@Typo-MAGAshiv Online life must suck when your Google is broken. Once that gets resolved, you have the keywords needed to get up to speed on the Resnick Fucks.
@SwarmShawarma this comes off as anti EV propaganda which often gets tailored to right wing channels and audiences.
There exists a strong secondary market for functional if degraded vehicle battery packs for power walls and DIY off grid setups. Even completely dead packs have a scrap value in the hundreds of dollars each, and over 1000 for certain chemistries like cobalt.
Even small device lithium packs contain enough value that companies actively market free pickup services.
It's virtually always cost effective to recover and reprocess than to mine and process virgin material. LiFe is the most challenging but can leverage economy of scale.
Speaking as a lifelong ICE Car Guy, even I can see that solar farms and EVs are well down the path of making fossil fuel cars obsolete.
This story broken by Candace Owens yesterday, that shortly after the WHCD shooter incident, the White House Military Office sent out a Directive to amplify in media, the clip of Erika Kirk crying that she just wanted to go home. Both Erika Kirk/TPUSA, and the WHCD shooter incident, appear to exist as highly stage managed propaganda tools, and here these two strands show a strange convergence.
pistachios
Not sure if they are related to the current Dubai Chocolate fad referenced (which has yet to come to my attention in the wild.) But, at the intersection of Pistachio market consolidation, water rights capture, political manipulation and outright purchase, and Mad Money getting sent to Israel, you'll find the rich AF piece of shit Resnick Family. Well known and widely maligned here in California.
And "daddy" leaders.
It's only too obvious that the age of fatherlessness is also the age of leaders that project a caricature of a dad.
therefore it relies on deep, ancestral faculties.
To add technical detail as a starting point for a deeper dive. Primate level cognition and metacognition, on the level that humans consider setting us apart from "lower animals ", is based in the Neocortex, which evolved long after the Old Mammalian and Reptilian brains, both of which still make up the bulk of human braincase content. Dark Triad individuals can perform dumb AF at tasks and skills that run on neocortex circuitry, yet some can greatly outperform their "intellectual " peers at crafty self serving and group dynamic manipulation. It makes me think of the terabytes of Naughty Dog shorts showing how creative canines can be at getting something placed out of their reach, often gaming humans and other dogs with rather detailed multi step schemes requiring forethought and planning. The underlying brain circuitry driving such behaviors evolved EONS before we clever monkies built our neocortex atop it.
It can require a LOT of neocortex processing time, for a trusting intellectual type. To detect when a seemingly dumb person is successfully manipulating them by outperforming at using these older brain circuits.
Lol, autocorrect kept trying to change Neocortex to Neocon. NOOOOOOO!
Read MoreYeH, it took me quite a while to figure out what's up, but once you pinpoint it it's self evident.
"Intelligent" necessarily means higher cognitive function activation. Machiavellianism is an evolved social strategy (albeit parasitic), therefore it relies on deep, ancestral faculties. They can do it without understanding how.
The few psychopaths that have come out in the open lately woth books and podcasts explaining how they function are exceptions, and they too can miss quite a bit about how they really go about.
I'm not sure as for the machiavellianism. I don't think a fool is capable of the tactic and foresight for it.
I'm here to warn men: individuals can function very poorly by cognitive measures, yet actually EXTREMELY skilled at manipulating people socially and emotionally. I got tangled up once with a real Lucifers Daughter. Figured initially would make a convenient fuck buddy and easy to discard. Ended with her breaking into my house as I slept, AFTER screwing all the doors and windows shut from the inside, and repeatedly disappearing into thin air when the increasingly skeptical cops arrived. Glorious was the day I finally got my day in court for a restraining order, and she had the poor sense to show up to contest it WITH active arrest warrants. Bottom line: never get complacent assuming low cognition means safe from high Machiavellian function level!!!
Read MoreYes, naturally, intelligence is a product of evolution.
I believe the dimension of machiavellianism is independent of intelligence (re @Vermillion-Rx). It has to do with using other humans, as opposed of using nature. So, if human society is considered something positive, machiavellianism is basically parasitism. It's a strategy.
You can have stupid machiavellians. You see them everywhere. They try this and that small con. They eventually end up playing only with other stupids, because a smart guy figures them out.
Something I, and others, have been pondering, is the natural limit to intelligence. There's this unsolvable problem, death, for which there isn't a solution. We basically deal with it deceiving ourselves in a way or another. A bit too intelligent, and you might lose that capability, making you insane. The mad genius archetype, the bright kid who ends up with schizophrenia, etc.
And something that I have been pondering, is another problem of the same magnitude as death: realizing that your mother is not protective, but is taking advantage of you. The devouring mother is probably another route through which bright kids end up mentally unstable.
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