Jordan Wanberg

[David Smith @digidavey]

My daughter came home from school and said,
“Mum, you’re not going to believe what happened in history class today.”
Her teacher told the class they were going to play a game.
He walked around the room and whispered to each kid whether they were a witch or just a regular person. Then he gave the instructions:
“Form the biggest group you can without a witch. If your group has even one, you all fail.”
She said the whole room instantly lit up with suspicion.
Everyone started interrogating each other. Are you a witch? How do we know you’re not lying?
Some kids clung to one big group, but most broke off into smaller, exclusive cliques. They turned away anyone who seemed uncertain, nervous, or gave off even the slightest hint of being guilty.
The energy shifted fast. Suddenly everyone was suspicious of everyone.
Whispers. Finger-pointing. Side-eyes. Trust dissolved in minutes.
Finally, when all the groups were formed, the teacher said,
“Alright, time to find out who fails. Witches, raise your hands.”
And not one hand went up.
The whole class exploded. “Wait! You messed up the game!”
And then the teacher dropped the bomb:
“Did I? Were there any actual witches in Salem, or did everyone just believe what they were told?”
My daughter said the room went dead silent.
That’s when it hit them. No witch was ever needed for the damage to happen. Fear had already done its work. Suspicion alone divided the entire class, turning community into chaos.
And isn’t that exactly what we’re seeing today?
Different words, same playbook.
Instead of “witch,” it’s liberal, conservative, vaxxed, unvaxxed, pro-this, anti-that.
The labels shift, but the tactic is the same.
Get people scared. Get them suspicious. Get them divided.
Then sit back while trust crumbles.
The danger was never the witch.
The danger is the rumour. The suspicion. The fear. The planted lies.
Refuse the whisper. Don’t play the game. Because the second we start hunting “witches,” we’ve already lost.
[Naomi Dennis]

[Jordan Wanberg @JWanberg37863]

@japan_nobunaga It's easy which ever negative or affirmative is last is the one that takes presidence.

[Jordan Wanberg @JWanberg37863]

@CityJournal Seems a bit presumptive to have most of the time line measured before the major rollout of AI.

[Jordan Wanberg @JWanberg37863]

@CityJournal If you want to accurately track for AI data centers maybe starting from 2019 is not the right starting point. Maybe try 2022 to 2023 as the start.

[Jordan Wanberg @JWanberg37863]

@Horr46105Linda @r0ck3t23 God gave us the gift of knowledge. We continued that. The parable of the talents tells that we are expected to grow what God gives us.

[Jordan Wanberg @JWanberg37863]

@r0ck3t23 VR will be awesome. Even a heads up display.

[Jordan Wanberg @JWanberg37863]

@r0ck3t23 Don't forget seeing in sound. That is possible with blind sight. Ultra sonic, eco location, and sonar. All possible with blind sight. You would be freaking daredevil.

[Jordan Wanberg @JWanberg37863]

@r0ck3t23 Not mention 360 vision. You can literally see behind you with this tech. If it creates an image you can see through it or into it.

[Law in Japan @Colin_P_A_Jones]

I worked on one stage of the JR privatization and this is greatly oversimplifies what actually happened and ignores some important realities.

First, three of the seven JR companies (Hokkaido, Shikoku, Cargo) are still 100% government owned, and were probably never expected to be viable as public enterprises. I was surprised that JR Kyushu was successfully privatized completely - and got Shinkansen - because at the time I was involved (in another company) the conventional wisdom was that only the Honshu companies could succeed as private enterprises.

Second, the privatization also involved parking a large chunk of liabilities in a special entity that was NOT privatized. In fact the part of the privatization I worked on was delayed because the government unilaterally decided the new JR companies had not taken enough of the JNR pension liabilities on their books and added some more. Probably one of the most significant aspects of the privatization was the public service workforce reduction it entailed but that was a problem for the government, not the JR companies.

Third, the JR companies became private (but first government-owned) companies with valuable assets (the commuter and HSR rail networks) build with public funds as well as a portfolio of highly desirable real estate (high traffic train stations) in choice locations.

Fourth, as far as I know any new HSR train lines built since the privatization were publicly funded, since new JR company could afford to build them on a commercially viable basis otherwise.

Fifth, train fares are still regulated, and JR East only recently increased fares for the first time in decades…

Thus, rather than a simplistic public > private transformation, the whole exercise involved a rebalancing of assets, liabilities and risks between the public and private sector, but both remain important to the whole construct. In any case there was serious planning and government decisions around what was necessary to have at least three commercially-viable JR companies (East, West and Tokai) as a result.

So probably more an example of a successfully executed privatization with continuing government involvement, rather than a “private enterprise good, government bad” story.

[Jordan Wanberg @JWanberg37863]

@Handre @elonmusk @grok is this accurate?

[Jordan Wanberg @JWanberg37863]

@elonmusk @grok Yes but could you make it more intuitive though. Chat GPT is crap at many things but it understands in very few words with few hallucinations what pictures I want it to draw.

[Jordan Wanberg @JWanberg37863]

@LifeHaxx101 What a meaty little man.

[Jordan Wanberg @JWanberg37863]

@LifeHaxx101 What a weenie!

[Jordan Wanberg @JWanberg37863]

@Azziielle Eggs are chicken periods.

[Jordan Wanberg @JWanberg37863]

@TheoKolawole @ick_real Unless it's insulin or getting a broken bone fixed.

[Jordan Wanberg @JWanberg37863]

@Spamfromk People are clueless. Women often don't get hints.

[Jordan Wanberg @JWanberg37863]

@oelma__ Me.

[Jordan Wanberg @JWanberg37863]

@Will_Tanner_1 @elonmusk Forgive me but by this same line of thought, shouldn't Australia be one of the most blood thirsty crime ridden countries in the world? I was a prison colony for the British empire.

Not trying to argue just not sure how that fits with the narrative of criminals beget criminals.

[Middle Earth @_middleEarth]

Why the Halfling?