u/ki4jgt

Unless you have more than 1 hostage, there's no point in having a hostage.

Let's look at this from a logical perspective:

Your ultimate goal in a hostage situation is leaving without going to jail. You're threatening someone that, if you don't get to leave, you're going to kill someone else. But, if you shoot the hostage, you're going to jail.

If the cop shoots the hostage, which does happen, you're going to jail.

If you don't shoot the hostage, you're going to jail.

Hostages are for buying time, not bargaining. Once you're bargaining with hostages, the game is pretty much already over.

America,

The educated like to play tricks with numbers.

Here's one you were supposed to learn about in high school.

Average has 3 meanings: mean, median, and mode.

Mean is the one we use most often. You take a set of numbers, add them together, and then divide the total by the size of the set.

This is deceptive because if I'm making $1,000/hr and Bob is making $0/hr, the average income is $500/hr.

Median is where you take all the values, line them up from smallest to greatest, and pick out the value dead-center.

Mode is where you pick out the number that pops up most frequently.

But whenever you read the word average online, it's talking about a mean average. What you really want, when talking salaries, is either median or mode.

With a definition of $50,000-200,000, at least 50% of the population doesn't even fall into Middle Class.

This is because you allow the rich to come in and usurp your resources without paying you in return for their usage.

1. They create factories in your cities with huge tax breaks -- because you're afraid they'll go to Mexico (all the Mexicans are leaving there, because your factories don't pay well -- that's why they want to send them back).
2. They utilize and monetize the discoveries of your taxpayer-funded colleges -- while making you pay $250,000 to attend them.
3. They lobby for laws, something which used to be illegal until your supreme court ruled that they were people too.
4. They poison your foods.
5. They rob your communities. A study released by Wal-Mart showed that they take -- on average -- $6,000 per person annually away from every member of a community. Resulting in the loss of millions of dollars in local revenue for even a small town.
6. They're buying up all your local land, farmland mostly, because the government gives them taxbreaks for doing it.
7. And you guys keep electing people to let them get away with it.

3 Rules, America. . .

If you remember these, you can fix yourselves.

1. Buy Local Businesses need a constant supply of steady income. Money flows like water. It's why, during the Great Depression, everybody started hording their wealth and the entire economy collapsed. Pouring money into your local community means more resources for those less fortunate. Buy from people you know actually live locally. And the money will dry up from these large-scale companies.
2. Vote Local Presidential elections have NEVER mattered. The president is elected by the Electoral College. They're selected by your LOCAL representatives.
3. Think Feudal When tradesmen wanted to conduct business within a feudal society, the king was given a large percentage of the wealth for creating the local economy. You are the local economy. And even Mexicans aren't wanting to work for these guys. They're all coming up here to avoid the cheap-ass rich factories. We're rounding up illegal immigrants to send them back to the work camps. It's always been about money. You have just as much a right to communal and natural resources as they do. That means waterways, underground aquifers, and natural resources. Land. Trees. Parks. Industries should actually have to pay to use your resources, both nationally and locally. Companies that use your colleges to get rich should have to pay for that.

If you remember these 3 things, you can put yourself back on track, but seeing as most of you have a 4th grade education, I doubt any of you will be able to do it. Sad, America's going to become just like all those colonized countries with uneducated third-world conditions.

These psychopaths are laughing at you, America. You, like much of Africa, allowed them to plunder all your local resources out of good will and the promise of jobs, and when they found something better, they left without ever having paid anything into your economy.

In biology (I'm an anthro student), intelligence isn't determined by number of neurons, but by brain size to body size ratio.

Ants have tiny brains, but one of the largest brain-to-body ratios in the animal kingdom. As a result, they outwit humans at numerous tasks. They have complex social hierarchies. They trade and barter. They herd and feed aphids for later consumption. They enslave other ants.

What is the body in the artificial intelligence model?