Is there a HailCorporate comm? Maybe we can start one for Lemmy, just without the crypto-scammer mods this time.

Damn I need to start scamming MAGAs. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to start a new career in the scamming industry?

Fox News lies often. And the BBC does this kind of thing all the time.

Why would their factual reporting not be reliable? Their core audience is extremely well educated who would not tolerate blatant falsehoods like right-wing tabloid audiences do.

Novara Media is a socialist news organization, so they definitely have a bias, but their informational reporting is no less credible than the BBC or Guardian. They have a decently large presence in the UK.

That’s pretty dope and I see how it could actually really help my ADHD if I had an “everything off” button. Thanks for replying.

Couple hundred?! Are most of those lights or something? Forgive me I’m totally ignorant about home automation.

Is it a hobby to you or have you found significant time/energy savings? Or both?

Add the tax but use some of the money to build a shit ton of government housing like the UK did after WWII. Their housing problems only started after they stopped building subsidized housing and started relying on the market (lots of other factors, too, but there is a strong correlation on the timing here).

I don’t really care how much he drinks, I’m more interested in what he got for covering up the Epstein files and what other corrupt crimes he has committed.

I can’t believe Trump would allow live lead to go flying by him.

Makes sense. Fuentes serves the same capitalist masters as Israel. Zionism always was a fascist project (I mean that literally - Israel was created largely thanks to the Nazis and fascist elements of the British/French governments).

🎶Your government is run by pedophiles! 🎶

lol imagine if we achieve the death of US imperialism and the dawn of global communism simply by bribing the politicians more than the capitalists do.

Yeah I wasn’t trying to say that IQ tests are worthless, just that they are not the objective measure of intelligence that people think they are. They may measure a certain kind of intelligence amongst people with similar upbringings and opportunities, but all I’m trying to say is that having a higher IQ than someone doesn’t necessarily mean you are “smarter” than them.

In any case, I certainly wasn’t expecting multiple people wanting to argue with me about IQ tests on the internet today. I think I’m going to stop replying to this thread now lol

The point is that you get better at it with practice. IQ tests claim to measure objective “intelligence” as trait that is independent of education, advantage, or other factors. But if a large portion of the test involves exercises that can be improved with practice, IQ cannot be an objective measure.

Sure, by using a different measure of intelligence than IQ.

Yes, I was also thinking of that. Very common for colonizers to arrive in seasonally-used lands and think they were empty until the natives showed up.

Oh I did not mean to imply that colonizers didn’t actively murder as well, but manifest destiny was a couple of centuries after the period that I’m talking about.

The colonizing of North America, especially in the first century after its “discovery,” was often done by settlers moving into empty land. Except that the only reason it was empty is the inhabitants had already been killed by disease brought by the Spanish. Within 150 years after contact, the population of the Americas was reduced by 93%.

For one reason, IQ tests rely heavily on logic puzzles. Studies have shown these can be improved on with practice, so the test isn’t necessarily measuring anything innate. It’s just testing whether one has familiarity with logic puzzles. Which, coincidentally is more likely to be the case if one happens to be white and especially if you’re wealthy.