Atrios writes:
“Jeff Goldstein Explained”
WaPo:
Abrahams, who has a vast knowledge of improbable scientific literature, compares Gier’s work to that of two Cornell scientists who showed that one attribute of extreme incompetence is “that the person so afflicted is incapable of knowing that he is incompetent.” The study, titled “Unskilled and Unaware of It,” demonstrated that people who scored, on average, at the 12th percentile in tests of humor, grammar and logic assessed themselves to be, on average, at the 62nd percentile. Incompetence at the extreme is a double-whammy, the authors declare: “Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.”
…All of which is just Duncan’s roundabout way of saying that I’m too stupid to realize how terribly stupid I am—and that my analyses are so rife with error that the sheer abundance of my own mistakes seduce me into believing (and advocating) my own blinkered idiocy.
To which there can be but one reply:
CHIMPY IS TEH SUXOR! OPEN THREAD!
You’re gonna wind up being the lead monkey with fancy educated talk like that.
AND DON’T FORGET TO PICK UP YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE TO “ESCHACON II: SPEAKING TRUTH TO A BUNCH OF GEEKS WHO HAVE BOUGHT TICKETS FOR ESCHACON II!”
Asstrios doesn’t write, he just knows how to use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V and can type the phrase “Open Thread”
the word “projection” comes to mind..
There is no such thing as bad PR.
It’s TEH SUxor. Jesus, what a fucking maroon
actus? Waddard? Carl? Hey guys….somebody’s talking about you.
Yeah, I bet that he doesn’t even have a single homo chained in the basement.
What a bitch-ass.
I score in the bottom 20 percentile on everything and rate myself the same. What does that make me?
But I’m happy. Supporting the blissfulness of ignorance.
“metacognitive whose-it?” All’s I know is, I can out Jenga! just about any one of those miserable Eschatonians.
That’s it. I’m going to the next Eschacon. And I’m bringing a video camera and some Ann Coulter action figures. Just to see what I can stir up.
Hey! Wait a minute!
Does that mean he thinks your readers are stoopid, too?
Well. Does it?
Well, not actus. But the rest of you, sure. You all are the SUXors, too.
Live with it. Accept your mediocrity.
I never metacognitive I didn’t like.
Ummm… and Duncan has picked HOW many winning candidates in the last six-odd years?
Would those be the life-sized Ann Coulter action figures?
I’ll take your pride for a ride if you let me.
Eschacon? Cool, I’m there. I think tesselations are woo!, and I love that infinity staircase thing.
SW: too clever by half
Oh, man, I’m not sure if that’s a good thing, or a bad. Can we mix categories?
Can that be gad?
And yet again, Duncan proves that you can be a smartmouthed idiot even after earning a Ph.D in economics… You’d think that he’d learn something by now.
And the day I not only have to have multiple open threads, but actually install a ‘bot to open new ones in the middle of the night… That’s the day I fucking go CORPORATE, O MY BITCHES!
from the article:
Now, I suppose one could make an off-joke about the effects a year of mouth-breather blog comments might have on an individual with a Ph.D in Economics…
But really the point is that the article (at least the first part) isn’t so much about science, it’s about a certain snobbery mixed in with science. As opposed to reading narrow conclusions from an experiment, it’s just downright sexier to say stupid people make us dumber.
Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me!
Vizzini (Wally Shaw)
Atrios brings to mind the etymological origin of the word “sophomore.”
And, I just drooled on my shirt.
I think the real question here is who’s the Wanker of the Day?
Duncan Black crushes dissent. That’s why he can’t have me around his stupid opium den: because I own his groupies’ asses. I show them why they are America-hating sacks of crap and they lose their little minds, thus prompting Black to ban me.
What losers! I have too much fun smashing up that little chatroom.
CHIMPY IS TEH SUXOR! OPEN THREAD!
That’s the post-grammar reality-based commune for you.
Soros ought to demand a refund.
“Duncan proves that you can be a smartmouthed idiot even after earning a Ph.D in economics…”
Hey, wasn’t Paul Krugman the first one to prove that one??
Read this from the WaPo article: “Scientific conclusion: Stupid people make us dumber.” Then take a look at the comments at Eschaton.
