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Intelligence is only good up to a point. The successful people I know were not the best students and their parents were not the most obsessive parents. Those kids generally ended up having more difficult and troubled lives. Trying to make your kids geniuses is a mistake.
Yes, we should never teach anyone anything because someone raised a mild and relevant objection.
Adults don't go to recess or play marbles either, were you mad about that too?
Those are all gimmicks. Normal people don't care about any of that.
If you don't like the "hate" speech, present a better argument. If you can't do that, the hate speech is simply the stating of inconvenient facts.
The interesting question is why having a different definition of the German people than "anyone who happened to come here and has lived here for a while" should be considered an extreme position. Throwing out all history and ancestry as a core component of the identity of a group of people seems rather like the extreme view.
So anecdotes from biased sources?
If you think Elon is a "good guy" at this point, he's got a bunch of self driving cars to sell you. Full self driving should be ready by next year.
Yes, traditionally women would engage in passive aggressive slights and backhanded compliments more than men would, who would more likely engage in a physical fight. That is a pattern based on historical reality and observed and acknowledged the world over. Your attempt to make it a pathology to recognize and affirm the observation is itself a pathology, a rabid ideological one.
The politics was already in the science. So in the same spirit of being charitable that you afforded me, are you naive or foolish?
Here's a study that looked at precisely the kind of thing this policy will address: https://www.cspicenter.com/p/increasing-politicization-and-h...
To be clear, I would be in support of this policy even if there was no evidence because it sets a tone that I think is positive.
I support the purported intent of this policy, not the misuse of it. But that's something that has to be challenged when it happens, and it hasn't happened yet. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to make any policy since it could always potentially be misused. For the record I expect there will be some misuse of it, but broadly I also expect it to curtail the fake woke "science" that was itself a kind of misuse of the system.
You're not being very charitable, have you considered that you may be letting your biases have an undue influence on your judgement here?
That's literally what the quote says: "From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled". And then it goes on to quote a long list of words that would be characteristic of woke social science "research".
Oh no, the poor criminals.
Back to reality.
Putting aside the histrionics that Nazis are everywhere and about to kill everyone, does anyone have a good theory on why Elon would do this? Like is he just regressing to a 13 year old troll now? From the last few weeks you'd think he just went full clown. He's a 50 something year old man with 10 or 12 kids who apparently doesn't do much of anything besides troll people on Twitter, what's going on with this man?
Yeah, Tesla being a tech company instead of a car company is a con, all the publicity stunts - boring company, Hyperloop, Mars are all cons to attract attention. The crypto stuff is all a con. Elon is very good at getting a hype flywheel going, particularly in this age of man children.
It's 2025, if you're just seeing the trouble with Elon now you're probably not as smart as you think you are. He's a fake and a con artist, and when he's not those things he's a ruthless tyrant. It's not a credit to Sam's moral character, which he clearly rates very highly, that he was ever friends with the guy in the first place. Sam likes elites, but he prefers them more refined. He's just lamenting that Elon's letting it all hang out now.
This is like one grandparent with dementia correcting the other grandparent with dementia at Thanksgiving dinner.
Makes sense, they can wring more of your soul out of you in the office. It's harder to intimidate people over slack. COVID was a swing towards egalitarianism and respect for employees and now we're swinging back to good old tyranny. You're not really a boss if you can't stare down a random pleb and make him feel small once in while.
You sound like a dream to work for. Do you go around asking people who aren't beaming with an idiotic smile if they have a case of the Mondays too?
Fiery but mostly peaceful protests, Biden's dementia is actually just a speech issue, Russia hacked our brains, peaceful Muslims (after a massacre), etc, etc.
What social changes do they need to make? Things are better now for them than they were the last time Westerners went in trying to remold Russia in their own image.
Maybe we could just try some more rational measures, like not forcing people who are at low risk to take an experimental treatment and weighing the severity of the of the threat against the freedoms we want to remove.
Yes, anyone who isn't hysterical about the possibility of old people dying is autistic.
"trying to manipulate demand with anything is almost always a losing approach"
The exception being the demand manipulating industry that is used every day by every product being sold to consumers
What would a Venn diagram of these two categories look like.
What, is critical drinker not high brow enough or something? Feel free to make a better suggestion.
Does anyone have recommendations for reliable TV or movie critics whose opinion is based on writing quality in the movie or show rather than the social message it's trying to force on you? Something like the critical drinker but in print form and that covers a wider sample?
Trying to manipulate demand with anything is almost always a losing approach.
There goes the entire marketing industry. And taxes on cigarettes.