Powerful

“The last battle humans fight on all of Earth will be at a big hill called Tel Megiddo just west of Afula” is one hell of a bold claim, though.

Ceramics mostly

She set up a forum, and by all accounts it was pretty decent.

No doubt. I’m not casting dispersion on her. But men screaming “Why won’t anyone fuck me?!” today, having trampled over a woman with the exact same complaint is deeply ironic.

When you get under the hood of a lot of modern incel culture (particularly, but not exclusively, male incel culture) the underlying complaint tends isn’t inceldom nearly so much as it is that porn stars won’t fuck them (for free) and people with anime anatomy aren’t real.

That’s so far afield of the original desire for romantic companionship that made up the seed of the community. And it is driven, in large part, by the commoditization of romance through the same Big Tech and digital marketing companies that promote porn and other unrealistic expectations of beauty.

You were not part of the discussion

Clearly I am now.

where the fuck do you get off thinking that our district supports these programs materially and that a teacher recommendation was sufficient enough to place in the non-segregated TAG program.

Because its exhaustively well-documented.

I can’t emphasize this enough. Fuck you

Seems like your kid is in a healthy and loving household.

Pretty Guy: Does basically nothing and women fall all over him

Nice Guy: Becomes a phrenologist in response

Always worth remembering that the OG Incel was a woman blogging about how desperate she was to lose her virginity.

preclude a discussion on child needs

They indict the system precisely because of how it distributes resources for the children of Haves and Have-Nots.

Our child was referred by a teacher

“I was told that my kid isn’t like other kids” is always the bait at the end of these hooks. You’re not segregating, you’re elevating.

No real need to look back and ask why the broader structural issues of class size, teacher experience, and class room hours aren’t addressed holistically. Maybe the kids you left behind just don’t need those resources like your precious little muffin does.

Idk if I’d even call it “intellectual” so much as “smug”. You find this all over. People self-sort into cliches. And then they get high on their own supply, insisting everyone outside their group is inferior.

You’ll find it over in the Joe Rogan-verse, among the TradCaths, in every ethnic enclave from Cuban expats to the Taiwanese Diaspora. As common among Marxists as Fascists. As common among Americans as Iranians. As common in the board rooms as the barber shops.

Broadly speaking - and particularly as people get older - we develop this entrenched worldview that results from accumulations of vast amounts of personal and peripheral information.

Gifted And Talented was just segregation with extra steps.

You could buy your way in. You could be placed in the group by referral, without any testing. We had a developmentally disabled kid in our GT class, because his parents were rich and GT offered your kid far more resources than the standard school program.

The lowest common denominator of GT programs wasn’t IQ or GPA or number of spelling bee wins, but address and family income.

Except isn’t nthis what American zionists want?

There is an American doomsday cult that thinks Israel needs to be demolished, because some 3rd century gnostic who was most likely tripping balls while writing Christian fanfic got his work included in the official Biblical texts.

What this overlooks is how many times the territories in and around Jerusalem have been sacked and plundered, how many genocides the region has endured, and how often the various diasporas native to the region have failed to fulfill any of their goofy eliminationist fantasies.

Armageddon keeps happening. Antichrists keep emerging. Plagues keep ravishing the land. We must be on the twentieth “Second Coming” by now.

Iran is scheduled to play three group-stage matches beginning on 11 June, including fixtures against New Zealand and Belgium in Los Angeles, followed by a match against Egypt in Seattle.

The comments come after Iran’s sports minister, Ahmad Donyamali, said the team would not take part in the tournament following the US-Israeli war on Iran.

“Considering that this corrupt regime has assassinated our leader, under no circumstances can we participate in the World Cup,” he said.

Amazing how a six paragraph long article managed to bury the lead.

I see these estimates fixating on the cost of US artillery.

I rarely see the estimates of damage inflicted on Iran, outside the anecdotes of destroyed power plants and water systems. Nobody seems interested in the horror we’ve unleashed on the Iranian population or the clear genocidal intent of the Israel/US military policy. It’s always and forever westerners wringing their hands over their own budgets and balance sheets.

We’ve deprecated a lot of the old TV/radio signal bandwidth in order to convert it to cellphone signal service.

But, on the flip side, digital antennae can hold a lot more information than the old analog signals. So now I’ve got a TV with a mini-antennae that gets 500 channels (virtually none of which I watch). My toddler son has figured out how to flip the channel to the continuous broadcast of Baby Einstein videos. And he periodically hijacks the TV for that purpose, when we leave the remote where he can reach.

So there’s at least one person I can name who likes the current state of affairs.

But the user wants a gui.

Firstly, plenty of Linux instances have GUI. I installed Mint precisely because I wanted to keep the Windows/Mac desktop experience I was familiar with. GUIs add latency, sure. But we’ve had smooth GUI experiences since Apple’s 1980s OS. This isn’t the primary load on the system.

Secondly, as the Windows OS tries to do more and more online interfacing, the bottleneck that used to be CPU or open Memory or even Graphics is increasingly internet latency. Even just going to the start menu means making calls out online. Querying your local file system has built in calls to OneDrive. Your system usage is being constantly polled and tracked and monitored as part of the Microsoft imitative to feed their AI platforms. And because all of these off-platform calls create external vulnerabilities, the (abhorrently designed) antivirus and firewall systems are constantly getting invoked to protect you from the online traffic you didn’t ask for.

It’s a black hole of bloatware.

Found out about this while watching “Halt and Catch Fire” (AMC’s effort to recreate the magic of Mad Men, but on the computer).

Doherty Threshold

In 1982 Walter J. Doherty and Ahrvind J. Thadani published, in the IBM Systems Journal, a research paper that set the requirement for computer response time to be 400 milliseconds, not 2,000 (2 seconds) which had been the previous standard. When a human being’s command was executed and returned an answer in under 400 milliseconds, it was deemed to exceed the Doherty threshold, and use of such applications were deemed to be “addicting” to users.

Less electable than Herschal Walker

Isn’t it more having difficulty focusing for extended periods?

According to OP, they can’t even make it to the end of a sentence. shrug

I’d say the phenomenon is more hyperfocusing long enough to figure out the point,

and then getting frustrated as the speaker takes a long time to illustrate that point.

I definitely get feeling annoyed when someone rambles. And I get tuning out when a work presentation or a school lecture drags on. And I get feeling frustrated when a conversation or discussion is sidelined by minutiae.

But the “Um, aktuly, I don’t need to listen to this because I already know the answer” shit is extremely toxic behavior that inevitably sets people up to fail. If you’ve ever had to deal with student drivers before, it’s the way someone responds moments before they bend a fender.

Getting Overwhelmed is entirely different from Knowing The Answer In Advance.

be proven correct

ADHD is having difficulty focusing.

Hubris is assuming your inability to stay focused is some kind of precog superpower.

Annoying to deal with kids who insist “I know what you were going to say” one minute and “You didn’t tell me that!” the next. Infuriating to deal with adults who double down with therapy language.

Reminds me of an old joke.

Would people cut trees down if they could scream?

Omg, yes, absolutely. That would be the only way to shut them up.