** Going on a rant. It might be long, might be short, but it will be full of cursing.

Right now my Father-in-law is fighting for his life. He has Covid and was put on a ventilator this morning. We are understandably worried and hoping for the best, but know that it is 1/x

an uphill battle. He has been battling it since Jan 1st. He did everything right. Distanced, sanitized, stopped working (renovation contractor) as did his g/f.

All of that went out the window b/c of a selfish, ignorant asshole that was one of his best friends. This guy is 2/x
a huge piece of shit. He was sent home from camp b/c of a Covid outbreak and called the one person that he knew would give him a ride home from the airport, my FIL.

B (FIL) is one of the most selfless people I have ever met. He always gives 110% of himself and never asks 3/x
anything for himself.

This "friend" did NOT tell B why he was home early and we didn't find out until it was too late. B felt off on NYD and got tested. Found out he had Covid on the 3rd of Jan and has been sick ever since. Monday he went to the hospital and was addmitted 4/x

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Always. No, your company is not an exception.

A tactic I don’t appreciate at all because of how unfairly it penalizes low-leverage, junior employees, and those loyal enough not to question it, but that’s negotiation for you after all. Weaponized information asymmetry.

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I have seen this happen *extremely* rarely, mostly to women, and anyway is a giant red flag. It suggests you probably didn’t want to work there.

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THREAD: 12 Things Everyone Should Know About IQ

1. IQ is one of the most heritable psychological traits – that is, individual differences in IQ are strongly associated with individual differences in genes (at least in fairly typical modern environments). https://t.co/3XxzW9bxLE


2. The heritability of IQ *increases* from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the effect of the shared environment largely fades away. In other words, when it comes to IQ, nature becomes more important as we get older, nurture less.
https://t.co/UqtS1lpw3n


3. IQ scores have been increasing for the last century or so, a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. https://t.co/sCZvCst3hw (N ≈ 4 million)

(Note that the Flynn effect shows that IQ isn't 100% genetic; it doesn't show that it's 100% environmental.)


4. IQ predicts many important real world outcomes.

For example, though far from perfect, IQ is the single-best predictor of job performance we have – much better than Emotional Intelligence, the Big Five, Grit, etc. https://t.co/rKUgKDAAVx https://t.co/DWbVI8QSU3


5. Higher IQ is associated with a lower risk of death from most causes, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, most forms of cancer, homicide, suicide, and accident. https://t.co/PJjGNyeQRA (N = 728,160)