The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4hr ago
I find it unlikely the COVID generation has "banana brains". A low-quality 1 to 2 years of high school shouldn't knock the reasonably intelligent back THAT far. You'd expect some drop but not as bad as they're describing. They also note that "Beginning with the cohort entering in 2021, standardized test scores were no longer used in the admissions process." This is probably the major part of the problem -- note that MIT, which one would expect to be more sensitive to this stuff, was among the quickest to return to standardized testing.
Since I am indeed an HBD believer, I find it unlikely we're creating too many more stupid people; that would take serious miseducation at a much younger age, or more dropping of people on their head. Instead, the UC system is probably sorting more poorly, with too many stupid kids ending up in the better schools and some of the smarter kids probably being displaced elsewhere (e.g. lower down in the UC or Cal State system, or to other schools which did not drop standardized testing).
Assuming we don't get a DEI revival when President AOC takes over in 2028, I think what we'll see is less-efficient hiring for a few years, with more of the stupid having to be sorted out in the employment market rather than by college admissions. Or, if the colleges maintain their own standards (which I find less likely) a greater fail-out rate in college.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
The terrorists in Pakistan are, of themselves, Afghans who the Pakistanis paid to cause trouble. Now that the Americans are out, they go back into Pakistan to cause trouble. How wonderfully shortsighted of their government.
Yeah, after the whole Afghanistan thing it's really hard to feel anything but schadenfreude about the Taliban causing trouble in Pakistan.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Sanders did not come anywhere near winning the Democratic primary.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I think it is a Democratic loss, though a few more victories like this and the Republicans are undone.
My impression is that the usual way government shutdowns end is the Republicans get all the blame and eventually give in, for complete Democratic victory. Here the Republicans still got the blame, but managed not to give the Democrats what they wanted -- which basically was that their over-40 seat minority in the Senate, along with their control of the media (and thus the blame) let them get their legislative priorities accomplished (while the Republicans still can't get theirs done with majorities... which, admittedly, is not entirely the Democrat's doing)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
With a reputable report, whose accusations are confirmed by resignations, showing leftist bias in media, trust in media takes another hit.
As @JTarrou points out, it's gone already (or rather it's split, with the partisans for one side believing the media uncritically, the partisans for the other side assuming it's all lies, and nothing in the middle but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos). As @WhiningCoil noted in a slightly different context, "The goalpost just shifts to them having been correct to do so, because the axiomatic belief is that Trump must be destroyed by any means nessecary." That they were doing this isn't something anyone's going to update on; though it is interesting that they're actually being punished for it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Only technically western. If you're allowing that you might as well allow Squid Game.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
There was that audience participation remake of The Andromeda Strain...
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Go on, tell me who on this list was a valuable contributor who you think should be granted amnesty?
Looks like @fuckduck9000, banned for this, was banned for something far less inflammatory than stuff that barely merited a warning in this very thread.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Presumably he has a fatal heart attack while attempting to bring one last female Russian/SPECTRE/Chinese/whatever agent to his own side.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Probably safe from lawsuits as the CIA will refuse to confirm or deny.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
If people who bring up politics at work should be fired then it is the liberals of Google who should be on the block, not him, since they are the ones who brought it up.
"That's not politics, that's common decency" -- leftists on Google's internal forums.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
It's actually objectively easier than ever to be a badass motherfucker.
Provided you're willing and able to live a criminal lifestyle, and accept your retirement plan is an unlamented death or a prison.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Not what I'm seeing. What I'm seeing is people trying to discuss things, and you not "pushing back" but rather simply making a lot of noise and tossing around sarcasm and insults not to be part of the discussion, but to interfere with the discussion.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Richelieu could also find treason in six lines written by a traitor, but he didn't feel it was necessary to mention that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
He didn't have an obligation to shut his mouth but the rest of the scientific community wasn't obligated to let this guy who fits right in with shitposting Twitter edgelords represent them.
As far as I know he did not claim to speak for the scientific community in the controversial things he said.
Charles Murray's dignity he does not have.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
The only source for MOST of those statements is a big long list of stuff that Watson supposedly said. Watson was known to be based, so I wouldn't be surprised if he said some or all of them. But without a real source, it's quite possible some of them are fabricated or modified.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
My friend, try being a woman on here when there's sixty versions of "yeah the wimmens is uppity and should be confined to the home and maybe don't even teach 'em to read and write". Serious discussions of how society went to the dogs once women got the vote.
Try existing in the real world where a woman with a sharp tongue thinks that using it should cause every man around them to quail in fear and yield. Oh, wait, you do. It doesn't work here. The real-world norm that a man does not push back against that sort of shit from a woman does not exist here. You can snark, insinuate, and belittle, but nobody will be intimidated. Some can give as good as they get, held back (if they are) only by not wanting to be moderated themselves. Others can simply say "This is sound and fury signifying nothing", and continue discussing while ignoring the noise.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Other geneticists have a right to not want to be associated with that.
Naa, they can fuck right off, if for no other reason than because Watson was the big dog. He didn't have an obligation to shut his mouth because his less-talented successors found him embarrassing or something.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
It’s not a coincidence that geeks and nerds all tend to ‘look’ a certain way physiologically
Do they?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Dean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8411113/
UVB exposure increases circulating sex-steroid levels in mice and humans
UVB exposure enhances female attractiveness and receptiveness toward males
UVB exposure increases females’ estrus phase, HPG axis hormones, and follicle growth
Skin p53 regulates UVB-induced sexual behavior and ovarian physiological changes
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
In fact, that would make no sense. It's the Goys who were murdered and they were also the ones with the autistic son. Spaide shot himself but no last words after he pulled the trigger were recorded.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Man detained at airport for having a JD Vance meme on his phone
It's another one where no one can prove anything. DHS claims the tourist was denied entry for admitting drug use in the US, which he did, but there's no way to determine if that was a pretext for having the JD Vance meme or not.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
· Edited 5d ago
Here is a video from that #2 incident. It happens after most of the action; I don't see ICE doing anything except finishing arresting people and moving some cars around. Some tear gas canisters are still active. But tell me... based on that video (and audio), would you believe that there had just prior been sufficient unrest to justify the use of tear gas?
I watched it initially with the audio off, and I was like "What am I supposed to be seeing? Aside from the sheer number of cops and the leftover tear gas, it looks like a pretty normal arrest?". With the audio on, it's a different story.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
You seem to be very thin-skinned about this
Pot, meet kettle.
Already starting to happen -- see Figure 1 near the end. The top quintile will probably do fine, and the larger schools in the next quintile (which is so far unaffected) can probably "build down" by consolidating campuses and programs. Schools lower than that and not part of a system don't have a clear path to survival; it seems inevitable that many of them will not survive.
I know at least in New York State, community colleges are already in trouble. I don't think any have closed but at least one lost its campus and had to co-locate with the nearby SUNY school.
ETA: See here for about how I expect this to go with most state university systems.
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