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>wife
And a lovely woman she is.

BTW, the idiot children you're complaining about? They were present in the 60s. They were present in the 70s. They were present in the 80s. They've always been here. Get used to it. Children are ignorant. You used to be one of them.

A fair point I suppose. Children are ignorant, but thinking that Planet of the Apes is a historic record is another level of ignorance all together.

There is not knowing something, then there is not even suspecting anything.

>Planet of the Apes was made to document the ancient history of Earth.
>Planet of the Apes is a historic record
B-b-but it's set in the future!!!

>>19817

To be fair, I'm old enough to have seen the first ones in the theatre, but never did, til the last one came out a couple years ago, & saw them all. If I were asked to write a story about it, I would have guessed it was a pre-history period movie depicting the world before humans too.

And boy would I be fuckin wrong. It's our future.
http://www.nerdist.com/2014/07/watch-two-chimps-react-to-dawn-of-the-planet-of-the-apes/

>>19817
I always suspected this was going on when I was in school.

I did alright on the tests, and never really thought they were hard. My scores weren't perfect, but they were good. It seemed strange to me that nearly all the other kids would be depressed and panicked during test weeks, especially because their test scores weren't that bad....

>>>19825

a quote from your link: " Apparently, people asked whether or not the chimps should be watching the film at all, lest they learn “how to take over the world” from Caesar and the other highly intelligent apes. But don’t worry; though science does have some clever ways to make chimps more intelligent, remember that a toddler is smarter than the average chimp."

Maybe they are, maybe they are'nt...the people in the theater are certainly pretty dumb.

>>19826

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsXP8qeFF6A

I remember when I was in high school, I had to take the "CAHSEE", or "CAlifornia High School Exit Exam", which was some standardized "no child left behind" bullshit they devised to make sure that children in every school were learning the core curriculum as laid down by the STATE, instead of just whatever individual districts thought were important. I don't remember much about the exam, except that it had some math and some English sections. Also, it was PAINFULLY easy. The reading-comprehension and essay portions reminded me of stuff I did back in the fourth grade; I seriously doubt if the math section was more than basic algebra, which I took in the seventh grade.

The worst part? There were high schoolers who failed this exam. When it was instituted, you could theoretically take it every year, but as I was a sophomore I could only take it two more times (I believe the juniors and seniors were exempt) but of course I passed it the first time. I literally could have passed this exam when I was in 6th or 7th grade, and yet there are plenty of kids that wouldn't have been able to by 12th.


You know how I know the American school system is fucked up beyond measure? When I hear, about once a month or so, about some 12-year-old that got into college. You don't actually have to learn ANYTHING in order to graduate high school; you just have to take a test. All the American school system does is train kids on how to take tests. Unless they get a job that involves filling in circles on a scantron, their skills upon graduation are all useless.

>>>19828
Interesting video. One problem in their test. The ape is motivated to do well by the instant reward it receives for getting it right. A little bit of fruit or candy. The random human test punk has only the satisfaction of beating a chimp at a memory game. Not much incentive overall.

If they gave the guy some pussy or a shot of heroin every time he got it right you'd see his test scores go off the chart.

>>19843
Cocaine, not heroin. Heroin would put them into a stupor where they couldn't respond, cocaine would heighten their senses (until they had so much they went insane).

>>19845

Nah, sugar water would be even better. Scientists have done test with rats, and a rat hooked on heroin will, if introduced to sugar water, take it over the heroin.

>De-evolution is real
Again with this misrepresentation of natural selection. Evolution has very little do to with any perception of progress. Traits that get you killed or prevent you from getting laid die out, and ones that don't get you killed stick around. It's as simple as that.

The most charitable and reasonable-sounding explanation behind everyone ever insisting that the newest generation is the worst one yet is the same reason why people tend to prefer genres of music that they listened to when they were young and impressionable. Another small part of the reason people notice it more today is the Internet. Before the Internet, people could be stupid without the whole world knowing about it.

>>19865
>Traits that get you killed or prevent you from getting laid die out

This is the problem: compassion and medical advancement are keeping the genetically inferior alive; nearly everyone--even the fattest most cringe-worthy beta--has the opportunity to procreate. In the very best case, we're creating our own evolutionary dead end. At least in the first world, there will be no further progress in the gene pool. In the worst case, we've created a system that favors the least useful traits over the most: survival and reproduction that depend not on strength or intellect, but dependence on those who have strength and intellect for protection.

>>19870
That just means that we've changed the rules of the game slightly. That doesn't mean it won't still get played. Attaching a moral value to who benefits and who doesn't under which systems is pointless.

Besides, you're describing sociological concerns in the language of evolutionary biology. That's a bit like using a sledgehammer to tap in some finishing nails on your deck: while not entirely impossible, it's still the convoluted and more ridiculous-looking way of going about solving your problem.

>>19871
Trolling?

Only a troll could so easily dance away from simple logic and into the lala lands of self-delusion.

>>19870
>dependence on those who have strength and intellect for protection
That's a funny way of writing "dependence on those who, through nothing besides luck, were born into families of inherited wealth and will prosper even when they fail miserably time and time again (e.g. GWB)."

>>19873
Correct. I would only defend this statement to say that being born into high society is the result of an evolved strength: the strength of dynasty.

Dynasty is an improvement on the family unit, extending the family to a clan with selective breeding as a means of ensuring superior social and living conditions for one's progeny. This is distinctive from communal social behaviors in that it is non-inclusive and primarily parasitic on existing communities. The goal is to establish a particular family in leadership roles throughout a community, and particularly in the role of selecting the leadership, such that the family may fully disenfranchise the community of its resources and management. Initially forming dynasties required other skills such as military tactics, agricultural production or acquiring resources, but established dynasties tend to become completely dependent on parasitism for survival.

