[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 11 months ago

It's clearly Malcolm McDowell

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

Going by the illustration of characters at the top of that page, "Kelthar" is a dead ringer for 80s Phil Oakey.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

It directs my life not because I think it sounds pretty or prosocial, but because it’s tasty.

Who wrote this, Hannibal Lecter?

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

Fred Clark (https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/) recently drew attention to John Hagee, a Texas preacher who's been preaching about the imminent Rapture since the 1980s. His church recently spent millions of dollars to start a K-12 school. Which really isn't consistent behavior if you really believe the Rapture is imminent.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I suspect (without evidence) that what a lot of the NT people get from ADHD stimulants is not so much focus but "better alertness than you get from caffeine". And being more alert by itself would probably help an NT person focus especially when they're burning the candle at both ends.

As opposed to needing the extra dopamine in the frontal lobe to kick the executive function into gear to concentrate at all.

To really test this you'd probably have to get some NT people and some ADHD people, ensure that they're well-rested, fed with adequate nutrition, exercised a bit, and have them do an incredibly fucking boring task both medicated and unmedicated. (Perhaps take in a lecture and do a quiz about the medieval open-field farming system.)

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

Are we sure it isn't Musk behind the "AI"?

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's probably more true if you include disabilities that you may not be considering. Acquired hearing loss, blindness due to retinitis pigmentosa, chronic back pain, etc. I find it very hard to believe that a person who lost their vision in an industrial accident wouldn't leap at a chance to have their vision back. And obviously not all policies to reduce the incidence of disabilities are about eugenics. OSHA isn't a eugenics program. Vitamin K shots and eye ointment for newborns reduce disability without being eugenics. I assume even blind disability activists don't think babies should be put at risk of easily avoidable blindness.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 2 points 2 years ago

Testing EQ would probably be opposed as "woke" by conservative parents in the school district.

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