The TFM Show: 1/1/2022

Great episode!

Here's the thing I think about "identifying people by IQ". They shouldn't be the ruling class.... but they SHOULD be given preferential treatment in the education system. They should be fast tracked into becoming tomorrow's scientists and engineers, mathematicians, whatever. Rather than everyone getting the same K-12 system which caters to spend as much time and money educating everyone if they were all equal and as if it was tabula rasa and all students were blank slates.

The voting power and political power I agree should definitely be a function of tax contribution to the government though. Not a linear function, maybe something that looks like a logarithmic function, so maybe if you pay nothing or get more welfare than you pay in taxes, you get one voting unit, and if you pay x dollars per year in taxes, then you get perhaps ln(1+x/5000) voting units on top of that. So someone paying 8500 per year would effectively get 2 votes, someone getting 32000 per year would get you 3, 95000 a year would get you 4, 268000 a year would get you 5, etc. Then poor people aren't completely without representation as would be the case if ONLY rich people voted, but don't have the power to just vote the rich people's money into their own pockets, and of course it's balanced and not too lopsided because there are fewer rich people than poor ones. I don't know what the best function would be, that was just something off the top of my head. You want a balance between the 2 extremes of socialism where the poor oppress the rich, and feudalism, where the rich oppress the poor and I think something like that's probably the best way to do it.

Everyone wants to dogpile on Jack Murphy. But very few will address the infidelity of his wife. Nobody wants to call out the obvious. It's not like he can stop his wife from doing whatever she wants.

"Follow me eyes"
That's why I like Illusion games TFM.
Kind of alarming for a doll though. How the H is it following? Body heat? KGB/FBI spyware? I would need to how it functions before trusting such a thing. And why waifu robots might be a bad idea.

Timestamp 03:09:00. Interesting history of 'Malay pirates' near Singapore. The story of 'Orang Selat/ Orang Laut' of Straits of Malacca.

Orang laut were among the first inhabitants of the coastal areas of the Strait of Malacca. The Orang Seletar were once part of the sea nomads Orang Laut that lived in boats at the sea, islands, coastal areas and estuaries. Thus, when a Malay prince Parameswara, the future ruler of the Malacca Sultanate, appeared in Malacca with his supporters, at this point there was already a small fishing village, whose population were the Orang laut. Parameswara then established ties with them by including the leaders of the Orang laut in the political hierarchy of his kingdom and through prudent marriages in the royal family itself.

Excellent knowledge of the countless islands and treacherous seas, made from the Orang laut of skilled navigators and naval commanders. Despite the fact that they were not Muslims, their people were serving in the Malay Malacca Sultanate, and later the Johor Sultanate. For example, Hang Tuah, the most famous figure in the history of Malay Admiral and a classic example of warrior-knight in Malay folklore, was among the Orang laut. For hundreds of years, the loyalty of the Orang laut to the Malay rulers of the Malacca Sultanate was a decisive factor in the preservation and prosperity of the kingdom.

The Orang laut of Malacca, or as they were called Orang Selat ("Strait people" or "People of the Straits"), were well known to the first European colonizers. Portuguese sources, in particular, refer to them as "Celates" or "Selates". A 16th century Portuguese historian, João de Barros calls them "low and vile" people prone to piracy and raiding.

Source; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orang_Seletar