#pragmatism — Public Fediverse posts

Q: If the UK doesn’t produce the oil and gas, won’t somebody else simply produce it and sell it to us?
A: No. How come you ask?

https://climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-atmospheric-exemption-for-british-oil-and-gas/ by Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social

#Jackdaw #Rosebank #UKPol #UKPolitics #NorthSea #gasFields #extraction #oilAndGas #influence #pragmatism #spinning #desire #com #comStodon #climatePolicy #climateChange #politics

Q: If the UK doesn’t produce the oil and gas, won’t somebody else simply produce it and sell it to us?
A: No. How come you ask?

https://climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-atmospheric-exemption-for-british-oil-and-gas/ by Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social

#Jackdaw #Rosebank #UKPol #UKPolitics #NorthSea #gasFields #extraction #oilAndGas #influence #pragmatism #spinning #desire #com #comStodon #climatePolicy #climateChange #politics

Q: If the UK doesn’t produce the oil and gas, won’t somebody else simply produce it and sell it to us?
A: No. How come you ask?

https://climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-atmospheric-exemption-for-british-oil-and-gas/ by Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social

#Jackdaw #Rosebank #UKPol #UKPolitics #NorthSea #gasFields #extraction #oilAndGas #influence #pragmatism #spinning #desire #com #comStodon #climatePolicy #climateChange #politics

Q: If the UK doesn’t produce the oil and gas, won’t somebody else simply produce it and sell it to us?
A: No. How come you ask?

https://climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-atmospheric-exemption-for-british-oil-and-gas/ by Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social

#Jackdaw #Rosebank #UKPol #UKPolitics #NorthSea #gasFields #extraction #oilAndGas #influence #pragmatism #spinning #desire #com #comStodon #climatePolicy #climateChange #politics

Q: If the UK doesn’t produce the oil and gas, won’t somebody else simply produce it and sell it to us?
A: No. How come you ask?

https://climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-atmospheric-exemption-for-british-oil-and-gas/ by Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social

#Jackdaw #Rosebank #UKPol #UKPolitics #NorthSea #gasFields #extraction #oilAndGas #influence #pragmatism #spinning #desire #com #comStodon #climatePolicy #climateChange #politics

In the current crisis involving the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates is advocating for a pragmatic approach toward Iran. Lana Nusseibeh, the Minister... https://news.osna.fm/?p=63156 | #news #advocates #iran #maintaining #pragmatism

In the current crisis involving the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates is advocating for a pragmatic approach toward Iran. Lana Nusseibeh, the Minister... https://news.osna.fm/?p=63156 | #news #advocates #iran #maintaining #pragmatism

In the current crisis involving the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates is advocating for a pragmatic approach toward Iran. Lana Nusseibeh, the Minister... https://news.osna.fm/?p=63156 | #news #advocates #iran #maintaining #pragmatism

In the current crisis involving the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates is advocating for a pragmatic approach toward Iran. Lana Nusseibeh, the Minister... https://news.osna.fm/?p=63156 | #news #advocates #iran #maintaining #pragmatism

In the current crisis involving the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates is advocating for a pragmatic approach toward Iran. Lana Nusseibeh, the Minister... https://news.osna.fm/?p=63156 | #news #advocates #iran #maintaining #pragmatism

Farmers and ranchers to have the RIGHT RETUREND TO THEM to process their own produce and sell it

And consumers will have the right to buy that food RETURNED TO THEM. These rights do not belong to the government. Growing and selling your own food is an inalienable right. Period. ABN

Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements

Abstract

It is commonly assumed that a person’s emotional state can be readily inferred from his or her facial movements, typically called emotional expressions or facial expressions. This assumption influences legal judgments, policy decisions, national security protocols, and educational practices; guides the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric illness, as well as the development of commercial applications; and pervades everyday social interactions as well as research in other scientific fields such as artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and computer vision. In this article, we survey examples of this widespread assumption, which we refer to as the common view, and we then examine the scientific evidence that tests this view, focusing on the six most popular emotion categories used by consumers of emotion research: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise. The available scientific evidence suggests that people do sometimes smile when happy, frown when sad, scowl when angry, and so on, as proposed by the common view, more than what would be expected by chance. Yet how people communicate anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise varies substantially across cultures, situations, and even across people within a single situation. Furthermore, similar configurations of facial movements variably express instances of more than one emotion category. In fact, a given configuration of facial movements, such as a scowl, often communicates something other than an emotional state. Scientists agree that facial movements convey a range of information and are important for social communication, emotional or otherwise. But our review suggests an urgent need for research that examines how people actually move their faces to express emotions and other social information in the variety of contexts that make up everyday life, as well as careful study of the mechanisms by which people perceive instances of emotion in one another. We make specific research recommendations that will yield a more valid picture of how people move their faces to express emotions and how they infer emotional meaning from facial movements in situations of everyday life. This research is crucial to provide consumers of emotion research with the translational information they require.

