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But seriously. People are being paid for putting a ball inside a circle against other people trying to put the ball inside another circle. Ugh.

I mean, if I am a new user on this site I would protest it profusely since even if you don't regard sunday school as some place that restricts free and variated thinking, it is not exactly the most appropriate place to have been turned into a forum of discussion where we question god, you know, what peeps have been doing from Plato committing suicide to jobless folks lashing it out on our computers in 2025.

But given how little critical thinking some of the people here actually do on this platform, I would say that it is "fine", because of course people are probably not going to be looking at it. Their attention span will be shrapnel from the electromagnet that is politics, current events, politics, and the natural tendencies to fuck around whether or not finding out is important at all. This site is likely comprised of a number of teenage trolls, unemployed millenials, drunk middle aged peeps with chest hair under their suit and retired boomers living in their properties bought when housing was affordable back then. The kids, what "sunday school" is made for, simply won't be here to stay. They will likely create 1 debate, unrated; do a full forfeit; initiate 1 thread about "iron man vs hulk" or similarly and leave for good to instead struggle about sines and cosines.

That said, I am not really fond of sunday school either way. It is 2025 now. Let the kids reclaim their own sundays where they can watch christian youtubers on their own tippy lippy laptops, by their own volition, of course, amirite.

I am poking fun at the notion that boxing is a sport.

No disrespect to the athletes of course, they are doing what they are told to do really well.

Most sports today are pretty useless in any other metric other than them playing this exact sport against each other. Except maybe shooting, archery, track and field and whatever the military guys are doing in their daily trainings.

Maybe I am just salty because I am not good enough at any of them to be on a scholarship team for college. Still, I choose to refrain from thinking about how funny the premises of sports really are for they will definitely ruin the watching experience whether in a bar or a stadium.

People should not be fighting amongst ourselves. Disappointed. Dunno why we have people professionally fighting for money.

That sounds like a mercenary, doesn't it?

This is how you get too much funding allocated to athletes, legacies and the children of rich daddies. 

Some people might believe that a strong sports program is crucial, I am not one of those people. I think colleges allocate too much funding onto their football stadiums rather than physics laboratory equipment. I believe that colleges' resources should be given to those that need them the most. While I do not herald the belief that college admission is fair in general, I believe that is what they are trying to do and I am agreeing. It is the opportunities and resources from, for example, professors and departments, that separate college from other colleges or a lack thereof, rather than coursework.

I agree, that is why there are test-for-credit services for people who actually did learn it so systematically it is an entirely waste of time.

However, some colleges have different styles for teaching and you'd better hear their perspectives on how the topics are taught in order to be a best-fit for their programs. I don't know if I should tell you where I am but I'd say proudly I am in one of these pathways or pipelines.

Yep, thats the purpose. And make textbooks public too please. I don't want to pay hundreds of dollars to learn a common set of common sense in maths.

I would say that although employability is something people seek, it is not the root cause of why they do that. Only a sliced portion of all working age folks work because they specifically just want to work. I mean, the artists, the scientists, the musicians, those people do surely. Same can't be said of all 7-11 cashiers, truck drivers, locksmiths, janitors and restaurant servers. "Oh! I love scanning items and putting them in the bag!" ---said no cashier I have met, ever.

Let's face it, a large portion of people work because they need money and their presence as hired personnel puts food on their plates back home. While I do not believe Mr. Best Korea really has an IQ of 150 (I am skeptical at best), people with such high IQ values surely would know that. Then there are recluses living in the woods or the mountain huts getting by using a shotgun and dead foxes in front of firewood next to the kind of wooden table you see in fables. Those people aren't even unemployed.

I'd say I actually want to have what Best.Korea proclaims to be having in his daily routine. I normally have only two states, being humped by coursework or being lazy. Being internally productive without the command of outside society is my dream even. Of course, that is, if what he is saying is true. I am still slightly skeptical at best.

I would actually like to see this bill-or-whatever-you-call-it be enacted in modern day USA and see a hefty chunk of all cops lose their jobs virtually simultaneously.

