Damn that’s great.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

Most high-IQ people are not competent systems thinkers. The vast, vast majority in fact. It’s dispiriting. I believe IQ is measuring something real (at least as it’s relevant to our society) but it mostly does not measure that, which is the one fucking thing I care about. (It’s why high-IQ societies are useless to me. They are not my people. And are chock full of libertarian idiots.)

Would it be possible to make a “systems thinker” test? Interesting design problem if it’s even possible at all.

fucking insane that the US doesn’t have this rule but we do a lot of insane things https://t.co/LIXhqOEaIM

— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) August 22, 2022

Agreed. Any truck that weighs more than 4,000 pounds should require a commercial license and a fairly high yearly tax rate.

Gigantic pickup trucks driven by psychopaths are in fact not the norm in most places globally, and we in the US could choose not to put up with them

— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) August 22, 2022

There really is something psychologically wrong with people who think they need a truck with a 55-inch-tall grille. They should be put somewhere for treatment, or just to keep them away from the rest of us.

Coverage of Ron DeSantis shows the media has learned nothing from Trump.

Sure they did. They learned that kind of coverage of an unhinged authoritarian makes them loads of $$. So they will do it until a competent one emerges and shuts them all down.