• naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I would also tell them that it’s possible to actually understand things. Most people seem to go through life on rote, seemingly not recognizing when something doesn’t make sense because they don’t expect anything to make sense.

    Oh my god could you sound any more flushable.

    Just fuck yourself. Everybody is thinking all of the fucking time, everybody has blindspots, stop being so insufferable.

    They’re so obsessed with this narrative that keeps them ahead of the curve, guess what ex gifted kids? Other people catch up, you’re not competing with 4 year olds anymore.

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      1 year ago

      I would also tell them that it’s possible to actually understand things.

      The most perfect set-up to date for a joke about how the Thing Understander has logged on

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      1 year ago

      Hey, don’t lump us “gifted” folks in with LW~ I survived Talented & Gifted; I stayed in school, studied, and learned about the world. Yud’s contention is that I should have dropped out and read sci-fi books all day.

      I do read sci-fi all day, though… Maybe we’re not so different…

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      1 year ago

      Sneerious rephrasing:

      I would also tell them that the rationality cargo culting, is the only way to portray understanding things,
      fake it till you make it, you can solve this insecurity that I have about myself in you!
      Other people are untinking NPCs, they don’t see the cracks in the matrix (and PC hellscape) like I do.