Aaron Leonard https://risingthumb.xyz

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^EDITORIAL

^TRADE

^DRILLS

^DOMESTIC

^FINANCE

^ORDERS

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HEADLINES: GREYWOLF RETURNS WITH BIRTH OF CHILD.

ASPERMONT, WESTERLANDS- Company Member GreyWolf returns with news of the birth of his child where senior UTC members congratulated and conversed with him. After hearing of the results of the meetup, GreyWolf64 later offered his estate to host a US meetup where he will offer his huge selection of firearms and “unconventional” transportation for us to toy with.

Military Engineering will be a fun activity, Irishkaiser said. Also, his gardener may shoot at us while we dig.

Then we all made fun of Gun because he’s a glutton for punishment or something like that. He drinks “nothing but hard liquor” thinking he’s cool and tough shit like some asshole from Call of Duty while he’s actually just a GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT.

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EDITORIAL - The IQ Meme

Irishkaiser - A lot of people in our subreddit recently seem to talk about “IQ” as if it’s a hard science, when it’s one of the biggest memes in the fields of neuroscience. I’ve already told people before that I personally don’t believe in IQ, but I haven’t put it into an editorial before explaining why. The matter of fact is, an IQ is only really good for one thing: telling you how good you are at taking an IQ test. The matter of fact is, there are man neuroscientists, NOT PSYCHOLOGISTS but ACTUAL NEUROSCIENTISTS who study HOW THE BRAIN FUNCTIONS do not approve of the intent or use of IQ as an absolute measurement when at its base it IS NOT AN ABSOLUTE MEASUREMENT AT ALL.

We can see the flawed idea of IQ in its own “science” of nothing but complete contradiction and lack of standardized reference. There is no absolute method in which to test IQ and as many of you have recognized: IQ has steadily risen over the years and the tests keep getting changed in the process. But you may wonder why that’s so important? Well, the tests keep getting changed is one thing but another method is that the standards for IQ are changing constantly as well. In 1900, the mean for British and or American IQ was 70.

That’s right. In the modern day, you’d be considered borderline RETARDED for having the IQ of 70. Some of you use IQ to measure race intelligence, but if we go by the same logic, your white ancestors, if you measure them by IQ turn out to have less IQ than modern day Americans of Sub-Saharan descent.

Now we know that people in the past aren’t butt-fuck retarded. A lot of you even praise them or even try to emulate and admire them… So if they’re not retarded? Why the fuck do they have such low IQs? The answer is because IQ fucking changes all the time. There is no one IQ institution. I have had many conversations about IQ with many people of varying nationalities and all agree there is no one single institution that distributes a standardized IQ test(which change every year regardless) and all point or refer to some local organization. I won’t even mention how some politics may affect it.

The founder of the concept of IQ itself, Alfred Binet, when he came up with his tests not only insisted on disclaimers about how it was totally not supposed to be used to measure static intelligence and ESPECIALLY NOT TO LABEL PEOPLE WITH IT, but also was really depressed with “brutal pessimism” how other people took his work

That’s right. The founder of IQ hates you for taking IQ seriously.

Now there is a more refined concept of measurement, which is not really a measurement but categorization as at least this concept is humble enough to say that a piece of paper does not define who you are. The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, where our abilities both cognitive and motor are modal and not singular and I personally find this to be the more believable of the two.

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TRADE - US MineZ Trade Run The Directory proudly announces that it has delivered

1 Chain Set

in value exchange of

4 Health Potions

So the power went out and I wasn’t able to log in with the rest of the merchandise. I have given away some of the merchandise to dead respawned Imperial Citizens and others for free and shit. I also missed my first trade run where I can deploy a speed potion. Oh well, it’s the universe. Whatchu gonna do?

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TRADE - US MineZ Trade

The Directory proudly announces that it has delivered

1 Diamond Sword

in value exchange of

1 Golden Apple

Asturias

GIB ASTURIAS.

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TRADE - US MineZ Trade

The Directory proudly announces that it has delivered

1 Infinity Bow

in value exchange of

2 Health Potions

We really need to change prices now. I’ve been swimming in worthless drinking potions forever.

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PvP Drill 138th Mass PvP Event - 93rd? More like 39th

AHAHAHAHAHAHHAAUHEUHAUEHUAHUAHAHHAUHAUHAUHAUAH. What am I laughing about, I wasn’t there.

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DOMESTIC - 93RD REGIMENT LIFTS SELF-VOTING BAN.

The 93rd Regiment lifts its ban on voting for their own members after its Regimental Captain deems that the regiment is trustworthy enough this time.

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DOMESTIC - PEACE AND PROSPERITY SINCE ESTABLISHMENT OF FOREIGN OFFICE.

The Directory would however prefer to hold off on calling for its Third Renaissance until the big dipper. Also the Clan Bank helped as well.

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FINANCE - CLAN BANK NO LONGER AUTHORIZES SPENDING UNTIL GOAL IS TO BE REACHED.

With the exception of general spending such as servers and what not. The Bank of the Unknown [?] Clan will not cover other costs and projects until its goal has been reached.

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* **ORDERS:***

1) Trade Run Completed. SOP.

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