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Agree.

people fall for unvalidated tests, often even totally fake ones that offer "training" to increase your "IQ". Generally IQ tests are a very good measure of how well people take standardized tests. The problem is, scoring high on those tests might correlate with one's capabilities, but it doesn't mean real-world competence. In medicine for example, it's not the people with the highest scores tend to be the best doctors, but the ones who follow up on issues, and that habit compounds. etc.

The belief that an commercial IQ test is an "objective measure of your intellect" is a pretty good subjective measure of your intellect.

tech and age, need for investment.

• fediverse is complicated for scientists not doing computer sciency stuff
• senior researchers are less flexible with new tech, so similarity w twitter means they don't have to learn a new system
• Already present audience means there's little risk in investing time in BS.

Let's say that there is an honest, clear, standard diplomatic protocol running as you described. Trump's concurrent activity, specifically mentioned in this interview, sets the tone and not in a positive way.

they are deals between Israel and other countries, without including Palestine. Here the deal would be between the main protagonists Ukraine and Russia.

That's exactly my point. The present style of negotiations makes the impression like this was a deal between Russia and USA.

If someone ignores all the cues about the discussion's context (trumpian peace) let it be implied (thread's topic; my first post), or explicit ("the point I was making" and beside the point of the present discussion), they shouldn't complain about the discussion's style either.

The point I was making is that you can't make lasting peace through flimsy one-sided negotiations, but the trump brand of peacemaking is about quick "results" with single-presidential-term durability that solves very little on the long run, just pushes the problems to the next presidential term (which may be his own this time...).

Your comparison of Hamas and Russia doesn't only lack nuance but blatantly ignores crucial geopolitical differences in worldwide influence, military might, and general motivations, which are all totally beside the point of the present discussion.

Clickbait title, and then partial summary for more clickbait? OP, could you please update the summary?

I remain unimpressed by CNN reporters because he has not asked the most important question: What will guarantee Russia's adherence to any kind of peace deal?

It's boring to repost it the Nth time but the 1994 Budapest Memorandum was quite clear about these matters:

1. Respect the signatory's independence and sovereignty in the existing borders
2. Refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of the signatories...
3. Refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest...
4. Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".

Yet, putin kicked nearly every single point in the memorandum the moment he felt ready. Why would the same leader act differently in the future?

It's eerily similar in my view to the Abraham accords. Trump negotiated bypassing Palestinians and then we got Oct 7 and the war that spiraled from it. These "deals" are as flimsy as a CyberTruck, but it's also very trumpy. He gets to act like a peacemaker and then his successor will deal with the consequent shit. Same thing happened in Afghanistan.

*edit: also, if someone wants to be "fair" (i'd rather say naive) one can consider the official Russian narrative, but again that narrative explicitly goes against the Budapest Memorandum, meaning, they are very open about not respecting treaties they sign.

investigations into crimes against the financial infrastructure of the United States.

this cracked me up.

holy shit.... i suspect ET will get himself killed within the next few years