Pumpkin Person rating: 8/10
When I was a toddler one of my favorite books that my mother would read to me was Lamont the Lonely Monster, about a monster that was very sad because no one would be his friend. As an innocent four-year-old I would say “I’ll be your friend Lamont”.
Perhaps writer and director Jacob Chase was also inspired by that book because his new movie Come Play is about a children’s book about “Larry” the lonely, monster. In the story Larry is made fun of because he is different, being super tall, thin and pale, and Larry is just looking for a friend. In the film an autistic child named Oliver (who also has no friends) discovers the story on his ipad.
But things take a terrifying turn when Larry actually comes to visit Oliver.
I watched this over the weekend and it’s one of the best horror movies I have ever seen. The idea of turning the lonely monster storybook so many of us grew up with into something sinister was brilliant, and the film’s ending is poignant. Watch preview below:
Pumpkin Person 
So according to this DNA test I should have a “Significantly above-average overall cognitive ability. They looked at 47 SNPs and determined this. So Pill and Mug can never torment me again.
pp wrote a blog post a while back about my speculations on what would happen if an embryo were “optimized” for intelligence by giving them all the best SNPs
Although if I were actually in a position to customize an embryo like that, I wouldn’t stop at IQ. I would also make sure their loadout contained genes for low Alzheimer’s risk, higher muscle performance (especially for sprinting), HIV resistance, lower susceptibility to neurotic disorders, better heart health… the works. Even if the best source is one study on SNPedia.
And for conserv syndrome, sociopathy and wokism???
And for intellectual honesty, curiosity; humility… creativity??
It’s not just IQ, little boy
Would be simple, easier and great if it was
Another problem is that
Most of problem are caused by human diversity or the way human society is dis organized???
Hbdeers are extremely ignorant about socioeconomic and historical issues consciously or not about that probably because it’s a very efficient way to avoid the critique of capitalism and conservism…
Oh Ganzir I already have that. I’m already predisposed to high-level muscle performance, moderately low Alzheimer’s risk, low chances of neuroses, and most important of all, a low predisposition for autism.
The ones that stand out to me are that I’m very high in genetic openness, very high in risk-taking, very high in depression and loneliness, and low in resilience. So that must mean my genes are clustering around certain traits and some were being selected in my family over generations.
unlike BLM…
the AIDS actvists…
REALLY DID BRING EFFECTIVE TREATMENTS FORWARD IN TIME. AND SAVED LIVES.
glaser died in 1994, just before effective treatments became available.
^^^guy in the above picture is the brother of barclays ceo and jeffrey epstein friend jes staley.
what a world…what a world…
66% on rt audience. Meaning its a decent film but no more.
Theyve been releasing a lot of DLC for a lot of my games recently. So I’m basically playing stuff I was playing a year ago. Gears 5, Destiny 2, Age of Empires, Doom Eternal, etc.
The recent Doom DLC – The Ancient Gods Part 1. That is a teak tough FPS experience. Its refreshing because most FPS games these days are pretty easy.
My genes, on a physical level, predispose me to being short (check), fat (check), looking a lot younger than my age (check), and many more.
Its crazy how many genes I have that are extreme in one direction or the other like I mentioned. The one that I care about the most is my musical-ability, which is very high due to one SNP in the UTU gene only being homozygous recessive in less than 15% of most populations. I possess it however and it fulfills me.
How to detect lower self esteem??
Here there is a good example.
Pumpkin, is VIQ PIQ discrepancy more of a factor of poverty or education. Hispanics have on average 13 years of education, but have a 3 point viq piq gap. However, you average HS grad non college goer has a 1 point viq piq discrepancy in favor of viq.
Probably because Hispanics speak less English and had more exposure to ice age.
But then what explains why poorer whites would have lower VIQs? Has there been research done on this?
Poverty is related to low education which is both a cause and an effect of poor verbal skills.
Yes, but poorer whites on average still have a high school education, and for people with high school education and no college, there is essentially no difference between PIQ and VIQ according to a WAIS IV book.
WAIS-IV doesn’t give PIQ
High school dropouts score P > V or PR > VC iirc. College grads score the opposite iirc.
not, PIQ, PRI. Even between the PRI and VCI the same discrepancy is found.
is that the case on average, with people who graduated high school but didn’t go to college
The cover of that book piques my interest. I could use some “lift and look surprises” on a regular basis.