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No, what they want is their problem solved.
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OK that rustles me too. The worst part is this cunt thinks she's good at customer service. Maybe instead of press 1 for english we can press 1 to have your problem solved, press 2 to be seen and heard. 2 transfers you to ole colleen's voicemail.
 
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Hoss said:
OK that rustles me too. The worst part is this cunt thinks she's good at customer service. Maybe instead of press 1 for english we can press 1 to have your problem solved, press 2 to be seen and heard. 2 transfers you to ole colleen's voicemail.
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What people really want is for shit to just work so we never have to encounter customer service at all.
 
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What the fuck is this shit?

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  • Watson's Comments: In a 2007 interview and a subsequent 2019 documentary, Watson stated that he was "inherently gloomy" about Africa's prospects because Western policies assumed Black people had the same intelligence as white people, an idea he claimed was not supported by testing data. He explicitly stated he believed the difference in IQ scores between races was genetic. He made other offensive and controversial comments about women and gay people as well.
  • Scientific Consensus: There is a broad consensus across the biological and social sciences that race is a social construct, not a meaningful biological or genetic classification of human variation. Mainstream scientific evidence indicates that variations in IQ scores between different populations are primarily due to environmental factors such as access to education, nutrition, and systemic racism, not inherent genetic differences.
  • Consequences and Condemnation: His remarks sparked international outrage and led to severe professional consequences. The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), where he had served as director and chancellor for decades, stripped him of his honorary titles and severed all remaining ties with him, calling his opinions "reprehensible," "unsubstantiated," and "reckless".
  • Legacy: While Watson is highly regarded for his co-discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA, his later years were tarnished by his promotion of these debunked racist ideas, making him a pariah in much of the scientific community




  • because he wouldn’t understand SCIENCE…
 
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lgarthy said:
  • Watson's Comments: In a 2007 interview and a subsequent 2019 documentary, Watson stated that he was "inherently gloomy" about Africa's prospects because Western policies assumed Black people had the same intelligence as white people, an idea he claimed was not supported by testing data. He explicitly stated he believed the difference in IQ scores between races was genetic. He made other offensive and controversial comments about women and gay people as well.
  • Scientific Consensus: There is a broad consensus across the biological and social sciences that race is a social construct, not a meaningful biological or genetic classification of human variation. Mainstream scientific evidence indicates that variations in IQ scores between different populations are primarily due to environmental factors such as access to education, nutrition, and systemic racism, not inherent genetic differences.
  • Consequences and Condemnation: His remarks sparked international outrage and led to severe professional consequences. The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), where he had served as director and chancellor for decades, stripped him of his honorary titles and severed all remaining ties with him, calling his opinions "reprehensible," "unsubstantiated," and "reckless".
  • Legacy: While Watson is highly regarded for his co-discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA, his later years were tarnished by his promotion of these debunked racist ideas, making him a pariah in much of the scientific community




  • because he wouldn’t understand SCIENCE…
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Hmm. What did the numbers say? I was taught in basic High School SCIENCE that experiments should be done in large numbers, controlling for variables as much as possible. Provide the same education / opportunities to everyone, hold everyone just as accountable in class (respect the teacher, pay attention, etc), and see if he was right or wrong. Should be easy to prove in a genuine experiment right?
 
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Hmm. What did the numbers say? I was taught in basic High School SCIENCE that experiments should be done in large numbers, controlling for variables as much as possible. Provide the same education / opportunities to everyone, hold everyone just as accountable in class (respect the teacher, pay attention, etc), and see if he was right or wrong. Should be easy to prove in a genuine experiment right?
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It's been done. Repeatedly. Remember "The Bell Curve?" But the often quoted example of two plants--- one given light and nutrition and the other starved, is a flawed model, because no matter how much you feed either plant, they will reach an genetically derived limit. No "Jack & the Beanstalk" no matter how much nutrition you provide. Yup. It's a dicey and divisive premise. There is a limit--- it is known in genetics and psychology as the Reaction Range.

  • Definition: The reaction range is the genetically determined limits (upper and lower) for a specific trait. For a given genotype (genetic makeup), the phenotype (observable trait, like IQ score or height) will fall somewhere within this range, depending on the quality of the environment.
  • The Limit: Just as a plant's genetic code determines the maximum possible height it can achieve, a person's genetic makeup determines the maximum cognitive potential they can reach. No amount of perfect schooling, nutrition, or cognitive training will push their IQ score past their individual genetic ceiling.
That is the question that is uncomfortable to address. How influenced are genetic markers on "the human condition" regardless of environment? It's been tested extensively, and answered both ways-- yet intuitively we know what certain traits are bound to genetics. 99% of humans are alike in our genome. But that is a huge data set with a lot of "garbage" in it. Yet we know from animal models that genetics can dictate behaviors regardless of environment. It's just uncomfortable to admit that we KNOW what we are getting (for the most part) when we adopt a Golden Retriever as opposed to a German Shepard (and yes, I could have use more provocative breeds in that example-- but there is no need to).

