Hobbesian Dating

Regardless of business, or pleasure. ( Some view pleasure as a variety of business. )

I view the entire culture of getting into relationships assuming the best of the other person as a patriarchal weaponisation of emotional vulnerabilities built into the genome. Regardless of gender, I think folks need to formalise expectations in as much detail as possible before getting attached, formally or informally. That's the point of dating.

I understand if people want to maintain a culture that normalises an altruistic baseline which should be taken for granted. But it's horrible risk management, and I would never recommend that assumption as a matter of operational security. 

This theme dominates most of the conversations I have with people, on dates, and about dating, these days.

LOL

Peristilahan Kaum dan Bangsa di Malaysia

Saya kurang mengakalkan kejatian perkauman. Saya hanya berminat dengan kejatian kebangsaan. Keseluruhan sejarah negara saya memang dicacatkan dengan hal perkauman yang tidak selari dengan hal kebangsaan. Oleh sebab itu, perpaduan selama-lama ini tidak tercapai antara marhaen, yang memadankan kebangsaan dengan perkaumanan, dan tidak memadankan kebangsaan dengan kenegaraan.

Sejarah kenegaraan mestilah dirujuk. Dalam akal sekelompok marhaen, perkauman adalah kejatian yang wujud sebelum kenegaraan, dan kenegaraan hanya alat ungkapan perkauman. Selama kelompok ini membawa kemarahan dan kesengsaraan hatinya ke pasaran, sebarang percubaan untuk membangsakan Malaysia tanpa kesakitan perkauman, nampaknya kerja sia-sia.

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Further reading :

• Bangsa Malaysia – dahulu dan sekarang
  

Further banter :

Ada pulak pengutuk atas istilah 'kaum', 'puak', 'bangsa', tanpa penelitian terhadap kepelbagaian makna setiap istilah itu dalam kamus, dan dalam bidang khas, lagipun ketidakselarian antara istilah serupa tanpa persamaan dalam bahasa lain.

Further banter :

Ah well ... I guess this is just where I find myself in middle-age ... digging up the spectres of this weird country I live in. 

Valuation Methods : so-called Fundamental, Sentimental, Technical

 Everything beyond book value is a sentimental indicator, because it's a "what if". 

• The allow-list : the only reason people call some of those other things "fundamental" is because they put their faith in certain counterparties, and scenarios. 
• The deny-list : the only reason people call some of those things "sentiment" is because they personally don't have faith in certain counterparties, and scenarios.

The funny thing about technical analysis is that it belongs in the fine arts. It's basically just music and dance. The even funnier thing is that this isn't taught in liberal arts curricula ... the original liberal arts included music and geometry ... skills which separated non-slaves from slaves.

Further banter :

Reminder on valuations :

- goods and services have no true intrinsic value

- the nominal intrinsic value of goods and services is what legal entities will pay for them

- so predictable valuation forecasts, depend on predictable legal entities

- the art of valuation, is forecasting the emotional enslavements of 8 billion plebs

- what will their infatuations do, next?

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