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Superabound posted:

hahahaha the very idea that the best and brightest of us all should become actors and authors and singers and painters rather than doctors, scientists, and politicians what the hell were we thinking.... the brainwashing is now and suddenly falling away like an old scab



they just want you to receive the dilettante bourgeois education. You better be grateful

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GED, best academic decision I made
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thirdplace posted:

on the other hand every male engineer i've ever met and a solid majority of the women are baby reactionaries


its true

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Mike Nelson here.
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i was in one of those fruity gifted programs. i would do almost no work and just wander around the school coming up with dumb ways to cause trouble. sometimes i would fail my classes and they'd just pass me forward. it was great. it fed a system of neuroses that destroyed my life for a while but what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
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Mike Nelson here.
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on monday my job counselor guessed that i was in a gifted program and was like "a-ha! i knew it!", if you want a sense of how arrogant i sound in real life.
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thirdplace posted:

on the other hand every male engineer i've ever met and a solid majority of the women are baby reactionaries


The vast majority are lefties, Google is a liberal flagship

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I got into it because i wanted to know how things like machines and batteries work. also how I got into Marxism.

the little google engineers running around making things more efficient for the capitalists: disgusting. give me a reactionary any day. give me his severed head and his money
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Agnus_Dei posted:

thirdplace posted:

on the other hand every male engineer i've ever met and a solid majority of the women are baby reactionaries

The vast majority are lefties, Google is a liberal flagship



wait what is the relation between the two clauses

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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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getfiscal posted:

i was in one of those fruity gifted programs. i would do almost no work and just wander around the school coming up with dumb ways to cause trouble. sometimes i would fail my classes and they'd just pass me forward. it was great. it fed a system of neuroses that destroyed my life for a while but what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.



Same. telling kids their smart is literally a form of child abuse

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so getfiscal was charlie from the newest always sunny in philadelphia
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acephalousuniverse posted:

looks like she pretty much can???

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aerdil posted:

so getfiscal was charlie from the newest always sunny in philadelphia



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Superabound posted:

.custom196253{}getfiscal posted:i was in one of those fruity gifted programs. i would do almost no work and just wander around the school coming up with dumb ways to cause trouble. sometimes i would fail my classes and they'd just pass me forward. it was great. it fed a system of neuroses that destroyed my life for a while but what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Same. telling kids their smart is literally a form of child abuse


my parents told me this and now im in graduate school and have an overly inflated sense of self importance.

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penitent
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i was in a gifted programme & look at me now, i'm a Fuckhead
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penitent
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intelligence is basically worthless & a false ideal imo
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I was never in a gifted programme, but I am still thoroughly convinced that I am a clever clogs
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we were "gifted and talented". a sorry bunch of punks. the "normal" (yes, that's what we shitheads called them) kids called us gifted turds. all that plus montasaurus rex but none of us will amount to anything spectacular. stay sucking, zzone.
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I hate Normies..
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it took me a while to discover taht intelligence/learning for its own sake doesn't really accomplish anything, its what you do with what you've got andcetera
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Kurdt
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hi saribari
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deadken posted:

intelligence is basically worthless & a false ideal imo


Hating intelligence can be a symptom of high intelligence.

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sup b*tch
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i've always taken pride in being the dumbest guy at the gym
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innsmouthful posted:

i've always taken pride in being the dumbest guy at the gym



do you take pride in earning downvotes

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the advanced program in my jewish elementary school had us trading stocks right during the tech bubble. i thought it was complete bullshit, since they had us track our own profits without even accounting for fees, so all the "scores" were cooked up bullshit. when i brought this up, they kicked me out of the program. it was a valuable lesson in the way wallstreet works.
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uh yes, how dare you call out cooked up numbers. How do you think all statistics are done? Takes too long to count that shit up properly, waste of resources it is.
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Mike Nelson here.
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my closest friend is sort of a burnout like me. my best friend growing up is a partner in corporate law. everyone else is a doctor or professor or teacher. i would guess 80% of my friends have a professional designation of some sort. donald crashed and burned but once i get into a top job in finance my dad will be proud.
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Mike Nelson here.
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elemennop posted:

the advanced program in my jewish elementary school had us trading stocks right during the tech bubble. i thought it was complete bullshit, since they had us track our own profits without even accounting for fees, so all the "scores" were cooked up bullshit. when i brought this up, they kicked me out of the program. it was a valuable lesson in the way wallstreet works.

one of my good friends had a job at a farm store during the tech bubble and he invested all his earnings into tech growth mutual funds and made a lot of money. he spent all the money on drugs and now he builds green homes. cool dude.

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elemennop posted:

the advanced program in my jewish elementary school had us trading stocks right during the tech bubble. i thought it was complete bullshit, since they had us track our own profits without even accounting for fees, so all the "scores" were cooked up bullshit. when i brought this up, they kicked me out of the program. it was a valuable lesson in the way wallstreet works.



yeah its full of jewish babies loll

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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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buncha fuckin Krelboynes ITT
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UNUSUALY COOL
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i was in the big dumb rocks prgram in school where we played with rocks all day. lower tier.
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i was never particularly gifted, at least in part because i was super lazy, but i was at a montessori school (my mom is a teacher) and that owned because it wasnt too structured but you still had to do shit and learn
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mayhaps you were lazy because your school lacked structure and discipline.
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acephalousuniverse posted:


darren wants a drama-free relationship

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NoFreeWill posted:

mayhaps you were lazy because your school lacked structure and discipline.


id rather be lazy and free than motivated and lame

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Dont Mess With Sucess
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i remember reading piers anthony books when i was 11 and being like "this guy is a fucking loser" but i read them anyway because so was i
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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one time when i was little i made some adult listen to me count to 1000 out loud haha