Comments by "bruzote" (@bruzote) on "Joe Scott" channel.

It was sad, because they clearly messed him up. The kid deserved better, the professor who screwed him over should have gone to jail as should have several upper staff, and instead other people in society paid the ultimate price.
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Consider the Flynn brothers, especially Gen Michael Flynn. He's a liar and lover of chaos extraordinaire.
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Corroborated testimony in a field rife with fraudulent corroboration should be assumed to be false, even with non-robust corroboration from technical means. Plenty of ""haunted" houses have corroborated eye witnesses who have conspired to either make money or just have a great laugh.
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@24JamesPerSecond - Especially pilots. Heck, our society won't even collectively question the credibility of military pilots because that means we question the credibility of the (former military) civilian pilots who fly passenger aircraft. We certainly don't want to feel that our own plane is flown by a liar, so we collectively push our concerns deep into our subconscious and pretend military pilots are more honorable and honest than other people!
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@darrylschultz9311 - I think most geniuses would not be surprised if Trump's IQ was in the 115-123 range. However, by the oft-used cutoff of 140, that is NOT a genius IQ. So, if people keep arguing he has a "genius IQ", they should show it to be true or stop making such claims. Those claims are used for a logical fallacy of Appeal to Authority (appeal to a so-called genius). Sure, it's only a fallacy, but that fallacy helps to carry the day at times in politics, so those who basically lie about Trump by calling him a genius are advancing his cause through apparent deception.
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@SoltiRonai - IQ tests measure skills at solving problems that are typically not addressed in most jobs or in most personal situations. I wish IQ equated to serenity, discipline, persistent focus, and positivity. It does not. Yet, the latter are typically more important in living a "working, efficient" lifestyle.
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@rustomkanishka - I hear that in the voice of Jim Jeffries!
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Actually, it's not being smarter than people that does that. It's feeling like you don't share a connection with others. Sure, that feeling might be associated with behaviors and perceptions linked to one's intelligence, but that is not the same as the intelligence itself being the driver of the "horrible" situation you describe. I wish I had understood that most of my life. I made my own unhappiness to a large extent. In the end, I suspect that if I had a therapist as a kid, I would have understood myself and the world in a much different way and been happier then and today. I can't blame my intelligence (only bordering on genius). My happiness was influenced by other circumstances, including my own unfortunate perceptions as a child of how I fit into the world and how I was (or was not) working to make my own happiness.
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@Symedge - I think enough intelligent people can observe D Trump and recognize he is not possessed of a high IQ anymore than he is a scratch golfer. His rambling speech, poor spelling, and reckless assumptions suggest his IQ is well below the genius range, regardless of his other flaws that might mask a higher IQ.
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@NatsGhost - Words have power. Try not to say that about yourself. If you don't, maybe I won't say that about myself either! ;-)
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Also, when you use a system of tech long enough, you focus on the purpose, not the inner workings. When people look at radar, they know from experience they will get the job done faster and right if they just treat the image as a great description of reality. Few people really appreciate how much fuzziness is built into a "clear" radar image. Some of that fuzziness is just mathematical and SHOULD be discarded to obtain a faithful reproduction of reality, but not always. The radar beam is a mess, really. The reception is a mess. Collecting a "slice" of a signal in time, angle and distance is a mess. Combining the slices in an image is a total mess. Yet people look at a UFO signal on radar and say, "Look! It is clearly and distinctly a real extraterrestrial object exceeding the laws of physics!". Of course, the reasonable thing is to assume the interpreted phenomenon is anything but an alien.
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Five seconds, I am getting motion sickness from a single guy in front of a stationary camera. :-b
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@unclebadger597 - Duh-dund! <cello playing deep note>
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@unclebadger597 - And the water was clear, too!
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@mea2429 - That phenomena, if captured by other people from other angles using similar equipment that also "sucks" would actually provide great evidence, particularly if taken from three nearly orthogonal angles. But your event was not photographed that way despite everyone near you having some kind of equipment. Why?
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@ninamason9001 - Remember that nothing at an unknown has a known width. All it has is a subtended angle. You only know see how many steradians (a "solid", 2-D angle) it takes up. My thumbnail and the moon are the same "size" if I hold my thumb at the right distance. Gauging distance of objects in the sky is ONLY possible based on assumptions that are rarely met! Weather observations have a career reporting cloud heights. Guess what. They have no way of knowing the cloud heights without a reflectometer (using geometry) or a profiler or laser transceiver (using measured travel time of light/radio).
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And we believe the aliens keep visiting a stupid spot in the US desert and they also keep visiting US armed forces, but only over the ocean. If they visit foreigners, they take on different shapes than in the US. Clearly, these are cultural, not extraterrestrial, phenomena.
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Andro mache - Saying the CIA wanted to turn him into a killer is quite extreme to say the least. Where is the extreme evidence for that?
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Dude, maybe don't tell people their name sounds like a disease. It might not be something they are happy to hear!
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@athmaid - I don't think it's bad if the IQ is presented well within context. The kid will typically realize on their own they are ahead of others in understanding things. It's how they process that understanding that matters, and helping them do that is the best thing for them.
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Actually, I time-travelled all the time during childhood. My imagination gave me magical time-travel powers until I hit puberty. It's not just my loss, it's humanities! :-b
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