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@wcmed4 @TheDavidPiv "Practicing litigator" is a cute way to admit you don't do trials. Sure, everyone might tell the truth in a true "accident" case, but in most trials someone is lying. In my experience, more than a quarter of witnesses are liars, and the liars usually get friends to lie too.

@TheDavidPiv Bullshit. I am a practicing litigator. I looked at your info and you have some affiliation with Fox News, which explains this ridiculous response.

To any practicing litigator, it's really hard to find the proper words for how laughably stupid this tweet is.

@jeebus2122 @lazyjedi84 @DefiantLs I was looking for that image. You're exactly right.

@thewooga @lazyjedi84 @DefiantLs I think lazyjedi is simply proclaiming his mental laziness. He's using the below meme as a starting point. Thousands of unserious people say something stupid, it gets refuted, then their "point" is you wouldn't be refuting it if they weren't on to something.

Maher: I see so many people that are upset about [Trump] building a ballroom. I don't give a f*ck. Mel Robbins: Well, I give a f*ck because we’re paying for it. Maher: No, we’re not paying for it, It’s privately [funded]

@GulshanTrades @Huff4Congress ENGLISH colonies. Populated by people under the English crown (English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh). ENGLISH =/= FRENCH ENGLISH =/= SPANISH Sort of like how India isn't Pakistan or Vietnam.

@thewooga @Huff4Congress You don't consider spainish,french and anglos your forefathers?

Between 1820 and 1959, less than 14,000 Indians immigrated in total. Immigration from India was explicitly prohibited (as part of the Asiatic Barred Zone) by the Immigration Act of 1917. Indians didn’t exist in America in any significant number until 1965. You built nothing.

@GulshanTrades @Huff4Congress Keep showing us your poor education. Facts: English colonies were not established until the 1600s. In the 200 years beforehand, an estimated 90% of the Americas native population died off (mainly disease and warfare, of their *own* doing and by *Spain*). thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/4002…

@thewooga @Huff4Congress Yeah, they died automatically.Why don't shove your own history books up your ass and also visit " trail of tears" parks...It's like you're saying Palestinians died themselves without Jewish war crimes.

@lazyjedi84 @DefiantLs That makes no logical sense. Pointing out how it doesn't work as a bribery scheme... makes it the perfect bribery scheme? Contrast with a common political scam people defend: run up "campaign debt" (the scam: it's really personal debt) then find a way to pay it with donor money.

@thewooga @DefiantLs It’s actually a much better form of bribery vs his other business interests bc he literally has you people defending it. That’s the point…he gets to market it as something for thr country when it’s buying influence with him.

@GlowieSchi44851 @planefag Yeah the Euro upper class was able to survive with enough of their "best" intact through prior wars, but the death rate in the world wars went far beyond the traditional "pruning" of the family tree and irreparably destroyed many bloodlines.

@planefag The positive selection america experienced before 1950 certainly helped, what widened the gap is the fact that Europe killed 4 generations of its best in the world wars.

This is actually my theory on how it works yes

@LoremasterRay @hueoops That was annoying, but supposedly you can break him out of jail without killing anybody. Just get thrown in jail and then other gang members will break you both out.

@hueoops They do this and every mission is the most on rails goofy video game bullshit. You will murder the entire population of strawberry several times over to save a guy you dont even like and everyone will be there because the game and the story aren't allowed to talk to each other

I got like ten hours into this game before thinking “why am I playing this. Why am I doing this” and uninstalling

@alphafox When stuck behind a driver heading into a close series of curves, you should enter the first turn wider than normal. You will hit the second turn *much* faster than the lead car, and you use that to PIT maneuver him on his inside back corner.

He used his own move against him:

@lazyjedi84 @DefiantLs Bribing him with a ballroom that stays and is used by subsequent administrations? He has a million other business interests and campaign fundraisers that are much more effective bribery vehicles. The ballroom would be the most ineffective form of bribery ever. Dumb conspiracy.

@DefiantLs What you morons don’t get is that privately funding projects the president wants is a nice way to bribe him. But then again your only concern is that you don’t pay for things instead of actual morals.

@GulshanTrades @Huff4Congress White people were in America long before 1750, and most natives had already died off well before the English colonies were founded.

@Huff4Congress Before 1750 there were no whites there in America.All your ancestors did is butchered natives with your diseases and guns.

@peterwildeford Offer the magic jellybean gamble to strangers. After three people die, eat the next one.

THE GENIE: I have ten jellybeans. Three contain poison that kills you instantly. The other seven each give you 100 years of good life and good fortune. What do you do? THE NORMAL PERSON: Ah, no thank you. THE ACCELERATIONIST: We have to move quickly! *immediately eats all ten jellybeans* *dies* ME: What if we do science to figure out which jellybeans are poisonous and then not eat those, but do eat the others?

@Nick_Davidov How is any commoner going to know I'm driving a Ferrari and not a Hyundai with yellow stickers? They should have just gone with a super stripped down version of a classic body style. A true "starter Ferrari" and not this thing.

Ferrari is going to sell a lot of the Luce (relatively to their other models) if they just keep playing their playbook (Rolex/Hermes purchase ladder) - buy a Luce first if you want to buy a better Ferrari

@SwerveMonroe @AppyOrtho @bankerboy_ She's obviously distinguishing "frontier" people who took serious risks to build the country... from the established city dwellers. It sounds like her ancestors spent only a moment in the port city before immediately heading to the hills and building rural Tennessee in the 1700s.

@AppyOrtho @bankerboy_ I mean, if your family came in the mid to late 1700’s, they stepped off the boat into a fully functioning city.

