Do we have a thread for SlackerInc yet? Maybe we should

[Guinastasia]

I pity his kids. I wonder if he makes them write essays after they watch movies.

[Penfeather]

@iiandyiiii

He tries to prove how awesome and well like he is in real life by (chuckle) posting images of supposed plaudits he gets from his Uber customers.

He’s apparently not smart enough to realise that he’s an Onion headline:

Local Uber Driver Debates Running Star Wars Running Order, Decries Minorities.

[GIGObuster]

@Great_Antibob

(bolding mine)

Assumes existence in the absence of the least evidence. Probably closer to an Int 12. At best.

I’d rather put it at Con 17 - what he lacks in charm, discretion, or smarts, he tirelessly makes up with remarkable and unfailing stubbornness.

There are intelligent posters who are not especially well educated. SlackerInc is not one of them. He has not to date shown he is particularly intelligent, intellectually honest, or especially intellectually curious. Actually, he often goes out of his way to show he doesn’t really understand his own cites, arguments, or the counter-arguments from other posters. But he does like to repeatedly bludgeon the same arguments again and again despite any obvious counter-evidence or flaws in reasoning.

He’s so terribly poor at arguing his racist bullshit in particular, it has actually changed my mind on male circumcision (no joke, actually for real, changed my mind). If he’s so adamantly opposed to it and given his history of being absolutely wrong on his other pet causes and his atrociously poor reading comprehension and ability to evaluate evidence, male circumcision is probably a good thing.

As I noted before, a severe lack of Bayesian Logic, as in having a very noticeable lack of the ability of factoring in additional evidence and background information that should modify a point of view. Indeed, he is a person that boast of intellectual powers and yet shows to all that he is not intellectually curious.

One very telling example:

Recently SlackerInc posted that we should forgive Trump and the republicans because they were actually right about the scientists being wrong because they predicted global cooling back in the 70’s. Well, no.

In some papers, researchers might look at the mid-century cooling trend and hypothesize that aerosols may have caused it, and then they may look at what possible effects aerosols might have on future climate. The very same paper may also make note of CO2’s warming influence, and on possible outcomes if atmospheric CO2 continues to increase in the future. Benton 1970 and Barrett 1978 both fit this description. But if you just read NTZ’s quotes from these papers you would know nothing about forecasts of future warming.

NTZ’s goal-post shifting, straw-man arguments, and quote mining/cherry picking result in a lopsided description of 1970s climate science. It is possible to get a more accurate description of what scientists knew (and didn’t know) about climate in the 1970s from NTZ’s pile of papers. But to do so you have to read beyond the selected “money quotes” and look at all of the data. When you do so, you won’t find a majority of 1970s scientists forecasting “global cooling”. Instead you will find what PCF08 found in their literature review:

[P]erhaps more important than demonstrating that the global cooling myth is wrong, this review shows the remarkable way in which the individual threads of climate science of the time—each group of researchers pursuing their own set of questions—was quickly woven into the integrated tapestry that created the basis for climate science as we know it today.

(Note: NTZ is for No Tricks Zone, a site or blog that many conservatives and pseudo-intellectuals who think that they are getting good information are actually being fooled.)

So that was telling for a couple of reasons: anyone that has been paying attention to past discussions on this issue should had noticed that that myth was debunked many times before.

And, falling for that myth is just about par for the course for clueless guys that do think that they are getting proper information when in reality they are falling for propaganda and ignorance, propaganda and ignorance that anyone that does pride themselves as being against Trump and the current Republicans should had been able to spot.

What that myth pointed at were places that are the likely sources that SlackerInc and others like him are really using. So I really do doubt a lot, not only about his smarts, but also about what the politics that he claims to have are; it all shows up thanks to the myths that he repeats and the most likely sources of them.

[Penfeather]

@Penfeather

He’s apparently not smart enough to realise that he’s an Onion headline:

Local Uber Driver Debates Running Star Wars Running Order, Decries Minorities.

Although I’m apparently not samrt enough to proof-read.

[GIGObuster]

@Penfeather

Although I’m apparently not samrt enough to proof-read.

Good thing to acknowledge because the Slacker is also, besides being a follower of ideas that the Nazis would be proud of, is also a Grammar Nazi.

You reminded me of another annoyance from him, he avoids replying to a post by complaining about the grammar of the poster. Never mind that a post has cites or quotes with proper grammar, for him it is 'off with the heads of bad spellers in an attempt to distract others about how he cowardly did avoid dealing with contrary information.

[k9bfriender]

@GIGObuster

So that was telling for a couple of reasons: anyone that has been paying attention to past discussions on this issue should had noticed that that myth was debunked many times before.

And, falling for that myth is just about par for the course for clueless guys that do think that they are getting proper information when in reality they are falling for propaganda and ignorance, propaganda and ignorance that anyone that does pride themselves as being against Trump and the current Republicans should had been able to spot.

What that myth pointed at were places that are the likely sources that SlackerInc and others like him are really using. So I really do doubt a lot, not only about his smarts, but also about what the politics that he claims to have are; it all shows up thanks to the myths that he repeats and the most likely sources of them.

Wow, don’t tell him that Lincoln was a republican. He may think that republicans are still for civil rights, and that Democrats are the racists.

@GIGObuster

Good thing to acknowledge because the Slacker is also, besides being a follower of ideas that the Nazis would be proud of, is also a Grammar Nazi.

You reminded me of another annoyance from him, he avoids replying to a post by complaining about the grammar of the poster. Never mind that a post has cites or quotes with proper grammar, for him it is 'off with the heads of bad spellers in an attempt to distract others about how he cowardly did avoid dealing with contrary information.

Tautology, tautology! Your point is nullified.

[GIGObuster]

@k9bfriender

Tautology, tautology! Your point is nullified.

Now, grammar tools with better AI are needed to catch redundancy.

[Larry_Borgia]

He’s a “show” poster. Every thread he posts in will inevitably turn into a thread about him. He’s not completely at fault there–dopers could just ignore his pontifications–but he’s got that combination of unearned arrogance and error that people find irresistible to ridicule. It’s annoying because that Jesmin thread (Which I missed) could have been interesting, and could even have contained reasonable critiques of the author, but instead it had to become a thread about** SlackerInc**. We had the Dio show (Cancelled) The Starving Artist show (Cancelled) and The Liberal show (On indefinite hiatus). Now we have the SlackerInc show.

[Budget_Player_Cadet]

Oh right this exists.

@SlackerInc

A sadly naive choice of backpacking location by these Scandinavian women: Morocco murders: Tourist killings suspects 'backed IS'

I would not take the risk of vacationing in a predominantly Muslim country, not even a relatively less violent one like Morocco. But if you do, at least stay in places where you have the protection of security forces nearby.

This guy’s fucked up.

[Ambivalid]

Dude is just jerking off reading this thread.

[MandaJo]

@Budget_Player_Cadet

Oh right this exists.

This guy’s fucked up.

How did a thread about the Bell Curve get there?

[GIGObuster]

@MandaJo

How did a thread about the Bell Curve get there?

I actually did send a note to the mods because that looked like an irrelevant bump of that thread, IMO Slacker is now treating that thread as his personal blog so as to avoid being flagged more in other forums for his hate speech.

[MandaJo]

Its weirder if it’s just he thought a story about brown people preying on white people served to illustrate . . . something. With a splash of condescending victim blaming.

[Budget_Player_Cadet]

I reported it for hate speech. Hence my later apology to Miller.

[Ramira]

@Larry_Borgia

He’s a “show” poster. Every thread he posts in will inevitably turn into a thread about him.

