Gigasser @ Gigasser @lemmy.world

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Brain Drain incoming.

I do not know whether it is to yourself or Mr. Adams I am to give my thanks for the copy of the new constitution. I beg leave through you to place them where due. It will be yet three weeks before I shall receive them from America. There are very good articles in it: and very bad. I do not know which preponderate. What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a Chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: and what we have always read of the elections of Polish kings should have forever excluded the idea of one continuable for life. Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it’s motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them.What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.

Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted.

-Thomas Jefferson

Basically, although base intelligence/smartness perhaps has two parameters that make it? Effort and speed. Everyone can put in a bit more effort, but base speed may be baked in, unless one trains it, and max reachable base speed will depend from person to person. Hell if I know, we haven't really created a definitive definition for intelligence yet.

Edit Addendum: As for what can be considered dumb or smart? I agree, lack of effort can be considered "dumb". Though the word dumb is a bit broad. I guess we can say many people are, out of habit, "intellectually heedless"

I'm of the opinion that most people aren't dumb, but rather most don't put in the requisite intellectual effort to actually reach accurate or precise or nuanced positions and opinions. Like they have the capacity to do so! They're humans after all, and us humans can be pretty smart. But a brain accustomed to simply taking the path of least resistance is gonna continue to do so until it is forced(hopefully through their own action) to actually do something harder.

Put succinctly: They can think, yet they don't.

They're racists simple as that. I'm guessing this shit also has to do with Trump's fucking asinine and quite frankly, useless executive order declaring English to be the official language of the US as well.

What makes you say that?

Sometimes I wonder if this war is our generation's version of the Spanish Civil War? How many influential people will we see pop out of this conflict?

Fuck giving up or defeatism though. Lifetime Opposition just because of spite is the way for me.

Cuck Schumer primary assfuck him immediately

Tbh, I'm more worried about their advances in EUV lithography. Still around 5-10 years away, but still.

That or someone has dirt/bpackmail on his ass, which should mean he should be ineligible for the house minority leader position.

Yeah. If you look like a bitch to people who think "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must", then the strong will do what they can(that is what you allow them to do with little resistance) and you suffer what you must.

Hmmm, perhaps people should start linking threads from here on reddit....

I don't know about psychedelics like LSD. You'd think that shit would kill his ego, but it hasn't.

Free will, fate, and randomness all play a role in our universe, each parameter affecting each other. There is no such thing as absolute free will, nor does absolute determinism guide our universe, nor does absolute randomness. I think however, that our closest understanding to the inherent nature of our universe is a form of randomness.

I'm afraid there may be a resurgence of the HIV denialism movement given that RFK is now secretary of health.

I like Trappist Beers myself.

Wonder if people should move to WooCommerce: https://opensourcealternative.to/project/woocommerce

Ahem....I would like to add that he's hot too...

I was wondering. But does total up votes actually count for anything algorithmicalky like how it is on reddit? I don't think so on Lemmy right?