@bullquartz @Heavenly_Race_ Well this is why less talented musicians rely on sheet music while geniuses can just jam together probably.
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@Heavenly_Race_ Genius level musicians often have to interact with other musicians who are the equivalent of 20 IQ points lower. Part of the genius musician's natural ability is listening and responding to other musos in a way that brings the whole level up.
Make of that what you will.
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Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down.
It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems.
A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means:
Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad."
Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language.
Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed.
Both walk away frustrated.
Both have wasted each others time.
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@GlenWalker369 @Heavenly_Race_ Your accusation that “they don’t make sense” is a telling signal that you are not smart enough to understand them. It’s exactly the point OP made.
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@Heavenly_Race_ That 20-point IQ gap is evident when democrats try to justify their policies, they don't make sense.
The left has so many other type people that their collective IQ is constantly heading lower.
Republicans must be patient, tolerate and speak slowly to low IQ democrats.
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@qbms9197 @Heavenly_Race_ Friend who wrote a detective novel spent some time reading police interview transcripts for research .
It made him completely abandon trying to give his criminal characters an authentic voice as they were just far too inarticulate and painful to read.
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@Heavenly_Race_ Interviewing people in prison for work was always difficult. Trying to get a coherent statement from them was almost impossible. I never thought about IQ until I did that. Most people do not interact with that subset of the population. It was eye opening.
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@Heavenly_Race_ Edward Tellers famous anecdote about the exceptional genius Jon Von Neumann:
“Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us.”
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@Rob722656571901 @JeffRoushPoetry 10 minutes to bag groceries is a massive Inconvenience. That’s like 10x longer than it should take.
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@JeffRoushPoetry How slow can someone be at bagging groceries? If it takes them 10 minutes is that really an inconvenience? The fact that you think it is, seem to get agitated by his work enough to study him and feel you have the right to comment suggests it’s not him that ‘must do better’
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There’s a young man who bags groceries at my local Kroger whom I have long tried to avoid. He seemed nice, but was agonizingly slow. But today, I ended up in his lane and found he’s improved markedly. So I looked at him and told him I noticed how much better he’s gotten. (Thread)
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Now that Homelander is dead. Which supe that’s alive currently do you think could potentially be the strongest supe alive? Except soldier boy.
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I’ve not seen a masterclass away in Europe this good since Roy Keane v Juventus
Totally adapted to the demands of ordering in a second language
The greatest to ever do it
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big john the boshfather@Johnfis08605918
Bonne de douche. Le bosh
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Whoa… so this is what battery-electric haul trucks actually look like!
Check out those pantographs!
Is that one on the side aswell?!
All for the “reticulated” charging system that comes out and runs a wire out at every possible point on the journey.
Evans Electric@tsport100
240-tonne battery electric truck ready for Fortescue in the Pilbara
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@FootnotesGuy How does the mine generate electricity?
HOW DOES THE MINE GENERATE ELECTRICITY?
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💧Lobes retweetledi
Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation!
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@PalmTreeSki @ianbremmer A lot of what you mentioned was not done directly by Iran but that’s beside the point.
USA started a war and rapidly lost it. The outcome is Iran now has much more power and influence than before. We all curse USA and Israel for their incompetence and hubris that empowers Iran.
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@Lobes @ianbremmer Huh. Iran has kidnapped and killed 1000+ Americans in 40+ attacks over 47 years. Marine Barracks ring a 🔔? USS Cole? EFPs?
And Hamas Hezbollah Houthis they haven't done anything either right? Oct 7 doesn't exist? 1,000 more killed. Rapes, killing babies in front of parents?
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@PalmTreeSki @ianbremmer Trump started this war. Iran wasn’t bombing countries or shooting ships before trump and Israel attacked them.
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I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with this.
"Yes, in physical reality the US military dismantled Iran's navy, missile capacity, and ability to supply and control terrorist proxies. But actually Iran will emerge many times stronger."
It's gibberish. It's not how words work.
Murtaza Hussain@MazMHussain
“On the present trajectory, Iran will emerge from the conflict many times stronger and more influential than it was before the war.” theatlantic.com/international/…
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@Lobes @ianbremmer Huh? Iran unlawfully attacks multiple counties and ships in an international waters and somehow you think Trunp is the one attacking those countries & ships?
