Greg Alien

[Greg Alien @EsresGreg]

@justinskycak Whenever I look up information to verify what someone is telling me from memory, they're usually wrong in some important way. So maybe the optimal tactic is to try to remember the information first, then look it up to verify.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Most people overestimate their level of natural talent while simultaneously underestimating the level of *unnatural* talent they could engineer through consistent high-quality training.

[Greg Alien @EsresGreg]

@BristolTed @BelissaCohen @NormalGayPsych Plenty of Jewish terrorists in the early days of the modern Israel. And right now, the US government is dominated by Christian Nationalists who hate the same things extremist Muslims do.

The only mitigating factor in Christianity is that most Christians don't believe strongly.

[Greg Alien @EsresGreg]

@NormalGayPsych If you're on the political left, it's almost impossible to criticize Islam without being labeled far right. This is a problem.

[Greg Alien @EsresGreg]

@edudissenter Isn't the common core issue just a side effect of the too-common view that reading is a content-independent skill?

[Greg Alien @EsresGreg]

@necros111 @mungowitz That's absurd. You'd end up with no restaurants, which isn't good for society.

[Greg Alien @EsresGreg]

@necros111 @ostap @mungowitz Guarantees == straw man argument. It's about expectations and a business plan. No restaurant is getting a 30% return.

[Greg Alien @EsresGreg]

@necros111 @mungowitz Why should they accept lower profits? They expect a certain return on their investment or they might as well put the money in the stock market. Most of these owners aren't getting rich.

[Greg Alien @EsresGreg]

@necros111 @ostap @mungowitz That's not how private enterprise works. People start businesses to earn a particular return on their investment; if they can't get that, they might as well invest in an index fund.

Odd that you view this as a moral defect of business owners, rather than stingy customers.

[Greg Alien @EsresGreg]

@not_an_npc_9 @ColonizerJak @TMZ Yes, it is. Either you trust medical science or you don't.

[Greg Alien @EsresGreg]

@ObeseMonkey27 @BlakeBAD225 @ColonizerJak @TMZ One of the safest vaccines ever. You've been conned.

[Greg Alien @EsresGreg]

@PeterMoskos Agreeing with the 10,000 figure is one of those things you have to do to be accepted on the left. Dispute it at your social peril.

[Greg Alien @EsresGreg]

@joelgombiner @ramez It's not really very good with biomechanics, though.

[Greg Alien @EsresGreg]

@joelgombiner @ramez Yeah, people are so eager to point out its mistakes, but they ignore that doctors are wrong all the time, too. I've been misdiagnosed 3 out of the 4 times I've been to an orthopedist.

[Greg Alien @EsresGreg]

@joelgombiner @ramez ChatGPT chastised me over my glucose level and motivated me to make some changes. My doctor didn't even notice the lab report value. Same with vitamin D levels.

[Greg Alien @EsresGreg]

@PeterMoskos ...but I'd be one space closer to the door!

[Greg Alien @EsresGreg]

@AGlavkoverkh Ok, now I know you're joking.

[Greg Alien @EsresGreg]

@ostap @mungowitz The customers *always* pay, it's just the method of collection that changes.