SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Mar 3rd, 2025
#cortisol #testosterone #Turkana #non-industrialized #HoloVAM #hologram #millimeter-scale #HoloTile #batteries #chillers #peaker #local #amygdala #punishment #anger #GUSTO #Neutron #barge #composite #medium-lift
“He got away with it. So he expects, reasonably, that he can do it again.”
#Trump & his allies are using their drive to slash the size of the federal work force to break the bonds of #restraint. To do so, they are deploying a strategy of #intimidation, #punishment & #coercion. They have silenced #watchdog agencies, discharged prosecutors, forced resignations & dismissed government officials whose job it was to maintain #ethical standards.
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
-- B. F. Skinner
#Wisdom #Quotes #BFSkinner #Crime #HumanBehavior #Punishment
#Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico
That civil action, known as an Article 78 proceeding, will essentially serve as an early #appeal. In the coming weeks, a NY appeals court will begin to consider the proceeding.
In remarks Thursday evening at his Mar-a-Lago estate, #Trump attacked the case & vowed to formally appeal, even though he was expected to avoid #jail or any other substantive #punishment.
“We’re going to appeal anyway, just psychologically, because frankly it’s a disgrace,” he said.
Twelve signs you're exploiting someone... or trying to!
A thread about how to spot power struggles in personal relationships.
#AbuseOfPower #PowerDifferentials #Punishment #Inequality
#ActuallyAutistic
Government bureaucracies need occasional overhaul and rejuvenation.
Trump’s motivation is more about #punishment and #retribution.
His Cabinet choices point to that.
At the Justice Department, he is prepared to fire the team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith on two indictments of the president-elect.
More broadly, he looks to dismantle what he regards as an unresponsive and oppositional administrative state.
Experts say what Trump, Musk and Ramaswamy are talking about
— both in terms of money saved and workforce reductions
— is unrealistic and that they will soon bump into political and economic realities that will leave them far short of what they claim.
That doesn’t mean, however, that at the outset the president-elect should not be taken seriously about how #disruptive he will try to be in his efforts.
Musk has claimed he can cut the budget by roughly $2 trillion,
but analysts say that would require drastic (and unpopular) cuts in entitlements programs, defense or other vital services.
#Elaine #Kamarck of the Brookings Institution, who oversaw Gore’s reinventing government initiative, offered counsel to the incoming administration in a piece on the Brookings website entitled,
“Cut the government with a scalpel, not an axe.”
That was the approach taken during the Clinton administration, which resulted in the elimination of 640,000 pages of internal agency rules
and a reduction in the federal workforce of 426,000 employees.
Kamarck, however, questioned whether the federal bureaucracy is truly bloated,
as Ramaswamy and the Trump team claim.
There are, she noted about 19,000 Border Patrol agents.
How many of those would Trump cut while still making good on his promise to secure the border and deport millions?
There are about 1,800 air traffic controllers, she said. Would Trump’s team cut that workforce significantly, causing potential flight cancellations and disruption?
“It will take about a week and Congress will say, ‘Hey, you can’t do this,’” she said.
And how deeply would he try to cut the workforce at the Social Security Administration,
at the risk of checks not being sent out promptly or other breakdowns in a program that he has otherwise vowed not to touch?
Kamarck offered other examples of where the Trump team could produce only symbolic victories.
Trump has targeted the Department of Education for elimination.
Kamarck said the department could be eliminated but two key programs likely would remain
— the student loan program and Title 1,
which adds to state and local governments for low-achieving students in areas of higher poverty.
The student loan program could be shifted to the Treasury Department
and Title 1 to the Department of Health and Human Services, she said,
which means a portion of its budget would be shifted rather than cut.
Its workforce is the smallest of any Cabinet agency.
Kamarck’s point is that after programs are shifted, the money saved might not be significant and the number of workers eliminated would be tiny.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/24/doge-trump-musk-ramaswamy-budget/
Social pets and very young children do not understand right or wrong. They don't understand bad or good. They only understand social cohesion. They can tell they broke social cohesion but damned if they know how they did it and all they want to do is to try to restore social cohesion. Physical violence does nothing but make them try to do more extreme things to restore social cohesion in ways it works in their mind, things like blending scents, so if marking doesn't work peeing can mix scents, which makes sense to them not to us. After a certain point of physical violence, and they will realize that nothing they do will matter to restore social cohesion that they will just do things to get any attention, even negative attention.
Its why many indigenous tribes would never dream of beating a child or animal. They know they just can't process it and words and tone are enough to know they broke social cohesion and with enough consistent conditioning and positive conditioning when they do right, the child will figure things out on their own as they age or the animal will be conditioned to know how to no longer break social cohesion. If its not consistent it just creates mixed signals so they will do do random things or avoid doing random things and try to test the boundaries so they can get some clue as to what causes the breaking of social cohesion to prevent that at all costs.
It's cruel what the media is doing to that #sick #old #man #donaldtrump...
I almost feel sorry for him...
#Nah...
#Media has been building trump up for their #horserace, just enough, so that the #poor #stupid #bastard #trump believes he, a #Nazi #Seditionist #Convicted #Felon and #Adjudicated #Rapist, actually has a chance for a win, #LOL, when they know that #trump and his #Fascism and his #Nazism and his #Jan6 #Sedition and his #TrumpAbortionBans and his #maga #trumpism are about to be #Aborted, when The #US performs an #Abortion on the #trumpcampaign with his coming #Election #Loss, and they know that that they, the #world #press, are about to make #billions on wall to wall #global #breakingnews #news coverage of #trump's upcoming #criminal #trials and ultimately #guilty verdicts for trump's #fraud and #crimes against the #American people, as well as trump's subsequent #punishment #fines and ultimate #incarceration.
Those of us like me who grew up in the #NewYork area knew #Trump was a fucking sleazebag in the 1980s
But the #justice system let him slide time and again, eyes glazed over
#Punitive force feeds the #crime you intend to stop- for low grade #crimes by the #poor (that #bigotry always demands heavy #punishment for)
But #narcissism #amorality #plutocracy, plotting great #malice, persistently: utterly different
They are always obvious as hell for years, decades
They can be stopped early
Must be
Harvard students were punished by the university president for expressing unpopular opinions.
They STUDIED for an hour in a LIBRARY, with political messages taped to their laptops.
What if it had been only one student? What if the pro-Palestine message had been half as big? What if it had been half an hour?
There is no narrative worth the pixels it takes on a screen that makes this anything but direct, pure suppression of dissent. The students followed every rule, didn't do any of the things bullshit campus rules penalize in order to stop protests. They didn't block sidewalks, light candles, chant, march, or even (apparently) make anyone the least bit uncomfortable.
So the Harvard admin just flat-out punished them for expressing a political opinion.
#gaza #palestine #university #highered #uspol #protest #dissent #punishment #authoritarianism
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/10/3/students-suspended-library-palestine-protest/
Opinion: We Need More #Consequences for #Reckless #Driving. But That Doesn’t Mean More #Punishment. Punishment and #consequences" aren't synonyms — and when we confuse the two, we lose lives on our #roads. https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/10/02/opinion-we-need-more-consequences-for-reckless-driving-but-that-doesnt-mean-more-punishment #transportation #cars #cyclists #pedestrian sidewalks #transportation #roads #legalresearch
Instead of attempting to change their child's #genderidentity through #denial, #punishment, or #conversiontherapy, parents should focus on creating a supportive environment that embraces and affirms their child's true identity.
(5/20) #Transgender
