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It's one of those smartsy-fartsy brain training games called Connection.

Y'know just in case you wanted an actual answer instead of really funny meams.

If you want to learn about how weak and unsound the Meyers-Briggs is, I really recommend this podcast which is a fun dive into personality tests, how they are misused during hiring and firing and, interestingly enough, what influence they may have on prompting you to become the person they claim you currently are.

1. Compose complacent stanza pertaining to ones acumen

2. http://www.thesaurus.com and select specific vocabulary

3. Analyze the cause of homo-sapiens having an aversion to oneself save for a singular nitwit

One of thousands of sentences like this from his website:

>Do you want to win because victory is guaranteed if you are truly skilled in The Art of War 2 written by me the author and owner of the authorship of this book, The Art of War 2

What the fuck is this guy on?

"Because we are enemies. Did you forget? That I am teaching you how to lose to me, the author of The Art of War 2, in battle. So if you remembered anything I just wrote, you just lost again. Again you lose to me, The Art of War 2. But do not worry, that’s not important right now… Why?".

What in the absolute fuck. This hs to be a joke, because he has like 5 paragraphs of him consistently talking about the reader being defeated by the author of the art of war 2...

Not sure whether this might still belong here, but it's actually a lyric from an Immortal Technique song, so you can't really bash them on "neurological nerves".

"Do not lose that knowledge for it will help you lose again to me in the next battle contained within The Art of War 2. Because- Stop right here. Stay focused. Please stay focused. I mean it this time. Focus everything you have on this: What exactly are you doing right now? Answer that question."

I want to believe he is not...

I lost it at:

"Now stop. Forget everything you just read. Why?

Because we are enemies. Did you forget? That I am teaching you how to lose to me, the author of The Art of War 2, in battle. So if you remembered anything I just wrote, you just lost again. Again you lose to me, The Art of War 2. But do not worry, that’s not important right now… Why?

Because what’s important is knowledge. The knowledge that you have gained from reading The Art of War 2."

The review is for the base game, but the reviewer certainly could have fucked up and gotten the expansion. Speaking of fucking up the game is actually ages 14+. I swear to god the first time I tracked down the review it said 10. mubad.

"While I do not disagree with Sun Tzu, because this is the sequel to his book, I also agree with him in the sense that I guarantee victory for those truly skilled in The Art of War 2."

Brilliant. Just brilliant.

Agreed "Taken by the Tetris Blocks: An Erotic Short Story" is a challenging read.

ONLY FOR THOSE WITH 1 MILLION IQ ----> TAKEN BY THE TETRIS BLOCKS

Guess what quote isn't on WikiQuote? If you guess this one, you'd be correct! https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

Also, Telas was a proponent of Eugenics...

God, why do I even look this stuff up? I'm totally just a pathetic sheele...

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If you don't have an issue with Japanese lyrics, you might wanna check out Midori. They're pretty interesting. Not exactly a Grindcore/Jazz band, but they are Jazz Fusion/Hardcore Punk.

I really like The Elements of Style by Strunk and White, which offers some great writing advice, like:

• Omit needless words
• Use the active voice
• Use definite, specific, concrete language
• Write in a way that comes naturally

The list goes on, but I'm always amused by how blatantly the r/iamverysmart types break just about every rule outlined in that book.

>"I also happen to be a very intelligent person since we're talking about smartness."

Edit:

>"It's meant to be used as a training manual for like the CIA or some other security agency."

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>"You never read the book because the book doesn't contain any advice."

Edit: HAHAHA

>"The Art of War 1? LOL no. I read like.. a few chapters and put it away. Garbage. It's my rival's book."

'Schizoramble' is exactly how I'd describe that.

Also, the Latin phrase he had a stab at is 'in extremis', not "en extremis", and it doesn't mean "in the extreme", it means 'in dire circumstances'.

I don't think that's 100% the right way to characterize this view. Linguists don't believe that e.g. the dictionary or e.g The Elements of Style are correct in their assessment of what constitutes correct speech. What makes speech correct is if you speak according to the local norms and (largely) unwritten rules about how sentences are formed, which emerge from within a community of native speakers. So a linguist would say

"It was the funnest thing ever": nothing wrong

"It was the funnest ever thing": sounds weird to a native speaker

"It was the thing funnest ever": syntactically incorrect.

Languages do have rules. They have a lot of rules in fact. It's just that these rules aren't handed down by a central language authority but rather, emerge from consensus among a community of speakers. The set of rules that emerges is actually considerably more complicated than what you'd find in a grammar textbook, and will vary from speech community to speech community. So what is "correct" in Seattle may not be correct in El Paso or Boston.

