed, more angry, less empathetic, and argue returning psychedelics into the mainstream in a safe manner could change all of that.
Interesting times ahead.
> Incompetency. Watching these "technologies" develop has been like watching the first organism crawling out of primordial oceans all over again. In terms of rediscovering the past errors of technology and economic behaviour.
Oh boy you would enjoy part of /u/dgerard's book Attack of the 50 foot blockchain where he dives into the wonderful world of blockchain-based incompetency. To wit, my favorite two examples:
> * Bitomat, then the third-largest exchange, were keeping the whole site's wallet file on an Amazon Web Services EC2 server in the cloud that didn't have separate backups and was set to "ephemeral," i.e., it would disappear if you restarted it. Guess what happened in July 2011? Whoops
> ...
> * AllCrypt ran their exchange off a MySQL database ... and were running WordPress on the same database, and their WordPress got hacked such as to allow access to the exchange data. The same thing happened to Bitcoin lending startup Loanbase.
The book: https://www.amazon.com/Attack-50-Foot-Blockchain-Contracts-ebook/dp/B073CPP581
There's a book called Make the Bread, Buy the Butter by Jennifer Reese. It has 120 recipes in it and she goes through what you should put time into making from scratch and what you should just buy. Here is the book on amazon. It seems to be available on kindle too. I'd highly recommend it, even just to read through. Hope that helps!
It is indeed buttermilk.
In the pre-refrigeration days, cream would often begin to ferment naturally, then churned into butter and buttermilk.
Today, we make cultured buttermilk by adding live lactic acid bacteria to the buttermilk, which produces the tang that you are missing in your homemade buttermilk.
You can simulate the effects cultured buttermilk will have in recipes by adding some distilled white vinegar or lemon juice to the buttermilk. Otherwise, you are better off purchasing cultured buttermilk from the store. It has a very long shelf life in the fridge, compared to your homemade buttermilk.
Also, I would suggest reading the book "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter" and consider if this is even worth your time and money.
And then she published a book about it!
https://www.amazon.com/Maximizing-Future-Eliminating-Student-Loan-ebook/dp/B0725GCVDM
The many negative reviews mirror exactly what people are saying in this thread.
It's part memoir, part self-help, but Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. It's written by a Jewish psychologist who was sent to a concentration camp during WWII, and used his experience to write a guide on coping with suffering. Despite the intimidating title, it's a short book and a quick read, and has definitely jolted me from a few ruts in my life.
cheers! Preorders are up on Amazon too. (Available worldwide.) The current draft is kinder to Ethereum than previous drafts, but gets stuck into smart contracts a lot more. /u/vbuterin's comments over on /r/Buttcoin greatly improved the Ethereum section.
"In 1954, only one year after Twarog and Page reported finding serotonin in the brain, Woolley and Shaw recognized the structural relationship between LSD and serotonin and proposed that the mental effects of LSD might be caused by its interference with the actions of serotonin in the brain"
You can also find more by just searching about Twarog and Page. You can also read Michael Pollan's new book "How to change your mind" Which will cite MULTIPLE sources, studies, mostly from accredited universities such as John Hopkins, NYU, Harvard etc.
I highly suggest reading it. Everything I have referenced only touches what that book covers.
Theirs a lot more, I suggest pulling up google scholar and researching papers that are now being published online after the Nixon era ban had been lifted, universities have started uploading those.
I have way too many cook books and I use probably 2 or 3, but some go in and out of that 2 or 3 rotation. My absolute favorite is Make the Bread, Buy the Butter
I like to do things from scratch, within reason. This book does a good job breaking things down in terms of time and cost as well as how different it will turn out
Book recommendation that kind of answers your question in a very roundabout way
https://www.amazon.com/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still-ebook/dp/B00COOFBA4
> A combination of mediocre skills can make you surprisingly valuable
it is simply one indicator of a few you should use. among them, google (obv), your smart peers, professional opinions as well.
here's a book that taught me to not react with "i already know" kind of attitudes.
https://www.amazon.ca/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still-ebook/dp/B00COOFBA4
good luck man!
This is where I read about it, amazing book. There's also a Netflix documentary series with the same name. It doesn't cover so much of the history though, the book goes into significantly more detail.
https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Mind-Consciousness-Transcendence-ebook/dp/B076GPJXWZ
This may make or break the Iranian government.
The world we live in is one where free, democratic counties are stable, a powerful, authoritarian dictatorships are stable. Dictators that try to become benevolent rulers and cross this gap often fall to revolutions.
