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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Wow you wrote a lot of nonsense.

I'm reading what you're writing as saying IQ tests should not be taken seriously but it also sounds like you're disagreeing with me for writing that I think IQ tests are a garbage concept that someone would be inclined to buy into if they're overly insecure and want a shortcut to claim that they're "smart". What did I write that you actually disagree with?

I was replying to a comment wondering how people can take them seriously and I was trying to imagine what could lead a person to entirely avoid looking at the very obvious reasons why iq tests should not be treated seriously. It feels like you're condescending to me while holding the same opinion I have.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My intuition is that "smart" is a vague word that means a lot of things, but almost all of those interpretations are generally seen as a positive and respectable. The idea of being respected is inherently appealing, so if we entirely conflate the colloquial meanings with a very specific meaning that can be measured accurately on a linear scale, well then you can just show people your good number and take a shortcut to being revered without having to actually behave in an observably respectable way in front of other people.

A person taking an iq test has experience with claims of being smart being met with skepticism, so the next idea is that a third party would help clear up that misunderstanding. They're not paying to be told they're smart, they're paying for the certificate from a third party to back them up.

My guess is that overlooking the obvious issues is more about desperation than anything else. No one calls someone intelligent to convey that they can score high on a specific test that measures nothing meaningful. It also should be very natural to ask whether other people might find reason to doubt the value of a certificate. Not doing any investigation into these thoughts is pretty fucking stupid, but stupid to the point where I think there has to be a certain level of desperation to not see them at all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I think over ten years we only had ours actually pose for us twice.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

I went camping with my family, was probably seven or eight years old. There was a sign right next to our camping spot to notify people about something not to do, who knows what the message was in reality but I like to imagine it as "do not bend this sign backwards to use it to catapult rocks you find laying around nearby".

Anyway, while my parents were preoccupied with setting up our tent, my makeshift catapult hit me right by the eye. Thankfully it did not actually injure my eye itself, just huge cuts both above and below the eye, but I had a pretty good talent for screaming at that age regardless of which part of my body was hurting. I remember after an hour or something my parents kept pushing that all the other campers were going to think I was being abused, and then we packed up and left our week-long camping trip a couple hours after arriving.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Oh I like that Baby. I put on my robe and wizard hat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yaoling is spectacular. Monster taming RPG (think pokemon) with autobattle mechanics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've been following the NHL for forever and I've understood in some sense that for the past decade the sabres are where dreams go to die, but I don't think that ever sunk in for me as much as it did last night watching how sad their first-rounder looked after being picked. Maybe I'm a dumbass and it's just how he normally looks but I can't ever remember getting that bad an impression from an NHL pick's facial expressions and body language after being drafted.

On the flip side imagine knowing you're going to be drafted in the NHL first round, the sabres are up and there's a decent chance they take you, and then you dodge that bullet and the very next pick has you boarding a helicopter to fly to disneyland.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My train of thought after seeing this:

  1. I wonder if at this point an adversary ever deliberately starts arguments for intel.

  2. Man, what if fake documents get leaked to throw off my imagined adversary.

  3. Imagine the internal reaction from the org putting out the fake leak when someone replies to call them out on their bullshit by posting the authentic documents.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It actually hits me weird when I read an online comment just stating facts and that's somehow not sufficient to deduce the poster's opinion.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We had a tiny basement and a small single room upstaira, both were mostly used as storage (and laundry for the basement). Our boy would spend most of his time hanging out with us, but sometimes he would go upstairs or downstairs just to yell his lungs out. Even though he was typically very affectionate, if I came to check on him he'd act kind of aggravated and run off, like you're not supposed to be here, gimme my space. Okay little man. I really don't know what that was about.

One night I was drifting off and my wife woke me saying "Did you hear that?" I said "No, what was it?" and she said "it souded like he screamed upstairs" and being a loving husband and cat dad I said "he always screams" and fell right back asleep. The next morning he had a mild limp so yeah, he fell off the rail edge partway down the stairs. I'm glad he healed up quick because this story would be a lot less funny to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A lot of us were genuinely cheering on the announcement that the Oxford vaccine would be opensourced, it was the reason people were actually following updates on that vaccine specifically. It waa a big point of discussion here on lemmy at that time and when the decision was reversed the focal point of every criticism was that it would very obviously limit vaccine accessibility at a time when we desperately needed the population vaccinated as quickly as possible. People were angry over his justifications because even if we assumed the best-case scenario where he was somehow correct and it wouldn't restrict vaccine access at all, it still would not be an improvement over not having a patent at all. The absolute best case scenario for that reversal would have been vaccination rates being just as high as if it stayed open-source.

