# Do we have a thread for SlackerInc yet? Maybe we should **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461 "2018-12-02T20:21:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 56
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1103 "2020-10-15T20:44:42Z")
My best friend (jewish) and his same sex partner of many years have safely travelled through Turkey and Dubai, multiple times. Both are atheists. I doubt they have plans to visit Kabul, but I believe they are planning a trip to St. Petersburg. I don’t think any of those places are high on the list of the Gay Conde Nast edition. Yet, they had good things to say about each. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1104 "2020-10-15T20:46:44Z")
I guess you’re just thinkier than the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1105 "2020-10-15T20:54:55Z")
Like I said before, grammar Nazis love to appear as virtuous. Unfortunately that virtue belongs mostly to assholes that become bitches to Gaudere’s law. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1106 "2020-10-15T21:04:03Z")
Loose is similar to Slack… ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1107 "2020-10-15T21:06:18Z")
I guess I’ll spell out the obvious: @SlackerInc: if you were actually as intelligent as you claim, you would be able to convince other people of your intelligence. Intelligent people don’t need to argue their intelligence. You’d be able to just say things or do things that would demonstrate that intelligence. That’s clearly your goal, so why can’t you pull it off? The only rational interpretation is that you’re not as intelligent as you think. I normally wouldn’t bring up my ACT score, but it seems instructive here. It was higher than yours. And I’m sure there are posters whose scores are even higher than mine, as they seem better at the skills the ACT tests for. Many of us are used to being the smartest person in the room, or at least in the upper echelon. That’s likely true for you, too. But the cool thing about this board is that this is usually NOT the case here. You just aren’t going to be smarter than everyone around. Does that mean they’re always right? No. But it does mean that you shouldn’t be simply discarding the judgement of so many. Your stubbornness and refusal to back down is not an indication of strength, but weakness. It means you don’t allow inconvenient facts to change your views. Thus you hit a point where you stopped learning. You have shown at times the mental ability to understand things and reason through things, but then you so often seem to refuse to do so when it would mean accepting that you yourself might be flawed. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1108 "2020-10-15T21:17:31Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > > [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > > > Let’s not loose focus on the part where **SlackWit** > > When someone spells “lose” that way, they forfeit any right to make “-wit” cracks about anyone else. I mean, there are spelling mistakes and there are spelling mistakes. That’s one of the ones that immediately brands someone as a moron. Oh, shut up. Everyone has a tiny drunken gnome in their phone that makes such autocorrect errors common as dirt. I already consider you one of the most loathesoame posters on this board thanks to your disgusting, antiquated views on sexual assault, but my opinion gets lower and lower every time you open your mouth. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1109 "2020-10-15T21:17:51Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > As for vacationing in predominantly Muslim countries, maybe some of you have done that. But I suspect you were not young women backpacking alone. And i even more strongly suspect you weren’t an openly gay couple, or openly atheist. We all know you can’t go through the Muslim world freely expressing those identities. And if you cannot, why would I consider it a good place to visit? Oh good grief. I lived most of my adult life as an open atheist in the largest and fourth largest Muslim countries in the world. The only people who came even close to harassing me for religious reasons were Christians. I went all over the place no companion, much less a big burly man to protect me, and sometimes - gasp - with a little baby. Never once did I face a problem. Frankly, I felt much safer wandering around alone in Indonesia’s capital city than I would in America’s capital. I also knew a fair slug of openly gay people in Jakarta. Overall, it wasn’t a great place to be gay, but nor was it worse than certain US communities. And certainly it wasn’t anything like that nice Christian country Poland. ETA: Sorry, forgot this is the Pit. Slacker, you are a fucking idiot. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1110 "2020-10-15T21:18:04Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I normally wouldn’t bring up my ACT score, but it seems instructive here. It was higher than yours. Quick question - for you, was that your ACT score while still a kid at school, or your score on the same test (designed for college applicants) but taken as a middle-aged man? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1111 "2020-10-15T21:21:27Z")
