All I Needed to Know about People - I Learnt in Kindergarten

There's this really funny - or just downright offensive, uneducated, ill-informed, malicious - view some people have:

• that those of their contacts who are happy and willing to pass judgement on other humans and human collectives - companies, political parties, associations, nation-states - 
• in conventional moralistic terms - that some people and collectives are better morally than others, can be of generally stronger moral fibre, can make better decisions than others judged by some objective and generally accepted moral code - 
• are idiots, naive, need to change their diapers, simply haven't had enough life experience or are behaving irrationally.

It is THOSE really funny, or just downright offensive, uneducated, ill-informed, malicious people to whom this is addressed:

FUCK OFF.  

I am prepared to make tough decisions, difficult judgements.  I have a lifetime of experience and realised VERY long ago that people and collectives are simply DIFFERENT from each other, including not just in terms of their interests and concerns but also their own moral fibre.  There IS such a thing as a universal morality.  Nobody needs to be the joke that is the Lawful Good Paladin in Dungeons & Dragons - we are all sinners is a charge I readily accept - but there are greater and lesser degrees of compliance to this universal code of human morality in different individuals and groups of individuals. Of course everyone and every group can and does change through time, but at any given time, there shall be for example, better nations and naughtier nations, and it is those who REFUSE to judge who are the very epitome of evil.

The reason why is because the evil ones rationalize their evil by claiming that everyone else is like them - that there is no difference between individuals and groups of individuals - that everyone acts to benefit their own selfish individual or collective interests and the ends will always justify the means.

When the evil ones apply this rationalisation, they give themselves a kind of imaginary shield with which to defend their actions. No universal moral code and no need to rank humans and human collectives by reference to such a code - "we are all the same, you and I" - means, no limits on what they can do to get what they want. 

The evil ones use this shield offensively also, of course, to attack those who are brave enough to call a spade a spade, to call them out on their actions against the universal moral code and to state quite explicitly when, where, how and how egregiously they have failed to meet the standards of that code.

To said evil ones: FUCK OFF.

You are the ones who NEED to get a kindergarten education and failing that, to be ELIMINATED if needs be.  But don't worry.  I believe in a universal moral code.  So ELIMINATED simply means that you should go to jail - for life if necessary depending on the seriousness of your wrongdoing - so that you can rot there while learning the hard way - through quiet and rigorously enforced isolation - how the world becomes over time, a much better place without you ruining things.

Russia

Russian values: Never admit or apologise for MH17. Pooh the evidence. Never keep your word eg promise Prigozhin - then kill him. Nuke Litvinenko; poison the Skripals; shoot Nemtsov, poison Navalny’s underwear. Generally just kill anyone who defects or objects no matter how inconsequential. High windows preferred. Deny your own trespass on other countries is encroachment - but call nations running from you into a defensive organization “encroaching” & “aggressive”. Call retreat from Afghanistan anything but a lost war. Be openly Nazi but call your enemies Nazi. Ignore that you invaded Poland in WW2 which makes you the aggressor not victim. Generally just blame The West for everything you do that grabs land & wealth for yourself. Key tropes: “military-industrial complex”; “broken promises”; “proxy war”; “proxy” even when it’s obvious a country made its own decision to fight for its survival and freedom - deny the basic fact that all humans have free will (agency); currently my favourite is “Nazi”. 

Only the bad stuff: a review of the Roborock S7 Max Ultra’s negative aspects

If you wish to find out more about the positives of the Roborock S7, don’t read on.  This review will just focus on the negatives. Here’s the truth:

1. No doubt you’ll read in the positive reviews about the Roborock’s supposedly high tech sensors.  These so-called hi-tech sensors are the fake deal, not the real deal. Why? When you actually observe the Roborock in use, you’ll find that benchmarked against much older vacuums such as the Samsung Powerbot VR9300 (launched at CES way back in 2016) - the Roborock has really not evolved much at all, and may even be worse than Samsungs a whole generation older.  The Roborock relies on bumping in to things to navigate around; so does the Samsung.  The Roborock claims to have a LIDAR to more precisely identify objects - this leads to pretty maps with a lot of apparent detail, but in practice the Roborock just continues to find its way by bumping into things - probably more often than the Samsung, which seems to make more or better use of its built-in camera to avoid obstacles.  As for object identification, it's going to make a lot of silly mistakes, like mis-identifying my arm with "89%" certainty as a piece of fabric.  The maps the Roborock makes look very pretty and detailed with lots of lines and shapes compared to the bare Samsung maps - but the Samsung never needs a new map made every few weeks or months. The Roborock's maps are good to start with but eventually, over a period of weeks or months of everyday use, the Roborock loses its place - it starts to go into places where it is not supposed to, and the cleaning history starts to show that the Roborock needs remapping (recalibration).  In other words, the Roborock starts to wrongly place itself on its own map.  Eventually the Roborock will start to move into no-go zones, past invisible walls marked on the maps it created weeks or months ago.  This happens even if you take good care not to move the docking station, and to clean the sensors regularly.  So you'll find yourself instructing the Roborock to re-map your house and you'll have to reinsert all the no-go zones and invisible walls anew.  A real waste of time.  Roborock is good at advertising fluff, a lot less good at matching that advertising fluff in real operations.

2. Accessories like the side-brush are really optional. The Roborock side-brush doesn’t really sweep, try it with-OUT the brush and you’ll see there’s no difference in terms of what actually gets sucked up when the Roborock cleans the room.  I’m not even sure if the main brush makes any difference - ultimately, the mopping function and the suction are what matter to make the vacuumed space clean.  So with the Roborock again, it’s marketing fluff and not a whole lot of substance - they could have just dispensed with  the brushes, the vacuum would work just fine.

3. Cannot manage unevenness like a door-railing set in the floor.  The wheels get stuck. No better than generations of robot vacuums before it. I’m not talking about ledges, which earlier generations of robot vacuums also avoided.  I’m just talking rails set in the floor for sliding doors.

And that’s it! The 3 main negatives with the Roborock S7 Max Ultra.  

Current as at February 2024.