looked it up and an IQ below 50 means you probably can’t ever live independently, and below 25 means you’re pretty much a vegetable.

Nah man, not even close…

Besides, at the extremes if either side of the scale the overall number becomes pretty meaningless because the individual scores are going to have high variance.

I did an internship working with people with learning disabilities from “passable” to me having to change adult diapers for clients who were completely nonverbal and thought it was game.

I don’t know where you looked it up, but you’re way off.

But for this:

much less take an IQ test.

A normal test only covers 3 standard deviations. So if you’re over 145 or below 65, on a normal you take a specialized test if you want to actually know. There’s just not enough outliers to make the normal test able to cover everyone

Well I’m not going to keep making guesses in the hopes that same day you’ll elaborate on what you meant.

Have fun with your sticks I guess

Is this one of those things where people who have never seen a living vow before romanticize rural life?

And they’re socialized for that too…

Take a social animal, raise it in isolation, and it will be almost impossible for it to integrate in a group after released as an adult…

You’ve never seen any of the videos of wildlife rehab hiding the fact that they’re human from an animal?

You don’t need to be a billionaire or even own a boat…

People stage accidents on rented boats and even cruise ships fairly often.

Regardless of if it works and they get away with it, a lot of people have seen Dexter.

Billionaires can just outspend the government on lawyers to get away with anything. So there’s probably a higher percentage who assume they can get away with it.

Because DA’s are obsessed with win rate, they give cushy plea deals to people who can pay for good lawyers. Regular people and the government are the opposite, and innocent people are forced to take plea deals because time served and probation is always better than a 1% chance of 25 years in prison.

For a billionaire they just have to keep stalling till the money runs out. Even where Kirk got shot, the local officials were immediately freaking out over how they were going to pay for it all. So it doesn’t even take being a millionaire in some places. There’s a reason the children of lawyers are usually insufferable…

It’s like 1 of 2 days where the whole country shuts down. Even if a person doesn’t celebrate, they shouldn’t have to work

Man, I really didn’t think I had to explicitly point out lots of people have to take Christmas off, but have to burn personal days for their own holidays…

But here we are, me overestimating people again.

…

You realize a shit ton of Americans don’t care about Christmas…

Right?

And for the ones that do care about other religious holidays, the whole country doesn’t shut down to accommodate them.

It’s not innate…

Innately humans are just animals. It takes effort to get people on the same page that cooperating is usually best

But we stopped teaching kids that in school 20 years ago.

That’s the sad truth about it. It’s not that the right corrupted a generation, just that between them an the neoliberals, no one wanted to help them. They both wanted brain dead tribalism because that’s what their mutual donors want

It honestly shouldn’t be that hard for everyone to follow the string back to "no child left behind’ but I remember pointing out this would happen 30 years ago, and I thought it was obvious back then too.

Racing games too, especially single player races.

If conditions are the same every run, it will eventually find the mathematically fastest way. I saw a video about a guy doing it, and after thousands of runs the bot noticed a glitch if the car wasn’t on four wheels allowing it to move insanely fast. Like grinding a rail in Tony Hawk, the bot would immediately do it, and run the entire course on the glitch.

That’s not human intelligence tho, that’s the same as when a slime mold can design a transportation network as effectively as we can.

I can’t believe I’m not really not really flying a spaceship!

Leonard > Amy

Work is hard, modern games are easy.

Shoot this dot, go to that dot, bring “x” to this dot…

Anything requiring critical thinking like a puzzle, the bot just brute forces trying every possible outcome until something works.

It works because games have a finite set of options and at least one progresses. The real world isn’t that clean, and you don’t get infinite chances to get 1 correct solution.

Something people would actually use is a message board.

One of the simple cut and paste forums and pay the $10/month to get it hosted.

Just have people text you to approve registration, something you can verify people are really in the neighborhood

People aren’t going to want to download a bunch of stuff they don’t know about to hang out with the HOA for game nights…

The main problem with HOAs is lonely bored people who want something to do.

Most people would rather pretend the HOA doesn’t exist until it’s needed for an actual issue.

Non-human bots now account for 56.5% of internet traffic

Traffic, not content…

But still, we’re getting there

I mean, cocaine isn’t safe for the body either, but try telling that to a big breasted stripper while she’s punching you in the face with double D’s.

Lots of people make risky decisions…

But in this case it’s pretty safe. Ruptures are so common the filling is just as inert as the membrane.

I would imagine that any artificial thing (including implants) could last forever when left undisturbed for any given length of time

Then you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how things happen, and an oversized confidence in modern caskets.

Not to mention what seems to be a complete lack of understanding what “artificial” means

But they’ll rupture and leak…

Like, they’re not even a “lifetime” thing, go 20 years and you’re risking it. Most are recommended to be replaced after a decade, maybe 15 years. Which isn’t that long for a major surgery and why they’re almost always insured.

I knew a stripper back in the day that would basically beat people up with them, because if it ruptured she got new ones free, and if they didn’t rupture soon, they’d last long enough she’d have to pay for new ones out of pocket…

Because they’re not a permanent thing.

What?

I mean, obviously bones rot, but you think silicone implants last forever?

Besides telecoms not following their own generational requirements that they made up for themselves…

A big issue is that each new one always seem so much better, because no one else is on it.

Once adaption happens and people move to it, it free up the prior one and cuts down on the advantage.

If I said there was two types of fruit, would you there’s more than two species of fruit?