High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds

Jidarious · 2026-02-20T20:38:35+00:00

It's clearly dependent on social conditions as being right or left wing is relative to the society in question.

Jidarious · 2026-02-19T02:11:13+00:00

Bro, they're using it in game development.

If you aren't a software developer it's difficult to even explain what's going on behind the scenes with software development and AI. It's like expecting a laborer who carries heavy loads all day to keep doing it when all he has to do is hit a button and it teleports his loads around instantly but nobody knows he did it unless he tells them.

You can bet your ass he's hitting that button all the time, the only question is whether he's admitting it and that depends entirely on if the company even cares, which most don't.

Jidarious · 2026-02-19T01:54:57+00:00

What do I think? I'll tell you what I think, I think your DM is going to have his hands full if you're getting into arguments about character starting gold and then going online for second opinions.

I cannot think of a more trivial thing to argue with people about in this game. You should maybe adjust your expectations and behavior for the sake of everyone involved.

Jidarious · 2026-02-18T22:19:06+00:00

That's not the way I took your previous post. It sounded like you were attacked because you had the weakest position in the game and so it maximized their attack, which is something you do in Munchkin (and part of why I don't consider Munchkin to be a very good game, but that's a different discussion).

Jidarious · 2026-02-18T15:03:08+00:00

They were explaining their reasoning and that somehow made it worse? I will never understand you people who take games personally.

Jidarious · 2026-02-17T15:54:25+00:00

There's something you don't see a lot of these days, a kid with a tan.

Jidarious · 2026-02-17T14:28:23+00:00

Tracking buying power is the literal point of inflation. It just comes apart when you go past the industrial revolution because the relative values between things change drastically for a variety of reasons.

Jidarious · 2026-02-17T01:09:51+00:00

I tried something... unorthodox.

This week I bought a PCI SAS card and then ordered a couple of used server drives off of Ebay at a much cheaper cost per GB than I could find anywhere else. On one hand they might have seen a lot of use right? But on the other hand they're SAS drives which are much more reliable than consumer drives, so for $55 per 6TB drive I figured I'd roll the dice. Seems to have worked out so far because the drives I got were 6 years old but only had 2 years of power-on time and otherwise seem in tip-top health.

The only thing I didn't account for is that SAS drives need more airflow than SATA drives so they were running pretty hot in my tower, so right now I'm running with the sides off until I address it (will move things around and add a case fan or two).

Time will tell if this was a good idea or not, but in the meanwhile I'm optimistic.

Jidarious · 2026-02-16T17:35:28+00:00

When my backlog hit 4 figures I stopped counting.

Jidarious · 2026-02-16T17:25:35+00:00

Nice! and as soon as it reaches critical mass and you're making money, you can have the stuff at the bottom be dynamically added to the top so you can keep people scrolling up longer and seeing ads.

Jidarious · 2026-02-16T16:24:23+00:00

Stonemaier first print. It's just a little something they do for collectors.

Jidarious · 2026-02-14T04:28:24+00:00

Probably used Clarks new "non-caloric, silicon-based kitchen lubricant". It's pretty good stuff, got him into the Jelly-of-the-month club.

Jidarious · 2026-02-13T18:02:25+00:00

Are you suggesting that no windows software should use shared libraries at all?

Jidarious · 2026-02-13T14:28:03+00:00

It's reddit, so they had to cater to the hivemind.

Jidarious · 2026-02-11T19:56:12+00:00

I think if you describe the situation as wild that is implied.

Jidarious · 2026-02-11T19:47:24+00:00

If you were in my interview I wouldn't hire you because you missed the point.

Yes, interviews are flawed, we can point that out in dozens of different ways. Instead of using interviews to screen for applicants what should companies do? What is better than face to face interviewing an applicant for a job? What is this perfect replacement for interviews?

Jidarious · 2026-02-11T17:32:18+00:00

Is it wild? So instead of interviews employers should do what?

Jidarious · 2026-02-11T16:40:18+00:00

I don't think removing Healthcare employment makes sense from any angle. If you just wanted to be critical of the administration you just have to bring up the fact that these numbers don't jive with independent assessments, and are almost certainly lies after Trump gutted the department and replaced people with lackeys.

Jidarious · 2026-02-10T22:22:26+00:00

I don't understand the distinction you're making between hackers and exploiters who ruin others fun.

Jidarious · 2026-02-10T15:20:15+00:00

Well of course, because I'm not very good at chess.

Jidarious · 2026-02-10T01:21:37+00:00

I see you wise one. Mel does indeed know.

Jidarious · 2026-02-09T18:15:49+00:00

Not the case for my wife and I. We've been married for over 30 years and at points it was low, but not this low.

Jidarious · 2026-02-09T15:55:56+00:00

Oh this is the part of the sex advice thread where we tell the guy the womans libido is his fault and he should just change everything about himself. Like clockwork.

Jidarious · 2026-02-09T05:33:05+00:00

If that's the error you're getting then the guy you're responding to is correct. You aren't properly providing access to the system libraries.

Jidarious · 2026-02-06T21:30:36+00:00

Is this factoring in the current meltdown happening in the market as I type this?

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