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Iran is precariously in the middle. Their citizens are much richer than citizens in dictatorships, they have a (semi) democratic parliament and President with considerable power within the government, and citizens have access to considerable rights and freedoms over many citizens all over the world. However, compared to many democracies, they lack many personal freedoms many of us in Democracies are accustomed to, and enjoy.
If protestors are successful, it could open the floodgates for reforms and a total collapse of control the Iranian government maintains. The government is in a Catch-22 situation, in trying to maintain stability, squashing protests only adds more fuel to the fire, while giving into protestors can open the floodgates of reforms that could destroy the government, lead to more protests, all which could lead to a revolution.
However, only time will tell.
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Relevant CGP Grey video and the book it was adapted from, 'The Dictator's Handbook'
No it's not. Anything that can be done with blockchains can be done better and efficiently by other means.
Blockchains are still an answer looking for a question
This book goes into details about all the claims made by blockchains and it puts the technology into perspective. The technology is nothing special, it is just a very inefficient method of distributed databases. And many of its features that distinguishes are actually pretty bad for any business or human institution
https://www.amazon.com/Attack-50-Foot-Blockchain-Contracts-ebook/dp/B073CPP581
I see a lot of comments saying that exercise relieves anger and certainly it does just that. I would add that if anger keeps Coming back you’re just going to exercise yourself to death. There are some books that address this issue so that you can stop creating all this anger. Here is one book https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009U9S6FI/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0. Jordan Peterson has many YouTube videos on forgiveness. There are also many Buddhist and Zen books and videos on forgiveness and general gratitude. You’re going to have to stop the creation of the anger and Nippet in the bud. If a Holocaust survivor can’t forgive and thrive it’s possible that you can too
I wish this book had been around when I was your age: https://www.amazon.com/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still-ebook/dp/B00COOFBA4
I think this point in your life is the perfect time to read it and use some of the principals to orient yourself while you make plans for your next step into the future.
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Warning - Lot of [mis]information in the link ahead.
Being that Bill gates "predicted" the virus, his ability to ~~forecast~~ influence the future should not be ignored. He ~~predicts~~ explains there will be a hung election and civil war coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
He also claims there are "conspiracy theories" out there about him which his paid cronies are working to combat, and discredits RFK who published this #1 bestselling book because it claims Gates "likes to make money and kill millions of people."
"The truth is kind of boring sometimes" claims Gates.
Edit: adjusted post to account for the truth
Check out The Dictators handbook, fascinating and depressing take on how this works. Rewarding the minumum coalition you need, Trump was just more obvious about it
I think you are right.
I also think this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Attack-50-Foot-Blockchain-Contracts-ebook/dp/B073CPP581/
is the most honest fundamental view.
I also think that even Algorand was implemented as a ponzi-scheme ( holding back much, so the original cartel would make money later ), but that the Algorand technology is the sanest one around, for a digital-currency,
& I also think that stock-ownership should be on a modified Algorand-style blockchain ( ownership constraints added, e.g. ), as should accounting-records ( making it impossible for a single-computer-failure within a business to wipe-out all the accounting-records, or for a missing backup to do that, either ).
The blockchain can be a useful technology, but selling bubblegum-wrappers isn't what an economy is built on, & NFT's are the economic equivalent to bubblegum-wrappers, to me.
Imagine, however, using blockchain to record who bid what, in an auction-to-house-a-real-work-of-art-for-1-season arrangement:
then real art would be moving around, for real economic benefit ( visitors to that museum ), & the bids would not be deniable...
that would be actual economy standing on blockchain...
Whatever: just the opinions of an old geek, is all!
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> At the end of the day people that dismiss it just don’t want to / have the time to invest I. Understanding a new asset class.
I mean this guy who wrote a 2 hr 20 min documentary about why crypto is all shit:
Or this publisher of multiple books on why it's shit:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Attack-50-Foot-Blockchain-Contracts-ebook/dp/B073CPP581
Clearly weren't lacking in time or desire to understand it.
Blockchain isn't interesting at all. I used to hold essentially the same view as your comment, but then I read Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain and realized the blockchain is dumb af.
The blockchain is at best completely pointless, and at worse it has major flaws which make it unsuitable for practical application. It's a solution looking for a problem, and everything people claim it "solves" we already have better tech for. A large part of the reason anyone thinks it's useful is part of a concerted marketing effort by cryptobros.
I scrolled to find this comment. It is an exceptional book about when to draw the line between making and buying. Here's the book if you want it.
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08X5YWRRP/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_DGRPYRQGD0ZS1V5AK1B3