The story is old, to boot. The original study was published in December 1999. Way to be on the cutting edge, Duncan. (Has he ever attempted a substantial critique of anything you’ve said?)
The problem with using the competence study in an argument is that it trivially boomerangs back on the arguer; sure, maybe you’re the 20th percentiler who thinks he’s an 80th percentiler… but maybe your accuser is the 20th percentiler and doesn’t recognize that fact.
If you’ve got some sort of concrete measuring stick, it’s OK to use it; I’ve used it in some mathematical discussions, because I have something concrete to back my claims with. But trying to use it in politics… well, the only thing it proves is some mixture of arrogance and poor logic skills on the part of the one trying to use it. “Sophmoric”, as Russ brings up, is exactly the term.
“Live with it. Accept your mediocrity.”
I absolve you.
Duncan who? And why should I care?
If you ignore these folks–a tree falls in a wood–and no one will hear a word they say…
Are you (open thread) really trying to (open thread) go up against (open thread) the intellectual (open thread) and creative (open thread) genius (open thread) behind, “Whiny-ass-titty-babies” (open thread)? Because (open thread) it should be self-evident (open thread), that’s quite a high bar to pass.
…
(open thread)
I thought the theme of Eschaton II was “All Groupies Who Paid Extra To Blow Me Line Up On The Left Side Of The Room.”
Wee here at teh Atrios Civil Liberties Union wood like to remind yew taht Atrios have feeling to.
Knot only taht, we wood like too remind M.r Goahldstein that Dunkin Blak never mad any malishus remarks aginst his cominters.
Pleeze to be retracting the “yew are all mediakrotiy, deel wtih it” commint.
Wee are prepared to take this up wthi teh Hayg.
And its YEW who ar e teh SUxorzzzzzzzzzzz!!1!11!!
It’s a sure bet that none of you are gamers (with the possible exception of ACLU)… a little time playing Counterstrike would greatly expand your “leet-speak” abilities. Note: it is recommended to substitute numbers for letters whenever it is feasible to do so.
The proper use of 1337-speak would be something along the lines of:
j00 r t3h sux0rzzz!! 4nd t3h ch1mpl34 8u5h!! lollllz11!!
Intellectually speaking, you may now consider yourself the poorer for reading this post…
You’re welcome.
At Eschaprogressive II, there is only a “left side” of the room.
Just posted (be me) over at Open Thread’s Martyrdom Pleasuredome:
I’m amazed these wingnuts don’t get it yet. Throwing insults at someone is the highest form of intellect, besides circular thinking of course. Reading comments on HuffPo after a Greg Gutfeld article has shown me that it takes no skill, talent, or intellect to write something original. The real intellectuals simply hurl insults at others, most importantly within the parameters of opinion writing (which we all KNOW is totally objective). Keep on being the magnificent martyr you are OT, your courage is a kick in the wazoo to us all who must live under the KKK/Nazi regime of BushHitler and Co.
EasyLiving | 03.18.06 – 2:56 pm | #
What % of Open Thread’s readers do you think will know this is facetious? 50? 75? 90? I’m betting on 78%, since that is the year I was born.
Ah, Duncan’s just got his panties in a knot ‘cause Brokeback didn’t win the best picture oscar….
TW=received. The problem ol’ Dunkie has with us is that we don’t bow to his received wisdumb.
OK I confess, having visited here for at least a year looking for a dancing dillo, I got a lock on the 20 percentile. Fuck I feel/am stupid.
We 12r;s have the last laugh. I get to think I’m smart, while others that (try to) reason with me know that I’m not. How frustrating for them! For me? No biggie! Now who feels stupid, huh?
Jeremy, a concrete measuring stick? sounds kinda brittle. I prefer the metal ones myself.
Anyone capable of saying “at the 12th percentile in tests of humor” without cracking a smile must be at the 2nd percentile.
Gawd I’m so GLAD I didn’t buy that crappy little waffle maker. The place had no chopsticks, anyway.
TW: Atrocious is such a waste of time
What? I don’t understand….
Everytime I read DailyKos, my IQ drops a point……..
“Everytime I read DailyKos, my IQ drops a point……..”
A common malady, it appears.
My mad leet Tauren Druid says you just lost that bet.
