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Johns Hopkins Study: Lockdowns Saved No Lives and Only Destroyed Jobs.
Strangely enough, Johns Hopkins buried this important study. They did not alert the press with a big press conference. I think I heard they did not even send out a press release under the university's banner.
It's almost like the official establishment knows that it has committed a grave, lethal error and does not want to draw attention to it. Like it wants to hide its errors. Like it wants the public to continue believing bad science. You know -- like real scientists always do! "Lockdowns should be rejected out of hand," is the study's blunt topline finding. First, the large amount of data they crunched:This systematic review and meta-analysis are designed to determine whether there is empirical evidence to support the belief that "lockdowns" reduce COVID-19 mortality. Lockdowns are defined as the imposition of at least one compulsory, non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI). NPIs are any government mandate that directly restrict peoples' possibilities, such as policies that limit internal movement, close schools and businesses, and ban international travel. This study employed a systematic search and screening procedure in which 18,590 studies are identified that could potentially address the belief posed. After three levels of screening, 34 studies ultimately qualified. Of those 34 eligible studies, 24 qualified for inclusion in the meta-analysis. They were separated into three groups: lockdown stringency index studies, shelter-in-place order (SIPO) studies, and specific NPI studies.The conclusion:
An analysis of each of these three groups support the conclusion that lockdowns have had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality. More specifically, stringency index studies find that lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average.0.2%. For 0.2%, we locked ourselves down for a year and a half. Two years, really -- we're still locked down.
SIPOs [helter-in-Place-Orders] were also ineffective, only reducing COVID-19 mortality by 2.9% on average. Specific NPI studies also find no broad-based evidence of noticeable effects on COVID-19 mortality.Even shelter-in-place orders, actual orders to remain in your homes, only managed a 2.9% reduction in deaths.
Remember those models that UK jive turkey Neil Fergusen panicked the world with? The ones showing, what was 2.2 million dead without his lockdown scheme by October 2020, but only 200,000 dead (IIRC) if we imposed the lockdown? I remember AllahPundit being a huge, huge fan of Ferguson's models. I mean, you could see why he was impressed. There were numbers and such, and bar graphs, a few pie charts if you were feeling snack-ish, and an x-axis, and oh yeah, a y-axis to go with the x-axis. It was really done up nice and proper, no fooling, real impressive and all. Looked pretty as a Sunday picnic. And I mean, Ferguson took this so seriously he immediately looked at his models and said, "Hey, my models are telling me I should break lockdown and go to the home of my lover who lives with her completely different family group including her husband, and bang her." And the model told him to do that, and so he did. Models. Gotta love 'em! I wonder if AllahPundit is a fan of the climate change models now, too. Some of the countries that were the least locked-down had the lowest levels of morality:
While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.
Mandates only regulate a fraction of our potential contagious contacts and can hardly regulate nor enforce handwashing, coughing etiquette, distancing in supermarkets, etc. Countries like Denmark, Finland, and Norway that realized success in keeping COVID-19 mortality rates relatively low allowed people to go to work, use public transport, and meet privately at home during the first lockdown. In these countries, there were ample opportunities to legally meet with others.Well I don't understand that. Ferguson's models said that most of them should have died. So because Ferguson spent so much time on his models, probably took like a couple of weeks on them, and probably took a good few hours printing them out at Kinko's with nice clear plastic covers and colored tab dividers, real sharp looking stuff, all the Smart People decided that all of the rich people would isolate in their homes while all of the poor people kept working and delivering food and pleasure goods to the rich people except that the gyms and and "non-essential businesses" would be shut down, which meant that all of the poor people who didn't work delivering food and pleasure goods to rich people would lose their businesses. It was a really really good plan and all the Smart People who owned stock in Amazon and Netflix made out like absolute thieves. Everyone else, not so much. But the Smart People all say it was the Smart thing to do and they had that neat looking model printed up, so. Anyway, these researchers say that one of the reasons they launched this meta-analysis was that they couldn't help but notice that when countries imposed lockdowns, their death rates did not change very much -- in stark contrast to what Ferguson's precious models modeled that they would.
A third factor that motivated our research was the fact that there was no clear negative correlation between the degree of lockdown and fatalities in the spring of 2020 (see Figure 2). Given the large effects predicted by simulation studies such as Ferguson et al. (2020), we would have expected to at least observe a simple negative correlation between COVID-19 mortality and the degree to which lockdowns were imposed.
You know, now that I think about it, weird thing about the models -- AllahPundit really believed in them, really believed that 2.2 million would die by October 2020 if we didn't lock down, but if we did lock down, only 200,000 would die. Funny thing though: Sometimes Trump would rely on those models. Sometimes Trump would say, "They said if we didn't lock down, 2.2 million people would die. We locked down. Only 300,000 (or whatever the number was at the time) died. So I saved 1.9 million lives." The math worked. If you believed the models, Trump was right. But the weird thing is, AllahPundit, who really seemed to believe in the models when he was demanding we all adopt his shut-in, live-on-the-computer lifestyle, suddenly seemed to stop believing in the model's predictive capacity when Trump followed the model's predictions and said he saved 1.9 million people. Suddenly Allah seemed to think the model was a total pile of lies whose numbers could not be trusted. Like it was just stupid to even talk about the numbers in the model. Like only an idiot would bring those numbers up and talk about them as if they had any relationship to reality. Like, just some bullshit that some dumb horny nerd made up to get his sex partner alone more often. I never understood that, how sometimes the models could be Oh My God You Guys This Model Is Totally Real I'm So Serious and other times it could be Just Another Trump Lie, It's Sulfurous Like The Devil's Farts. Weird. Maybe some copies of the model were incomplete. Maybe Kinko's screwed up Trump's copy. Maybe there was a collation error. I dunno. I just know the numbers were real when Neil Ferguson or Anthony Fauci talked about them but were filthy lies when Trump referenced them. But Allah was totally about The Science and not just taking increasingly deranged positions based on his psychopathic hostility to Trump and all Republicans who didn't want to vote for Hillary Clinton and then Joe Biden.
"What does the evidence tell us about the effects of lockdowns onHey, speaking of Allah, I wonder who covered this at Hot Air -- John Sexton or Karen Townsend? Nah, I'm sure AllahPundit will cover this. Like all good liberals, he "Loves The Science," and he surely wouldn't ignore a major finding just because of some unhinged partisan neener-neenerism. After all, he's also always telling us how much he abhors "tribalism," especially in his enemies. He's always telling us about the dangers of tribalism in every hot-button culture war issue he leaps at the opportunity with bloody single-mindedness to offer an Own the Cons Hot Take on. So yeah, I'm sure his coverage will be forthcoming, and majestic.
mortality?" We provide a firm answer to this question: The evidence fails to confirm that lockdowns have a significant effect in reducing COVID-19 mortality. The effect is little to none. The use of lockdowns is a unique feature of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns have not been used to such a large extent during any of the pandemics of the past century. However, lockdowns during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic have had devastating effects. They have contributed to reducing economic activity, raising unemployment, reducing schooling, causing political unrest, contributing to domestic violence, and undermining liberal democracy. These costs to society must be compared to the benefits of lockdowns, which our meta-analysis has shown are marginal at best. Such a standard benefit-cost calculation leads to a strong conclusion: lockdowns should be rejected out of hand as a pandemic policy instrument.
Very related: Alberta, Sasketchewan announce an end to nearly all covid restrictions. Not immediately, alas, but soon.
Canada's chief public health officer says provinces are going to have to find a balance between containing the virus with public health measures and returning to a sense of normalcy as the Omicron wave continues to crest. Several provinces have signalled their intention to do away with some, if not all, remaining COVID-19 health restrictions.Exit question: Did the truckers win? Exit answer: Yes.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says his government will announce next week a date to end Alberta's COVID-19 vaccine passport, as well as a phased approach to ending almost all COVID-19 health restrictions by the end of the month, provided the pressure on hospitals continues to decline. Meanwhile Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he's committed to ending all COVID-19 restrictions soon, even while COVID-19-related hospitalizations are at their highest level since the pandemic began. Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam said even a complete series of two COVID-19 vaccines offers little in the way of protection against infection from the Omicron variant, and boosters work against transmission only for a period of time. She said vaccine mandates should be re-evaluated over time, but they must be weighed against the potential effect on fragile health systems and how many serious cases they can handle.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:04 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 03:05 PM (TDj17)
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)
"Yes, please, lock me down Daddy."
-People who still live in NY after all this
"Nah. We're done."
-Everyone else
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:06 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 03:06 PM (WIpOf)
I wish I could say I'm surprised so many fell for this crap, but alas, some many jive turkeys.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at February 04, 2022 03:07 PM (QYPq3)
Posted by: 496 at February 04, 2022 03:07 PM (U1eOr)
Where do our kids go to get their lives back?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 03:07 PM (XSRBF)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:04 PM (Ez6QX)
But it'll make ya feel better......
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)
"Yes, please, lock me down Daddy."
-People who still live in NY after all this
"Nah. We're done."
-Everyone else
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:06 PM (LvTSG)
Maybe. Despite a state law saying masks are optional in schools, the ACLU in Iowa is suing to force all students to mask up. The lawsuit has plenty of local support, because Loki was right: we want to be ruled.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 03:08 PM (TDj17)
Posted by: esquincle at February 04, 2022 03:08 PM (mon+b)
Posted by: JT at February 04, 2022 03:08 PM (arJlL)
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Is there anything more important in life?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:08 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 03:08 PM (etl9f)
Where do our kids go to get their lives back?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 03:07 PM (XSRBF)
Meta.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)
Remember those models that UK jive turkey Neil Fergusen panicked the world with?
lol
best fake black history month ever!
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 04, 2022 03:09 PM (lDvMn)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 04, 2022 03:09 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 03:09 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: mr tmz at February 04, 2022 03:09 PM (m/Gc2)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 04, 2022 03:09 PM (3YVs3)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:04 PM (Ez6QX)
Tell me, I'll type it for you. I have no fucks to give. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 03:09 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 04, 2022 03:10 PM (iDcra)
In fact, I'd encourage truckers, if they get pushed to hard, to do just that.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 04, 2022 03:10 PM (5pTK/)
Exclusionary 2D-ist! I feel so triggered.
Posted by: z-axis at February 04, 2022 03:10 PM (786Ro)
The SMAHHHHHHHHHRRRT People have been fcking things up for the rest of us for over 100 years.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2022 03:10 PM (llON8)
How could there be so many people vote for that little shit?
Does every urbanite think with the same brain.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 04, 2022 03:10 PM (JTztk)
Posted by: blaster at February 04, 2022 03:10 PM (9otr5)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 04, 2022 03:10 PM (Kz9dH)
You reckon the fake Twitter parrots will fake-trend "TrumpLockdowns" to counter this and put the blame of the "lockdowns" on Trump?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 04, 2022 03:10 PM (lDvMn)
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 03:10 PM (etl9f)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:08 PM (LvTSG)
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 03:11 PM (TDj17)
Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 03:11 PM (GYllL)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 03:09 PM (/U27+)
Hopkins was on the bandwagon early on with the "YOU'RE ALL GONNA DIE" bullshit. My libfuck neighbor up the street would use them as his baseline to argue Trump was stupid and irresponsible.
I lost faith in them and the medical community as a whole. They have a fuckload of work to do to get me to trust them ever again.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)
The SMAHHHHHHHHHRRRT People have been fcking things up for the rest of us for over 100 years.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2022 03:10 PM (llON
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They do PowerPoint presentations and TED talks better.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 03:11 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:11 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Ripley at February 04, 2022 03:11 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2022 03:11 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 03:09 PM (VwHCD)
What you could come up with would be 1000x better anyway!
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:11 PM (Ez6QX)
Amazingly, the dictator of Austria said he doesn't expect the clot shot will help AT ALL with omnicron, but its still important to needle rape the population.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2022 03:11 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 04, 2022 03:12 PM (5kI0z)
Yes.
We "knew" it was a mistake, but now there are hard numbers. Cloth masks are similar. Zero Covid true believers still defend masks because they tell themselves, "they're not as good as I'd like, but they do some good." It's nice to be able to hit them with real numbers from the CDC that say they're practically useless in their stated function and harmful because they hold a wet cloth over your face that collects some seriously nasty viruses and bacteria.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2022 03:12 PM (VCz/u)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:08 PM (LvTSG)
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 03:11 PM (TDj17)
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So uncouth.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:12 PM (LvTSG)
Damn, Teh Ewok really has it in for this year's movie season.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 04, 2022 03:12 PM (n+4am)
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 03:12 PM (etl9f)
They say the lock down was a bad idea.
Whose idea was that anyway? Trump
they will say the shots were a bad idea.
Whose idea was that anyway? Trump.
This is how they will shift the narrative. It'll be like you can't even imagine.
Posted by: its not going to be pretty at February 04, 2022 03:12 PM (qi2rN)
Or maybe they'll just release a new bug.
Posted by: davidt at February 04, 2022 03:12 PM (yDmyH)
Funny: I don't have an advanced degree, and I knew this whole hysteria was pointless -- at the least a terrible overreaction, at the most a seize control of society op -- pretty early. Like, mmm, April 2020?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 04, 2022 03:12 PM (txdEq)
Ace, how about a photoshop of David Cuck Fake Black Man French dressed up like a Pimp with the caption:
"How Do You Do, Fellow Negroes?"
