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On 2026-05-23, songbird wrote:

it's not rocket science.

Why choose this occupation as being the most mentally arduous?

I've worked with 'rocket scientists', and they are nothing special.

Dealing with people from all cultures & religions is trickier.

For example, the US President should be real smart by now.
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On 2026-05-24, Mike Duffy <mxduffy@bell.net> wrote:

On 2026-05-23, songbird wrote:

it's not rocket science.

Why choose this occupation as being the most mentally arduous?

I've worked with 'rocket scientists', and they are nothing special.

They're much like other engineers. Some are brilliant. Others
are... not.

Some of the smartest PhD's I've met were in image processing.
Writing algorithms to find a tank under a camo net, and stuff
like that. (I'd provide other examples, but then I'd have
to kill you. One time my husband was talking about what
he was going out in the field to measure, and I said, "Could
you use that to find land mines?" He said, "Don't tell anybody
else that. I could get in trouble." I guess it's declassified
now, since I found some hits on google.)

Dealing with people from all cultures & religions is trickier.

It's a skill. People have different skills. Some folks are
scared white by the Pythagorean Theorem.

For example, the US President should be real smart by now.

What I hear you saying is that we should have elected a smarter
man to be our president.
--
Cindy Hamilton
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On Sun, 24 May 2026 16:36:39 -0000 (UTC)
Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com> wrote:

For example, the US President should be real smart by now.

What I hear you saying is that we should have elected a smarter
man to be our president.

--

You edit reality to fit your own biases, relentlessly.

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On 2026-05-24 12:36 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2026-05-24, Mike Duffy <mxduffy@bell.net> wrote:

On 2026-05-23, songbird wrote:

it's not rocket science.

Why choose this occupation as being the most mentally arduous?

I've worked with 'rocket scientists', and they are nothing special.

They're much like other engineers. Some are brilliant. Others
are... not.

Some of the smartest PhD's I've met were in image processing.
Writing algorithms to find a tank under a camo net, and stuff
like that. (I'd provide other examples, but then I'd have
to kill you. One time my husband was talking about what
he was going out in the field to measure, and I said, "Could
you use that to find land mines?" He said, "Don't tell anybody
else that. I could get in trouble." I guess it's declassified
now, since I found some hits on google.)

In some cases engineering seems to be a anal retentive personality
disorder. My late BIL certainly fit the bill. They spend an inordinate
amount of time planning and little time actually doing. I once got
sucked into helping him with a roofing repair job. He had bought some ventilation caps to run along the peak of his chalet.

He had the materials and the instructions but then he had to sit down
and plan the procedure including the list of tools even though he
already had them all laid out in the workshop in his garage. He even
had to put the ladder on the list. We had arrived there Friday night
and I had agreed to help and he went out for the material. So were would
have been ready Saturday afternoon. It should have been a 2-3 hr job. He finally got started at 2 9 pm. We had told him the day before we had to
leave by 3 pm Sunday. I was all set to use a spade to pop up the
shingle caps cut back the top shingles and use the power saw to cut off
the top inch of the plywood sheath and then nail or screw the metal cap
in place. Nope. It all had to be measured precisely. By that point I
had to go. My wife, his sister, had work to do to prepare for her
classes the next morning. He was upset with me for abandoning him on
the job I had offered to help with.

He used to get upset with grocery stores for moving their stock around because it messed up his organized shopping trip. He was such a
stickler for organization that he had close to scale maps of the floor
plans of the three grocery stores in town and marked with the locations
of the products. We would peruse the weekly flyers and make his list so
that he could stop at each of the three stores to take advantage of the
best prices and to figure out the order to pick up those items with the
best prices at each store. This would be a 3-4 hour job to map out his shopping list.

He was complaining about his doctor writing nasty comments on letters to
him. He was incensed that the doctor wrote that he was prone to
compulsive writing notes in tiny print. He showed me the doctors letter
and there on the letter were a half dozen notes BiL had written in very
tiny print.

Dealing with people from all cultures & religions is trickier.