I spend about 20 hours a wekk playing City of Heroes/Villians. I play CCGs also.
While the MMORPGs are games, they definitely don’t generate the same quality of 1337-speak as the First-Person-Shooters. There is nothing like round after round of immediate gratification (not the mention the m4d pwn4g3) to bring out the worst in the hormonally-poisoned 14yo 1337-speak crowd.
Again, I heartily recommend Counter-Strike to expand on your english-to-1337 translation (or you can hang out in AOL chatrooms… but CS gives you less of the I-need-a-hot-shower-and-some-Nix-lotion feeling).
I used to write gaming scenarios; does that count?
Open threads make a lot of sense for Mr Black. The more hits he gets, the more the ad revenue. He doesn’t actually post much of anything that is original or present any sort of analysis of what he does post. His blog is mostly cut and paste fragments taken out of context with a followup sentence or two that’s vectors the quote into something his clown show can get their teeth into. The clown show is oblivious to the genesis of the quoted text and just runs with the endless anti-whatever theme.
Atrios discovered some time back that he could distill his schtick into just declaring ‘Open Thread’ and get the clown show to respond just as rabidly for a hundred or more comments and perhaps thousands of hits for each open thread.
No dope, Duncan. The same can’t be said for his clown show, but as long as he provides a forum they’re happy. The jerk ends up with the hits that keep the ad revenue coming in while essentailly playing a caretaker role. Nice work if you can get it.
Shouldn’t that be “George Soros’ Groom of the Stool bloviates”?
Well Crap, since it was on Eschaton you just know it has to be true. I mean, Eschaton is like the BIG TIME and stuff.
You might as well pack it in now Jeff.
“at the 12th percentile in tests of humor, grammar and logic”
Oh sweet irony!
What a concept!
When I was but a child (in the 50’s and 60’s) it seemed that stupid people KNEW they were stupid. Most people wanted to learn more, and increase their understanding of what was happening around them.
Silly me. I now watch young moms go ape over the fact that the local government has ALLOWED an infestation of Gypsy Moth catapillars. How DARE they?
I watch the news when there is a snowstorm, and the local channel has about twenty people out in the snow asking people if it’s slippery on the roads, or showing that the snow is almopst up to the bottom of the soles of their boots. Excuse me. What the fuck? Are these people from Mars and have never seen a snowstorm? A thunderstorm? “Damaging winds and dangerous lightning”? No shit, Sherlock. Where did these morons come from? Journalism school?
I see people on the news who’s only goal to destoy someone else. A bunch of cretins who think that Woodward and Bernstein(?) are THE heros of the Anno Domini world, and that the idiot who caught Gary Hart with Donna rice was wearing sneakers that are so valuable that they must be AUCTIONED OFF???. Is this “boner up to here time”?
Pitiful. When I first read this, I thought it was written by someone who had a brain. HAH! Welcome to the new millenium! What I seem to be finding is that the more ignorant you are, the higher you rise in the hierarchy of the left. Ignorance is not something to be ashamed of – it is a badge of honor.
My mother always told me I was a smart guy (who’s mother didn’t?), but, because she was my mother, I never believed her. It took 48 years for me to understand that ignorance is not bliss. When you finally look around, what do you find? A bunch of morons who think that our way of life was divinely imposed by ANYBODY BUT GOD, and that rolling over for the Islamo-Fascists will not change anything. Hey. They might kill my aunt, but that’s not so bad, I guess. As long as they don’t kill me and keep paying for my house and food.
I hate the word “God”, but that’s as close as we can get to whatever “it” is.
Listen to Harry Reid – at your own peril. Listen to Dianne Feinstein – at your own peril. Listen to that paragon of virtue who has never had to learn the meaning of “money”, Ted Kennedy – but don’t EVER get in a car that he is driving.
Had enough?
Maybe I missed something, but I am stunned that someone who gets their attitude from MoveOn.org. could even THINK that they have any mental power – much less understanding of the way the world works. The day I get my facts from Jon Stewart and Howard Dean is the day I blow my useless brains right out of my head. What is that old saying? “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing”? God bless the left – they’re gonna need it. There is nothing scarier than a political party driven by absolute hatred…
Happy fuckin’ Saturday….
