But the Alien didn’t have… Never mind.

OK, but why he lowered his pants…?

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I hate sleeping with a shirt on.

We are not going to postpone the vote on the new dam until everyone gets their civil engineering degree.

If the specialist cannot explain to the common population in a concise way the implications of carrying out a project of that size so that they can make a sensible choice in a vote, then the problem lies with the specialist, not the population. Giving that kind of explanation is education.

We empower a hundred specialists.

That is not at all the same as giving absolute authority to a despot. A specialist is not necessarily an authority, just as in most cases authorities are not specialists.

You could say that a doctor has the power over who lives and who dies, but what if the hospital director fires the doctor? Or demands that he give priority to some patients over others? And hospital directors are not necessarily Doctors of Medicine. Sure, ideally, the specialists in a field should be the aurities in that field, but that is an ideal and not a reality. The authority of the Hospital is not the doctor, but the Hospital Director. The authority that decides whether or not to build a dam is not the Engineer, it is the owner of the construction company.

Besides, the fact that we have been giving too much power to individuals for years does not mean that it is the right thing to do! For some reason we are on the verge of a new rebirth of fascism.

altruistic leader with accountability who steps down

That is traditional leadership, and leadership is one thing and authoritarianism is quite another.

A leader does not have to be authoritarian. A leader works best when they delegates functions and distributes power horizontally. The leader is not the one who knows more but the one who is more focused.

In authoritarianism, the despot is “the alpha and the omega”, the top of the pyramid and the highest authority, regardless of the scope. He is the one who has the last word, even if what he says is bullshit. There is no form of authoritarianism that is mild or “altruistic”.

I grant you that the population is easy to manipulate, but that is precisely because of the dependence on authority figures, people trust more in what their “leader” tells them than in their own judgment.

The solution is to educate the population so that it is less prone to manipulation, not to continue doing the same as always.

I partially disagreed in the first and strongly disagreed in the second.

The first can be resolved with education.

The second…

The funny thing is that both points are related in a horrid way:

Let’s say there is a despot who has a doctorate, it doesn’t matter what it is, it could be in quantum physics, which has nothing to do with politics, but it is enough to say that the guy is smart. The despot proposes something based on what you say: that those who are not “properly prepared intellectually” can not vote, this translates into those who do not have a university degree can not vote, as 40% of the population at best. Then this becomes that you have to have a Master’s degree to vote, then a doctorate, then only if you have a doctorate in a specific field, and so on…

On the one hand, we should not limit the exercise of democracy of the population, on the contrary. The population does not know how to read? Teach them, they don’t know arithmetic? Teach them. The vast majority do not have a university degree? Make university access more accessible, in an intelligent transforming way.

On the other hand, don’t give unlimited power to ANYONE. There is no individual being capable of providing a whole society with what it needs, because this individual will act according to his limited vision of the world and this will lead to the misfortune of the groups that escape his worldview. And that is only assuming that the despot really wants to “do what is best for all”, which is not at all the case in reality. The despots from the beginning choose a side (“Us”, the Aryans, etc) and an enemy (“Them”, the Jews, the blacks, the Latinos, the non-Aryan whites, etc), and openly act to harm “them” and only benefit “us”. And this is how genocides and so on happen…

Democracy is always good except if what is put to a vote is whether human beings deserve rights or not. Human rights are unappealable, period.

Authoritarianism, on the other hand, is never good, and anyone who says otherwise is a bootlicker, a privileged class or an authoritarian leader.

It doesn’t, sorry. It is a way to express Astonishment, like saying “Holy Fuck!” or something like that. It’s also used to intensify something you say, “Naguará 'e grande es ese árbol = How fucking big is that tree”.

(Although I’m using “fuck” in the examples, Naguará isn’t a “rude word” or an insult, colloquial at most, you wouldn’t say naguará in a business meeting or a thesis defense, for example. Is just that i can’t think of other English word with the same weight as Naguará)

Naguará, from my Country Venezuela.

Damn, I really messed up. Thanks for the heads up.

I once met a girl called “Xinhergi” (Synergy).

Tell me you don’t live in a Hispanic Country without telling me you don’t live in a Hispanic Country.

Personally I believe that in art and any creative project there are no bad ideas as long as you execute them satisfactorily. Even the best idea of all, if done badly, becomes a bad idea…

That been said… The Sims. I still can’t believe a game about doing mundane shores and just being a person can be so famous and addictive.

HELL YEAH!!

That’s the fucking spirit! Have a fucking nice day too!

Using a fucking PC properly.

Meanwhile in Spanish we got rid of the apple part and simply call them “Piñas”.

Well, pineapple aren’t apples and starfishes aren’t even fish, so…

Twitter I’ve hated since before Musk owned it, but I’d say Instagram is the one I hate the most, mainly because of how overtly hypocritical, condescending, passive-aggressive and false its culture is. At least Twitter is honest, somehow.

If twitter is the eden for Nazis, Instagram is the eden for Karens.

Ridge Racer Type 4 for the Original PlayStation