Source: took one linguistics class ages ago. Linguists feel free to jump in and correct me.

Hate to rain on your parade, but that is actually a legit thing, particularly among Asian businessmen.

The best lessons that one can learn from reading The Art of War aren't about warfare, but are about a number of things applicable to a business environment.

Thomas Cleary, who is responsible for perhaps the best translations of the text (as well as several important commentaries from Chinese generals and warlords) and it's related works, mentions this several times in his book The Art of War: Complete texts and commentaries.

And it is a good read.

I'm just about done reading his book, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, and if even half of his stories have any grain of truth to them I can't imagine anyone else I'd hold up as an example of a genius. That guy had a truly unique mind, if I'd ever had the chance I would have taken any class he taught just for the experience.

"I am now writing in non-linear logic. I gave you that hint. That tip. Why? Because I want to win the next battle as well. Because did you forget? We are enemies. And I play to win. So why did I give you a hint that is true? Simple. Because I forgot. I forgot not that we are enemies, but I forgot that I studied The Art of War 2 so diligently that I remembered everything so in fact I did not forget anything here in this moment and at least many more moments both before and after this moment. Now the first moment or second moment, but the moments in between those moments, and the moments before and after those moments. I remembered because I diligently studied The Art of War 2. Are you amazed at my great memory? You shouldn’t be. Why?"

This guy is crazy.

The truth is a little more complicated, but he is actually referencing a real effect.

For one, I'm taking "the Dragon" as my new master in the twin arts of logic and warfare. Having just but started studying his "Art of War 2", I've already found various nuggets of logic, such as:

"Does the tiger see the tree and stand in awe of its great memory? No of course not. It’s too busy doing what tigers do to even think about whether or not the tree has great memory or even memory at all."

Or:

"This book is a mystery and a puzzle. There will be things hidden within it that even those highly skilled in The Art of War 2 have trouble figuring out. But I can figure out everything within this book, The Art of War 2. Why? Because I wrote the book, The Art of War 2."

And of course:

"As you can see, the text is getting denser and denser like a math problem that is going out of control. Why? Because this is a maze, a labyrinth, a Chapter designed to entrap you within the perfectly logical logic of my own reasoning for I am the author of The Art of War 2."

Truly, logical words from a logical mind.

https://www.jango.com/music/Catrina+Daimon+Lee

You have to stick with it until the voices all start at like the 45 second mark. It is so bizarre . The song title is amazing.

Described as...

The auto-didact who is too poor to dare to publish her true Grand Unified Field Theory (or meta-theory) for Western Music offers her music albums at indietorrent, and soon to make available CDs online.

But it's good advice for new writers nonetheless. A lot of people start writing thinking they're Voltaire. But really, you have to be able to tell a good story first. Then comes the meaning. It's by no means a rule, and writing is whatever people make it. But the overwhelming majority of people have to learn how to tell a good story before they can learn how to give it meaning.

In his book On Writing, Stephen King says that he finds that meaning comes best when it emerges from the story. You are working on the trees when you write, he says, and at the end you can step back and trim the forest to be the shape you want.

Yes, plenty of authors approach writing with a philosophical idea in mind already. But the best of those are the ones who can combine that idea with a good story. Look at Atlas Shrugged, for example. Terrible story written solely as a framework for a philosophical idea.

edit - and to bring it back to the point of LHA's post, some authors write to entertain. Some authors write to communicate a message. Some authors try to combine the two. None of those approaches are inherently better or worse.

Think you're really righteous? Think you're pure in heart?
Well, I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art

That's actually one of Stephen King's big rules in his book On Writing. The reader should be able to understand how the characters are doing things by the context, not because you wrote that they did it "____ly".

HERES ANOTHER BOOK OF HIS HAHAHAH

Ok, so I wad kinda wrong. People with aspergers are just those that are diagnosed and have above average intelligence. Aspergers doesn't cause high intelligence. Just autistic people with high intelligence get diiagnosed with aspergers

"To put it another way, "Asperger's Syndrome" is a label for a more-intelligent and more-functional chunk of the autism spectrum"

https://www.quora.com/Are-people-with-Aspergers-more-intelligent-in-general

Reading his site is unbearable, all he does find as many ways to say "The Art of War 2" as he possibly can. The following excerpts are all from the same post on his blog

>Did you keep it a secret? Did you diligently study The Art of War 2?