If your ancestors stepped off the boat and into a fully functioning city, you’re an immigrant. If they stepped off a boat and then hacked their way through the wilderness to build a cabin while ducking Indian scalpers, then you’re a heritage American.

@Et_Ex_Machina @AlysiaStarnes @neetu_arnold I think someone who claims to be making anti-gravity toys with their children is... retarded.

@AlysiaStarnes @neetu_arnold can a mentally retarded child do university-level STEM if you make fire and give them anti-gravity toys?

University of California STEM professors want standardized tests back due to severe math deficiencies among students: “We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle school mathematics” “The current admissions metric, based primarily on GPA & essays, can no longer reliably distinguish readiness for university-level STEM majors in an era of severe grade inflation & AI assisted application essays”

@susujames08 @hectavex @charlesmurray I was subjected by my school to more than a dozen legitimate IQ tests as a kid. Wasn't my choice. You're correct that most people have unrealistic views of their own IQ. That's because most people today are confusing the "free online IQ test" garbage sites with a real test.

@hectavex @charlesmurray If you took more than one or two IQ tests MAX you are way too in love with yourself and probably have an unrealistic view of your intelligence that is not shared by others.

This is addressed to the people who post about IQ asserting as well-known facts that IQ tests are culturally biased, or don't measure anything but how to take IQ tests, or can be coached, or are affected by socioeconomic status. The list seems endless. I've got news for you. *You aren't the first person to think of those possibilities.* Whole careers of extremely talented, well-trained people have been spent testing them with rigorous methods and large, representative samples of people. And guess what? They've published their results. For decades. Their conclusions have been challenged and refined, replicated or discarded, based on mountains of evidence. A stable consensus has been reached on a bunch of them. Have you ever considered doing some homework?

@fagcoper What kind of toddler is 4'11"? That's why this is not a real post. In the spirit of making himself feel sexually powerful, a guy might talk about a short woman as small, weak, fragile, etc, ...but nobody but a pedo (or fake Reddit post) is going to talk about her as a "toddler."

glad someone confirmed why men like very short women. exactly what I expected. blackpilling.

@IlyaSomin This is an age thing bordering on boomerism. You shaped your opinions (as did I) based on the Indians you met 20 years ago. But they got here under the old rules and were mostly higher quality people. The problem: over the last 10-15 years we imported much lower quality Indians.

I'm not the first person to notice this. But amazing how much anti-Indian hate there is on this site, typified by claims they are somehow monopolizing the tech industry, discriminating against whites, etc. It's very similar to traditional anti-Semitic tropes, and is equally baseless. I've dealt extensively with Indians in academia, and some in tech (my parents are both tech industry veterans) and there is no real evidence to support these claims. They - like traditional anti-Semitism, are also based on a flawed zero-sum view of the economy that underlies a lot of ethno-nationalism and bigotry, as well as a lot of awful far-left ideology: reason.com/volokh/2026/04…

@mgdotdev @WeinerBarf420 To be fair, you can get much better quality particle board furniture today than 20-30 years ago. But it's still inferior to real wood furniture, with new stuff being hard to find and ridiculously expensive.

@WeinerBarf420 Worst offender is furniture it’s not cherry, it’s particle board veneered with a cherry color

I don't want to give the zoomers more ammo because they've been so freaking whiny, but I will say boomers often don't understand that the supposedly lower prices they're seeing are basically for fake stuff. Like actual sourdough bread is not $2 a loaf, they just call it that

@EveKeneinan This test may have worked 50+ years ago when most kids were exposed to a wide range of books (so the test reflects "understanding" rather than exposure) but it's useless today. For example, does any American know "gaoled" without reading Count of Monte Cristo (or similar french)?

Of course this test also serves as a good index of the IQ of the one presenting the test. Since they have arrived at the midwit idea that vocabulary is a sufficient proxy for IQ. It seems entirely plausible that those who do know all these words have a higher than average IQ, this is likely because those of higher IQs are more likely to be well-read, and those who are well-read will have encountered all these words. But it should be fairly obvious that one's general intelligence g, the thing that IQ measures, is not a function of whether or not one has ever encountered the words "demesne" or "sidereal."

@AndrewAtkin75 @BayesianNuance @SizweLo For some mental tasks there's no difference (eg, answering "do you want fries with that?"). Most tasks simply take the 100 more time to finish, but some things the 150 does... the 100 could never grasp. Your question is like asking: are snow tires 1.5x better than regular tires?

@BayesianNuance @SizweLo I just had a funny thought. Take a guy with an IQ of 100, and take a guy with an IQ of 150. Is the 150 guy 1.5x more intelligent than the 100 guy? Or, do we just get maybe, say, 5% 'real' differences in human cognitive power and stretch it out over a line?

bell hooks said that White people will meet a Black person who completely challenges every racial stereotype that they have, but rather than giving up the stereotypes, they create a special category for that person and say, things like “Well, you’re not like other Black people”, instead of saying, “My ideas of Black people were too narrow”. This is called “subtyping” and it leads to the survival of negative stereotypes because the new category individual who’s supposedly “not like the others” is mentally isolated from the group. What this shows is that bigotry is all about protecting an existing hierarchy and it doesn’t matter much whether a person is exposed to other people or not. Which is why meeting intelligent, kind, accomplished, or complex Black people does not dismantle prejudice if someone is emotionally invested in keeping the stereotype intact. Exposure to facts and figures doesn’t change the situation either. Someone can know the statistics on crime, education, poverty, or discrimination and still keep racial stereotypes because the stereotype preserves a sense of superiority and avoids confronting historical responsibility. This is part of why bell hooks further argued that racism is emotional and ideological more than just purely ignorant, which is then why facts by themselves usually do not overcome a worldview that a person is motivated to preserve.