While this can be anecdotally true, higher order thinking does require a mastery of language.

In the US almost 20% of the adult population is functionally illiterate.

I once worked with a guy who did not know the sun was a star and didn’t know what planets were. This was when I was in the military. I had a an unlabeled world map in my office and whenever someone new(to Germany) came in to be introduced I’d point to the map and say, “I’ll buy you a beer if you can point out our location on the map”. It was just an icebreaker so pointing at Europe was good enough. It was shocking how many people couldn’t locate Germany on a world map and quite a few couldn’t locate their home state on that world map.

I worked with another guy(a computer programmer) who thought the earth was 6000 years old. He also once told me that vertigo is when you feel like you’re standing still and the earth is spinning and indigo is when it feels like you’re spinning and the earth is still.

I work with and interact with professionals and am often reminded of something Richard Feynman said, “Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.”

But if you had said that about antifa, you would have been fine.

That was my line in the sand until I was banned for liking a comment and not told which comment it was.

What’s a good way to store dried goods like rice, beans and pasta so you have a substantial supply that you routinely top off, while eating the oldest you have in stock?

Duckweed and algae are much easier to grow and grow a hell of a lot faster. They can also be used to clean your water.

It’s not just corruption. Conservatives are violent in their speech and actions. Consider that back when the Iran nuclear deal was being negotiated everyone who objected to the treaty were conservatives. The conservatives of the US, UK, Europe, Iran and Israel. It was the liberals around the globe that were waging peace.

It just so happens that the GOP is so corrupt

It’s no accident.

Shame you’ve got an idiot rampaging through the world markets for a relative pittance (but actual fortune) from insider trading. Who would have thought that’d go badly long term.

Ironically, it may actually be Trump who brings about the rapid global adoption of EVs and renewable energy because of his stupid war with Iran and his tariffs. The rest of the world is fed up with having to rely on fossil fuels and they are dramatically ramping up both EV adoption as well as renewable energy.

I get the feeling that the US and Russia will be the last countries to fully adopt electric vehicles.

Meanwhile Trump is paying companies in the US to shutter wind turbine projects.