For all you know he’s a future Hitler. Just tell him his art looks nice.

I’m not sure if it’s an admirable trait to double down on your ignorance, but I’m kind of impressed by your willingness to do it in front of everyone.

Individuals ruin society, just like bad apples ruin the bunch. Dealing with the problems maintains good health in both cases.

Now, let’s talk about unrestricted free speech…

First, if there’s a good reason, it isn’t arbitrary. Second, at an elementary level, data points that are within a standard deviation of each other are statistically similar. There are obviously variances and edge cases, but it does reinforce the point I was making, which is that expected behavior for someone at 115 IQ and someone at 100 IQ are more or less the same (and may be the same person who did or didn’t have a good night’s sleep).

I had to do a variant of this with my now wife. She never wanted to pick restaurants, so I’d suggest something i was okay with but knew she hated. She got a lot more willing to give her opinions after a few years. Now we can discuss it like equals instead of me making the decision all the time.

I was thinking about this the other day, and due to the bell curve, 68% of people are average intelligence, with only 16% being below (or above) average. I don’t know if that makes it better or worse, because a lot more than 16% of the population is making pretty poor choices.

The staunchly atheist government of the USSR killed off tens of millions of people, too.

But it’s always concerning when foreign material crosses the blood-brain barrier. It may not be a problem, but as far as I’ve seen, it wasn’t even a consideration a decade ago.

Some Canadians are bothered (I’m indifferent), but i think it’s more on a moral level rather than from a personal or immediate impact.

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How different is it than ladybugs and aphids, except for we (think we) have the will to do better than our nature demands? Also, I think I made it pretty clear that I don’t think that stance does our species credit. But I would say the outcome is very natural, even if natural isn’t exactly desirable.

If you consider people as part of the natural order, then it is in fact natural selection. This isn’t a commendation of our place in nature.

I was more pissed off when I saw this 2 months ago, less so when I saw it again last month. I’m not saying it shouldn’t be posted, but this is a repost and old news. At least highlight the date in the submission.

Somaetimes gaining knowledge doesn’t improve your life.

But likewise, while Canadians are able to deal with this terrain, out southern 200 km is very similar to America’s northern 200 km, and a lot of us sound and look like a lot of you. Infiltrating America and attacking domestically would be easier for Canadians than just about any other country.

And Americium is not.

He made a neutron emitter, not a nuclear fission bomb. A great way to turn your back yard into a Superfund site, not so great as a nuclear deterrent.

Watch the videos. There are interviews in the 80s or 90s where there is a clear train of thought and a logical progression to his statements. His phone interview after 9/11 is less coherent, but not too bad from a grammatical and logical standpoint. These days, he can’t string together 2 or 3 complete sentences about a single topic. Note that none of this is related to the truth or accuracy of his statements.

You sound like you’re defending the guy who said he hit his wife because she wouldn’t listen.