Witch King of Angmar: I, for one, would like to hear what Aragorn has to say.

Eowyn claps back: I need hear no bad takes from men!

Eowyn stabs Witch King in the face.

#meme #LOTR #LordOfTheRings #WitchKingOfAngmar #Eowyn #ClapBack #BadTakes

#BadTakes

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id1651876897?i=1000680910398

“Like everything he fucking writes it has the aesthetics of intelligence”

Holy heck that’s the meanest thing I’ve ever heard Michael Hobbes say

#podcast #IfBooksCouldKill #IBCK #BadTakes

Creating exam questions for intro stats, and defaulting, as I sometimes do, to IQ score examples because they're easy to think through (for me). Remembering several years ago a student asking me, with clear anxiety, whether they were "smart enough" for college based on their IQ score. As we talked it became clear they felt guilt and shame about their full-scale IQ score (they apparently got assessed in high school).

IMO the problems with IQ aren't psychometric (the Wechsler tests are extremely good tests, psychometrically speaking); they are cultural. We bundle some heavy stuff with "intelligence," like self-worth, value to others, and I even think I hear hints of morality judgments, sometimes. cognitive abilities don't work that way, but good luck convincing 300 million people. As a teacher one of the little threads of my teaching is helping students question the meaning of intelligence, not just IQ scores (the question of whether/how much those measure intelligence, and how to even define intelligence is a huge can of worms).

Your intelligence has nothing to do with your worth or goodness. It's been deeply disheartening to see the standard right-wing, white-supremacist, misogynist bad actors (incompetently) using IQ research to try to support their racist, misogynist, anti-LGBTQ rants.

As the cold war ended I really thought we were putting this behind us.

#racism #misogyny #iq #intelligence #nazis #whitesupremacy #badscience #badtakes

Please stop with "autistic people are more moral". It's a modern-day "noble savage" myth. Yes, there are some amazingly good and moral autistic people. I also remember the army of sysadmins, engineers, and mere trolls who brigaded the comment sections of news sites and social media ~2014-2016, terrorizing and shaming minorities, rape victims, bullied children, and grieving parents, the same people who swamped online polls with bots and worked tirelessly to get Trump elected, many referring to themselves as "weaponized autists."

Some #autistic people are victim-blaming, billionaire-worshiping, conspiracy-theory-spreading MAGA followers. There are autistic evangelicals, bitcoin fanatics, and disinformation workers.

These people exist exist in the same universe as every autistic person who behaves in more moral ways, and who thinks more rationally than average.

AFAIK, the cluster of cognitive, social, social-cognitive, emotional, and behavioral differences that define #autism do not map well to morality.

Autistic people are _people_, as it turns out.

(Edits: removed redundancy, fixed grammar & sentence structure... I wrote this very late at night and it needed help)

#asd #morality #badtakes #psychology #politics

@kimlockhartga that implies that they create murdering murdering whores.

#badtakes

WHAT THE F?! Who the hell is this guy?

"Renters are the real villains of the rental crisis - they're worse than landlords" - Tom Haynes

#landlords #landlordssuck #wtf #badtakes #rent #telegraph #thetelegraph

Spreadsheets are the first baby step into learning matrix calculus.
Therefore Excel is the correct answer.

#math #maths #calculus #excel #BadTakes

Republicans going after Joe Biden for supporting abortion rights reeks of desperation
#politics #USPol #abortion #JoeBiden #BadTakes
(Kathleen Parker is one of the offensive Republicans the Post pays to write for their op-ed page so they are "balanced." Then again I suppose "offensive Republicans" is kind of redundant nowadays.)

Not that I'm British but... Um... No?#ttrpgs #DnD #badtakes

I see that "centrist" pundits just can't stop themselves from hippie punching. I know I shouldn't be surprised.

I'll give you 2 guesses as to who I'm referring to.

#hamas #israel #badtakes

Mark Rothko fully imagined the form of the Mac Classic 28 years before Apple.

#BadTakes
#ModernArt
#Apple
#RetroComputing

Ruth Marcus: there is no such thing as “too many indictments.” One indicts to charge the crimes committed. WTF?!?

#WaPo #RuthMarcus #BadTakes #WTF

#introduction I will take over #mastodon social.

Coming from #tootio. Spreading peace, love, and chaos.

Join my cult for #metal #adultanimation #antifascism #gaming #badtakes

"There's not much of a song here"
—Rolling Stone on "Fake Empire"

#TheNational #badtakes

Today's stupidest take: Twitter's Reformation.

https://wapo.st/43c30hx ("gift" link)

I wish this was satire.

I am really thinking of dropping my subscription to the Post, as it has become an opinion machine with almost no actual **news** in it anymore.

#editorial #twitter #rawStupidity #badtakemachine #BadTakes

Happened just now across the Chicago TImes review of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:
"The cheeks of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat, and dishwatery utterances."
The Harrisburg Patriot and Union was kinder:
"We pass over the silly remarks of the President; for the credit of the Nation we are willing that the veil of oblivion shall be dropped over them and that they shall no more be repeated or thought of."

#writing #editing #badtakes