1. The Devil’s Advocate
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- Virtue Signalling
- Used as a pejorative
- Cambridge Dictionary Definition – Virtue signalling is the popular modern habit of indicating that one has virtue merely by expressing disgust or favour for certain political ideas or cultural happenings.
- The Nine Satanic Virtues by Rev. Darren Deicide
https://www.churchofsatan.com/the-nine-satanic-virtues/- these Satanic virtues. Each corresponds directly to the Satanic sins
- Intelligence – If stupidity is the cardinal sin to avoid, intelligence is surely a virtue. A Satanist would have a natural thirst for knowledge.
- Competency – Pride doesn’t become pretension if you deliver the goods and accept responsibility for your path.
- Acceptance – Remain keenly aware that you are strange to the herd and expect no understanding from them, even regarding rudimentary facts.
- Self-Awareness – If you meditate on yourself, you can accept what the animal in the mirror is. Change that which is malignantly undesirable and keep what works, but if you fool yourself into thinking you could be something you’re clearly not, you are set up for failure.
- Individuality – Build an intellectual self-defense. Use it to remain unwillingly manipulated.
- Perspective – It’s part and parcel of acceptance, but on a more social level. Work on seeing the broad picture of human interactions and how others may view things. This is natural intuition.
- Appreciation of History – Regardless of field, a key to any success will be being able to identify historical patterns.
- Pragmatism – This is part and parcel of self-awareness, but like perspective, on a broader level. If you know your limits and abide by them, you won’t be fooled by an idyllic version of reality. This requires vigilance.
- Refined Aesthetics – Use aesthetic judgment to enhance your understanding of the world and get what you want out of it.
2. Infernal Informant
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- Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-tracked-his-bike-ride-past-burglarized-home-made-him-n1151761- Google’s legal investigations support team, writing to let him know that local police had demanded information related to his Google account.
- Android phone, which was linked to his Google account, and, like millions of other Americans, he used an assortment of Google products, including Gmail and YouTube. Now police seemingly wanted access to all of it.
- “I was afraid I was going to get charged with something, I don’t know what.”
- notice from Google was a case number. McCoy searched for it on the Gainesville Police Department’s website, and found a one-page investigation report on the burglary of an elderly woman’s home 10 months earlier
- worried that going straight to police would lead to his arrest.
- The lawyer, Caleb Kenyon, dug around and learned that the notice had been prompted by a “geofence warrant,”
- a police surveillance tool that casts a virtual dragnet over crime scenes, sweeping up Google location data — drawn from users’ GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cellular connections — from everyone nearby.
- state and federal law enforcement authorities were increasing rapidly: by more than 1,500 percent from 2017 to 2018, and by 500 percent from 2018 to 2019.
- Jan. 31, Kenyon filed a motion in Alachua County civil court to render the warrant “null and void”
- The state attorney’s office withdrew the warrant, asserting in a court filing that it was no longer necessary.
- On Feb. 24, Kenyon dropped his legal challenge.
- an Arizona case in which a man was mistakenly arrested and jailed for murder largely based on Google data received from a geofence warrant
- ‘Come and take it’: GOP Rep. Buck wields AR-15 in office, dares Biden and O’Rourke
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/06/come-and-take-it-gop-lawmaker-challenges-biden-orourke-over-ar-15/4977073002/- Republican Rep. Ken Buck posted a video on Twitter Friday of him wielding an AR-15 in his office in Washington, D.C.
- daring former Vice President Joe Biden and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas, to “come and take it.”
- “Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,” O’Rourke said in response to a question about his proposal to buy back military-style assault weapons.
- Biden said of the former Texas congressman, “I want to make something clear. I’m gonna guarantee you, this is not the last you’re seeing of this guy. You’re gonna take care of the gun problem with me. You’re going to be the one who leads this effort.”
- Buck brought the gun to Capitol Hill in 2015, and said he submitted to local and federal regulations, taking away the capabilities necessary to actually fire the weapon.
- Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., who is a fierce gun control advocate and used his platform as a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to raise the issue, tweeted in response, “No one is coming for your inoperable gun, Ken. #ShootingBlanks.”
- Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., tweeted that, “This behavior is threatening and unacceptable. I feel unsafe with this in my place of work.”
- Capitol Hill Police gave him permission to display the gun.
3. Creature Feature
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- Reading habits
- Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
https://g.co/kgs/3s4x8a
Buy Now: https://amzn.to/2Irdth7- the first novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh
- published in 1993
- a collection of short stories, written in either Scots, Scottish English or British English
- written with Scots dialogue terms spelled phonetically
- set in the late 1980s
- Characters
- Mark “Rent Boy” Renton
- Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson
- Daniel “Spud” Murphy
- Francis “Franco” Begbie
- Davie Mitchell
- Tommy Lawrence
- Rab “Second Prize” McLaughlin
- The majority of the stories are narrated by the novel’s central protagonist, Mark Renton
- Written as stream-of-consciousness or representative of psychological realism.
- sold over one million copies in the UK by 2015, and been translated into thirty languages.