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Adam Silver looks barely passable for human.

Jack Ma as well. Starting to wonder about these bald, and/or tiny men..as super villains.
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Vladimir Putin 5'7"

Kim Jong Un 5'7"

Tom Cruise 5'7"

Jeff Bezos 5'7"

Mark Zuckerberg 5'7"

Jack Ma 5'3"

Napoleon Bonaparte 5'7"

Joseph Stalin 5'6"

Adolf Hitler 5'9"

Charles Mason 5'2"


hmm

correlation and causation..yada yada


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Napoleon Complex

Napoleon Complex" is a theorized inferiority complex normally attributed to people of short stature. It is characterized by overly-aggressive or domineering social behavior, such as lying about earnings, and carries the implication that such behavior is compensatory for the subject's physical or social shortcomings.

Napoleon Bonaparte was 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m), average for a French peasant but rather short for an aristocrat or officer. In psychology, the Napoleon complex is regarded as a derogatory social stereotype.

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In 2018, evolutionary psychologist Mark van Vugt and his team at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam found evidence for the Napoleon complex in human males.

Men of short stature behaved more (indirectly) aggressive in interactions with taller men. Their evolutionary psychology hypothesis argues that in competitive situations when males, human or nonhuman, receive cues that they are physically outcompeted, the Napoleon complex psychology kicks in: physically weaker males should adopt alternative behavioral strategies to level the playing field, including showing indirect aggression and coalition building.

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The Napoleon Complex: When Shorter Men Take More

Inspired by an evolutionary psychological perspective on the Napoleon complex, we hypothesized that shorter males are more likely to show indirect aggression in resource competitions with taller males. Three studies provide support for our interpretation of the Napoleon complex. Our pilot study shows that men (but not women) keep more resources for themselves when they feel small. When paired with a taller male opponent (Study 1), shorter men keep more resources to themselves in a game in which they have all the power (dictator game) versus a game in which the opponent also has some power (ultimatum game).

Furthermore, shorter men are not more likely to show direct, physical aggression toward a taller opponent (Study 2). As predicted by the Napoleon complex, we conclude that (relatively) shorter men show greater behavioral flexibility in securing resources when presented with cues that they are physically less competitive. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Short men hoard(horde).

Long and short of it. Pun intended.

Makes sense and is common sense really.


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clappa

that is all for now ;)
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Thread: cult of scientology buys almost entire flordia city, wants to make it their vatican.. mayor = tom cruise.. this isnt real life..


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Thanks, I used my vast knowledge of psychiatry to laugh at your video.
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Thread: cult of scientology buys almost entire flordia city, wants to make it their vatican.. mayor = tom cruise.. this isnt real life..
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Minority Report was spot on.


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The Tampa Bay Times wrote that most of the purchases took the same form: "A broker who was a Scientologist approached a downtown property owner. Made an offer. Paid in cash. Many of the properties weren't on the market. "

Of the $103 million paid, the newspaper reported that $99 million was offered up as cash

Clearwater city council member Hoyt Hamilton told the Times: "Scientology must have some sort of a game plan in mind, but they're not public with what it is."

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Compared to 100 billion..103 million seems like chump change. Time to up your game Tom.

Gotta beat out those other..'messiahs'.


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NEW YORK — A whistleblower complaint filed at the Internal Revenue Service in November by a knowledgeable church member alleges that a non-profit supporting organization controlled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints used member tithes to amass more than $100 billion in a set of investment funds and the Church misled members about uses of the money.

The complaint may be the most important look at LDS finances in decades, a window into one of the wealthiest religious organizations in the United States and the world. Details of the IRS filing reveal financial assets largely hidden from the church’s membership (often known as “Mormons”) and the public view.

The 74-page document filed with the IRS and obtained by Religion Unplugged shows that Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc. (EPA) owned assets under management grew to more than $100 billion from $10 billion in the past 22 years, fueled by a mix of investment strategy and tithe money from church members
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clappa

that is all for now ;)
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Cheers. I haven't been given a clappa in a long time.

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Adam Silver looks barely passable for human.

Jack Ma as well. Starting to wonder about these bald, and/or tiny men..as super villains.
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Vladimir Putin 5'7"

Kim Jong Un 5'7"

Tom Cruise 5'7"

Jeff Bezos 5'7"

Mark Zuckerberg 5'7"

Jack Ma 5'3"

Napoleon Bonaparte 5'7"

Joseph Stalin 5'6"

Adolf Hitler 5'9"

Charles Mason 5'2"


hmm

correlation and causation..yada yada


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Osama bin Laden 6'5"

Donald Trump 6'3"


Statistical outliers(height) that run and rule everyone in the middle(Bell curve). There is definitely something to this. Maybe why it keeps nagging at me to look at.