**Me:** Muslims do you hate Slacker because he’s an atheist? **Muslims:** What? We hate him because he’s an insufferable prick … even in the original French! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1112 "2020-10-15T21:27:02Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Quick question - for you, was that your ACT score while still a kid at school I got a 32 at age 17. I also took it at age 13 for some weird gifted program thing and got a 26. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1113 "2020-10-15T21:28:05Z")
Thanks, that’s about what I figured. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1114 "2020-10-15T21:28:34Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > I went all over the place no companion Sorry, that should be “with no companion.” Ordinarily I wouldn’t feel compelled to make a trivial correction like that, but I’ve gained the impression that **Slack** likes to fasten onto any mistake that he can, however meaningless, in his attempts to believe he’s superior. So, for the record, I too am smart enough to notice typos. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1115 "2020-10-15T21:33:20Z")
Does that imply Slackbrain took it as an adult to try and impress people? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1116 "2020-10-15T21:35:14Z")
Yep, start at the post I’m replying to and scroll a bit for some dank memes. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1117 "2020-10-15T21:35:59Z")
That’s quite the tolerant picture you’re painting of Muslim-majority countries. I’ll admit I’ve never been to one (and don’t plan to), but Wikipedia tells a different story: > Atheists, and those accused of defection from the official religion, may be subject to discrimination and persecution in many Muslim-majority countries.[[117]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_against_atheists#cite_note-117) According to the [International Humanist and Ethical Union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Humanist_and_Ethical_Union), compared to other nations, “unbelievers… in Islamic countries face the most severe – sometimes brutal – treatment”.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_against_atheists#cite_note-iheu_report-3) Atheists and religious skeptics can be executed in at least fourteen nations: [Afghanistan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan), [Iran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran), [Malaysia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia), [Maldives](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives), [Mauritania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania), [Nigeria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria), [Pakistan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan), [Qatar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar), [Saudi Arabia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia), [Somalia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia), [Sudan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan), [Libya](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya), the [United Arab Emirates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates) and [Yemen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen).[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_against_atheists#cite_note-reuters131210-2)[[118]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_against_atheists#cite_note-118) > In [Iran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Iran), [Saudi Arabia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia), [Qatar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Qatar), the [United Arab Emirates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates), and [Yemen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Yemen), the laws state that if a person is found of engaging in same gender sexual behavior, the death penalty would be applied.[[15]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_Middle_East#cite_note-15) According to Country Reports of the [US Department of State](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State), in Saudi Arabia there are no established LGBT organizations. Furthermore, reports of official and social discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation remains unclear because of strong social pressure of not to discuss LGBT matters.[[16]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_Middle_East#cite_note-16) > > [Jordan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Jordan), [Bahrain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Bahrain), and [Iraq](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Iraq) are the only [Arab countries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world) where homosexuality is legal;[[17]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_Middle_East#cite_note-17) however, there is some stigma in the Iraqi society which sometimes leads to vigilante executions.[[18]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_Middle_East#cite_note-18) > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Oh, shut up. Everyone has a tiny drunken gnome in their phone that makes such autocorrect errors common as dirt. > > I already consider you one of the most loathesoame posters Are you going to blame “loathesoame” on a “tiny drunken gnome” as well? 'Cause…nahh. That dog won’t hunt. > [@BigT](#): > > I normally wouldn’t bring up my ACT score, but it seems instructive here. It was higher than yours. And I’m sure there are posters whose scores are even higher than mine, as they seem better at the skills the ACT tests for. So…you’re sure there are posters here who have scores higher than the highest possible score? My composite is a 35; the highest possible is a 36. If yours is higher than mine, it can only be a 36. So how can you be sure others have an “even higher” score than yours?? I know I only got a 32 on the math section, the only section I didn’t get a perfect 36 on, but I can still see the problem with those numbers. 