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On Sun, 4 Jun 2023 08:15:23 -0700 (PDT), Lasse Langwadt Christensen
lang...@fonz.dk> wrote:
søndag den 4. juni 2023 kl. 17.08.40 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:
On Sun, 4 Jun 2023 07:02:59 -0700 (PDT), Lasse Langwadt Christensen
lang...@fonz.dk> wrote:
søndag den 4. juni 2023 kl. 15.48.47 UTC+2 skrev Anthony William Sloman:
On Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 9:41:18?PM UTC+10, John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 04 Jun 2023 11:23:28 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
hami...@invalid.com> wrote:
On 2023-06-04, John Larkin <jla...@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
Nothing is more convenient than a car. City folk are morons. Why live there?
Lots of reasons. Better food, better medical care, better jobs, better
women. Think about the evolutionary issues.
I get excellent food, medical care, and jobs in a midwestern college
town. You couldn\'t pay me to live in a city.
What does \"better women\" even mean?
More options. Cities and college towns attract and concentrate all
sorts of odd and smart people, so each of us has a better chance of
meeting our best mate than we might in a small town. A college town
has many of the aspects of (some) cities: good food, good coffee,
smart people, lots of interaction.
Evolutionarily, concentration of people, especially into high-skill high-cost areas, means that the extremes of the normal distribution are more likely to meet and mate. So we get more geniuses and more autism.
Why autism? Some autistic people can be smart, and the fact that they don\'t go in for social interaction may mean that they spend more time being smart, but that doesn\'t make them any smarter. You won\'t get more of them in university towns, and they are less likely to meet compatible partners - which is a social activity - or mate.
There no mechanism that is likely to deliver more autistic off-spring.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-geeky-couples-more-likely-to-have-kids-with-autism/
That\'s paywalled.
https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/publications/download.php?id=42289
Cool, especially about engineers, preferring email to talking.
Stanford and the Apple campus are both good sites for associative
mating.
My next-door neighbors are from different eastern european countries;
their only common language is English. Their little girl is awesome;
maybe I\'ll teach her some electronics. They met when both worked for
google. Google is a geek magnet.
How many people here are on the spectrum?
One problem, as usual, is women. Israel likes women and its neighbors
mostly don\'t. Life would be simpler without women. Much simpler.
søndag den 4. juni 2023 kl. 18.07.01 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:
On Sun, 4 Jun 2023 08:15:23 -0700 (PDT), Lasse Langwadt Christensen
lang...@fonz.dk> wrote:
søndag den 4. juni 2023 kl. 17.08.40 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:
On Sun, 4 Jun 2023 07:02:59 -0700 (PDT), Lasse Langwadt Christensen
lang...@fonz.dk> wrote:
søndag den 4. juni 2023 kl. 15.48.47 UTC+2 skrev Anthony William Sloman:
On Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 9:41:18?PM UTC+10, John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 04 Jun 2023 11:23:28 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
hami...@invalid.com> wrote:
On 2023-06-04, John Larkin <jla...@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
Nothing is more convenient than a car. City folk are morons. Why live there?
Lots of reasons. Better food, better medical care, better jobs, better
women. Think about the evolutionary issues.
I get excellent food, medical care, and jobs in a midwestern college
town. You couldn\'t pay me to live in a city.
What does \"better women\" even mean?
More options. Cities and college towns attract and concentrate all
sorts of odd and smart people, so each of us has a better chance of
meeting our best mate than we might in a small town. A college town
has many of the aspects of (some) cities: good food, good coffee,
smart people, lots of interaction.
Evolutionarily, concentration of people, especially into high-skill high-cost areas, means that the extremes of the normal distribution are more likely to meet and mate. So we get more geniuses and more autism.
Why autism? Some autistic people can be smart, and the fact that they don\'t go in for social interaction may mean that they spend more time being smart, but that doesn\'t make them any smarter. You won\'t get more of them in university towns, and they are less likely to meet compatible partners - which is a social activity - or mate.