Ah, Duncan’s just got his panties in a knot ‘cause Brokeback didn’t win the best picture oscar….
Odd given that I said I thought Crash was the better movie.
Why would you find it odd? After years of experience, I think a lot of us take everything you say with a grain of salt.
Odd given that I said I thought Crash was the better movie.
yu0 r teh h0m0ph083 A7r10Z. A7r10Z || FAIL. J3ff is l337!
What all this means is the same thing that the infestation of Leftist Jesuitry we’re suffering means: Jeff is starting to get under their skins.
Just remember that if it’s trying to piss on you, it has to be a dick. If it’s trying to do it upwind it has to be a stupid dick.
Duncan, a hint for you: flinging around megalomanic assertions of how smart you are is not a sign of intelligence. Rather the reverse, in fact. I have never met a truly stupid person who wasn’t absolutely sure in his (or her) own mind that they only survived by using their towering intelligence to outwit the people Out to Get Them. You use bigger and nicer words, but the content is the same and does not lend credence to your advice.
Regards,
Ric
Lost Dog – It seems like some people are living one day at a time – as in, that’s how far back their long-term memory goes. That’s why, every time it snows, there are 300 accidents the first morning in Salt Lake City, and most of those people are saying “boy, this snow sure is slippery!”
Atrios – Damn, snappy comeback!
L337 Gamerz: I’m so elite, I don’t have to use elite-speak. I’ve been playing multiplayer games since Atari 2600. I’ve been playing multiplayer FPSs since DOOM. I circle-strafed before Quake 1.
Damn, I feel old now. Guess I’d better change my depends before the next match.
Anyway, I wish I had the original info handy, but the whole “socially clumsy/dumb/inept people don’t know they’re socially clumsy/dumb/inept” thing is pretty old news, but it likes to make itself seen every now and then.
I didn’t think I could have less respect for you, Duncan, but then you show up here saying you liked Crash.
Which, now that I think about it makes sense: heavy-handed agitprop that fights hard to keep alive the myth that racism in America is largely fueled by Whites—even those who are only unconsciously or latently racist.
How easy: Two hours of celluloid guilt, a pat on the back for accepting your culpability in the institutionalized racism that continues to PLAGUE OUR COUNTRY, then it’s back to Brown, where 43K a year in tuition and expenses is most assuredly helping to raise the average Black Man Up from his wretched condition!
WH1T3S R TEH SUXOR!1! OPEN THREAD!
I’m happy,happy,HAPPY! to be a 12 percent-er!
Happy I tell ya! Why? Cause we twelvers know one big thing. Just like the roaches we are gonna survive and multiply after the Atomic Hailstorm.
I’m gonna toast marshmallows on Atrios’s embers. Yippee!
Here’s another fan!
Boy oh boy! I hope one day to be as smart as Doug J, who is the kind of would-be intellectual who likes to point out how others (me, in this case) fancy themselves intellectuals! Which is quite a feat of intellectualism—though its disguised with the proper nonchalance and affected disaffection that the lefty sneer factory has come to adopt as their defensive strap on.
Not only that, but he’s able to mimic “wingnuts” in the comments section at John Cole’s site—and here, as well—and it turns out he’s not even a real wingnut!
That shit takes talent. And wit. And drive. And lots and lots and lots of free time, I should think. Flanders, Mike D. My, it’s like he has an endless supply of aliases!
And that in itself is just GENIUS. So I’m humble that he even noticed me, much less took the time to read my bio.
If you liked Crash, you’ll love Vision of the Anointed.
Incidentally, here’s Doug J bragging about how he is most of the commenters on this site. And not only here, but Blogs for Bush and Just One Minute, as well.
My goodness, he really has taken over the internet with his GENIUS, hasn’t he?
Wonder how many times I’ve responded to his rightwing personas seriously.
Jeff wrote:
With a script generator provided by ACME?
Well, I’m sure impressed. I mean, wow, he can picture another person’s political views well enough to write a whole blog comment! Ass. There’s only one person anywhere that has any reason to brag about imitating political opponents on blogs and that’s this guy.
Oh, yeah, 8U$H1TL3R SUX T3H COQ!!!
So, wait…I’m actually this Doug J guy? I had no idea.
