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[JKLivin]

100%. Glad to help.

Yer doin’ great, Perfesser! Keep up the good work!

You too! Great job, great effort.

Every single post you make reinforces what a whiney cunt-bitch you are.

Keep ‘em coming!

You think leaving out the phallic references disproves my point, but referring to me as female genitalia is the other side of the same coin. Your subconscious will rat you out every time.

Keep diggin’! You’ll show me!

[Overlander]

Yer doin’ great, Perfesser! Keep up the good work!

You too! Great job, great effort.

Every single post you make reinforces what a whiney cunt-bitch you are.

Keep ‘em coming!

You think leaving out the phallic references disproves my point, but referring to me as female genitalia is the other side of the same coin. Your subconscious will rat you out every time.

Keep diggin’! You’ll show me!

I refer to you with moniker that you earn yourself daily.

If you need to cry yourself to sleep thinking I am the only one here that has that opinion about you, so be it.

[JKLivin]

You too! Great job, great effort.

Every single post you make reinforces what a whiney cunt-bitch you are.

Keep ‘em coming!

You think leaving out the phallic references disproves my point, but referring to me as female genitalia is the other side of the same coin. Your subconscious will rat you out every time.

Keep diggin’! You’ll show me!

I refer to you with moniker that you earn yourself daily.

If you need to cry yourself to sleep thinking I am the only one here that has that opinion about you, so be it.

You like using the term “moniker” because you think it makes you sound intelligent. I don’t think it’s the term you’re really looking for, but I’m sure it impresses the heck out of the fellas who have a semester of community college under their belts at work.

Way to show me my place!

[KUTradition]

sound intelligent…there’s that projection again

[Overlander]

sound intelligent…there’s that projection again

Bragging about your superior intellect kind of falls flat when you let everyone know that your financial situation makes it difficult to manage a convenience store purchase.

[japhy]

I recently spent the day at KU talking to students and faculty at an engineering career fair. A lot of highly educated, very intelligent people. It is interesting that never once in my years of going there has any of them reminded me they had a PHD or even talked about it. None of them has ever felt it needed to be said that they were intelligent. In the sciences it seems that ideas and facts are paramount to making any point they wish to make. And your work speaks for itself.

But in the pseudosciences it seems to be different. I know a couple of PHDs in that category. One has her doctorate from an on line school in "gender/racial equity" and is obsessed with letting everyone know she has a PHD and she is "intelligent and philosophically so". She complains about how she has to work as an adjunct in another school to make ends meet. I have to wonder is this a trait of online PHDs? Is this a trait that is fostered by earning "advanced" degrees in the pseudosciences? Maybe it is just human frailty and insecurity.

My take away message for everyone is the same as always. Raise your children to understand the importance of math, science and critical thinking skills. This is how we make the world a better place. I read last night that some engineers figured out how to make a filter that fits on a faucet and will remove micro-plastics from your water. And "the economy" values these skills, so your kids won't be complaining about their second and third jobs.

[Overlander]

I recently spent the day at KU talking to students and faculty at an engineering career fair. A lot of highly educated, very intelligent people. It is interesting that never once in my years of going there has any of them reminded me they had a PHD or even talked about it. None of them has ever felt it needed to be said that they were intelligent. In the sciences it seems that ideas and facts are paramount to making any point they wish to make. And your work speaks for itself.

But in the pseudosciences it seems to be different. I know a couple of PHDs in that category. One has her doctorate from an on line school in "gender/racial equity" and is obsessed with letting everyone know she has a PHD and she is "intelligent and philosophically so". She complains about how she has to work as an adjunct in another school to make ends meet. I have to wonder is this a trait of online PHDs? Is this a trait that is fostered by earning "advanced" degrees in the pseudosciences? Maybe it is just human frailty and insecurity.

My take away message for everyone is the same as always. Raise your children to understand the importance of math, science and critical thinking skills. This is how we make the world a better place. I read last night that some engineers figured out how to make a filter that fits on a faucet and will remove micro-plastics from your water. And "the economy" values these skills, so your kids won't be complaining about their second and third jobs.

Great post

[JKLivin]

sound intelligent…there’s that projection again

Bragging about your superior intellect kind of falls flat when you let everyone know that your financial situation makes it difficult to manage a convenience store purchase.

