Lewis2
2hr ago
Thanks. I was surprised since I didn’t see one when I took the test, nor did any of the other screenshots include that info. Also, I don’t see how anyone could claim to test IQ from a general knowledge quiz.
Lewis2
6hr ago
You’re mostly right, but
Lewis2
7hr ago
If your score on that test makes you feel bad, try taking the Figure Reasoning test on the same site. I’ve never done so poorly on an intelligence test in my life.
Lewis2
3d ago
I can think of one black American poster, @ToaKraka, off the top of my head, and I know we have (had) some others. @rallycar-jepsen was another, but he hasn’t posted in two years. As for non-Americans, @Tanista is Gambian and therefore presumably also black.
Lewis2
5d ago
I’m not at all surprised. To watch government officials pass draconian restrictions that they refused to abide by themselves; to watch public health officials knowingly and intentionally lie, to see them brag about it on TV, and then to see the world still continue to treat their word as gospel; to be mistreated and maligned for years over an issue on which you were right; to become a victim of the mother of all moral panics; and then to see the perpetrators call for a period of national forgiveness and completely avoid taking responsibility for their actions—all that is enough to radicalize and permanently embitter almost anyone.
But of course the board also has some members who broadly agreed with their government’s approach, making the perfect setup for an acrimonious fight.
Lewis2
5d ago
Not a single female trump voter I know hasn't had a major cosmetic procedure
At least one of us is in a bubble then. Not counting teeth-whitening, I don’t know a single female Trump voter who’s had any sort of obvious cosmetic work done.
I think the problem there is that you’re looking at the number of priests who worked closely with children in the early 2000s when the scandal broke, but you should be looking at the numbers in the 1960s and 70s when the abuses were most common. Many people don’t realize this, but the number of cases had begun dropping significantly already by 1985, even though it took another two decades for the coverups to become common knowledge. It was far more common for priests to work full-time outside the parish (as teachers, principals, missionaries, directors of orphanages and charities, etc.) back then, as the church wasn’t suffering from any sort of priest shortage in those days.
Lewis2
7d ago
Many Roman Catholic high schools were almost exclusively staffed by priests back in the day, so for the age range in which most of the abuse occurred, their level of access was identical. It was also common for priests to help run orphanages, institutions for troubled youth, boarding schools, youth camps, etc., giving those priests 24/7 access to kids. Most priests also have regular contact with child and teen altar servers still to this day, and it used to be unremarkable for priests to go on unsupervised trips and retreats with select male altar servers in order to help groom them for the priesthood. There were also plenty of cases of priests unofficially adopting youth from unstable homes—in some cases legitimately and in others just to abuse them. All that to say, while any individual priest might not have had as much access to kids as teachers do, there were plenty of cases where they had as much access or more.
Lewis2
8d ago
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’d be more sympathetic to the cops in this case if they hadn’t disabled his security cameras, called him a “sex addict” on record, and violated departmental procedures to (charitably) miscount or (uncharitably) steal $400 from him. All that took place long before he made those videos, and they were all choices that a different set of officers might not have made. Note that Afroman only went after the officers who were involved in those actions, not all of the officers who were involved in the raid.
Lewis2
8d ago
I’ve read that the cop in question has a mixed-race teenage daughter, even though he and his wife have been married for almost 30 years. He also testified that he’s known Afroman’s wife for years, so the families have definitely interacted in the past.
Lewis2
9d ago
Dirlewanger’s men were if anything more creative in their abuses, though I won’t describe them here. Himmler knew what they were up to, saying, “The tone in the regiment is, I may say, in many cases a medieval one with cudgels and such things.” Despite this, he told Dirlewanger, “I am very satisfied with your actions, as I recently told you personally.”
After Dirlewanger was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, the highest honor in the German military during WWII, he gloated to a friend,
you know as well as I do that I received this high award for the soldierly achievements of my regiment, among other things. With this, the last unwelcome voices from "higher places" about my unit should have faded away! My men have achieved superhuman things in this fight to the death and destruction and have earned themselves a place in the honor book of the German soldier by their sweat, blood, and heroic sacrificial commitment!
Among those “unwelcome voices” was that of Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, the head of the SS in Poland, who threatened to arrest the entire regiment if they were not removed from his territory. Eventually even Himmler became alarmed at the grotesque behavior of the regiment, but only because he was concerned that they would eventually begin to attack fellow German soldiers and the Nazi leadership.
What’s particularly bizarre about the group is that Hitler seems to have initially ordered its creation as a punishment for the men involved—originally mostly poachers, whom the animal-loving Hitler hated. Instead, he gave a group of the most depraved sexual perverts, sadists, and psychopaths five years to enjoy satisfying their demonic urges to their hearts’ content.
Lewis2
9d ago
I don’t think Nazis had a lot of sexual abuses.
The national leaders seem to have been personally virtuous in this regard, but they were also willing to tolerate and promote men like Oskar Dirlewanger, who was notorious for his many atrocities, including raping, mutilating, and murdering scores of women and children.
Lewis2
15d ago
I’d say that Newton invented calculus and discovered the laws of gravity, but I really view both actions as synonymous. On reflection, I’d say there’s an element of invention in both cases, but that both should really be described more as discoveries.
Lewis2
17d ago
Because for hundreds of years, different nations had their own native pronunciations of Latin. This style survives in English in legal Latin (“de jure,” “bona fide,” “prima facie,” etc.), in the pronunciation of Latin loanwords (agenda, species, index, camera, “et cetera,” etc.), and in common names and titles (Caesar, Cicero, Julius, Tacitus, etc.).
Besides, if you want an artificial, unified pronunciation, why pick Italian, rather than just using the reconstructed classical pronunciation?
Lewis2
17d ago
Or we just stick with the traditional English pronunciation and be done with it. It is kind of strange that the 19th century trend of pronouncing Latin as Italian still has such wide-spread acceptance today.
Lewis2
18d ago
she values her time and sanity at zero
You may be surprised at the number of people to whom that applies. If you ever get the chance, ask a civil lawyer to describe some of the most trivial lawsuits he’s been involved with.
Lewis2
18d ago
My understanding is that the sum he returned pretty much paid her legal fees, and that was it. Her family was pissed that she settled for basically nothing, but she felt she “just had to move on.”
Lewis2
19d ago
An acquaintance of mine was bilked out of a five-figure some by a shady contractor a few years ago. After fighting with him in court for two years, she finally agreed to settle. He returned a tenth of what he stole, and in exchange, he demanded that she change her one-star Google review to a five-star. I mentioned this story to a friend of mine who works in a related field, and he said he’s seen that same scenario play out several times before. There’s unfortunately just not much anyone can do to prevent such behavior.
Lewis2
19d ago
“Peaked in high school” is definitely a real thing, though as others have mentioned, it’s probably more common in small towns and in sports-focused subcultures. A related type that doesn’t get quite as much focus is the “unpopular in high school and trying desperately to make up for it as an adult.” You’ll find a disproportionate number working as high school teachers, coaches (though they’re usually more the “peaked in high school” type), summer camp directors, youth directors, these people, etc.
Lewis2
23d ago
The bribes wouldn’t—couldn’t—be high enough. Too many Americans would expect $1,000,000 checks from each billionaire. They’d all be slaughtered due to the population’s innumeracy.
Some complaints about the quiz, several of which have already been mentioned by others:
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