Well, one of the strip mall commercial units down the way I never expected anything of turned into a WingStop that’s proving pretty good and filling for the price, so okay.
Alright did a little patch of smashing and I would have registered it as great stamina months ago but it was pathetic compared to yesterday so I’m gonna let myself recover back to full.
Weird to read over the Twitter threads like “I just can’t believe all these historical figures reputed as great geniuses had IQs as high as 140”, because like, I test around 175. People can be smart! Someone’s gonna be the long tail.
If you had an IQ of 175, that would mean that you were 5 standard deviations from the mean – which is not impossible, but would mean that you were one of the smartest 2300 or so people in the world.
I am somewhat skeptical of this. Partially out of a sense that I find it more likely that I am talking to someone who would tell implausible lies about their IQ than that I am talking to someone with an IQ of 175. Partially out of a sense that I just think that you would probably be more notable in other ways if you were really that smart.
I was enough of an outlier they were concerned with the test’s validity so they retested me with a few others with different methodologies, they all came back between 174 and 178. They told me that put me somewhere between a 2 in a million people level and 1 in 2 (so that’d be between about 15,000 and 4,000 people on earth).
This was 2nd grade but I’d take one occasionally later and it was still on track.
You think you’d have heard of me, huh? How many of the other 2299 can you name? Like I said, someone’s gotta be the long tail.
Being the best at taking IQ tests doesn’t mean you have all the skills to be successful
Yeah, that’s a good point, until the personality change I was also significantly limited by an anxiety disorder, an influence on outcomes and place in the world totally independent of intelligence.
Weird to read over the Twitter threads like “I just can’t believe all these historical figures reputed as great geniuses had IQs as high as 140”, because like, I test around 175. People can be smart! Someone’s gonna be the long tail.
If you had an IQ of 175, that would mean that you were 5 standard deviations from the mean – which is not impossible, but would mean that you were one of the smartest 2300 or so people in the world.
I am somewhat skeptical of this. Partially out of a sense that I find it more likely that I am talking to someone who would tell implausible lies about their IQ than that I am talking to someone with an IQ of 175. Partially out of a sense that I just think that you would probably be more notable in other ways if you were really that smart.
I was enough of an outlier they were concerned with the test’s validity so they retested me with a few others with different methodologies, they all came back between 174 and 178. They told me that put me somewhere between a 2 in a million people level and 1 in 2 (so that’d be between about 15,000 and 4,000 people on earth).
This was 2nd grade but I’d take one occasionally later and it was still on track.
You think you’d have heard of me, huh? How many of the other 2299 can you name? Like I said, someone’s gotta be the long tail.
Weird to read over the Twitter threads like “I just can’t believe all these historical figures reputed as great geniuses had IQs as high as 140”, because like, I test around 175. People can be smart! Someone’s gonna be the long tail.
Have lost enough weight that ironically my belly looks more prominent in a side view, not rising from an otherwise plush torso, it’s the bulk of where fat deposits remain to be lost from
shinzo abe day was incredible. still not over seeing all the rumours about what happened, joining everyone in wondering how the fuck a shotgun assassination could have happened in japan, and then seeing the first photo of the doohickey
somebody from work tried to booty call me during the first like hour that details were coming out
The shape of the Boston City Hall popularized the phenotype based clearly on La Tourette, that was to be encountered in similar shapes the world over (#LaTouretteType): It can be read as a temple missing its gable.
Photos: Boston City Archives 2013 (CC BY 2.0) / Ernst Halberstadt / U.S. National Archives (CC BY 2.0) / Ron Gilbert 1985 (CC BY-ND 2.0) / Bill Lebovic / Library of Congress 1981 (public domain) / Peter Miller 2013 (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) / See-ming Lee 2010 (CC BY-SA 2.0) / Gunnar Klack 2018 (CC BY-SA 2.0)
This building takes a lot of shit, and honestly it deserves it – I don’t know how on earth they managed to make brutalism both tediously historicist and busy
I’ve found there’s some crossover with the anxiety zeroing and sleep deprivation. If I stay up for 36 hours I can get back the catastrophizing and pessimistic evaluation of things I used to always have, but on the other hand if I’ve just been up 18 or wake up after only a 4 hour sleep I might still yawn or even drift off but there’s no negative physical or psychological angle to it, no sense of weariness or dread.
man left without meaningful tasks for a week seen walking around with a notepad to critically assess all the wall-ceiling angles in his home with genuine contempt
* even longer, colder, and wetter winter (starting any day now)
* professional hockey players beating the living shit out of each other while millions of Canadians yell encouragement in the middle of their work day
* huge construction boom in the downtown areas of major cities with underground parking, because we’re still dealing with the 2008 crash and there’s almost no money for new transit lines or transit-friendly neighborhoods. I’m sorry, but there’s only so much we can do with all the skyscrapers we already have
no really, squeeze it. Does it feel like it’s got sand in it? is’s sharpening sand. Stab the tip of your needle into it back and forth and it’ll help put a sharp edge back on a pin or needle that’s been blunted by use, or has a little bit of rust on it. It can’t fix anything worse then a little of either, and won’t work on something REALLY blunted, but its a lifesaver.
also it is a pepper
It’s not a pepper and it’s not for sharpening!!
It may seem like it should be a pepper, since that would go better with the flavour of a tomato (and the mass produced modern ones are admittedly more pepper shaped), but it is and has always been a strawberry. Here are some antique emery strawberries, which are much more strawberry shaped, and some of them have seeds.
And it’s for cleaning needles, not sharpening them. I can’t imagine how jamming a blunt needle point around in a bunch of loose grit could possibly sharpen it in any significant way, and all the historical sources I’ve seen only talk about cleaning.
“Every sewer’s work basket or work box should contain an emery bag, as shown in Fig. 2, through which to push a needle when it becomes rough, squeaks, or sticks in the material. An emery bag is usually shaped like a strawberry and consists of a rough denim bag filled with emery powder, which is a very hard material used for polishing metals. Such a bag may be purchased for 5 or 10 cents in any store that sells sewing materials. Needles often become rusted from the perspiration of the hands or from being left in damp places. The beginner may use a small emery bag to remove rust; or, a small piece of emery paper may be used instead.”
“An emery bag is inexpensive and is useful to keep needles polished and smooth. If the hands perspire and it is difficult to push the needle through the cloth, running the needle through the emery will relieve the condition.”
“It was very hot to sit and sew. The needle would get sticky in spite of all the little emery strawberry could give it, and Beth’s fingers had never felt so clumsy and uncomfortable.”
This patent from 1873 mentions an emery slab for sharpening pins, which is quite different from a cushion, and which sounds like it actually would work for sharpening.
“C is a slab of emery or other sharp and fine grit, for sharpening needles or pins”
Then later down the page it also says
“E is an emery cushion, secured in the body of the holder A, and is used for polishing needles and keeping them smooth.”
So. Strawberry for cleaning. Not pepper for sharpening.
Gentle reminder - modern sewing tools are made from treated or plated metal, or stainless steel. In terms of human civilisation, this is a wild advance of technology. Needles are some of our oldest tools; rust was formerly ubiquitous, and attacked every form of everyday metal. A rusty needle tears fabric, or worse, stains it. The luxury and technology of rustproof needles and pins - forgotten in a few generations of human memory - and yet it is remembered in the strawberry. Memory is stored in the strawberry!
