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Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. ~Zappa

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[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex. - FZ

Frank Zappa was awesome. I wonder if he ever hung out with George Carlin, I feel like that chat would be amazing.

Without deviation from the norm, sigma = 0

[–] woop_woop@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Frank Zappa considered himself a classical conservative in the era of Reagan

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And did you know Sudan has the most pyramids of any country in the world?

That's why Cliff never got a better job.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Positive feedback is an active choice. It is impossible to create positive change from negative feedback.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How would that look like in cases of absolute evil? For instance, Epstein and his island.

To throw everybody involved in jail forever would be a positive change. What kind of positive feedback would create more positive change?

Honest question, really

[–] istdaslol@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

Cool, but you still went to that island and have to go to jail mr president

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Cool quote, but incorrect.

What is considered a deviation from the norm is HIGHLY subjective, a society where the norm is to embrace new ideas would be the opposite of this quote.

Even a society with norms that are more conservative, progress is being made, though quite slow.

There are also times when norms have been challenged, and ended with disaster, just look at OceanGate's Titan, Stockton Rush deviated from the norms of deep water submersibles, and no progress was made, meanwhile other subs built on existing norms have made a lot of progress

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

OceanGate’s Titan, Stockton Rush deviated from the norms of deep water submersibles

They reused a vehicle with a broken hull 9 times, that's not deviating from the norms it's fucking inanity.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That is absolutely deviating from the norms, to the point of insanity

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're reaching with that word. If I slipped, fell, and cracked my head open you wouldn't say I deviated from the norms of standing.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Ofcourse I am, that is my point, norms are subjective regarding your example it is a technicallity but you could absolutely argue that a guy slipping and falling is deviating from the norms of standing.

[–] mortn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Norms are intersubjective—neither purely individual opinions nor mind-independent facts, but rather constituted by shared social understandings. They're "real" in that they genuinely constrain and guide behavior, but they exist only through collective recognition.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

They don’t need no education…