There no mechanism that is likely to deliver more autistic off-spring.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-geeky-couples-more-likely-to-have-kids-with-autism/
That\'s paywalled.
https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/publications/download.php?id=42289
Cool, especially about engineers, preferring email to talking.
https://youtu.be/FXG73-mjQOI
Stanford and the Apple campus are both good sites for associative
mating.
My next-door neighbors are from different eastern european countries;
their only common language is English. Their little girl is awesome;
maybe I\'ll teach her some electronics. They met when both worked for
google. Google is a geek magnet.
How many people here are on the spectrum?
on a spectrum from 0-100, maybe everyone
depends on where you put the limit
On Sun, 4 Jun 2023 09:53:52 -0700 (PDT), Lasse Langwadt Christensen <lang....@fonz.dk> wrote:
søndag den 4. juni 2023 kl. 18.07.01 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:
On Sun, 4 Jun 2023 08:15:23 -0700 (PDT), Lasse Langwadt Christensen <lang...@fonz.dk> wrote:
søndag den 4. juni 2023 kl. 17.08.40 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:
On Sun, 4 Jun 2023 07:02:59 -0700 (PDT), Lasse Langwadt Christensen <lang...@fonz.dk> wrote:
søndag den 4. juni 2023 kl. 15.48.47 UTC+2 skrev Anthony William Sloman:
On Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 9:41:18?PM UTC+10, John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 04 Jun 2023 11:23:28 GMT, Cindy Hamilton <hami...@invalid.com> wrote:
On 2023-06-04, John Larkin <jla...@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
That\'s hard to quantify. But the symptoms, if we call them that, would be obsessive concentration and specialization, poor social and maybe
verbal skills, avoidance of talk in favor of writing, and disregard for standards and peer opinions.
There was a cool book, The Psychology of Computer Programming. Same idea.
https://geraldmweinberg.com/Site/Programming_Psychology.html
On Sun, 04 Jun 2023 04:41:00 -0700, John Larkin
jla...@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
On Sun, 04 Jun 2023 11:23:28 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
hami...@invalid.com> wrote:
On 2023-06-04, John Larkin <jla...@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
This paper estimates 83%.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2654804
Mo works with autistic kids. Severely affected ones can be damaged, rolling around on the floor and screaming and not talking. But many mild cases can be very talented.
Google famous autistic people
https://behavioral-innovations.com/blog/20-famous-people-with-autism-spectrum-disorder-asd/
Electronic design is partly technical - that\'s the easy part - and
mostly emotional. That is rarely discussed.
On Fri, 5 May 2023 06:54:35 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Thu, 4 May 2023 17:35:42 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Thu, 4 May 2023 06:44:29 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
This would be very possible with self driving cars. When you\'ve done
your commute your car is available in a pool for others to hire
while you\'re at work.
Something like that has been tried with bicycles although the bikes
weren\'t personal property. It didn\'t work very well.
Examples?
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/26/story-cities-amsterdam-
bike-share-scheme
Not sure what you read, but that article says that ultimately bike share
schemes have been a success the world over.
Ultimately after refinements to make people responsible. The original
white bike scheme didn\'t work in Amsterdam and it didn\'t work here.
On Fri, 05 May 2023 11:27:51 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Try understanding \"public schools\" and \"private schools\" in the UK.
He tiptoed around the issue but C.S. Lewis\' \'Surprised by Joy\' hinted
public schools are where the British upper classes learn pederasty.
Kipling\'s \'Stalky & Co.\' also makes one wonder what went on at the United
Services College public school where Kipling was educated.
In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 07 May 2023 15:20:38 -0400, micky
NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 5 May 2023 03:47:03 +0200, \"Carlos E.R.\"
robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
On 2023-05-05 03:26, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 4 May 2023 22:07:19 +0200, \"Carlos E.R.\"
robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
On 2023-05-04 14:47, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 4 May 2023 00:13:38 +0200, \"Carlos E.R.\"
robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
On 2023-05-03 23:43, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Tue, 02 May 2023 14:27:14 +0100, Carlos E.R.
robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
On 2023-05-02 07:20, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Can\'t we just get rid of public transport? I asked Google Maps for a
route from my house to somewhere I want to go on holiday.