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 04, 2022 03:13 PM (lDvMn)
Get vaccinated from Covid or else!
Or else what?
Can't talk, got Covid.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 04, 2022 03:13 PM (KbCG3)
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Said everyone with a brain after the first two or three weeks, and a lot of people with brains right at the beginning. It was obvious then that the lockdowns didn't work. Even if the lockdowns *did* work, it was obvious by Easter of 2020 that they were not worth it on balance given the catastrophic damage that they were doing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:13 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)
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I've had a very low opinion of the biomedical research literature since ... forever.
If I reviewed their manuscripts as I did those in chemistry, I'd reject 90% for methodological and/or logical flaws.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:13 PM (YqDXo)
When the "Ebola Nurse" came back to the US under Obama - Obama, the feds, and the FNM all said the government had no authority to force people into quarantine even if they had been directly exposed to a disease as deadly as Ebola...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2022 03:13 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 04, 2022 03:13 PM (iDcra)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 04, 2022 03:12 PM (5kI0z)
Instapundit is the one who says "we have the dumbest elites ever" or words to that effect iirc.... can we start calling them the Fredo Class?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2022 03:13 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 03:07 PM (XSRBF)
Too many of them, sadly, will not ever get their lives back.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:13 PM (Ez6QX)
@RNCResearch
29m
A maskless Biden strolls around the stage, shaking hands and speaking to others in close proximity.
Biden has repeatedly called wearing a mask "a patriotic duty."
https://tinyurl.com/54hrjc8t
Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 03:13 PM (NpAcC)
I want Nuremberg style trials for these c**********.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 04, 2022 03:13 PM (W3VUu)
A maskless Biden strolls around the stage, shaking hands and speaking to others in close proximity.
Biden has repeatedly called wearing a mask "a patriotic duty."
https://tinyurl.com/54hrjc8t
Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 03:13 PM (NpAcC)
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And his people are supposedly terrified of him getting the covids?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:14 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 03:14 PM (pnzcV)
How do you do, fellow negroes?
Posted by: david cocksucker french is down with the black man, yo at February 04, 2022 03:14 PM (lDvMn)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 04, 2022 03:14 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 03:12 PM (etl9f)
This will have to do......
https://youtu.be/As5-i3_1tRg
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)
Amazingly, the dictator of Austria said he doesn't expect the clot shot will help AT ALL with omnicron, but its still important to needle rape the population.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2022 03:11 PM (ESjRY)
We're all in this together.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 03:14 PM (z5Vrg)
Because 80% of Canadian women and 40% of Canadian "men" want Trudeau's peen inside them.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2022 03:14 PM (VCz/u)
Yep. And...no statue of limitations on crimes against humanity.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2022 03:14 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2022
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Exactly. Quarantines were and are for the sick, not the healthy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 04, 2022 03:14 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2022 03:11 PM (ZLI7S)
Although we did do a lockdown after the Boston Marathon which if I recall alarmed the hell out of a goodly sum of us.
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 03:14 PM (etl9f)
Posted by: Joe in his 18 Wheeler at February 04, 2022 03:14 PM (v0R5T)
- Arizona Fish Tank Cleaner Lady
Posted by: Wally at February 04, 2022 03:14 PM (FJYfm)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:12 PM (LvTSG)
Yes, well, our rulers do not seem to understand us any other way, so uncouth it is.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 03:15 PM (TDj17)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 03:08 PM (TDj17)
There seems to be a legal way to stop this shit...
Here is more information on this Surety Bond tactic:
https://bondsforthewin.com/
When a claim is filed against an elected official's surety bond by a citizen, the elected official is personally liable for a large deductible ($40,000) for each claim while the Insurance company investigates the claim. Instantly, the mask mandate is no longer a game for these people. Anyone can do this and no attorney is needed.
Here's the full story of a mom who successfully used this tactic to overturn mask mandates in her county:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KdwaSIOFpE
We have to stop presenting facts & data at school board meetings, and instead speak in a language these people understand.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 04, 2022 03:15 PM (BgMrQ)
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Yet it didn't fucking work, and it was obvious that it didn't work. Moreover, the models were wrong in another dimension: severity. They were wrong on transmissibility, they were wrong on danger, they were wrong on response effects, they were wrong on literally everything.
The model was so wrong in fact that acting in 180 degree opposition to it may have resulted in better outcomes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:15 PM (DU+/6)
I have not looked into the details of the numbers used to extract this estimate with a precision of a tenth of a percentage, but I suspect this is all bullshit with propagated error larger than the purported estimate.
Died with COVID, or from COVID. Numbers of comorbidities? Were the Cuomo/Whitemer death tolls subtracted out prior to calculation? Were there controls for no IVM/HCQ deaths versus RunDeathIsNear?
I suspect this is politicized propaganda that was intended to show ANY positive effect, without being too blatantly unbelievable garbage. Well done, JHU, you have covered yourselves in Brandon's incestuous glory.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 03:15 PM (SH2Zi)
It's all about building a enemies database and make arrests (political prisoners) just like Jan 6th.
Look into Clearview AI who happens to have ties to Revolver News and MAGA folks. Curious.
Posted by: Peter Thiel's rent boy Ali Alexander at February 04, 2022 03:15 PM (WdQMQ)
Seeing how things are going perhaps they are warming up to the idea.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2022 03:15 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: wth at February 04, 2022 03:15 PM (v0R5T)
Massive models of complex systems? Those models suck every time, whether markets, climate or disease vectors. Not a one of them works.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 04, 2022 03:15 PM (j5ceG)
According to Ya Boi Zack, it's "Wuvs Da Science!!1!"
Posted by: pookysgirl, reading the AoSHQ Stylebook at February 04, 2022 03:15 PM (XKZwp)
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 0
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My vision is, "Like watching a troop of baboons try to open a puzzle box."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 04, 2022 03:15 PM (txdEq)
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BUT just think what it will do to Congress's stock portfolio in pharma stocks!!!!
Posted by: its a BIG BUTT at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (51sbl)
Posted by: SpasticToad at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (ZOZYD)
Posted by: Sweden at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (l8gTz)
Now I have Allan Sherman’s Peyton Place stuck in my head.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (CX3cf)
A maskless Biden strolls around the stage, shaking hands and speaking to others in close proximity.
Biden has repeatedly called wearing a mask "a patriotic duty."
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Wasn't this asshat meeting with the governors the other day where nobody but him could drink water?
Man, science is hard.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (W3VUu)
The model was so wrong in fact that acting in 180 degree opposition to it may have resulted in better outcomes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:15 PM (DU+/6)
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But the climate change models are 100% accurate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (LvTSG)
Too bad they didn't do any of these studies two years ago when anybody with Excel and an internet connection could do in about 10 minutes.
Posted by: Ripley at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 04, 2022 03:14 PM (5HBd1)
So, is the former drug den a steal or way overpriced?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Big Star at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (Modkf)
You mean back when Fauci was saying don't wear a mask and Pelosi was saying go out and celebrate the Chinese New Year and hug an Asian?
Exactly which day was the right day for Trump to go from "no big deal" to "oh lawdy! We're all gonna die!!" is ... in the models.
Posted by: Well at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (DFoF/)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (pnzcV)
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Which makes them more qualified in almost any dimension than the creased-pants set. At this point, I'd rather see what my HVAC tech thinks about something than some pundit.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (dprVF)
Posted by: Iris at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (DibdT)
And in this, they were able to pit us against each other in a far more personal way than traditional political fights have.
They've punished us for Trump and got drunk and made us fight our brother for their amusement.
That not one of them has been (you know) yet is simply amazing.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Joe Exotic and Carol Baskin at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (FJYfm)
Exactly. Quarantines were and are for the sick, not the healthy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 04, 2022 03:14 PM (txdEq)
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In primitive days, people would say to stay home if you're sick. Now that civilization has advanced, people have to stay home not to get sick.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (YA914)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:17 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Ex-ex at February 04, 2022 03:17 PM (RU4sa)
Seeing how things are going perhaps they are warming up to the idea.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2022 03:15 PM (ZLI7S)
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Joe Biden : So, what you're saying is... I'm indestructible!
Doctor : Oh, no, no. In fact, even a slight breeze could...
Joe Biden : [leaves the office, to himself] Indestructible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:17 PM (LvTSG)
This right here is pure comedy gold.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at February 04, 2022 03:17 PM (QYPq3)
Seeing how things are going perhaps they are warming up to the idea.
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Its a timing issue at this point. He's got one foot on the banana peel. They are going to give him a push at just the right time.
Posted by: So helpful at February 04, 2022 03:17 PM (XwSLk)
no, srsly, laughing out loud
Posted by: Sweden at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (l8gTz)
Aren't you mandating the vax? AFTER you actually beat Covid before anyone on Earth?
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)
But the climate change models are 100% accurate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (LvTSG)
As soon as we're done editing out the pause.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 03:17 PM (z5Vrg)
Now talk about those that died during the lockdown for non-covid related causes.
Missed doctor treatments.
Cancelled appointments.
Etc.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 04, 2022 03:17 PM (axyOa)
Do not for even one minute think that the climate change models might suffer serious problems. Don't even go there, you fucking rubes. Trust the models. Trust the science.
Posted by: Creased-pants set at February 04, 2022 03:17 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 04, 2022 03:17 PM (3YVs3)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 04, 2022 03:10 PM (lDvMn)
You are way late. Remember the "I'm not gonna shut down the country" tweet from Gruyere Brain? That was specifically branded to shift the blame for locking down on Trump.
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 03:17 PM (etl9f)
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 03:18 PM (qpolg)
Posted by: david cocksucker french is down with the black man, yo at February 04, 2022 03:18 PM (lDvMn)
you knew that was bullcrap, right?
he was just making a point of how much he hated all those governors
he's a jackass
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 04, 2022 03:18 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Diamond Princess at February 04, 2022 03:18 PM (l8gTz)
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 0
........
or the Golden Corral.
Posted by: wth at February 04, 2022 03:18 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:17 PM (II3Gr)
Oooh, VAX me Amadeus.
You're welcome.......
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 04, 2022 03:18 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 04, 2022 03:18 PM (pmhDC)
The 21st century has been all about pointless, bloody, expensive losing wars.
And now like the enslaved nations of old we parade our finest slaves down the boulevard of the capital of our conquering nation.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 04, 2022 03:18 PM (i250B)
It's only been bad for the rubes and rube-adjacent. And they don't matter, right?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (Hica+)
You're welcome.......
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)
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Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
There's something really aggressive about just STANDING THERE, like that.
- MSM
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)
And in this, they were able to pit us against each other in a far more personal way than traditional political fights have.
==
THIS.
The vax is a purge operation. The information age is all about identifying who the trouble makers are . . .
Posted by: So helpful at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (AZAjD)
Kneel before me. I said... kneel! Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power. For identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Iris at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (DibdT)
This is an incoherent means of saying that the modeling techniques are the same as those used for economics. Which is also true of global warming.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (z5Vrg)
@bennyjohnson
3m
BREAKING: Creepy Porn Lawyer Michael Avenatti found GUILTY of bilking Stormy Daniels out of nearly $300K in book proceeds, Faces up to 20 Years in PRISON
Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (NpAcC)
And kids are hardest hit.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (KiBMU)
It was well known that Ferguson has always been way off base and cost the UK billions regard to his eleventy mad cow disease modeling. Another example of Trump's staff letting him down. We allowed two known liars and frauds to set policy. It's an understatement to say Trump was hoodwinked . Not his finest hour.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (Kz9dH)
Doctor : Oh, no, no. In fact, even a slight breeze could...
Joe Biden : [leaves the office, to himself] Indestructible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:17 PM (LvTSG)
Thought of this exact scene last night!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (KbCG3)
If you have a good answer, or even better, dispositive data, you'll bore people's balls off rebutting other points of view.
OTOH, if you have to silence other people, you've got bupkis.
This is known.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (YqDXo)
I was looking for new music on youtube and it came up with some German Industrial song where the premise of the video seemed to be some hot demon looking girl sitting on a throne was injecting scared looking people with....some drug...and getting off on it.
At first I thought it was a clever attack on COVID porn and clot shot mandates. Then I realized these were Germans, and they probably WERE getting off on it.
Posted by: Obligatory at February 04, 2022 03:20 PM (ESjRY)
@bennyjohnson
3m
BREAKING: Creepy Porn Lawyer Michael Avenatti found GUILTY of bilking Stormy Daniels out of nearly $300K in book proceeds, Faces up to 20 Years in PRISON
Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (NpAcC)
Come to daddy.
- Prison Bull
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)
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Stairs are his kryptonite.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:20 PM (YqDXo)
***
Better start working on those squats, Michael.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 04, 2022 03:20 PM (W3VUu)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:21 PM (II3Gr)
It was always "just look at that bitch over there eating crackers." irrational hate.
Trump never recognized Covid was an ambush-- it didn't matter what he did, when or how well, they meant to kill him.
Posted by: Well at February 04, 2022 03:21 PM (DFoF/)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2022 03:11 PM (ZLI7S)
Yikes.
Posted by: m at February 04, 2022 03:21 PM (ugYvB)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:08 PM (LvTSG)
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 03:11 PM (TDj17)
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So uncouth.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:12 PM (LvTSG)
If we were couth, we would burn it to the ground, scatter the stones, and salt the earth where it stood.
