🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

@dgerard Exactly. Fish deserve whatever suffering comes their way.

@PyroNeurosis @sneerclub Something like a national socialist party…

@self @sneerclub Thiel is more actively terrified of death than any other person alive. He is disappointed in your complacency about the possibility that he might die. Why do you not recognize the apocalyptic tragedy *for the universe* that his death would be?

@Amoeba_Girl He definitely needs to do it while he still is young enough to be considered fashionable when he comes back.

Last year would have been best. No time like now.

@zogwarg Bronze Age Empires:

Hittite
Minoan
Mycenaean (briefly but opportunistically picking up the very wet Minoan pieces after the Thera eruption & tsunami.)
Old Babylonia (i.e. not the Neo-Babylonians who revered that past)

Given their intermittent hegemony over Kush and Canaan, I don’t agree that Egypt doesn’t count as an empire. One can also make such a case for Zhou-era China, particularly before its splintering into the “Warring States” interregnum.

@self @sneerclub He really ruined the scam for the rest of us^Wthem…

@m @swlabr Tangential technical q: would not an SRE which came from the SRE mines be better referred as “refined ore?”

@swlabr Well, both, it’s just that the search engine is so small in comparison.

@Soyweiser OK, but Isaacson *specializes* in literary fellatio. See his Jobs book.

@Soyweiser Don’t forget the speculative, state, and crony varieties of capitalism…

@dgerard @sneerclub And it is beyond debate that the Internet has not lived up to the hype of its greatest hypesters.

@BrickedKeyboard @sneerclub Would it? For whom? Who wants a sex toy to do arithmetic??? Why!?

@froztbyte @sneerclub Data point: at one time as a kid it occurred to a school counselor that maybe my grades were evidence that my supposed “potential” based on an earlier IQ test was wrong & that a new more modern version of the Stanford-Binet would reveal my imbecility. The 2nd test came out 60+ points higher than the 1st. That couldn’t be correct, so I ended up taking 2 more tests, both with scores in between but substantially different.
Sure, IQ is real.

@dgerard @sneerclub It’s a reasonably close approximation, at least…

@mind @sneerclub Here’s the problem: that study DID NOT show that IQ could “predict” anything. It showed a CORRELATION but that’s a totally different thing. IQ is not determinative or causative of anything, because it is an entirely synthetic metric whose measurement is based on unproven and essentially unprovable theory.

The concept of “Innate General Intelligence” which IQ purports to quantify is the phlogiston of psychology.

@dgerard @sneerclub IQ is a metric for how sneaky people are.

@bitofhope @sneerclub Well, that excuse breaks down once the “strangers” are mostly human. The most important human threats are not fundamentally addressable with aggression/brute force.

The valid modern justification for men is that we add diversity of thought due to the neuroplastic effects of long-term testosterone and a convenient means of maintaining genetic churn through sexual recombination. We are basically a diversity tool, a hedge against stagnation.

@swlabr @sneerclub Liberalism and libertarianism do share roots and those roots were, for the time, “leftist.” The basic shared concepts being that government power should be limited by fundamental law and that limits on personal freedom should be minimal, rational, and uniformly applied. Locke, Jefferson, Madison, etc.
American “conservatism” is particularly friendly to libertarianism because it has no monarchist roots.

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