That’s extra dope. Shit, I should look for safety-rated sunglasses that don’t make people think I’m too homophobic to touch my own ass. They must exist, right?

I stand corrected. It’s less clear which ones definitely need it, exactly. Wikipedia mentions that even Tc-99m generator designs can use low-enriched uranium. You don’t need large quantities in that case, either, since a little radioisotope goes a long way and there’s only so many people that need treatment.

I mean, it is cringe. There’s strong norms about modesty when it comes to intelligence for a reason.

So that comes out to 0.7% of eligible people. Honestly that’s pitiful if it comes with discounts like other people are suggesting. Those meetings must be really obnoxious.

Lol, isn’t that symbolic.

Funny you asked, because Google just stopped releasing Pixel Device-Specific Code that allows Custom ROMs to be more easily built, requiring Custom ROM developers to reverse-engineer the source code, which takes a lot of time.

Crap. It was inevitable, I guess.

Its like a FPTP Election system, it’s a Duoply. You need a mainstream device for apps to work, either iOS or Android, as long as Google is just slightly more free than Apple, you still would want Android.

It’s a good description description, it’s why I’d definitely choose Android if I had to. The nice thing is that AOSP needs far less support than any third party to function, and isn’t going away overnight.

Yeah, I’m reconsidering now that someone mentioned that. I’m not going to the meets, though, they get bad reviews for exactly this reason.

Edit: Uhh, looks like it’s only the US Mensa? Maybe some of the other Mensa-like things have benefits beyond the “pleasure” of their company, I don’t know.

It definitely is.

OP worries about being replaced “like the programmers of old”.

I’m pretty sure this is set in the future.

Regulators and geopolitics are rising against them, though. I’m way more hopeful than I was several years ago on the FOSS front.

Probably because there’s a bubble of nerds inside it that managed to survive from the “don’t be evil” days, before profit incentive inevitably won. Reddit still has their old frontend available, and I suspect it’s the same story.

It’s not an answer, but I really hate how hard this is to do on Android, including it’s FOSS versions. You can root it and do something like that then, but that undercuts the whole system design and is a terrible hack.

That’s like my main beef with the whole mobile ecosystem.

“Parking lot princesses”

It’s particularly jarring when people have them in Canada.

I mean, it can mean opposition to the US way, which is basically the old British Empire way. The polls bear this out, too - patriotism is correlated with voting left and tolerance in Canada.

It’s not judgement so much as a red flag, but those sunglasses that are like a solid cylinder wrapping around your head. They’re popular with manosphere dudebros, which is unfortunate because I actually kind of like them.

Lifted pickups that I know cost more than a modest house. It’s the same as buying a sports car, except you’re also posing as a humble working man simultaneously.

Yeah, expensive shit that looks just like normal shit is a real phenomenon, it’s not only in Succession. Although that’s also dumb.

Prada is for people dumb enough to buy Prada.

There’s a difference between quality and a Gucci bag made in the same factory as a 50 dollar bag the exact same way, though. Or anything like precious metals and jewels.

It’s because they’re more self-censoring in real life.

I’m sure Ned Flanders swearing seems implausible in Australia.

Oh shit, maybe I need to reconsider, as a very poor person with fancy test results.

Edit: US-only, it seems.

And yet it exists. Ego might seem like a pretty useless motivator, but it doesn’t seems to anticorrelate with intelligence. If anything, it correlates, probably because when you’re “the smart one” it becomes a vicious cycle pretty easily.