>It’s your fault for losing to me, the author of The Art of War 2, because I am victorious again and again.

>a Chapter designed to entrap you within the perfectly logical logic of my own reasoning for I am the author of The Art of War 2.

He contradicts himself constantly

From principle 6: always seek knowledge

>I don’t believe in learning for the sake of learning

>Now during those five minutes I want you to read. Read this Chapter and read Principle 6 of The Art of War 2. You only get five minutes to do this.

>I demand you continue reading even after the five minutes have ended and the 6th minute has begun

Maybe I'm just not smart enough to understand this. After all, I can't even remember that we are enemies

>Because we are enemies. Did you forget?

>Because did you forget? We are enemies.

>Because you forgot that we are enemies,

>Forget that we are enemies?

>The moment you forget that we are enemies you have lost. Now I know, I know for a fact, that you have just lost

>Did you forget? We are enemies

>So why would I impart knowledge to you, my enemy?

Not wrong but it was never the popular spelling by a long shot.

It's actually a pretty good book. Maybe not as profound as the pizza genius seems to think it is, but still enjoyable.

It's up on Gutenberg if you're interested https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2500/2500-h/2500-h.htm

What, you don't regularly confuse POTUS tweets with obscure Shakespearean sonnets? Your mind is obviously not as agile as these fictional children!

(Reminds me tho, someone compiled some of Rummy's shit into a book of "found poetry" - Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld [non-Amazon link]. It's cringetastic fun, they laid the satire on pretty thick.)

I once got called out just for owning The Art of War. Never bragged or anything. It was just on a shelf, and I figured maybe I'd get around to it someday. It's a weird feeling, being shamed for owning a particular book.

Sadly, as other commenters have said, OP is basically just a string of fluffy nonsense. Even giving his explanation the benefit of the doubt, it’d still only reflect one of many, many theories within philosophy of thought/mind. Don’t take it as fact.

But DO take it as inspiration for exploring the many cool ideas within philosophy of the mind/philosophy of thought! If you like The Matrix and other cool stuff like simulation theory or big questions about what thinking/being/reality is, I highly recommend checking out Like a Splinter in Your Mind —it’s a really accessible book that uses The Matrix to introduce lots of cool ideas within philosophy. How I got started with philosophy!

There's an Android app for 3D backgrounds that I stumbled into a month or two ago. You can use your own pictures and add in your own 3D layering to create a personalized 3D background on your 2D phone screen. So we can use any image we want to create one of these weird 3D versions that will actually move based on perspective. Any existing image at all will do the job.

Applying this technology to memes is basically the next phase of evolution for mankind, from what I can tell.

EDIT: 3D Parallax Background is the app. Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vinwap.parallaxwallpaper&hl=en

Looks like Amazon has it as well.

These are pretty basic and go with a lot of things. But wear whatever you personally like

hijacking top comment:

here's a book of his called "for the love of poindexter". The back cover has pictures of BOTH of his cars and the quote "his books are equivalent to hot, raw sex and chocolate on any given day"

It’s not a slogan. That doesn’t mean that it’s right or that it will ever work. I’m in no way advocating for communism or saying it’s at all helpful or realistic. I’m literally just telling you a core tenet of communist ideology that you would be aware of if you had read anything about communism ever.

This would be like you disagreeing with me saying that in theory, capitalism values the idea of ‘the invisible hand.’ That is going back to Adam Smith, who like Marx was an early and revolutionary theorist in his field. Plenty of people would disagree about how well the invisible hand actually works as a concept in practice, but disagreeing with Smith doesn’t erase that The Wealth of Nations was a groundbreaking work of capitalist theory,

Troglodytic (Thesaurus.com): Main Entry: lonely Part of Speech: adjective Definition: feeling friendless, forlorn Synonyms: abandoned, alone, apart, by oneself, comfortless, companionless, deserted, desolate, destitute, disconsolate, down, empty, estranged, forsaken, godforsaken, homeless, isolated, left, lone, lonesome, outcast, reclusive, rejected, renounced, secluded, single, solitary, troglodytic, unattended, unbefriended, uncherished, unsocial, withdrawn Antonyms: befriended, loved, unlonely

First of all, the person says "Cyprus is 1/2 within Asia" when it is 100% European.

Then he says "Turkish origin, which is within Asia" There are 48 to 50 (Taiwan & Palestine) countries in Asia which is not hard to find.