Posted by: Roy at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (Ti+Tv)
Posted by: Obligatory at February 04, 2022 03:20 PM (ESjRY)
Yeah, they're pretty fucking weird.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (II3Gr)
Stay Safe!
Don't Be Racist!
Obey!
Posted by: david cocksucker french is down with the black man, yo
........
Wash your mask
Wear your hands
Posted by: wth at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (txdEq)
It was well known that Ferguson has always been way off base and cost the UK billions regard to his eleventy mad cow disease modeling.
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But global warming modeling is totes reliable, amirite?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:04 PM (Ez6QX)
Try whispering it, Biden style.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (a/dOO)
The model was so wrong in fact that acting in 180 degree opposition to it may have resulted in better outcomes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:15 PM (DU+/6)
A programmer got hold of the model and found it gave different results each time it was run. Some bad code.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (eoQWY)
The people who thought government could solve everything had their chance. The failure of government to solve anything is the fault of those who thought the government can't solve everything.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (/U27+)
https://tinyurl.com/2p8mky8c
Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (NpAcC)
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The right people were not in charge. Next time it will work.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (iDcra)
Posted by: Iris at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (DibdT)
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It's a mere statistical analysis and no virologists were consulted! Until the NIH agrees this is Fake News, like those horrible Barrington Declaration people!
Posted by: Karen Mengele-Fauci at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (j5ceG)
Oh, wait. Yes, it was. It all was, and is.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (jTmQV)
It's easy. Just take jurisdictions that locked down and didn't, that masked and didn't. Find the date of the rule and look at +|- 4 weeks from that date. Look at the test positivity rate, the mortality rate and the hospitalization rate. Control for population if you want to, but doing rates in each jurisdiction is a pretty good first step.
Then see what happens. And what happens when you do that? No correlation. There was no difference between lockdown jurisdictions and non-lockdown jurisdictions. There was no difference between mask jurisdictions and non-mask jurisdictions. Some were higher, some were lower, but all are within the margin of error with a slight *negative* correlation, though not significant.
And this was plainly obvious by May of 2020 and utterly unquestionable (zero opposing data points) by August of 2020.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (eoQWY)
Could just be using Monte Carlo simulations.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:20 PM (YqDXo)
He's a Dalek v1.0? This would explain a lot.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (II3Gr)
I'm looking at cheap stuff. We used to have a guy live at the trailer on the river place and the cops visited him several times. So I know what the backside of a door they kicked in looks like.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 04, 2022 03:23 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: washrivergal
There was a 20 something nice looking man in a suit sitting in the office building lobby earlier this week. Wearing a mask and on his little laptop, He was there for a few hours. The lobby is 2 stories tall and open. Gave me the stink eye cause I looked at him like he was a leper. These people are mentally broken.
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 03:23 PM (qpolg)
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 03:23 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 04, 2022 03:23 PM (BFigT)
The model was so wrong in fact that acting in 180 degree opposition to it may have resulted in better outcomes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:15 PM (DU+/6)
A programmer got hold of the model and found it gave different results each time it was run. Some bad code.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (eoQWY)
That's because you aren't an EXPERT! and you aren't SMAHHHHHRT enough to use it right!!!
Posted by: Karen #89561053 at February 04, 2022 03:23 PM (llON8)
The vax is a purge operation. The information age is all about identifying who the trouble makers are . . .
Posted by: So helpful at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (AZAjD)
Oooh, I've always been a goody-goody, never a troublemaker. This is kind of exciting...
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:23 PM (Ez6QX)
@bennyjohnson
3m
BREAKING: Creepy Porn Lawyer Michael Avenatti found GUILTY of bilking Stormy Daniels out of nearly $300K in book proceeds, Faces up to 20 Years in PRISON
Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (NpAcC)
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But will get community service for a few weekends.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:23 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (eoQWY)
Whoops! Guess I forgot to remove the part that generates a random number from the current UTC time!
~ Model designer
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 03:23 PM (TDj17)
Blaming the loss on an outlier group (unvaxxed are like the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire). Check.
Massive expenditures and debt that would take millennia to pay. Check.
Unnecessary loss of life. Check.
Reorganizing society on war footing. Check.
Kowtowing (NPI) to our conquerors. Check.
Political upheaval and imposition of puppet. Check.
Like losing a war.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 04, 2022 03:23 PM (i250B)
Posted by: redridinghood
..........
So.
Does this mean he's not gonna be president?
Posted by: wth at February 04, 2022 03:23 PM (v0R5T)
Joe Rogan: Aliens and Lizard People Walk Amongst Us
Fact Check Unnecessary
Joe Rogan: This Nobel Prize Winner Says Vaccines May Not Be a Good Idea
fAcT cHeCk!
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 04, 2022 03:23 PM (YA914)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 03:23 PM (/U27+)
I never sheltered in place, not even at the beginning of this madness. It was *so great* to have the roads to myself.
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 03:24 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: D. French at February 04, 2022 03:24 PM (lvxto)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 04, 2022 03:24 PM (j5ceG)
Posted by: Well
Posted by: Mark Meadows Whistling As He Strolls By Making Jerk Motions at February 04, 2022 03:24 PM (GYllL)
Ace of Spades isn't on his list.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2022 03:24 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (YqDXo)
I remember seeing one of their models outputs and seeing temperatures of over 200 degrees in a corner over Lake Michigan. C or F, thats a joke.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 03:24 PM (eoQWY)
https://bit.ly/3GtIexx
Posted by: Catherine at February 04, 2022 03:24 PM (ZSsrh)
missed ya
and you're right
it's a war. they've almost won it.
but not quite.
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 04, 2022 03:24 PM (j9HX3)
Let that sink in, the "experts" promised us that we could mitigate this thing in two weeks.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 04, 2022 03:24 PM (bVYXr)
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (eoQWY)
++++
Just like the CRU climate models (the Climategate stuff). Those gave different results and the algorithms and math were incomprehensible and poorly documented, full of corrections and rounding and other lazy, sloppy, ill-intended sticksaves.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:24 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 04, 2022 03:24 PM (nxdel)
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And lying. Please don't forget the lying.
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 03:24 PM (etl9f)
Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 03:24 PM (oiGnp)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 04, 2022 03:24 PM (iDcra)
The mandates should be done retroactively, like yesterday.
Too much weasel language
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 03:25 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 04, 2022 03:25 PM (5HBd1)
Which is really just a technology based flavor of the good old Communist Party Purge of undesirables.
Hillary was ahead of her time.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 04, 2022 03:25 PM (4fSQf)
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A middle-aged woman turned the corner, saw me unmasked, and reacted like she'd seen a rattlesnake.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:25 PM (YqDXo)
and they can do this to me any time they feel like it.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2022 03:25 PM (ZMraq)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:04 PM (Ez6QX)
Try whispering it, Biden style.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (a/dOO)
I say coat them in pitch and use them as torches to light our evening soiree.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:25 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 03:14 PM (pnzcV)
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Hauling sailboat fuel?
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at February 04, 2022 03:25 PM (CKevK)
Posted by: redridinghood
..........
So.
Does this mean he's not gonna be president?
Posted by: wth at February 04, 2022 03:23 PM (v0R5T)
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Between this news and the Zucker Zapping, Tater is having a rough week. Ha!
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (j5ceG)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:25 PM (YqDXo)
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You can't be that ugly, can you?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (LvTSG)
I like!
Use it in your conversations and texts the next few weeks with everyone you know. That's Irish Democracy in action.
That's how it works.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (sy5kK)
Fellow Homo Sapiensssss, are we going to take these sorts of liesssss from Joe Rogan? How long mussssst we put up with thissss sort of hate from a man like thissss?
We musssst end him and feasssst upon hissss flessssh. Yessss we mussst now...
Posted by: Lizard Cheney at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 03:11 PM (GYllL)
Yesterday. Especially the ones who wouldn't give medical exemptions to patients with physical problems who shouldn't have to take the jabs.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (YiTfq)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Probably received millions for their "work."
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (XSRBF)
This is how they will shift the narrative. It'll be like you can't even imagine.
Posted by: its not going to be pretty"
I wish I could say that is not possible but seeing how they change the narrative on global warming to match data I fear you are correct. For example, they started claiming a few years ago that they always predicted LESS hurricanes with their models, despite screaming the exact opposite for 20 years. And will say later every single hurricane is caused by global warming. The capacity for doublethink in the left is truly disturbing.
Posted by: Ripley at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (z5Vrg)
Has any one tried this? Can it work?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (txdEq)
Wolfus,
Go back and view the YouTube video link.
It worked!
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (BgMrQ)
How many lives did putting arrows in the stores to direct traffic save?
How many lives did those dots and stuff in lines to show social distancing save?
How many lives did quarantining the entire world for months save?
How much did any of this stuff actually do? Because next big sick they're gonna want to pull the same stupid crap and we need hard numbers to show if it worked or not.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (z5Vrg)
++++
It uses something like that, I'm sure. The CRU climate models did, too. The problem is getting results that are outside the boundaries that the statistics and stochastics would indicate and having those extreme results often be non-reproducible because the software just doesn't work well, is poorly programmed and poorly documented so no one can really figure out how it works.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (DU+/6)
I say coat them in pitch and use them as torches to light our evening soiree.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:25 PM (II3Gr)
How Nero. Me likey.
Posted by: Roy at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (Ti+Tv)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:25 PM (YqDXo)
She might have been reacting to the lack of pants.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (II3Gr)
Power Bottom Tater hardest hit
I am gonna go out on a limb and guess that nearly every liberal talking chickenhead sucked this guy's dick.
Why, yes. I am looking at you, Alison Camerota.
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (lvxto)
Stay Safe!
Don't Be Racist!
Obey!
Posted by: david cocksucker french is down with the black man, yo
If I had the money, I'd love to buy some billboards along the freeway that just said "OBEY!"
Very 1984'ish.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 04, 2022 03:27 PM (axyOa)
Power Bottom Tater hardest hit
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 04, 2022 03:24 PM (iDcra)
*******
As well as Ana Navarro
Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 03:27 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (LvTSG)
Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want To Get Off
--Troy McClure
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 04, 2022 03:27 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 04, 2022
***
One of my coworkers has been so brainwashed by all this that -- even though our also-brainwashed boss is not in to check on us today -- she wanted me to continue to wear the face diaper in the breakroom with her and her part-time assistant while I grabbed a coffee. I commented, "This muzzle business makes as much sense as expecting a chain-link fence to protect you from a mosquito."
The assistant laughed. She didn't.
No wonder I no longer have any respect for this place or the supposed smart people who pretend to lead it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 04, 2022 03:27 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (NpAcC)
Life comes at you fast.
I swear Trump took out his curse ray this week and just stuck it over the hedge line at Mar-a-lago and did a spray and pray.
Posted by: blaster at February 04, 2022 03:27 PM (9otr5)
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 03:27 PM (qpolg)
Were you hanging brain?
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 03:27 PM (lvxto)
They can and will do this to us again.
It sucks but sometimes you gotta just pick up and leave a poisoned land.
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 04, 2022 03:27 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Big Star at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (Modkf)
After he was fired, some other programmers reverse engineered his code, and reported that his algorithm was designed to "forecast" 2 million deaths no matter what numbers you entered iinto it. Seriously. As you say, shit from the start.
Oh, and all the people who at first announced that they had checked his calculations and that they were good (important institutions and outlets like the Lancet) then admitted that no, they actually hadn't bother to check anything, because time was of the essence and it was For the Public Good.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2022 03:27 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: davidt at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (yDmyH)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (Vxu+H)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 04, 2022 03:23 PM (BFigT)
It is sad. They're like the friend who won't move from his chair when his favorite team is ahead. At an intellectual level, you'd think he could understand that his actions have no affect on the outcome, but from an emotional level, dammit, it's worked so far and what if I change and something bad happens?
Posted by: Wally at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (FJYfm)
Posted by: Joe Einstein at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: leber at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (YTgtN)
***
Have you tried smiling more?
Posted by: Azathoth at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (W3VUu)
Oh yeah. Places like Uber and Amazon did enormously better because of the lockdowns. Streaming services did gangbusters. Some people profited enormously and in a strange coincidence were the biggest most strident supporters of lockdowns and making it miserable to go anywhere.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (KZzsI)
It was always "just look at that bitch over there eating crackers." irrational hate.
Trump never recognized Covid was an ambush-- it didn't matter what he did, when or how well, they meant to kill him.
Posted by: Well at February 04, 2022 03:21 PM (DFoF/)
yup, damned if you do, damned if you don't. If he did nothing, and god forbid this thing ended up like ebola they would have executed him for war crimes with the media leading the charge. It wouldn't have mattered what he did, so something was better than nothing.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (VwHCD)
181 A middle-aged woman turned the corner, saw me unmasked, and reacted like she'd seen a rattlesnake.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:25 PM (YqDXo)
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You can't be that ugly, can you?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
It does kinda feel like we're being treated like The Elephant Man.