Like any other specialized trait, overspecialization may lead this population to extinction. If the community fails, the dynasty is likely to be lost with it. Selective breeding has resulted in to problems for dynasties: genetically unfit progeny and dwindling numbers. In the long term, it's possible they will be overrun by the vast mongrel hordes they once ruled.

>>19879
>I would only defend this statement to say that being born into high society is the result of an evolved strength
Evolved strength? You clearly have never met someone who was born into such a situation. They're the weakest of the weak, the most ignorant and disconnected group on the face of the planet. If not for their luck in the womb lottery they would be living on the streets.

A member of this group once famously mentioned that placing aspirin in a vagina is a functional method of birth control.

>>19880
If you would read past the first sentence you'd notice that I cover this point within my definition of dynasty as an evolved social behavior.

>>19882
The problem is nuture, not nature. By allowing their progeny to live isolated lives with no meaningful interaction with normal people, it perpetuates fantasies of superiority due to their genetic lottery. This kind of idiotic thinking allows individuals to push through the implementation of patently crazy ideas, like that they should be allowed to live tax-free existences while simultaneously exploiting all the benefits that modern society has to offer.

The history of the world has shown that royal lines end violently, along with the aristocracy that supports them. Attempting to start a new royalty will end the same way. Yet they're attempting to do it all the same. Because >>19880

And that is how we make the Planet of the Apes come true.

De-evolution.

They shouldn't be writing about Earth's past if they're so ignorant and dumb; they should be writing about their future (the Planet of the Apes).

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>>19889
Except POTA isn't about de-evolution. It's about humanity destroying itself and apes evolving to take their place.

If anything it's about evolution. Left to its own devices, evolution will eventually replace an apex predator that dies out with a new apex predator. But the timeline in POTA is extremely optimistic, it would likely take far, far longer.

>>19890
Precisely.

If we were intelligent enough to keep evolving, do you think Apes would out-evolve and surpass us?

I have yet to hear someones concept of de-evolution that isn't built upon the fallacy that evolution has a sense of direction or end product all previous generations were all building toward.

Evolution is mutation and both natural and artificial selection. Mutations aren't up to anyone yet, they're inherent in the structure of genes. But natural and artificial selection? How are you going to de-choose who you're making a babby with? Either you choose, or you make no babes, and neither evolve nor devolve.

If fifty generations of losers with poor eyesight all fuck other losers with poor eyesight, you haven't devolved poor eyesight, you've evolved poor eyesight in a subset of your species population. Eventually if they're isolated, say, they're shockingly ugly and the only people that will fuck them are other people with poor eyesight, and they find a way to survive in a world that looks like a monet painting & not die out, you'll have evolved a subspecies of hideous, blind, severely inbred office managers, and no one outside their little genetic culdesac could even successfully reproduce with if they wanted to, which they don't, you fat fucking disgusting cow, jesus christ have some self respect and get off my ass about the photocopier paper would ya for fucks sake it's 3 bucks for 500 sheets...

>>19894

"De-evolution" has nothing to do with direction, except maybe down the toilet.

De-evolution is about the downfall of mankind by its own hand. Specifically technology. Computers, mass communication, television, hell even the automobile, were all wonderful ideas that were designed to entertain, educate, or make some part of the daily routine of being alive much easier, and they all succeded. The problem is they worked so well and they were marketed, and enhanced, and marketed, and simplified, and marketed that now they are the central focus of the human culture of most of the people in the world. Even people with no direct access to it all want that shit.

The real problem is human kind has allowed the proliferation of technology to make the species less effective as a group. There is more knowledge available now then ever before...but humans as a whole are now dumber then they may ever have been. And its not where there are no books, or an internet connection, its here, in our face.

Evolution relies on the mating of strong survivial traits. Humans are not the strongest, fastest, or even warmest creatures on this planet. We are the SMARTEST, most adapatable species. That is what we have going for us. So when the mating habits of modern humans has been skewed from that line, the race as a whole starts to suffer. People may have great jobs, a brand new car, shiney things on their arms, or pants that make their ass more round, but they are still stupid. Modern technology in all its forms has allowed people with no survial instinct, bad genetic traits, and weak minds to proliferate.

This is de-evolution.

Your comment on mutation is right on. I totally agree. The only way out of this IS mutation. Human "mutation" can come in many forms. What is pure mutation in the animal world can be helped along or proxied by human adaptation. Essentially we can choose to change all this. Find other beautful mutants and save humanity.

>>19914
>but humans as a whole are now dumber then they may ever have been
That's weird, because every method of measurement we have says the exact opposite. Although it's probably not genetics.
Where did you get this idea?

>>19915

Did you not read the first post?

>>19920
Do you not understand the scientific method and how it differs from the casual observations of laypeople?

>>19915
Never bet on the literacy of internet users.

>>19921
1. Results found by scientific method =/= the observations of lay people because it is scientific is actually a fallacy.

2. Don't even bother with actual science on the internet; no one who didn't sleep through those classes in high school is here.

>>19926
>because it is scientific is actually a fallacy
...
>Do you not understand the scientific method and how it differs from the casual observations of laypeople?
Do you have the reading comprehension of a fifth grader? Nowhere in that sentence does it even remotely infer that casual observations are in any way scientific.

>Don't even bother with actual science on the internet
In particular don't mention anything about ectopic pregnancies to 7chan's resident cranky old man. He insists they're a myth because pregnancies always work themselves out, and that he would know because it's his job to know. Or a similarly illogical reason - his stories tend to change from time to time, much they do in people with dementia.

>>19928
You've replied to at least two different people as if you were talking to one.

You're right about the resident crochety old quack(s). I would go so far as to say one should expect to lose when presenting scientifc fact supported by empirical data and decades of research in an internet argument: no one gives a shit about that stuff, the truth is invalid.

>>19967
>Replied
LURK MOAR

>>20007
seriously gay; only invoke the rules when you're right.

>>20008
You may want to rethink that.

Dumbass >>19967 didn't realize that one of the people I was "replying to" was myself.

I quoted the reply >>19926 had replied to as a means of pointing out his level of dumbassitude.

Since >>19967 (and yourself) aren't doing anything more than casually glancing at poster IDs, shutting the fuck up and lurking moar would be a good plan for your futures.

>>20008
What makes you think I was wrong?

>>20010
>>20016
I could sort this all out for you, but as I've already pointed out stupid people can never lose arguments so I'll just let you have this one.

Ok, samefag (by postid):
>>19926
>>19928

Now I get it, you are retarded. Were you attempting to dispute the point of >>19928? Because you fail by attempting.

In order to declare that scientific observations always trump the observations of laypeople, you'd have to:

1. Prove that lay observations never lead to the same conclusions as scientific observations (most of the time they do; a lot of science is backing up what people already know)

2. Prove that scientific observations are always more accurate than lay observations (scientists make mistakes too, and then lead entire generations of research off track)

3. Establish a means of differentiating scientific observations from lay observations (how scientific does "scientific" need to be? is an unaccredited person performing scientific observations still a lay person and their observations still lay observations? etc.)

In fact, lay people often observe and make conclusions about the phenomenon around them that are later backed up with scientific proof. Not to say they're as smart as scientists or that I don't prefer an expert's opinion.

>>20057
>most of the time they do
So you're saying that animal/human sacrifices do have a direct impact on harvests, weather patterns, wealth, etc.

Gotcha.

>>20060
Let's find out!

Lay here on this table, and I'll summon Sithra while priests shove poisonous snakes in your throat and anus.

>American children have no critical thinking, problem solving, or basic math skills form 5th grade to high school, the grading and testing programs are biased

I can't even take this post seriously. I would like to take a moment and point out that overall, the US is retarded. Yet, if you take a look at individual State scores (cus you know... The US is a FEDERATION OF STATES), you will find that a large portion are well above the international average. Utah, for example, has higher SAT scores than South Korea (the highest average in the world). Iowa, has higher scores than Utah...

>>20065

Also, if de-evolution was real, then there should be scientific basis for the assumption. However, the recent resurgence of native tribes from the Amazon, proves that de-evolution is in fact... Not possible.

Cultural de-evolution, however, is a reality. Culture is something that is taught, learned, and remembered. Culture can be lost. Knowledge can be lost, but a physical de-evolution is not possible.

> De-evolution is real

You've been listening to Devo too much anon.

>>21265
After two years I'm pretty sure he's either de-evolved himself or come to the realization that its not going to happen.

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>>21265

You may have a point. That doesn't make it wrong. Besides DEVO is a better alternative to most of the mind-fucking audio garbage being mass produced these days. How many Katie Perry Clones does this world need?

De-evolution has nothing to do with physical evolution. We have been adapting, or at least we are supposed to through physical culture. Modern technology, unfortunately, is systematically removing our human cultural ability to adapt, learn,and advance.

I watched two people today sway around in circles for 20 minutes outside an ATM machine on a busy street, both texting and doing what the fuck ever on their cell phones. They looked like spasming, strawberried, shock therapy patients. But oh, I look around me, and I see that's considered FUCKING NORMAL NOW! So yeah, I'm listening to a lot more DEVO now!

>>21269
When everyone else but you is changing, is it proper to say that they're the ones failing to adapt and not you? You can say all you want that their behavior is manifestly maladaptive, but consider how they're hooking up with each other on Tinder while you're stuck hooking up with your hand.

If you want to preserve humanity's cultural and intellectual advancement, contribute to it. This is National Novel Writing Month, after all, so you even have websites encouraging your commitment to enriching human culture. Getting mad that apathetic decadence actually works okay in the short term doesn't solve anything.

OK, maybe you need a little REO Speedwagon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PdU6migsqQ

You can go right to hell

>>21273
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4NsQYlmvZM

>>19823

This is a perfect example of the phenomenon that I am going to dub "ooo, shiny." You, OP, have presented a perfectly valid, reasonable, complex viewpoint that could birth much discussion, but instead, people fixate on one minor detail and expand upon it until it dominates the conversation. I have watched huge, often shallow conversations develop that have absolutely nothing to do with the original point of the topic being brought up at all, especially when the original topic is a deeper one or even remotely ambiguous or abstract. People seem to fixate on the easiest detail to comprehend and then expand upon it until room for real thought is lost. They also seem to demonstrate a lack of comprehension for anything not well-defined. (I'm not trying to pick on you, either, 19823, but this really does perfectly illustrate what I actually came here to say.)

There is another habit that people have that I will call "series-blindness." I have consistently observed this phenomenon when asking a series of questions to people of any age, be it in a written/electronic text or in person. The scenario for this is something like asking someone more than one question at a time like: "Hey, what movie would you like to see and what time would you like to go?" Even something as simple and easy to follow as this is answered with a resoundingly incomplete: "Oh, about nine o'clock would be good."

The reply above reveals a sort of mental block that I keep observing in people in which they seem totally incapable of keeping track of and responding to more than one thought in their mind at any given time. This phenomenon is especially present in text-messaging, especially if more than two questions are asked and/or if these questions are asked in more than one text-message. I can send one question in a text and then send a follow-up question immediately following it, and far, far more often than not (in fact, I cannot remember a time when it did not happen), the other person will reply to ONLY the last question in the series. I have seen this happen even when all of the questions are in the same message. The human beings that I interact with seem utterly incapable of even noticing that they are not noticing anything about the situation or series. They simply fixate on the last question presented and are blind to anything other than that. I observe this so often that I have stopped asking multiple questions to people and instead painstakingly pull the answers out of them one. at. a. time. so. I. get. the. information. that. I. need.

