Facts. I'm ND and will generally score well above average on these types of tests, depending on the method, yet I have areas that I'm only capable of if I have consistent practice and coaching. The first week without, and I'm unlikely to solve the most basic of problems in that area. Additionally, I think these tests are harmful for anyone who scores outside the norm, as it will essentially place them in a box of expectations harmful to their individual growth.

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  • This isn't an informed guess, but I'd imagine it has to do with ground suitability, as well as risks caused by the ocean and weather. I recently read an article that major cities in the area, away from the coast, are causing the ground to sink below their weight.

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  • The ability to perform a task well, possessing a useful/impressive/entertaining skill, or at least being useful to a group has generally rewarded a person with status throughout human history, regardless of motive or incentive. Sometimes, that status is limited to very specific peers, though it can often provide various levels of status in a larger societal sense.

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  • Mostly right, other than the fact that the murdering of people of color by the state's armed thugs, whites, or "model minorities" was normalized before the inception of the USA state. This is what the American state has always represented and has little to do with Trump, other than the fact that he doesn't try to hide behind a veneer of decency and respectability.

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  • The idea that slavery, particularly the way it was conducted in the Americas, was mostly acceptable at the time was always a myth. There were always those who saw it as reprehensible and many who were swayed once seeing it in practice. There were even die-hard racists who viewed Africans as subhuman who found the treatment of slaves disgusting.

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  • Strictly from an environmental perspective, no. This tech generates massive emissions and consumes a large amount of fresh water at a time when both are at critical points. We are going full speed towards a planet inhospitable to human life and the other life we share the planet with.

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