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quote:Jews have made up 50% of the top two hundred intellectuals Who invents this list? How do you rank the intelligence of people who are presumably far above your own?
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Who invents this list? How do you rank the intelligence of people who are presumably far above your own? Check their power levels with your scouter
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Dec 30, 2019 23:50
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There's of course the issue that there could be millions of people more intelligent - but they're busy working in rice paddies or coal mines or in prison. So the very criteria are already self-selecting in certain ways. But a libertarian could never accept the idea that someone smart could be somehow wasted. The world is just! If they aren't a master of the universe then they obviously don't qualify. And Christ it pisses me off so much that fifteen years ago I would have read this and nodded in agreement. loving Lew.
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Dec 31, 2019 04:29
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Who invents this list? How do you rank the intelligence of people who are presumably far above your own?
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Dec 31, 2019 14:33
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Golbez posted:And Christ it pisses me off so much that fifteen years ago I would have read this and nodded in agreement. loving Lew. Don't be, old you is dead. You murdered them.
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Jan 1, 2020 02:13
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DACK FAYDEN posted:It's not even the most intelligent people. It's the top intellectuals. Totally different list. How do you even measure the top intellectuals? Knowing libertarian reasoning I'd go for lifetime grant funding.
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Jan 1, 2020 12:57
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Purple Prince posted:How do you even measure the top intellectuals?
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Jan 1, 2020 13:07
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Purple Prince posted:How do you even measure the top intellectuals? Knowing libertarian reasoning I'd go for lifetime grant funding. A top intellectual is someone with a PhD and knowledge of Gislaine Maxwell's current whereabouts
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Jan 1, 2020 17:03
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The existence of top intellectuals implies the existence of bottom intellectuals and now I want to know who is the bottom intellectual. Bearing in mind that top intellectual has minimal bearing on quality of take.
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Jan 1, 2020 17:06
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OwlFancier posted:The existence of top intellectuals implies the existence of bottom intellectuals and now I want to know who is the bottom intellectual. I'm a switch intellectual
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Jan 1, 2020 17:09
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Power Bottom Intellectual
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Jan 1, 2020 17:09
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Goon Danton posted:Power Bottom Intellectual “YES GOD, IM SO loving STUPID! I WILL DIE WITH MY WORK GOING LARGELY UNAPPRECIATED AND FORGOTTEN BY HISTORY! gently caress, YEAH!”
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Jan 1, 2020 17:43
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Philipp Mainländer?
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Jan 1, 2020 18:03
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They are the ones you get to be security guards for your railway so that upper intellectuals can kill them knowing it was right to do so.
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Jan 1, 2020 19:27
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Cpt_Obvious posted:“YES GOD, IM SO loving STUPID! I WILL DIE WITH MY WORK GOING LARGELY UNAPPRECIATED AND FORGOTTEN BY HISTORY! gently caress, YEAH!”  That was weirdly accurate.
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Jan 1, 2020 20:15
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Cpt_Obvious posted:“YES GOD, IM SO loving STUPID! I WILL DIE WITH MY WORK GOING LARGELY UNAPPRECIATED AND FORGOTTEN BY HISTORY! gently caress, YEAH!” As my editor you should probably not out yourself like that.
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Jan 1, 2020 20:44
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Captain_Maclaine posted:As my editor you should probably not out yourself like that. I want 15 words for "philosophical dog poo poo" on my desk before you leave.
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Jan 1, 2020 20:48
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Cpt_Obvious posted:I want 15 words for "philosophical dog poo poo" on my desk before you leave. But you already have my CV!
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Jan 1, 2020 20:51
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Captain_Maclaine posted:But you already have my CV! Brilliant.
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Jan 1, 2020 20:54
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https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansAreMetal/comments/ehi9ni/small_act_can_make_huge_differences/?sort=top
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Mr Interweb posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansAreMetal/comments/ehi9ni/small_act_can_make_huge_differences/?sort=top So THAT'S where libertarian roads come from, human suffering!
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Jan 2, 2020 01:41
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https://biblehub.com/matthew/18-6.htm Actually he would advise hanging a millstone around that persons neck and tossing them into the sea. (literally)
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Jan 2, 2020 06:21
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That's a kind of helping
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Jan 2, 2020 12:48
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i know this sort of thing is low hanging fruit and all, but still... https://twitter.com/legndofphoenix/status/1212791593654259712
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Jan 3, 2020 02:40
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I'm in med device R&D, and this is literally never a question we ask. The only questions are of the efficacy of the product and how quickly we can get to market. I've never worked in pharma, but i would be shocked if the R&D folks over there thought along different lines.
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Jan 3, 2020 03:02
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Dirk the Average posted:I'm in med device R&D, and this is literally never a question we ask. The only questions are of the efficacy of the product and how quickly we can get to market. I've never worked in pharma, but i would be shocked if the R&D folks over there thought along different lines. Then prepare to be shocked if you ever read the Dem Primary thread here in this very subforum.
