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I think I saw a movie based on this premise once … The Last Starfighter, I think it was called. I doubt that these are for that sort of job.

Stockfuse, developed by SHFuse Inc., a New York-based startup, is just one of a new breed of apps that invite people to play games that also serve as real-world recruiting tools.

Such apps aim to shed light on how a candidate might perform in a job based on how he or she performs in a game. With Stockfuse, for example, what stocks a player invests in and the returns achieved typically provide plenty of data for consideration. Games from other developers range from solving mazes to managing a simulated sushi restaurant.

The question immediately arises, are they testing the correct qualities in their prospective employees? I have long been doubtful of whether companies, even successful companies, really know what skills are responsible for their success. On the other hand, the military is increasingly using ‘wargames’ to train — and evaluate — their officers, so the attraction seems to be widespread.

I wonder who will be first to use games as an admission factor for schools? One could quite plausibly say that admission tests are actually such ‘games’ — after all, what is a game? You face a situation, you make choices, and on that basis succeed or fail. Sounds like a test to me. Myst was notorious for being an animated IQ test; I’m perfectly comfortable with the notion that anybody who could work through Myst could handle college.

Joe Bob Briggs does diet.

Listen to me, people. Gluten has nothing to do with being fat. Unless you have celiac disease, shut up!

And how many people have celiac disease?

0.7518797 of the Western population. Less than 1 percent.

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The winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for literature says he has fulfilled a pre-election promise to cut up his green card and leave the United States if Donald Trump was elected president.

“I have already done it, I have disengaged [from the United States]. I have done what I said I would do,” Wole Soyinka, an 82-year-old Nigerian poet and playwright, told Agence France-Presse at an education conference in South Africa on Thursday.

The system works.

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Probably just needed some of those little plastic clips you use to keep bags closed after you’ve opened them. We’ve all been there.

Gavin McInnes examines the Reality Denial Field that is the modern Left.

We are at war with a value system based on meaningless platitudes and conjecture. When you bring up data that contradicts their insane hypothesis they say, “I’m sorry—I just don’t—that sounds completely ludicrous to me,” as Million Student March organizer Keely Mullen did when Neil Cavuto asked her who was going to pay for her free-college utopia.

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Play it through logically. Trump is going to deport legal immigrants? How? He’s going to imprison all his opponents? Who? He’s going to make it illegal to burn the flag? What? He’s going to repeal Roe v. Wade? When? He’s going to start a nuclear war? Where? He’s going to dissolve gay marriages? Why? Your belief system can’t make it past one question?

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But what about the people who claimed on social media that they saw Scott step out of his car unarmed? According to Murray, these people later recanted. Three people who made the claim told State Bureau of Investigation agents in interviews that they hadn’t actually seen the shooting.

What about the claim that Scott had a book, not a gun, when he was shot? No such book was found in the vicinity of Scott’s van.

In other words, the anti-police narrative that became the pretext for two nights of rioting — during which 16 police officers and a number of civilians were injured — was a pack of lies. But this won’t stop the left from adding Scott’s name to the list of “victims” who have been “executed” by “racist” police officers. Michael Brown, the “gentle giant” who assaulted a police officer in Missouri, still graces that list.