Our intelligence as a species is quite alarming, but I would suspect that we have always been somewhat dim-witted and crude. Or maybe the creatures that are most socially influential and that breed the most just happen to be consistently lower-minded. We seem to persecute those with above-average intelligence as a species pretty frequently anyway, though we also have a weird habit of glorifying them later (and often inaccurately).

>>21321
This is a perfect example of how no post on 7chan can ever truly die, and is instead kept in a perpetual half-alive half-dead state from which it, and the site itself, can never escape.

>>21321
>ooo, shiny
On the internet, it's called thread derailment. It does happen in face-to-face conversations as well, but I think personal interaction limits the degree to which one particiapant can deviate from the discussion at hand, whereas online interaction allows for immediate, less-than-tagenitally-related discussions to initiate in the midst of any other.

>series-blindness
People are dumb. You want efficiency and responsiveness? Make AI friends. Humans are seriously limited, and always will be. We can barely comprehend a group of more than four objects without counting them, we hear selectively, and we tend not to respond to things that make us, even subconciously, uncomfortable--no matter how absolutely required or obvious our response should be. Maybe your friend wanted you to choose the movie, but prioritized the schedule for their self-interests.

Just be glad you don't live in Japan.

Example:
I intend to ask: "What movie would you like to see and what time would you like to go?" Assume these conversations happen in japanese; it wouldn't be much use to you if i typed it all out in moonrunes.

For completion's sake, let's ask it just that way once:
Me: "What movie would you like to see and what time would you like to go?"
Jap: "eh? mov? have schedule."
Result: Failure, Jap has made up a fake appointment to get out of this uncomfortable conversation. don't take it personally, they are avoiding this conversation, not you--they probably don't remember that you have (inspecific) plans to see a movie together and think you intend to go right now even though you asked them what time they want to go. furthermore, two questions at once is a huge amount of pressure and without detailed advanced planning, your plans are likely to be considered optional or non-existing.

Let's try that again, and break it own for our logic inhibitted friend:
Me (one week in advance): "What movie should we watch?"
Jap: *some awful hollywood blockbuster with no plot, lots of special effects, and a lead actor or actress who was hot thirty years ago*
Me: "Great, what day and time should we go?"
Jap: "er, wanted go, have schedule week."
Result: Failure, Jap has again created (a week-long) fake appointment to avoid answering uncomfortable questions about time. Time is very important to Japanese people, and not to be discussed or inquired about lightly.

One more time, this time, with a little more prep work:
Me (two weeks in advance): Hey Jap, did you know *worthwhile film* is playing at *some theatre*?
Jap: Rly? Time?
Me: Seven o'clock, eight thirty, and ten on weekends.
Jap: Fri/10?
Me: Friday, this week--December 9th--or Friday, next week--December 12th?
Jap: Fri/12! have schedule Fri/9.
Me (two weeks later): Ready to go to the movie?
Jap: Yeah, watch *horrible hollywood blockbuster* at 9:30? at theatre, u late?
Result: Success? Jap arrived the standard half hour or more early, and has changed your movie plans to something tasteless and awful--but probably easier to break the language barrier (awful movies tend to be easier to translate for some reason and are always more popular in japan than their countries of origin). It is important that you make plans a minimum of two weeks in advance and avoid the possibility that Jap will feel even the slightest bit of hastiness in your planning (resulting in immediate failure). It is also essential that you be prepared for Jap to change anything unexpectedly (they will see it as a slight modification of the parameters of the original plan, no matter how drastic the change).

>>21325
Japan: The place where autism was born.

>>21326
The birthrate of children with add, adhd, and autsim spectrum disorders in Japan is sharply rising while the general birthrate continues to dwindle. Meanwhile healthcare is improving and life expectancies for men and women are longer every census--but little can be done about senility, senile dementia, and alzheimers.

I think the japanese are facing genetic implosion and will be extinct within a few generations.

>>21330

Are they too racist to mate outside their gene-pool?

Hey look at that! the thread is back on Devolution again. Well done chaps!

>>21331
>Are they too racist to mate outside their gene-pool?
Yes and no. It's still rare, but "half" children are a valued commodity, regarded as inherently more cute than full-blooded Japanese and some Japanese women are willing to have children with foriegners to get them, but tend to discard the barbarian male shortly after childbirth.

Note the way I am talking about children as things is absolutely intended--it is not different from going to the store to get a puppy only for it to grow too big to take care of.

After adolescence, you find most of these kids being bullied in school, getting involved in drugs and gangs, or otherwise maligned and exluded from society. That could be expected, given most are raised without a father (the divorce rate for international couples in Japan is very high and a woman who already has children cannot remarry) in a country that regards half their genetic heritage as barbarian filth. Those who are unable to leave the country will be raised to disregard or even disdain their non-japanese heritage. Many do not attend high school (it isn't mandatory) and few go to college; almost none enter adult life with any upward mobility. Even if they miraculously graduate for a good university, "good" companies will not hire people who do not have black hair and eyes and there is no "racial equailty" law to protect them (the Japanese do not consider that there are any other races to be protected in their country--lots of these people dye their hair and wear contacts just so they don't get harrased all day). You do see one or two on TV ever year though, either as a musician or a comedian (ie, the only ways black people could get famous in the US just a few decades ago).

>the thread is back on Devolution again. Well done chaps!
7chan :D

>>19843
Reminds me of the fallacies of the marshmallow test:

1) Maybe the kid just wants one marshmallow.
2) Maybe the kid doesn't trust the adult.

Op here is making a typical "kids these days post" based on the typical insignificant anecdote.
>"Doesn't know what a comparison is"...
>"Asked to compare Planet Of the Apes to real life"
Have you ever thougjt that they never knew that film?

Another thing is, alot of the standardized tests kids nowadays do was non-existent before the 90s. Most boomers and Gen Xers never had to take algebra or calculus. Most of them dropped out. Compulsory schooling became a thing under Reagan.

"Lack of critical skills/math skills" OP claims kids lack is actually common in the adult world.

>>22360
We all took algebra. Not that many people dropped out of Jr. High.

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>>22368
Clearly in his family bubbas were never expected to never go to junior high so they could start working at the family moonshine stills.

Thanks to the demonization of education and intelligence, there has been a concerted effort since the 80s to underfund education and constrain the earning potential of parents, giving children less chances to learn and the parents less time to teach. That the people most affected by the party committing this are their most ardent supporters is precisely the point - only by being ignorant can you believe the nonsense they're pushing.

>>22368
Alot of Boomers and Gen Xers never took algebra. They all tell me. Most wouldn't understand it at firat glance.

But even worse are early Millennials. They act all high and mighty just because they're the last generation before smartphones yet they cannot do basic mental math.

>>22391
How stupid are these people you're talking to because I graduated in '99, which is (admittedly) the edge of X, and taking Algebra was the "B level" math course for sophomores.

>>22391
>Hurr durr Baby Boomers are dumb.
Born on the tail of WW2 then drafted into 'Nam (for the yanks).
Pretty sure every child becoming a special snowflake wasn't on peoples minds back then.
Look at the kids of today, grew up with an abundance of technology and pampering and what do they do with it; Play fortnight and become trans-pan liberal majors who can't survive without their smartphones instructing them through anything requiring a skill set.

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>>22393
Meanwhile my mom took Latin, not to mention Algebra, in high school, and she was born in the 1920s.

Boy those old people sure are dumb. Hurr

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>>22393
I suspect where you received your education plays an important role in whether you were taught algebra in junior high or high school.

For instance, southern US states have been systematically underfunding their public educational system for well over 50 years, which causes them to not cover subjects that are common everywhere else, like algebra, or that y'all isn't a proper English contraction.

>>195433
>Algebra, in high school
Nigga, I learned Algebra in middle school. And that was in the stupid retard tract of my school. I'm not saying old people are retarded though, just you.

>>22398
You waited until middle school? I guess you really were in the stupid retard tract.

I was bumped ahead three grades in english and two grades in math so I took Algebra while I was in elementary school.

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>>22399
>I was bumped ahead three grades in english and two grades in math so I took Algebra while I was in elementary school.
I remember that class, it was just between recess, and lunch.

>>22393
Never said boomers are dumb. But sonce you wanna go that "lazy liberal route" urban myth route, lets talk about how you all the drugs and sex your generation did in the name of "peace and love", spat on Vietnam veterans, having babies out of wedlock, and then you all started freaking about kids doing stuff themselves so you introduce DARE and "le stranger danger." You were born in a time when people could drop out of school and work in factories and make good money. Meanwhile, people in college nowadays doing part-time work cannot even afford a house.

You all act like you were born in the Great Depression. You werent. You lived in an Edenic era.

>>22392
They're not really stupid, more ignorant and self-righteous. They like to whine about zoomers having smartphones and video games, yet they themselves indulge on the same shit. Most of their science knowledge is mainly conspiracy theories or conservative talking poimts. When I start talking about simple science or popular music history, they all say "Dude, you're fucking smart". No, I'm not.


They're also big junkies, even worse than the hippies were. They think that acid and other psychedelic drugs are a-OK, but teenagers playing video games is demonic.

And lastly, their obnoxious nostalgia. They go menstrual over zoomers not knowing Nirvana yet most don't know any classic rock band that's not hard rock. They think grunge is cool but sneer at dubstep, they sag their pants and wear baggy clothes, yet they whine about kids wearing skin-tight clothes.

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>>22403
>drop out of school and work in factories and make good money
If this is your aspiration in life, please go ahead and do that.

>in college nowadays doing part-time work cannot even afford a house
You want to pay for college and a house? Ambitious for a teenager.

>DARE and "le stranger danger."
DARE taught you how to use drugs, show some gratitude.
Also, I have some candy for you, please step into my van.
Your father sent me.
It's okay.

>>22405
Haha very funny, Xennial/boomer.
Spare me the paternalism.

>>22406
>Spare me the paternalism.
DID YOU JUST ASSUME MY GENDER!

>>22406
When you act like a spoiled brat and repeat a bunch of readily disproved lies like Trump having a tweet attack, it's hard not to get a little paternalistic.

If you don't want to get treated like a child, try not acting like one.

>>22408
You're the one going menstrual over assumptions.

>>22406
>paternalism
No, that was patronization.

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>>22411
>menstrual
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

>>22405
There are no more good factory jobs. You boomer faggots outsources most of them, and then killed the unions for the rest. There are literally zero jobs outside the government and sometimes teachers that have benefits anymore. Kids nowadays will work 60-hr weeks in jobs harder than anything you did in your nightmares, get no medical/dental, no 401k, and when they're your age social security will have collapsed so all the money they paid into it will poof away to nothing. They were work UNTIL THEY DIE, while your generation lives out its golden years gallivanting across the country on a perpetual vacation in your motherfucking motor homes, paid for by your pensions and the government.

It's not the same situation, and it never was. You were handed everything you wanted and needed in life, and only had to show a TINY AMOUNT of effort in your job to attain it. That's the real "participation trophy", ain't it?

>>22418
You want a fucking nightmare?

My last year of university I took full time classes while working full time (partly paying my own way; partly student loans) and taking additional online classes. I did two years of school in one because I'd been on academic suspension for third year. I graduated, and then I left the country.