There is absolutely a genetic upper limit to traits. It's an inconvenient truth. It's okay to pass down height and eye color, but not social traits.
 
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Any animal rescue folks know the impact of genes. There are certain breeds that you cannot mix with other rescue animals: The strong prey drives in certain breeds, such as Greyhounds, Terriers, and some hunting breeds like the Weimaraners, for example-- they cannot (and should not) be housed/sheltered with other breeds (or felines). And yes, I am ready to hear about the Siberian Husky that sleeps every night with the kitty cat... It's just not the norm nor the push from their genes.
 
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Chain Rustling Inbound.....

House Project for Fall : Get the interior of the house painted along with de-popcorn a couple rooms and fix some minor cracks....

Call painter for quote. He comes over, looks at the types of cracks and says "I can't quote you for this in good faith until you get the foundation looked at, these are signs that we'd paint it and in 6 months you'd have cracks and be unhappy with it."

Call foundation people (All Pro Foundation in Dallas, they've done work on my mom's house and were good and reasonably priced). They come out. Guy looks around the house, doesn't even unpack his gear. "I don't need to measure the details of your slab, you have a leak of some kind under the middle which is pushing the middle up, and pulling the ceiling away from the walls on the outer edges". Proceeds to take me on a tour of the outside of the house to show evidence there I hadn't even noticed yet. "You're going to need to call a plumber, probably drain line replacement since I know this will be an old cast iron drain".

Call Plumer he recommends, they can't get someone out before a week and a half from now. But they spend half the call trying to convince me of the method to fix without even looking at the problem, which conveniently enough happens to be the most expensive means of repair (tunnel under the house and manually replace the pipe along the same path.) Call another plumber and get a much better response. He agrees that there are multiple ways depending on the situation, and can have a guy out Friday.

So one tiny silver lining? In a cascade of middle fingers from the universe. All because I wanted prettier walls to make the wife happy.
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Jimmy Rustling update...

Drain replacement to fix the issue will cost around 150% what I had budgeted for the initial paining project.

Jimmies officially re-rustled.
 
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lgarthy said:
Any animal rescue folks know the impact of genes. There are certain breeds that you cannot mix with other rescue animals: The strong prey drives in certain breeds, such as Greyhounds, Terriers, and some hunting breeds like the Weimaraners, for example-- they cannot (and should not) be housed/sheltered with other breeds (or felines). And yes, I am ready to hear about the Siberian Husky that sleeps every night with the kitty cat... It's just not the norm nor the push from their genes.
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OK... Today I had to have oral surgery. It was actually step 2 of getting a dental implant for a long damaged molar. First step was a bone graft to build something to anchor a post, and today was the post. The rustling happened before the procedure.

  1. Nurse one : Starts looking for where to give me an IV. Finds a vein on the inside of my right elbow. Pokes... digs.... digs more.... Pulls needle out, can't hit the spot. Calls for backup...
  2. The anesthesiologist : Figures I have hard to find veins, starts looking in the hand. KINDA finds on on top of my hand, but finds a prominent one on the first knuckle of my right index finger. Tries finger vein first... Pokes... digs.... digs more.... Pulls needle out, can't hit the spot. And Bonus : it hurt like hell as apparently I have a nerve running right next to that finger vein. She calls in backup....
  3. Nurse two : Starts looking on my left arm/hand... It is futile... At least I don't get jabbed there.
  4. The Anesthesiologist, not being one to give up, looks at where I was already poked once in my right elbow. She's SURE she feels what Nurse one didn't and can hit it. Pokes... digs.... digs more.... HITS IT, declares success (with some considerable wincing and pain on my part). Attaches flush, and then the fun stuff. Hits the first bit, jokingly (and confidently) asks "Are you feeling a bit sleepy now?".. I respond "nope". Her brow furrows a little and she hits me again with the juice. Now jokingly (and confidently) asks "Are you feeling a bit sleepy now?".. I respond "nope". She realizes it must have slipped out of the vein. (all the while my elbow now feels like it's on fire from the inside...)
  5. Nurse THREE walks in , obviously drawn to the room by the magnetic charisma of my mountain dwarven charms... Spends 10 seconds looking at the back of my right hand where two others had looked and feared to tread. Grabs a needle, Poke (wince), and IV is in.
  6. Anesthesiologist Attaches flush, and then the fun stuff. Hits the first bit, jokingly (and confidently) asks "Are you feeling a bit sleepy..." and I wake up an hour later.
And now the silver lining pickle tickle :
  • Got complimented on exactly how muscular my forearms were , as they used that as an excuse for not finding the vein.
  • Because they gave me a double shot of juice which went "intramuscularly" or somewhere in my arm not in a vein it seems to be trickle feeding in and I am now on around hour 6 of a pretty kick ass Propofol buzz.
  • I now appreciate why this shit was Michael Jackson's apparent pharmaceutical of choice.
 
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