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Statistics Part 1: Average and Standard Deviation

It turns out that men's height falls onto what's called a standard distribution, or a gaussian curve, or a bell curve. Out of one hundred men, about 2/3 of them, about 68, are between 5'7" and 6'. About 2/3 of all American men are 5'10" ± 3". About 1/3 of them are outside this range, with about half of those on each side. So, about 1/6 are 6'1" or taller, and about 1/6 are 5'6" or shorter.

If we start looking for men who are much taller than 6' tall, we find that as their height goes up, they get more and more rare.

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Science Reveals Yet Another Reason Octopuses and Squid Are So Weird

So why do these creatures engage in RNA editing when most others largely abandoned it? The answer seems to lie in some crazy double-stranded cloverleaves that form alongside editing sites in the RNA. That information is like a tag for RNA editing. When the scientists studied octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish, they found that these species had retained those vast swaths of genetic information at the expense of making the small changes that facilitate evolution. “Editing is important enough that they’re forgoing standard evolution,” Rosenthal says.

He hypothesizes that the development of a complex brain was worth that price. The researchers found many of the edited proteins in brain tissue, creating the elaborate dendrites and axons of the neurons and tuning the shape of the electrical signals that neurons pass. Perhaps RNA editing, adopted as a means of creating a more sophisticated brain, allowed these species to use tools, camouflage themselves, and communicate.

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How to make Tom Cruise appear taller?

Cast him opposite Dustin Hoffman.


Both excellent actors. Just noting a trend. .


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Watched Back to the Future last night and noticed something funny..


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No wonder your president has to be an actor.. He gotta look good on television..

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I do want to make it clear that I am not attempting to draw a parallel between short stature and negative behavior..more that.. like adding attribute points to your character build before starting a game, adding the +3 to height added somewhere else (charisma/intelligence) makes sense of the outliers we are seeing as being the most 'successful'..men on the planet.

Being someone of shorter stature, not being able to reach anything and having the seatbelt cut straight across my throat while driving, is annoying and forces one to employ different strategies than my less height challenged counterparts.

I get it. Just making sense of it.

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i think i have amnesia, does anyone who i am?

this place seems familiar.
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how long have i been out for?
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Thread: cult of scientology buys almost entire flordia city, wants to make it their vatican.. mayor = tom cruise.. this isnt real life..


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The Tampa Bay Times wrote that most of the purchases took the same form: "A broker who was a Scientologist approached a downtown property owner. Made an offer. Paid in cash. Many of the properties weren't on the market. "

Of the $103 million paid, the newspaper reported that $99 million was offered up as cash

Clearwater city council member Hoyt Hamilton told the Times: "Scientology must have some sort of a game plan in mind, but they're not public with what it is."

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I do want to make it clear that I am not attempting to draw a parallel between short stature and negative behavior..more that.. like adding attribute points to your character build before starting a game, adding the +3 to height added somewhere else (charisma/intelligence) makes sense of the outliers we are seeing as being the most 'successful'..men on the planet.

Being someone of shorter stature, not being able to reach anything and having the seatbelt cut straight across my throat while driving, is annoying and forces one to employ different strategies than my less height challenged counterparts.

I get it. Just making sense of it.
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Hmmm...

So, you're saying You are trying to take over the world, and people better watch out?
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I do want to make it clear that I am not attempting to draw a parallel between short stature and negative behavior..more that.. like adding attribute points to your character build before starting a game, adding the +3 to height added somewhere else (charisma/intelligence) makes sense of the outliers we are seeing as being the most 'successful'..men on the planet.

Being someone of shorter stature, not being able to reach anything and having the seatbelt cut straight across my throat while driving, is annoying and forces one to employ different strategies than my less height challenged counterparts.

I get it. Just making sense of it.
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Hmmm...

So, you're saying You are trying to take over the world, and people better watch out?
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No.

Just saying I understand why males of shorter stature would be hardwired to employ different tactics of not only attracting females, but holding on to them. Animal kingdom bears the same.


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Every time I see the cuttlefish; I think Chinese buffet in a cheap curry sauce.

Such elaborate communications systems and yet the inability to visualize the concept of: (NET!!!)

That is a manyfold meaning.
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Now let us visualize the idea of consciousness as a smorgasbord.

