Peruvian_Skies

I know it’s photoshopped because I was there and Obama was wearing an eyepatch. The image used for the meme shows all four of his eyes.

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That photoshopped meme of Obama putting a medal on himself also fits.

Take my morning medicine with a tall glass of water, then roll over and sleep for some 20 minutes until it kicks in and I can force myself to get up. Then, breakfast, water the plants and shower.

There’s a difference between time not passing and not existing. To a photon, space (in the direction of its movement) doesn’t exist, as its origin and destination points are the same. But time does not pass - the axis of time is there, but the photon never budges in either direction, like a rock buried in the middle of the desert doesn’t move in any spatial direction on a human timescale. The photon’s beginning and end aren’t simultaneous, quite the opposite. Since it can’t move in time, they might as well be infinitely far apart.

What exactly do you mean by “gifted”?

Photons exist, so there is the perspective of a photon. Most may not be absorbed but that’s irrelevant because some are. And when they are, their perspective - like them - ends. Like yours does when you die.

The photon does not experience time, but we do, so from our perspective they can be emitted and absorbed even though from their perspective they are timeless. Again, like us. Before you were born, you didn’t experience being not alive. From your own perspective, you’ve always existed, even though from the perspective of someone older than you, there was a time when you didn’t.

How exactly is it racist?

Thank you so much, I’m going to keep that quote in my hat from now on.

I tested high on the IQ scale. I’m single, unemployed and have trouble making friends. I agree with you completely. Having a high IQ does not substitute for life skills nor does it make you happy.

The flip side is that having an extremely low IQ can make it very hard for you to navigate the world and perform basic tasks.

I’m not even going to check if that’s misattributed because I want to believe that it isn’t.

I don’t resent anyone else for not being able to do what I do, because I’m aware that I can’t do stuff that others can.

IQ is just one kind of intelligence. I have a high IQ (or had one ten years ago when I took a test, anyway), good body awareness, passable social intelligence and really, really low emotional intelligence. I suck at dealing with my feelings. So for every time somebody is complaining about some problem they have where I find the solution trivial, you can bet there’s another time when I’m complaining about some stuff I’m dealing with where they’re thinking “duh, just do this, that’s obvious”.

I wouldn’t say I “cope” with it. I just accept it. People are different, we all have our strengths and weaknesses, and I think that being bothered by other people’s weaknesses is a huge weakness in itself. I have a bit of that weakness (I think everyone does, it’s frustrating to see people stumble over stuff that you take in stride) but when I feel that way, I just remind myself that it’s my own weakness that makes theirs bother me in the first place, so it’s my problem and my fault, and I move on.

Getting sick in the USA is like going to one of those fancy restaurants where the prices aren’t on the menu and are always a lot higher than they should be, eh.

Should cars be required by law not to let you drive to drug deals? Should glasses be required by law not to let you read banned books? Should testicles be required by law not to produce government-unsanctioned sperm?

What are you talking about? I can still access my files just fine.

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It’s just you.

That really is amazing. But why did we previously think that the T-Rex’s eyesight was terrible, then (as seen in the first Jurassic Park movie)?

How do we know anything about their visual acuity or sense of smell?

The problem is that we suck at allocating productivity. For example, we produce enough food for everyone but don’t distribute it half as well as we should, so people still starve while food rots somewhere else. We waste resources propping up a whole host of parasites that add no value to society, such as famous-for-being-famous celebrities, advertisers, speculators and redundant managers, while underpaying the people who actually produce wealth. And we want a brand new iPhone every year, a brand new car every two years, etc, and by and large don’t recycle. We’re wasteful.

Most of the actually important and time-consuming work is automated already. If we were smart about what work we do, an 8-hour work week for everyone would be more than possible. But we are so inefficient with our productivity due to warped priorities that most of us barely scrape by as it is.