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My parents were both pretty conservative and super religious until I was a couple of years old, because in pretty quick succession: 1) My dad lost his job on a production line because the company was afraid of a union starting up 2) The priest at the church we went to back then told my Dad that this happened because he didn't donate enough to the church and pressured him to spend more (Keep in mind we were already lower middle class and my parents were raising 2 kids at this point) 3) My dad went back to school for a degree in medicine and realized how loving expensive it was, even in the early 90s 4) My mom had to work 2 jobs and got treated like poo poo by her sexist boss at one of them So my parents pretty quickly quit the church and started changing their views on a lot of things. It also helped that my Dad got his degree (at age 40) and started working at a hospital in a pretty liberal area. He met a lot of kinds of people he'd never been exposed to, so that opened his eyes. My mom ended up working at a college (AKA LIBERAL INDOCTRINATION ZONE) and went through the same kind of midlife boundary expansion. My in-laws are still pretty loving racist and sexist, though. Maybe one day...
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Nottherealaborn posted:I assume it’s a jab that he’s choosing expensive, high quality American surgery over cheap, low quality socialism butchery. Which only makes sense if you’re an idiot. Ding ding and ding.
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My dad's so left wing he renounced his American citizenship and moved to Canada like all your leftist dads said they would in 2000, 2004, 2016 and 2020. Then we moved to New Zealand to be even more socialist. I am the socialist dad gatekeeper
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:My dad's so left wing he renounced his American citizenship and moved to Canada like all your leftist dads said they would in 2000, 2004, 2016 and 2020. My dad renounced his US citizenship to become Canadian. Not because he was left wing (he had a Confederate flag in his library despite being a rich kid from New Jersey and liked to go gay bashing at bars), but because he really wanted to just live in a cabin in New Brunswick shooting deer and drinking beer until he died of liver failure. It's caused ongoing problems for me because my parents had a messy divorce (surprise, he was an abusive alcoholic) and she didn't know the correct process to report my birth in Canada to the embassy. So I'm an American citizen because I was born in Canada to two American citizens, but I have no real paperwork to prove it. He never told anyone he renounced his US citizenship after my birth, which meant our initial plea for me to get a US passport failed because we "lied on the forms". And obviously the government isn't processing very quickly now.
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Cheer up folks; all of your chud parents will burn in christian hell, while my dad drinks tequila and sings songs with Trotsky and Diego Rivera in proletariat heaven
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Apr 17, 2019 14:50
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Tashilicious posted:The only thing IQ measures is how good you are at taking IQ tests, and also generally if you're white and middle class or above. Arent they also pretty good for their intended purpose, y'know, helping diagnose developmental disabilities? I seem to remember anything over 100 is meaningless in terms of personal capabilities, but scores below that have pretty decent predictive power.
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My father is a swamp Maoist without a swamp. Which is really weird, because we're Taiwanese.
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Apr 17, 2019 15:21
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My dad drank himself to death which means he beat Capitalism.
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Apr 17, 2019 16:34
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My work has a vanpool, 6 total people, 5 minorities (including me) and 1 white guy. I remember during election time he was quietly mention how much he liked Trump because he would shake things up. Well, yesterday we were discussing taxes and apparently he ended up paying $5k in extra taxes due to something about property is taxed and he's pissed. He'll probably still vote for Trump/GOP though because he also told me he's taking a family road trip to Noah's Ark Museum in Kentucky or something (we live in San Diego).
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Technocratic centrist Kevin Drum has a piece up on the steel industry under Trumpquote:I wonder how the steel industry is doing these days. Why? Just curious, I guess. Here are the basic stats for production and capacity utilization:
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Shipon posted:lmao you bragged about having a high IQ on the internet as if that means a drat thing The point is not my iq, the point is that my iq is something my mom knows explicitly as a fact; its not conjecture, braggadocio, or my own opinion of myself, it is an outright fact that she is well aware of, yet she still thinks mocking me by calling me stupid solely because she makes more money than I do is a useful & effective rhetorical tool that makes logical sense. (I freely admit Im terrible at social interactions, but that has no bearing on whether Im a dipshit or not) This mentality that wealth=how good of a person you are is just one of the toxic symptoms of capitalism poisoning. The deliberate contradiction of known facts is another, that were seeing now with climate denialism, blaming immigration for crime and social ills, etc. The point is, you cannot reason with someone this far gone; they dont want reasonable debate or facts, they dont even care about making their lives less of a living hell, they just want to own libs. Youre doing yourself a favor by removing people like this from your life; its basic self care. One More Fat Nerd posted:Arent they also pretty good for their intended purpose, y'know, helping diagnose developmental disabilities? Ding ding ding! Militant Lesbian has issued a correction as of 17:05 on Apr 17, 2019 |
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Arent they also pretty good for their intended purpose, y'know, helping diagnose developmental disabilities? Yep, anything over 90 is generally fine, the most important part of the test is whoever looks over the areas you did poorly and well in. It's not uncommon for someone with learning disabilities to have a high IQ but tank in specific parts. I tested a girl in Texas who tanked a portion of an IQ test because she had left 2 or 3 pages blank because there were questions about a ski slope, with a ski lift and a lodge at the top. She told me she'd never seen a ski slope, ski lift, or lodge and didn't know what to write. so eh. context in testing is important
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just_a_person posted:My work has a vanpool, 6 total people, 5 minorities (including me) and 1 white guy. I remember during election time he was quietly mention how much he liked Trump because he would shake things up. Well, yesterday we were discussing taxes and apparently he ended up paying $5k in extra taxes due to something about property is taxed and he's pissed. He'll probably still vote for Trump/GOP though because he also told me he's taking a family road trip to Noah's Ark Museum in Kentucky or something (we live in San Diego). Lol that Ark thing was an incredible scam and is bleeding that town dry
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Apr 17, 2019 17:16
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The test scores are privileged white people participation star stickers. Proof: I once tested at 163 and I'm a mediocre white piece of poo poo.
