I know. If there is a pension to be ****ed with, there aren’t 401(k)s around.

Ouch. Mason is pretty dumb, but not quite "Chezlaw thinks you're intelligent" dumb. That's harsh.

except he clearly isn't 'pretty dumb' either.

but I suspect you know that as you're also clearly intelligent

He's intelligent in some ways but certainly dumb in some other critical way or he wouldn't support Trump. The same goes for Tooth, another Trump supporter.

In fairness he probably is quite rich. Probably rich enough to actually benefit from the trump tax cuts, and old enough not to worry too much about climate change, and white, and was good friends with brucez for several years... Perhaps dumbness isn't the issue at hand.

It's a very strange view of intelligence. Handy but strange.

you probably need to upgrade your name calling system.

If you don't know that people can be highly skilled in some academic areas but weak in other areas, maybe you should go away and have a think about the meaning of words you use.

FYP

Sure there's a difference between 'skill' and 'intelligence'.

words - what are they like?

Putting nit picking to one side, there are some obvious recent examples of public figures whose first class degrees from Oxbridge were a reasonable sign of "intelligence" but whose decision-making in critically important jobs since then was disastrously poor. I wonder if you can think of any?

Intelligent people can make bad decisions. They can also have different views of the world, different constraints, different priorities etc. People, including highly intelligent ones, can also be very poor at reasoning from outcomes

Some intelligent people even claim that obviously intelligent people are stupid - you knew they're wrong, don't you? and yet they're not stupid people.

Whelp, guess I walked right into that one. nh

They're wrong for the same reason I gave - that intelligence is assumed to apply across a range of mental faculties whereas in reality many people are quite lop-sided in their intelligence.

It's not uncommon for people to be very good at maths and other forms of abstraction, for example, but have below average spatial awareness or empathy levels (there are probably technical terms for these that I'm not aware of). Intelligent or not intelligent?

Hold on, maybe it's one of those paradoxes designed to destroy AI? Akin to something "This statement is unprovable according to the rules of your system"

txs. Good start to the year when someone spots one of my fine witticisms

Theory: The left should be more concerned about the absence of a Hastert rule in the new House rules package than they are about the inclusion of PAYGO.

I don't know about you but I prefer TAGO MAGO to PAYGO.

Based on the bolded I assumed this was written by Phil Simms

I heard this ridiculous **** otw to work this morning. TEH RAPTURE

Dealing with this kind of crazy should be 10x the priority of dealing with immigrants, though age and the broader culture are dealing with it in their way.

Why Trump Reigns as King Cyrus

So that makes Trump's grandson this guy?

https://twitter.com/swin24/status/1080518438416797696

actually sad

Really interesting read: The guy who runs a fake hitman for hire scheme on the Dark Web, and the guy who repeatedly hacks him to try to unmask the people who legitimately think they are paying for others to be killed

Details one confirmed murder that a client did on his own after trying to use the site, and another questionable one that police ruled a suicide but was very likely a murder.

Also points out some incredible incompetence/nonchalance from the FBI/NCA (the UK's FBI, I think?) as the hacker basically giftwraps them info of "hey, this guy in your jurisdiction paid thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin to have someone murdered" and they mostly ignore him, except for the time they swarm his apartment with a SWAT team to arrest him on suspicion of being part of the site. Oh and the time they warn him that hacking the hitman site to get this info is illegal.

rip i loved him as george bluth's surrogate