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[–] bricks@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I don’t agree with this statement. I think “intelligence”, however you define that, has fit pretty cleanly to a Gaussian distribution since the dawn of man. If anything, I think advances in nutrition, preventative healthcare, and access to information has driven pretty significant negative skew. I don’t have anything to back up this claim, but my guess would be that median intelligence has actually increased - it just may not seem as such since the population continues to rise, so the raw number of dummies seems overwhelming.

But hey, who I am to define what’s smart? Maybe an inflatable hot tub, 30 rack of Busch, RAM 1500 on an 84 month note, zero turn mower, DirecTV with Fox News and the funds to pay for it all is the real secret to a happy life. I’m just someone blabbing about nothing with a bunch of Reddit exiles.

[–] bricks@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

oh no there are other answers other than this… how silly :(

[–] bricks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The Consumer Discretionary ones are icky, but if I were the Intelligence Community, I’d want things like Cloudflare and Iridium to keep on chuggin’.

[–] bricks@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks good. Any noted pros/cons vs. Memmy?

[–] bricks@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Generations 1-5. I have wonderful memories with each. Starting with Gen 6, I found the art style unbearable, and even if the stories / gameplay were perfect (they weren’t), I found them too divergent from “core” to overcome.

Areceus was nice because I didn’t go into it as a mainline entry; it was like playing Stadium for the first time.

I’d really like Nintendo to release Emerald, HGSS, Platinum, and BW/BW2 on Switch, as I’d happily pay. My gut tells me they don’t so as to avoid cannibalizing the new titles, but I feel like most buyers are only really engaged in one or the other.

[–] bricks@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Super shilly comment incoming, but YouTube Premium is maybe the only subscription I pay for (other than Game Pass) that I think is worthwhile. I was also blown away by how much I like YouTube Music. Don’t get me wrong, I’m fully anticipating the platform to race to the bottom and go to complete and utter shit, but for the time being, I think it’s solid.

[–] bricks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

So O-Rings are notoriously for cutting the noise on Cherry Blues, but we put 0.2mm O-Rings on my wife’s keyboard, and it accomplished EXACTLY what you’re looking for.

Massive pain to install, but cheap, and “deeper”.

[–] bricks@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah man, that’s kinda goofy. I have PC Game Pass and I know they’re technically different products.

[–] bricks@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah, for $1 (between 9.99 and 10.99) this is just a price decoy / asymmetric dominance exercise.

Wiki

Core will go away (or at least deprioritized from a marketing perspective) once they’ve successfully transitioned everyone off GfG.

[–] bricks@lemmy.world 57 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I was going to say… the only times I ever used Reddit search, it just prompted me to question why I was wasting my time, then googling “xyz problem statement reddit”

[–] bricks@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey man, I do it all - waiting for it to catch up with me :)

[–] bricks@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Some that haven’t been mentioned:

Prolonged Sitting Prolonged Loud Headphone Use Off-Label Drug Use (e.g., Ozempic, Wegovy) Sun/Heat/Poor Air Exposure Thiamine/B1 Deficiency via Alcohol Consumption

We know they’re all dangerous (to wildly varying extents), but I don’t think we’ve had enough moments-of-reckoning, like with emphysema and lung cancer following long term smoking.

 

Not sure if this would be allowed / if there’s appetite for it, but should we put some information on the Rochester subreddit to try and pull people here? It’d be nice to build up the community a bit (even if it’s just cross-posts at first).

I’d do it, but I’m account-less.

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