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Partly it's because you're tired from working all day. When I was working full time as a signature gatherer, I never pretended I was going to be productive at night, after having been on my feet all day bellowing about ballot measures. Only time I could ever get real work done on computer...

I have problem with the career examples given for the 3 categories. One might expect a fine artist to be in the Designer category. But that's probematic for deciding what a fine artist is, isn't it? Graphic designer is included, but that's not at all the same thing. Law clerk and legal...

Cognitively dissonant. Suggest you examine why you want this deep control over other people's lives. Probably a repressed emotional issue for you. Was true of the last "Fascist-fantasizing" friend of mine. In his case, a horrible relationship with his parents and his sister. His eugenics...

Underwear rules give snapshot of life under ISIS In the BITE model of cult mind control, this is Behavioral control.

You sure you're not biting cheek and jowl, you face eating cannibal you?

Me? You've gotta be kidding. If you meant Iririnu, @Bvanevery: would be a slightly clearer way of indicating that you're talking to / directing a comment at me. Although still not clear. Well, I'll wait for you to declare what you meant. I do think Iririnu's clues indicate he's T, not F.

'Cuz you wanna be a dick? He's in the correct subfourm for his request. INTPf isn't INTP exclusive. Makes me sad at times, although I'm not sure there's any realistic alternative. Any kind of criteria for INTP exclusiveness, would inevitably lead to the kind of forum toxicity you're...

Sounds like you need more incest to spice up your family life. I always get these terms like Fe confused. Like I should be taking iron. Checking. Checked. I can use diplomatic language, try to put on a bedside manner, make an effort to be warm, if I have a motive to do so. Something I will...

S obvious, J obvious, T deduced from lack of empathy. I, but uncertain how strongly. So: ISTJ. Not exactly hard, given your descriptions. Gimme the digital cookies of all the people who complained about 'em.

Not true. They will both probably like sex, if they're old enough for it. They will both need to eat. They will both want to be loved, unless one is a psychopath. They are likely to both need some kind of social approval and friendship, although the degree to which this is needed is clearly...

I hypothesize that long windedness --> short pithiness varies with increasing degree of Introversion. And that the other variables aren't relevant.

Hrm. You might benefit from extensive study of Steven Hassan's BITE model of cult mind control. Behavioral, Informational, Thought, and Emotional control. What you outlined above is Emotional control.

Not good enough. You'll need to substantiate that for the rest of us, in a verifiable way. Like citing a public source of sales and positive reception of product. Actual deployment. This isn't my 1st rodeo with the claims of a Silicon Valley CEO. Your view of technological wonders has...

Bullshit. Corporations are not in the business of inventing stuff for the greater benefit of Mankind. Mostly they invent things to make profit, to secure markets. The larger the company, the more this is true. Nor do corporations in general have particularly scarce resources. The private...

Thanks for the wish. Thematically from your comments, I think a substantial difference between the 2 of us, is I'm much less introverted than you seem to be. Although I am still clearly introverted. There's a fair number of people I don't think of as "lesser". I think they're wired...

Baloney. Maybe 'occult' means more in Jungian psychology. I'm not familiar with it; feel free to provide links. Actually for various political participants, that's false. I haven't been even slightly secretive about who I'm voting for, or why. Also, hiding a secret is redundant. It's a...

The latter. Myself, I'm over-the-top N, strong T, strong P. Nearer the cusp of I, but definitely I, i.e. don't like having to exert myself to get to know strangers, don't enjoy parties where I don't know anyone, need to get away and recharge, need lots of alone time. I become pretty...

I just figured out the "rabbit making a shadow of a human hand" thing. (In case the avatar changes in the future:)

If you're going to offer pictures of divisive racist claptrap, I'm going to counter your narrative. But we have to live with the consequences of people you influence. The next time you want to tell someone to STFU, feel free to STFU about that. Don't post in public forums if you don't like...

I read debates, web pages, and technical manuals fast. I find those pretty damn easy to parse all the information. Regular books though, I read slowly, whether fiction or non-fiction. But I can definitely digest giant arguments, because they are arguments. I've always written fast, whether...

No runaway poetry mode here. I have to try.

Guffaw.

And are you INTP? I've learend on this forum, I do have to ask. If "yes", how strongly expressed are you in various categories? Are you on the cusp of any of them?

For which people? Me? I personally could be making any amount of money I want, right now. The technology industry is doing great! My own problems are self-actualization, way up on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. For the masses who aren't educated? Simple partial answer: educate 'em. Pay for...

I will buy your concept of "tradeoff, don't need it" if the high IQ person is actually happy. I've seen some that are. In fact I've envied them: computer guys whose brains seem to be wired in such a way, that they actually love all this stuff in computers that I call complete horseshit. They...

Eh, how can you tell? Unless someone is really clear that they're an anti-white bigot, like part of a Black Militancy movement that just point blank says, whitey needs to die. Otherwise it's just a combo of their stress about "some whites somewhere are doing something to me!" and your stress...

We do? Lots of people don't respect Trump's views on all sorts of things. Who sent them a memo about having to respect the man? I think this idea of "required respect" is a complete strawman on your part. We're in a democracy, nobody has to respect a goddamn thing. In the USA people can...