TW: My life as an individual outside of Doug J’s imagination is over.
DougJ is a creepy asshole who would enjoy taking candy from a baby but does his “impersonate a wingnut” schtick because its easier!!
So making comments so insipid they are completely unnoticed and ignored is a sign of intelligence?
Who new?
Jeff, the gonif also accuses you of “pomosity”. I coulda told you that using words like signifier so often would get you in trouble.
Not sure why Maguire gets tarred with the same pomo brush. Has he been caught saying that Valerie Wilson’s classified status is a social construction?
I used to have some fairly reasonable conversations with DougJ when I was still able to stomach the comments over at Cole’s. Reading what you linked to, I’m going to have to guess that he was playing the part of the reasonable man. I’m sure he had some laughs, and I’m also pretty sure that I am now supposed to be upset about it.
The funny thing is that in the world DougJ inhabits it is good to be proud of pointing out how much of a liar you are.
Handing them their asses this election is going to be extra sweet.
Atrios explained:
Dost thou not suspect my place? dost thou not suspect my years? O that he were here to write me down an ass! But, masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass. No, thou villain, thou art full of piety, as shall be proved upon thee by good witness. I am a wise fellow, and, which is more, an officer, and, which is more, a householder, and, which is more, as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in Messina, and one that knows the law, go to; and a rich fellow enough, go to; and a fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every thing handsome about him. Bring him away. O that I had been writ down an ass!
What’s really enlightening is to compare the comments here at PM and the comments posted to the reference thread over at Eschaton.
Here you see mostly self-deprecating humor from emotionally secure people completely unconcerned with the fact that there are limits to their own knowledge. Over at Atrios’ site there is exactly none of this. Instead, there are just a bunch of humorless sycophantic “attaboy” posts. Apparently being ignorant of one’s own ignorance makes one so afraid that one might be stupid that one can’t even joke about it.
Anyway, the only reason Duncan posted a 1999 piece on incompetence is because “incompetent” is the Democrats new push word. The idea is to repeat the word over and over and over until it starts to show up in polls. It’s one of the ways the Dems succeeded in getting the “Bush lied” meme so high up the flagpole even though none of them can actually point to an instance of Bush lying.
By posting this, Duncan is just doing his part. I’m sure He’s feeling extra competent since nobody has called him on it yet.
yours/
peter.
What Lost Dog and Peter Jackson said. This Atrios crowd is ill.
Jeff, except for needing to install showers on pw, this almost has the makings of another series…
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: If you know where Duncan is coming from, you are lost.
I was not going to comment on this thread, but find an irrestibloe urge. What I have a problem with is the “percentiles”, per se. I do not believe that they measure the intelligence so much as they measure the knowledge. I am of the opinion that one’s “intelligence” enables one to acquire knowledge and knowledge is quantifiable. That is, knowledge is “acquired experience”.
When the majority of your audience (Atrios or John Cole) has little real world experience the knowledge they possess will be minimal. When I peruse the comments here, I find that the vast majority of commenters possess a wide range of “knowledge” and I invariably learn something. I especially read with interest the postings of “Ric” or “ed” or “Farmer Joe” though I do not always agree with them, I tend to learn something I did not know.
Go over to Balloon Juice sometime and read the comments, see if you learn anything. See if anyone posting provides any insight, see if you learn enough to change your mind about anything, see if ANYONE over there ever posts that they “do not know”. Each one of them, with their miniscule “knowledge” KNOWS for sure that which they write is the TRUTH. Go ahead, try it, if you have the stomach.
If being here puts me in the “12th percentile”, then I am honored to be in such rare company.
I want a T-Shirt that says “Proud Member of the 12th Percentile”
Just for laughs I followed the link back to Atrios and read the comments section for a bit. LOL! Ignorant! Juvenile! Bombastic!
Black must be sooo proud of his tribe. I realize this is not an original observation. Sorry, Jeff for wasting a bit of bandwidth.
Proof positive of scoring in a low percentile, apparently, is finding the bloviations and bombasts of the self-proclaimed high-percentilers howlingly amusing.
TW: “negative”—as in, I must be a negative-percentiler.
Jeff, the only way atrios can get quality comment content is to whore for it— don’t link him.
