that guy’s more recent stuff is much better. he’s really grown as a writer and video creator

one of my favourite videos of his, “sleep is just death being shy”, guides you through a mortality related existential crisis and leaves you with a sense of wonder for existance, good stuff

tiktok may be a new app but it will spy on you the most :) it fuelled itself by using the money they got from selling your data to advertise itself in every spare pixel of the internet

no app with an ethical TOS & other acronyms could rise to the top like that. even word of mouth is slowly dying, there’s too much white noise around (bots)

remember that the end of the world has been caluclated many, many times now. sometimes with vibes, sometimes with actual data, and so far it hasn’t happened, somehow we keep on persevering despite everything

however sure you are of your estimates, the world is to chaotic to ever truly know

dubious method but correct conclusion, i’d give you half a point

i’d be willing to suffer another year of ram shortage if that meant all smart devices fucked off

maybe we could even see actual physical buttons on devices again! i miss buttons and toggles

if you want to be treated seriously maybe provide some proof instead of saying that you’re attuned to all datapoints and can therefore see the future lol

aw whack you’re right, when my banking app stops supporting my OS version i’ll have to update

ya i know, but i don’t really download anything on my phone or click suspicious links, i know this is not a perfect defence, but honestly, i hate UI changes more than i worry about malicious software

can i walk around this by simply never updating my phone? been (not?) doing that for a year already anyways

haven’t read that Narnia book yet

on a second glance yeah alright, not AI generated. what gave me that vibe is the whacky perspective. i looked at it expecting a normal top down map and the skewing made it look wrong

is this map AI generated? why is the UK so bent? why is Poland so wide?

don’t forget to check christianty Extended Universe, 2000 years of people interpreting random passages in ways that suit their narrative and makes them sound only slightly delusional

“be fruitful and multiply? ah, so i need to fuck a lot. and when i fuck a lot i need to breed a lot. and if i make any attempts at doing one without the other i am evil and a sinner and will go to hell”

yeah that makes sense, my grandma only ever uses the good china for christmas and that’s it. the only reason she’d whip it out twice in a year would indeed be if the pope came to visit her

psychadelics are only one type of drugs, besides, you can achieve psychadelic effects through meditation alone

the archetype you’re looking for is “Anti-hero”. a kind of hero with grey morals and questionable ethics - but whose actions still have a mostly positive result

typically - a hero will try to rehabilitate a criminal first, throw them in prison second, and only kill if they’ve exhausted all other options. killing is usually shown as something that the hero struggles with greatly

an anti-hero will often skip the “when will murder be my only option?” ethical dilemma regular heroes have and go straight to the killing. in their stories casual killing is either shown as normal, or serves as a plot point that’ll come back to haunt them later (“i killed that man without thinking, but now he turned out to be innocent”)

this is not the only difference between the two of course, but i don’t want to type an essay

that looks like we’re running out of gold

the test wasn’t personalised for me, IQ tests can’t be personalised as the IQ result is derived from how far you deviate from the base 100. you can’t reliably figure out the standard or compare people to it if you give every other guy a different test

the only personalisation you get is tests that cover lower or higher results. the most generic ones focus mostly on +/-2/3 standard deviations and become inaccurate at the borders. if you’re a genius, or mentally disabled then you need a different test if you want to figure out how big of a genius/disability you got

but yeah good idea to ask an actual professional, hope you find the answers you seek

fair points Mr AssTits, but there’s one thing i’ll nitpick - if you are always given a culturally neutral test - how are you supposed to check the various types of intelligence, when the culturally neutral test is just a bunch of logic puzzles, it only tests for logic. it’s impossible to test for debate ability, or musical abilities, or any other abilities with culturally neutral methods. even for a debate skill you need linguistic skills and langauges are heavily influenced by cultures they function in.

i took an IQ test with a licensed psychologist, WAIS for adults to be specific, and it was indeed based on the polish school curriculum. it supposedly measured 3 metrics: logic, language, emotion (not exact names of those metrics, forgot those). logic was just logic puzzles & memorising stuff, langauge was word definitions, and i assume an analysis of how i expressed myself, and emotion was honestly dumb and included sayings and idioms which??? i’m neurodivergent i get these wrong all the time, but i can read emotions and behave maturely quite well. then an average of these was taken and presented as my general IQ

i came out of there thinking how it’d be impossible for me to score well if i didn’t have the privilege of attending good schools, or just being lucky (there was a section of culturally important figures, one of whom was Maria Skłodowka-Curie who also happened to be a patron of my primary school so, yeah i kinda knew a lot about her)

T–T

if even one person learnt something new today i’ll consider that a win

it was at -1 when i saw it, which is what prompted me to attempt to give a step by step process leading to the conclusion you gave as it seemed to me folks just lacked context