2 hours by car, 6 hours by public transport. Dafuq?
Even more ridiculous, 6 hours by public transport, 7 hours by bicycle!
Public transport is hardly faster than a bicycle!
1 day on foot! Trains go a whole 4 times faster than me walking!
Just close them down.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gkpnorzkr4v3w07/transport.jpg?dl=0
A taxi is also Public Transport.
No, as only one person uses it.
Not true. They have a plate that says [SP], that is, Public Service.
Same as Buses.
https://images.app.goo.gl/gmyVfJFcPCGkahCq8
My impression has been that in some places, eastern Europe maybe, Greece
maybe, public transport refers to carriers of many people, and in the
I got mixed up and I defined the first part wrong. For them, it refers
to systems owned by the government.
USA the term used is public transportation and it refers to any carrier
open to the public.
Yes, that\'s the basic idea. A means of transport that is open to the
public, in some manner. A bus has (normally) a fixed route and time
table, a taxi is open to the client. Both are owned by somebody else,
and are subject to regulations.
If Spain and the USA are more like each other, that\'s fine with me.
I tried to discuss this once on TRip Advisor but got nowhere.
Because they were getting plenty of tourists from the USA and I\'m sure
when they said that public transport didn\'t run to certain places or at
certain times, I\'m sure half of the Americans didn\'t understand that
taxis were still available. I wanted the local posters to be more
clear, but they didn\'t get it.
Ah. I see.
Of course, to me, \"Public\" is not the Government. Ridiculous.
Another example is the public phone. Phone booths all over the place
were referred to as public phones, and the few that are left still are,
even the government didn\'t own any of them. They were owned by one or
Even though the government....
another phone company but meant to be used by the public.
Public parks are almost always owned by the government, but that does
not mean public phones and public transsportation has to be because
ownership is now what makes them public. In fact if there is some
NOT what makes them public. Darn.
On Sun, 04 Jun 2023 01:09:55 +0100, Snit <brock.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 3, 2023 at 3:18:49 PM MST, \"\"Commander Kinsey\"\" wrote
op.15zhl...@ryzen.home>:
Bigotry is just logic.
This is an insane claim.
Why? It\'s just accepting some people are inferior. You surely can\'t believe we\'re all the same?
On Jun 3, 2023 at 3:18:49 PM MST, \"\"Commander Kinsey\"\" wrote
op.15zhlnbymvhs6z@ryzen.home>:
Bigotry is just logic.
This is an insane claim.
On Sun, 04 Jun 2023 01:09:55 +0100, Snit <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 3, 2023 at 3:18:49 PM MST, \"\"Commander Kinsey\"\" wrote
op.15zhlnbymvhs6z@ryzen.home>:
Bigotry is just logic.
This is an insane claim.
Why? It\'s just accepting some people are inferior. You surely can\'t believe
we\'re all the same?
On Jun 22, 2023 at 11:55:31 PM MST, \"\"Commander Kinsey\"\" wrote
op.16zb6typmvhs6z@ryzen>:
On Sun, 04 Jun 2023 01:09:55 +0100, Snit <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 3, 2023 at 3:18:49 PM MST, \"\"Commander Kinsey\"\" wrote
op.15zhlnbymvhs6z@ryzen.home>:
Bigotry is just logic.
This is an insane claim.
Why? It\'s just accepting some people are inferior. You surely can\'t believe
we\'re all the same?
Equal rights and equal capabilities are not the same.
Why? It\'s just accepting some people are inferior. You surely can\'t believe
we\'re all the same?
Equal rights and equal capabilities are not the same.
On Sun, 04 Jun 2023 11:23:28 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:
On 2023-06-04, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
Nothing is more convenient than a car. City folk are morons. Why live there?
Lots of reasons. Better food, better medical care, better jobs, better
women. Think about the evolutionary issues.
I get excellent food, medical care, and jobs in a midwestern college
town. You couldn\'t pay me to live in a city.
What does \"better women\" even mean?
More options.
