The thread where you couldn't be bothered posting the article

[macdoc]

Damn ....I feel inferior....


She is 12, she doesn't look 12, she is graduating U of Ottawa in bio-medical science .....at twelve. ....and I thought my daughter graduating at 16 from the same uni special....

Plus this girl plays the violin .....and accepted into U of O at 9!!!! .sigh
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federa ... story.html

[Svartalf]

Just think what kind of hell she must be living at home, if she learns to play the violin and was stuffed with enough learning to graduate high school at 9 ... all woork and no time to play...

[macdoc]

would you want to play dolls with 9 year old girls when you are as smart as her ....don't think so.

[Svartalf]

mmmh, maybe not, but whatever her leisure activities of choice, I doubt she had much occasion to indulge in them. (unless it's the violin, which her 'rents obviously encouraged)

[macdoc]

Ummmm single mom ....read the article.
I'd suggest she needed no haranguing to learn ....she needed and got the challenges required to fully develop her abilities as a prodigy.

Mozart by the age of 5 could read and write music, and he would entertain people with his talents on the keyboard. By the age of 6 he was writing his first compositions.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wo ... eus-Mozart

They iz way different from us normal mortals.

[Brian Peacock]

If young kids want to do academic stuff, let em. If they want to play with dolls, let em do that. If you're a parent, just don't be Mozart's or Micheal Jackson's dad.

[rasetsu]

When Americans are asked to check a box indicating their religious affiliation, 28% now check 'none.'

A new study from Pew Research finds that the religiously unaffiliated – a group comprised of atheists, agnostic and those who say their religion is "nothing in particular" – is now the largest cohort in the U.S. They're more prevalent among American adults than Catholics (23%) or evangelical Protestants (24%).

Back in 2007, Nones made up just 16% of Americans, but Pew's new survey of more than 3,300 U.S. adults shows that number has now risen dramatically.

[Brian Peacock]

Go you non-believers go!

[JimC]

Clearly satan is at work in America. Trump will sort them out - all non-Christians/atheists/weirdos to the re-education camps!

[rasetsu]

David Metcalf’s last act in life was an attempt to send a message — that years as a Navy SEAL had left his brain so damaged that he could barely recognize himself.

He died by suicide in his garage in North Carolina in 2019, after nearly 20 years in the Navy. But just before he died, he arranged a stack of books about brain injury by his side, and taped a note to the door that read, in part, “Gaps in memory, failing recognition, mood swings, headaches, impulsiveness, fatigue, anxiety, and paranoia were not who I was, but have become who I am. Each is worsening.”

Then he shot himself in the heart, preserving his brain to be analyzed by a state-of-the-art Defense Department laboratory in Maryland.

The lab found an unusual pattern of damage seen only in people exposed repeatedly to blast waves.

The vast majority of blast exposure for Navy SEALs comes from firing their own weapons, not from enemy action. The damage pattern suggested that years of training intended to make SEALs exceptional was leaving some barely able to function.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/us/n ... icide.html

[Brian Peacock]

Jeez.

[JimC]

Bang bang, I'm fucked...

[Brian Peacock]

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