No, seriously. Get better police training. I am not saying I know a way, I am just saying we as members of society need it.

Hello, Intel here. I am writing this from college where my first term of study has concluded with, eh, a reasonable note. I have just gotten an A- on a math class which I absolutely hated considering how little effort I had put into it and how much I deserved it. Again, I do believe I will get used to it by sophomore year.

Whoever said that getting less than an A is a waste of time probably never went to college, as else you would acknowledge the fact that some classes are pretty damn difficult. 

I would like to start off with the fact that community colleges exist. Since a fair portion of you guys are probably from the States and probably even know some people from those either from your past damn selves or your children, I would expect the fact that most community colleges accept basically anyone be virtually common sense amid this conversation. And if you don't know that this is true, now you do. In fact, they accept people that are yet to graduate high school as I have quite a few dozens of friends who did so. Thing is, higher education is never a blocked path. There are even online bachelor's degree programs, you can see their ads plastered across Youtube recommendation pages. I am not saying you should try these when you are accepted into an actual campus because college life is a pathway to many abilities some considered to be really important opportunities, however, they exist.

I do not know how anyone defines higher education, however, undergraduate courses basically teach what are common sense in the fields that you try to major/minor/concentrate in and you can basically find sources online that teaches them slightly worse because you are not at their lectures and office hours in person(and, in existing cases even better because of so). The key is that you can actually learn it for free online. Even if it is not technically free, look at how many free textbook websites there are. Some get shut temporarily, others spring up.

I choose to see "higher education" as a freeway with a fast lane on the left for smart people who get into MIT, Stanford, Princeton, etc. There are people who are bound to morph the world to their dreams (and in some reasonable cases it shall be especially fearful when they do that, especially when they study finance), and then there are people who need nothing more but a piece of decorated paper that says "I graduated, I learned whatever hell yall bastards wanna be to learn". In fact, I think that might even be a correct approach as you can pretty much self study any undergraduate course, or even grad courses if you really have an IQ of 150. You just need it to be certified that you learned. We have a system here called test-for-credit where you go up and take the final straight up to prove to the college that you learned allat beforehand, albeit subject to stricter grading hence only the most brilliant brothers and sisters I know of do that. Well, unless for language classes: I can just go straight up to the office and place out of elementary Chinese because I grew up in China. I just don't need the course. This is much more common expectedly.

So, why do I still like being in college if everything can be self-motivated? Trivially, it is because I have a life now whereas some of y'all still don't. Opportunities and people are the main reasons that separates college from a lack thereof. If you think that ain't shit, try getting a research apprenticeship without being enrolled in any institution. What would a 100% acceptance rate to all colleges mean? That would mean either the resources still just flow up to the tippy top of the richness scale or the smartness scale and you end up with the same thing, just more crowded; or that means people who are in no way deserving of such resources get them which would delay actual change and progress and be impedant of actual goals of education. Either of that would be a disgrace or even disaster to what education is supposed to be even if we have far strayed from the original vision.

Still have physics to study, peace out.

Hanging on youtube all day long is a problem we both share. It is like indulging in drinking except maybe a tad bit less harmful. I have no remorse in doing that, but that is still a problem.

It has a recommendation algorithm based on your past likings. In other words, your taste is so weird they decided to recommend this to you.

Not anyone else's problem.

Says more about you than youtube.

There are actual office workers who dismiss the usage of printers in "modern" offices even though photocopiers have been in place for decades now. Mostly boomers.

all lives matter, that includes bot lives.

Thank you for your lyrics, now I am going to sing it in my poor voice laced with AI generated images of the devil.

also shout out to this time period where this typa shi gets 21 votes.

Is that guy still alive?

If you are a bot, humanity is cooked.

Never marry a woman.

Marriages are so last century. Normalize being single until the day you set your second foot inside the coffin walls.

For me, it is the fact that it costs money and I don't get much outside foodstuff, clothes, and daily needs.

We have devolved into this. Humanity is doomed.

Bro is kinda close to doxxing himself.