Now my life consists mostly of riding a bicycle over ten hours a week to jobs in over twenty locations around town, six days a week--sometimes seven. Each job takes 15~120 minutes (most are 60 minutes); each commute takes 5~105 minutes (most are 30 minutes). The bicycle I ride is a piece of shit a friend got off a neighbor who was going to throw it out and gave to me after my previous bicycle was stolen--one of three stolen from me in the past decade. There are many steep hills in this town--I get great exercise. The job offers no benefits: no bonuses, no insurance, nothing, but at least I get to put my degree to work. I get paid in cash, $20~70 an hour (mostly $20~30); and I save absolutely nothing.

Last year the government forced me into a pension system I may never be able to claim benefits from and demanded three year's payment up front (threatening to dock my salary). I talked them into letting me pay it over a year and I will pay monthly until I retire, should that ever happen. See, pensions are not free money--they are you own money, put into a government holding, painfully, over a long time, in the hope the government doesn't fuck you out of it when the time comes that you need it. People in my generation generally do not retire just to relax unless they are rich--most of them only retire when they are too physically and mentally worn out to do anything other than take pills and feel their joints ache while their brains rapidly deteriorate.

Every year I have to apply for a work visa to stay in the country for another year, which I have done for the past thirteen years, and every year I'm reminded that approval is not guaranteed and refusals will not be explained and cannot be appealed. I have consistently applied for a longer term, and consistently been awarded only one year with no explanation.

I also pay a residency tax, income tax, national health insurance and bills totaling about $700 a month.

I spend around $6000 a year to help my fiance with her college tuition. We can't (as a matter of law) take any loans here and neither of our families have any money. She also works two part-time jobs to pay the other half. I spend another $2000 or so a year on trips to see either her family or mine (we are from different countries but live in neither of them).

One of these days I'm going to have to buy her a proper engagement ring, pay off her family for the marriage (still a thing in their culture), and have an international wedding. It's not going to cost a fortune; it's going to cost two fortunes--and then if we are really lucky we might get to spend every dime we ever make after that raising some kids.

The boomers were my grandparents--your great grandparents. This word does not mean "annoying person who is possibly older than me". These nicknames for generations are stupid anyway--my generation has been renamed half a dozen times. Seriously, beat yourself to death with a dictionary--if you can't do that then at least cut off your balls (you don't use them anyway) so future generations will not be afflicted with your weakness.

Wow, my 5 year old post has been resurrected and hijacked by millennial platitudes. I'm about as proud as a dead beat dad who finds out his son became the President of Monsanto's Roundup division. Anybody else still worried about the total failure of the American education system? Who's got time for that when you can't pay your bills and the Government is telling us to our face to go
fuck ourselves?

I love this place...

Duty now for the future

>>22420
Devolution is real.

>>22422
And they don't know how to change a tire, much less a spark plug.

>>22423
There will come a dystopian future where no one alive understands the technology left to them. They will cease to innovate. When things break down, there will be no one who can repair them. Then, while they roll on the ground and cry helplessly about how all their problems are the fault of their forebears, they will starve and die like they deserve.

>>22422
Idiocracy is real.

>>22423
Again with the age-old folk myths?

Even though current year youths still mods their own bikes and cars?

>>22426
The people I didn't bother to teach anything of substance to didn't magically learn how to do things! Damned millennials!

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>>22426
You'll need to tell that to the line of 20-somethings who didn't understand how I managed to push start my car after the starter died. Half of them fell over when I jumped in and popped the clutch, the other half stood there with their jaws open.

And when I asked if any of them could help me push start it they looked at me like I was crazy and not a single one lent a hand.

But yeah, I'm sure because a minority know how to do something that means it's the rule for the entire group. You need to learn how to measure outliers so you don't mistake them for the norm.

>>22427
>The people I didn't bother to teach anything of substance to didn't magically learn how to do things!
The people who aren't my parents won't teach me anything of substance for free! Let me jump on twitter and facebook and tumblr and raeg about how people older than me, who I'll call boomers because I can't tell how old anyone is, suck!

You're not my kid. I don't need to teach you shit. If you want to get mad at someone, get mad at those shitstains masquerading as your parents.

>>19817
There is also the rare few that don't give a shit and just spew shit on tests like that. Like me, where I wrote out in ebonics and got a 7/10. :^)

>>22420
>Wow, my 5 year old post has been resurrected and hijacked by millennial platitudes.
Does this surprise you? It happens a lot, I've noticed. :^)
>>19817
>>22430
*Also,
>muh americans
It's not just America. Secondly, ignorance != lack of intelligence. desu~
But yes. In every high-civilization, there comes a time when men can no longer think of a "reason" to have children. Too comfortable, why have children when you have all that you could ever want? Thus, dysgenic race-suicide occurs.

>>22428
>Half of them fell over when I jumped in and popped the clutch, the other half stood there with their jaws open.
I'll take "shit that definitely never happened" for $200, Alex.

As a matter of plain reality, most vehicles that are less than 20 years old are automatic transmission. Few vehicles older than that are still functioning. Ergo, BIG FUCKING SURPRISE, manual transmission vehicles are not very common anymore, so most people don't know what to do with them. This applies to people of ALL age groups! My mother can't drive manual, either and she's almost 60. Pretty sure at least one of my cousins can't. At this point, you're basically saying that it's some dark tragedy that nobody knows how to use a slide-rule anymore. Maybe if you're chosen a "skill" that's actually relevant for the average person, you might have had a point. But you didn't, and instead you come across like a retard laughing at the poor little kids who don't know what a rotary telephone is.

BTW, before you start on a ranting ad hominem attack as if my being a hypocrite somehow would lessen your own idiocy, I own a manual. Mostly because I'm poor as shit due to the economy being fucked due to your generation's waste and corruption.