On Fri, 05 May 2023 13:35:30 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Thu, 04 May 2023 06:11:02 +0100, Snit <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> wrote:
On May 3, 2023 at 6:04:03 PM MST, \"\"Commander Kinsey\"\" wrote
op.14eak1srmvhs6z@ryzen.home>:
On Wed, 03 May 2023 20:59:34 +0100, Snit <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> wrote:
It is a loss only from a very myopic view point. The big picture matters.
People won\'t use buses just because there\'s more of them.
If they are clean and convenient, why not? They do in many cities.
Nothing is more convenient than a car. City folk are morons. Why live there?
Lots of reasons. Better food,
They avoid them because they have more convenient cars. Buses are for the
poor. Let them walk.
And this is why Libertarianism cannot work. It actively pushes inefficiencies
which make a society less capable of competing.
It does not. If everyone has freedom of choice, they will choose the cheapest (most efficient).
No. Living in a tin-roof shack in Mexico is the cheapest (most
efficient), and a few people do that. More people pay $3000 a month
for a 1 bedroom apartment in a big city.
But let\'s all scrounge off others shall we?
Let\'s invest in our own society so we are ALL better off.
You invest in a company, because it gives you money back when it does well.
And we can do the same with our society. Invest so ALL are bette off.
No, you make others better off, not yourself.
Natural selection does not favor altruists.
You don\'t invest in a society. You just feed the lazy and useless, creating a
population of weak people. Stop using silly libtard buzzwords.
None of what you said makes sense. Why would everyone being better off lead to
anything like that?
Because you\'re feeding those who aren\'t contributing.
Typical Jew.
Not sure what the means, other than antisemitic nonsense.
Aww boo hoo, the religious nutters get upset when we make fun of them. Anyone
believing in god needs removed from the gene pool.
I said nothing of being a religious nutter -- I noted your bigotry.
You objected to me having a go at Jews. Jews are the biggest religious nuts out there. They start as much war as Muslims. They think turning on a lightswitch on the sabbath is \"work\".
The majority of Jews are not full orthodox.
When Israel declared a state, with UN sanction, it was a small
parliamentary democracy. And was attacked the next day from all
directions by Muslims. Now it\'s a bigger parliamentary democracy.
One problem, as usual, is women. Israel likes women and its neighbors
mostly don\'t. Life would be simpler without women. Much simpler.
On Jun 23, 2023 at 8:42:30 AM MST, \"Snit\" wrote
G3jlM.38385$7915.24303@fx10.iad>:
On Jun 22, 2023 at 11:55:31 PM MST, \"\"Commander Kinsey\"\" wrote
op.16zb6typmvhs6z@ryzen>:
On Sun, 04 Jun 2023 01:09:55 +0100, Snit <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 3, 2023 at 3:18:49 PM MST, \"\"Commander Kinsey\"\" wrote
op.15zhlnbymvhs6z@ryzen.home>:
Bigotry is just logic.
This is an insane claim.
Why? It\'s just accepting some people are inferior. You surely can\'t believe
we\'re all the same?
Equal rights and equal capabilities are not the same.
And more than that, you assuming a group is inferior based on your bigotry is
not about the group, it is about you.
On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 16:43:05 +0100, Snit <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 23, 2023 at 8:42:30 AM MST, \"Snit\" wrote
G3jlM.38385$7915.24303@fx10.iad>:
On Jun 22, 2023 at 11:55:31 PM MST, \"\"Commander Kinsey\"\" wrote
op.16zb6typmvhs6z@ryzen>:
On Sun, 04 Jun 2023 01:09:55 +0100, Snit <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 3, 2023 at 3:18:49 PM MST, \"\"Commander Kinsey\"\" wrote
op.15zhlnbymvhs6z@ryzen.home>:
Bigotry is just logic.
This is an insane claim.
Why? It\'s just accepting some people are inferior. You surely can\'t believe
we\'re all the same?
Equal rights and equal capabilities are not the same.
Of course they are. A more capable person is more valuable to society.
And more than that, you assuming a group is inferior based on your bigotry is
not about the group, it is about you.
I assume people are inferior when they are.
At least you admit you merely assume. That is a step in the right direction
for you.