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3 hours agoAt least Michigan, no?
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121·3 hours agoOur teeth aren’t good without fluoride.
6·4 hours agoGee, you know what I think dad would have wanted? His widow to be murdered (let’s be realistic here, she’s 86 and they don’t have clean water) in a concentration camp.
OP clearly wasn’t trying to fool anyone or spread disinformation, it’s a meme and you losers are in here
demandinga better bibliography.Providing a better bibliography, in case anyone else wants it.
Tbh, I think it’s that you say putins not smarter than trump, instead of not much smarter. That may be hyperbole, but people are going to treat it as though it’s what you believe unless you specify like you do here
4·2 days agoBut the propaganda hits us whether we see stonetoss in the corner or not.
75·2 days agoYou might not, but I do 🤷
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10·2 days agoSome people are dyslexic
0.02 is bigger than 0.01, even though they’re both small.
27·2 days agoThat’s impressive as hell, tbh. I’m glad rehab centers focus on such useful, otherwise seemingly inaccessible skills
They won’t 25th him until he pardons them. If he gets so senile or believes he’s so sick that he pardons Vance and enough of them early, OR if Vance agrees to pardon everyone as president they will absolutely 25th him
1·2 days agoImo definitely common sense, which might not be a formal category of intelligence, but it follows from empathy, risk assessment, and understanding of consequences. Sociologists could probably do research to nail down an exact definition through and psychologists could probably measure it, though I suspect it would only really work intrademographically. What’s common sense for a rich, well spoken, fourteen year old white girl is different from common sense for a poor, uneducated sounding, twenty five year old black man, because they unfortunately face very different potential consequences for the same actions.
As a really rambling example (sorry!)
When I was the former in the US, I used to seek out and make conversation with cops if I was planning to buy or carrying (well sealed and odorless) weed at an event, because I figured they’d think I was less likely to do that if I was committing a crime, so they’d be less suspicious of me/give me more leniency if they caught me (because police corruption is a fractal: any amount of positive or negative interaction with them confers exactly that amount of forbearance or spite in future interactions). That’s terrible common sense for the latter demographic, but it worked very well for me and most of the white stoner girls I knew. Even the same demographic but older has different ideas of sensibleness. I would never seek out a cop like that today, because: A) I know that the real reason it used to work probably has more to do with us having been young teenage girls recognizing their authority than with us seeming more innocent (though the corruption bit was right), and wouldn’t apply to a woman as old as I am anymore*; and B) what works best for my current demographic is just blending in (or I guess getting way closer to a cop, but that’s both skin crawling and a much longer game than I am willing to play).
/* I’d argue it’s partial credit for common sense there and partially luck that my theory had positive consequences in common with reality, but this exemplifies the problem of letting each demographic decide for themselves what constitutes “common sense,” and use it as a metric for correct behavior /** (I’m sorry about the footnote within a footnote, my ADHD meds just kicked in on a day when I have nothing to do for the first time in over two months, after just finishing teaching a six week long German intensive course, teaching the same group for four hours every weekday, and the fediverse is the victim of my hyperfocus today).
Common sense might convince an adult not to trust the extremely rare sketchy-seeming but totally genuine opportunity, but it might also convince a teenager to trust the teacher or other adult entrusted with their safety who’s willing to buy them alcohol and nicotine products. However, if we allow people to weigh in for all of their younger demographic counterparts, we would risk making common sense impossible for all but the most mature people, thus making it no longer the metric we’re looking for.
/** it’s not really an issue for our definition or measurement of it though, it doesn’t really change things if common sense is sometimes wrong
Solo esos gatos gordos pueden pagar una leche cuarta.
Fuck do I need to practice my Spanish.
6·2 days agoThey’ve also often got lower stress levels, higher wealth and/or more time than people in their thirties to fifties do. I’d be really interested if they’re also happier than their middle aged counterparts in countries where the elderly are disconnected from their communities and not financially supported.
Edit: it’s true around the world, but I’m not sure if it’s true in every country or just generally yet
He does look strikingly similar to Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort, like this looks like the real guy Voldemort might have been based on, but I can’t tell if that’s really what his head looks like or if it’s just from photoshopping the hair out and accidentally shortening the forehead.
For a Klein bottle, it’s pretty fucking groß
As I’ve said all along, if you import the Third World, you become the Third World
You know I think this is the closest my aggressively pragmatic self comes to feeling the juxtaposition of sacred and profane. There are two metrics that we use to describe our species: intelligence and prosocial behavior, and this flapping husk shits on both.
Looks like seven of them grew up Catholic, and all of those but Neil Gorsuch still are. Absolutely nuts.
Protest idea: a bunch of menstruating people free bleed all over the auditorium, because they were afraid to get up and go to the bathroom. It’s a clear enough biohazard that they’ll have to call a remediation company (who are well paid, educated, and supplied for this type of cleaning work), so it won’t fall to the regular cleaning staff, plus it’s going to specifically gross out the people who support this the most.