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Apr 17, 2019 17:16
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Epic High Five posted:Lol that Ark thing was an incredible scam and is bleeding that town dry Good!
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Zeroisanumber posted:Good! burn it to the ground
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Childhood IQ tests are a real mess, because they grade you against your age cohort. Most people develop at different rates, so being able to do 5th grade math in 2nd grade doesn't mean you're the next Einstein any more than being three inches taller than anyone else in your fourth grade class mean you're going to be the next Shaquille O'Neal. Some people develop their math and language skills quicker than others but at the end of process they are as likely to be dumped right in the middle of the bell curve as anyone.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Good! last I heard the town council (totally bought and sold fundie weirdos trying to keep in the good graces of fundie weirdo Governor) took out an enormous loan to the tune of like 30k/resident to give to the Ark to keep it afloat it's incredibly sparsely attended and is absolutely a monument to idolatry
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FMguru posted:Childhood IQ tests are a real mess, because they grade you against your age cohort. Most people develop at different rates, so being able to do 5th grade math in 2nd grade doesn't mean you're the next Einstein any more than being three inches taller than anyone else in your fourth grade class mean you're going to be the next Shaquille O'Neal. Some people develop their math and language skills quicker than others but at the end of process they are as likely to be dumped right in the middle of the bell curve as anyone. this. i was predicted to become a 7 foot tall einstein but ended up a 5'11'' idiot
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Epic High Five posted:Lol that Ark thing was an incredible scam and is bleeding that town dry I know! When I heard that's why he was road tripping across America, there were so many things I wanted to ask him, like whether he believed the Earth was 6,000 years old. It makes more sense to me now why he seems to give me weird looks when I talk about my work (computational evolutionary biology).
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is the ark the same as The Creation Museum that I hear advertised on the radio all the time
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Dr.Caligari posted:is the ark the same as The Creation Museum that I hear advertised on the radio all the time different venues same premise
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depression , anxiety and alcohol abuse really start wrecking people around 45
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Dr.Caligari posted:is the ark the same as The Creation Museum that I hear advertised on the radio all the time i thought the ark encounter thing was the same dude but the theme park edition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_Encounter
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Dr.Caligari posted:is the ark the same as The Creation Museum that I hear advertised on the radio all the time I have no idea, but I died a little inside when he called it the Ark museum instead of theme park.
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Both were created by the same person. The Creation Museum was first, then he managed to get all kinds of tax subsidies from Kentucky to create the Ark Encounter, which is just killing the town it was built in.
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maybe the town should just bootstrap it like the good lord intended
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Iron Crowned posted:Both were created by the same person. The Creation Museum was first, then he managed to get all kinds of tax subsidies from Kentucky to create the Ark Encounter, which is just killing the town it was built in. Ark Encounter includes dinosaurs on the ark, because obviously. One infuriating thing is the craftsmanship on a lot of these statues and animatronics is really good. When this place shuts down someone needs to repurpose it as a super cool Haunted House.
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My IQ test proved conclusively that my dick game is on point
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just_a_person posted:I know! When I heard that's why he was road tripping across America, there were so many things I wanted to ask him, like whether he believed the Earth was 6,000 years old. It makes more sense to me now why he seems to give me weird looks when I talk about my work (computational evolutionary biology). how do you even work in the same building
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A Fancy Hat posted:Ark Encounter includes dinosaurs on the ark, because obviously. ya but like it's a triceratops in a tasteful study, smoking a pipe with a paper in hand, telling you about how you've squandered your potential
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euphronius posted:depression , anxiety and alcohol abuse really start wrecking people around 45 I'm way ahead of the curve 
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got any sevens posted:how do you even work in the same building Our owner's daughter is in medical school. She doesn't believe in evolution.
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chitoryu12 posted:Our owner's daughter is in medical school. She doesn't believe in evolution. i guess all of the mammals are so similar because god was lazy?
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got any sevens posted:how do you even work in the same building None of us work in the same building since my vanpool comes from all walks of life. One person janitorial, one is HR, one works in food services, one in parking, I'm a postdoc, and the white dude is in IT. We chat about our work since I work in computational biology and use supercomputers for my research so that's the only thing we have that in common. He is the whitest of white people, won't eat anything ethnic/spicy, and will not eat anything from the water, and both of his kids are homeschooled. He seems like a very nice person, though, and from the outside, like a normal person. All that rightwing media/fundamentalist upbringing really ruins people. He's gotten screwed on pay lately (no raises for 3 years) and his union is finally forcing the university's hand by threatening to strike, and already did a 1 day strike. He told me he refused to strike and worked that day. I wonder if he sees any disconnect between his actions and his situation?
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chitoryu12 posted:Our owner's daughter is in medical school. She doesn't believe in evolution. how does she explain the fossil record and vestigial organs
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euphronius posted:how does she explain the fossil record and vestigial organs
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Suspicious posted:this. i was predicted to become a 7 foot tall einstein but ended up a 5'11'' idiot greetings. we must be related. that was absolutely the same case for me, down to being 5'11". i think i may be physiologically broken though because i have the same inseam as my 5'3" wife lol
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FMguru posted:Or, y'know, germs developing antibiotic resistance? God/Satan did it. That answers literally all criticism. God is testing us. Satan is trying to trick us.
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I've heard she's last in her class, which shouldn't be surprising. She's about 30 now and has never actually finished school in any way or started a serious job. She's basically been a permanent student coasting from major to major.
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