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Let this be a lesson to all: intelligence does not in any way correlate with self awareness. It's likely that 'smart' people are just as likely to be unaware of their own follies or inabilities, I would argue, maybe more so as a lot of smart people tend to be 'inwardly focused' and less concerned about their direct environment. This kind of thing happens all the time among Exec. level, but normally we'd expect it fro…
Reminds me of when the president of a warring nation once won the Nobel Peace Prize.
He was given the award for outstanding achievement in “not being George W. Bush”. One is very often compared to one's prædecessors.
But I believe OP meant other warmongers that got the prize too.
Here[1] is the video. At the time of me writing this comment, the ratio is 53 likes to 15,486 dislikes. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDcvPf78g1k
Don't worry, Youtube has already proposed to hide dislikes numbers. That would be a good place to start.
Edit: wow, 3 comments saying the exact same thing and all 3 starting with "don't worry". Interesting.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"It might be a sign that Susan does not have a fully trusted team around her ..." => It might be a sign that team around her is afraid to tell her how ridiculous this is... Maybe they made good proposals in the past and where turned down and they now don't want to make good suggestions again...
It might be worse. They could actually believe they are promoting freedom of expression by silencing people. Pushed straight past delusion into faith.
I have no idea how this self-stroking "award" can be taken seriously by those who actually monitor freedom of speech (excluding porn, which I don't consider 'speech').
For the past few months, my youtube recommendations have gone down noticeably in quality. I really wonder what management is prioritizing.
Isn't it standard practice not to allow people involved in the process to participate? I mean, even if you deserve it, it is an obvious conflict of interest and makes the award worthless. I mean, if say, Tesla sponsors an electric car award and a Tesla car wins, it will sound like a farce. Even though it would be expected for a Tesla car to win an electric car award in an independent contest.
At least at radio stations they have the decency to not publicly allow their staff to win on-air prizes.
Sadly, child-me didn't realize that it was a tad fishy that the coach's son won the draw two years running. What fantastic luck!