Posted by: david cocksucker french is down with the black man, yo at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (lDvMn)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:25 PM (YqDXo)
She might have been reacting to the lack of pants.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (II3Gr)
What do you think this is, the Book Thread?!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (sVfvf)
Posted by: Flyover, what with eyeballs rollin' in 2022 at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (Rbu5d)
And kids are hardest hit.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (KiBMU)
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Last night I saw some of the men's figure skating - they make them throw on a mask right after they skate while waiting for the scores, and the N95 or whatever it is is collapsing/expanding like crazy. It's insane
Posted by: jhawk90 at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (oOgy+)
It's going to take a long time to sort out what's happened, and none of the disruption was necessary or even justifiable/
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD
My useless FOP took the city to arbitration for forcing the vax on police officers. We lost arbitration, and the fire department won. Anyone who doesn't get at least the first jab by mid February will be put on leave, forced to use sick time, and eventually be fired.
We went from a 6,500 member department to around 4,000 in two years. Firing these cops will destroy the city.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (XSRBF)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022
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How Nero. Me likey.
Posted by: Roy at February 04, 2022
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Okay if you like the smell of roast pork. That could ruin the flavor of the actual dinner, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (txdEq)
Remember that "Jurassic Park" was made through computer modeling. What comes out depends on the code, and what data went in.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:29 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 03:24 PM (DJFLF)
Yes that was great. It disgusted me though that I was issued 'papers' to show the authorities I was an essential worker if I happened to be stopped.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 04, 2022 03:29 PM (Kz9dH)
Blackface is only meant for Halloween parties.
Posted by: Roy at February 04, 2022 03:29 PM (Ti+Tv)
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 03:29 PM (etl9f)
Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (NpAcC)
YES!!! Oh I have been waiting for this! I wonder if the juror who was wrecking things got thrown out by the Judge, the other 11 asked him to toss her ass out this morning.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2022 03:29 PM (trdmm)
It's Good Fun Kiddies
Joe Rogan: I Took Ivermectin
He's A Dangerous Influence on Our Children!
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 04, 2022 03:29 PM (YA914)
We have become The Phantom of the Plandemic Soap Opera.
Posted by: david cocksucker french is down with the black man, yo at February 04, 2022 03:29 PM (lDvMn)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:29 PM (KZzsI)
I don't know one person in the department who received an exemption. There may be people who have, but I haven't heard.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 03:29 PM (XSRBF)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 04, 2022 03:24 PM (j5ceG)
I thought he broke protocol and went to her place...
Potatoes / Potahtoes
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 04, 2022 03:29 PM (BgMrQ)
He's gonna be in court years to face all the many, many charges against him. He'll skate on some, get some reduced, but I don't think this man will ever be out of jail again. And boy does he have it coming.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:30 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: jhawk90 at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (oOgy+)
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You WATCHED that?? NTTAWWT.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:30 PM (YqDXo)
and real numbers on Covid deaths are hard to come by, since people dying from anything were listed as covid death if they had a positive test, or even if they had similar symptoms. (and were they really counting flu deaths as Covid?)
One big PsyOp ... even though Covid could be deadly, everything about the response was malicious ... lockdowns, masks, small business shut down, pallets of "mail in ballots", hate/camps for the unvaxxed, etc.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 04, 2022 03:30 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2022 03:30 PM (2JoB8)
I thought he broke protocol and went to her place...
Potatoes / Potahtoes
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot
I'm sure Stetler wasn't participating. He likes to watch
Posted by: Bruce at February 04, 2022 03:31 PM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Ripley at February 04, 2022 03:31 PM (MxEKc)
How Nero. Me likey.
Posted by: Roy at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (Ti+Tv)
You asked for it.
https://youtu.be/bE47er6qnqg
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 04, 2022 03:31 PM (j5ceG)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:25 PM (YqDXo)
I love it when that happens.
I jump back, stare hard for a second and then begin to pretend I'm puking.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 04, 2022 03:31 PM (axyOa)
He's got a few cases with much higher dollar figures and much shadier racketeering, doesn't he?
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 03:31 PM (lvxto)
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 03:27 PM (qpolg)
I worked from home for two weeks in November/December 2020 when I was quarantining because husband caught it. Other than that, I've been at work.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:31 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: callsign claymore at February 04, 2022 03:31 PM (Q8qgB)
You have a question, what are the odds the object "rolls" a five?
You decide to assume that the object has six sides. Your model then tells you the answer is 1 in 6.
This is what modeling is like, with usually a low level understanding that you're choosing assumptions at all.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 03:31 PM (z5Vrg)
They're going to love him in gen pop.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 03:32 PM (XSRBF)
My half dozen University of Washington scientist buddies were FIRST in telling us that Covid will kill 3 million Americans. They also hang with those that are key at getting me big political donations, so they obviously are correct about Covid.
And I have shut down my state, (except for Amazon and Starbucks - essential businesses) because the tens of thousands of small businesses that are now dead are but a small price to pay. For truth!
Don't believe these Hopkins liars!
Posted by: Emperor Jay Inslee at February 04, 2022 03:32 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (Vxu+H)
They are the ones that always think they know better. We have met people like this our whole lives, and they are always bumbling idiots. They are legion on the left. Look at prezzy potato head, he was the cliff clavin of the senate. These people can't count their balls and come up with the same number twice, but they always think they know better.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 03:32 PM (VwHCD)
So about women's sufferage...
Posted by: The Man Show with Carolla and Kimmel at February 04, 2022 03:32 PM (ESjRY)
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The purpose was to lockdown dissent. A Plague distraction does that. See paranoid Wine Moms for the vector.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 04, 2022 03:32 PM (sVfvf)
https://tinyurl.com/2p8u3jtu
I know gigantic bribes are involved and everything but China has had the Olympics twice in the last decade and never should have had them once.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:32 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: mikethemoose at February 04, 2022 03:32 PM (T/vhV)
For 0.2%, we locked ourselves down for a year and a half.
For 0.2% - think of all the people who died alone because family members weren't allowed in.
For 0.2% - think of all the people in long term care facilities who were denied the company of family and friends - yet staff were allowed to come and go (and infect the residents with their COVID).
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 04, 2022 03:32 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:25 PM (YqDXo)
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You can't be that ugly, can you?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I'm no Rob Lowe, but then, she was no Christy Brinkley, either. Although her mask was a merciful touch.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:33 PM (YqDXo)
We went from a 6,500 member department to around 4,000 in two years. Firing these cops will destroy the city.
holy shit Wyatt that is not good.
what are you going to do? did you already get the shots? if not get J&J. take baby aspirin at least the week before then for a week or two after. safest option right now until they start letting us have Novavax.
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 04, 2022 03:33 PM (j9HX3)
How many people here know what that means ? I'll bet not many. So here it goes.
A Monte Carlo sim is where you write a math model - as simple as two variable, X and Y, just like your high school days in geometry - and then you put random numbers into the X. The only trick is, the X is within bounds, that's the "genius" of a Monte Carlo sim. It's not truly random - it's bounded by the author.
So your health experts write a sim, which could be entirely skewed toward a certain outcome - but hey, it's "randomized". As much as the randomized seeds are limited by the bounds the author created.
Great fucking way to determine public policy. No way to skew that shit at all.
Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 03:33 PM (oiGnp)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 04, 2022 03:30 PM (Cus5s)
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There is no doubt in my mind about this. The number of old people in nursing homes who got dementia because of their treatment and lockdowns are probably close to the total number of actual COVID deaths all on their own. Then there's the deaths of despair (drug overdose, suicide, alcohol-related deaths, etc.), the deferred or absent medical treatment, rise in obesity and heart problems as a result, etc.
I have no doubt that the cure was worse than the disease, which is made all the worse because the cure didn't work in the first place.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:33 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 03:33 PM (qpolg)
tritorch
Feb 3·edited Feb 3
Now Hopkins is doing a deliberately timed 180 to further the division and discord. All of this was outlined by John Hopkins in their SPARS 2025-2028 publication from a few years ago:
https://tinyurl.com/bdf7w5vw
It reads like an instructional manual to whats going on now, and includes a section on how to spin everything once the jig is up.
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 03:33 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 04, 2022 03:33 PM (j5ceG)
Posted by: bonhomme
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Most problems in policy do not involve a 'right' answer because people differ on tradeoffs and will promptly only consider evidence that supports their policy preferences. Policymakers should know better but are human. So, the policy choice all becomes who is superior in power to impose their narrative on the other side regardless of the facts. The facts are used like lawyers in order to present their case that their chosen policy is 'correct'. There is no recognition that most research is probabilistic in its findings and subject to revision.
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 03:33 PM (Iq9dF)
Yeah I don't think his time in stir is going to be very pleasant. He's a sleazeball lawyer who ripped off his clients, he represents everything cons hate about lawyers. And more than a few convicts are MAGA types. I don't see his time there being comfortable.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:34 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 04, 2022 03:32 PM (sVfvf)
Right. And that's one reason I still contend that plandemic was designed to happen under Hillary for maximum communism.
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 03:34 PM (etl9f)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 03:34 PM (us2H3)
I take a multi vitamin every day, along with calcium and Vitamin D.
I wash my hands, but not obsessively.
I lived my life for the last 2 years.
It is really sad that about one third of the country is completely invested in Covid panic porn and cannot accept that our leaders told big lies.
And we have ruined the children and made them afraid of everything.
Posted by: Czech Chick at February 04, 2022 03:35 PM (dqxMS)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2022 03:35 PM (trdmm)
I know gigantic bribes are involved and everything but China has had the Olympics twice in the last decade and never should have had them once.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:32 PM (KZzsI)
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The IOC makes FIFA look honest.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 03:35 PM (/U27+)
So your health experts write a sim, which could be entirely skewed toward a certain outcome - but hey, it's "randomized". As much as the randomized seeds are limited by the bounds the author created.
Great fucking way to determine public policy. No way to skew that shit at all.
Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 03:33 PM (oiGnp)
The point of Monte Carlo sims isn't the randomization, but that it allows you to combine distributions. Avoids overly cumbersome matrix multiplication.
Like if you have a bunch of possible states, multiplied by a bunch more possible states, multiplied by a bunch more possible states that all go into the final outcome.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 03:35 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: callsign claymore at February 04, 2022 03:35 PM (Q8qgB)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 04, 2022 03:36 PM (iDcra)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2022 03:35 PM (trdmm)
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Silly fools.
Should have concentrated on cheating rather than influence. They would have gotten away with it then.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:36 PM (LvTSG)
For 0.2%, we locked ourselves down for a year and a half.
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It's worse than that. The article says the lockdown reduced mortality by 0.2%.
But the mortality is only around 0.2% itself. So the reduction in absolute mortality is 0.2% X 0.2%, i.e., (2/100) X (2/100), or 4 cases/10,000 cases, which is approximately the square root of shit.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:36 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 04, 2022 03:36 PM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 04, 2022 03:36 PM (h1jJh)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
*Lifetime movie idea*
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 03:36 PM (qpolg)
Time is relative.
Posted by: Joe Einstein
Leap Weeks
Posted by: JT at February 04, 2022 03:36 PM (arJlL)
I think that was Obama's mistake. When he pitched Chicago as an Olympic site, he didn't have the baksheesh, just assumed his wonderfulness and golden tongue was going to seal the deal.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:36 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Nome de Plume
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I've used Monte Carlo sims mainly for things like estimating 'true' std. errors of model variables aka 'robust' models. That being said, it is best used for a tool with bad data as simply ONE of the ways to analyze the dataset. There are other means as well.
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 03:36 PM (Iq9dF)
Has the NYT and Savannah Guthrie seen this Uyghur handing out medals?
https://tinyurl.com/5ss4m23p
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 03:36 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 04, 2022 03:36 PM (6Jta1)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 04, 2022 03:36 PM (UuD2k)
My ears are burning.
Posted by: Robert Reich at February 04, 2022 03:36 PM (l8gTz)
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The Olympics are a money loser for the host country. Its a vanity thing like the WAPO and NYTs.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 04, 2022 03:37 PM (sVfvf)
Or alternatively...
A cadre of people need to be introduced to the rough justice only an industrial wood chipper can dispense.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 04, 2022 03:37 PM (2R+p+)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 03:34 PM
SQUEEEEEEEE!
Posted by: Johnny Weir at February 04, 2022 03:37 PM (lqNK8)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
They'll get it again before 2040. The Olympics just love them some China.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 03:37 PM (XSRBF)
Hahaha HAHAHAHAHA
Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at February 04, 2022 03:37 PM (EjmGU)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 03:34 PM (us2H3)
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And on bigscreens in bathhouses. Fauci's probably a big fan.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:37 PM (YqDXo)
I live somewhere sensible. Lockdowns ended May, 2020. Mask mandates ended March, 2021. I've never been Karened or asked for a vaxx passport.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 03:37 PM (/U27+)
My ears are burning.
Posted by: Robert Reich at February 04, 2022 03:36 PM (l8gTz)
I have a Nobel Prize.
Posted by: Paul Krugman at February 04, 2022 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 04, 2022 03:38 PM (Kz9dH)
There's also the flu, which apparently vanished last winter, but I guess is back? Kinda weird, either way.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at February 04, 2022 03:38 PM (l8gTz)
It is really sad that about one third of the country is completely invested in Covid panic porn and cannot accept that our leaders told big lies. ...
Posted by: Czech Chick at February 04, 2022 03:35 PM (dqxMS)
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Yup, ditto. I got it (have it now). It sucks. I am one of the vast majority that is doing okay so far, and it's likely I got the new hotness version that isn't so bad. I was just resigned to it. Why was I resigned to it? Because I am living my life and all data I could find indicated that none of the responses worked. But the COVID terror for so many is very real. To some degree, I even get it because if you're very physically weak or very old or both, it can be really bad. If you're in that situation, you should really try to not get sick (whether the 'Vid or the flu).
