4/ the wokeism is *shaped* by the US constitution:
religion being banned from official positions of power lets the "totally not a religion" religious movement dominate actual religions. missing is a proper mechanism for legally deeming wokeism a religion against its liking.
5/ wokeism is also adapted to leverage lack of protection for freedom of association - using tribal concerns as political wedges.
1: include those people or you are racist
2: cater to their interests now that they are in
note it's a ratchet - you aren't allowed to ask them out.
6/ that's the one source of wokeness: the *environment* of our society, where it underwent the natural selection.
the other source of wokenes is, well, *construed*.
7/ next up: blame Pasteur and Darwin (and their predecessors, to be fair):
through disproving the presumption of spontaneous generation of biological life, they laid the groundwork for *construction* of memetic life.
8/ Fabian Society and the likes figured they can make long-running, self-perpetuating memetic structures that will enact their vision of society; this is the upper class take on it
Marx published a three-layered DIY handbook for the vulgar (middle) class
you'd be surprised: they want to just chill with their wives, insulated from wants and instabilities of the society. the exact problems they want to insulate themselves from depend on their moral values.
8/ rejection of "tradition" in the evangelical christianity, paralleled by rejection of traditional wisdom in the enlightenment.
this lets reason run *unchecked* by actual facts on the ground. while it's pretty good most of the time, when it goes wrong, it goes *very* wrong.
9/ why tradition? it's a body of knowledge and experience that passed the test of time. it is capable of correctly tackling problems and concepts that still elude our (limited!) reason.
tradition is the "senate" to reason's "house", if you know what i mean :-)
10/ @apex_simmaps provides an excellent contention, and prompts me to re-think my approach.
looking forward to a more extensive substack post on it 👍
2/ Isn't she pretty?
In particular the Ukrainian maritime variant, with seabird decal.
3/ Unique design allows for low observability, in particular low radar cross-section. Not quite "full on stealth" - but it's much stealthier than an average flier.
We don't have official numbers, but this calculates baseline expectations - and it's good:
2/ #T14Armata, an innovative russian tank with crew fully enclosed in the front hull behind heavy protection, while a fully automated turret was located in the classic way.
Along with the tank, related T-15 IFV and 2S35 SPG were developed as shared platform.
3/ The design seemingly got a lot *right*, tho there remains some discussion as to armor of the turret - supposedly absent in the vehicles produced.
With a lot of hopes riding on its shoulders, the design failed to enter serial production and seems stuck. How come?
1/ Unpopular opinion:
the recent wave of "work from home" is the biggest and unique opportunity to "stick it to the boomers". Actually to do much better than that.
2/ Good management is both about enabling your employees - and also about measuring their effectiveness.
Beyond "walking around & seeing butts in office chairs", actual measurement - and reporting both up & down the chain. "Work from home" pushes in that direction.
3/ There are also various other benefits to "work from home" - less dependence on proximity to city; more personal freedom to shape work as you see fit, to juggle & smoothly change works, etc.
1/ >US commenced "invasion" in Ukraine by regime changing it
No.
2014: Ukrainians over-threw their government aligned with Russia - the Russia that for well over a century occupied Ukraine, drained resources & talent, suppressed culture.
2/ You see people in Ukraine staunchly & resolutely defending their freedom for 2+ months now. That is a clear and strong signal. I support their defense of freedom.
As for democracy... whatever. Both sides are democracies with all the trappings & faults, and it helped neither.
3/ To see just how pernicious and pervasive suppression of Ukraine's culture was back under russian control, see this well written thread: