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A comment on 2020, the Year of Everything Fake.

Re:2020, the Year of Everything Fake by phcordner on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @05:45PM (#25575993)
>Some readers may ask why I am not considering the failures of the White House, and making the case that the President is also a joke.

Some readers implicitly understood why when the author presented the pricipal disaster of 2020 as the death of '1/4 of all small businesses' and bailed before 20k words of statue-avi rationalist faux-erudition gave them aneuryisms.

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Re:2020, the Year of Everything Fake by sushisource on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @05:48PM (#25576024)
Totally lost me at

> “IQ” is pseudoscience—no one is intelligent. There is no such thing as intelligence—just inverted stupidity.

Yeah, IQ isn't a great metric. No, the entire concept isn't bullshit.

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Re:2020, the Year of Everything Fake by tarboreus on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @07:25PM (#25576837)
I believe the author was being ironic, as they essentially go on to make an argument based on intelligence (von Neuman, etc.). The tone here is also a light one.
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