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Where to look for what? Interesting artists?
On the one hand, that's likely to be true, like the interesting music coming out of various subcultures in the 90s.
On the other hand, I'm not sure how one would go about looking for that. They have an "artist studio tour" in my area, and although there are something like 40 artists, I didn't find anything I felt any energy from. They were mostly boomers painting hills, or sometimes textural abstract sorts of things.
faceh
10m ago
Have to also account for how that brain is wired up and, maybe most critically, how it responds to stressors and setbacks.
Having two people of equal (and relatively high) IQ but with different neurochemistry and one can be a neurotic wreck who can nonetheless make good contributions to a group, and the other can be calm and decisive and able to actually take responsibility for the group's actions and inspire the group to follow him.
I'm never going to say ONE factor determines all observed differences, but a brain awash in testosterone will produce far more behaviors we expect as 'leaderly' than one awash in estrogen.
And on the other hand, cortisol is the stress hormone, (see the previous links) which can trigger cognitive disruptions... but also lead someone to be decisive out of pure survival instinct.
I can say that my perception is that women that attain leadership position read to me as high-cortisol style leaders. Constantly stressed, constantly making decisions because they have to and are basically in continual fight-or-flight mode. And if they're high-IQ enough, they are able to navigate those decisions well, but they're never emotionally comfortable with it.
If cortisol is too low, of course, then the response to dangers/threats is delayed so even if they make good decisions, they might come too late to make a difference.
If the majority of women at all IQ levels fall into the low-T/High-C quadrant, it would explain why there's just fewer female leaders overall.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
16m ago
1797 score, which put me in the top 55% for today. I got several incredibly tricky ones (ended up being greater Indonesia) which tanked my average. Other than those, I was generally remarkably close.
FtttG
22m ago
cost Larry Summers his position as President of Harvard.
It frustrates me that whenever his name is mentioned, I picture Douglas Urbanski.
What's currently the most cost-effective and practical method of getting ahold of Ozempic/whatever weight-loss drug in the US without a diabetes diagnosis?
You should learn how to buy the freeze-dried peptides directly from gray market sources and constitute them yourself in vials with bacteriostatic water and use an insulin syringe to inject it. There are Telegram groups where people get together and test the gray market sources, usually organized by the gray market source itself.
Most cost-effective: this comes to about $60/month if you buy a one year supply of the drug and related materials.
Most practical: because you can just get everything delivered and don't need to manage a prescription via a doctor, though it takes a bit of research. It's not as idiot-proof though so you could mis-dose yourself, but if you're sane and can do basic math and trust a friend to double-check your work you should be 100% fine.
If you don't have a diabetes diagnosis but can convince your doctor to write you a prescription for it anyway (since it is approved for weight loss as "Wegovy"), you can expect to pay about $350-500/month by buying it ("Zepbound") from Eli Lily direct. You still have to fill and inject yourself with syringes though.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
26m ago
I was informed, with mock-seriousness, that confusing a denizen of Colorado with a Texan was a Capital Crime.
Accurate. Texas has annexed large amounts of Colorado, and many locals are less than pleased. In part, it goes back to this observation:
Our taxi driver continued complaining that the tourists who appear to be Dover’s primary fuel source were a nuisance who clogged the roads. This seems to be a common paradox in tourist economies.
However, many of the Texans have moved from the category of "tourist" to "occupying force," hence the less-than-fond attitude by many Coloradans towards Texans.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
27m ago
Extremely absurdly niche genres/mediums that you can't train an AI on because there's no prior art is my guess of where to look.
No_one
27m ago
It's a meme on twitter because, iirc, Britain and especially London restricts AC in new buildings etc.
atelier
Jimmys: unrustled
30m ago
Google shows you it's location tracking in Google maps timeline.
Apps that respond to voice commands Hey Alexa, OK Google etc. Must record all sounds to parse the command sound. That doesn't mean they archive it all but it's all getting recorded and processed. They certainly have all your phone call metadata (who you called and for how long). Your browser has site history which is generally sold widely.
I would operate under the expectation that all of those but phone transcripts to be available to anyone who wants to buy them.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
32m ago
Thankfully the pedo rings don't in fact exist. Hopefully Rightists will grow more comfortable in saying so. Epstein conspiracism is not only wrong on the facts, it's a pointless political dead-end.
I don't think you can conclude this.
It's a pointless political dead-end because it can't ever be adjudicated. At best you can say the epistemic commons are so poisoned on the issue that Epstein Files is now 9/11 Conspiracy is now JFK Conspiracy. No majority will believe any explanation, no matter how bipartisan the committee and how much evidence gets dumped.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
49m ago
Have any other middle-aged dudes grown out their hair? How did you keep from going insane?
I'm over a year into growing it out and it's long enough to pull into a ponytail. However, I don't want traction alopecia, so it can't be in a ponytail all the time, and it drives me crazy when it's loose and I can feel the weight against my neck (I have very coarse hair that is also very thick [such a burden for a man in his 40s, I know]). Taking care of it is one thing, but always feeling it is another. Perhaps I have too much 'tism for long hair.
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
51m ago
but in the end parents still want their kids to be successful,
Be afraid of this. Be very afraid. Immoral Mazes reward psychopathy - mean chickens. Selecting for expected income would literally be one of the most destructive rubrics possible; at least if 5% of the new generation had penis noses it'd mostly just suck for that 5% rather than dragging everyone else down with them the way that 5% being genius psychopaths would.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
55m ago
The Skin by Malaparte. Not as good as Kaputt so far, but it has been worth it if only for the chapter about how the young male survivors of WW2 became communists because they were homosexuals and wanted political justification for their pederasty.
Hmm I can think of at least 2 other people getting screwed…
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