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Maybe it’s just me, but I have always thought these findings were extremely obvious. What is obvious is not just facial expressions. The same rough analysis applies to tone of voice, word choice, gesture, body language, perceived meaning, pragmatics of speaking and everything else involving interpersonal communication. For these reasons, I developed the FIML technique. FIML reduces the ‘irreducible complexity’1 of human interactions by examining small bits of interpersonal communications in real-time, real-world situations. Perfect communication between two humans (the smallest unit) is not possible. BUT, much better communication IS. FIML is not hard to do if you have a good partner who can understand why it is necessary. The world is a lonely place and good partners are rare mainly because interpersonal human understanding is really bad, frightfully so. If you do FIML, everything will be better for you. ABN

1. See A theory of FIML ↩︎

Domain rebranded from the.kalvin.blog (RM169.99/year) to the.kalvin.click (RM53.99/year). Saves RM116 annually. The choice is not preference — it is survival within family budget constraints and chronic uncertainty.

https://the.kalvin.click/the-kalvin-click-rebranding-to-survive/

#rebranding #domain #cost #survival #budget #poverty #anxiety #uncertainty #blogging #infrastructure #digital #choice #necessity #hardship #pragmatism

DOJ Says Law-Abiding Americans Can Carry Guns in Public Post Offices

The United States Department of Justice has released a formal Office of Legal Counsel memorandum opinion clarifying that law-abiding Americans may carry constitutionally protected firearms into publicly accessible post offices for self-defense without violating federal criminal law. The opinion, dated August 12, 2026, and authored by Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Lanora C. Pettit, interprets 18 U.S.C. § 930(a), the longstanding prohibition on possessing firearms or other dangerous weapons in federal facilities, as not reaching ordinary self-defense carry in post offices open to the public.

Section 930(a) makes it a federal crime to knowingly possess a firearm in a federal facility, defined as a building or portion thereof owned or leased by the federal government where federal employees regularly perform official duties. Post offices clearly qualify under this definition. However, subsection (d)(3) creates an explicit exception for the “lawful carrying of firearms or other dangerous weapons in a Federal facility incident to hunting or other lawful purposes.”

The OLC concludes that self-defense constitutes a paradigmatic “lawful purpose.” Critically, the opinion holds that no special nexus is required between the reason a person enters the post office and the reason for carrying the firearm. Simply entering a public post office while lawfully armed for self-defense falls within the statutory exception.

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Follow the Money Toward WWIII — Russia’s $300 billion of confiscated assets make peace close to impossible

It has been said that all wars are “bankers wars,” however, against the modern era of inverted fascism where corporations tell the govt what policies take priority, the more accurate truism ‘is all wars being controlled by money’, not necessarily banks.

The European Commission has constructed a very special kind of proactive financing for Ukraine that doesn’t require them to give their own €uros to the historically corrupt country.  Partly because the EU doesn’t have their own money, and partly because everything the EU does in the sphere of finance is always a false construct, what the EU put together was a financial system based on sanctioned, confiscated (ie stolen) Russian sovereign wealth funds {citation}.

As part of the sanction regime, the EU and western NATO alliance seized roughly €250 billion, $300 billion USD, in Russian sovereign wealth assets.  As long as the USA was financing the Ukraine government and war effort, those funds sat on the sidelines undiscussed.  However, once the USA stopped writing checks to Ukraine an alternate finance system was needed.

What the EU (Ursula von der Leyen) put together was a finance package using the confiscated $300 billion in the Russian sovereign wealth fund as collateral for loans to Ukraine.  The EU would send the money to Ukraine as a loan that did not have a payback mechanism. Instead, the thinking goes that when the negotiations for a ceasefire take place, Russia would be forced to give up the confiscated $300 billion as part of a reparations package to Ukraine.

Ukraine doesn’t have to pay back the loans because Russia will be forced to give up their sovereign wealth fund, and those funds will repay the loans.  That’s the way the EU financing of Ukraine is set up. {SOURCE}  The EU isn’t giving Ukraine EU money; the EU is giving Ukraine the Russian wealth fund money.

Now, immediately you can see a few problems.

♦ PROBLEM 1 – What happens if Russia demands the return of their $300 billion as one of their baseline terms for a peace deal?  If the confiscated money is given back to Russia, the EU and Ukraine are on the hook for the $300 billion they would have spent.

♦ PROBLEM 2 – With #1 in mind, there is now an incentive to never reach a peace agreement or ceasefire; at least never reach a solution that would consider the return of the $300 billion.  Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin has previously said the stolen money belongs to the Russian people and must be returned; he will never accept the theft.

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There is more than just this very important factor. It strongly appears that the Iran War is spreading and merging with the Ukraine War, which indicates top Western elites are not giving up on destroying Russia, and probably Europe as well. Chaos always favors the strongest players, who may overestimate their positions. Only time will tell. I dislike predictions but do like seeing the signs of things that may come to be and assessing them based on what seems probable. WW3 is a constantly increasing possibility and has been on a front burner since Gaza, and now Iran. If USA agrees to marry Israel’s IDF, that will mean WW3 will follow with much greater probability. Notice the many ties between China and Israel, as both deeply infiltrate USA and Europe with many similar aims. I can imagine an Israeli-Chinese plot to goad Europe and USA into war with Russia, while China and Israel wait on the sidelines to reap the spoils. China will gain territory from and power over a war-torn Russia, while Israel will increase its control over USA and Europe, and probably take full control of Ukraine, if not more. ABN

Just finished this intriguing paper by @omarlizardo, in which he lays out the differences between intentional and habit(us)-based explanations of social action:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jtsb.12273

#SocialTheory #Pragmatism #Sociology #Habits #Habitus