Your poor reading comprehension is the only reason you arrive at that conclusion from my post.

That, or just willfully twisting things to make yourself feel better.

Either way, SMH.

[Overlander]

sound intelligent…there’s that projection again

Bragging about your superior intellect kind of falls flat when you let everyone know that your financial situation makes it difficult to manage a convenience store purchase.

Your poor reading comprehension is the only reason you arrive at that conclusion from my post.

That, or just willfully twisting things to make yourself feel better.

Either way, SMH.

Reading comprehension smack is your comeback?

Weak, as expected

[jfish26]

I recently spent the day at KU talking to students and faculty at an engineering career fair. A lot of highly educated, very intelligent people. It is interesting that never once in my years of going there has any of them reminded me they had a PHD or even talked about it. None of them has ever felt it needed to be said that they were intelligent. In the sciences it seems that ideas and facts are paramount to making any point they wish to make. And your work speaks for itself.

But in the pseudosciences it seems to be different. I know a couple of PHDs in that category. One has her doctorate from an on line school in "gender/racial equity" and is obsessed with letting everyone know she has a PHD and she is "intelligent and philosophically so". She complains about how she has to work as an adjunct in another school to make ends meet. I have to wonder is this a trait of online PHDs? Is this a trait that is fostered by earning "advanced" degrees in the pseudosciences? Maybe it is just human frailty and insecurity.

My take away message for everyone is the same as always. Raise your children to understand the importance of math, science and critical thinking skills. This is how we make the world a better place. I read last night that some engineers figured out how to make a filter that fits on a faucet and will remove micro-plastics from your water. And "the economy" values these skills, so your kids won't be complaining about their second and third jobs.

I hear, in your post, echoes of last night's exchanges on expertise.

In my experience, people with true expertise in anything - substantive subject matter mastery obtained through education AND experience, as distinct from an impressive-but-airy ability to talk masterfully about the subject matter - recognize the limits of that kind of expertise, and respect that kind of expertise in others.

The reason for this is obvious: there is only so much TIME for a person to acquire (by education AND experience) substantive subject matter expertise in something, and that TIME is not available to acquire substantive subject matter expertise in other things.

Conversely, it's very easy for an intelligent person to acquire speaking mastery of many things.

Where we run into trouble is when the rubes of the world confuse speaking mastery for substantive subject matter mastery. That is how junk science gets elevated above experience-based expertise.

[Overlander]

Another great post.

This is a really nice morning on KCrim today!

[japhy]

Expertise, is the difference between getting paid $300/day and charging $300/hour.

Grifting is the performative art of getting people to give you $300/minute.

The rubes love fancy talk when it parrots their bias. And they love trumpty plumpty cuz he says the racist/sexist parts without varnish for them and has no consequences. He is their "id" come to life and performing on TV.

[jfish26]

Expertise, is the difference between getting paid $300/day and charging $300/hour.

Grifting is the performative art of getting people to give you $300/minute.

The rubes love fancy talk when it parrots their bias. And they love trumpty plumpty cuz he says the racist/sexist parts without varnish for them and has no consequences. He is their "id" come to life and performing on TV.

No one would deny that Trump truly has singular subject matter mastery in the areas of griftery, bilkery and generalized flim-flammery.

[japhy]

Not since emancipation and universal suffrage have the rube beta cucks of our country felt so historically disenfranchised in their meager semblance of superiority.

A black woman president. It would be an uppity dagger in their heart.

They might have to start working for societal "respect", instead of just demanding it as their biblically ordained birthright.

It would help us help them if they weren't always blathering "in tongues" and shit.

[twocoach]

Expertise, is the difference between getting paid $300/day and charging $300/hour.

Grifting is the performative art of getting people to give you $300/minute.

The rubes love fancy talk when it parrots their bias. And they love trumpty plumpty cuz he says the racist/sexist parts without varnish for them and has no consequences. He is their "id" come to life and performing on TV.

No one would deny that Trump truly has singular subject matter mastery in the areas of griftery, bilkery and generalized flim-flammery.