Says "East Asian or South East Asian" >Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, UAE, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Armenia, Bahrain, Syria, Qatar, Cyrus and Turkey

I'm sorry but I love maps and geography and this pisses me off.

I'm guessing he read it in a Lovecraft inspired vidya, had to look it up, and remembered it. Or he just typed "old fashioned synonym" in google and picked the one that sounded most obscure:

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/old-fashioned

I mean, someone already gave you a link, but here you go.

In case clicking is hard, the first thing it says is "Imply and infer are opposites".

Just because you're on /r/iamverysmart doesn't mean you can just be wrong and not expect people to tell you so.

I certainly can't speak to the quality of the book, but the cover has these old-school scientific illustrations comparing something (life, i guess) with pinball. That's the kind of goofy metaphor I like to see

https://www.amazon.com/Thermoinfocomplexity-Evolution-Complex-Adaptive-Systems/dp/0989529762

Yeah, that's mostly why I responded this far down-thread: yours was the first comment that really seemed to reflect my understanding of irony. It's just so weird to see people arguing about the specific usage of a word with six equally valid definitions.

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It was a book that had a bunch of ways to get free or cheap stuff from the government, like a list of government auctions and grants. something that would be totally displaced by the internet. http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Matthew_Lesko

I wonder how much money he pulls in.

Wow. iamverysmart, seasoned lightly with iamverybadass and a dash of badeasternphilosophy.

Plus The Art of War says knowing yourself is more important than knowing your enemy.

And what's this shit about ninjitsu books?

Or about jiu jitsu allowing you to grow horns and gore people?

By the way, is Master Joe that guy who thinks MMA is the worst thing ever and real martial arts train without any hard sparring?

> 1 was intimately involved with the Manhattan Project which would have been detailed in any high school history book about WWII

I don't think Richard Feynman would have been mentioned in any high school history book. However, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" is a great and very easy read that doesn't end up having anything to do with physics.

Fuck Russel Brand and his vapid bullshit. That guy defending him has obviously never read The Elements of Style: by Strunk and White. If you can't say what you need to in as few and as simply as possible, you aren't good at your language. Sticking a lot of large, pompous words into writing does no one any good.

Yes, I know we're all guilty of it, but we should follow the example set for us by our betters. We should write and speak in a way that anyone who hears us can understand what we mean. I am really getting tired of these thesaurus wielding asshats.

Ha! You're probably not wrong since apparently there was enough interest in Klingon for Duolingo to decide to introduce Klingon for English speakers later this year.

I always imagine that they've done zero language study apart from memorising the common phrases sections from a bunch of different Lonely Planet travel guides.

Zero light penetration and a perfect seal every time. Canning has just traditionally been very expensive unless you can do it at massive scale. Costs have come down and a market for mobile canneries has emerged in markets with a lot of craft breweries.

Pour a canned beer into a glass and it will be more consistently good than bottled beer.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/06/10/320645347/brewers-have-been-all-bottled-up-but-now-theyre-canning-it

You are right. But I guess the difference lies in whether you go with sanguine or sanguinary

The latter link also points out the common confusion.

I did it, and so can you! I wrote the following code and it's blowing up online! I've made hundreds of thousands of dollars with computer science! It's so easy! See you guys in SF! /s

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/71696362/

Not trying to come off as verysmart here, but back in high school, I actually did read The Art of War. Mainly because I was an edgy teenager, but it's a neat book. Didn't understand most of it, but it's neat.

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Why would I have downvoted you for that, /u/dirkforthree? "oh he disagrees with me about whether this stupid thing happened so I best downvote him..."

Apparently you're very immature.

I get that a random site that asks for your passwords is pretty suspicious but howsecureismypassword.net is actually pretty safe. Their source code is online and they don't send anything you type over the internet.

while /u/Gofa_Kirselph is correct, I want to add that it can be bad because excessive blue light during nighttime or in dark environments can wreck your circadian rhythm as well as cause headaches, eye-strain, and physical fatigue (while still inhibiting you from being able to sleep).

In addition to adjusting the color temperature on your LCD, you can also try tools like f.lux or redshift. Apple finally baked it into their phones but there is also Twilight for Android.

It's especially bad with phones because we tend to look at their tiny screens in bed when it's very dark and our pupils are dilated, and during this time we are extra sensitive to bright, focused blue light sources.

Wow, this was going to be a PC game at one time!

And, here's our esteemed author giving insight into the game that never was

Hasbro Interactive and Disney, among others, were clamoring to publish it! So cool.

There’s more differences than the occasional spelling.

