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dear downmodders, please spare yters. take me instead.

your comment is far too long to post on twitter.

http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/shor... still wish you were a pygmie?

no it's worse. i can paste longer text in AIM

not until bookmarks are easy to search through. which their might be a plugin for but that's not easy enough.

the text field is a little too hard to notice in safari given the pre-entered text. i suggest adding a thicker border and using javascript to select it on pageload.

The original headline editorialized.

yeah. you might also be interested to look at my thread history to see some of the other stuff i get downmodded for. a few are: a question about what dates someone meant, a comment…

i've read the guidelines. edit: heh, the thing i was replying to was removed by an edit

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thanks. replies like this one make me glad i posted this.

In what range of years do you think most of the imagining was done?

umm the odds are public knowledge?

they are easy to make. just make one when you have an idea you want to post. post again next time you have an idea you want to post. the drawback of not doing this is deleting thos…

+1 informative

The comment below is dead, which means killed by an editor. That seems excessive to me. What do you think? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=137554 1 point by jazj 1 hour ago | l…

The original headline is disagreeable to me. Most of the content of the article is disagreeable to me. It is not a neutral article. There is no simple neutral way to post it.

It is not a bad headline, it is an opinionated headline (based on text from the article). I understand that you disagree with my point of view. Please understand that I disagree wi…

+1 for info about actual usage of tests like this

So for example I rarely concentrated very hard in class, but enjoyed to for 12 hour days at chess tournaments. I knew plenty of similar people, some of whom were diagnosed with thi…

They wanted kids to stand still when told to. That's not concentration they are looking for.

The part I put in the headline is what I thought was most interesting. Most of the rest seemed to consist of saying that lack of obedience in modern children indicates something is…

First a note about ignorance, because I've sometimes had conversations with a somewhat opposite claim. People say things like, "We agree children have great ignorance. This sometim…