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RE: Random Humorous Things - A Light-Hearted Thread
May 27, 2024 at 6:57 am
(May 27, 2024 at 6:44 am)GUBU Wrote: (May 27, 2024 at 5:30 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: A high testing score doesn't imply cheating. Shapiro is actually a perfect example of a very bright guy holding very stupid ideas.
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From spending a considerable amount of time listening to him, Shapiro sounds every inch the idiot who came from a rich background who got every advantage and never had to work who, as a consequence, was fooled into thinking he's the smartest guy in the room.
He's the US equivalent of a Clongowes D4 rugger bugger.
Why? I'd had enough after minutes.
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RE: Random Humorous Things - A Light-Hearted Thread
May 27, 2024 at 3:42 pm
(May 26, 2024 at 9:06 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: (May 26, 2024 at 7:15 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: How was that score verified?
BTW, if you listen to the guy speak, it's clear that he's got a very quick mind.
I don't think the score itself has been verified, but, given that he ended graduating Harvard Law cum laude (and at the age of 23), it'd probably be more surprising if it wasn't alarmingly high.
He's got a quick mind, to be sure, but, sadly, he realised he can make a lot more money using that mind for bullshit than for good.
That's impressive, but not as much as it sounds.
A kid who graduates high school at 17 (common), who takes the maximum AP courses (less common, but there were at least 25 or so of these kids at the high school I taught at) can easily complete a university degree in three years, at age 20. A further three years of Harvard Law makes them 23 at graduation. He's probably in the 95th percentile of his age group, but so were the majority of my fellow Engineering honor students.
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RE: Random Humorous Things - A Light-Hearted Thread
May 27, 2024 at 9:39 pm
He graduated high school at sixteen, by the way. If his Wikipedia page is any indication, he skipped Third and Ninth grades.
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May 28, 2024 at 4:56 am
Found this in the bathroom of my local Half-Price Books:
And a little ingenuity (and the photo editing function of my iPhone) made me turn it into this:
I will rep the first person to figure out what album this drawing is a reference to.
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May 28, 2024 at 4:59 am
(May 27, 2024 at 6:57 am)brewer Wrote: (May 27, 2024 at 6:44 am)GUBU Wrote:
From spending a considerable amount of time listening to him, Shapiro sounds every inch the idiot who came from a rich background who got every advantage and never had to work who, as a consequence, was fooled into thinking he's the smartest guy in the room.
He's the US equivalent of a Clongowes D4 rugger bugger.
Why? I'd had enough after minutes.
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May 28, 2024 at 12:08 pm
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May 28, 2024 at 1:54 pm
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Random Humorous Things - A Light-Hearted Thread
May 28, 2024 at 4:29 pm
(May 28, 2024 at 4:56 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Found this in the bathroom of my local Half-Price Books:
And a little ingenuity (and the photo editing function of my iPhone) made me turn it into this:
I will rep the first person to figure out what album this drawing is a reference to.
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