It’s great what the woman who originated this thread is doing for her parents, but it’s shocking just how pig-ignorant so many people are.

Ok, that’s not fair to our suid friends — they are after all quite intelligent.

How exactly have we produced a society where so many people know so very little about anything, even regarding events that will have huge impacts on their lives? Is this just a necessary state of affairs? Or what? I can’t understand it. I know that most people just are not very curious at all but this general ailment seems more than just lack of curiosity.

there are multiple kinds of intelligence(s), and the conversations around intelligence are so exhaustingly, boringly focused on procedural/spatial “IQ” type intelligence… 🤔

— Visa is fixing the typos in his ebook (@visakanv) March 15, 2020

Howard Gardner’s theory of “multiple intelligences” does not hold up well, but that’s mainly because it’s still operating too much on the scientific-rationalist isolation of variables environment, and the world just does not function that way at all. So I mostly agree with Visa here.

For instance, I have a very high-resolution bullshit detector. I don’t mean lying, necessarily — that’s different. But the reason I knew roughly what was going to happen with Covid-19 is because of my intelligence in that area and my ability to just see through BS without much effort. How exactly do you measure that? It only works in a real-world scenario, but it works quite reliably.

Science will always miss just huge areas of human endeavor and capacity. There’s no way around that.

Damn, Norway. pic.twitter.com/IwHskXGkB0

— Jeremy Klemin (@JeremyKlemin) March 15, 2020

Norway knows what’s up. As I was telling a friend the other day, the only reason I wish I’d gotten a four-year degree is that it makes it vastly easier to emigrate to other countries.

A few months ago, people like me were pilloried for suggesting that there were a lot of very weak corporate bond issues out there that posed economic risks. We were merely observing that if any significant choppy economic waters were encountered bad things would happen.

Soon enough, we’re going to see that I was right.

Market should be fun tomorrow.

Coronavirus is making it much more likely Joe Biden will be our next president. Not because of the effects of the pandemic directly or even Trump’s incompetence, but because the decrease in economic activity will likely tip the economy into a recession coinciding with the election.

Presidential elections during recessions tend not to favor the incumbent. So…Biden. Fuck.

Got leftover puff pastry sheets, potatoes, and some onion and I am tempted to make something edible out of this bounty, although god knows what that will be, exactly

— B. Bolander (@BBolander) March 14, 2020

Puff pastry pierogies. Better if any cheese is in the house, but not necessary.

In Joe Biden’s virtual town hall, he gets the time frame between now and November WRONG by well over a year.

“I can’t do that for another two year, actually another year between now and November.” pic.twitter.com/fAX3CNQfL4

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) March 13, 2020

I’m a speech pathologist EXPERT and that’s just a STUTTER. Forgetting a basic fact like how long it is until the next election in which you are running is definitely not a sign of cognitive decline. Thinking it’s anything other than a stutter is, like, racism or something. Or some other -ism that’s bad, whatever makes me look better and you look worse. Believe me because I know these things. As I said I am an EXPERT.

Mainstream Econ Twitter is having a field day pointing out how silly progressives are to call the Fed’s recent injection of $1.5 trillion a ‘hand-out’ to the financial markets.

‘Lolz,’ they say, ‘It’s a loan, not a hand-out!’

Here’s why they’re wrong & we’re right. 1/20

— Arash Kolahi (@ArashKolahi) March 13, 2020

I’m glad the econners’ (double meaning very much intended) nonsense and bullshittery is getting righteously slapped down.