Here’s a list of specific differences in grammar:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/types-of-english-formal-informal-etc/british-and-american-english

You’ll notice there aren’t many more differences between American English and British English than American English and AAVE. Not massively anyway.

Triple-digit

Six-figure

I believe you are confusing someone saying they received a triple digit pay increase that got them to a six figure salary? That's the only thing I can figure out because I've been in wealth management for a long time and I've never once heard triple digit used for a $100k salary.

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My mother can read with the TV turned up and the dogs barking and id still have to call her name 3 or 4 times to get her attention. I never understood it. I have to have silence. But I love rainy mood when i read

http://www.cambridgebrainsciences.com/challenge/introduction/2

This is from the University of Cambridge, you can also track your scores overtime if you create an account, they have plenty of mind training exercises, it's real cool!

It made me realize how important international trade is to the peaceful stability of Nations. I suppose it also reminded me that upwards mobility is important in society because it leads to a stronger more diverse community.

It's really more of a philosophy book about human nature than a book about actual wealth management. The Wealth of Nations won't help you understand investments, the derivative market, or how to balance your check book. It's rooted in the technology and natural resources of the past centuries.

I iz da wocket sientist!!

Oh man! Just wait until you see Rick and Morty!

Edit: In all seriousness, check out Isaac Arthur. I could (and do) spend hours watching his videos.

Edit 2: He's also on BitChute if you don't care for YouTube.

Also makes for a neat screensaver using HTML Screensaver using this auto play link

Oh jesus if we're allowed RYM reviews here there are bucketloads of these people. The worst are the ones that try to pretend they're smart by copying things other people say in their reviews but really just end up sounding like a 14-year-old trying to fit in.

Yes. Because it is very easy. Once you get used to the command line, you will never want to use a mouse again. For children, who were introduced to linux early, the choice between CLI and an inefficient GUI is obvious.

Interesting, I've always used this quote as an Einstein quote.

Because of your comment I did a little internet scouring and discovered that he while he probably had said it, as stated in a book by Frederick Perl, the quote was not completely his idea and should probably be linked to a French philosopher called Ernest Renan. Perl also used the quote multiple times in a different way, so it's hard to know what Einstein exactly said, and if he had said it at all.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/04/universe-einstein/ https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Disputed

That was my first reaction too lol, your mixing credentials as an audio engineer would be way more relevant that being able to read treble, bass, and some other clef no one cares about (eat shit violas).

It was my understanding that it's a voice to text reading "Laurel" but there are artifacts and flaws and format change degradation in the formants that whoever working on it, likely being older and having a bit of hearing age and damage, completely missed the "yanny". Humans pay way more attention to those higher formants in speech to distinguish meaning.

It's fun to play with some of the free TTS online engines like this one: https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/

Try the US male voices and variations on "Laurel" "Lorrel" and "Lorral".

> 3d game engine that I wrote in scratch

Scratch? As in the desktop and online multimedia authoring tool that teaches children how to program. What other scratch is there? Surely he means built it from scratch. Otherwise he must just be making shit up.

He did not make them.

They're sold on amazon as a pair for $99 and he put a nuka cola decal on it. Kinda less impressive once you realize the truth.

If you want to go for efficiency, you should use the T-UI launcher.

I've been using it for probably almost a year now and it's been fantastic.

Because to someone smart enough theory is just as good or even better than any real world experience. Why would I need to experience a fight when I know exactly how some one would respond to my tactics in a fight? Before the fight has even started the winner has been decided by the side with the superior intellect.

I discuss this idea further in my classic novel "The Art of War 3: War in Space (Love?)"

That being said, it's pretty funny when a group of people who are really enthusiastic about a specific field get drunk together. Ever seen a couple of writers fight each other over the adverb part in Stephen King's "On Writing"? I have.

>In addition to adjusting the color temperature on your LCD, you can also try tools like f.lux or redshift. Apple finally baked it into their phones but there is also Twilight for Android.

To note: most "modern" Android firmwares seem to have included a blue-color suppressor.

And on Windows 10, as of Creator's Update, a "Night Light" feature has been introduced. Works just like flux. It's in the Settings screen. Just type "night light."

http://genius.com/176681/Immortal-technique-leaving-the-past/And-shake-your-body-like-a-baby-born-addicted-to-crack

Here's the quote in context for anyone interested.

It's a play on a popular style of line, to tell people to put their hands in the air and shake their ass, etc... But he keeps it dark in his own style because he's ripping on the fact that people put that kind of shit in their songs. He has a problem with "pop" rappers because they take a style that is from the hood and appropriate it toward suburbia, and lighten it up when hip hop is usually supposed to be about talking about what matters. This song was in response to his critics.