It's a skill. People have different skills. Some folks are
scared white by the Pythagorean Theorem.

For example, the US President should be real smart by now.

What I hear you saying is that we should have elected a smarter
man to be our president.

LOL You would be hard pressed to find a stupider man for president. Just
this morning I was thinking about George Washington allegedly saying "I
cannot tell a lie". This guy seems incapable of telling the truth.


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On Sun, 24 May 2026 13:37:53 -0400
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

For example, the US President should be real smart by now.

What I hear you saying is that we should have elected a smarter
man to be our president.

LOL You would be hard pressed to find a stupider man for president.

You would be hard pressed to go even a few days without taking cheap
shots at the USA, you insignificant old tundra-hopping serf of the royal reptiles.


Quora

What is a realistic IQ score for President Donald Trump? My Mensa
co-members and I estimate that it's likely in the 160-180 range.

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On Sun, 24 May 2026 13:37:53 -0400, Dave Smith
<adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2026-05-24 12:36 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2026-05-24, Mike Duffy <mxduffy@bell.net> wrote:

On 2026-05-23, songbird wrote:

it's not rocket science.

Why choose this occupation as being the most mentally arduous?

I've worked with 'rocket scientists', and they are nothing special.

They're much like other engineers. Some are brilliant. Others
are... not.

Some of the smartest PhD's I've met were in image processing.
Writing algorithms to find a tank under a camo net, and stuff
like that. (I'd provide other examples, but then I'd have
to kill you. One time my husband was talking about what
he was going out in the field to measure, and I said, "Could
you use that to find land mines?" He said, "Don't tell anybody
else that. I could get in trouble." I guess it's declassified
now, since I found some hits on google.)

In some cases engineering seems to be a anal retentive personality
disorder. My late BIL certainly fit the bill.

Dave's favourite hobby: putting down family members.
--
Bruce
<https://i.ibb.co/WN88KZm7/kim.jpg>
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On Mon, 25 May 2026 04:08:32 +1000
restif@invalid.invalid wrote:

On Sun, 24 May 2026 13:37:53 -0400, Dave Smith
<adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2026-05-24 12:36 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2026-05-24, Mike Duffy <mxduffy@bell.net> wrote:

On 2026-05-23, songbird wrote:

it's not rocket science.

Why choose this occupation as being the most mentally arduous?

I've worked with 'rocket scientists', and they are nothing
special.

They're much like other engineers. Some are brilliant. Others
are... not.

Some of the smartest PhD's I've met were in image processing.
Writing algorithms to find a tank under a camo net, and stuff
like that. (I'd provide other examples, but then I'd have
to kill you. One time my husband was talking about what
he was going out in the field to measure, and I said, "Could
you use that to find land mines?" He said, "Don't tell anybody
else that. I could get in trouble." I guess it's declassified
now, since I found some hits on google.)

In some cases engineering seems to be a anal retentive personality >disorder. My late BIL certainly fit the bill.

Dave's favourite hobby: putting down family members.

Like Megatron (the tolerant wife)...

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On 2026-05-24, Dave Smith wrote:

It should have been a 2-3 hr job.

I got you beat there, Dave. I did a 6 week job with my Dad.

That included squatters that had moved in before we got there.
Followed by lawyers & police &c.

Just this morning I was thinking about George Washington
allegedly saying "I cannot tell a lie".

This guy seems incapable of telling the truth.

Dave, (for not the first time) he is NOT lying.

When you ask him about something he thinks he is
so smart that his first answer is the truth.

He believes stuff as fast as he can imagine it using
his snake-like mental acuity and omniscient alacrity.


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Mike Duffy <mxduffy@bell.net> wrote:

On 2026-05-23, songbird wrote:

it's not rocket science.

Why choose this occupation as being the most mentally arduous?

I've worked with 'rocket scientists', and they are nothing special.

Dealing with people from all cultures & religions is trickier.

For example, the US President should be real smart by now.

It’s an archaic expression. Like, “Not for all the tea in China.”
--
—Bryan

For your safety and protection, this sig. has been thoroughly tested on laboratory animals.

