Uncle Iroh ☑️ @[email protected]
Tea expert, retired Fire Nation general, former Crown Prince of the Fire Nation, Grand Lotus of the Order of the White Lotus, firebending master, mentor to loveable nephew retard Zuko, Dragon of the West.
Lover of anime tiddies.
Joined Jul 2022
Uncle Iroh ☑️
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From Wikipedia:
The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer,[1] who observed that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do."[2] The term is widely used by systems theorists, and is generally invoked to counter the notion that the purpose of a system can be read from the intentions of those who design, operate, or promote it. When a system's side effects or unintended consequences reveal that its behavior is poorly understood, then the POSIWID perspective can balance political understandings of system behavior with a more straightforwardly descriptive view.
Origins of the term
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Stafford Beer coined the term POSIWID and used it many times in public addresses. In his address to the University of Valladolid, Spain, in October 2001, he said:[1]
According to the cybernetician, the purpose of a system is what it does. This is a basic dictum. It stands for bald fact, which makes a better starting point in seeking understanding than the familiar attributions of good intention, prejudices about expectations, moral judgment, or sheer ignorance of circumstances.
@TimeSpent
From Wikipedia:
The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer,[1] who observed that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do."[2] The term is widely used by systems theorists, and is generally invoked to counter the notion that the purpose of a system can be read from the intentions of those who design, operate, or promote it. When a system's side effects or unintended consequences reveal that its behavior is poorly understood, then the POSIWID perspective can balance political understandings of system behavior with a more straightforwardly descriptive view.
Origins of the term
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Stafford Beer coined the term POSIWID and used it many times in public addresses. In his address to the University of Valladolid, Spain, in October 2001, he said:[1]
According to the cybernetician, the purpose of a system is what it does. This is a basic dictum. It stands for bald fact, which makes a better starting point in seeking understanding than the familiar attributions of good intention, prejudices about expectations, moral judgment, or sheer ignorance of circumstances.
@TimeSpent
While Europe burns and the bar for civic behavior keeps hitting new lows, here's some random news from Japan:
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15374919
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240802/p2a/00m/0na/006000c
It's like they've isekai'd to another world.
I can't wait. Happy days.
Those screenshots sum it up well.
Now contrast the 9-to-5 privatized business model with Russia's nationalist model of self-defense. Their war machine has factories running on a 24/7 basis, literally non-stop production.
China can stand up a factory and have it running on the same 24/7 basis in days/weeks.
@Justicar
"And so castles made of sand
fall in the sea
eventualleeeeeeee" - Jimi Hendrix
And to cap it all, women NEVER think like this. TWRA.
That's why that phrase "Might Is Right" is inaccurate. Might just Is.
Every society has to embrace might, but those that fail to put violence in the service of something bigger are destined to die out.
Warrior classes & armies across pretty much all history are never in charge even though they could be & that fact opens up the real question, "if the strong (army) protect the weak (not army), under what values & what limits?"
This is why philosophy is important.
Hahah, Babylon Bee really nailed that. Kamala is the ultimate day drinker.
https://babylonbee.com/news/drunken-kamala-mistakenly-picks-wrong-shapiro-for-vp
My fave example is the Mongolian Empire, arguably the chaddiest chads in all history.
If "Might Is Right" were personified, Genghis would've taken that crown, murdered the other contenders & then raped their wives and daughters. Probably not even in that order.
But it only took 3 generations for their empire to fracture. The grandsons could not cooperate. You cannot build a 1000-year empire on Might Is Right alone.
President Wang! Let's make it happen, just for the endless lolcowing.
@DoubleD @YoMomz @ButtWorldsMan
Societal death as the overall effect? Yes, that's the macro result. The primary intended effect however is apathetic individualism.
One is a precondition for the other, & so this becomes a battle we all have to fight whether we want to or not.
I believe this is why all those attacks on 2017 Jordan Peterson went so hard. It was unrelenting because their greatest win is in making young men in particular unaware that this personal battle even exists.
Good for you. I've also been trying to find new ways to scratch the creative itch.
The self-insert thing that these AAA's constantly do is incredibly cringe.
I love the webtoon format. Just took a quick first look, seems good. 👍
@Mongoliaboo @ButtWorldsMan
> If you still have a healthy sense of what is beautiful, you are in the minority.
So true. Cultivating and defending beauty against those who want to make everything ugly can only be done by men. Bitter women and weak, resentful men uglify the world.
Citations needed.
@YoMomz @ButtWorldsMan
People don't often connect pedophilia with depopulation agendas until you point out that children are at the heart of both issues.
There's a good reason why many people have the intuition that spiritual war is THE truth at the heart of all that's going on.
@YoMomz @ButtWorldsMan
I find the whole pedo debate tiresome and riddled with dishonesty.
On the one hand it's become this dumb purity test for all sides - left, right, religious - where people just want to virtue signal and throw the pedo label at anyone for anything.
On the other hand there's no denying that we have a legit pedo problem, and getting worse. Most of it is downstream from 50+ years of a sustained, coordinated attack on the Western family.
The financial fuckery going on there is off the scale, e.g. debt-for-land swaps. Yes you read that right.
Milei is 100% a neoliberal Zionist lackey.
@DoubleD @ButtWorldsMan @Tfmonkey
These are good redpills.
Women don't want to know how red nature is in tooth and claw, they really don't.
Tea expert, retired Fire Nation general, former Crown Prince of the Fire Nation, Grand Lotus of the Order of the White Lotus, firebending master, mentor to loveable nephew retard Zuko, Dragon of the West.
Lover of anime tiddies.
Joined Jul 2022