Iran is the terrorist country launching 1,000+ missiles at UAE Saudi et al killing people.
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if concluded, trump-iran deal arguably the least worst outcome available to president trump.
except for:
1) agreeing to those terms months ago.
2) not having gone to war in the first place.
or
3) not having withdrawn from the iranian nuclear deal.
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Knew it. You can not believe a single thing trump says. Especially not just before, or just after, the markets close.
The Hormuz Letter@HormuzLetter
BREAKING: Iran directly rejects Trump's claim that Hormuz "will be opened" as part of a "largely negotiated" agreement he just posted on Truth Social, saying Trump's claim is "far from the truth" and that Hormuz "will remain under Iranian management" with Iran retaining exclusive permanent authority over route, timing, method, and permits, per Fars. Iran also confirms the nuclear file has not been discussed and that American officials themselves have told Iran in multiple messages that "Trump's tweets are primarily for domestic American propaganda and media consumption" and "should be disregarded." The "largely negotiated" deal claim therefore has no basis.
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@PalmTreeSki @ianbremmer You’re delusional. Iran controls Hormuz and has spent the last 3 months battering every country around them. All thanks to trump
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@ianbremmer Huh? You would prefer Iran with an Army, Navy, 10,000 missiles & untouched nuclear facilities & scientists?
All have been destroyed.
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@MarkDiStef He looks exactly like the type of person you’d see walking around ranting to themself
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Who, or what, blackpilled Dave Hughes? I feel like I missed it
Geoff Wilson@GeoffWilsonWAM
“No one is going to want to invest in Australia”. “What the Fu.k are you doing”. This insane CGT, which will destroy aspiration and ambition in Australia must be STOPPED. Every Australian must stand up.
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@Getoutahere101 @PaulBongiorno Maybe they should sell two or three of their rental properties Lmao.
Seriously….
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Wish Jim Chalmers lived in the real world.
Self-funded retirees with two or three modest rental properties earning $70K gross rent face this reality:
Expenses: ~$14K
Net income: $56K
Tax at 30%: $16.8K
Net after tax: $39.2K — or just $19,600 each.
These are people who worked hard and saved to avoid relying on the taxpayer. Yet Labor thinks this is fair.
Paul, you’re really defending this? The Treasurer and his party are completely detached from the struggles of ordinary retirees. This is frankly abhorrent.
@JEChalmers
@AlboMP
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In the real world, the budget is selling thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/2026/0…
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@ComicBookNFTguy @JackDunc1 The scalpers getting r*ped and having to sell at a loss is an even better thing
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@JackDunc1 Meanwhile almost all tickets are sold. The hotels might be down a little because of local demand and because foreigners are too poor.
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Personally I find US cities and hotels panicking at the lack of the attendance for the world cup a total joy.
No one wants to visit your backwards racist Trumpian hellscape.
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@chosen_the43436 @can Yeah they are. In the last 12 months China have given dozens of countries visa free entry.
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@can If China believed that they would throw open their borders and invite the world to move to China.
Notably…they are NOT.
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china could drop a nuke in silicon valley and still wouldn’t do this much damage
Homeland Security@DHSgov
An alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply. This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes. The era of abusing our nation’s immigration system is over.
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@SupremacyWoke @AstorAaron This situation is completely trumps fault. He’s a moron.
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@AstorAaron In 2020 when oil was nearly free Trump tried passing legislation to fill the SPR but Democrats stripped that portion from the bill and blocked it calling it a "bailout for big oil". We would be at a historically normal levels if it weren't for them.
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Probably the most important warning re: the oil market. Jawboning and heavy SPR releases have prevented demand destruction, even while consuming the entire 2026 US crude build. When reserves get too low, there will be massive price hikes and, likely, outright shortages.
OilPrice.com@OilandEnergy
The oil market has burned through nearly all of this year’s U.S. commercial crude inventory build in just five weeks, with massive SPR releases masking the scale of the supply shock. #Oil #SPR #EnergySecurity #OOTT oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-O…
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