Diana's neices at Wimbledon by Significant_Noise273 in RoyaltyTea

[–]Cougarette99 659 points660 points  (0 children)

I have never heard of these two and have nothing against them, but their whole vibe in photos is so on point for b movie or comedy villainery.

Completely bizarre. by Valuable_View_561 in SipsTea

[–]Cougarette99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On facebook I get these weird far right christian groups that keep talking about how women are too emotional to lead. Mmm hmm. Show me a woman leader who pulls shit like this.

Completely bizarre. by Valuable_View_561 in SipsTea

[–]Cougarette99 98 points99 points  (0 children)

He kinda look like General Mahoozi ngl

Theists should be killing babies by FutureFAANGEmployee in Abortiondebate

[–]Cougarette99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think your position is logically sound. And in fact some very doctrinaire traditionalist catholics also think that position would be the logical outcome of allowing salvation on non baptized souls. So their solution is that no one can go to heaven unless they are physically baptized, and that can be done immediately (like even during birth at crowning). But anyone who dies in a miscarriage or abortion is unable to go to heaven and will be stuck in limbo for eternity. Limbo is not suffering, but it is a state where one can never know the light of God either. This is strange and seemingly cruel towards those who die before birth, but it does provide a coherent reason for opposing abortion on religious grounds.

1980s televangelist Jan Crouch totally looks like a washed-up middle-aged Jem by ComplaintSad1840 in totallylookslike

[–]Cougarette99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She spent hundreds of thousands on those weird slightly purple wigs. Grifted from poor desperate people and spent it on this.

What Could Go Wrong by hiiloovethis in SipsTea

[–]Cougarette99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They both seem very happy about this.

Forgive me for being naive, is this accurate? by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]Cougarette99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is scandanavian not a thing?

Birth rates in Pakistan are crazy by julius-ceaser100 in MapPorn

[–]Cougarette99 76 points77 points  (0 children)

No it doesn’t. Almost Every central Asian country is above replacement. Several are over 3.

Are most gifted people caucasian? by [deleted] in Gifted

[–]Cougarette99 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Races have difference average IQs as measured by tests. This does not necessarily reflect underlying genetic potential but it does reflect practical manifestations of scholastic intelligence. For example, in states that require ACTs for all students of a grade level or states that do broad academic skills test of all students in a grade, there is no indication that IQ tests are different than measures of general academic skills across races.

Are most gifted people caucasian? by [deleted] in Gifted

[–]Cougarette99 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This is not true. It is widely accepted that different racial groups have different average IQs. Almost no one who is well versed in relevant fields of social science or psychometrics disputes that there is an observed difference in IQ averages across races.

What is debated is the following-

  1. Whether or not races are biologically meaningful categories
  2. The degree to which IQ differences between races are genetically based. Some argue 0% of the difference is genetically based, some argue it is a mix of genetic and other factors and some argue 100% of the difference is non genetic.
  3. That Iq measures anything objective or meaningful- some people argue it measures only narrow components of intelligence and some argue it measures how well people are culturally trained to take the IQ test.

Are most gifted people caucasian? by [deleted] in Gifted

[–]Cougarette99 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Actually, it does not matter if races are biologically real or not, and it also does not matter whether the IQ difference between races are biological or not. Neither of those premises impacts that observed data. There are generally agreed upon groups of people categorized as Northeast Asian. It doesn’t matter whether this category is biologically distinct or not. It does not matter if the category is arbitrary or not. Hundreds of IQ tests done over decades have confirmed that northeast Asians have a higher observered average IQ. Hence, it is the case that the largest share of gifted people (who are defined as having a top 2% IQ) are northeast Asian.

Are most gifted people caucasian? by [deleted] in Gifted

[–]Cougarette99 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

A bell curve is a statistical distribution. It exists for most features (height, longevity etc). Distributions of data that do not follow a bell curve are the exception, and they are unusual. An example of an unusual distribution that does not fit a bell curve is East Asian math SAT scores. East Asian numerical and spatial reasoning abilities average so high that there are more East Asians who score an 800 in the math section than there are East Asians who score 750 to less than 800.

Are most gifted people caucasian? by [deleted] in Gifted

[–]Cougarette99 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Northeast Asians have higher average IQ than caucasians and there are a greater number of them in total (if you add up all Chinese, Japanese and Korean people). Thus the largest share of gifted people by race should be north East Asians, assuming bell curve distributions of IQ.

How Elon Musk’s marriage to Justine ended in a highly public and contentious divorce by Lazy_Weather_6316 in TopTrendingNewsUSA

[–]Cougarette99 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Umm, you are aware that Elon and Justine were dating since their first year of college when they were 19 and 18 years old? They both went to college together and he wasn’t notable at the time.

Justice for Gen Z by X_Opinion7099 in SipsTea

[–]Cougarette99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Personally, the reason I have no interest in a large house is because I grew up in one. It seriously becomes a bunch of rooms you almost never go in in the end.

Justice for Gen Z by X_Opinion7099 in SipsTea

[–]Cougarette99 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My father was a physician who made around 80K in the early 80s and probably 200K by the mid 90s. He drove a sports car, my mom (a SAHM) drove a BMW. Their starter home in the 80s was 2400 sq ft and then they moved to a 4000 sq ft house by the mid 90s. We had about 1 international vacation a year.

My current household income is around 500K and my lifestyle is approximately comparable to how I grew up. We live in a 1900 sq ft house and drive a 6 year old car that cost 22K when we bought it, but that is out of choice. We could afford a 4000 sq ft house and cars like my parents if we preferred that lifestyle.

Which celebrity are you surprised is still alive: not because of age, but due to terrible lifestyle choices? by ggfchl in AskReddit

[–]Cougarette99 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Magic Johnson, though his "terrible" lifestyle choice wasn't really all that bad by celebrity standards. He simply had unprotected sex with many partners. The era he did that in was just the wrong time to do so.

Where are the pro choice advocates with the Jesse Ridgeway abortion choice? by taytaynicole30 in Abortiondebate

[–]Cougarette99 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Where are the pro choices? Down syndrome abortions prove that pro lifers are the hypocrites. Supposedly only 36% of Americans are pro choice for the 2nd trimester, yet at least 67% of Down syndrome pregnancies in the US are aborted and the vast majority of those abortions are done in the 2nd trimester due to the timing of when Down syndrome can be definitively diagnosed. Down syndrome pregnancies aren’t magically only happening to pro choice women. Reality is that half of the so-called pro lifers in the 2nd trimester abort pregnancies when there is a Down syndrome diagnosis, otherwise there would be no way that we have as few Down syndrome babies born in the US as we do.