I always forget there was a real historical figure and assume Greensleeves is Gull’s little sister from those old Magic books.
Not sure how well they hold up, but like 25 years ago Arena and the Greensleeves trilogy seemed like the best books ever.
You don’t understand how much green sucks…
An intellectual disability is 2 standard deviations from the mean (that’s 30 points).
For someone that’s 100, about 2% of humans are 30 points lower than them.
If you’re at the tail of the green?
Congrats, about 84% of the world’s population is at least 30 points below you. For bonus points, you won’t even know your IQ because it’s like measuring a mile with a foot long ruler. You can get a guesseatimate, but to really measure it just isn’t worth it. A Wechsler would already take 4+ hours to get that high of a score.
It’s basically Idiocracy. And just like the movie, a lot of the time when you try to explain stuff that sounds basic “don’t use Gatorade on plants” you only get insults and get told plants crave electrolytes.
Like, people say people in green like drugs because of “novelty seeking behavior”…
It’s not that, it’s because living in Idiocracy fucking sucks, and there are a couple things that can be done to level the playing field, and most of them are pretty enjoyable too.
And it’s not even rare. A 145+ IQ is about 1 in 1200 people, that’s about as frequent as people who are trans.
It doesn’t even look that silly.
I immediately pictured Nandor the Relentless…
But like, we know from writings they had plate armor, we know from paintings this is what it looked like, it’s just archeologists insisted it wasn’t used because most soldiers weren’t buried with functional sets.
It’s like 5,000 years from now people saying we didn’t have tanks because no soldiers were buried with a tank.
A fighter in this armor at this time, was essentially that. A fucking tank.
And most military members don’t own their own personal tank.
This example, is because for whatever reason, one did back then. Probably more likely to be some incredibly rich ruler who would attend battle sites while in the best possible armor, but wasn’t ever going to swing a sword while wearing it.
If a normal soldier died wearing this, the government would repair the armor and issue it to a new soldier.
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I think in the USA’s case it will be much like South Africa, where there’s still tremendous resentment against Afrikaners even though they are an even smaller minority and no longer form government.
One example was more than enough, I get it
It’s an averaged-out view of what “the internet” thinks, with extra massaging to make sure it isn’t too offensive.
There multiple fundamental mistakes with that…
Would explaining them be more productive?
Sure, but I don’t get paid for this.
You want to be productive, take the time to explain all the ways their wrong. You don’t have time for that?
Let everyone else at least know it’s wrong.
But what you just did was completely pointless
You could have just told us you don’t know, we didn’t need an example
Who cares what AI thinks?
Like, what’s the point of the screenshot?
I have this one cousin who’s a total fuck up and didn’t graduate 7the grade, he stopped by to get some meth money and I decided to ask him about the future!
That’s what you’re doing.
No one cares AI said something dumb, and you caring makes it seem like you actually believe AI is anything more than a chatbot.
I mean, they know they’re stealingg it from a real person, and no matter how careful you are, they’re tracking you.
Even if you don’t have a profile, they have a “you shaped hole” and someone somewhere has tagged you in a picture. They still have data on you built from people in any picture you were tagged in, their data gets extrapolated to you.
The ID is so they can sell the data for a higher price because it’s “verified” to be yours. Even tho without it they still 100% know it’s you.
This isn’t about Facebook getting your ID, it’s just so the people they’ll selling it to pay more.
There’s a chance a human never looked at OPs Shrek picture, an AI may have just checked it against real name tagged photos and it didn’t match. Even tho OP doesn’t have a Facebook account under their real name.
Facebook still knows what OP looks like, and almost assuredly knew the burner account was theirs
Bruh…
Socialism is economic policy…
The economic policy of those countries is socialism.
They are also democracies.
Like if I asked what kind of car you had you could say “Honda” or “a red Honda”.
Their not two different answers because one included unrelated information.
If someone asks what kind of government they have, “democratic socialism” would be correct, because only giving one of the main axises wouldn’t tell the full story.
But since we’re talking economic systems, the democratic part is superfluous
Yeah, that’s what’s going to get you.
Maybe if you loaned/rented them, but not many would go thru that hassle.
And you’d need your own locked down ecosystem they can’t crack.
On top of all that, I’m pretty sure even libraries got sued over doing this.
I remeber someone once tried to stream physical blu rays online to people for a small fee. And that didn’t work out legally either.
but if the customer wants to get the physical version of his book, I have to take back his digital version.
I mean, how can they “give back” a digital file?
Because countries that call themselves communist are just dictators lying about it…
I mean, you’re asking about two separate political axis: economy, and control.
Look at the Nordic countries and even most Western Europeans and you’ll see socialist countries that aren’t authoritarian.
Theres not a single communist country tho. So when you talk like there are, people assume you have no clue what you’re talking about about.
Like, what countries do you think are communist?
It has been many days but you finally walk into the next room.
Eventually an awkward man comes, and reads from notecard:
Silly little birds, all in their nests, wondering… What’s going to happen next?
We’ve known for years that Netanyahu allowed suitcases full of money across the border into Gaza that could only be going to Hamas.
But him going out and soliciting funding for Hamas…
That’s a whole nother thing. I know Netanyhu was already likely on the way out before, but I can’t see how the Israelis let him stay in control after this.
He’s literally the reason all this is happening because the only way his group maintains power is if voters are scared. So he created a reason for them to be scared.
A short trimmed beard you have to do the neck and maybe cheekbones, it’s a lot of upkeep.
I think lots of guys had that type of beard pre-covid, then let it grow out. Once it’s long enough you don’t have to do the neck because it’s hidden by the rest of your beard.
And some guys never have to do cheeks because it grows in good.
Like how 20 years ago it was cool for teenagers and 20 somethings to have goatees. It took me a while to realize most were doing it because they couldn’t grow a full beard.
There’s a lot of variation in facial hair, including where it grows and how thick.
Some people’s skin also can’t handle daily trauma from razors.
Pili multigemini…
I might have fucked up the order, but it means “multiple twin hairs”. Like, where just one hair should grow out of your skin, you have multiples.
If you let it just grow, you’re fine. But if you shave it’s very easy for it to be ingrown because the “hole” the hairs come thru was only meant for one hair.
When I was in the military and had to shave every day it was horrible. I don’t know if shaving makes more grow, but I’d have stubble thicker than mechanical pencil lead, and when I’d pluck it I’d find out it was 3-5 hairs attached to the same “root”. One of those becoming ingrown is a huge hassle.
With a beard, it’ll just shed normally or come out when I comb it. The problem is when you shave and the hair bunch has to keep pushing thru the skin over and over.
So saying Israel is committing a genocide is worth being arrested…
But using chemical weapons smuggled into the country from Israel on those protestors isn’t enough for an arrest?
I mean, yeah…
It’s like how early hominids were labeled “cavemen” because we kept finding evidence of them in caves. They didn’t just live in caves, or even really had permanent shelters in caves. It’s just where evidence was most likely to be preserved.
Similarly the cradle of civilization being one of the most likely places for remains to fossilize would be insanely unlikely.
It’s still somewhere in Africa, just not that exact spot.