But that is not reason enough to burn down the world and engender a culture of terror in vast cross-sections of the population.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:38 PM (DU+/6)
There's a lot of blood on the hands of Fauchi.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:38 PM (KZzsI)
Science - "Lockdowns resulted in only .2% reduction in mortality"
Karen - "OMG!! Total success!!!!!!!"
Posted by: DPICM at February 04, 2022 03:38 PM (M2VUX)
Has any one tried this? Can it work?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 04, 2022
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Wolfus,
Go back and view the YouTube video link.
It worked!
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 04, 2022
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With my luck, Lousy-ana law -- which is different from the law in all the other states -- might prohibit this. The website has not yet put up the necessary info about this state. Still, if the city and the state could be frightened into dropping the nonsense, my employer might follow suit.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 04, 2022 03:38 PM (txdEq)
We are coming for you.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 04, 2022 03:36 PM (6Jta1)
Newsletter?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2022 03:39 PM (llON8)
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Au contraire, they should have them there every time. Let the Chinese pay for all the crap and put up with the problems.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:39 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, just spitballin' here at February 04, 2022 03:39 PM (n/szn)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at February 04, 2022 03:39 PM (T+i9f)
I have a philosophy of life: if something feels wrong, it is wrong. My subconscious knows it is wrong but it has not yet got around to telling my frontal lobe how and why it is wrong.
That's me, a normal person. So what's the "smaht" set's excuse?
Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 04, 2022 03:39 PM (N2gf7)
Studies show.
Models indicate.
Statistics prove.
Experts claim.
Temporary.
Societal good.
Misinformation.
Crime bill.
Posted by: Some Rat at February 04, 2022 03:39 PM (r1z5A)
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I wouldn't care what the guy looks like, but I'm not an idiot who votes on superficialities. Personally, he's Prime Minister Propeller Beanie to me.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 04, 2022 03:39 PM (sVtYq)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:38 PM (DU+/6)
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"Everyone should go outside, get some vitamin D, and get fit."
-2 years ago advice that would have been nice
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:39 PM (LvTSG)
I think that was Obama's mistake. When he pitched Chicago as an Olympic site, he didn't have the baksheesh, just assumed his wonderfulness and golden tongue was going to seal the deal.
IMO, Chicago dodged a bullet, there. When as hosting the Olympics been a net gain for the actual city and its environs? Lots of costs and unused infrastructure and graft and debt.
Posted by: Robert Reich at February 04, 2022 03:39 PM (l8gTz)
Posted by: Braenyard at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (m+yM6)
There's a lot of blood on the hands of Fauchi.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:38 PM (KZzsI)
He should be launched into space without a suit....or ship.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Lance McCormick at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (l8gTz)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (etl9f)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (yQpMk)
It came out recently that the number of COVID deaths in the US with no co-morbidities was...50K.
We know every death *with* COVID was counted as a death *from* COVID, so that means the low count for deaths over the last two years is 50k. Which is...lower then the "seasonal flu".
That doesn't mean the real number isn't higher, but it is basically impossible to assess between the current touted number and 50K because the data has been intentionally spoiled.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (ESjRY)
Its hard to judge exactly. Sometimes the Olympics have made money (Lee Ioccoca figured out how to merchandise it for example), but the money isn't in the Olympics so much as the floods of tourists that show up at the site and from then on go to it. Seattle is STILL milking their Olympic site from the 70s for tourist cash even though its pretty shabby at this point.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (KZzsI)
Should have concentrated on cheating rather than influence. They would have gotten away with it then.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:36 PM (LvTSG)
It's like everyone who had anything to do with CNN over the last 5 years are all going down hard at the same time, isn't it? The Cuomo's, Zucker, Avenatti, the Pedo producers - you know Lemon and Stelter are getting told to step into the batters box and face the heat.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (trdmm)
We should all agree that misinformation is very, very dangerous and we should control what gets said and by whom.
Let me introduce the social scoring system. Three strikes and your Gulag'ed!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (4fSQf)
Posted by: Ian S. at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 04, 2022 03:37 PM (sVfvf)
Yes. The best thing that could happen is for our athletes to come back and talk about how terrible things are there, what a charade this all was, and how no American should go over there. At least make this so it's not a public relations coup for China.
Posted by: Wally at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (FJYfm)
There's also the flu, which apparently vanished last winter, but I guess is back? Kinda weird, either way.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at February 04, 2022 03:38 PM (l8gTz)
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The data on Covid deaths have been more massaged than Kobe beef.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (YqDXo)
You're a brilliant writer, don't waste it on those nobodies.
Posted by: parsimony at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (X1xq4)
https://is.gd/USrA7y
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:25 PM (YqDXo)
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This is not an uncommon occurrence, unfortunately. We are living in very strange dynamics; you've got normal people just going about their business who, like a jolt out of the blue are suddenly subjected to someone else's total paranoia. And you know why instantly.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (pmhDC)
https://tinyurl.com/yc82jnds
Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 03:41 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 04, 2022 03:39 PM (N2gf7)
They're very good at telling their conscience to STFU!
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at February 04, 2022 03:41 PM (QYPq3)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 03:41 PM (sy5kK)
https://tinyurl.com/yzn4uuuk
Posted by: Heidi at February 04, 2022 03:41 PM (RoIW/)
>>We don't even know the real numbers regard to Covid deaths. Any the fact that they attempted to say we were relatively flu free for almost two years is ridiculous on its face.
Based on the available data, we deduced they were cooking the books to the tune of 80pct back in June of 2020.
Again, Industrial wood chippers.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 04, 2022 03:41 PM (2R+p+)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 04, 2022 03:41 PM (BFigT)
"Everyone should go outside, get some vitamin D, and get fit."
-2 years ago advice that would have been nice
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:39 PM (LvTSG)
There's a global vitamin D deficiency because they've pushed skin cancer sofa king hard that everyone fears the SUN. Covid likely wouldn't have done SHIT had people just gotten the average amount of sun they're supposed to.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)
But I think Toronto has met its match. It looks like the rest of the country is ready to tell them to pound sand and get back to living their lives.
We are what, two weeks into the trucker strike? The shelves have got to be starting to get pretty bare.
I think of this as the modern day equivalent of a city siege.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at February 04, 2022 03:41 PM (5p7BC)
We went from a 6,500 member department to around 4,000 in two years. Firing these cops will destroy the city.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (XSRBF)
I am kind of in the same predicament. Right now there is a hold on all exemptions where I work. Two medical doctors refused to grant me a justified medical exemption for my since birth medical problem. Now waiting on a religious exemption, which is on hold.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at February 04, 2022 03:41 PM (YiTfq)
She looks ready to reach for her pepper spray
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:42 PM (KZzsI)
There's a lot of blood on the hands of Fauchi.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:38 PM (KZzsI)
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The Hopkins study estimated this number at 250,000 in the U.S., according to the author during his appearance on Tucker Carlson on Tuesday.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 04, 2022 03:42 PM (j5ceG)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:38 PM (DU+/6)
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How much of that terror is attributable to the denial of potentially effective therapeutics? It's not answerable. Yes it is real. Yes, there is some amount that was manufactured for financial and political purposes.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 03:42 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:38 PM (KZzsI)
He should be launched into space without a suit....or ship.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Blow him the fuck up on the launch pad.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 03:42 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 03:42 PM (etl9f)
Posted by: Ian S. at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (ZGrMX)
We're still gonna need you to get vaxxed.
Posted by: Israeli Government at February 04, 2022 03:42 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February
Huh?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2022 03:42 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 04, 2022 03:38 PM (txdEq)
Yeah, Napoleonic Law...or sumtin like dat.
I can't imagine that it can't work in the other 57 states.
Grab 'em by their balls ($$$), and their hearts and minds will follow...
I really wish more of the Horde picked up on that post
***sigh***
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 04, 2022 03:42 PM (BgMrQ)
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Let's turn him over to HAL. He can be shot out into space without a tether.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 04, 2022 03:42 PM (sVtYq)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp
Yes, it will along with tourism.
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 03:42 PM (Iq9dF)
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I wouldn't care what the guy looks like, but I'm not an idiot who votes on superficialities. Personally, he's Prime Minister Propeller Beanie to me.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 04, 2022 023:39 PM (sVtYq)
Canada has a similar problem to California's; 5 big liberal cities control all the politics. What the people outside of those cities want don't mean shit anymore.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2022 03:42 PM (trdmm)
My investments did great without any magical insider knowledge last year too. But Corn Pop's lack-of-an-economy is starting to pull them back hard.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 04, 2022 03:42 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 03:43 PM (us2H3)
Posted by: Czech Chick "
I have told my kids since the beginning most of what they hear about the pandemic is BS. You are not going to die and not going to the hospital. They both had mild cases and recovered fine in a few days. They look at the panic with the same amusement and frustration I do. Unfortunately there are millions of kids that have absorbed and internalized the fear and panic. This is the most despicable aspect of this entire farce
Posted by: Ripley at February 04, 2022 03:43 PM (MxEKc)
https://bit.ly/3GtIexx
Posted by: Catherine at February 04, 2022 03:24 PM (ZSsrh)
Just self-reported so should be ignored. /sarc
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:43 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (trdmm)
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Discovery wants a clean CNN when they take over. That's not going to leave much from the old guard left. It doesn't help that CNN seems to have exclusively hired backstabbing and vicious animals.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 03:43 PM (LvTSG)
"She has a good soul!!1!!1!"
--Erick Erickson and David French
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:43 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 04, 2022 03:43 PM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)
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It would have done some. It's a new virus and it makes people sick and it is bad if you're weak or compromised. But one of the best things to help yourself be *not* compromised is having enough Vitamin D. And a lot of people in the industrialized world are chronically Vitamin D deficient, because so many people are indoors all the time. And this is so easy to fix. Either go outside or take a supplement or both.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:43 PM (DU+/6)
https://tinyurl.com/yzn4uuuk
Posted by: Heidi at February 04, 2022 03:41 PM (RoIW/)
*waves frantically at Heidi*
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:43 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (KZzsI)
WTF are you talking about?
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at February 04, 2022 03:43 PM (QYPq3)
https://tinyurl.com/yc82jnds
Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 03:41 PM (NpAcC)
FINALLY!
Pow Wow Chow for black Jews.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)
Holy crap I bet there's some cheese babka in there!
*books flight to Ottawa*
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 03:44 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: nurse ratched
A lot of people have forgotten by now but the Space Needle and the area around it was from the Olympics.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:44 PM (KZzsI)
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It's worse than that. His Duskiness was too stupid to realize the European leaders YEARN for the opportunity to stick it up an American President's ass. It's a guaranteed bump in the polls for them.
By involving himself, he absolutely guaranteed that they would rule out Chicago. Doing what an American President wants done is electoral poison in Europe. It makes the European politician look like a lap dog.
Which they are. They just don't like to be made to look like one.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:44 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 03:42 PM (SH2Zi)
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Yeah, the entire official stance (largely worldwide, too) of "there is no early intervention or outpatient treatment for COVID" has been the most evil thing I have seen in my lifetime.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:44 PM (DU+/6)
https://is.gd/USrA7y
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (DU+/6)
"If that Sponge gets any closer......"
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)
https://tinyurl.com/yzn4uuuk
Posted by: Heidi at February 04, 2022 03:41 PM (RoIW/)
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Thanks for that wonderful link! Warms my heart to see the Polish, who know what it is to lose freedom and then regain it, helping the fight in Canada.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 04, 2022 03:44 PM (j5ceG)
I know Montreal changed their old Olympic site into an interesting ecosystem thing (no really!). The buildings are really ugly from the outside though.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2022 03:45 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)
I mean, I'm kind of scared of the sun.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:45 PM (Ez6QX)
That's part of it-- it's *possible* that masking and other Covid protocols worked well against influenza (but not, you know, Covid). It's also possible that Covid could displace and out-compete the flu and then take up its niche. I assume many Covid cases were actually flu, but that's only a guess.
Anyway, no one seemed to really ask what was going on. And apparently this winter, flu is back. So i dunno.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at February 04, 2022 03:45 PM (l8gTz)
But I think Toronto has met its match. It looks like the rest of the country is ready to tell them to pound sand and get back to living their lives.
We are what, two weeks into the trucker strike? The shelves have got to be starting to get pretty bare.
I think of this as the modern day equivalent of a city siege.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at February 04, 2022 03:41 PM (5p7BC)
Y'all should be reading Small Dead Animals.
It's a Canadien blog, and it's very good. Not the HQ, but pretty damn good none the less.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 04, 2022 03:45 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:44 PM (KZzsI)
Dude. DOOOOOOOOOOD. World's Fair.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at February 04, 2022 03:45 PM (QYPq3)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 03:45 PM (us2H3)
She was adamant that she wasn't going to the hospital because they would have just remdesivired her and put on a vent to die.
Smart woman.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 04, 2022 03:45 PM (yQpMk)
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Jive Turkeys are the meanest of all the avians.
This is known.
Posted by: Just Lily at February 04, 2022 03:45 PM (QpS+V)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 04, 2022 03:43 PM (dNqv+)
That's what pushed it from kind of funny to fucking hilarious.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:45 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: blaster at February 04, 2022 03:45 PM (9otr5)
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 03:45 PM (DJFLF)
because it will be deleted by our friends in social media.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2022 03:45 PM (dprVF)
You're a brilliant writer, don't waste it on those nobodies.
