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  1. Re: Not mutually exclusive on Your Visual Skills Are Not Correlated To Your IQ (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    To everyone else: Even with tenure, he's terrified to speak out and must speak anonymously, lest the mob destroy his life. Just play it safe: heritability doesn't exist from the neck up.

  2. Re:Not mutually exclusive on Your Visual Skills Are Not Correlated To Your IQ (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only reason we say this is that intelligence tests show that all the wrong kinds of people are intelligent. Thus the resort to "storytelling intelligence" and other nonsense. Intelligence is correlated with every kind of positive life outcome, while lack of intelligence is correlated with every kind of negative outcome. This unacceptable political outcome is why scientists say "heritability stops at the neck" bowing to the extreme social punishments for anyone who dares speak out.

  3. Re:Bates on Bill Gates Just Bought 25,000 Acres in the Arizona Desert (kgw.com) · · Score: 0

    I do not understand how this hippy-dippy stream of consciousness gets modded up. We've got birds'n'bugs, climate, and the peaceful wise native populations that never made war or genocides one another. WTF Slashdot?

  4. Re:Even a stopped clock... on H1-B Administrators Are Challenging An Unusually Large Number of Applications (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Oh the good old DATS WACIST defense! Haven't seen that one in a while. Maybe, just maybe, we've been getting ripped off by the H1B program for a long time and now it's coming to a screeching halt.

    You know the likely result of this? "Oh crap, we need to hire more Americans!" followed shortly by "damn we need to invest in and train our people, hiring is too expensive these days!"

  5. Re:Gold, for future archaeologists . . . on Sex Toy Company Admits To Recording Users' Remote Sex Sessions, Calls It a 'Minor Bug' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    She wouldn't be prostituting herself if it were not for the crippling cost of education. Fuck you misogynist pieces of shit for trying to justify this sexist state of affairs.

  6. Re:Gold, for future archaeologists . . . on Sex Toy Company Admits To Recording Users' Remote Sex Sessions, Calls It a 'Minor Bug' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So all women are whores, eh? You misogynist piece of shit. Go die in a fire.

  7. It's all about perverse incentives. The MBA can make a year's salary in a year by playing it straight, or a year's salary in a few days by being dishonest...It's not even a contest, is it? It's just rational behavior.

  8. Re:Gold, for future archaeologists . . . on Sex Toy Company Admits To Recording Users' Remote Sex Sessions, Calls It a 'Minor Bug' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Our culture sucks and needs to end. Women forced to prostitute themselves just to get an education. What a shithole we live in.

  9. Re: Sears on America's 'Retail Apocalypse' Is Really Just Beginning (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the part where I shot down your attempt to redefine socialism? Your retort is to agree that words mean what they mean?

  10. Re:Now you're just being silly on DOJ: Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access To Is 'Unreasonable' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Google is known to remove search results that don't agree with its political stance. This isn't a conspiracy theory, itthea fact. When you search google, you're not getting the full story.

  11. An MBA's role is not to make a profit. An MBA's role is to *maximize* profit. That's where the destructive behavior comes from.

  12. Re: Unreasonable huh on DOJ: Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access To Is 'Unreasonable' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We have known America is not a civilized country for over 20 years now, why do you insist on upholding this outdated standard? America is the savage country that does everything wrong, how do educated people not know this? And knowing this, why do you hold us to these hopelessly outdated standards? Honestly it sounds rather racist.

  13. Google it? WTF? Google went evil some time ago, I will absolutely not do that and neither should anyone else. Aging criminals absolutely does work and if you knew anything about penal science you'd know this. Please stop talking about topics on which you are uneducated.

  14. Re:Fuck you all this show is good. on Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    But it is SJW though. They have infiltrated our culture and are rotting it from the inside. A female character with a man's name is clearly advocating SJWism. We all need to collectively reject this bullshit, otherwise it will spread. No matter how "good" the TV show is, it's not worth our soul.

  15. Re:"Tough on crime" is _not_ a perfectly valid goa on DOJ: Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access To Is 'Unreasonable' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually crime is at historic lows right now and a major reason for it is most of the criminals are locked up. When they get out, they're older and don't want to commit so many crimes. Aging criminals works, criminality decreases with age.

