2026-09-04 at

state vs federal scope of law

"Nik Elin vs Kelantan" has been ping-ponging for a few years, and the general dialectic since Merdeka.

It would seem, that one of the things preventing each state from making some activity, X, subject to state syariah law ... is merely that there has at least once been a Federal law about X.

The argument roughly is, X is under criminal law, and we define that it is criminal because there is a Federal law, L, on X. But, what if there had never been the law L? The state might then have had the freedom to govern X under state syariah law.

Curious. 

2026-09-03 at

talent management : three factors

A middling good day. Not much accomplished, but some reified progress, and a lot of time to think about society. I don't often think about other people, because they seem like such sad creatures. I think the worst are in this 2x2 quadrant : 

1. Lacking in aptitude ( dumb )
2. Lacking in risk tolerance ( timid )

In the development of talent, it is always so MUCH easier to work with a substrate that is in at MOST one of those quadrants. Perhaps to make clearer their motivations, another dimension :

3. Lacking in pain ( rich )

3., motivates 2. of course, so it is most sorry to see the hording of resources by poor talents that cannot develop it. However it is of course their civil right in capitalistic environments, so we must forgive the oxygen etc. which are spent by them on nothing.

I believe the communally affirming thing is to let sleeping dogs lie. We have more excited pups to pander to, and also unexcited pups with more potential output.

2026-09-02 at

sex response analysed

On my walk to the post office, I noticed a gate had been built over a public road. Now I am in line at the police station to report it. 

There is nothing to do here, so pursuant to my earlier thoughts on social language and protocol : I have decided to analyse the human sex response.

When people say they are "turned on / horny / want it", it has variety of meanings. Neither of these are broadly sufficient or necessary, but narrowly each is tautologous.

1. The relevant organs are sensitive to direct haptic or vibrational stimulus, resulting in pleasure.

2. The psychical construct of personal identity, whether presocial instinct or social construct, has a dopamingeric/ teleological loop initiated but not closed.

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