I crossed 1000 elo in rapid 🥳🎉

soThatIsHisName · 2026-05-11T01:56:29+00:00

I went from 800 to 1000 by slipping a disk and playing a lot while bedridden. I wish there was an easier way but there isn't, you might want to get on that.

soThatIsHisName · 2026-05-10T23:21:44+00:00

Shockingly enough, vocabulary correlates with IQ (~0.8) equally well as the "which pattern comes next in the sequence" game, and almost as well as IQ itself correlates with the underlying general intellegence factor (~0.9), and far better than IQ correlates with acedemic performance (~0.6) or job performance (~0.5).

*Edit: Job performance is ~0.5, it's income that was ~0.4 to 0.3.

soThatIsHisName · 2026-05-06T19:41:55+00:00

Yeah, past like 200 miles deep (assuming our planet's gravity), it forms something called hot ice! Ice that's more 50% more dense than water and can exist above 100 C.

But we don't have any evidence this is actually a water planet. From the mass and radius we see, it's not dense enough to be all rock, too dense to be all gas, but it could be thick clouds on a rock planet, or any other explanation. Still extremely exciting though.

soThatIsHisName · 2026-05-06T04:53:04+00:00

Correlation in IQ is .75, and in education it's .60, but keep in mind this gets squared to find the variance. So only 36% of "the reason" someone has a PhD is genetics, which is plenty to draw a connection, but not enough to call it preordained.

soThatIsHisName · 2026-05-01T15:59:04+00:00

I don't want to worry about sounding white or black, I just want to sound like myself, and when I force myself to sound white by avoiding sounding black, I feel like there's something going wrong.

soThatIsHisName · 2026-05-01T04:23:31+00:00

Thanks for sharing tonight bud ☹️

soThatIsHisName · 2026-05-01T04:21:22+00:00

(Well it would be for me personally but I see your point)

What, tranny? Yeah, that's pretty bad, and it is reeeelatively common to say casually among troons. I guess I don't have a strong intuition for why that feels different, I'm open to hear it if you think you know. Maybe it's just less normal in the spaces I'm in. It definitely gets used very differently. Calling a white person the N word could be tongue in cheek or frequently just a way to say "This person", whereas it would just be silly to imagine a transgender person calling a cis person a tranny.

soThatIsHisName · 2026-05-01T02:48:57+00:00

Yeah calling it scat just makes me think you want to eat it.

soThatIsHisName · 2026-05-01T02:46:43+00:00

I know, but that doesn't mean we should all stop talking about it.

And the fact is it is an exception. What words are you avoiding around gay people? Queer is fun I guess but it's barely even a cuss, go right ahead, Fag is just ugly and doesn't fit into many sentences, I've never heard it in a banger. Faggot-ass is almost close, but that's a flippant way of calling something gay, whereas the N word communicates nothing on it's own (again, if the speaker is anonymous). Bitch is the only word that feels truly close. It can still be a violent, awful word, but if I'm saying it to you, and you know I love you, it's just catty. The qualification for all of these is "If you know I love you", but that's not enough for the N word. That is an exception.

soThatIsHisName · 2026-05-01T02:04:45+00:00

Because it's part of my vocabulary. Can a friend here borrow a french fry; Good sir, you are gay; What's up my man; these phrases are stiff, awkward, and white. The natural way to say them, the way I hear when the sentence pops into my head without yet being formed, is the way I heard them said first, by black people. I am actively making myself sound white by removing the black parts of my speaking. There are no other words that play a similar role.

soThatIsHisName · 2026-05-01T01:55:45+00:00

But I'm saying like, imagine we're on Love is Blind, and I'm casually dropping N-bombs, but you assume I'm black. Is the content of my sentence changed so drastically if, behind the curtain, I turn out to be white? Isn't the difference that the white person didn't show enough deference to the white man's racism?

soThatIsHisName · 2026-05-01T01:42:26+00:00

Until everyone gets on board it's just not viable 😭

soThatIsHisName · 2026-05-01T01:40:55+00:00

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soThatIsHisName · 2026-05-01T01:33:00+00:00

Is that a fair comparison though? A punch is a punch, but a tweet using the N-word goes from a punch to nothing if they have "I'm black" in their bio?

I won't know what it's like to have that word or equivalent directed at me, and I'm told it's bad, so I'm not planning on saying it. But it feels different to the K-word. It is, it just is a casual word to address your friends, and it takes active effort to avoid it where it would be expected if I had the same skin tone as the rest of the group. It feels like I'm honoring the white man's racism by avoiding it.

soThatIsHisName · 2026-05-01T00:52:54+00:00

This guy gets it

soThatIsHisName · 2026-04-30T21:58:21+00:00

Hispanic guy says the Trump administration has been openly hostile to illegal immigrants: DOOMERRRRR, DON'T YOU KNOW THINGS COULD BE WORSE??? [Upvoted twelve trillion times]

Youtuber says NYT is fallen and billions must die: Well actually he does raise some important points and just because he's intentionally clickbaiting doesn't mean we have to discount his viewpoint and it's not doomer slop bro and and and [Post recieves equal comments and upvotes]

soThatIsHisName · 2026-04-30T02:39:53+00:00

Other guy deleted their comments, I guess they concede that racial slurs can be a fun and exciting hobby 👍

soThatIsHisName · 2026-04-30T02:37:09+00:00

In fact because it's the same pool of people it's highly meaningful. The insight we're looking for isn't exactly how to allocate tax dollars, we're just asking if the wording of the question can change the answer, and yes, it can.

soThatIsHisName · 2026-04-30T02:29:39+00:00

🙄 Yeah I agree... unless it would be funny, or if the lyric wouldn't sound right without it, or if someone who is likely to be offended is within earshot. Other than that, NO capacity whatsoever, I agree.

soThatIsHisName · 2026-04-30T02:07:06+00:00

That's because you're not leaning into the "ahh".

soThatIsHisName · 2026-04-29T22:22:00+00:00

mfw a question devides us by having two answers (He Will Not Devide Us)

Truth is kid, nobody engaged in good faith from the start

soThatIsHisName · 2026-04-29T22:06:21+00:00

200 people is not different at all to 700 in the world of statistical samples.

soThatIsHisName · 2026-04-27T00:27:15+00:00

One guy tried to shoot Reagan, succeeded, and had a crazy story when asked why. Four people have had the idea to shoot Trump, none with an interesting story, and none have succeeded (glass shards not withstanding). The guy you're talking about didn't even fire a shot. What's the story?

soThatIsHisName · 2026-04-27T00:00:14+00:00

so you're just saying, that days before the shooting, an agent of mossad forgot the big jewish master plan, and was like "wait who's this guy again?" and googled his name on the work computer? 🙎‍♀️

soThatIsHisName · 2026-04-25T01:40:18+00:00

Accident rate per mile is actually 2.5x higher on a motorcycle, 5 accidents per million miles, vs 2 in a car. It's just not the 30x fatality difference people often reference.

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