Posted by: parsimony at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (X1xq4)
They plagiarize Ace. They suck, and should be told they suck on a daily basis.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (YiTfq)
Posted by: nurse ratched
A lot of people have forgotten by now but the Space Needle and the area around it was from the Olympics.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February
No. It was from the 1962 World's Fair.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Ian S. at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (ZGrMX)
We're still gonna need you to get vaxxed.
Posted by: Israeli Government at February 04, 2022 03:42 PM (llON
I've taken D with K daily for over a year but still got covid last week. Now it's been pretty mild, and I think I'm about over it. But I was hoping it would keep me from contracting it at all, probably a foolish assumption, and it didn't. Maybe it helped the symptoms to be mild? I don't know.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (pnzcV)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (KZzsI)
That sucks.
Here in WA state they are trying to lass a law making counterfeit vax cards illegal.
They aren't now......
Posted by: Safeway Parking lot...slot #3 at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (axyOa)
*******
Obligatory - a limerick
There once was a fellow named Fergy
Whose data analysis was murky
He lied when he said
That we all would be dead
He's a despicable fuckin' jive turkey!
Posted by: Muldoon at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (m45I2)
If you can't quantify all those eventualities ? Then the sim you just wrote is fantasy - randomizing shit doesn't help, with all the computers in the world.
Might as well go count poker hands in the Gardena card room. Which is exactly what Dave Sklansky did in "On Poker". And that's a much more intellectually honest way to arrive at a measured result - in his case, the value of starting hands versus pot size - that you can't mathematically derive.
If you can't do the math - how exactly is the model supposed to give an accurate result ? By determining the bounds ? For anything other than simple, objective things like cards or dice - nobody can define those bounds with any degree of precision that can yield anything useful. Because, if they could, they'd know how to describe the bounds mathematically.
Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (oiGnp)
All lockdowns did is push the inevitable down the road, at a great economic, psychological and political cost. Eventually everyone will be infected and almost everyone will survive.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (N2gf7)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (II3Gr)
Probably mentioned above but the government will not let the truckers win. There'll be new legislation soon to be vindictive as possible to the truckers. Maybe it will be more onerous paperwork or perhaps additional license fees but whatever forms they take it will be punitive.
Posted by: Beartooth at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (8KgiH)
Mommy why is Mr Crenshaw wearing his mask on his eye?
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (Kz9dH)
Mike Pence's political future
Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 03:43 PM (us2H3)
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Make a reservation in has-been Heaven.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (YqDXo)
I cannot unsee this tranny with fake tits and a flat man ass and middle school puberty voice now.
It's so effing over.
Posted by: captain marvel pees standing up at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (WdQMQ)
You're a brilliant writer, don't waste it on those nobodies.
Posted by: parsimony
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Ace does not work for you.
He writes what he experiences and feels passionate about. So why not drop telling him what he should or should not do. It is no less than telling some random famous writer that they should really focus their books on topics of what you are interested in. See how it goes--try Sarah Hoyt or Larry Correia for starters as both run open blogs where you can post.
You want something else to be written? Then do it yourself with your own platform.
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (KZzsI)
Pow Wow Chow for black Jews.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)
******
LMAO
Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 03:47 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 03:47 PM (us2H3)
Posted by: nckate at February 04, 2022 03:47 PM (z5Nun)
I mean, I'm kind of scared of the sun.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:45 PM (Ez6QX)
the only fear I have about the sun is that it won't be there some day.
Other than that, it's the greatest thing ever and I love being out in it whenever possible.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 03:47 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: lowandslow at February 04, 2022 03:47 PM (4thlk)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Heh, now you're just messing with us. (smiley face icon here)
Posted by: Some Rat at February 04, 2022 03:47 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 04, 2022 03:47 PM (N2gf7)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (KZzsI)
Stop. Talking.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at February 04, 2022 03:47 PM (QYPq3)
That's just terrible.
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 03:47 PM (lvxto)
https://tinyurl.com/yzn4uuuk
Posted by: Heidi at February 04, 2022 03:41 PM (RoIW/)
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Man, that looks good. This kind of footage reminds me of what happened when we had wildfires in CO. When we had bad fires, we had lots of firefighters from all over the place and feeding them was a challenge. The community largely handled it. Restaurants and people bringing lots of food out to the fireman camps. The big outfits like the supermarket got involved, too, but largely on infrastructure - like providing reefer trucks to keep it all cold.
Nice to see.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:47 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 03:47 PM (qpolg)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 04, 2022 03:47 PM (YA914)
Why would they allow their solutions to be discredited by their own organization?
They got a more bigger better solution in the works?
Posted by: Derak at February 04, 2022 03:47 PM (k0WjC)
Yea, right.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 04, 2022 03:47 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:38 PM (KZzsI)
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Whose more to blame, Fauci or China? I go back and forth on that. Neither will ever face the reckoning they so deserve.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 04, 2022 03:48 PM (sVtYq)
This is known.
Posted by: Just Lily at February 04, 2022 03:45 PM (QpS+V)
I say, uh, I say, have you met the Chickenhawk?
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at February 04, 2022 03:48 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2022 03:48 PM (Hica+)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (II3Gr)
Whatever happened to the sponge, anyway?
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:48 PM (Ez6QX)
I like it more when people tell ace what to write about.
He loves that. Like hugs.
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 03:48 PM (lvxto)
Yeah that's what was so frustrating to watch. The transition from "this will help hospitals deal with volume" to DO THIS OR GRANDMA DIES
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:48 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:44 PM (KZzsI)
No...
Worlds Fair 1962
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Barack Obama at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:44 PM (KZzsI)
World's Fair, 1964, I believe.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (SH2Zi)
That's just a talking point for Big D.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 04, 2022 03:47 PM (YA914)
Advertising is good for The Paolo.
Posted by: The Paolo at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: t-bird at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (AytXr)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (Hica+)
Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 04, 2022 03:43 PM (dNqv+)
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What video is that?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (YqDXo)
Yeah, I had that happen years ago on Facebook, often. I'd try to post something that countered the narrative and there would be "technical problems" that prevented it from being posted. Could post on anything else normally but not that particular topic.
Uh huh.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Spoken like someone who doesn't need 100 SPF and a hat if you're outside more than 10 minutes.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (W2Pud)
1990 was Seattle's greatest moment.
Posted by: Ted Turner at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (QYPq3)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 04, 2022 03:50 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (SH2Zi)
Oops, 1962.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 03:50 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 04, 2022 03:50 PM (4fSQf)
Posted by: Beartooth
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Better get used to empty stores then.
Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 03:50 PM (RU4sa)
Fauci paid China to make COVID. So...both.
And...people should make sure all the LIVs they talk with know this...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2022 03:50 PM (ESjRY)
https://tinyurl.com/yzn4uuuk
Posted by: Heidi
Holy shit !
Posted by: JT at February 04, 2022 03:50 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (YqDXo)
Last thread.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 03:50 PM (SH2Zi)
I like it more when people tell ace what to write about.
He loves that. Like hugs.
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 03:48 PM (lvxto)
You know what Ace likes !
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 04, 2022 03:50 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: Beartooth
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Better get used to empty stores then.
Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 03:50 PM (RU4sa)
*tee hee*
Posted by: Great Resetters at February 04, 2022 03:50 PM (llON8)
Posted by: nurse ratched
We did host the Goodwill Games to kiss somebodies ass.
Posted by: Some Rat at February 04, 2022 03:50 PM (r1z5A)
Behold the power of "and".
Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2022
One is an enemy, the other a traitor.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 04, 2022 03:50 PM (lCui1)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (YqDXo)
https://tinyurl.com/muhajxm
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 04, 2022 03:51 PM (yQpMk)
What video is that?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (YqDXo)
There's a dashcam vid out of Brazil where a car is on a single lane freeway ramp and stops. Dudes get out to hijack the truck coming up behind. The truck decides to show what it's worth and rams them out of the way.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (oiGnp)
Well I did say the randomization isn't there to add value. The answers are built into the assumptions used to construct the model. The Monte Carlo just lets you add distributions together, such as if you wanted to describe probable total costs for several independent projects that each have their own estimate. You can "roll" on their individual cost tables a bunch of times and add them up to create a new distribution as opposed to trying to multiply them out.
The outputs are all ultimately built into the assumptions themselves, which is the part people lose focus on. All probability is conditional.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 03:51 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 04, 2022 03:48 PM (sVtYq)
Fauci need to have his head locked in a mesh cage and his face eaten by sand flies.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:51 PM (II3Gr)
One is an enemy, the other a traitor.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 04, 2022 03:50 PM (lCui1)
Both should be tactically nuked.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)
All lockdowns did is push the inevitable down the road, at a great economic, psychological and political cost. Eventually everyone will be infected and almost everyone will survive.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (N2gf7)
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Yup. The entire point was to avoid overwhelming hospitals. It wasn't to stop the spread, it wasn't to keep people from getting it, it was just to keep so many people from getting it all at once that the hospitals would collapse under the pressure.
And it was clear by Easter that the hospitalization rate was nowhere near as bad as feared. I think I am in the minority here, but I think a lot of the initial response was blind terror and "throw the kitchen sink at it" rather than an artificial op. By Easter of 2020, however, it was obvious that hospital exhaustion was not a risk and all of this shit should have ended. If there is a "start date" for this being a full-blown op run for nefarious purposes, that's it in my mind.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:51 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 04, 2022 03:51 PM (yQpMk)
All lockdowns did is push the inevitable down the road, at a great economic, psychological and political cost. Eventually everyone will be infected and almost everyone will survive.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 04, 2022 03:46 PM (N2gf7)
True, although the honest proponents of the lockdown (of which there were damn few) said it would save some lives because otherwise hospitals would get overwhelmed and people would needlessly die. That never happened (in spite of repeated attempts by the media to insist that it was happening), and so the lockdowns saved no lives, but cost some from a standpoint of higher lockdown-related deaths.
Posted by: Wally at February 04, 2022 03:51 PM (FJYfm)
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When I went to the dr in early January when I got the coof, I got a follow-up questionnaire to answer later. It came from the stupid hospital system he's affiliated with. It had all those same invasive, personal questions that had nothing to do with my condition. I did answer a "prefer not to answer." Surprised I even got that option. At the bottom was a place for additional comments. I told them those questions were ridiculous and none of their business.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 04, 2022 03:51 PM (sVtYq)
Posted by: Nome de Plume
As someone who has done large statistical analyses in the past and been published, the truth is that most datasets suck. The suckage varies by subject but they all suck in their own special way.
So to address the suckage, you use statistical tools to try to remediate data distribution flaws. A wise person triangulates and uses various means to try to illuminate the darkness a bit. They are also circumspect on findings. Ideally, one should know what your stat tool does, its limitations, etc. but most people conducting research are not mathematicians and most mathematicians that develop the tools are essentially uninterested in the other components of good research which produces the dataset in the first place. Thus, the blind leading the blind problem.
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 03:51 PM (Iq9dF)
Nah I was just mistaken and am today's punching bag. It happens every so often.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:52 PM (KZzsI)
https://tinyurl.com/yzn4uuuk
Posted by: Heidi
Holy shit !
Posted by: JT at February 04, 2022 03:50 PM (arJlL)
People who have qualms about 2A take note. Resistance/revolution must be fed, too.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 03:52 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (W2Pud)
Not even the LBGTQ Olympics?
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 04, 2022 03:52 PM (Kz9dH)
Consider that if Covid was as deadly as they said it was, they were completely willing to let most of us die "the right way."
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 04, 2022 03:52 PM (KbCG3)
I don't know why people insist on spoiling my fun by telling them to stop.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2022 03:52 PM (ZLI7S)
Right, and that is ongoing. And what is the cost of the loss of liberty they forced upon us? 55-85 million dead in WW2 alone "for the cause", and now our "leaders" work diligently to destroy our Liberty from within.
National social credit cards/chips is their desire ... they are the terrorists.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 04, 2022 03:52 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Sponge
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Makes me laugh every time I watch it.
Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 03:52 PM (RU4sa)
Spoken like someone who doesn't need 100 SPF and a hat if you're outside more than 10 minutes.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (Ez6QX)
Nope. Don't use sunblock very often.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:52 PM (Zz0t1)
I wonder if that was what I was thinking of? I remember some event in the 70s.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:52 PM (KZzsI)
Whatever happened to the sponge, anyway?
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:48 PM (Ez6QX)
Hang on, let me turn on the headlights and I'll look for it.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:52 PM (II3Gr)
https://tinyurl.com/yzn4uuuk
Posted by: Heidi
Holy shit !
Posted by: JT at February 04, 2022 03:50 PM (arJlL)
"A pole is a man born with a sword in one hand and a brick in the other" They know adversity and are a noble people.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 04, 2022 03:52 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 04, 2022 03:53 PM (UuD2k)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:51 PM (II3Gr)
Don't put this on us, man.
Posted by: Sand flies at February 04, 2022 03:53 PM (FJYfm)
Long, long time lurker, first time commenter. How'd I do?
Posted by: Dumb Biker at February 04, 2022 03:53 PM (BkamT)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 04, 2022 03:53 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 04, 2022 03:53 PM (sVfvf)
Posted by: Beartooth
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Better get used to empty stores then.
Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 03:50 PM (RU4sa)
*tee hee*
Posted by: Great Resetters at February
Fortunately, I was raised in Montana buy farm raised parents. We can holdout for 12 months easy.
Posted by: Beartooth at February 04, 2022 03:53 PM (8KgiH)
Posted by: Cicci at February 04, 2022 03:53 PM (yDmyH)
Tell me Covid was an op without telling me Covid was an op.
I'll start:
The government went out of its way to censor all medical professionals not parroting their advice and treatments.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 04, 2022 03:53 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Lady in Black
Did they ask you if you feel 'safe' in your home? One of my parents has dementia and I was present in the hospital when they asked her that. I was trying not to laugh as my parent spun out the most ridiculous answers about the 'safe' issues to the poor guy asking the questions.
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 03:54 PM (Iq9dF)
Whatever happened to the sponge, anyway?
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:48 PM (Ez6QX)
I was discontinued.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: t-bird at February 04, 2022 03:54 PM (AytXr)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (W2Pud)
Not even the LBGTQ Olympics?
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 04, 2022 03:52 PM (Kz9dH)
I like Lamar Luttrell's chances in the javelin.
Posted by: Wally at February 04, 2022 03:54 PM (FJYfm)
/Dem governors in response to COVID-23, probably
Posted by: Muldoon at February 04, 2022 03:54 PM (m45I2)
_________________________
My answer, hey Doc, do I look like I have missed any meals ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 04, 2022 03:55 PM (M+Lyo)
Hang on, let me turn on the headlights and I'll look for it.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:52 PM (II3Gr)
You found your keys?
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Beartooth
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Meaning less truckers...
Let's see how that works out for them.
We will see, but I think the Canada Govt is going to fold like a cheap suit. They caved on NAFTA, they will cave on this.
They are just trying to figure out how to save face.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at February 04, 2022 03:55 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2022 03:55 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:52 PM (KZzsI)
The 70s sucked for Seattle.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at February 04, 2022 03:55 PM (QYPq3)
Posted by: Sponge
That's kinda expensive. Let's just boil him in battery acid until he stops screaming.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 04, 2022 03:55 PM (Vxu+H)
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (QYPq3)
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: Lady in Black
Would not fill out. Additional comment: Fuck you.
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (qpolg)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
The 1K feces avoidance run is always won by the homeless.
Posted by: Some Rat at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)
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That's Brazil? My only regret is he didn't take any of the carjackers out during the clip.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (j5ceG)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, just spitballin' here at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (n/szn)
You found your keys?
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)
When I do I'll drive us out of here.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:52 PM (KZzsI)
"Say no to drugs."
- Your Friendly Neighborhood PSA
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:51 PM (DU+/6)
The initial response was all to provide the pretense to steal the election. Just like the mortgage bust and economic meltdown was to bring in Obama. Create a crisis. Use it to install our oligarch's puppet. That was the one and only reason for it.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (pnzcV)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Wonder if at some level, it was worry about a bio war superbug that led to hysteria. Be interesting to know how DoD, State, NSC, and other bodies were mentioning this scenario during 2020. We know now that NIH Fauci and Collins knew where it came from.
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (us2H3)
Posted by: nckate at February 04, 2022 03:47 PM (z5Nun)
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Yeah, because there are so many people going hungry. That's why ghetto mamas typically weigh around 300 lbs.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (YqDXo)
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I got vaccinated back in May and then got the virus a few weeks ago. I got a mild fever and wanted to just lay around the house for 2 days. I told my boss about my experience (ie not being very sick) and she said "thats that vaccine doing its job". Then I thought, my symptoms were no better than the 6 verified cases that other employees got who were unvaccinated.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (h1jJh)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Dumb Biker at February 04, 2022 03:53 PM (BkamT)
***golf clap***
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:48 PM (Ez6QX)
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Was that like the diaphragm? And whoever invented the included spermicide obviously you never tested it on the inside of a male penis.
Owwwwwwwweeeeeeeeenie!
Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (us2DO)
Red, I know. I've done simple, basic industrial work on this topic. That's why I'm so adamant about it.
People see shit like "Monte Carlo" and "model" and just assumed those science guys know. They fucking don't. It's all shit thrown at the wall to see what sticks. In the best of cases - it's guys that can do the math, with no idea if the math applies to reality. Hence - the Bell Curve applied to everything.
Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (oiGnp)
In the past it was an amazing place for tech to be revealed but these days you get the info in real time
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (KZzsI)
Let's see how that works out for them.
We will see, but I think the Canada Govt is going to fold like a cheap suit. They caved on NAFTA, they will cave on this.
They are just trying to figure out how to save face.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at February 04, 2022 03:55 PM (5p7BC)
They're messing with people who actually keep the country running. The government is being exposed as the worthless entity it is.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
The 1K feces avoidance run is always won by the homeless.
Posted by: Some Rat at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (r1z5A)
Heroin hypodermic hurdles
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:57 PM (II3Gr)
That's kinda expensive. Let's just boil him in battery acid until he stops screaming.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 04, 2022 03:55 PM (Vxu+H)
I'm good with that.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 03:57 PM (lvxto)
Posted by: Dumb Biker
*******
Needs more cowbell.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 04, 2022 03:57 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 03:57 PM (qpolg)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:57 PM (KZzsI)
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Meaning less truckers...
Let's see how that works out for them.
We will see, but I think the Canada Govt is going to fold like a cheap suit. They caved on NAFTA, they will cave on this.
They are just trying to figure out how to save face.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at February 04, 2022 03:55 PM (5p7BC)
I was thinking that a couple of years down the road would be when they start their punishment
Posted by: Beartooth at February 04, 2022 03:57 PM (8KgiH)
Posted by: nckate at February 04, 2022 03:57 PM (z5Nun)
Posted by: Elaine Benes at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (lvxto)
Yeah I get that every year at my wellness check and any time I've had to go to the ER. Ridiculous.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (nxdel)
[Announcer one] And in today's free style freebase, Joe Smith takes the lead. That's right, he's add meth to his cocaine and...I can't believe this...Fentanyl too...this will be a hard one to top for any of his competitors.
[Announcer two] Especially the ones he stabbed Bob.
[Announcer one] That's right Jim, this is a very competitive event! Oh no, Smith is...he's failing over and retching. Looks like that day old Chipotle he had for lunch is not going to stay down. What a blow to his attempt at the record!
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (ESjRY)
"Police stop Perth church service to check masks"
https://nitter.net/herandrews/status/
1489639647030427651
Posted by: Hands at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (YqDXo)
Food insecurity.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (II3Gr)
https://bit.ly/3AYk1hu
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (VCz/u)
Did that really happen? Was it somewhere else? I don't know. It was the 90's man.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (UuD2k)
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (Iq9dF)
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I think so. This is my guess. It was a new virus and it came from Wuhan where they have a bioweapons lab. I think a big reason for the gross over reation at the beginning was this combination in addition to China's incredible reaction to it. I think the Chinese response also put a lot of people back on their heels and it drove a serious over reaction.
But then they found that they *really* liked it...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (DU+/6)
I think it went the way of the silicone breast implant? I don't trust my memory any more but it seems like I remember some lawsuit claiming cancer or something and it disappeared.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (KZzsI)
Long, long time lurker, first time commenter. How'd I do?
Posted by: Dumb Biker at February 04, 2022 03:53 PM (BkamT)
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Absolutely not bad.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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And?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (RU4sa)
Posted by: LASue at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (Irn0L)
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 03:57 PM (qpolg)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2022 03:59 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Elaine Benes at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (lvxto)
lol.. I just watched that episode a few nights ago.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 04, 2022 03:59 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 04, 2022 03:59 PM (Kz9dH)
Better not get a detail wrong or 8 people will show up and kick you in the teeth.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:59 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: nckate
I always tell them, "As long as I remember the safe word, we're all good."
Posted by: Tonypete at February 04, 2022 03:59 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 03:59 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:45 PM (Ez6QX)
yeah, but your nice wrinkless complexion thanks you. I don't like the sun either.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 03:59 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 03:57 PM (lvxto)
Danny Kaye likes the sound of Dick Pole.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (QYPq3)
Posted by: Some Rat at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (r1z5A)
Heroin hypodermic hurdles
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 03:57 PM (II3Gr)
Monkey banana buffet but with heroin bindles.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (SH2Zi)
https://bit.ly/3AYk1hu
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (VCz/u)
The still shot down the page is epic.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 04, 2022 03:59 PM (Kz9dH)
Have you seen the 2 man Luge?
Posted by: Wally at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (FJYfm)
"Police stop Perth church service to check masks"
https://nitter.net/herandrews/status/
1489639647030427651
Posted by: Hands at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (786Ro)
We're serving and protecting, mate.
Posted by: Australian Police at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Ian S. at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (ZGrMX)
Berfore Covid, I took a multi-vitamin, but not every day.
Since then, when I first read that people that have problems with Covid are mostly Vitamin D deficient.
Now, a Costco-sized bottle of Vitamin D feeds me 6,000 to 8,000 units a day, along with that multi-vitamin, and I have never felt better.
But hey, since I don't eat Democrat ass-crack, I don't count. Welcome to 2022 America.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 03:59 PM (/U27+)
Johnny peterpuffer?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (VwHCD)
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"Well, doctor, I did slip on a banana peel the other day and that was pretty scary."
I started getting asked the "feel safe at home" question going for my mammograms several years ago. They actually quit asking for a while.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (sVtYq)
The governor already said he would abide by the courts decision.
So there goes that.
Posted by: blaster at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (9otr5)
Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Wally at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (FJYfm)
Is it slippery?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (Irn0L)
Have the commies shot any olympic athletes or reporters yet?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (Irn0L)
They drug a reporter from the Netherlands off mid live shot.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)
They are just trying to figure out how to save face.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at February 04, 2022 03:55 PM (5p7BC)
They're messing with people who actually keep the country running. The government is being exposed as the worthless entity it is.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (KbCG3
The "tell" was when Castro Jr. said he won't call in the military - I suspect he has doubts that the military would obey him. They've reached the point where they either use force, or fold and accept the demands.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2022 04:01 PM (trdmm)
My mom rarely got out into the sun like her sisters did, partly because of some medicine she took and partly because she was never strong and preferred reading and painting and music.
She has soft smooth skin in her 80s as a result. I don't know if that's such a great tradeoff though.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 04:01 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Wally at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (FJYfm)
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When my wife hosts two bulls.
Posted by: David French at February 04, 2022 04:01 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 04:01 PM (XvPQV)
Did that really happen? Was it somewhere else? I don't know. It was the 90's man.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (UuD2k)
They were docks leased by NOAA. Everyone thought fireworks. Nope, the NOAA employees were having a BBQ and caught the docks on fire.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at February 04, 2022 04:01 PM (QYPq3)
Posted by: TJ at February 04, 2022 04:01 PM (/Rqse)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at February 04, 2022 04:02 PM (oWBc3)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 04, 2022 03:58 PM (Irn0L)
Don't think so but there's still plenty of time. Fingers crossed!
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 04:02 PM (II3Gr)
Johnny peterpuffer?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (VwHCD)
Or as I like to call him, Johnny "Up The" Weir.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)
They are just trying to figure out how to save face.
Posted by: Dave in Fla
It's going to be tough for ANY gov. body to say: "Yeah, we fucked up." Tends to cast doubt on all their policies.
Posted by: Some Rat at February 04, 2022 04:02 PM (r1z5A)
The governor already said he would abide by the courts decision.
So there goes that.
Posted by: blaster at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (9otr5)
Hey, I tried! *shrugs*
Posted by: Governor Youngkin at February 04, 2022 04:02 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:51 PM (DU+/6)
This is just about exactly what I believe.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 04, 2022 04:02 PM (dfRN6)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (YqDXo)
https://tinyurl.com/muhajxm
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 04, 2022 03:51 PM (yQpMk)
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Thanks!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 04:02 PM (YqDXo)
Yeah I get that every year at my wellness check and any time I've had to go to the ER.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB
If he changes that to ask about the TxMoMe, well . . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at February 04, 2022 04:02 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (sVtYq)
Lady in Black: Well, they don't smash my funbags between too cold dinner plates there.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 04:02 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 04, 2022 04:02 PM (RMN7W)
https://tinyurl.com/yzn4uuuk
Posted by: Heidi
Amazing - I encourage everyone to watch that Polish video and the woman speaking - it is amazing - they are so right and so right to be doing what they are doing.
My they give strength to the Americans who are also standing up for their freedoms.
Posted by: Boswell at February 04, 2022 04:02 PM (5iUNf)
Not the Supreme Court.
But Arlington County judge grants injunction against the governors order.
Posted by: blaster at February 04, 2022 04:02 PM (9otr5)
I think that might be part of Obamacare, that 8 foot stack of pages has a ton of stupid crap doctors have to do now. My mom's neurologist went on a half hour rant when I asked him about it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 04:02 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Ive done nothing of the sort.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2022 04:02 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 04, 2022 04:03 PM (jTmQV)
They drug a reporter from the Netherlands off mid live shot.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Meh. Wooden-shoed tulip-peddling canal wog.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 04:03 PM (II3Gr)
Long, long time lurker, first time commenter. How'd I do?
Posted by: Dumb Biker at February 04, 2022 03:53 PM (BkamT)
Damn good. Lets not ruin by telling me you ride a rice rocket. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 04:03 PM (VwHCD)
The governor already said he would abide by the courts decision.