  16. Re:Somebody shoot this treasonous cunt on WikiLeaks Starts Releasing Source Code For Alleged CIA Spying Tools (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't it utterly bizarre how Assarange was a good guy and a hero when he was exposing the crimes of the US government with Snowden and Manning leaks? And now that he's doing what he always has done, exposing the crimes of the US government, suddenly now he's changed into a dirty commie spy? WTF? How does this make any sense to anyone?

  17. Re:Somebody shoot this treasonous cunt on WikiLeaks Starts Releasing Source Code For Alleged CIA Spying Tools (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It is just utterly bizarre to hear this, "Yeah, well if you don't like it, go to Russia!" line of thought from Leftists. WTF? You spend 50 years telling us this was bullshit. "I only criticize you America not because it harms you, but I know how much better you could be" is the line I always got.

    When did you become such Sinophobic/Russophobic bigoted jingoists? How many countries has China bombed? How can anyone say they would make a worse world leader than America? Americans are the least educated and knowledgeable of foreign affairs, languages, and disparate cultures, societies, and social norms among all Westernized countries and the least exposed universally.

  18. Re:First, do no harm on WikiLeaks Starts Releasing Source Code For Alleged CIA Spying Tools (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Since when is Wikileaks a journalist? They haven't ever been caught faking anything, or bending the facts to fit a pre-existing political bias. How's that journalism?

    Once upon a time, the term "journalist" carried a social expectation of trying to present the truth without harm.

    LOL that time is long past. Journalists spread fake news all the time, whenever it satisfies their emotional needs and validates their pre-existing political biases. It's very menacing if journalists with the loudest claim to authoritative credibility are using social media constantly to entrench falsehoods in the publicâ(TM)s mind. Four viral claims made by journalists in the last week that are wholly false.

  19. Way to totally ignore the origin of plea bargaining in the first place. If every case went to trial, there would be a 10 year wait to get a trial. There are not nearly enough judges and prosecutors for the job, hence plea bargaining. Jeez, how do educated people not know this?

  20. Re: Sears on America's 'Retail Apocalypse' Is Really Just Beginning (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "There's glory for you!"
    "I don't know what you mean by 'glory'," Alice said.
    Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't - till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you'!"
    "But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected.
    "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more or less."
    "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
    "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be Master - that's all."

    -- Alice in Wonderland

    "The Beginning of Wisdom is Calling Things by Their Right Names"

    -- Chinese saying attributed to Confucius

  21. Re: Sears on America's 'Retail Apocalypse' Is Really Just Beginning (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Socialism is government control of the means of production. A market economy with a welfare state is NOT Socialist, no matter how many times Bernie Sanders lied to you about it.

  22. Re: Sears on America's 'Retail Apocalypse' Is Really Just Beginning (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Ahem: Venezuela. I swear, if you pull out the No True Scotsman fallacy, I'll shit in your pants. Here's Bill Ayers, a man who knows socialism far better than you, praising Venezuela's socialist system.

  23. Re:This is why. on Cities Are Scolding Countries at UN Climate Conference To Cut Emissions (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You're talking about some previous era before Lois Lerner and globalist neo-liberalism. Governments have a terrifying amount of power today, and they are not using those powers for the good of their people.

    Funny you should mention Flint, the local government there was so incompetent that their ability to govern themselves was taken away by the adults. All the more reason to govern yourselves, distant rulers don't care about you and never will.

  24. Make-work for themselves on IBM's Quest To Design The 'New Helvetica' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, obviously the designers needed work, so they made some. Hey, why not create a font, but three fonts, and a shit-ton of paperwork to go with them. Plus standards on how they should be used, so there will be plenty of enforcement make-work in years to come.

    You want to know why, a lot of times, companies change shit for no reason? So that the designers will have something to design, and far more importantly, have something on their resumes they can show off. So many products that work just fine get trashed this way, millions of users are harmed, just so a handful of designers can move on to that next great thing.

  25. Re:This is why. on Cities Are Scolding Countries at UN Climate Conference To Cut Emissions (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So Trump was right all along? We don't need big government, we can do it ourselves? You know how toxic that idea is? It has the potential to poison globalism for decades to come. Don't let Trump win, /r/esist!