The US positioned the world’s largest warship, the USS Gerald R Ford, in the Middle East to join an earlier aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, that had moved to the region last month.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei responded by threatening to sink the carriers.
High IQ men
Christopher Michael Langan (born March 25, 1952) is an American horse rancher and former bar bouncer, known for scoring highly on an IQ test that gained him entry to a high-IQ society and for being formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records high IQ section under the pseudonym of Eric Hart, alongside Marilyn vos Savant and Keith Raniere. The record was discontinued in 1990, as high IQs are considered too unreliable to document as world records.
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Christopher Langan’s support of conspiracy theories, including the 9/11 Truther movement, as well as his opposition to interracial relationships, have contributed to his gaining a following among members of the alt-right and others on the far right. Langan has claimed that the George W. Bush administration staged the 9/11 attacks in order to distract the public from learning about the CTMU, and journalists have described some of Langan’s Internet posts as containing “thinly veiled” antisemitism, making antisemitic “dog whistles”, and being “incredibly racist”
People who recommend negging are evil.
I see people read “negging” on a spectrum from “playfully tease someone you’re interested in” to “ruthlessly abuse someone you consider your inferior”. And one of those is a lot more evil than the other.
And negging is ALSO endorsed by, that’s right, none other than Jeffrey Epstein.
Cause he read it in the same book that everyone else did.
I swear, the actual original material - the biography of a guy who goes out and lives with a bunch of California douchebags, learns how to navigate the nightclub scene, and comes out of it thinking much less of the community than when he went in - is one of the most damning indictments of the PUA community you’ll find.
But because people can’t seem to get past the third chapter… It’s like hearing someone say Hunter S. Thompson loved the Hell’s Angels.
Figuring out how to be comfortable around people in a way that doesn’t isolate you is a simple idea to vocalize, but a pretty massive undertaking.
It’s a skill that develops with practice.
“My girlfriend is also my best friend” is a thing you see often in healthy relationships.
The first ending has already been happening.
The second ending keeps failing to happen. We’ve got graveyards full of Cloud Gaming markets. Google Stadia, OnLive, Walmart’s cloud service LiquidSky, and various smaller platforms like Vectordash and Bifrost.
Finished season 2 just before the Olympics started.
Just came here to say “Fuck Gordon”. The show is excellent and I’m excited to see how they round it out in the next two seasons.
Real “these kids would be very upset if they could read” situation. Who bothers to pick through the whole EULA before submitting?
Like any open source mass contribution project that’s gained too much popularity, you need extra firebreaks in between the Open Submission and Final Product.
That means adding manpower to submission review, QA, etc, which public projects don’t often have.
Sort of the Achilles Heel of the open source community. AI is just making the vulnerability extra glaring.
They’re using the same strategies. Israel is farther along in the process.
Genocides don’t usually take 80 years
Found the Israeli
That can change quickly once US intervention goes hot
Small Island nation resists the world’s largest and most advanced military for 70 years. Develops state of the art health care system, modernizes energy and transportation, becomes a global tourist hotspot, all under US blockade
Socialism doesn’t work
The fact that there has not been a unified Latin American defence coalition against the US formed is crazy to me.
There has been one. It’s just composed of imperial powers and their corporate proxies.
The defense coalition existed to intercede against slave revolts, anti-colonial nationalism, and Communist uprisings. It has been very successful.
Us in the USA want (and more desperately need) liberation from our leadership.
Join the club
He’s a professional virologist with the NIH.
Then he should definitely know better and know why what he’s doing will ruin any chance he has of rapid certification.
I think the consensus around self-experimentation in biomed is way less black and white than you’re making it out to be. E.g., Dr. Barry Marshall famously won a nobel prize for self administering H. Pylori.
Marshall won a nobel prize despite self-administration. And he’s a popular example in large part because he’s one of the last of note. Setting aside the dangers of self-experimentation, there’s a host of issues ranging from the individual psychological (doctors are as vulnerable to sunk-cost fallacy as anyone) to broader problems of replication issues (publishing one-off successes/failures can lead to misinformation regarding the viability of a given therapy).
As a counter-example, about ten years ago there was a huge media fixation on Reservatrol, stemming in part from scientists involved in the study boasting that they self administered to amazing effect. Consequently, the vaunted claims of the pharmaceutical - as an anti-aging drug and neuro-protectant - failed to bare out in practice. But it became a popular OTC remedy pushed by the Alternative Medicine folks.
Ginseng, Garlic, St. John’s Wort, and Acai Berries underwent the same fad promotions. Dr. Oz, most prominently, made a career of pushing various alternative supplements and remedies that he claimed he personally used or he used on celebrity guests and show hosts to great effect.
“The bureaucracy is inhibiting the science, and that’s unacceptable to me,”
There are a lot of genuinely good natured and ambitious people in this world. And the NIH is run by a fucking clown college, atm. So I respect this guy’s vibe.
But self-experimentation is a huge taboo in bio-ethics for a litany of reasons. If this guy was a proper professional, he’d know that. And - if anything - this kind of recklessness inhibits plans for distribution at-scale for any kind of reputable provider.
The second order consequence of this decision isn’t good for mass distribution. It invites this kind of technology (or, at least, the pastiche) to be picked up by huskters and con-artists.
“One week of people dying from not knowing about this is not trivial.”
Statements like this reek of quackery. Even if he’s legit, he’s talking like someone more interested in marketing his medicine than verifying its efficacy.
I can’t remember if this is actually from IT or a knock-off from Cabin In The Woods.
40 Years In The Friend Zone: Himmel The Hero’s Story
“If you hate Reddit this much, just stop using it”
🤣😂😡😭🤧 “No”
Man: “Computer! Behave like a woman!”
Computer: “Beep boop. I am a woman. Here are things women say and do.”
Man: “Ew, gross! How could the computer do this to me? This is a conspiracy to hurt my feelings!”
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle
“IQ” is a stale test meant to measure mental capacity but in fact mostly measures extreme unintelligence (learning difficulties), as well as, to a lesser extent (with a lot of noise), a form of intelligence, stripped of 2nd order effects — how good someone is at taking some type of exams designed by unsophisticated nerds. It is via negativa not via positiva. Designed for learning disabilities, and given that it is not too needed there (see argument further down), it ends up selecting for exam-takers, paper shufflers, obedient intellectuals, ill adapted for “real life”. (The fact that it correlates with general incompetence makes the overall correlation look high, even when it is random, see Figures 1 and 2.) The concept is poorly thought out mathematically by the field (commits a severe flaw in correlation under fat tails and asymmetries; fails to properly deal with dimensionality; treats the mind as an instrument not a complex system), and seems to be promoted by
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