Better name "Birdie Num Num" . Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajMqhpCBPAY

>One of my more heretical beliefs is that tech companies should do more hiring of high brilliant people right out of high school.

I have more. Most average people need less education. No point in putting them through 15+ years of 'education'. They can start working at least part time by the time they are 12 or so. This way they also grow up psychologically very soon.

The children yearn for the mines

>I think there is some underlying personality trait that might cause both aspects.

Low intelligence?

>horrible twisting little wretched creature like 99% of humanity

You sound awfully like me. (no, I'm not being sarcastic)

>Scott Adams said some really stupid, poorly thought out things about minorities and women, and he faced real world consequences for his actions

Or may be he did know that there would be consequences? Many people who are financially secure do make provocative statements. I think he did many of us a favor, because many of us still have to earn a living and cannot speak out.

Wait, so you would personally say things like "Black people are a hate group", except that you need to stay employed?

That is exactly what I mean about making bigotry shameful again. You should worry about losing your job, and your friends and family, for that.

If you stay quiet about your hateful views, then others are more likely too, and maybe some day we can eventually, slowly, move past all of you.

Surely Jesus understands nuance and will give an all clear heaven's pass to someone who is an atheist but still an essentially good guy? Or is he mean and dictatorial and say 'thou shall worship me else you will rot in hell' ?

The Bible (at least as far as the New Testament is concerned) is absolutely and explicitly clear on the matter. Being an "essentially good guy" doesn't matter, nor does being an amoral bastard - if you sincerely accept Christ you go to heaven, otherwise you burn in hell.

A. Pascal’s wager

B. Pretty sure, last I checked anyhow, is that accepting Jesus is pretty much the big requirement in the New Testament.

I think you are correct, going by the NT and OT more so) , it does appear that God/Jesus does has some wanting-to-be-validated-by-acceptance issues...

> Surely Jesus understands nuance

Megachurch culture would like a word

>It's like a bunch of people were conditioned or brainwashed into reflexibly regurgitation nonsense.

Has happened on a grander scale in the past in China, Germany, Russian and others. This is hardly anything.

How is one supposed to just accept this as part and parcel in the free world itself.

Humanity is imperfect/flawed…that’s how.

>straight-up Heil Donald

New thing for me to practice.

As they say - "I don't suffer fools gladly"

>How or why Scott Adams went completely of the rails is perhaps something we'll sadly never understand. Was this opinions he'd always had, but suppressed, did he somehow become radicalized or was it perhaps medically induced.

No surprises for me. By my standards he was never radicalized just an objective thinker with a flair for humor.

Have you read anything of his from that era like Win Bigly?

I was expecting something insightful, an insider's view of why the right had coalesced around Trump.

Instead it was some of the most awful drivel I have ever read.