Well this is interesting

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This tells you all you need to know about IQ tests.

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IQ tests are problematic for a number of reasons, but how does this story illustrate that?

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Just a joke, I suppose. Someone with a high IQ deciding to focus on sportsball.

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He’s 12. And it could be worse. He could say he wants to be a cop.

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Sara Rivers-Cofield purchased the bronze-colored silk bustle dress with striped rust velvet accents for $100 at an antique shop in Maine, noting on her blog that it was in a style that was fashionable in the mid-1880s among middle-class or well-off women.

When Rivers-Cofield turned the dress inside-out, she found a small hidden pocket. Many women’s dresses of the era had pockets, but this one would only be accessible by hiking up the overskirt. She puzzled over why anyone would make a pocket so inaccessible and thought it might have been used to smuggle messages. Hidden inside, she found two sheets of wadded-up translucent paper measuring about 7.5 inches by 11 inches. The text on each sheet consisted of 12 lines of recognizable common English words—except they made no sense. ā€œBismark omit leafage buck bankā€? ā€œPaul Ramify loamy event false new eventā€?

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elon musk ā€œcreatingā€ an ai chatbot named grok and charging people money to use it is already funny, but the funnier part of how while pretty much other every chatbot in existence almost instantly get’s corrupted and becomes racist, musk managed to almost completely on accident make one that’s. not racist or transphobic or antisemitic. like wow

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No doubt it’s the headboard bumping against the wall.

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This is interesting. I had a blood test yesterday. The technician said, ā€œNow, just a little pinchā€ instead of the more accurate, ā€œNow, just a little prick.ā€

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Maybe they got in trouble when someone thought they were calling them a little prick.

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No doubt someone with those really loud mufflers.

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Should I have put this in the The Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Read topic? Or the Now For Some Good News Topic? I haven’t the faintest idea.

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I dunno if it’s good news, but it could fit into this or TDTIER thread.

also the surname of the POTUS in ā€œDr. Strangeloveā€

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I’m getting or already addicted to this channel. Here’s an example.

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I’m struggling to remember what topic has these initials.

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The Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Read, and I see what I did there! LOL!

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I still don’t believe these were ever real.

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Shaving bodily hair because of lice, etc. was a real thing. And then you’d apply a wig, merkin, etc. to seem ā€˜normal’ again.

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Yeah. Not buying it. If you’re running around Padua without your codpiece, a crotch toupee is the least of your problems. Anyway, it wouldn’t fool anybody if they got close enough to notice.

There might have been one or two throughout history, I don’t doubt that, but I don’t believe they were ever ā€œa thing.ā€

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