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gwiss
@gwiss Sep 3, 2017, 1:39 PM UTC

Bill Cosby versus Roman Polanski

Source @dana-edwards had a post yesterday about whether Bill Cosby was guilty of rape or not, and in the process of trying to find out whether there has been any objective proof offered to support th…

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gwiss
@gwiss Aug 31, 2017, 7:05 PM UTC

Spiral Dynamics and the Houston flooding

I read a post by @luzcypher this morning about what level of conversation most people enjoy and it got me to thinking and researching about spiral dynamics and the theory of stages of consciousness.…

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gwiss
@gwiss Aug 17, 2017, 7:26 PM UTC

Woodstock versus Charlottesville

I read a comment by @aedroberts in a recent post about books that will help your children see the wisdom of anarchy, and his comment was that Orwell was actually a Statist and that 1984 was a braggad…

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gwiss
@gwiss Aug 11, 2017, 3:27 PM UTC

Gender Confusion

Source Having read recent posts by @kyriacos about transgender issues and by @lukestokes about the role of women in society I was struck by a contradiction. So let’s walk through my thought process t…

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gwiss
@gwiss Aug 6, 2017, 10:38 PM UTC

Star Trek Snowflakes

Image link Matt Novack at Gizmodo did a piece recently on William Shatner talking about Shatner's attacks on Social Justice Warriors. Shatner apparently has a distaste for them, calling them "snowfla…

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gwiss
@gwiss Jul 21, 2017, 4:03 PM UTC

Heroin and Economic Cycles

The poppy has been a part of human civilization for a long time -- the Sumerians in 3400 BC called it hul gil, or "joy plant", and tablets found at Nippur describe the collection of poppy juice and p…

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gwiss
@gwiss Jul 13, 2017, 1:53 PM UTC

Technology and the Generalist

@kyriacos had a post this morning about how thinking critically is more important than citing references and it got me to thinking about the nature of the world that lies ahead of us. Technology is s…

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gwiss
@gwiss Jul 11, 2017, 4:52 PM UTC

Seattle can't stop shooting its own toes off

First they hurt their minimum wage workers with an ill conceived mandatory minimum wage increase. Now, they passed a 2.25% tax on the wealthy. Guess that's one way to fix that pesky real estate bubbl…

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gwiss
@gwiss Jul 11, 2017, 2:29 PM UTC

Future of cryptocurrency

None of us here on Steemit are surprised by the reality that fortunes are being made by cryptocurrency traders. But the question I have is: What will authorities do when they realize this money is di…

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gwiss
@gwiss Jul 11, 2017, 2:04 PM UTC

Pesticides behind bee deaths

Neonicotinoid pesticides, often used as seed coatings, is likely cause of bee colony deaths being seen in many countries. Quote from study: >Overall neonicotinoid residues were detected infrequent…

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