😉 > You’d be able to just say things or do things that would demonstrate that intelligence. That’s clearly your goal, so why can’t you pull it off? I in fact do “pull it off”. But it incenses anyone and everyone who doesn’t like my un-PC conclusions to acknowledge this, so they (you) try like crazy to gaslight. It’s not working. And I am much more willing than my detractors to acknowledge when I’m wrong or have had my mind changed. For example: > [@Black Panther movie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-panther-movie/809075/601): > > You’re right. I have no answer to that, and I apologize. Lila wants to be called Lila and referred to as “she”, and there’s no reason for me not to indulge her in her preference. Mea culpa. I would associate myself with the perspective provided by the first person I quoted from that articcle, a father of a girl at the school: “If she wants to be identified as a girl, we should respect that.” And although it’s not clear from the article, I doubt he has a problem with her using a stall in th… > [@Joe Biden's in](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bidens-in/833042/387): > > No, you’re right–and now that I think of it, Nate Silver has talked about how shaky “trial heat” polling is. I’ll Emily Latella this one–mea culpa. :o > [@Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2546): > > Mea culpa, I didn’t look at the Nowcast today (or any day). When he announced that the model was live, he said the Nowcast showed a much lower chance for Drumpf, but he also said that it was designed to be very sensitive to new information. So the new Quinnipiac numbers must have shifted it quite a bit. None of this, of course, negates any of the points I made about how you can’t just treat this like a regular horserace. > [@How many more attacks before the West has to consider the previously unthinkable?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-more-attacks-before-the-west-has-to-consider-the-previously-unthinkable/759950/741): > > Fair point! Mea culpa. GIGO, despite the headline on that Pew poll, I would characterize the lack of opposition to ISIS shown there to be alarmingly high. I don’t think you can just focus on the number that is determined to tell the pollster they support an organization their government is at war with. I think we have to assume a lot of the people who don’t take a position either way are also supportive in their hearts of hearts, and probably also some of those who say they oppose ISIS, again… > [@OK, so how is N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth series?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-how-is-n-k-jemisins-broken-earth-series/819951/95): > > I should have spent those few seconds looking up the movie’s title. You are right about that, mea culpa. But it takes a lot more than a few seconds to obtain and read two entire novels, so the leap you made there is a bit much IMO. I don’t know if anyone listens to the Scriptnotes podcast, but the successful screenwriters who host it regularly judge and give feedback to aspiring screenwriters based solely on the first couple pages of their scripts. I worked at a SoHo literary agency and the… ETA: > [@Babale](#): > > Slackbrain took it as an adult to try and impress people You guys never tire of being wrong. I took it as an adult, in 2017, to provide a credential for my tutoring business. And I brought it up exactly once, years ago, in the midst of some sort of back-and-forth about IQ or something (I don’t recall exactly). Since then, I only talk about it in response to _others_ bringing it up. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1118 "2020-10-15T21:38:52Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Loose is similar to Slack… It may have been a Freudian slip (in an aspirational sort of way: if Slack were only _loose_, I wouldn’t take issue with him–mere promiscuity is no reason to judge someone, after all). Or it may have been like when I kept referring to the The Dunning-Kruger _Affect_. The world may never know. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1119 "2020-10-15T21:58:09Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > > [@CairoCarol](#): > > > > I went all over the place no companion > > Sorry, that should be “with no companion.” Ordinarily I wouldn’t feel compelled to make a trivial correction like that, but I’ve gained the impression that **Slack** likes to fasten onto any mistake that he can, however meaningless, in his attempts to believe he’s superior. So, for the record, I too am smart enough to notice typos. Good thing you corrected yourself. Making such mistakes is at least as bad as perpetuating rape culture. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1120 "2020-10-15T22:44:04Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > > [@Babale](#): > > > > Slackbrain took it as an adult to try and impress people > > You guys never tire of being wrong. I took it as an adult, in 2017, to provide a credential for my tutoring business Truth is more ironic than fiction ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1121 "2020-10-15T22:45:02Z")
Well, he just got a 24 hour suspension for freethinkiering. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/1122 "2020-10-15T23:13:03Z")
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