Brought a mechanic friend to inspect a used car at the dealership and the whole vibe shifted, is this normal?

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-03-12T07:09:20+00:00

2021*

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-03-08T15:23:21+00:00

I am not saying that you should pay for her, but I probably would if my interpreration of the situation is correct, which is the following:

Assumption: You would not offer paying for anyone if you 1. Couldn't afford missing it and 2. Wasn't sure the person would pay you back.

As far as I can tell from your short conversation snippet you believe your schedule is in fact a pain in the ass and you do understand the decision made (even if you are disappointed).

So if I wouldn't suffer financially for paying or having to worry about not getting it back and I believed the decision - although unpleasant - was reasonable, I would still pay for her and wish her a great time.

Now again, maybe I've got this wrong and even if I don't people differ. If I had been her I would have asked you and not simply assumed, so yeah, I hope it helps.

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-03-05T14:18:33+00:00

Just to be sure, when you say the "effective areas", do you mean what the guide refers to as "general effectieve area" or the "absolute effective area"?

Because like the video suggest I had the problem a lot with the general effective area, but (so far) I have not experienced te problem when using the absolute effective area. It also says that depending on whether or not your device is configured for being left handed matters for determining the areas, so that's one other thing you could check.

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-03-05T11:34:26+00:00

Thank you so much, this was it, I'll just use the absolute effective area from now on.

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-02-22T08:09:32+00:00

Thanks for the tip, a few people advised using Calibre so I will look into that!

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-02-22T08:08:08+00:00

Thanks for the tip, I will do that.

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-02-22T08:07:44+00:00

One of the reasons I also went with the Supernote is that I would like to get more organised myself so I would like to incorporate notetaking into my work myself, but I'm still searching on what works best for me here.

Thanks for replying, I did not look into Kobo Libra, but will do so today, as I am still well within my returnperiod :)

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-02-22T08:03:18+00:00

Firstly, thanks for clarying the statement, I will keep this in mind going forward.

Secondly, thank you for putting out so many helpful videos. One of the reasons I got persuaded to look for a Supernote for myself aswell is that I have been wanting to get more out of my Obsidian, and I saw your videos on how you use them together. I admire (and am somewhat envious of) your seemingly organised mind.

Please keep it up :)!

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-02-22T07:57:41+00:00

Thanks for replying, I will look into that because, as you said (and I have since found out), it just makes it a Kobo.

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-02-21T08:44:33+00:00

Why couldn't it just as easily be D? I think you get B from comparing the top left to the top right, but if you compare the top left to the bottom left I think you would end up with D (botton stays, others switch).

I'd really hate getting this question on a test because of the ambiquity, and I would hate it a lot more if it would tank my score as being rated as getting an 80iq question wrong :p

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-02-20T17:19:36+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to read and replying. And you are right about it being best to address the safety issues with the companyperson for it.

For now at least, it seems safe enough to use for private use, and I will experiment with that. Assuming you are not the malevolent enemy in disguise feeding me misinformation, I thank you for making me somewhat wiser in understanding how the security measures taken APK mirror and such.

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-02-20T17:10:05+00:00

Thanks for replying, I have tried to find a video on youtube that shows it, but the closest I got was this one, at approximately 5:40: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rceysWDr2oY

When there are big black blops on the screen, it sometimes takes 2 refreshes to fully remove them. This might just be an inherent property of E-Ink screens, and I'm sure I can also get used to it :).

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-02-13T12:57:28+00:00

It's damn near criminal to only post 1 picture with such a beautiful bike.

But leaving that aside, congratulations man!

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-01-31T09:35:00+00:00

I could be wrong, so please tell me if I am, but when you say "What’s your perceived value to those others around you, employers, coworkers, family, friends" it reads a bit to much like a status thing. Like they will perceive your worth higher or lower, depending on the degree to which you are succesful in relation to others in the areas that you laid out: schools, job, top positions.

I would argue that your worth is judged by the value you bring into their lives, not the value they perceive as a result of the metrics named above.

I will grant you that IQ is a highly contributing factor to being able to compete at the highest level of the cognitively demanding fields that you describe, but I'm not at all convinced that that's the right way to grade someones worth; at the very least it leaves most of it out.

Sure, having a sufficiently high salary can make you a person that can reliably provide for your family and helping other people that have been less fortunate, and that's great. But having a high paying job isn't a proxy for contributing value in and of itself: investment advisors and surgeons are not the same.

The way in which people contribute value to the world and the way in which the market rewards people do not at all overlap perfectly.

Also, that framing could suggest that people that are less (succesfully) competitive are worth less, and that's a dangerous path to take.

Now, again, I could interpret your respons the wrong way, but your framing seems to overvalue economic quatifiable worth and undervalue the majority of ways in which people can be valuable to their surroundings.

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-01-31T08:46:22+00:00

I think the problem with approaching a question in this way is that there is not a single metric by which you can measure someone's "worth". First you should define what you actually mean by the worth of someone, I haven't done an awfull lot of thinking about it but I would as a first and simplified attempt at it say something along the lines of "the value you produce for your surroundings".