He obviously seesk to turn such to him, he loves the attentions he gets and obviously loves throwing the ‘controverial’ (racist, bigoted, illogical) statements to get attention and doubtless he thinks he is being clever.

I am naming this ‘the Slimy Slacker Slide’ (like the Gish Gallop I learned of here) since he rarely bothers to actually try to defend or support (except by the sweeping asserting) anything and will jump quickly to the next claim which sends the earnest posters here racing to the next subject to correct.

He’s not completely at fault there–dopers could just ignore his pontifications–but he’s got that combination of unearned arrogance and error that people find irresistible to ridicule. It’s annoying because that Jesmin thread (Which I missed) could have been interesting, and could even have contained reasonable critiques of the author, but instead it had to become a thread about** SlackerInc**. We had the Dio show (Cancelled) The Starving Artist show (Cancelled) and The Liberal show (On indefinite hiatus). Now we have the SlackerInc show.

It is ingrained in this board and he plays it deliberately.

@Budget_Player_Cadet

[Moroccan idiocy cited]
This guy’s fucked up.

of coure he used the Slimy Slacker Slide to race on in bigotted assertions rather than acknowledge the statistics showing the Morocco having lower crime rates by far from his country - by using his bigotted logic it should be feared to visit the USA for the gun crimes, the racist crazies killing brown people - the stastics support that more than calling the Morocco ‘relatively less violent’-but he was going for the pure provocation of course and Slimy Slacker Slid to another claim right after.

@Ambivalid

Dude is just jerking off reading this thread.

Of course, he loves the attention.

@GIGObuster

I actually did send a note to the mods because that looked like an irrelevant bump of that thread, IMO Slacker is now treating that thread as his personal blog so as to avoid being flagged more in other forums for his hate speech.

That he treats that as his personal blog to “challenge the PC” as he sees it has been obvious for at least two years…

@MandaJo

Its weirder if it’s just he thought a story about brown people preying on white people served to illustrate . . . something. With a splash of condescending victim blaming.

It matches his bigotry and level of thinking perfectly, plus he thought he would generate huge outrage and make all us monkies dance to his tune. The attention seeking for himself (probably he really does believe he is smart and clever, that is sincere) and a deliberate trolling - posting to the very edge with the aim to provoke - for responses is part of his game.

[BigT]

@MandaJo

How did a thread about the Bell Curve get there?

It’s been a while since I checked it out, but I remember that thread going through 3 total topic changes back when it was actually current. It was bizarre.

[GIGObuster]

Slow Moving Vehicle and asahi (And the end of times must be near as I agree with him here ) dropped on that thread to point out what a Troll SlackerInc is.

I pointed to the mods that the Slacker is ramping up the hate speech trolling too.

[iiandyiiii]

Some prime idiocy from a few months ago – Slacker thinks you with the face should recognize that he’s showing her “true respect” by explaining to her the intellectual inferiority of black people: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20962943#post20962943

What an excellent example of the kind of stupid that only can come from privelige. Without some solid privilege, that kind of stupid results in poverty, prison, or early death. But some quality privilege makes that kind of idiocy viable for middle class life, and in Slacker’s case, fantasies of high intelligence.

[GIGObuster]

Well, shoot; SlakerInc goes for the trifecta of ignorance, Not content with “Scientific” Racism and Climate Change denial (of the lukewarm kind), now in GD he adds anti-GMO nonsense to his roster.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21504204&postcount=186

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21504245&postcount=187

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21504450&postcount=189

[El_Kabong]

@Ramira

(excerpted) The attention seeking for himself (probably he really does believe he is smart and clever, that is sincere) and a deliberate trolling - posting to the very edge with the aim to provoke - for responses is part of his game.

Not that it compares to the examples of the SlackerInc Show exhibited here, but he’s currently shitting up threads on The Orville in CS and on another board as well. He’s felt it necessary to point out several times that he’s simply gobsmacked that most other posters might disagree with him on what he thinks are the best episodes of the season.