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Jan 3, 2020 06:13
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Dirk the Average posted:I'm in med device R&D, and this is literally never a question we ask. The only questions are of the efficacy of the product and how quickly we can get to market. I've never worked in pharma, but i would be shocked if the R&D folks over there thought along different lines. Goldman Sachs isn't in the med R&D business, they are in the med R&D investment business.
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Jan 3, 2020 06:40
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Dirk the Average posted:I'm in med device R&D, and this is literally never a question we ask. The only questions are of the efficacy of the product and how quickly we can get to market. I've never worked in pharma, but i would be shocked if the R&D folks over there thought along different lines. R&D is typically not the part of the company to make strategic decisions.
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Dirk the Average posted:I'm in med device R&D, and this is literally never a question we ask. The only questions are of the efficacy of the product and how quickly we can get to market. I've never worked in pharma, but i would be shocked if the R&D folks over there thought along different lines. Well, it's good to know that the actual scientists are decent human beings. Unfortunately, learned men rarely make important decisions under capitalism...
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Jan 3, 2020 14:22
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OwlFancier posted:The existence of top intellectuals implies the existence of bottom intellectuals and now I want to know who is the bottom intellectual.
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Dirk the Average posted:I'm in med device R&D, and this is literally never a question we ask. The only questions are of the efficacy of the product and how quickly we can get to market. I've never worked in pharma, but i would be shocked if the R&D folks over there thought along different lines. Look up what happened with Glybera, the first gene therapy to make it to market. One course of treatment can permanently cure a rare metabolic disorder that's difficult and expensive to treat on an ongoing basis. The price was set at $1 million based on a market analysis. After all, ongoing treatments can cost a lot of money per year, and there won't be any return customers. The net cost of producing each dose of the drug is high, but nowhere near its price tag - that's just what it would take to hit acceptable ROI for the company that bought the rights from the people who actually developed the treatment. One person bought it, and then the drug was taken off the market. Three more people received commercial treatment when the inventory was liquidated at one euro. That's it. The free market has decided that everyone else with this disorder isn't worth saving. The CBC did a decent overview here if you'd like to read more: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/glybera E: it's worth noting that the R&D people - here, a public university - didn't think about the market either, and focused on developing an amazing treatment that made the cover of a major journal before it was yanked. But the larger pharma apparatus still killed it, because R&D is just one step between raw materials and Space Gopher fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Jan 3, 2020 |
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Dirk the Average posted:I'm in med device R&D, and this is literally never a question we ask. The only questions are of the efficacy of the product and how quickly we can get to market. I've never worked in pharma, but i would be shocked if the R&D folks over there thought along different lines. You'll note that it's not a pharmaceutical or medical device company asking the question, it's an investment bank. And it doesn't matter how many well-meaning people are involved at the backend of the medical industry, if the actual point where doctors and treatments meet patients has to be justified from a free-market profit perspective, those questions will be asked. And the answer is no, it's not an effective profit model, and it continues to become less effective as the income gap widens and the economy decays and there's less money to extort. I think they're hitting the point where they're finding that some people can just tank massive cost increases, and the others couldn't pay costs as they are now, which is why there's all these individual products having their costs spike as the companies try feeling out how much they can get away with. That's just the official list price too, since the bulk of their business they do with insurance companies that they inevitable cut deals with, so you'll see massive discounts on the massive markups, and the whole industry is a mess. Potentially there's some confluence of circumstances that could align profitability with effectiveness of treatment, but there's absolutely nothing linking them together.
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Jan 4, 2020 06:30
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Crossposting from the bad photography thread in the Dorkroom, a mildly  set of photos (others on the account are worse so click carefully) with a very choice book included:https://twitter.com/Panther688/status/1143696479535558656
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Jan 5, 2020 18:06
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Someone bought the early-life crisis deluxe package.
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Jan 5, 2020 18:21
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Cognac McCarthy posted:Crossposting from the bad photography thread in the Dorkroom, a mildly WTF. Why. Why would you post this. What the gently caress. Holy poo poo why. Jesus. Edit: It's like the uncanny valley was inverted into a boner.
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Jan 6, 2020 22:50
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Cpt_Obvious posted:WTF. Why. Why would you post this. What the gently caress. Holy poo poo why. Jesus. Turn on your monitor
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Jan 7, 2020 04:24
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Cognac McCarthy posted:Crossposting from the bad photography thread in the Dorkroom, a mildly
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Jan 7, 2020 04:30
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Cognac McCarthy posted:Crossposting from the bad photography thread in the Dorkroom, a mildly Crossposting my response to that from the same thread. Helen Highwater posted:I was visiting my inlaws in Colorado one time and we went to visit some friends of theirs for dinner one evening. Pretty standard family setting, suburban house, older parents, one daughter about my age at the time (mid 30s), son in late 20s. We get there and the parents and the daughter are getting everything together in the kitchen, the son isn't there yet because he has been travelling and is on his way home still.
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The part about those photos that really gets me is just, like, imagine you were walking along that road or that beach and saw that dude setting up his fuckdoll for a photo-shoot. What the gently caress do you even do? It's like the social equivalent of trying to divide by zero.
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