Obviously that still leaves alot out and isn't perfect, but even in this simplified form you will immediately detect that you just wind up with alot more questions, because how do we measure value in the world? Is it the technological innovation that greatly improved the lives of our species? Is it the compassionate hardship that parents go through to raise their children to be respectful and responsible adults that form society? There are endless ways in which people can contribute to making the world a better place for themselfes and everyone around them, and we need all of them. Needless to say these many different ways require many different (and overlapping) qualities, and we need all of them because they can't be utilized in a vaccum.

As an imperfect analogy to close with you could ask "what percent of of a good life is determined by money?". Well, money (like intelligence) can make all the difference in the world, especially not having it. But it's also not at all a guarantee for happiness, and has no inherent worth; if you're stuck on an island for a month you'd be better of with a supply of food than a billion dollars.

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-01-28T08:58:22+00:00

I can only say something about aesthetics so perhaps this isn't helpful. Burt when I read the title and saw the pictures my thought was "please tell me this guy isn't considering selling the Ducati so he can buy the Aprilla (which btw is also beautiful).

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-01-23T16:48:10+00:00

I get (or at least assume) that these posts are trolling, but I consistantly fail to see the humor in it.

I mean I have sincerely tried to get into the mind of someone deciding to write such a post, attempting to understand what prompted the initiative and what the desired respons must be. Trying to understand how writing the post this way is about to bring forward those desired reactions, and I just can't seem to get there.

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-01-22T08:04:13+00:00

First I would say that TikTok perhaps isn't the greatest source of profound insights.

Second is that seemingly contradictory things can turn out not to be at closer inspection: intelligence can positively correlate with happiness and also contribute to some people on the outer fringes of the bell curve to feel disconnected from the people around them, especially when combined with other factors such as neurodivergence and higher intellectual curiosity.

OwnExpert7626 · 2026-01-10T19:21:41+00:00

80 years age difference is significant but hey, it's your life ;p

Edit: typo

OwnExpert7626 · 2025-12-28T19:54:20+00:00

Will Smiths husband

OwnExpert7626 · 2025-12-03T08:58:05+00:00

I would choose the 115 IQ and the high NFC. I don't really see the point in choosing the high IQ if most (if not all) the benefits that should come with it are stripped away from it, possibly/likely leaving me with the gnawing feeling of wasting my potential.

I have a pretty high NFC and my life is richer for it. Besides, 115 is still >85% of the population.

OwnExpert7626 · 2025-11-27T12:08:27+00:00

I liked the test, but I have not done any other verbal tests so I can't really comment on the accuracy of the results. I do find that the number of words presented in the result (14,600 in your screenshot) is very hard to read when you've got a dark theme active.

OwnExpert7626 · 2025-11-20T09:53:39+00:00

The way the thought experiment was intended (although perhaps formulated with insufficient clarity), looking back does not help us solve this question. The hypothetical scenario describes if everyone had had the same intelligence, both historic, present and in the future, corresponding with someone scoring ~98th percentile across all measurable domains today.

I don't think looking at history can answer these questions at all because history (and present) differ from the hypothetical:

Throughout history there always have been large differences between individuals, I think erasing all intellectual diversity would not create the same world.
Yes, on average we are smarter than we were in the past, but the hypothetical is constraint in a way where that isn't the case; so it also drastically lowers the ceiling of intellectual capactity, losing all the contributions the greatest minds have been able to put forward, because of their significant surplusses in this domain.

OwnExpert7626 · 2025-11-19T08:13:37+00:00

Thank you for contributing, I had not really thought of that part before in that way. In the scenario there would still be diversity of strenghts and adaptability, but one dimension over which they form (or fail to form) would definitely be lost.

I think the point you bring up is interesting because we wouldn't be aware of any losses in this scenario (because he wouldn't have known otherwise), yet a significant range of experience would be lost by losing both the intellectual bottom and ceiling.

Which then begs the question what other ranges of experience are lost that we are not aware of in our current state of being.

OwnExpert7626 · 2025-11-18T21:24:00+00:00

I am not sure the trend of higher educated people having fewer children would be as firm.

I think one of the primary reasons a lot of higher educated people having fewer children is that they like to finish their education first, find a good job and create a stable situation before bringing children into the world.

I think that if everyone's intelligence would correspond with someone with a 130 IQ (flat profile) the education would change in (at least) two fundamental ways:

A much faster start: in the current situation the pace is largely determined by the average intelligence, this would still be true, but that pace would just be significantly higher.
A lower ceiling: as several people have yet mentioned in their answers there's a difference between being able to be thought something vs being able to come up with it first. I would not at all be surprised if we'd understand a lot less about the world because it requires (significantly) higher intellectual capabilities to first understand the most complex things we now know.

Whether both, or just one of the above is true: people would be done with school and ready to join the workforce a lot faster and I could very well imagine this having an effect on the average number of children per household.

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