“Most of the food described here is nauseating.
We’re just too courteous to say so.”
—Cindy Hamilton
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On 2026-05-24 4:26 p.m., Mike Duffy wrote:

On 2026-05-24, Dave Smith wrote:

It should have been a 2-3 hr job.

I got you beat there, Dave. I did a 6 week job with my Dad.

That included squatters that had moved in before we got there.
Followed by lawyers & police &c.

Just this morning I was thinking about George Washington
allegedly saying "I cannot tell a lie".

This guy seems incapable of telling the truth.

Dave, (for not the first time) he is NOT lying.

When you ask him about something he thinks he is
so smart that his first answer is the truth.

He believes stuff as fast as he can imagine it using
his snake-like mental acuity and omniscient alacrity.

I understand that if he thinks it is true or if he thinks people will
believe him if he says it then it not a lie. In my world, when someone
says something that is not true it is a lie. This is a little different
from a deceitful liar who consciously makes up lies to pull the wool
over people's eyes. Whether they are deliberate deceitful intentional
lies, they are still lies.

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On Sun, 24 May 2026 18:41:25 -0400
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2026-05-24 4:26 p.m., Mike Duffy wrote:

On 2026-05-24, Dave Smith wrote:

It should have been a 2-3 hr job.

I got you beat there, Dave. I did a 6 week job with my Dad.

That included squatters that had moved in before we got there.
Followed by lawyers & police &c.

Just this morning I was thinking about George Washington
allegedly saying "I cannot tell a lie".

This guy seems incapable of telling the truth.

Dave, (for not the first time) he is NOT lying.

When you ask him about something he thinks he is
so smart that his first answer is the truth.

He believes stuff as fast as he can imagine it using
his snake-like mental acuity and omniscient alacrity.

I understand that if he thinks it is true or if he thinks people will believe him if he says it then it not a lie. In my world, when
someone says something that is not true it is a lie.

Just bitch, bitch, bitch at Trump - you great Guts Griping
canuckleheaded hypocrite.

Yet you never gave Turdumb as much as a raised eyebrow while he and the
Nazi Freeland looted your nation.

You fucking coward.

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restif@invalid.invalid posted:

On Sun, 24 May 2026 13:37:53 -0400, Dave Smith
<adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2026-05-24 12:36 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2026-05-24, Mike Duffy <mxduffy@bell.net> wrote:

On 2026-05-23, songbird wrote:

it's not rocket science.

Why choose this occupation as being the most mentally arduous?

I've worked with 'rocket scientists', and they are nothing special.

They're much like other engineers. Some are brilliant. Others
are... not.

Some of the smartest PhD's I've met were in image processing.
Writing algorithms to find a tank under a camo net, and stuff
like that. (I'd provide other examples, but then I'd have
to kill you. One time my husband was talking about what
he was going out in the field to measure, and I said, "Could
you use that to find land mines?" He said, "Don't tell anybody
else that. I could get in trouble." I guess it's declassified
now, since I found some hits on google.)

In some cases engineering seems to be a anal retentive personality >disorder. My late BIL certainly fit the bill.

Dave's favourite hobby: putting down family members.

That's a super Bozo no-no!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0j46wcYCViI





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On 2026-05-24, Dave Smith wrote:

In my world, when someone says something
that is not true it is a lie.

No. An unintentional untruth is NOT a lie, it is a 'mistake'.
Someone with an opposing opinion can call it a falsehood,
but to be called a lie, it MUST be deliberate.

This is a little different from a deceitful liar
who consciously makes up lies to pull the wool
over people's eyes.

Incorrect. It is *completely* different,
NOT a 'little'. Deliberate untruths are lies.

Whether they are deliberate deceitful
intentional lies, they are still lies.

I assume that you mistyped the above
by omitting 'or not' after 'whether',
otherwise your statement has invalid
syntax due to missing closure of an
open conditional clause.

When typed properly, it is then false,
decause for a statement to be lie,
it must be both false AND also known by
the speaker to be false.

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