Any good current horror movies or books/comic? It seems horror has been infected with wokeness. I saw an article about Jordan Peele doing Candyman. Sad thing is he could probably write a good story but he is obsessed with race. The fawning articles about him and Ava Duvernay are absurd
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Didn't mean to sound so aggresssive, apologies.
Well, social animals are the ones that are studied the most, and solitary beasts like bears and raccoons just don't act "normally" in a lab, I would imagine. But litters of baby cats will play, and cats play all the time (I would imagine even the solitary big ones mess around like our housecats sometimes do). And only what happens in a lab under "controlled conditions" during a formal test counts according to the eggheads, at least traditionally (with wildlife cams, "spontaneous behaviour" is being dismissed less and less as "anecdotal"/one-off oddness. Because, see, it was all too easy to throw off "intelligent" behaviour as aberration or human imagination. (Now imagine raising human babies in a lab, and formally teaching them only one word at a time, and any utterance they make outside of tests doesn't count. They're all normal, but would come out looking like utter retards, I bet. This is what the ASL apes had to put up with.)
Anyway, baby bears play, everything plays. And sociality seems to be a trend in and of itself, look at how European mama bears are keeping their offspring around longer, and how utterly different the urban raccoon is from the rural breed.
As for the Reagan-era thing, well, remember that this whole "politically correct" movement seemed to start under his watch (round about 1984, actually, with comedians coming out of nowhere complaining about how "they" want the names of manhole covers and things changed. I have no idea who "they" were, and it almost seems like the jokes themselves triggered calls to get rid of the -ess suffix for certain jobs (stewardess, waitress). And now here we are. So under Trump we had the same kind of hand-wringing "he's gonna enslave us" crying, coupled with all this tranny and other nonsense bullshit ... I don't see any of this going anywhere good. Or rather, this time around I'm wondering if it isn't all smoke and mirrors, a magician's distraction from something actually important.
It'd be fascinating if they seriously went through the standard procedures and reported the results. I personally believe there's a lot of unethical testing and experimenting being done out there behind closed doors - and that's really unfortunate, but if the suffering is going to happen anyway, I'd like the data to be released so maybe someone can learn something (but then you'd have to fire/convict those involved, so that's why it's not released). It's only a real problem when you start excusing it, whether for results, convenience, or ideology. (excluding the occasional guy driven by curiousity, that's a whole other issue)
More on the point, though, how far would you be willing to extend the ability to socialize/play/practice? Would you extend it to insects? Bacteria? It's a strain to my imagination to apply it to those two groups. Especially bacteria brings up a large amount of new ethical issues. The thought processes involved would be widely ridiculed, so I can certainly understand the lack of effort towards testing it (risking career credibility).
The expected rigor of the scientific process is kind of a double edged sword. I respect it for making reproducable results, but sometimes I think it makes simple questions into complex chores. Ideally, you'd just have the individual pursue it, but if my question is something seemingly silly, like whether a leopard likes playing frisbee catch, I'd have to get my hands on a leopard first because I don't expect silly things to get reported publicly.
This is a constant nagging worry for me. Especially when I hear about something occurring from a recent time period where I know I was trying to pay attention, then I look it up and it turned out I completely missed it at the time. Sort of a losing game, but I keep coming back to the table for another round.
It's interesting to hear about the surge of problems occurring in Reagan era. I'm fairly convinced of the "long march through the institutions" strategy being employed, but that carries a number of implications with it. I hadn't really considered that it might be happening in a scale larger than the USA, for instance; I thought maybe whatever nefarious group was hopping around for soft targets. So now I'm led to consider it more closely tied to globalist interests.
What'd be really interesting is to know if this 10-20 year skip in agenda-pushing (the fallout takes years to settle each time, so maybe it was an intentional strategy) has been a regular trend, but we'd need some sample reports from the 60s-70s and I don't have any connections that old. Then again, we had a big tech thing with the internet and cellphones, so maybe it forced some moves to be made.
Well, 10-20 years equals one human generation (the time it takes a baby to grow to sexual maturity).
With Canada, you can sort of map the changes, starting with the change of flag from the Red Ensign to what looks a lot like a generic corporate logo, PETs "multicultural mosaic" and the utterly unnecessary switch to metric in the 70s, the change of Constitution in 1980, the Singh Decision in 1984, the rescinding of the Baby Bonus followed almost immediately by mass immigration being a thing under Mulroney (who distracted everyone from that with his rousing the hornet's nest of Separatism, and the GST and dancing with Reagan) .....
In the 60s and 70s, big tech was actually probably a lot bigger. In the USA, you had Ma Bell before it was broken up, and, well, Canada still runs more or less on monopolies (based on who used to be the local phone provider - Bell Canada in Ontario, for instance, or SaskTel, NorthWestTel in northern BC/Territories, and what is now Telus - but there's also Rogers and Shaw now. We've always had the most expensive phone/cell phone bills in the world ... I would say that cell phone adoption was slower in Canada than most other places because of the ridiculous prices they used to charge.)
You also had RCA, and Zenith .... and a lot of other things that were American/North American based. But now you have transnational superconglomerate corporations that are unlike anything human society has ever seen, and is a sort of structure you usually only see in eusocial things like ants and bees. But it's certainly the end result - or part of the process - of all the "growth" and the collection of massive amounts of resources. It's basically part of the evolution of an out of control technological species, but lord knows where that evolution is going to lead next. Either space, or the next mass extinction that will take humans with it, after humans are done converting the Earth's waste back into plant-usable carbon.
Do insects and bacteria play? They sent a slime mould through a maze .... and then there's the cephalopods. So I wouldn't put anything past anything. The trick is, recognizing things for what they are. But hey, in the space realm, we have Avi Loeb ... (and hey, if we send out probes, for sure a nearby, more advanced civilization might have that idea, too, and be better at it. And hell, they've found planets literally everywhere since they found the first one only, what, 30 years ago? We could be lousy with probes, but we just aren't seeing them/don't recognize them, because, really, we just started looking beyond our own human asses.
Looking up the few events you mention gives me more information about Canada than I can count on from american media. Really quite a shame, I often dreamed of moving to Canada when I was younger, as I like cold weather and open spaces. We've all got a mess in our homelands and I know there's no easy escape now.
I had no idea that Canada was previously using imperial units. Thinking back on it, they really fed us a lot of pro-metric crap in school. Big strawmen arguments for grooming kids, "it's superior because of these things that aren't useful", "we're the only country not using metric so we're uncivilized". Surprised it hasn't gotten pushed harder here with how bad our education's getting with Common Core. They put it on our labels next to our normal units, but still can't even stick to the premise of metric's superiority by saying 1.5 grams (god forbid 15 decigrams) instead of 1,500 milligrams. Looking it up again, I see it's been rebranded as "International System of Units". I never really thought about the political angle of it previously.
[I had a bunch of other stuff written, but decided it was pointless rambling after rereading it. We've strayed so far from the original topic, haha. May as well call it here.]
Aye, well, that unnecessary switch to metric nearly caused a fatal plane accident. See: Gimli Glider. Mayday has a really good episode on it.