Kudzu_Bob

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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
“Most fallacies are like that - they're heuristics which work most of the time. For example, if you see people running in terror in one direction, and you join them, you've committed the bandwagon fallacy, but you're probably right. If you
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
High schools are like prisons to smart kids.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Hsu's claim in this matter is much easier to swallow than your contention that an IQ of 120 is sufficient for eminence in any field. Next you'll be telling us that anybody over five and a half feet tall can play for the Knicks.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
You seem to labor under the misapprehension that learning things and going to high school have something in common.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Karp lost nothing, and gained a great deal. I suspect that he can only shake his head at the notion that anybody with a three-digit IQ would step inside a high school under any circumstances.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Physicist Steve Hsu on Feynman's alleged 125 IQ score: "Feynman was universally regarded as one of the fastest thinking and most creative theorists in his generation. Yet it has been reported-including by Feynman himself-that he only obtain
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
That's because you don't know what bullying is.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
A much more interesting subject than how we can save journalism is whether journalism can save us.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
This New York Times article discusses not only why it is so hard for poor people to live New York but also why the cost of living for the affluent is lower there than elsewhere . http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/magazine/who-says-new-yor
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
America, flophouse to the world.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
In America, the ruling elites have ways of keeping out the rabble by means of making city life both costly and difficult.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Gloria Steinem's career arc has been from B-girl to intellectual pickpocket.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Open Borders can eliminate poverty only if evolution from the neck up doesn't happen.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Rightly or wrongly, those who employ capitalized phrases such as "Our Sort" and "Not Our Sort" often fancy themselves ironists.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
The other restrictions aren't aimed at any particular group, and therefore harbor at least the potential to silence Our Sort. But by their very design, hate speech laws only target a bunch of misfit losers who most definitely are Not Our So
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Adam Kingsmith makes no mention of Canada's far more threatening hate speech laws. This article should have been titled "The Slow and Selectively Outrageous Death of Journalism at the Huffington Post."
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Saying that it's tough being beautiful is one of those formulations along the lines of, "Oh, it's such a burden having all this wealth. How I envy the simple, carefree lives of the poor."
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Men's hormonal buttons are being pushed by images of hot women in order to empty their wallets, and you think it's the women who are being exploited. That's rich.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Your idea of putting the Swiss in Turkey is unworkable for the simple reason that nobody wants to go there. However, plenty of Turks move to Switzerland, where, I gather, their economic performance continues to be less than stellar. That cr
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Long after the EU has succumbed to gigantism the Swiss will still be around. To believe that the sick should shun the healthy is an inversion of reality.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
A reporter once asked the Italian giallo director Dario Argento why so many beautiful girls are murdered in his movies. He replied that the dictates of the giallo require that one or more persons die, and that the audience would rather watc
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Pascal: “Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, for they would understand at first sight, and are not used to seek for principles. And others, on the contrary, who are accustomed to reason f
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
If I don't know whether my laptop has been stolen or simply forgotten in some coffee house but I accuse you of taking it because I don't like your politics, that makes me a liar.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Gotta love that false consciousness.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
I mean the economy for which we must all bend ourselves into pretzel shapes.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Then I guess brain surgery isn't exactly brain surgery, if you know what I mean.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Your question isn't really a question, just a clumsy attempt to use shame to stifle open discussion, a technique that goes WAY back. Priests in the Middle Ages used it to keep the peasants in their place, although I imagine that they employ
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Gaslight much?
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
That depends on the problem that is being solved. For instance, if your goal is to explain away what is obviously the case, then ignoring or hiding the truth is the ONLY solution. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
It isn't right. What it is is humiliating. And humiliation is the entire point.

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