Very well said. Is it even possible to quantify intelligence? I mean, you can obviously measures brain size, which they did, and that was lacking, then they measured amount of gray matter, which matters a lot more, conclusively, but there is also the fact that even losing pieces of the brain cannot stop a person from being fully functioning due to neuroplasticity, and then you have concepts like IQ tests which are verifiable steeped in white exceptionalism aka racist as hell.

It seems like the issue is more nuanced than all that.

Not to mention grades are about doing the work and having the discipline and organizational skills. There are plenty of people who are very intelligent, but lack both of those. US testing metrics (is that the right word?) are heavily flawed. This isn’t even bringing up the racist aspect of most institutions, including educational being headed up and formulated by white people.

Hackers are revving up their fingers

Uh oh

That’s a complicated question with an even more complicated answer. The two words I will use are geopolitical advantage.

May we stop living in interesting times…

ITT: Really good story prompts…

Is this an original ? If so, do you write because I want more. You had me wanting to look up the book to buy it lol. Good shit

There is no cheese.

Man is gonna fuck around and get ass-assinated.

EDIT: That means he is doing a bang up job for those not paying attention

Agreed and well said. It reminds me of when someone lauds Thomas Jefferson as being brilliant and having great political ideas for America, but then someone clutches their pearls because he was a slave owner. Yes, being a slave owner is abhorrent, BUT it doesn’t negate the positive contributions. That isn’t how reality works. You can condemn the bad and accept the good when it comes to the effects of people and organizations and concepts.

Quit inhaling your own farts.

Well. I never really gathered much direct information on what type of person Kissinger was, but considering the characters of both Anthony Bourdain and Sanders, I think I’ll put him in the burn in hell camp.

Black Mirror episodes coming true or already being true is hedging into “Simpsons did it!” Territory

Talk about forgetting your roots…

If you didn’t say it I was gonna.

Late stage capitalism ruined or will ruin every corporation FTFY

After reading the article I not only signed up for Teen Vogue’s political newsletter, I signed up for the United Autoworkers Union newsletter too and I’m not even part of a Union!

This could be applied so many different ways and is especially topical right now with that’s currently going with the world policitically cough cough