I become extroverted when I'm around people where I can actually express my strongly N self in some way. Like I can talk about Art or Programming or Politics or something of actual consequence to me. Around bulk masses of people, I am introverted, because what they say doesn't have a lot of...

Oddly enough I'm exactly the opposite in math and programming. I'm trying to design a programming language that fully embraces the pithy. I can't stand the amount of verbiage that mainstream industrial programming languages use. I can't stand it so much, that my so-called career is currently...

Kung fu; grab wrist; draw knife; slash throat. Sweetroll mine! Blink of an eye. Brain catches up. What have I done? More seriously, you can think about and train your Rules of Engagement for things like this. What if it's just your dog taking the sweet roll? Might not be a big deal to...

Forgot to take the paper wrapper off a Starburst before chewing it up. Never made that kind of mistake before. Has something to do with being an 'N' concetrating on a post he was writing. Has something to do with it being a Halloween wrapped piece of candy. 1 big outer paper wrapper...

Huh? No. I've got a B.A. in sociocultural anthropology. A B.A. doesn't make me an expert in rituals, but it does mean I've studied them a little bit. Voting at the polls is certainly a ritual. It could be analyzed in classical terms of liminality, such as Arnold van Gennep's stages of...

That was pretty funny! SJs are the worst, bar none. Strong Js are really bad. I've definitely had T vs. F conflicts but they're not usually as bad as a fucking J. Fs are hyper annoying when they're doing their totally subjective shit. Like put yourself in someone else's fucking shoes for a...

Two-edged sword. If one abandons the social support network one has got, whether that's friends or family, wings it in a new place, and isn't particularly great at making friends or influencing people, the endgame is loneliness. Which leads to depression and in the limit, suicide. I think it...

That's a medically irresponsible opinion to have, and is not objective. The DSM is not based on "it's all in your mind, just deal." However, slapping labels on people and over-prescribing pills is also medically irresponsible. The Medical Industrial Complex aka Big Pharma is definitely...

I certainly am. In text. 70 WPM, not afraid to use it to the hilt. Often produce vast tracts of personal thought, that various people on the internet would quickly ascribe to TL;DR territory. I'm better in person. It has harmed me on dates in the past, so I've learned to watch out for any...

So, guys who are good at math don't end up in prison so much. What's remarkable about that? People who can do knowledge work have other societal opportunities and have lotsa options to make wealth. This almost begs for a whole 'nother thread about white collar crime, embezzlement, being able...

Doubt there are national stats on race + crime + poverty per se. However for specific big cities, you can easily assess the amount of crime occurring in wealthy and poor parts of town. I've embarked upon this exercise for Milwaukee and Chicago. Started doing that when Milwaukee was making the...

An IQ test only exercises specific kinds of analytical parsings. If analytical parsings are a survival or reproductive advantage in certain settings, fine, but they often aren't. Otherwise we wouldn't have the ongoing meme of "engineering geniuses" who can't get a date, can't dress themselves...

'Drastically' is a term of excitement or dire prediction that isn't warranted by the actual graphs cited. (You'll have to go to the link. The graph presented isn't an image I can copy and paste. The interracial crime graph is displaying correctly in my Firefox browser, but the same race graph...

The article you have quoted is about Chicago. Since it's one of the worst places in the USA, and was even before BLM, I don't find your claim about the dynamics to be credible. At least, not based on the article you quoted. Chicago is Chicago. What's going on everywhere else?

On the other hand raita (Indian) or tziki (Greek) is very easy to make with minimal equipment. Just a standard "cheese" grater. You grate the cucumbers, throw it into plain yogurt, then add lemon and salt. This could even be a beverage if you make your own yogurt, which isn't all that hard...

I have not studied herbivore digestion, but their dentition and multipe stomachs are designed for plant matter. Physiologically an omnivore is quite different. Carnivores are different yet again: no grinding molars, and the digestive tract is short and highly acidic. This allows uncooked...

I looked into it once upon a time but didn't go that way. I thought, a juicer actually eliminates perfectly healthy parts of a fruit, like iin the case of blueberries. Unless it's just chopping them into itty bitty bits, in which case, the heat of the blade turning might oxidize the...

We definitely have our disagreements. Definitely political, sometimes methodological. For instance I often can't stand the "too abstract" philosophy major derived reasoning of one colleague of mine. He'll make a chain of inferences A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K... and he loves to do that, thinks...

I agree. Single source explanations are a good indicatator that a person doesn't understand or cogitate in terms of systemic phenomena. Particularly the seeming near-randomness of many factors coming into play simultaneously. History tends to actually be "one damn thing after another." But...

You don't know our group. I haven't heard 'rage' expressed in the group for quite awhile. I wouldn't say it's never happened. Sociocultural anthropologists generally don't rage about stuff either. I have definitely seen some rage expressed in various online Skeptical communities. I am not...

I thought I'd wait a few days before answering this, to see what others would volunteer. Whenever someone makes a claim to me about something, I recognize it as a claim, not automatically a fact. I usually calculate several diferent possible interpretations of the claim and the data associated...

Or likely to be more objective? Given that one can only approach objectivity and can't actually reach it. In my local Skeptics group in Asheville, the idea of "real reality" has been tossed around lately. As opposed to the models we all carry around in our heads of what reality is. A recent...

Move beyond the economic stage of housemates. The feelings of wanting to kill them are not going to go away. Ever.