You wouldn’t.

I’ve considered what it would be like to be more “normal”.

Even with all the issues that come with the extra abilities. They are the good kind of problems.

If you want to put a dent in your superiority complex. Go spend a day in a mechanical workshop, try to something that can only be learned by feel and sound…

I understand. More than you realise.

Few people are interested in what I’m interested in, but companionship is not always about our interests.

Sometimes, you just need to be in the same place as others. Doing similar things. No conversion required.

Go find a local planting day, plant a tree or ten.

Most people don’t want a debate, they want pleasant conversation.

How old are you?

This reminds me of me, in my teens and early 20’s.

I’m in my 40’s now, a lot of that attitude is borne out of arrogance. Judging others by your ability,is neither fair or productive, it is also a recipe for continuous disappointment.

Being continually disappointed, will fuck up your mental health. After a certain point, the only person to compare against is your past self. Comparing to others is a excellent method for robbing yourself of any joy or fulfillment.

I mainly get annoyed, when others don’t live up to their own potential; when they offload decisions onto me, that they are more than capable of on their own.

If you really are that smart, I recommend reading philosophy, I’m partial to the Stoic’s, but there’s a lot of good stuff out there.

I think at this point XKCD should be a TLD.

I would join lemmy.xkcd in a heartbeat.

Great response.

The assertion that IQ is pseudoscience, is denying reality. While not an exact measure, it correlates with a lot of other measures of flourishing.

But higher IQ doesn’t necessarily mean happier, or better in any way.

I know some extremely (academically) intelligent people. Some are arrogant pricks, others are really pleasant, others still are really awkward and difficult to talk to outside their specific interests.

Hard disagree, the tendons are attached at different points then a human. This gives them a huge (mind mindbogglingly huge) strength advantage; something like 10 times stronger.

Chimps have a similar advantage, whilst smaller than us, they are also significantly stronger.

Human vs chimp, skill may make up for the strength disadvantage; but against a gorilla…not a chance, it would be like fighting a 5yo, sure they may have skill but nothing they could do would make up for the strength disadvantage.

Take over Greenland, and rename it Red,White and Blueland

Oh wait that one is already taken!

Fae Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Fae Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Fae Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Fae Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Fae Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Fae Elves are terrific. They beget terror.

Perfect community post

I’m on the border of nerd and geek

Not necessarily, a wonk (e.g. a policy wonk) is not analytically intelligent but may be emotionally intelligent.

A nerd and a wonk may have the same area of interest, but different approaches.

Mistakes aren’t stupid, they are human. Hell we are even making our AI in our own image now…

Mental health care in NZ is abysmal.

I’m not sure about Christchurch, but my small town of 25k people, has people begging. Homelessness in bigger centres is visible.

We do try to help, but it’s getting worse.

Getting my ollama instance to act as Socrates.

It is great for introspection, also not being human, I’m less guarded in my responses, and being local means I’m able to trust it.

Reading the list, NZ does pretty well… Right to the end…

• good treatment of mentally ill, homeless and impoverished people…
  We don’t do that here

When I was young and worked in a supermarket, I’d buy a 1.5l coke at the beginning of my shift, I’d finish it before I went home.

4 days a week, for years.

Stopped around 20 year ago, I still have it occasionally, but it is like a glass or two a month.

Like a fool even

Add hot sauce, seriously. Cheese + Sweet + Hot = Epic

I have been extolling the virtues of this for years.

A global day off on NYD and every four years two days off. Really nice!

23:59 28/13/xxxx -> 00:00 NYD -> 23:59 NYD -> 00:00 01/01/xxx(x+1)
or 23:59 28/13/xxxx -> 00:00 NYD -> 23:59 NYD -> 00:00 ENYD -> 23:59 ENYD -> 00:00 01/01/xxx(x+1)

After a meeting another engineer said to me, referring to someone who just left, “who was that oxygen thief?”

I replied, “my manager”… Putting the laughter in slaughter with that comment.