Michael D. Gormley
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This was me until I saw people asking if he flopped on the Carter Bryant foul, that was my canon event into turning myself into SGA stan for the rest of the playoffs
wakaba akgae@eastgorteau
i will never be negatively polarized into liking okc and sga, i'm too much of a hater at heart for that and they're very much the opps for my team. but the discourse around them is genuinely so braindead and soul destroying and it's disheartening as hell to see people who should
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@onepounddouble @Jessica56197821 @Bonkhead_actual @BuzzPatterson The W key thing is objectively hilarious ngl
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Oh, Hillary. Hillary, Hillary. You ignorant slut.
As the Senior Military Aide to President Bill Clinton, YOU’RE military aide — the officer who carried the nuclear football in and out of the White House every single day — I saw the “people’s house” up close alongside you. @HillaryClinton
Spare us the sanctimonious lectures. And turn on your replies, coward.
When you and Bill left in January 2001, your staff ransacked the place. Remember?
“W” keys ripped off every keyboard. Phone lines cut. Desk drawers glued shut. Obscene voicemails and vulgar graffiti left behind.
Presidential seals and silverware stolen. Furniture damaged. The GAO confirmed the vandalism and theft. It wasn’t “transition friction” — it was a disgrace.
You trashed the People’s House on your way out the door and now you’re clutching pearls over Trump?
I remember, Hillary. I was there. Remember?
The hypocrisy is Olympic-level, Ms. Clinton. And you know it! You of ALL people know it!
The American people have long memories. Especially this one! Me!
We remember who actually looted the place. Shut up and color.
Hillary Clinton@HillaryClinton
This is what Trump's done to the people's house: A third of it is rubble. Another third is a cage match. What a metaphor.
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@JohnSmithquas @Wtfff2k @Gymrat197 @SpikeEskin The revisionist history on AI's career outside of 00-01 is hilarious lmao
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@Wtfff2k @vitrawrites @Gymrat197 @SpikeEskin Embiid may arguably be the most skilled nba player of all time, I’m not a hater, I recognize the talent but I also recognize the big picture and his entire career, the lows are so outrageously low, missing time then in postseason injured, flopping, turnovers, moping
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This is my favorite pushback.
Everyone agrees Harden is a loser, Simmons is a failure, Tobias contract was a disaster, and Butler was here for 3 months and somehow also Embiid has wasted tons of talent around him.
Meanwhile Iverson was given an all defense roster and let him shoot every time because that's what he wanted. He still won nothing just like Joel, has a worse playoff record than Joel, made the franchise look bad off the court constantly, and he's a hero.
Vince Paravecchia@ParavecchiaV
@SportsRadioWIP @SpikeEskin Iverson carries a team with far inferior talent around him to perennial playoff berths, a conference title and a win in LA over Kobe and Shaq in the Finals. Embiid doesn’t compare. Sorry.
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@vitrawrites @Gymrat197 @SpikeEskin Completely different era, played against Vince Carter in the conference finals, Embiid has played awful in plenty of playoff games flopping up and down the court because he’s never healthy, crying for a foul under the basket while the other team has a 5 on 4 on the other end
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@Thorfinnn_3 @ShotgunnSuge It's 2021 if Ben doesn't have a mental breakdown (which is weird because somehow Joel gets more blame in Philly than the other 5 lottery picks who were abject failures)
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@ShotgunnSuge 2023 is the way better “one that got away team” real embiid on offense, better team built around his needs, unstoppable pnr
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@SpikeEskin Jordan truthers legit destroyed NBA discourse during LeBron's career so now people who watch less than 10 NBA games a year feel empowered to comment on Joel despite being outrageously misinformed.
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@Gymrat197 @SpikeEskin @JohnSmithquas 01 run was complete cupcake the East was terrible. Not to mention AI shot sub 40%
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@SpikeEskin @JohnSmithquas And never got out of the second round and always injured when the playoffs start .Iverson was a great player duhhh he is in the Hall of fame you protect Joel and it’s ridiculous you always have excuses for him .
