I used to think that Trump was just dumb. But, recently I’ve become convinced that he’s actually able to seem smarter than he actually is. Meaning, he appears to have an IQ of maybe 90, but he’s faking it because he’s actually closer to 80. His various coping mechanisms allow him to seem smarter than he is, but that “smarter than he is” still doesn’t bring him up to average.
Everyone around him must hate him so much, to allow him to go out in public looking like that.
“The average American, I think has, I think it’s fewer than three friends. Three people that they consider friends.”
This is Zuckerberg, claiming it’s normal not just to have only 3 friends, but fewer than 3. This is telling on yourself even more than “Women’s orgasms aren’t real because no woman I’ve ever been with has had an orgasm.”
If he counts his wife in that list of “fewer than 3 friends”, how many friends does he actually have? I get that being ultra rich means that often you can’t be sure who’s actually your friend, and who’s just there for the money. But, still, he should at least be able to count a handful of friends. I’ve known my 2 best friends since before I was 5 years old. Surely if Zuck had a normal childhood, he should have people who were his friends long before he got rich, who he can be sure aren’t just there for his money. If he doesn’t, it strongly suggests he was either a pretty awful kid, or he led a really weird life growing up and was isolated from anybody who could have become a friend.
And Trump weighs 224 lbs with 4.8% body fat.
Yeah, that I can get behind. His Texan shtick was an obvious act. But, even without that, I don’t think he had an IQ of 100. Like most politicians he had good emotional intelligence, and an ability to connect with people. Still, it was clear that even pretty basic concepts were a stretch for him.
I’m sure there was another similar incident in the last few months when some “policy” came out of the blue, and someone connected it to something else that had just recently been on TV. But, finding something like that is nearly impossible. What do you search for, “crazy policy ideas, Trump, 2025” There are just mountains of BS to sift through.
I’m sure he wasn’t even aware of what station was airing the movie. He was flicking through the channels and saw one that was interesting.
He was mindlessly flicking through the channels until one seemed interesting.
I feel you could call Bush a smart man
No.
That’s not something that can be solved by changing interest rates. To increase wages you need unions and for those unions to go on strike.
While it’s true that publishers do something of value, the amount they charge is absurd.
What makes it even worse is that so many of the people involved are donating their labour. It reminds me of college sports in the US. The actual people doing the work, the athletes, are forced to do it for free. Meanwhile, a few select groups: coaches, TV networks, etc. are making huge amounts of money.
This is why I hate the recent trend where people are saying “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”
“Piracy”, or more accurately “copyright infringement” was never stealing. What you’re doing is violating the government-granted monopoly on copying something. That’s so different from stealing.
“A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins.”
It doesn’t meet the requirements to be a currency. It’s a commodity.
Gold isn’t a currency, it’s a commodity.
Exotic dancers, waitstaff, sales people…
I imagine it won’t be long before Steam turns into the badguy.
People have been predicting Steam will do a heel turn for more than a decade. But, their consumer-friendly policies and ease of use have kept them the dominant platform despite immense spending from other companies.
They’re still a store, and I don’t think anybody’s confusing them with a charity. But, a nearly 20 year track record suggests that they know that being trustworthy and consumer-friendly is essential to their long-term financial success.
You’re right that Bluesky isn’t federated, but it most definitely is centralized.
What’s interesting about those is that they were originally medical terms (which I’m guessing @lemmy689@lemmy.sdf.org knows). But, for those who don’t:
Moron was coined by a psychologist in 1910. He tried to make it fancy by using an ancient greek word “moros” which meant “dull”. It wasn’t an insult, it was meant to be a clinical term “used to describe a person with a mental age in adulthood of between 7 and 10 on the Binet scale.”
Imbecile “originally referred to people of the second order in a former and discarded classification of intellectual disability, with a mental age of three to seven years and an IQ of 25–50”.
Idiot “was formerly a technical term in legal and psychiatric contexts for some kinds of profound intellectual disability where the mental age is two years or less”.
Then they became used in popular culture just to insult someone or describe someone who was stupid. Even their order changed. I’d say “Idiot” is the least insulting now, but used to be considered the most developmentally challenged.
In any case, “retard” also started as a clinical term, actually meant to replace idiot, imbecile and moron because they had become too widely used by the public and seen as insulting. Handicapped and disabled replaced retard when it was seen as too insulting. Then things moved on to “differently abled” or “challenged”. It’s been called the euphemism treadmill.
In the end, saying “retarded” was never illegal, at least in the US. It was just seen as crude. That hasn’t changed. It’s just that people who worried that being seen as crude might hold them back no longer think they have to worry.
An upscale but retro-themed gaming cafe would probably do well in a big enough city.
Like, instead of selling only Red Bull (but do sell that too) sell quality espresso. Instead of just instant Ramen (but do sell that too), sell Japanese-restaurant style Ramen. Charge a fair price for that, heck overcharge for it. It’s a bit like a movie theatre, but you’re getting quality goods not just popcorn.
You could also do well with the kinds of setups that most people can’t have at home because of space / time constraints. Like a proper VR setup with the space you actually need to take advantage of it. A Flight Sim cockpit with a good HOTAS setup. A racing setup with pedals and stick. Also, just simple stuff like couches in front of a big screen for playing console games together. Even people who have a couch, big TV and good console at home probably don’t get to have their pals over for gaming sessions much because they need to share the couch with spouses and kids.
Also, have lockers on-site people can rent out to store consoles, peripherals, etc. So, someone can come in, rent out a “booth”, and go get their gear out of the locker if there are specialty things they want that aren’t provided by the cafe.