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  1. Re:I wish we didn't need something like this on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1

    It's a disturbingly reliable predictor of who people will believe and otherwise favor though.

  2. Re:I wish we didn't need something like this on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1

    Wow, you're myopic and sexist as fuck. You're the idiot who attacks and blames men fighting back because you "know better" due to lapping up poisoned sources, aren't you? You're part of the problem, but you're blind.

  3. Re:We need positive Sci-Fi. on Robo Brain Project Wants To Turn the Internet Into a Robotic Hivemind · · Score: 1

    We're not really collective. We're individually political and pursuing one's ends is mature in the rational sense, which beats deluded humanistic dogma every-time. Like the glaring example that is Vulcan religion, it's not logical to call reification-based totalitarian pipe-dreams logic...

  4. Re:"Fan favorites"? on "MythBusters" Drops Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci · · Score: 1

    Tits and explosions are both visceral. Most were probably watching for that. Pseudo/quasi-intellectuality only counts so far. Consider Michael Bay movies and reality TV.

    1. Pretend shallow convolution makes a coherent premise.
    2. Blow up shit.
    3. Profit.

    Syfy officially doesn't even like your kind 'round there anymore.

  5. Re:I am curious... on It's Dumb To Tell Kids They're Smart · · Score: 1

    It's wasn't. You're not. Wow, you miss subtext almost as much as your own hypocrisy.

  6. Re:They always told me I was so smart... on It's Dumb To Tell Kids They're Smart · · Score: 1

    Besides which, the social skills to talk to smart people aren't completely independent of the social skills to talk to not-so-smart people, honestly.

    Good luck. Explaining, that "geek culture" required socialization to be a culture, thus geeks are typically quite social, NEVER sinks in. Might as well explain the old implication that geek chicks didn't exist was never meant to be a statement of fact, just an insult to geek males. He's been normalized and as usual is both proud and angry about it, so he needs a target. Nerd/geek/foo cultures are acceptable (ignoring "geek chic" and other hipster quasi-"cool kid" shit...).

  7. Re:They always told me I was so smart... on It's Dumb To Tell Kids They're Smart · · Score: 1

    But pretending to be dumb tends to be increasingly grating the smarter (and generally more knowledgeable) you get. Consider Douglas Adams uncharacteristically seriously chafing at a joke about making an airplane out of the same materials as black boxes. The more you can be aware of at any moment the more you'll have to deal with at about every moment. Pseudo-"rapport" building chatter will just make you sad and angry about the privileging of such LCD bullshit and its hypocritically pretentious adherents. Psychological itches and pains. Everywhere. All the time. Till you die.

  8. Re:"Fan favorites"? on "MythBusters" Drops Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci · · Score: 1

    Proudly submitting to flagellation and making women nod like pseudo-enlightened guilty little male pig-dogs?

  9. Re:What about Confidence on It's Dumb To Tell Kids They're Smart · · Score: 1

    Just wait until they realize that doesn't necessarily matter in even in terms of the health/worth of your relationship.

  10. Re:I give up on South Carolina Student Arrested For "Killing Pet Dinosaur" · · Score: 1

    They always were. Officially, it's not psychotic, if it's normal, and you're "socially disordered" if you have a problem playing along with them. Seriously. Check either shrink bible.

  11. Re:They always told me I was so smart... on It's Dumb To Tell Kids They're Smart · · Score: 1

    Wow...

  12. Re: You don't need to tell a smart kid they're sma on It's Dumb To Tell Kids They're Smart · · Score: 1

    Nope, political correctness was far less pervasive when I was a teen here. Even the oldbies are mostly indoctrinated now. It's spooky.

  13. Re:Still not adding up on It's Dumb To Tell Kids They're Smart · · Score: 1

    There is a minimum IQ (which is fairly low) and above that IQ everyone has an equal chance.

    Not equal, just dependent on other things, like definition of "success" for one. Intelligent but sleazy gets you further than intelligent but honest.

  14. Re:Kind of like the butterfly and the cocoon. on It's Dumb To Tell Kids They're Smart · · Score: 1

    Uh, the wings aren't strong enough to open the chrysalis and would be damaged trying. It's the head, body, and legs that slowly wrestle out. The wings can't even straighten much less "open" till after it gets out.

    Might to mute this...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  15. Re:They always told me I was so smart... on It's Dumb To Tell Kids They're Smart · · Score: 2

    Being accurate about which algorithm is faster and whether faster is better in a given context is better there, and assuming subjective measures are objective is inaccurate, so again being accurate is better than being inaccurate...

  16. Re:They always told me I was so smart... on It's Dumb To Tell Kids They're Smart · · Score: 2

    If you don't, you're literally psychotic. Reality isn't up for voting and doesn't reflect mob sentiment. Anyone who believes otherwise has no grasp of reality, is certainly mentally defective regardless of social privileges, and is psychologically, philosophically, scientifically, etc. inferior to those that comprehend otherwise.

  17. Re:Effort education can be done very wrong on It's Dumb To Tell Kids They're Smart · · Score: 1

    Academically, females regularly are grading up for their preference for busywork while males are graded down in spite of better performance. That's the "system" now.
    Disagree and point out the obvious problem that performance indicates actual education, thus the busywork is proving to be just that and face the horde of sexist defenders.

  18. Re:They always told me I was so smart... on It's Dumb To Tell Kids They're Smart · · Score: 1

    Accurate is better than inaccurate though, regardless of what any mob wants to claim or believe.

  19. Re:Absurd assertion, you've never lived with humid on Figuring Out Where To Live Using Math · · Score: 1

    Where I live we shop for the week at least. Why the hell would you shop ever damn day? That's a horrible waste of time.

  20. Re:Real people just don't like dealing with Hipste on Companies That Don't Understand Engineers Don't Respect Engineers · · Score: 2

    Professionalism is the ability to do your job. Costuming isn't most people's job. Pretty fucking sure wearing costumes isn't engineering. You're just mindlessly repeating the Newspeak definition of professionalism writing by the sleaze in power who want to stay in power by redefining their sleaziness as professional to either perform, if you're one of them, or obey, as one of their useful idiots.

  21. Re:Real people just don't like dealing with Hipste on Companies That Don't Understand Engineers Don't Respect Engineers · · Score: 1

    Non-sleazy people won't display consummate sleaziness? Wouldn't that be a good thing especially in engineering...

  22. Re:Real people just don't like dealing with Hipste on Companies That Don't Understand Engineers Don't Respect Engineers · · Score: 2

    Excellent then we can all just bring a bowl of M&Ms with the browns removed to the interview to prove our competency and ditch the ugly overpriced uncomfortable clothing. That'll stop the suite sleeze that don't know how to do their actual job from supposedly appearing more "professional" too.

  23. Re: Absurd assertion, you've never lived with humi on Figuring Out Where To Live Using Math · · Score: 1

    When I was 300 lbs. I could carry your average American male adult four blocks. Two with some rigging. Unsurprisingly I didn't care to and would get quite sweaty even in winter. Did you have a point besides being a midget or a stick-man who lacks reading comprehension?

  24. Re:Absurd assertion, you've never lived with humid on Figuring Out Where To Live Using Math · · Score: 1

    You can't carry useful quantities of groceries, much less anything else, on a bike unless you're anorexic hipster douche who just likes to be seen biking around in public every other day.

  25. Re: Check your arithmatic on Figuring Out Where To Live Using Math · · Score: 1

    Storms that'd blow a standing man over when they're not haling?