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Apparently, that's what his research determined. Obviously, there will be exceptions.

Done. Thanks for the heads-up.

Will do.

@StnCld316They moved to a different realm and added Lexi & Pablo. BTW, it looks like you stopped doing offline apts. I often wondered what was the point of moving them to offline, then moving them right back a day or two later. 2022-03-28: Elliot & Tessa relocated together with long term guests Lexi (Formerly known as Rita) & Pablo (Formerly known as Ramsey) to New #realm34 Long term guests Amalia (Formerly known as Olga) & Faust (Formerly known as Oryn) joined the project as New #realm22 Montana & Eva (#realm87) is offline for relocation

America's struggle for democracy and freedom against authoritarianism is taking place on a biological level as well. Social psychologists and other researchers have shown that the brain structures of conservative-authoritarians are different than those of more liberal and progressive thinkers. The former are more fear-centered, emphasizing threats and dangers (negativity bias), intolerant of ambiguity and inclined to simple, binary solutions. Conservative-authoritarians are also strongly attracted to moral hierarchy and social dominance behavior. Recent research by Darren Sherkat, a professor of sociology at Southern Illinois University, demonstrates that America's democracy crisis may be even more intractable than the above evidence suggests. In his recent article 'Cognitive Sophistication, Religion, and the Trump Vote,' which appeared in the January 2021 edition of Social Science Quarterly, Sherkat examined data from the 2018 General Social Survey and concluded that there are substantial negative differences between the thinking processes and cognition of white Trump voters, as shown in the 2016 presidential election, as compared to other voters who supported Hillary Clinton or another candidate, or who did not vote at all. Sherkat observes that Trump support has been linked to religion and level of education, but until now not to 'cognitive sophistication,' which was found 'to have a positive effect on voting, but a negative effect on choosing Trump.' He notes that 'philosophers and political elites have debated the potential effects of mass political participation' for generations, concerned 'about the unsophisticated masses coming under the sway of a demagogue.' In effect, this debate was always about the quality he calls cognitive sophistication, since citizens who lack it 'may not be able to understand and access reliable and valid information about political issues and may be vulnerable to political propaganda': Low levels of cognitive sophistication may lead people to embrace simple cognitive shortcuts, like stereotypes and prejudices that were amplified by the Trump campaign. Additionally, the simple linguistic style presented by Trump may have appealed to voters with limited education and cognitive sophistication. Beginning with [T.W.] Adorno's classic study of the authoritarian personality, empirical works have linked low levels of cognitive sophistication with right-wing orientations.... Trump's campaign may also have been more attractive to people with low cognitive sophistication and a preference for low-effort information processing because compared to other candidates, Trump's speeches were given at a much lower reading level…. While much of the Trump campaign's rhetoric and orientation may have resonated with the poorly educated and cognitively unsophisticated, those overlapping groups are less likely to register to vote or to turn out in an election. As part of his research, Sherkat evaluated the political decision-making and cognition of Trump's voters, using a 10-point vocabulary exam. In a guest essay at the website Down with Tyranny, he explains what this vocabulary test revealed about white Trump voters: Overall, the model predicts that almost 73% of respondents who missed all 10 questions would vote for Trump (remember, that is controlling for education and the other factors), while about 51% who were average on the exam are expected to vote for Trump. Only 35% of people who had a perfect score on the exam are predicted to be Trump supporters. Notably, this very strong, significant effect of verbal ability can be identified within educational groups. While non-college whites certainly turned out more heavily for Trump, the smart ones did not — only 38% of those with perfect scores are expected to go for Trump, and only 46% of non-college graduates who scored a standard deviation above the mean. The same is true for college graduates — low cognition college graduates were more likely to vote for Trump. ... What is really depressing isn't just the poles of the vocabulary exam, it's the average. The mean and median of the scale is 6 — so half of white Americans missed 4 of the easy vocabulary questions.

Might be a little more than five months. Slada said she got pregnant in week 40 of last year, so that's three months. Plus, it's the end of March, now, and she's due the first week of July, which is about three months away. So, possibly about six months.

Thanks, Pete.

Thanks. Did he post the pic in the wrong place, or were they just visiting B4?

And who are these guys.

She definitely could use a plate full of cheeseburgers, IMHO.

She and Mikl broke up.

Jesus, Radislava is just wasting away to nothing. She is just skin and bones. Did she use to be so skinny?