To be honest, as I chat with more and more random strangers these days it does begin to dawn on me that we all do roughly spend ~70 years on this planet devoting our attention to one thing or another, and that though people might not have what is seen as “classical intelligence” (i.e. high IQ’s, political savvy, high empathy / sociopathy, etc.), we are genuinely absolute genius’s in one particular field or another.

For example, I had an old roommate whose politics would make me drink and stare at the horizon whilst he consistently acted against his own self interests to punish people he was told are responsibly for his financial lot in life. But, he was an absolute wizard when it came to predicting the outcome of a sports game. It could be anything - football, hockey, tennis, whatever - he immediately ran their stats straight off the top off his head, summarized their strengths and weaknesses and came out with an outcome that was on the whole close to the truth.

Another example, my ex. We never really had deep philosophical discussions about the state of the world, and her consumerist lifestyle was one I tried to actively ignore. But, she was incredible at turning a house into a home – her interior design skills would genuinely surprise me at how well-thought out and in-depth they were, not only in terms of style and decor, but also in the way that she would execute and coordinate the tasks with me to beautify our home.

TL;DR – I do really think most people have high intelligence in one specific field or another, we just value people unequally using classical measures of success (wealth, education)

Yeah, and the heatsink is the only thing that serves decent food

A seperate bubble compartment for the kids, and offroad tires. I mean, I’d buy it. Though $82,000 is still a steep price for a car, even now.

Well the trick is to drink enough sugar-free chemicals like aspartame, sucralose, and stevia such that the chemicals essentially wipe the toilet clean on the way down

NASA is currently a developing a wooden stake so long that it can stab a vampires heart 300km away.

How much do you slay?

That’s what the coca cola is for. If that doesn’t work, make youself a coffee and then go order some KFC

I also want coca cola to sponsor the film without realising what it is until its too late

Just make sure you use the joke “ich verstehe nur Bahnhof”. The locals love that.

Also if you see a swiss person, always greet them with “Gruezi”. They love that too.

ich brauche kein Umlaute. Alle meine Zuhausis sind Old-Skool, und wir schreiben Aeaeae Ueueue Oeoeoe

Beethoven approves

Show me the artefacts, it looks normal to me

Edit: I read the other replies

160MB isn’t actually that bad these days

Toothfairy just hiding in the bushes, licking her lips at her big score

chicanery

deception through trickery

*burns shrine to Bill Nye*
(sobs) “you lied to me. Now I’m godless.”

And on the second slope you can see the 20% prediction interval

You might be right, Gandalf seems to know Pippin Tooks great aunt pretty well.

It would not surprise me to know that he’s been playing a bit of natural selection over the generations

If someone says to me “tell me about your breakfast yesterday” my mind is blank and I will simply shrug.

If someone asks me “how were your pancakes yesterday morning?” I will reply “pretty good, could have used more butter and a pinch of salt.”

Me not bringing up topics isn’t some Machievellian plot of mine to hoard data; I simply cannot easily recall events unless prompted so by others dropping me hints.

There is information in there *gestures at brain* but you have to tease it out with outside stimulus.

I have todo notes everywhere, and my desktop is highly deterministic in window placement to ease the burden of my mind recalling the multitude of things needed for me to work and function.

It’s not personal that I don’t recall every family holiday event, my mind just simply doesnt work that way

I’d wager a level of maturity and overcoming insecurity is a requirement, which yes some people can achieve at an early age