I don't understand why this is getting downvoted. Quantum is my research topic and I still don't understand it... Even one of the founders of the field ( Richard Feynman ) will agree with this.

And yet, I can buy them on Amazon.

The amount of tritium regulated by the NRC is more than the amount typically found in a wristwatch.

Yeah I definitely agree with his point on Occums Razor though he could put it in a less pretentious way.

I always think just using this link works much better.

Quick google search later the game is called CONNECTION and is made by Infinity Games

link

Do notice how one of the pictures for the app says > IF YOU PASS OVER LEVEL 200 YOU HAVE AN IQ OF A GENIUS!

>(IQ>140)

Edit: Just tried the game, it's super easy, but the amount of ads is frustrating.

ITT: People who are verysmart about military strategy and could've written The Art of War in 500BCE had they the predilection.

But seriously, this whole subreddit is flooded with assholes hoping that subbing keeps them on the other side of the fence but without the proper restraint to avoid hopping it every fucking post.

I feel like most people who read The Art of War don't understand it.

I've never read it, but it seems like people would select a few cool quotes from and not search for any deeper meaning. Like, you know, that he literally wrote it about war.

Relay for reddit (only on Android as far as I know). Only very slightly less functional than reddit is fun, but the Material Design UI makes it worth it IMO. There's also an ad-free version for $2.99.

Triple-digit

Six-figure

I believe you are confusing someone saying they received a triple digit pay increase that got them to a six figure salary? That's the only thing I can figure out because I've been in wealth management for a long time and I've never once heard triple digit used for a $100k salary.

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I just looked it up, it's a quote attributed to Richard Feynman but it's not really clear whether he actually said it. Something like "if you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."

I know it's not the same thing, but historically speaking under Jim Crow they had literacy tests that were super hard to understand. It applied to everybody who couldn't prove education, but given that a lot of black people were denied or had a hard time finding education, it was super disproportionate in who it actually affected.

>I can't begin to tell you how many times an expert has made a claim only to have other experts say "Hang on a minute, I don't agree with you..."

Um, this guy isn't aware that when a significant expert writes an important book, that book is then discussed, disputed, and challenged by other experts? (Who had to read the book before challenging it).

> You absolute ignorant fuckstain. Think before opening your mouth and conversing with people vastly more intelligent than yourself.

Wew

> Out of over 8 billion people

> Probably more

> vastly more intelligent

They don't have the same grammar either.

As someone who's half English and half American, the biggest difference I notice daily is how we refer to sports teams. An English person would say, "Manchester United are winning 2-0" and an American would say, "Manchester United is winning 2-0".

I am (shamefully) not very well-read, but I'm lucky enough to have read Politics and the English Language before. I think it's a great, short read and I particularly admire Orwell's writing style. It's not a very long essay, and like others have mentioned, is pertinent to this sub. I would highly recommend it. Take a look here: https://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/Politics_and_the_English_Language-1.pdf. The corrected variant is a bit difficult to read, but deals with a few typos.

I personally think that the Exhibit (3) referred to in the text is a better example, since it isn't a parody:

>3. On the one side we have the free personality: by definition it is not neurotic, for it has neither conflict nor dream. Its desires, such as they are, are transparent, for they are just what institutional approval keeps in the forefront of consciousness; another institutional pattern would alter their number and intensity; there is little in them that is natural, irreducible, or culturally dangerous. But on the other side , the social bond itself is nothing but the mutual reflection of these self-secure integrities. Recall the definition of love. Is not this the very picture of a small academic? Where is there a place in this hall of mirrors for either personality or fraternity

Revolutionist is actually a word and is even a synonym for revolutionary

So unfortunately no fun can be had at calling him out on that...

Maybe there's been a translation error on some end. https://math.wikia.org/wiki/Cardinality

tl;dr natural numbers and odd natural numbers both have a cardinality of aleph null and thus they are the same "size".

Here's yet another source on the matter. https://brilliant.org/wiki/cardinality/

I thought I was an imperialist once, then I was kind of anti-state, at least anti-modern state, then I read silentcoder's response on Slashdot at https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9818411&cid=53156649#comments and now I don't know where I fall.

I'm not a hundred percent sure, but I'm certain it's Textra.

I use the same app on Android, and it lets you customize just about everything (colors, text, font, bubble shape, notification light, etc).