>>22440
>As a matter of plain reality, most vehicles that are less than 20 years old are automatic transmission. Few vehicles older than that are still functioning. Ergo, BIG FUCKING SURPRISE, manual transmission vehicles are not very common anymore, so most people don't know what to do with them.
I'll take "Lives in a town of fat lazy uncoordinated fucks" for $200 please Bill.

For curiosities sake I just opened a random used car sale site:
Automatic(86,747)
Manual(159,945)

The only way I could see more Automatics than manuals was by excluding everything over 2 years. old. I don't know where you live but here automatics are considered a joke. If you don't drive a manual you better have a good reason.

>>22428

"You dont know manual transmission? Why are you breathing?"
T. Self-righteous Gen Xer who thinks manual transmission is a test of manhood.


But for reals though, if you're the type of person to go apeshit over kids not knowing pop culture or tech from 20+ years ago you are a snowflake.
Especially since you would not be familiar with technology or pop culture from your grandparent's era.


>>22432
Not having children is not laziness. You think people have children because they planned on it? Nope.
"Dysgenic race suicide bc muh comfort" my ass.
But then again, you must be one of those people who think popping out babies is the only way to ensure survival bc "muh race."

>>22442
I guess you missed the part where they were standing around waiting for a ride because they didn't know how to drive.

Go take another drag on your e-cig and die from a preventable disease.

>>22444
No u

>>22442
If all his other comments didn't clue me in that he was a knob, the breeder propaganda sure did.

>>22450
Davespiracy where have you been?

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>>22454
I'm not Davespiracy, dude. Now, be quiet or you'll summon him.

>>22441
Just for shits and giggles, I tried googling some car sites. All of them had vastly more automatic vehicles than manual. I don't know how many pages you had to go to cherry-pick one that was the opposite, but I suspect it was a lot.

Aside from that, what the fuck are you even on about? The fattest, laziest, stupidest people I know drive manual because they are all rednecks, or the European/British versions thereof. What's the matter? Got cut off by one too many idiots driving a Tesla? Get the fuck over yourself.


And as for your precious white race, it's dying out. Will be gone completely in a few centuries, along with all the others. At least assuming this doesn't correlate with complete human extinction, at the very least everything will be so mixed up as to not nearly resemble anything now. And you know what? Nobody will give a shit.

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Why do boomers love cars so much? They're pollution spewing noise machines that create a dependency that we don't actually need to have, and were the catalyst in our growing lack of community

Fuck cars

>>22463
Same reason they love booze and cigarettes and guns, fad diets and celebrities and bad summer movies, treating their pets like babies and their babies like grand accomplishments.

Because they were told to, and they obeyed. See, in their generation, all you had to do was toe the line and you were rewarded with a life of fortune and ease. That doesn't work anymore.

>>22456
>Just for shits and giggles, I tried googling some car sites. All of them had vastly more automatic vehicles than manual. I don't know how many pages you had to go to cherry-pick one that was the opposite, but I suspect it was a lot.
As implied, it was the first one I opened. Given I posted 40 minutes after your claim it stands to reason I wasn't pissing around cherry picking results.

You however, took 3 weeks off to heal that burning butt-hurt. If anyone's working at the fabrication stations, it's you. You certainly had time and opportunity.

Ever wondered why you can drive automatic on a manual license but not the inverse? Hint: It's not the boomer generation holding you back, it's your own fat congested, mis-firing, badly coordinating neurons.

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Why do you fucks care so much about transmission? It's just a goddamn car

>>22469
Same reason alot of these 30-something manchildren online throw a temper tantrum over their precious 1980s/90s tech and alt rock is not king anymore. Because they want to be relevant

>>22467
>I have no life outside this board so I post very quickly and therefore I am better than you.
Cool story, bro.

In case your reading comprehension is as bad as I suspect it is, let me reiterate by direct quotation:
>before you start on a ranting ad hominem attack as if my being a hypocrite somehow would lessen your own idiocy, I own a manual

No why don't you go back to your room and think up a better argument.

>>22472
>Cool story, bro.
Cool as cucumber.

>before you start on a ranting ad hominem attack as if my being a hypocrite somehow would lessen your own idiocy, I own a manual
I just realised, you're a cuck. You're literally cuckolding your neighbours car. Pretty sure there's a biblical sin in there.

>Mostly because I'm poor as shit due to the economy being fucked due to your generation's waste and corruption.
Just keep blaming others for your problems cuck.

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>>22471
>30-something manchildren
>80s/90s tech
>alt rock
1980 was 30 years ago?

Were these mythical 30 year olds capable of demanding that they hear nothing but alt rock at 6 months of age?

>>22474
>cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck
So you're actually a fourteen-year-old LARPing as a Boomer. I have to ask WHY?

>>22478
Maybe I'm a boomer larping as a kid. You don't know.

Then again, you don't know a lot so I suppose it's of no consequence either way.

>>22474
You said cuck so many times. You are cringe incarnate.

>>22479
>Oh yeah? Well you're STOOPID!
Outstanding argument you've got there, Slim.

>>22481
What argument? It was a statement.

>>22479
I'm betting you're actually a Gen Xer.

>>22484
I'm betting you're having conversations with a dozen people but are too busy gazing at your own navel to realize it

>>22485
You know what you're right. But you know what?
I probably may not be the same person you were responding to. So joke's on you pal.

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I rest my case

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>>22488
>>358512
Your plans read like you got them from a paperback you bought with an Archie Comic collection, try not being an absolute fool of narrative consequence due to Dwight Clyb envy.

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>>22490
You're a curious one, you've read every post I made, you've understood under 25% of the content outside your sysiphysian contextual bubble. Sure you could, but how has threatening his loved ones *increased* the efficacy of you finger twiddling plans. Or do your superiors know about that unstable superego of yours, wabbit?

