Oh yeah lots of people.

Got through the vast majority of schooling by listening to the teacher while sitting in the back of the room reading novels, graduated 10th in my class.

I can too!

It’s not a psychological theory, but a mainstream one. But it is absolute BS.

Please please please put him on the “No Fly” list so he’ll have to take the bus from Texas to DC like a common armadillo...

It’s psychologically BS, but you can use other’s belief in it. I beta my way out of all sorts of things. Alpha dudes love to show the beta males how big and strong and knowledgeable they are. “Do these hamburgers look done to you?” will get you out of running the grill. “I don’t think I can get that stump out of the…

their actions only tell us how undergraduates react to being placed in a long form theatrical improv exercise.

Ok, did *anyone* need confirmation about that alpha/beta BS?

“Most of the game also requires an internet connection to play, even in single-player, supposedly to help cut down on cheating.”

13.) People just absolutely LOVE to see information in slideshow format.

Yep I play video games to escape real life.

But this game is extremely realistic in that I’m driving around in a Honda Civic and I can only dream about driving the nice cars.

12 Common ‘Laws’ of Psychology That Are Bullshit

1.) The ‘alpha’ and ‘beta’ theory
2.) Smiling will make you happier
3.) The “marshmallow test” and delayed gratification
4.) Left brain versus right brain theory
5.) Myers-Briggs personality types
6.) The Stanford prison experiment
7.) Neuro-linguistic programming
8.) Playing…

Except that insurance companies don’t lose money, they just pass the cost on to policy holders by raising rates. If you screw insurance companies, you’re really just screwing every other insured driver. Why should our rates go up because an idiot got his RZR stuck?

“The owner of the RZR told an investigator that he used his friend’s AAA membership to cover the cost of the recovery, court documents said.”

I’ve said multiple times around here that I bet the books are done and the hold up is despite the claims of all this other “cool shit” in the books.  It’s all fluff and the series ends exactly like the show did and GRR knows how hated that was. He’s been trying years to come up with a better ending but the muse is…

“You mean I get to write about dragons and ice zombies and no one is going to yell at me and you’ll pay me shitloads up front? I’m in!” - GRRM when the pitch was made.

The thing that bothered me about that Times piece, as well as coverage here, and which anybody who’s ever loaded a truck can tell you, is that there are *SOME* reasons to idle. Namely, if you use an electric lift on a box truck with the motor off, specifically an older truck, you will drain the battery before you’ve…

You’d think of all the places in the world New York would have a state-of-the-art traffic violation system

I don’t even grok how someone could not see that crypto has zero real base guaranteeing its value. Crypto currencies are only kept afloat through the juxtaposition of faith and criminality.

The broad misconceptions about crypto help fuel their popularity among greedy, inept speculators. It’s like a flock of dollar-eyed sheep being led by a handful of intelligent sociopathic shepherds. One of my coworkers, a crypto fanboy, is always spouting off that the US dollar is inferior to crypto because since being…