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@RationalMadman
@zedvictor4
Though, intelligence is no substitute for common sense.
Clarify for RM and myself here please...
In the above quote are you saying that intelligence can or cannot replace common sense?
In other words would you agree or disagree with the statement "There's absolutely nothing about common sense that implies only less intelligent people should lack it."
Please keep your answer short and simple just in case someone reading your response has the reading comprehension of a third grader.
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@RationalMadman
This is not the first time you completely shat the bed on basic reading comprehension so honestly I shouldn't be surprised.
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@Alec
I assume since you had no follow-up questions to post 14 that you have no more issues with DERP initiative. Your formal endorsement is requested.
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@RationalMadman
You're saying the same thing he is saying but in a tone that makes it seem as if you think you are disagreeing.
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@Alec
As for your other quote, when has this idea been tested before?
The idea that corporations will raise employees wages out of the kindness of their hearts you mean?
In other words when have corporations that have been run by employees existed?
Gee wiz that's a tough one, let me go check my notes...
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@3RU7AL
Lots of people like Christen and Alec talk as if they took a decent-quality personal finance class but mistook it for an economics class.
It would be like taking a psychology class and mistaking it for a sociology class.
They simply can't wrap their head around the idea that a group of 7.4 billion people is going to interact differently than a group of two to six people.
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@RationalMadman
Song is still not about any sort of mental health situations of any kind.
It's just about life. Just livin' life.
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Wait, what do you mean the opposite has been going on for decades? that doesn't fit my narrative so I am going to just ignore it.
- Alec 2019 moments after the above quote.
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@Castin
No one cares how my day was. This is the internet.
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@Greyparrot
Oh, didn't realize we used to have nuclear cruisers before you said that. Google search confirmed lol. Learn something new every day I guess.
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@Greyparrot
You were a nuker huh? You end up on a sub or a carrier?
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@oromagi
No dude, the free online tests are just highly inaccurate, possibly on purpose because they want you to pay up like I said.
Even if it isn't intentional... I mean for Christ's sake it asked less than 40 questions. It took less than 10 minutes to complete. That can't possibly be enough to get an accurate score.
I'm sure that people who score higher really do have higher IQs than those who score lower but I have no confidence that the numbers themselves are accurate. They are all very likely highly overstated.
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@Christen
Exactly. The first choice a person makes is what family to be born into. If they chose a poor family then they chose wrong.
Like you say, they should make better choices. That is one example of a choice they could improve on.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
Oh and while I'm at it . i don't like the word ( Amen )You know ?You're looking for a word that finish of alot of your chants , prayers and whatever eles ,
In the early days when group prayers were first beginning the guy leading the prayer would just stop talking when the prayer was finished but every time there was at least one in the group that just dozed off in the middle of the prayer so their buddy had to nudge them and say " 'ey man, prayer is done "
This was eventually formalized at the council of Nicaea into everyone just saying " 'ey men " at the end of each prayer to save time waking everyone up individually. Over time this morphed into the 'amen' we know today.
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@Christen
Yes, silly fools should not have chosen to be born into poor families. Perhaps they will learn their lesson for next time.
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@blamonkey
Life timeline of an average American under the BUMP/DERP initiative:
Age 8 - Receive BUMP hedge fund account
Age 12 - BUMP hedge fund audited, least successful 5% of participants (this number may be adjusted up or down as needed) are exiled/excommunicated.
Age 13 - Enter work force
Age 18 - Exit work force and become corporate executives.
I think we just created Utopia.
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Corporations will just pay their workers more out nowhere from the the kindness of their hearts because I said so, no need to actually do anything to make that happen it will just happen on it's own just like it has been for decades.
- Alec 2019
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@3RU7AL
Here's another idea (Fix-US+)
Okay I honestly can't tell if this one is a joke. If it is serious then make a new thread and tag me in it, I will definitely put in my two cents.
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Just have the robots do it.
- Alec 2019
OH NO I HAVE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE! I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT ELIMINATING ANY JOB THAT CAN'T BE DONE BY ROBOTS MEANT NOBODY WOULD BE AT CHIPOTLE TO SERVE ME THOSE HUGE BURRITOS I LOVE SO MUCH! I REGRET EVERYTHING!!!
- Alec 2025 in the alternate timeline where he won the presidency in 2024 and turned his 'ideas' into reality... Somehow...
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@Alec
If everyone was a CEO, who would they manage?
I gotta say I’m opposed to child labor, like as rule, but there are some kinds of labor that children are just better at. You ever try to fit into a mineshaft? That is a tight squeeze.
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@blamonkey
Hmm. I like the pitch. One note though, can we change excommunicated to exiled? Excommunicated seems to imply that they should be allowed to continue living in our glorious society but of course that would be unacceptable.
Also I want to bounce an idea off you... I was thinking I should change D_DERP to DERP for marketing reasons. What do you think?
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@RationalMadman
Actually talking to oneself is not schizophrenia, neither is having voices in one's head that are oneself.
Never said it was, just thought it was a cool song with a relatable story and a somewhat similar genre to what CCs tastes seem to be based on the limited info I have. You listen to it or just read the title?
It isn't about voices in someone's head nor is it about literally talking to oneself. In fact it has nothing to do with mental disorders whatsoever.
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We don't need people to work lower paying jobs. They can just quit and get higher paying jobs and everything will be fine.
-Alec 2019
OH NO I HAVE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE! I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT NOBODY WORKING LOWER PAYING JOBS MEANT NOBODY WOULD BE AT CHIPOTLE TO SERVE ME THOSE HUGE BURRITOS I LOVE SO MUCH! I REGRET EVERYTHING!!!
