Retired(at least from editing on this, my real name...Long ago, out of foolish idealism, I registered on Wikipedia under my real name, enabling every untrue or true attack on me, every silly mistake, every loss of temper of mine(justified or not), to come home to me. I've been intimidated by bullies here because they have my name and I don't have theirs. Some of the mud attached to me is deserved, most of it isn't, in my opinion. Anyway, if I return, it will be with a fresh username. --Update: Actually I can't get a new username, although Wikipedia claims that anyone can get a username even on ip ranges that are blocked, that's not true. I tried it several times.
I’m not the Richard L. Peterson with an article on Wikipedia.
My name’s Rich.
For a mere $19.99, I obtained a background check on my own self from White Pages. Unfortunately, White Pages incorrectly states that I have committed numerous felonies, some of them violent, mostly in Florida. But, I have never been within 100 miles of Florida, I have never committed a crime, and I am not a violent person. But when I call them to tell them of the mistake, I end up in an answering machine’s closed loop. Way to go, Alex Algard. You’re a John Galt, according to Atlas Shrugged.
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1.) Antoinette Tuff for President!
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2.) The real John Galts are not jerks like Carl Icahn. They are heroes like John McCain, Jibreel Khazan, Todd Beamer, Joseph McNeil, Pat Tillman, Kayla Mueller, leaders like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Jon Huntsman, thinkers like W.E.B. DuBois, Margaret Mead, Scott Aaronson, Leonard Pitts Jr., and Paul Krugman, lawyers
for the NAACP & ACLU, judges like Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens, writers like Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Poul Anderson, Philip K. Dick, Damon Knight and Stanislaw Lem, and reporters like Nicholas Kristof at the New York Times and Amy Goodman. And Li Wenliang, Catherine Hamlin, Noam Shuster-Eliassi, Bernie Aronson, Shulamit Aloni. Also, my parents!
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3.) The epithets “SJW”, “Treehugger”, “Virtue signaler”, and “Closet narcissist” are the same sort of twisted and cruel ridicule of virtue and common decency as the epithets “Indian lover” and “Nigger lover” and “Do-gooder” and “Limousine liberal” were in the past.
3a.) Some virtue signalers and Social Justice Warriors: Jesus Christ, Confucius, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Saint Francis of Assisi, Billy Graham, Bartolome de las Casas, Peter Waldo, John Wycliffe, Abigail Adams, Hypatia, Mother Teresa, and just about any normal good person who has a reasonable desire to be friendly with other normal good people, and who wants to set a good example to others. Just when do these people think their motives are will be pure enough? Is it wrong to save someone's life if you might signal some virtue? Is it okay to put one's charitable activities on a resume? (It shouldn’t be this hard to explain, except to people who have suffered emotional abuse and who are now tragically being twisted by the rightwing media into thinking that evil is good and good is evil). So now the rightwing likes to signal how much they are nonsignalers.
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3.5 So what are we going to do about achievement signalers? Are we going to wait until we have reached the 34th level before we have no trace of pride in our accomplishments, wait until our motives are perfct before we put outr accomplishments on a resume? 4.) Jordan Peterson(no relation) has some good ideas and some bad ideas. One bad idea is that happiness is rare and happens to a person at unexpected moments. He said this was obviously true, but it is obviously not true. His opinion is probably based on his observations of himself(and maybe his patients too), in which, when he, rarely, had happiness, it was in moments of catharsis. But Jordan Peterson is snarky, although probably well-intentioned. Probably if he was less snarky, he’d have considerably more, predictable, happy moments by way of more friendships, not needing catharsis for those moments.
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5.) The racist and selfish jerk Ayn Rand said, in one summary:
“The Native Americans didn't have any rights to the land and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights which they had not conceived and were not using.... What was it they were fighting for, if they opposed white men on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existence, their "right" to keep part of the earth untouched, unused and not even as property, just keep everybody out so that you will live practically like an animal, or maybe a few caves above it. Any white person who brought the element of civilization had the right to take over this continent.”
- Evil!
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6.) Most people realize that Uber is largely a scam perpetrated on the drivers who work for Uber, since they are paid little and they also lose money due to paying to keep their cars from falling apart, or just having to buy another used car. Meanwhile management and shareholders make the bucks. So, why can’t we see that the people of the United States and of China are being scammed in a similar way by wealthy persons and corporations that pay for low wage jobs, call themselves job creators, and demand deregulation that causes expensive and often irremediable harm to the environment? But once a country’s resources are gutted and the country is less habitable, the corporations will take the money and run.
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7.) The crimes and ongoing scams of powerful shareholders and corporations are being covered up on Wikipedia.
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8.) Objectivism uses selfishness to get followers. Christianity and Islam use bribes and threats of heaven and hell to get followers, while Judaism uses flattery/vanity/meaningfulness(“chosenness”)to get its followers. Well, I’m not perfect either, and I admit that the last three of the above creeds are morally inspiring. Maybe Objectivism has features that are morally inspiring also.
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9.) In arithmetic, A×(B×C) does not equal A×B×A×C. In other words, there is NO distributive law of multiplication over Multiplication. There Is a distributive law of multiplication over Addition, however: A×(B C)=A×B A×C is indeed true. The confusion is caused by the visual resemblance. To see quickly why the first kind of distributivity doesn’t work, look at 2×(1×1)=2×(1)=2. If the first kind of distributivity were correct, then 2=2×(1×1) “=“ 2×1×2×1=4, so 2=4, which is not true.
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10.) Who would you want to have your back, Pat Tillman, or an Objectivist?
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11.) I view Hillary Clinton as a national heroine and martyr.
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12.) User:AxelBoldt says many way way smart, goodhearted stuff on his home page. That doesn’t imply that he endorses or agrees with my opinions at all.
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13.) Edward Munch’s The Scream: an algebraic curve(by me): [9x^2 y^2 y-1]*[x^2 9y^2-1]*[x^2 xy y^2-1]*[x^2-xy y^2 1]=1. Graph it on Desmos.
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14.) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4VsE9T4Sr30 The USA’s real national anthem, in my opinion. And its most beautiful song.
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15.) This Land Is Your Land in Yiddish! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GnP8zWcy1ZA
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16.) I believe that conservative Christians should not be allowed to marry! :-> _________________________________
17.) Maybe the Amazon rainforest could be saved by a method similar to that used to
protect soil from damage in the United States(see Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936): Wealthy countries from elsewhere in the world would pay South American nations not to develop the rainforest.
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- 18.)"Wrought iron is stronger than steel but not as hard as pure iron. Wrought iron is used for work that necessitates a more durable metal, such as fences or gates. Steel is an iron-carbon alloy that is far stronger than wrought iron...."
(from https//www.tutorialspoint.combannedlink Notice wrong information and direct contradiction.