I will admit that if I was an immoral piece of shit who cared only about my own accomplishments and goals and my goal was to rip people off for personal profit in the NYC real estate market that Trump would probably be one of the most knowledgeable resources to talk to. Outside of that, he hasn't proven to know anything else well.

[jfish26]

Expertise, is the difference between getting paid $300/day and charging $300/hour.

Grifting is the performative art of getting people to give you $300/minute.

The rubes love fancy talk when it parrots their bias. And they love trumpty plumpty cuz he says the racist/sexist parts without varnish for them and has no consequences. He is their "id" come to life and performing on TV.

No one would deny that Trump truly has singular subject matter mastery in the areas of griftery, bilkery and generalized flim-flammery.

I will admit that if I was an immoral piece of shit who cared only about my own accomplishments and goals and my goal was to rip people off for personal profit in the NYC real estate market that Trump would probably be one of the most knowledgeable resources to talk to. Outside of that, he hasn't proven to know anything else well.

I don't think "rip people off" is quite right. Not if the theory I believe about how exactly we got here is even directionally accurate.

[japhy]

The rube beta cucks understand as well or better than the rest of us this reality. The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards diversity, equity and inclusivity in the halls of power.

But they will deny, rage, pray/bargain; in the hope that acceptance does not come in their lifetime.

Once again, in case I have not said it enough, thanks for your debt service rubes!

[jfish26]

The rube beta cucks understand as well or better than the rest of us this reality. The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards diversity, equity and inclusivity in the halls of power.

But they will deny, rage, pray/bargain; in the hope that acceptance does not come in their lifetime.

Once again, in case I have not said it enough, thanks for your debt service rubes!

I really do think it's possible that we're living in the Great Filter.

We have achieved a level of knowledge-sharing and technology that enables us to kill off each other and the planet, before we have achieved collective maturity NOT to think the mere existence of those other scary men in that other cave is an existential threat to us.

[japhy]

I went to a performance/presentation at JCCC last weekend given by Dana and Greg Newkirk. Interesting folks who collect "haunted objects". They talked about the Phillip Experiment and the dybbuk box and other cases of people creating haunted objects and physical possession through manifestation of people's thoughts embedded by intention in objects/people.

It left me thinking about the trumpty plumpty phenomenon. Is he possessed by the spirit of the hatred and misogyny and racism and fear of his cult followers. Is it reinforced by the cheering screeching crowds at his 90 minute hate rallies, are they the energy input for the system. Being in the cult requires the suspension of critical thinking much like the dybbuk. It has been noted that being in proximity of objects that people have imprinted with their belief/fear that they are haunted or sacred, leads to authentic "feelings" of those belief after the fact.

Possessed dolls may be possessed by the fears of everyone who touches and looks at them in a vulnerable state of mind. The fear reinforces itself and manifests to the next beholder. trumpty is possessed by his own fears/insecurities and it is reinforced by the fears and rage of his followers. He is merely a vessel, for rent to the highest grift bid.

In the 1950's they had the "Crying Boy Painting Curse" destroying homes in the UK. In the end The Sun newspaper, which played a key role in stoking the flames of the hysteria, agreed to take all of the paintings brought to them by the public and burn them to "release the curse". And it "worked".

So this is my pledge to you faithful and capricious rubes. If you bring all of your trumpty plumpty flags to the Empire for the next Solstice; we will burn them in a thermite blaze! And all of the inflationary, dog eating, rapist, lazy, hospital clogging, illegal voting, housing stealing immigrants will magically cease to exist. They will be burnt up in the fire, never to return. You rubes will be safe again.

Gracias por su servicio de deuda, rubes.

[Sparko]

The rube beta cucks understand as well or better than the rest of us this reality. The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards diversity, equity and inclusivity in the halls of power.

But they will deny, rage, pray/bargain; in the hope that acceptance does not come in their lifetime.

Once again, in case I have not said it enough, thanks for your debt service rubes!

I really do think it's possible that we're living in the Great Filter.

We have achieved a level of knowledge-sharing and technology that enables us to kill off each other and the planet, before we have achieved collective maturity NOT to think the mere existence of those other scary men in that other cave is an existential threat to us.

An interesting cross-cultural thread: Maya Rudolph playing Kamala on SNL, and staving off the rubes in Idiocracy. I wonder if she thinks the movie a documentary now?