His comment section is 100% intelligence free.
McGehee,
I just read the WaPo piece and came to that same conclusion. I have never been more disappointed with any section of our society than the university crowd. The bent of the article was an indictment of the intelligentsias’ hubris. Most are charlatans. Especially in the liberal arts.
The study on incompetently highlighted text shows that people are too lazy to try reading something for themselves; not that they are stupider than the dumbass that mis-highlighted the text.(and did Grier do that purposely or find it at the Co-Op)
So when the dunkin’ bunch comments on Goldstein have they actually read his blog regularly? Or are they just taking the word of the dumbass who incompetently highlighted their opinion?
You are a better man than I, Gunga-Noah. Or perhaps you just have a stronger stomach.
DougJ
What is “pomosity”?
Go over to Balloon Juice sometime and read the comments,
Yes, John Cole has a lot to be proud of doesn’t he? Mostly for fostering his own personal little frankestein of blog commenting, DougJ. The higher ground of discussion and debate no? Thanks John Cole!
Doug J (from the above linked Balloon Juice thread): “I do comment a lot at Protein Wisdom these days. It’s weird over thereâ€â€if you use a dumb enough name, especially one that involves guns or hunting or the like, they’ll never suspect you.”
There’s a dumb, gun nickname I’m thinking of, which, if it’s a put on, returns to me some of my faith in humanity.
This is flipping’ sick
DougJ Says:
I’m pretty sure this is a troll too. I always like it when people take my bait, so I’m trying to take John’s here. It’s just as much fun being the trollee as being the troller sometimes.
March 19th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
This is DougJ? thinking he’s being “spoofed” or “trolled” by John Cole, because Cole stakes a position DougJ doesn’t agree with.
They only way the DouJ’ing and his BS of comments stops is for John Cole to get tagged, tarnished and dinged for DougJ, and DougJ becomes synonymous with John Cole
topsecretk9:
What is “pomosity�
Englishness? The quality of being a potato(e)?
Anyway, making fun of misspellings is low-grade. Unless Babs is involved.
Anyway, making fun of misspellings is low-grade. Unless Babs is involved.
Sorry Toby, but making fun of anything DougJ does is not low grade.
Did you happen to notice the thread opening here?
I saw a film today… the English Army had just won the war. A crowd of people turned away, but I just had to look… having read the book.
topsecretk9:
Did you happen to notice the thread opening here?
Yes. But, after a while, one must realize that Duncan Black isn’t misspelling things: he is subverting the dominant orthographic paradigm.
Oh! You were talking about Doug! No, that’s just a typo, which is actually different from a misspelling. One is an error; the other is irremediable ignorance. In Doug’s case.
I’d say something but my cover’s been blown. Democrats are nothing if not tactical geniuses.
I’m pretty sure I’m not Doug – at least, that’s the evidence gleaned from the mirror and the opinion of Mrs. Khan. Or is that just what Doug wants me to think? Oh, the unconquerable malevolence of his Philip K. Dick-like resignification of reality!
I know I’m human. And if you were all these things, then you’d just attack me right now, so some of you are still human. This thing doesn’t want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It’ll fight if it has to, but it’s vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it’s won.
If it’s any consolation 6Gun, I really believed you were an asshole right winger. So; half-right.
You were all-right, Ange; I am an asshole right-winger.
Happy to draw fire for the side, too, even if all it takes is a moniker transparent enough that, well, nevermind…
Okay, I’ve got the petri dishes and the flame-thrower ready….blood samples from everyone, if you please?
First,who are these “scientists”.Are thet,like,”psychologists”.or something?I don’t know of any “scientist” who considers a “psychologist” a “scientist”
PS:I showed this to a younger brother (Ph.D in psychology) who pointed out that Mary Sue Coleman (Ph.D in biochem and new president at U of Michigan increased the percentage of females in sciences by declaring “psychology” is a “science”.Take that Lawrence Summers.
Tests of humor?
Are there banana peels involved?
[Rips diploma into shreds.]
Well, fuck it then. Guess I won’t actually need that anymore.
Have another dring, MacReady.
SB: have several
N1N3TY-N1NTH!!1!
now nobody will suspect my liberal tendencies and biting, subversive wit.