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Can someone please paraphrase the following which I didn't understand?

Somebody raised to believe they have high IQ is more likely to fall for this than somebody raised to think less of their own intellectual capabilities. Subjective validation is a quirk of the human mind. We all fall for it.

But if you think you’re unlikely to be fooled, you will be tempted instead to apply your intelligence to “figure out” how it happened. This means you can end up using considerable creativity and intelligence to help the psychic fool you by coming up with rationalisations for their “ability”.

And because you think you can’t be fooled, you also bring your intelligence to bear to defend the psychic’s claim of their powers. Smart people (or, those who think of themselves as smart) can become the biggest, most lucrative marks.

Blasts is only six letters. Slams is only five. That is why they get used in headlines so often.

The mocking attitude is a thing here in Australia. And people boast about themselves getting wasted. Seemed the opposite in the EU when I visited.

to the point of being an apartheid state that treats non-Jewish citizens worse

Maybe in practice, but certainly not in law.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that "Arab Israelis are citizens of Israel with equal rights" and states that "The only legal distinction between Arab and Jewish citizens is not one of rights, but rather of civic duty. Since Israel's establishment, Arab citizens have been exempted from compulsory service in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)."

https://web.archive.org/web/20160803050854/http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/mfaarchive/2000_2009/2001/8/arab%20israelis

You are describing our Chimpanzee cousins but not our Bonobo cousins.

Why would home state advantage not matter much despite it being a swing state? (along with Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin).

A Petabyte would be a thousand movies. No cinema has a thousand movies on its program.

Secular democracy for Palestinians? That is delusional.

When Palestinians ain't leaving and Israelis ain't leaving there is no other realistic option (regardless of our political leaning and whether we think Jews have a right to statehood in that part of the world.).

Here's hoping the publicity boosts his career and encourages discussions about legalisation of weed in Romania.

It would have been seen by terrorists as a reward for Oct 7 and encourage further attacks.

OTOH establishing a Palestinian state would have been a precursor to a 2SS which is a hopeful path towards peace.

Likud (and Hamas) are both against a 2SS therefore, as you say, this vote count is no surprise.

No mandatory 2FA as far as I know.

Then how is the authenticity of a number tested by Signal?

Isn't spoofing a phone number easy for scammers? If so, I don't understand why there is (admittedly) so little spam on Signal.

Does Signal require 2FA upon registration? (I cannot recall)

Fair enough but it is not the responsibility of the joker to satisfy your tangential curiosity.

I do appreciate that you are not saying it is. You are merely making whimsical conversation, but the number of upvotes you are getting look like desperately eager anti-AI cultists jumping on board.

How do we know this one word comment is not itself "AI drivel"?

As soon as I saw it on Facebook I didn't even look closely before deciding it wasn't a sheet folding machine.

Regardless of the crazy dimensions for such a task, I doubt the start of the industrial revolution would be automating this of all things.

Also: "3 sheets per hour".

Also: Posted in "Jokes & Humour".

I am living in a small room in Sydney caring for my bed-ridden demented Mum and rarely spend time in my house 100km away. Please don't punish me for it.

Regardless of the Hamas issue, that anti-vax publication did untold harm. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary vetting.

Am going off topic, but the BMJ (another titan in the journal industry, and it is an industry) was responsible for publishing a paper incorrectly linking plaques with Alzheimer's which ended up wasting billions of dollars through more than a decade of other followup studies chasing that angle.

It was only debunked a couple of years ago. To be fair it is also irresponsible for all that subsequent research to have gone ahead, seeking glory for "the cure" while nobody cared to replicate the study.

As a science under-graduate myself I am disillusioned especially since my Mum has had dementia for thirteen years now.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis