You should see the dim bulbs running the Board of Elections where I live. Lucas Co, Ohio.

No one actually acknowledges most incompetence. In fact, it's often intentionally ignored and denied.

Particularly incompetence in low-level local government departments and agencies.

Of course not. They probably looked at you like your head was tacked on sideways when you asked it.

We have a form of Voter ID in Ohio, but it isn't consistently enforced across all counties statewide,

You should just thank whatever God you believe in that you don't have a Jon Stainbrook co-opting and infecting your county GOP with leftist anarchists and self-described communists. He's the guy who fucked out Board of elections to the point of total non-functionality.

The State ended up suing his pants off and he drained the County GOP coffers trying to pay for a defense that was destined to fail from the outset.

One should always keep in mind one incontrovertible fact. Everybody lies. Just because someone "says" they're a Republican or a conservative doesn't mean they're not lying through their teeth, hoping to take advantage of natural American naivete to pull of a malevolent agenda and fuck shit up.

We've been trying to get the Stainbrook infestation out of our GOP since he literally used cops to steal the Chairmanship in 2009.

But the vast majority of ward boss seats are filled with Stainbrook lackeys who are really just drunken, drug-dealing anarchists and SJW's who only show up to vote Stainbrook back in. IT's ensured that Lucas County has not run one single conservative for any local office whatsoever in almost a decade.

At least we can tell that MS HAVAC complaint form was made *after* the year 2000.

But there is not anywhere near sufficient space to write down any kind of detailed information. Voter fraud is such a complex prosecutorial undertaking that it's critically important to get the absolute smallest details possible to carry out a successful prosecution. But then there's also the risk of your County having a leftist DA who abuses their prosecutorial discretion and simply declines the case altogether no matter *how* much material evidence you or how detailed the depositions are.

Smart move. Alabama is also a nice state. Home prices in Mobile are attractive right now.

I'm originally from the deep south (Weakley County, TN,

But now I live in the Rust Belt.

With the way business is changing, it almost doesn't matter *where* you live if you work in a cyber-related field. I live in Northwest Ohio, but I'm technically employed in McLean, VA.

'bout time too.

When someone in Ohio *says* they're a "Democrat," nine times out of ten what they *mean* is "I'm a dyed in the wool Socialist." (That's a direct quote from our current "Democratic" Mayor.

One of many.

I work for a private security firm that specializes in counter extremism and counter terrorism and we have DOD, Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement Clients from all 50 states as well as private sector critical infrastructure.

None of our staff even lives in McLean. Or even the same city as another employee. We're a totally decentralized corporation.

That's why I chose this company, I'm former NAvy Intel, and I got sick of single agency limitation and some other rather concerning integrity issues I saw being ignored after 1999. I left the Navy in 2002. Been in the private sector doing the exact same thing since 2010. The company I work for didn't actually exist until 2007 so it was just a matter of the right company coming along at the right time.

But I turned down every offer I got from every other contractor.

Sure. Since this is a new discord account, and our internal security policies are pretty stringent, I'll have to run it by my supe before I do that to make sure I don't say anything I shouldn't.

But our hiring and security clearance adjudication policies are the most stringent in the industry. We do more active recruiting than open CV hiring and the vast majority of folks with an active TS/SCI can't pass our screening processes. We cover far more than just an SSBI based on an SF-86. There are personality, character and integrity assessments, psych evals out the wazoo, it's pretty intense.

There is a website, but the resolution to establish one wasn't passed until earlier this year, and the site isn't fully developed yet. Since we don't really "need" the marketing from a website, it's more of a "Sticking our head out from behind our corner" thing rather than a marketing effort.

Actually, I was recruited after a talent outreach specialist had monitored my personal online activity for a couple years. I never even knew I was being considered until I got a random email one day.

And also to actually speak your "true mind" without fear of rejection or abuse. Facts are facts, and they don't care about anyone's feelings.

That's why I like Tim so much. I certainly don't agree with everything he says but agreeing on *everything* with someone is just boring. But he speaks his mind and makes his case based on his understanding of the available facts and doesn't give two shits whether he's called a far-right reactionary by the regressive left or a crypto-SJW by far-right.

I respect that.

Honesty, courage, and the ability to think clearly divorced from your emotions on a situation to make an accurate analysis of the current situation.

Honesty takes courage.

Especially in 2018 when lying for your own best interests at the expense of that of others is the expected norm.

Cheers. It's 2116 where I'm at right now, so it wouldn't be until Monday at the earliest. IF I had thought to get online a littler earlier, I might have caught my supe but it's late and a weekend. It's a skeleton crew right now.

Having emotions is fine. Being able to *control* them rather than being controlled *by* them is key.

We have a strict non-partisan stance on politics and have people who consider themselves liberal and conservative who work together to solve some pretty complex issues together and being able to not let any kind of emotionally driven "political derangement syndrome" fuck things up is one of the reasons there is such a stringent vetting process.

"All that you think is yours, was mine already." G. Soros.

LOL. Jews for esus?

*Jews for Jesus?

Not Yeshua ben Yusef Ha'Nozri?

But where in your belief system does Miryam (Mary) fit in? [Fair disclosure: pro-religion & religious freedom long time (29 years) agnostic- atheist here]

Does she have a similar position as where the Catholics place her, as far as devotion is concerned, or does she take a more subdued role in the overall ceremonial and practical application?

