Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "The Jolly Heretic" channel.

  1.  @kippz1337  I tend to side with your view of IQ here, but definitely diverge from you on your final point. That is not an argument and no rational person should resort to it. It degrades the discussion to a sub-logical level of empty rhetoric. It's lower than a simple accusation of bias, because it's impossible to refute. The impossibility of refuting it is what makes it so attractive as a debate tactic, much like accusing people of being witches. They can never prove you wrong. Of course, anyone could say the same thing to you: "You're ignorant of your own bias. You're just coming to conclusions that make you feel better because they don't come into conflict with anything you already think, nor your interests." (Actually, tactically speaking, maybe it's a good idea to say such a thing — but only if one's argument has run out of steam and failed. It's properly viewed as being ordinarily (not always) an act of desperation at the least; gaslighting at worst.) And so opposite sides can say that to each other all day long, the whole time neglecting the subject at hand. If you desire credibility and respect, as well as (ultimately) self-respect, don't go there. Don't tell people they're just unaware of their own motivations, unless you're happy to sit there and listen to them say the same thing back to you. I'm not hostile towards you. I expect that when you think it over it's quite possible you'll thank me. If not, I hope you at least can sense my good faith. All the best to you.
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  2. Don't let them find out they've been found out. The cunning swines will turn it to their advantage somehow.
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  3. I had a co-worker ask me if New England is a city or a state. She wasn't the least bit uncomfortable asking me nor, it appeared, hearing the answer. I was privately upset the rest of the day, ashamed at myself for being hired somewhere (the headquarters of a really large, old multinational company) that would also hire such a person.
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  4. Isaac Newton? I was pretty sure it was Brian May.
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  5.  @dbmail545  So you mean the charming are just clever suck-ups and manipulators. That's a pretty vicious dismissal of the whole charming community, but it only describes some of them. Other charming people couldn't give a flying fig about playing to people's biases.
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  6. That suggestion itself is a very neat line in some sort of personality deformation. A longing for such actions would've been right at home in one of the especially violent regimes of the 1917-1991 period.
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  7. The devil! He had me going for the first few minutes. lol
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  8. Once upon a time, professors were on the whole a decent lot. Admirable for their commitment to learning, writing, teaching. Especially at the better universities of course, they were plainly very clever (again, on the whole). No longer. The typical professor today is either A) perfectly loathsome in his or her absence of all the above criteria, or B) a craven placeholder in thrall to the type A)'s. Of university administrators, the less said the better.
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  9. Yeah, because he was thinking 'Who is this crank?'
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  10. Neither need one have any idea what the definition of "dog breed" is. One still recognizes the differences between a bull terrier and a toy poodle. Same species, different breed.
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  11. I agree with what you said and found it informative, I just wish you would shout as though to students in a cavernous auditorium without a PA system. Use your living room voice. Keep up the good work.
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  12. I remember that happening when I went for a job interview at a bank and they gave me the Wonderlic. Three out of 50 were like that. I got all three wrong.
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  13.  @parabot2  What claptrap: So Peterson knew a guy who knew a guy who worked for a guy at an institute founded by a guy at a university that once did CIA experiments. He taught at Harvard, where many leftists have taught and studied. Oh, and he's well-known, so that shows you Soros owns him, etc., etc.😂
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  14. We are all dumber for having read this comment.
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  15. Smarter people are having fewer kids than the dumb ones.
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  16. 1) 0:00 Andres Segovia isn't spinning in his grave. 2) 2:00 Correlations of 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4 are interesting, but it's unclear what they prove. There's a great deal of interpretation required if you want to go very far with that. 3) I wish you yelled less.
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  17. All four, really.
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  18. I notice you speak in iambs. It shows you read the better English poets and novelists from middle boyhood.👍
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  19. The corollary of: 1,200 really fat people will put on a better production of Swan Lake than the standard 120 lean and well-trained dancers.
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  20. As Chris Rock recently pointed out to laughter and applause from his mostly black audience, talk and speculation about the skin tone of forthcoming children is usual in ordinary black families. He criticized the Sussexes at length, especially Markle of course, and the whole segment received warm audience approval.
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  21.  @Gothicc_senpai  Something can play a role or be a factor, but nothing can "play a factor." To speak like that is to butcher the English language. Bad, bad, very bad. This illiterate new phrase has really caught on fire in the last year or two, so let's try to douse it simply by not using it. (P.S. You're not to blame so please don't feel picked on. If it were I who'd used it, I'd want to know, so I'm just following the Golden Rule.)
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  22.  @adamduarte895  Do tell us just a little about it, please. I can't recall from my university stats course what "an interactive coefficients" is. I looked up the term just now and couldn't find anything.
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  23.  @andrewgardiner563  A comment which describes itself quite well.
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  24. I hardly think that really high mental abilities and mastery or renunciation of instinct go hand in hand.
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  25. So glad to find that Brian May, here totally rocking his gloriously hoary locks, hasn't yet lost a whit of his vocal prowess.
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  26. So Peterson knew a guy who lived in the same apartment building as a guy at an institute founded by a guy at a university that once did CIA experiments. He taught at Harvard, where many leftists have taught and studied. Oh, and he's well-known, so that shows you Soros owns him, etc., etc. 🙄Good grief.
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  27.  @timothykuring3016  "Outclassed [...] sabotage" What else are they to do?
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  28.  @michaels4255  Every new word has to start somewhere, yes. And so does every new surgical procedure and parachute design. What matters is whether they constitute an improvement or serve an unmet purpose, not that they all deserve a democratic shot.
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  29.  @michaels4255  Yes they certainly do, but overvaluation of them as though they're not usually cheap and debased ("But language evolves !") is itself a very neat line in midwittery.
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  30. If larger numbers of duller people team up, says the BBC, the outcomes are brilliant. Alas, that approach is not working at the BBC itself. Hence their news story on the subject. Oh dear, it's a Möbius strip.
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