(Your tactics have earned you the name "Milhouse")

This isn't self control I'm exhibiting to your fellow spook vermin, itself a warning.

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>>22490
>>22491
>880fd4
LURK MOAR, CANCER

>>19817
The real problem is asking a stupid question like Planet of the Apes. Why in the world would they be expected to watch some random ass movie? Since when was that mandatory viewing? The only possible way to make up for such a dumb question is glimmer points where they're rewarded for BS'ing the dumb question. Why are we surprised that a dumb problem warrants a dumb solution?

>>22492
That's a fucking awful picture, bro. Holy shit, I hope you're the type that never leaves the house.

>>23224
That's the whole point of the post. Ask some vague philosophical question and if the kids dont get it "theyre dumb". All of adult intelligence is politics and philosophy. If you try to talk to working-class adults about natural science, youre mostly left up the creek without a paddle.

>>23362

What's funny is that philosophers were, by and large, the original NEETs and fedora tippers.

>>23363
Arguably, but the classical philosophers deduced through their observations and interpretations of the real world. The modern tipper by contrast has relatively little experience with the outside world and base their "philosophy" on cherry-picked articles that may quite easily have little to no validity.

>>23371
It depends. The ones that used physical science lasted. What Im saying is that adults in general dont care about physicality. All they care about is their mumbo-jumbo world of abstraction and metaphors.
Its disheartening to see the current era of adults spitting in the face science because it doesnt coddle their fantasies of racial homogeneity, alpha malehood or theocracy.

>>23372

>because it doesnt coddle their fantasies of racial homogeneity, alpha malehood or theocracy.

You know what else doesn't coddle their fantasies? The following facts:

1. They're all mutts, so racial homogeneity isn't even possible to begin with. By their own goofy standards, literally none of them are white.

2. They try way too hard to seem alpha and it only comes off as cringy, beta self-hate. This stems from the fact their fathers were either deadbeats or might as well have been deadbeats. You only feel sorry for these sad sacks of shit.

3. Every single religion past, present and future would condemn them for being total degenerates who, let's be honest, are just mad jealous that the degens with power and fame don't let 'em join in their parties. Reminds me of the 'tards who try to preach about Jesus on /pol/.

Simply put, this is what happens when a mommy and daddy don't love each other like they should, take out all their frustrations on their kids, and then leave it to the taxpayers to pay the price (Marc Lepine, Roger Troy, etc, etc).

>>19818
I don't think that's true, in older generations children had to use their imaginations more to pass the time and actually got to talk to each other outside of school and share ideas. Kids today pretty much just zone out to youtube or whatever.

>>23394
Oh boy another one if these tech straw men. Kids still socialize and have imagination. It's just that kids don't have as much freedom to really have free play. Everything is only about grades and politics.

>>23395
To add, childhood is overrated anyways. It may have been a great experience for Westerners back in the 60s and 70s, but for anyone born after 1984, they never stood a chance. Cannot go anywhere by yourself, not allowed to have a job, forced to attend school with bullies whom you cannot fight against because "zero-tolerance". Oh and dating? Girls only look at money. And parents discourage you from dating to begin with. Yet adults have the fucking nerve to tell kids to enjoy their childhood. They don't teach kids any technical skills, but shove shitty motivational quotes down your throat. All things one should've learned in life is indirectly taught in the early twenties. Things like finance, dating, cars. Teenagers are "too young" to need it right?
Abolishing teens from the workforce was the biggest mistake ever.

>>19818
Only because adults make them that way by actively blocking them from the world. Then when said kids aren't familiar with "le old school" classics, said adults throw a temper tantrum accusing the younger generation of devolving. Adults in general only care about their own pop cultural era with no thought to what came before. Hence the retarded nostalgia epidemic we have. If Boomers had nostalgia bad, Millennials are getting it way worse.

>>23395
Sounds like you understand everything I'm saying but don't have the balls to recognize the upsetting conclusion.

>>23401
Nah. What you're saying makes no sense. You're the one getting all defensive about the good ol days

>>23405
I really don't have much to "defend", I'm only 22. I'm just going by the fact that the kids I've known both IRL and online seem to just zone out to youtube instead of trying to entertain themselves. We had some of this stuff when I was a kid but it wasn't all-encompassing like it is now, plus we only had one TV and one computer so I had a lot of time where I had to entertain myself. The fact that every kid has their own tablet makes a pretty big difference.

>>23407
We have fanfictions and DeviantArt. Yes kids may have their own tablet but they don't just merely consume. They make their own art and do their own research on what interests them.

>>23408
Those are not things to brag about, people are into that shit end up really fucked up. Doesn't matter anyway since that's a small minority, most kids really are just consumers. Have you ever played Among US? The average player is like 7 years old and has no idea what's going on, they just pick a random person and say "they are sus" and refuse to explain why if asked, because they can barely understand english.

>>23411
>Strawman

>>23411

No. Fanfictions aren't all IRL degenerates.
Also most games are just man children making up their own memes.
Again you're just conjuring up strawmen.

>>23412
you don't even know what that means lol

>>23414
>"Lol you a dumdum bc you do not agree with me."
Nice try, boy. Try harder

>>23413

It's funny how he says:

>Doesn't matter anyway since that's a small minority, most kids really are just consumers.

And yet every single cuckchanner and imageboardcel is a consoomer true and true. Seriously, every single rightoid site devolves into either cunnyposting or whining that they're not the target audience for Jewish (y'know, the irony) produced and directed media.

>>23396

>Only because adults make them that way by actively blocking them from the world. Then when said kids aren't familiar with "le old school" classics, said adults throw a temper tantrum accusing the younger generation of devolving.

Exhibit A: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/why-do-gen-z-and-millennials-not-engage-with-the-past-so-much.110144/