“Only puny cucks don’t love Brawndo!” * powerbombs Bernie Sanders into folding tables from top turnbuckle *

“If you don’t pay me the big bucks for my experience and expertise, who else will tell the robot how to destroy your life?”

“Our system has determined that you’re no longer eligible for support, as your submission of Form 792B was 0:56 late. Please resubmit your application at your earliest convenience, our clients are important to us, and your well-being is our top priority. We’re currently experiencing a high volume of document submission, and the processing time may take as long as 3 months. Please ensure that you have an adequate supply of life-sustaining medication during this time, as no other assistance will be available until completion of your file.”

“A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm…”

The people responsible for this imbecile sloughing off of responsibility need to be held to account. The stakes are too high to permit them to claim that “the brain warden got it wrong, but it’s out of our hands”, these are the types of situations that warrant standing directly in front of someone and forcing them justify the damage they’ve caused, and explain how they’re going to rectify their fuck up and compensate the affected parties. What I’m hearing is alarmingly similar to news about current problems with medical insurance and the labour market.

I’ve heard it explained as practical intelligence vs. abstract intelligence. Understanding calculus won’t help you frame a house, produce slate tiles for its roof, cast the iron for a potbelly stove that keeps it warm, etc., but it will help to calculate the trajectory of a space probe that your country is using to investigate an asteroid, or tap the stock market, do your own taxes without error, strategize saving/investment for your retirement, calculate the dimensions for a culvert that keeps a property from flooding, etc.

It’s debatable, see @Gustephan@lemmy.world’s comment below, they’re pretty close to the common consensus.

Solid take, I hear more people saying this whenever it’s discussed. Although it’s a pretty decent measure for natural intellectual capacity, a lot of that potential isn’t wholly practical even in modern society. Good for studies, math, science and Mensa, not so useful for nearly everything else.

You can get a prescription for ketamine? Jesus Christ, and this whole time I’ve just been using coffee, alcohol, tobacco, hash, and whatever psychedelic I can get my mitts on…

Huh, TIL that he was into K. I thought that he was just an oddball because of his weird upbringing and fuckwad entitled bourgeois attitude.

I’m not as familiar with the whole theology involved, but still am pretty sure he’ll have to weather a few cycles as whatever multi-legged miniature vermin that insects eat before he can break back into the mammalian strata. He can’t possibly be acting like such a gigantic piece of shit accidentally, can he?

Less than five minutes into the stream, a player logged on and asked Musk if he could “please jerk off mr trump so he dies of a heart attack.”

Not all heroes wear capes. Someone buy them a fucking drink, I’m going to be laughing about that alone for years.

Pictured: Outlier (155 IQ, 1650 testosterone ng/dl) carries control (110 IQ, 800 testosterone ng/dl).

IMO that scenario is 10x worse. “We’re going to coordinate and follow rules to the letter. We don’t want you mistaking us for armed insurgents supplying aid to your opponents on the battlefield”, and then they get hunted down and murdered anyway. At a certain point several years ago, people were still acting surprised at each new war crime which hit the press, but its become so commonplace that no one is even keeping count anymore.

“Livin’ the dream.”

That clip has been edited, but is telling enough. The fire interspersed by pauses tells me that they poured it onto their targets at range when the ambush began, then picked off survivors more carefully at close quarters. There’s no mistaking a combatant from a medic in such a situation, especially given that the IDF would be able to freely examine those killed and see the lack of loadout - edged weapons, no sidearms, no long-guns or explosives. It’s one thing to say that you were mistaken and saturated the area because you were mistaken or someone lost their nerve and fired prematurely, but they’ve been actively concealing this latest war crime in the interim. Another incident just begging for the ICC’s attention, if they can be bothered…

ICE has not provided the student her inhaler or other medication as required by law.

Not the least bit surprising given what I’ve heard about the operation of these detention centers. They’re purportedly setup to operate in a manner similar to those run by metropolitan Police forces during “civil disturbances” (widespread demonstration and/or rioting), which is to say that officers and medical personnel are specifically instructed to interpret physical/mental distress of any type as a means employed by those detained to “weasel out” of detention.

All but the most obvious, acute and life-threatening injuries are virtually completely ignored and scoffed off for this reason. psychiatric medication seen as optional, as are those for heart conditions and diabetes if at all possible. It’s not that cops don’t know any better, it’s just that they don’t care until a person’s condition deteriorates to a level which might kill them, ergo blow back and make them accountable for fatalities on their watch.

Thanks, much appreciated.