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@LargeWlarge63 @JakeKeuhlen All of the smartest people I know are 135+ IQ and (1) know it (2) acknowledge the importance of IQ even if it is flawed
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@JakeKeuhlen Anyone who talks about IQ is a sign of stupidity for me.
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"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."
- Edward Teller
Jøhnathan@Heavenly_Race_
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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@mrprman1101 @JamesPhl96 Yes. PRS is awesome and just replaced a tree by my house.
They told me most trees they plant die because owners don't take care of them in first year -- happy to be doing my part to make Philly more green
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@JamesPhl96 It should be a legal requirement that every row house owner grow a tree on their property
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@emgoatfinnacook @Big_Prison_Mike This is revisionist history everyone loved shamet and at the time was seen as a necessary evil.
Real fans knew all of these players
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@Big_Prison_Mike None of you retards gave a shit about half of these players when they were on the Sixers
Landry Shamet, give me a fucking break
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Shamet, McCain, Champagnie, Joe, Reed. Sixers really had an all time bench gifted to them and they threw it all in the bin.
NBA@NBA
LANDRY SHAM333T IS ON FIRE. 9 straight points for the @nyknicks!
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@Cam373737 @DiBonaNFL It is impossible for you to know you will be alone on a public road.
You are making an assumption you are alone, you don't know it
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@vitrawrites @DiBonaNFL Alone? Straight stretch? Only you are in danger and only an idiot would lose control.
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I’ve been very critical of professional athletes for driving recklessly in the past and there is no excuse for what Nolan Smith Jr. did.
It’s idiotic to drive at such ridiculous speeds and endanger the lives of yourself and others.
With that being said, it’s fair to wonder if Smith’s arrest could void the guaranteed money on the fifth-year option of his contract in 2027 that the Eagles previously picked up last month.
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@Cam373737 @DiBonaNFL It is impossible to travel as fast as he was going on a public road and it not be dangerous.
It is less dangerous, yes.
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@DiBonaNFL Depends on where you do it. I have done it on stretches of straight roads with no other cars around.
Not dangerous.
A busy interstate? A tertiary road with curves?
Dangerous.
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I don't particularly love Rabb, but I wanted him to win purely because this shakes up the Philly Democratic party, which is such joke of a machine. They deserve to lose for how badly they've failed the city and the blind hubris of expecting that their career candidates would always win
The Election Center@ElectionCenter_
Projection: Chris Rabb is the Projected Winner in the #PA03 Democratic Primary. He will defeat Ala Stanford and Sharif Street. #ElectionDay #Election2026
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@NeoliberalAkiho Dude, thank you. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
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The only thing I can fault data centres for is electricity use. Which like, just build nuclear. It’s not that hard.
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How it feels being an environmentalist who actually understands how the world works.
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@YiannisElafi @AidanDoc__ Fair enough, who do you have winning the eastern conference finals though?
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Tobias Harris since the Pistons had a 2-1 lead vs the Cavs:
10.0 PPG
29% FG
19% 3PT
He ended the playoffs shooting under 30% from three, despite having the best playoff stretch of his career. Weird playoff career for the soon to be 34 year old NBA veteran.
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@MetaThis @krichard121212 *walk up to the iq guessing both*
Lemme see the tweets
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Now imagining my future career as an IQ-guessing party clown, paired with an IQ-caricature artist.
Uncertainty would be higher at a party. After 10 minutes of conversation, I could give an estimate within 1 SD, but 10 minutes reviewing tweet history instead would give more accuracy. So I should only be an online clown.
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daily reminder that the correlation between measured intelligence and intelligence as rated by others is ~0.2.
Jake Kozloski@jakozloski
"Would you marry someone less intelligent than you?" Outright "no": Women: 45% Men: 8% Women are nearly 6x more likely to rule it out entirely. The single largest gender disparity in our deep-question dataset.
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@krichard121212 Most people have an extremely inaccurate theory of intelligence. Thus, they estimate it poorly.
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