2023-03-03

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People tend not to trust someone they think is smarter: The link between IQ and income is overrated

perhaps more surprising, people in the top 1% of earners had lower IQs than the earners immediately beneath them. Why that is the case, it’s hard to say. But one possibility is that the very smartest people prefer a more balanced life rather than working all the time. Or perhaps they prefer occupations with higher status and somewhat lower pay. Money isn’t the only thing you can enjoy. Maybe having a lot of it can make it harder to trust potential friends or spouses.
How the Great Recession paved the way for influencers to inherit the Earth
Shame makes people living in poverty more supportive of authoritarianism

Matt Taibbi wrote this post as a backgrounder to the today's Twitter Files.
Banning words won’t make the world more just | Hacker News
Gaslighting: "Conspiracy Theories" Already Proven True In 2023 | ZeroHedge
So what is the right-wing pathology then?

To be clear, as with the left-wing, this pathology does not have to mean the right-wing thinkers are wrong on the issues themselves. After all, maybe Lab Leak did indeed happen, or whatever other claim you might wish to debate. But when one of these sensitive topics comes up, yes right-wing thinkers do often respond to it pathologically and with an excess of emotion. Born out of their sense of their own failures, they can be the true snowflakes.

Cuz none of the extant laws to do that are the right flavor: Biden administration wants to hold companies liable for bad cybersecurity
Democrat Mayor Arrested for Child Porn Is Pals with Mayor Pete

Yesterday Patrick Wojahn, the mayor of College Park, Maryland, was arrested on 56 counts of child pornography. And you know how you can tell he’s a Democrat? Because his political affiliation isn’t in any of the headlines. Hell, it isn’t even in most of the “news” stories. The journos all want this to go away very quickly.

The Secret Service and ICE illegally spied on civilians. A lot.
Opinion | Why Alex Murdaugh’s Quick Conviction Worries Me - The New York Times

Yes, our devices now capture everything about what everyone is doing, but making sense of that data isn’t trivial. In the Murdaugh case, both sides pointed to the digital record — but by the end of the trial, I felt like I had no real idea what actually happened. The jury was hardly so cautious.
The Kia Boy Crime Wave - by Nick Russo - Pirate Wires