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I do want to make it clear that I am not attempting to draw a parallel between short stature and negative behavior..more that.. like adding attribute points to your character build before starting a game, adding the +3 to height added somewhere else (charisma/intelligence) makes sense of the outliers we are seeing as being the most 'successful'..men on the planet.

Being someone of shorter stature, not being able to reach anything and having the seatbelt cut straight across my throat while driving, is annoying and forces one to employ different strategies than my less height challenged counterparts.

I get it. Just making sense of it.
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Hmmm...

So, you're saying You are trying to take over the world, and people better watch out?
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No.

Just saying I understand why males of shorter stature would be hardwired to employ different tactics of not only attracting females, but holding on to them. Animal kingdom bears the same.


War was/is fought for 3 reasons. Land, resources, and females.
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Sorry, bad joke I suppose.

So, your speaking psychologically as a reward for the masses, it seems.

As far as the leaders are concerned it's maybe... Something different, an ideology?
Or that's it land, resources, females?
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The Napoleon Complex: When Shorter Men Take More

Inspired by an evolutionary psychological perspective on the Napoleon complex, we hypothesized that shorter males are more likely to show indirect aggression in resource competitions with taller males. Three studies provide support for our interpretation of the Napoleon complex. Our pilot study shows that men (but not women) keep more resources for themselves when they feel small. When paired with a taller male opponent (Study 1), shorter men keep more resources to themselves in a game in which they have all the power (dictator game) versus a game in which the opponent also has some power (ultimatum game).

Furthermore, shorter men are not more likely to show direct, physical aggression toward a taller opponent (Study 2). As predicted by the Napoleon complex, we conclude that (relatively) shorter men show greater behavioral flexibility in securing resources when presented with cues that they are physically less competitive. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Short men hoard(horde).

Long and short of it. Pun intended.

Makes sense and is common sense really.



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It really covers the breadth of it.

This covers it..


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Now let us visualize the idea of consciousness as a smorgasbord.

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Thanks. cheers

I should be at a Christmas party. I spent all day yesterday baking cookies and wrapping presents.

Ended up being rescheduled this morning, due to sickness.


Gives me more time to buy presents and decorate cookies. So I'm not complaining. I only have 2 more selling days and my Winter vaca starts.

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Vladimir Putin gave his clearest signal yet that he aims to break up the global nature of the internet when he branded the network a "CIA project" on Thursday.
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It's a joke..it's all a joke..mother forgive me.
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Thread: Comedian wins Ukrainian presidency
Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has scored a landslide victory in the country's presidential election.

With nearly all ballots counted in the run-off vote, Mr Zelensky had taken more than 73% with incumbent Petro Poroshenko trailing far behind on 24%.

"I will never let you down," Mr Zelensky tI love show tunesebrating supporters.

Russia says it wants him to show "sound judgement", "honesty" and "pragmatism" so that relations can improve. Russia backs separatists in eastern Ukraine.

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Adam Silver looks barely passable for human.

Jack Ma as well. Starting to wonder about these bald, and/or tiny men..as super villains.
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Vladimir Putin 5'7"

Kim Jong Un 5'7"

Tom Cruise 5'7"

Jeff Bezos 5'7"

Mark Zuckerberg 5'7"

Jack Ma 5'3"

Napoleon Bonaparte 5'7"

Joseph Stalin 5'6"

Adolf Hitler 5'9"

Charles Mason 5'2"


hmm

correlation and causation..yada yada


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Osama bin Laden 6'5"

Donald Trump 6'3"


Statistical outliers(height) that run and rule everyone in the middle(Bell curve). There is definitely something to this. Maybe why it keeps nagging at me to look at.


13 world leaders ranked by how tall they are
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hmm
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With no balls and limp ducks,..even the giants" Osama and Donald" can become miserable and rant like the little fellas,….midgets,... and dwarfs… stonerroflpopcorn
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Watched Back to the Future last night and noticed something funny..


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No wonder your president has to be an actor.. He gotta look good on television..

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It's a joke..it's all a joke..mother forgive me.
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Thread: Comedian wins Ukrainian presidency
Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has scored a landslide victory in the country's presidential election.

With nearly all ballots counted in the run-off vote, Mr Zelensky had taken more than 73% with incumbent Petro Poroshenko trailing far behind on 24%.

"I will never let you down," Mr Zelensky tI love show tunesebrating supporters.

Russia says it wants him to show "sound judgement", "honesty" and "pragmatism" so that relations can improve. Russia backs separatists in eastern Ukraine.

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