I don't doubt some morons found those headlines after-the-fact and did their own spin without reading, but the idea that antivaccine sentiments and blind Gates-hatred were the motivators for people being upset with him when that happened is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

His caps tenure was spectacular through-and-through. In his final regular-season game he scored the gwg into the empty net that sent us to the playoffs.

I remember when he re-signed for eight years I thought it was too much of a risk that his play could drop off after the first couple years. One of many pieces of evidence that I am not fit for an NHL front office job.

 

Ovi really did grow into the leadership role, but there's something to be said for the knowledge that someone else would have been the NHL's best leader if opposing goalies had stopped four more of his shots than they actually did over the course of his career.

(Also Messier is enough of a blowhard that receiving his endorsement feels like a character attack.)

 

I think this is really special. There's more meaning in it than anything you'd get in an interview because, well, he didn't have to write this.

 

Well that sucks. Hope Alexeyev can do well.

 

Big commitment, but he's been great this season.

 

Glad he'll be staying with us.

 

He's been lights out and if he maintains that over the contract's duration then this is a steal. Goalies are generally so volitile though that it seems like a big risk to me.

He has very much outperformed Lindgren this year, but I was still hoping we would stick with Charlie given that Charlie showed last year what he is capable of, he is still playing well overall, and signing on a down year would give us a friendlier contract.

 

I'm an aspiring screenwriter and need some constructive criticism. Please go easy on me, I've poured my heart into these.

Only five unique ideas so far, could stay that way for a long while or maybe not. Inspiration comes when it comes.

 

I mean on the one hand, I could take the two minutes right now. On the other hand, I could lie awake for another half an hour thinking about this thing I could easily take care of immediately, and then later on take time out of my day to actually do it. It's an easy choice which is a better management of time, I'll be back in bed in a minute.

Alright, now that I've had a full minute back and comfy and tucked in again I've thought up another task that's even less time-consuming than the last one.

 

I was wondering if this was coming, given he's had a rough season while almost all of his NHL teammates are thriving. He was very good last year and won AHL playoff MVP, so I was expecting a better year out of him. He'll get there.

 

This might sound like a joke, and I'd actually rather just have everyone assume it's a joke than give actual details, but I've been in the hospital a few weeks and have missed a bit of hockey. Doing a bit better now, still recovering. The last game I saw was us getting shut out by Tampa near the end of October.

I watched highlights today and the caps look spectacular. I see the old man was going berserk again but got hurt recently. Also looks like McMichael is having a breakout season, the highlights make him look amazing. We got Eller back? I remember Lapierre didn't look too good early in the season, was the Eller trade sparked by a lack of faith in him playing 3C?

Anything else I've missed?

 

Had to check online to be 100% sure the superPAC that mailed it was Trump-linked. I've never heard of Elissa Slotkin before, but apparently she's a US rep for another district in Michigan. Our rep is Rashida Tlaib, who is Palestinian descent, so I'm guessing the PAC's thought process in designing this was they don't want to link Harris to our actual representative so just pick some other random rep nearby.

As someone who does not want Trump to be re-elected, it's at least relieving to know how easy it will be for the democrats to counter these dirty tricks. All they need to do is have their candidate make clear public statements to clarify that she doesn't want this linked to her campaign. Of course, she'll have to clearly point out which specific parts are offensive, so people don't just think she fine with antisemitism. Explaining that being anti-apartheid is not the same as being antisemitic is pretty straightforward though, so this should be no big deal.

 

We've had my cat Roto-Borola (pictured here) for over two years, we got him when he was maybe five months. A couple months back I discovered he really enjoys having his head massaged. He likes me to put a good bit more pressure on his head than I would expect him to be comfortable with.

He's still a very playful cat at times, and I try to engage with that as best I can but I don't always love being play-bitten. At some point a while back, if I'm petting his head and move my hand somewhere else near him, including petting his back or somewhere else on him, it sets off a timer of 15-20 seconds typically (usually around 10-15 seconds with no reaction, when he opens his mouth just a hint it means he is about five seconds away) for him to play bite me. If he's laying on top of me the timer it sets off is just for exiting the ride. I've been playing with him pretty rough by squeezing his head or giving him a little noogie, but it just hit me that this has really been him training me in how he wants to be pet.

So I'll give him a pretty rough noogie and he acts like "oh no, I'm really trying to bite you but I can't when your hand is right there", but he's definitely able to outspeed me. And I'm realizing now in retrospect, I started going for the back of his head because he left me one spot to find where he would pretend that he can't get to me. And he gradually trained me I needed to be more and more violent if I wanted to not get bitten.

So yeah, I put my entire hand around his skull and squeeze a bit tight and somehow he loves this. Realized a few months ago that this is his thing, realized today that this is something he taught me.

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