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TIL: Being intellectually gifted is a spectrum of neurodivergence and does not automatically mean the person is/will be a genius in anything

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  • This is a dumb take. A "gifted" kid is literally one who doesn't have to try as hard as the other kids. Busting your ass comes later once you age out of grade school and have to develop personal discipline and systems and that is where most "gifted" kids fail because excelling in education has been so easy for them so far.

    • Undercooked bear meat linked to outbreak of rare parasitic disease in U.S.

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  • Kinda. Trichinosis will eat your eyeballs eventually if allowed to progress far enough.

    • Hope you like socialism

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  • Not sure what you're talking about. Since the summer it's just been post about Dems and how Republicans are weirdos. Honestly, the socialist presence on Lemmy is lacking.

    • 'Unreal': Massive pushback after Trump 'admitted he stiffed his workers' at latest rally

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  • Members who support Trump will never hear this story so it won't change their mind.

    • The camel was already miserable way before that last straw.

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  • It's not really making a comment on whether they could have addressed it before it broke the camel's back either. It's simply saying this is the last slight I will take.

    If you go through life not ever taking any bs, you definitely will not be able to hold a job. Or function in general really.

    • Teamsters say most of its members back Trump for president in poll

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  • So they decided to vote for the anti-union capitalist.

    • Oh Elon

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  • Oh yeah. I forget sometimes that that was the most expensive shitpost of all time.

    • TIL about the 2018 Samsung fat-finger error, in which an employee of Samsung Securities mistakenly distributed shares worth US$100 billion to employees.

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  • Based. I hope they didn't get fired.

    • What are the best video games full of references to other media?

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  • They are 20 years old at this point but the original Guild Wars was full of pop culture references.

    • Instance Admins: Check Your Instance for Vote Manipulation Accounts [PSA]

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  • It's painfully obvious lemmy is overrun with astroturf. Kamala spam has been oppressive and it's just cringe most of the time. I refuse to believe that most of the real users here are that cringe. Also, I support Kamala.

    • Americans' inflation-adjusted incomes rebounded to pre-pandemic levels last year

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  • This was for 2023 and the job market was hot that year. If you switched jobs you probably got a double digit pay rise, and many people were doing it. That's what drove the number.

    However, the job market is kinda crashing right now in 2024. So I don't think it's a trend that will continue.

    • Trump Media Shares Are Down 74% From Their March Peak

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  • They were betting he'd win and just blatant cronyism and corruption would ensue.

    • Kamala Harris to propose up to $50,000 tax deduction for new small businesses

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  • We don't need more small businesses. We need less corporations, less ultra wealthy and more healthy middle class. This does not solve anything and a one time tax deduction doesn't make small businesses sustainable when they have to compete against corpos.

    • Half Life rule

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  • Should have just went into STEM dude /s

    • There has to be another way

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  • Meanwhile I have a body that tries to kill me when I exercise.

    • Child rapist Steven van de Velde weeps in first interview since Olympics outrage

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    • 'Neoliberal capitalism' has contributed to the rise of fascism, says Nobel laureate

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  • The reason capitalism leads to fascism is that inevitably capitalism will lead to untenable inequality. Injustice will be too great to ignore between the rich and the rest. This will lead to populism.

    There are two forms of populism. One will seek to rectify the imbalances caused by capitalism. The other will seek to divert blame to minorities. If there were less blacks, immigrants, gays, Jews, etc. etc. then our society would not be in decay. One is much more useful to the Capitalist and so it will ultimately prevail. The capitalist will devote all resources to crushing the leftist populism up to and including directly funding fascism.

    • Kamala Harris could make history as the first president to work at McDonald’s

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  • “There was not a family relying on me to pay the rent, put food on the table and keep the bills paid by the end of the month,” she added. “But the reality of McDonald’s is that a majority of the folk who are working there today are relying on that income to sustain a household and a family.”

    • How to deal with being bald?

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  • There is a Seinfeld episode about this.

    • Why doesn't the American market provide efficient and effective health insurance like it does for car insurance?

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  • Obamacare really fucked up the health insurance market. Open enrollment is because of Obamacare. Obamacare was written by the insurance lobby. They created a porous law and likely already had ideas to exploit it before it passed. And they have. It has been an incredible boon to them and Americans have suffered. Healthcare was NOT this expensive before Obamacare and insurance wasn't this complicated and was more affordable too.

    Obamacare is the biggest piece of regulatory capture in our lifetime, and in a time of rampant regulatory capture, that's saying a lot. It also showcases why our 2 party system is just broken. When the so called left option can produce such a broken capitalist piece of legislation.