There is no way that you ain't smiling through any of the posts you posted on this thread.

Bring back rated debates without restrictions. Make it default, heck, like back in the good old 2010s. The change to avert such a way of life is why I am not as active as like 3 years ago. You could say good riddance if you think I am being blasphemous, but trust me, and trust yourself, it is not just me.

I feel like all the tampering with who can or cannot debate, what can debates use and not use, etc... are on behalf of a crowd that doesn't exist, in which most members within the "protection" are lingerers who leave after three viewings of this sight.

Oklahoma? I thought they were the state that mandated teaching the 10 commandments in class.

Definitely a thing they didn't think as far as to outright consider the entire bible as factual for academic reasons because then outrage will evolve into laughter as the bible internally has contradictions due to it being written by fallible men.

god is gay.

Whatever he or she might be, they don't represent China.

I would of course try to report them to the cops if you can tell me, but you telling me who that is would be doxxing and I unfortunately cannot do that on this site. However, if it is real, then they are breaking the law and should face prison time.

Who is paying you to make all these posts.

I want to add DDO to the database because obviously 445 is nowhere enough

Oh my god, removing all the vote bombs, reverse vote bombs and troll votes and troll debates(with real votes and no forfeits) would be hefty work.

If we keep them in, we would essentially get an AI that is consistently the average sort of humans on earth rather than the most objective guy ever.

That would be fine research project (Why didn't I think of this in High school?)

Input debates (all rounds, if it makes sense) with the goal of training it to determine winners. Remove all debates with 0 votes from the database. 

Input RFDs to train the AI to give its RFD given the verdict. 

Would it work? (I only have menial CS knowledge so treat me as I don't know)

And that is what is wrong. You need to love yourself.

Honestly, if you weren't, that would be a lot more concerning.

4. fight for abortion rights for your state and country because anyone who isn't a religious maniac or plain ass insane wouldn't argue against the very idea. 

5. actually get a skill for an actual job before all that. You can't make money by simply yapping about moot. You are no Amy Schumer or Andrew Tate.

6. don't pose yourself as a "libertarian" or else you won't get a man. Probably.

7. have some self decency and love. You won't feel good if you give up love for money. People commit suicide because of that. Actually marry someone you love even if you don't want children.

8. stay away from the state of Utah. 

I know for a fact you were laughing when you made this post. At least chuckling.

Eh, you have your right to shut up as well as not shutting up, and I have my right to not like when you talk about it just as you don't like when I talk about them.

Still doesn't override freedom of opinion though.

Yeah, I agree that you are smarter than both president candidates combined. How about you for president.

"Biden won"

The correct terminology is "America loses"

We should reboot this website

Thanks, but I don't give a shit about the US election. Both candidates are fucked. I am probably just going to swallow a few popcorns intermittently before going to do more fun stuff, such as [Redacted].

I would argue consistent spanking and punishment treatment would also have a statistically significant effect. Also don't you dare bring up my country again.

The REAL question: Why do people keep using cheap online unreliable IQ tests as a fill in for one's actual IQ value which is more or less literally immeasurable with more accuracy than decades of dedicated psychological research?

If you say you "know your IQ", most likely, you don't, and because of that you fall relatively low on that scale. Don't ask me. I don't actually know my IQ.

"I like being a troll because lao tzu told me its all chill"

Can you compile all your hot takes under one thread or do you earn money by creating threads?

10,000 is pretty generous should I say.

4,000 is the character count for a personal statement for British colleges. That is also roughly the length of an American college application personal statement essay.

I think we generally overlook how much we actually yap. At least I do. I am guilty of it and I am not ashamed of it yet.

There is no explanation of your behavior right now other than to just wanting to boost your thread count stat on this website.

The fact any of yall still use the dollar bill rather than just digital payment means yall are behind.

My opinion is that you are correct. Paradoxically you cannot do anything with this without hurting yourself.

Also why are you tagging me on this. I don't even play this video game

Unlike you I have my father, mother, both grandpas and both grandmas.