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I like your idea of temp banning people who reply to joke threads
well, i absolutely agree with this.
in fact, this was my position from page 1.
my position has always been that consideration of the possibility of cross-race genetic differences was not, in of itself, racist.
whereas feral's position was that this was racist in the context of black people and IQ tests.
Temp bans? Man, Preacher's growing soft!
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Thank you Nerd. I think my biggest issue would be having to mod threads I really wouldn't ever want to read. I mean I guess I could just lock them and pretend that they don't exist, but people like the NBA and Fringe.
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Fucking nailed it
Those videos are actually pretty funny, and I haven't cared about the star wars movies in a while now.
He did say that but nobody is contending that.
He also said that non-genetic factors are magic and that is in contention.
I don't even... I don't even know what this means.
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Actually, it kind of is. Because then you have to scramble to explain those differences.
I dare you to find a way to explain them that isn't A) racist and B) doesn't invoke social factors, which invalidates the first point.
See, this is why I think you're a good poster. You post smart things.
If granted modhood, would you build such a thing?
well
all in all
you're just another brick in the wall
that very last bit?
That's an order of magnitude more important
Then we'd see the dark side
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No, I said that it was stupid of you people to completely disregard genetics and replace it with your magic.
That may have been unclear.
@Arch: it's never racist to ask questions. Asking a question can't be racist, unless it implies a value statement like "why are Jews so terrible?"
A question like "could it be that darker skinned people have lower/higher [characteristic] in comparison to lighter skinned people?" is not racist.
edit: hmm, gonna qualify that. Second question is stupid as it doesn't specify a target population and "black" is really far too broad for any useful research so admittedly the second questio is dumb but it's not racist.
Okay, so now put that into evolutionary context and explain it without invoking social, nutritive, or environmental factors.
Its ok Gim, I make posts like that all the time. In fact thats the majority of my posts.
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They're actually pretty good at predicting certain things.
Those things don't necessarily correlate to what people call "intelligence" in popular usage, nor do they necessarily correlate perfectly to material success or educational attainment (the classic example here being the "Termites").
Still, it can be useful. Intelligence can't be equated to IQ, but intelligence is a stupidly broad concept, so who cares if you can't quantify it? It's not like it's rigorous or particularly useful anyway. I'd much rather track 6 or 12 or 20 different cognitive abilities that are distinct and quantifiable than jerk off some romantically humanistic notion that just because "intelligence" is a uselessly broad term, human cognitive ability can't be quantified.
Exactly!
Damn, that's a good name.
And by darkside you mean I'd finally get to pick off some annoying flies I've wanted to swat for a long time.
PODLY!!!!!
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That's the exact song that made me have that thought. This music makes me feel like what I imagine Irond Will feels like when he reads posts here.
Alright, provide a framework for this trait to have arisen when it is not easily deduced from environmental effects (sickle cell, melanin production) without being racist.
this was the post i had contentions with:
your contention, above, was that explanation of cross-race IQ test performance could legitimately revolve around socioeconomic available of education or test bias. but explanations revolving around possible genetic differences as potential causes is racist.
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but at the same time maybe they should diminish, go into the west, and remain Galadriel.
Well see I think Will can do that, because he's actually a reasonable guy.
But this is why Feral and i have such a kneejerk response, because it's pretty much always brought up in the context of "Well I'm just saying....(that black people are stupid)" without any consideration of the hundreds of other historical and societal factors or outliers that lead certain populations to be a certain way. Maybe genetics is a factor, but it is by no means the only one, or even a particularly influential one.
It's almost like there's a sort of hideous glee under the surface, waiting to finally pop out and scream 'HAH TOLD YOU SO ABOUT ALL THOSE DARKIES."
Note: I am not saying Will is like this in any way. He is just so intellectually honest he gets caught up it nitpicking other people's opinions.
I have a great bg corded Bosch power drill for when I really need to put big holes in something difficult.
It would just be nice to have a decent cordless as well, I've got used to using the one I have but it is really terrible (it's an unbranded catalogue special), it takes ages to charge, spare batteries are unobtainable, and I think I've bent the motor spindle using it with a 25mm holesaw.
Hitachi for some reason seem compelled to wrap all their power tools in bright green rubber.
If only you understood humor to know how funny that would be.
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Female mods don't really work, nothing against the posters, its the people they are moderating that become an issue.
Like having a guard at a male jail be a chick, its not a good idea.
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Please bold where I used the words "explanation" or "possible" or "potential" in my post.