Because in many of the devout deep-narrative beliefs I've researched, there is a certain ceremonial and devotional high level position for a father, mother, child triad of archetypes.

One of the people I learned from spoke of an internal "ego triad" of the three egos of human existence, one of which was in control of all decision-making and behavioral/responsory actions at any given time, much like the father, mother, child, though in the individual trinity it is called child (archaeo-psychic ego), adult (neo-psychic ego) and parent (extero-psychic ego.)

I really like Gnosticism, I've studied numerous iterations of it across history.

Such as the ego triad I mentioned above.

Where the importance of understanding those three egos, ow to recognize which is which and which one is in control, both in yourself and in others at any given point in time is in what's called interactive transactions, or any time you interact with another human being in any capacity.

When someone whose neo-psychic ego is currently "at the wheel" comes across an fully grown chronological adult wose archaeo-psychic ego is "at the wheel" it affects how the "adult" must interact with the "child" to ensure a successful communicative or experiential transaction with one another.

I have a Masters in Forensic Psychology and Behavioral Analysis. It's what I've done for a living for 20 years, though I'm a researcher and analyst in the intelligence community, not a clinician shrinking heads on a couch.

I would recommend both Georgetown University and John Jay College (though you might want to stay out of John Jay's Economics Dept these days). I am a graduate of both,.

Also the National Intelligence University, US Navy Center for Information Warfare, and The Naval Postgraduate School all also have excellent programs, and I tooks some specialized courses at those locations as well.

If you're thinking of using your Psych degree to in any way directly interact with people, I would strenuously suggest studying Transactional Analysis, the Facial Action Coding System developed by Paul Eckman, and as much behavioral analysis as you can fit in. Relying on the DSM and "Psychology" alone can end up getting an individual in trouble more often than most consider.

Also learn cognitive biases, memory biases, social biases and logical fallacies until they are second nature and how to recognize them in real time, in situ.

In Social Psychology, you DEFINITELY want to have a relataively advanced working knowledge in all of the above mentioned skills.

Much of my work in studying the process of radicalization to violence across the political and religious spectrums has used every one of the above skills frequently, without which I may have made some serious mistakes quite often by now, for a very long time now.

Pay close attention in both, however I might sidebar by suggesting you ignore any professor telling you to have a greater reliance on algorithms and AI augmentation.

It isn't a matter of not using algo's/AI or *not* using them. It's a matter of not relying on them but only using them as an enhancement for your own cognitive processes.

I mean, I use some pretty advanced AI from Microsoft to plow through massive amounts of online originals content from extremist single users or groups, which filters the chaff from the wheat, as it were, and leaves me the wheat to sift through mysefl and conduct a manual psycho-stylometric linguistic analysis.

There are programs that can "do" stylometric analysis of linguistic content, but it isn't nearly as fast or accurate as a well-educated, experienced human being.

No, what I do is analyze the *content* itself. *How* an indivual *uses* the English (or whatever, I'm a polyglot) Language to make analytical estimations of psychological, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral states of beiing at any given time, and over a period of time.

It's one of tools used in both identification as well as threat assessment.

The more content you have, the better an estimation you can make, but more content means more irrelevant data which must be rejected before the anlysis can even begin.

Languages aren't difficult if you can get the hang of a couple. English is my second language, Welsh is my first (first generation American from a Welsh speaking household) and after I picked up French, learning additional languages became a little easier each time.

I speak Welsh, English, French, German, Spanish and Russian fluently, and I'm conversational (to varying degrees) in Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, Somali, Amhairic, Hopi, Dine, and I understand "legal" Latin fairly well, but I couldn't hold a conversation in it.

I'm learning Romanian, and after that Czech.

But I've been lazy about continuing education in the last 6 months. More work than free time.

LOL. Here's one for ya....Turkmen. The language of Turkmenistan. IT's a fascinating language from one of the strangest dictatorships in the world right now.

Yiddish is an awesome language, a pre-existing working knowledge in GErman helps with that one too.

English is actually a quite limited language.

Take our words for sadness. There's not a whole lot to pick from. Melancholy, depression, mourning, and there are a few other, but none of them nearly as accurately descriptive of many of the more moving experiences of sadness which are frequently experinced by many English-only speakers. Take the German word for a sadness indescribable in the English language. Mutterseelinallein. It literally means "My Mother's soul has left me."

@Abel Nice, that's something I'm definitely going to look into in some depth, as that could enhance my long-term research into memory.

If that research bears fruit, then there is the possibility of expanding research into CBD in healthy neurophysiological memory improvement and enhancement.

If CBD has the potentiality to reverse Alzheimer's, it may equally have a potentiality to induce an eidetic memory, or something close to it in a previously non-eidetic subject.

(Eidetic is what most folks erroneously refer to as "photographic memory"

There's actually already a rather large body of "researcher-observed" anecdotal evidence (though there is a "participant-observer" argument to be made) that advanced analysts who smoke weed, and in some cases certain types of weed other than the crazy-high THC/no CBB shit going around the streets, but homegrown by the analyst (more common than you think) have a much higher level of rapid long-term memory embedment with a higher level of accuracy of detailed recall over a longer period of time.

A lot of historians have quite the garden.