-Alec 2025 in the alternate timeline where he won the presidency in 2024 and turned his 'ideas' into reality... Somehow...
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Inspired by Alec's ASTAP, Discipulus_Didicit's Economic Reform Plan (shortened to D_DERP) is a plan to drastically improve the economy.
It is pretty simple. Everyone should just quit their current jobs and become corporate executives. Corporate executives make about a half million dollars a year on average so if all adult Americans became CEOs making an average income of $500,000 then the GDP would skyrocket to about $125000000000000 (125 trillion dollars).
This would represent an immediate increase of the GDP of over 500 percent.
This is a flawless plan. Prove me wrong.
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We'll see. Even if he flips as town though I have no regrets. His lynch was justified.
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@Speedrace
What what was I supposed to claim?
Assuming you are town and hot sauce the answer to this question is hot sauce.
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@Speedrace
I'm saying is if wasn't deputy how would I know there was a cop, brickhead
Look at his post again.
He was not saying "there is a cop"
He was saying "if what you say is true then there is a cop"
Actually are you really even lynched? I am going to double check that because if you aren't then I am just fluffing the DP by continuing this line of dialogue.
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@Speedrace
Yes
Then that answers your question about how he would know that your claim requires there to be a cop in the game, numbnuts.
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Town
Wylted
Pie
BDSM (or whatever the new kids name is, don't feel like looking it up)
Club
Warren
Null
CC
Supa
WP
Lynch candidates
PressF4
Scum
Speed
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@Speedrace
One, how would I know there was a cop?
Doesn't deputy mean someone that becomes a cop if the cop in the game dies?
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@Speedrace
I'm a calzone
Everyone else that has claimed has claimed ingredients. Mharman even said in the signups that this game is about ingredients specifically, not just pizza in general.
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@Wylted
Last game speed was town dp1 and scum dp2. You can see he is aggressively scum hunting last day dp1 and on dp2 when he is scum he became more agreeable. And even when he was targeting somebody specific he tried to ease tension
Christ, I forgot he was town DP 1 of last game. As I was rereading DP 1 of celeb mafia like I said I would I also noticed speed was being a lot more timid here than there but since I was reading through the lens of him being scum before I took it as a town tell that he was acting different now, figured maybe him knowing who his team was and having less uncertainty caused him to be bolder.
I feel dumb for that oversight. I totally agree with this analysis.
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@Cogent_Cognizer
If you're so confident I'm scum and believe VTL on dp1 so much, why haven't you VTL'd me yet?
We're going for your buddy first.
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@blamonkey
Sorry about that. Didn't realize that it was already addressed. I would argue that it would affect him though. Perhaps the lack of an income tax would greatly increase his disposable income, but he still needs to spend money on necessities like food, medicine, and shelter.
The wealthy spend a significantly smaller percentage of their income on such things than others. Replacing income tax with a sales tax would disproportionately affect less wealthy individuals for this reason and directly lead to a massive increase in wealth inequality.
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@ILikePie5
If you are town and you scum read someone there is no point in trying to convince them they are scum, it just fluffs the DP. Try to convince the town that they are scum instead. Looking specifically at post 289 here.
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@Mharman
I cannot answer your question regarding mason affiliation.
If you put a neighborhood in the game and told the players in it that it was a mason group then I am very disappointed.
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@Wylted
The purpose for town is not to defend oneself but to kill all the mafia. Town has plenty of players.
This quote from cogent is a complete 180 from the guy that was so worried about possible DP 1 mislynch before and just happens to coincide with Warren pushing on pie for [what I see as] fairly weak reasoning.
I think we found scum.
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@Cogent_Cognizer
You seem awfully concerned with being VTL'd. Sounds like you have a team that has fewer players
This coming from the guy that claims lynching anyone at all DP 1 is a bad idea? Right.
Keep an eye out for a possible Warren/Cogent team.
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Your vote from me comes cause a “revealed” a mason, when you wouldn’t be making the same case if he claimed Vanilla. It’s poor logic and hella opportunistic.
This is a good point.
VTL warren
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@Club
So one partner and no recruitment? Okay.
That does answer my question but no you did not 'tell me before', all of that is new info for us.
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@Club
I'm not mafia, I FRICKIN SWEAR. I'm a towny mason
Yeah no fucking shit.
We know you are town, we know it is stupid of pie to harass you every game, we know it was retarded of you to claim mason.
Now tell us everything about your role like I told you to do before.
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@blamonkey
I wasn't going to challenge the 15% tax yet. I haven't the time considering the fact that I might lose power in a couple hours. I would be curious to see how this would affect inflation. Coupled with state-level sales taxes, the sales price of taxed products could increase by 22%. Lower income people only making 20k a year who spend most of their money on necessities such as food, medicine, and shelter would disproportionately be affected by this tax.
I already pointed this out (post 99). He is okay with it because it would not effect him.
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@Alec
A 15% sales tax is much harder to avoid for those that don´t want to pay any tax.
It's actually really easy to avoid if you're rich, just don't spend 100% of your income. Wow, it's almost like rich people do that already... hmm...
People that aren't insanely wealthy do have to spend 100% of their income though. If they don't, they literally die of starvation.
How does your brain work?
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@warren42
Yeah, pie is my top lynch choice right now. Club, Wylted, and bmd are town. need to take a closer look at pressf, supa, and speed when I reread.
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