So there goes that.
Posted by: blaster at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (9otr5)
Taking back government is a decade long proposition. Gaining the executive was a nice start, but until you take full control of the legislature and use it to uncorrupt the judiciary, setbacks like this will still happen regularly.
People need to understand the nature of this fight; it's going to be a long one.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2022 04:03 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 04, 2022 03:53 PM (UuD2k)
They still are.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 04:03 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: InCali at February 04, 2022 04:03 PM (jZOLv)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Ive done nothing of the sort.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2022 04:02 PM (W2Pud)
You were the 9th one in.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 04:03 PM (Zz0t1)
Yeah the height of medical practice. Like shoving a finger up a man's poop chute. 3000 years of medical advancement and that's the best you can come up with, doc? Guys literally stay home and avoid the doctor after a certain age just to avoid that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 04:04 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:59 PM (KZzsI)
Pfft...
It's not that. It's just that you could have checked an easily verifiable item before posting something demonstrably wrong.
Or you could have said "I think, but am not sure, Seattle held the Olympic games.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 04, 2022 04:04 PM (BgMrQ)
C'mon. A bathhouse lurker who feeds puppies to flesh-eating bugs told you he needed to lock you in your homes. What did you expect?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2022 04:04 PM (Cf/uA)
Because life sucks. Life is not easily quantifiable or categorized, even in the most multi-variable formula.
And the more resolution you get - down to the individual - the more random. Because we sometimes do shit just "because".
I hate this idea - and my wife does it in her line of work - of "fixing" the data set. Then fuck, just write down the numbers you wish you'd have measured, and go from there.
Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 04:04 PM (oiGnp)
I live alone, the only time I feel unsafe is when I get blitzed and have to crawl down the hallway to bed. FO.
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 04:04 PM (qpolg)
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The "tell" was when Castro Jr. said he won't call in the military - I suspect he has doubts that the military would obey him. They've reached the point where they either use force, or fold and accept the demands.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2022 04:01 PM (trdmm)
I need to bring in some CCP military for umm, joint exercises. Yeah, that's it.
Posted by: Justin Castreau at February 04, 2022 04:04 PM (llON8)
No, you were very reasonable and appropriate about it, which I appreciate.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 04:04 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Lady in Black
As described to me, the apparatus for conducting a mammogram sounds like a medieval instrument of torture.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 04, 2022 04:05 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 04, 2022 04:03 PM (jTmQV)
I'm glad you asked, Doc. There was this one time when these two beautiful ladies tried to poison me with humus and then laughed maniacally about it.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 04:05 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:51 PM (DU+/6)
This is just about exactly what I believe.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 04, 2022 04:02 PM (dfRN6)
I didn't fault any of the immediate response but it was quickly apparent that we were sold a bill of goods when they were setting up medical tents in NYC that were going completely unused.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 04, 2022 04:05 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Never underestimate Joe's ability at February 04, 2022 04:05 PM (e/gaB)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 04:03 PM (VwHCD)
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And automatic banning if it's a unicycle.
;-)
Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at February 04, 2022 04:05 PM (us2DO)
Posted by: Cowboy Joe West at February 04, 2022 04:05 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2022 04:04 PM (Cf/uA)
Flesh eating bedbugs.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 04:05 PM (SH2Zi)
You were the 9th one in.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks
It's just that if you want me to be a mad raging bitch, I can be. But at this particular moment, I'm not. So don't tell me that I am.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2022 04:06 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Heidi
Because the people who moved to Canada from oppressive regimes know what communism is like and don't want to see their country turn into some version that. The pastor from Poland who was several times for holding services during the lockdowns seemed thrilled at the protest of the trucks. We have some people in our local conservative group who fled China. They understand the same thing.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2022 04:06 PM (dprVF)
Posted by: Barry from Kalorama at February 04, 2022 04:06 PM (OyOhQ)
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 04:06 PM (lvxto)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 04, 2022 04:06 PM (CdZ4i)
I think that might be part of Obamacare, that 8 foot stack of pages has a ton of stupid crap doctors have to do now. My mom's neurologist went on a half hour rant when I asked him about it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 04:02 PM (KZzsI)
The thing I thought was weird when my husband had knee surgery was they kept asking his permission. "Is it okay if I put this blood pressure cuff on you?" "It is okay if we mark which knee you're having surgery on?"
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 04:06 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 04, 2022 04:06 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
That's why I choose to only be knowledgeable on useless things that nobody gives a shit about.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 04, 2022 04:06 PM (UuD2k)
Do you feel safe at home?
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If I were ever to be asked that question I'd probably give some smart-ass answer and Her Majesty would be arrested.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 04:06 PM (/U27+)
It's just that if you want me to be a mad raging bitch, I can be. But at this particular moment, I'm not. So don't tell me that I am.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2022 04:06 PM (W2Pud)
I never want to see that side of you.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 04:06 PM (Zz0t1)
The governor already said he would abide by the courts decision.
So there goes that.
Posted by: blaster at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (9otr5)
Technically just an injunction til the court actually hears the issue - so, the Roberts move...
I expect March 1 will have a decision...b/c that's the SOTU and Biden's back to normal "I beat Covid" date...
Posted by: Nova local at February 04, 2022 04:06 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 04, 2022 04:07 PM (nxdel)
Are you new around here?
Posted by: Hands at February 04, 2022 04:07 PM (786Ro)
This is true in the main. And unfortunately we have entire organizations dedicated to keeping you from doing things to make your life suck a little less, or they are actively working to make your life suck worse than necessary.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 04:07 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 04, 2022 04:05 PM (KbCG3)
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I think that was evidence of being wrong. The hospital ships and the field hospitals were part of that "kitchen sink" approach to covering all possible bases in the face of an unknown pathogen of unknown origin. I was glad to see it, actually, and I am glad that we can rally those kinds of resources if needed.
But it was very clear very quickly that it wasn't necessary because COVID was not as bad as feared. And then they kept all the bullshit going for the next two years anyway because they're evil assholes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 04:07 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 04, 2022 04:06 PM (CdZ4i)
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"The wrong people were in charge. This new person is the right people. I shall put him in charge and give him even more power to fix the things that the old people messed up with their lesser amounts of power."
-It's a patter
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 04:07 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:51 PM (DU+/6)
That certainly follows my personal thoughts on the pandemic. I was ready to get back to normal at Easter 2020. But I think you are right - once the fear was sprinkled out to the public it was time to exploit it. Predations abound.
Posted by: InCali at February 04, 2022 04:07 PM (jZOLv)
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 04, 2022 04:07 PM (UHVv4)
https://tinyurl.com/yzn4uuuk
Posted by: Heidi
THIS is what FREEDOM looks like!
Best link of the day. Worth 2:20 of your time.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 04:07 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 04:05 PM (SH2Zi)
You would've laughed manically too if you saw the look on your face.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 04:07 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 04:08 PM (pnzcV)
Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 04:04 PM (oiGnp)
Torture the data until they confess !
I manufacturing engineering people would try to make statements based on data, I usually could rip them apart pretty easy. It's hard to get good data.
Data in able hands is like clay, that's a bad thing
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 04, 2022 04:08 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 04, 2022 03:36 PM (YqDXo)
........
Wow. I thought we had rules against this kind of stuff.
Posted by: wth at February 04, 2022 04:08 PM (v0R5T)
The governor already said he would abide by the courts decision.
So there goes that.
Posted by: blaster at February 04, 2022 04:00 PM (9otr5)
Taking back government is a decade long proposition. Gaining the executive was a nice start, but until you take full control of the legislature and use it to uncorrupt the judiciary, setbacks like this will still happen regularly.
People need to understand the nature of this fight; it's going to be a long one.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2022 04:03 PM (trdmm)
Please, go back to #71 and read about a way to stop this nonsense.
There seems to be a legal way to get public officials to adhere to the Constitution, or face real and severe monetary consequences.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 04, 2022 04:09 PM (BgMrQ)
You're a wiser man than I, Gunga Din
I'm overreacting because its embarassing and humiliating to be wrong and then have half the horde correct you, not being mean about it (except one new dude), but I mean.... how does it hurt to be neighborly and kind about things?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 04:09 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at February 04, 2022 04:09 PM (khAeP)
Posted by: wth at February 04, 2022 04:09 PM (v0R5T)
No true conservative that wants an end to the mandates believes Kenny or Moe. We've heard this before.
You think the Republicans in the US are useless? Canada's "conservative" politicians are 10X worse. Kenney, Moe and the fat slob Doug Ford in Ontario make Lisa Murkowski look like Ronald Reagan.
Posted by: Sandy Vigilante at February 04, 2022 04:09 PM (IKSVy)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 04, 2022 04:09 PM (Kz9dH)
Posted by: Hands at February 04, 2022 04:07 PM (786Ro)
I denounce myself...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 04, 2022 04:10 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 04, 2022 04:10 PM (5kI0z)
I agree, and then it turned into an op when they saw opportunity. But I think it was always driven by stark raving terror at people who see death as the worst possible thing and sickness as second bad.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 04:10 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 04:10 PM (qpolg)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 04:07 PM (DU+/6)
I can perfectly understand a panicky reaction to "Mr. President, something broke out of a Chinese bio-weapon lab and we're not sure how bad it is yet."
But when the bodies refused to start stacking themselves in the street? Yeah, no.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 04, 2022 04:11 PM (dfRN6)
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 04:10 PM (qpolg)
Hey, what happened?
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 04:11 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
*fistbump*
Posted by: Some Rat at February 04, 2022 04:11 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 04, 2022 04:12 PM (UHVv4)
Posted by: Saxinis Kion at February 04, 2022 04:12 PM (dbdgv)
I sure hope he stays around as long as RBG did.
Posted by: Cluebat at February 04, 2022 04:12 PM (8kMmX)
Honestly - and look, I've used simple two and three variable models to figure some things out that I couldn't calculate easily ... and I've used simple quality measurements to find what process or tool was fucking up ... but that shit is rare. Mostly - time just spent out on the line was better spent. Just seeing things, and fixing easy things.
Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 04:13 PM (oiGnp)
Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2022 03:49 PM (2JoB
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Yep.
Usual US flu deaths in a year:20,000 to 80,000. In 2020: zero.
Usual US pneumonia deaths in a year: 30,000 to 50,000. In 2020: less than 1,000.
But the real kicker is when Covid was listed as contributing to death of someone, that also had gunshots in the back of their head. (Chicago, NY, and others)
I want these a-holes that foisted the lockdown on us to die slow, painful deaths.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 04:13 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Heidi
Because the people who moved to Canada from oppressive regimes know what communism is like and don't want to see their country turn into some version that. The pastor from Poland who was several times for holding services during the lockdowns seemed thrilled at the protest of the trucks. We have some people in our local conservative group who fled China. They understand the same thing.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2022 04:06 PM
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People that have lived under Communism understand how it all starts and what it looks like when it takes over.
The ladies at the nail salon I go to are all Vietnamese and can't stand Biden and his administration. They are always telling me that this is how communism started in their country.
It's a shame that the people that have experienced communism can't give lectures at schools anymore.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 04:13 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Roug at February 04, 2022 04:13 PM (AYGLx)
Posted by: megthered at February 04, 2022 04:15 PM (XdJQO)
Long, long time lurker, first time commenter. How'd I do?
Posted by: Dumb Biker at February 04, 2022 03:53 PM (BkamT)
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If it was up to me, I would award you a full cardboard membership to AoS.
But it isn't, sorry.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 04:15 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 04, 2022 03:51 PM (yQpMk)
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Thanks!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Went through all the links to find the car jackers.
Had to watch some of them twice.
Well executed plan to evade carjackers.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 04, 2022 04:17 PM (m+yM6)
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What? So we're changing the rules around here? Why am I always the last to hear these things?
Posted by: Muldoon at February 04, 2022 04:23 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: Zek at February 04, 2022 04:23 PM (OzNIz)
Apparently the rule now is never post anything without extensively studying it first and if you do not, then you're an ass who should be mocked constantly.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 04:25 PM (KZzsI)
texas an Cali have almost identical total covid deaths
Cali has a population 10 million more
Lockdowns worked
Posted by: Kurt at February 04, 2022 04:40 PM (k4vKs)
Now after 900000 dead not so much.
Posted by: Kurt at February 04, 2022 04:43 PM (k4vKs)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 04:46 PM (KZzsI)
Mike Bloomberg owns a news outlet. Mike Bloomberg is also a major benefactor to Johns Hopkins - to the extent that their School of Public Health is named after him.
Bloombeg News has health professionals on their shows all the time, and this new report is not there at all. At. All.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 04, 2022 04:49 PM (e0jF6)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 03:22 PM (z5Vrg)
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It uses something like that, I'm sure. The CRU climate models did, too. The problem is getting results that are outside the boundaries that the statistics and stochastics would indicate and having those extreme results often be non-reproducible because the software just doesn't work well, is poorly programmed and poorly documented so no one can really figure out how it works.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (DU+/6)
When testing performance of a program with "random" number generators, you create a seed for the generator to make results different from run to run. When testing, you use the same seed to verify the program, then check with different seeds.
This program gave different results with the same seed.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 05:14 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Ian S. at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (ZGrMX)
my former doctor was having me take 20-30000 a day, still do.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 05:15 PM (eoQWY)
Nice use of quotes around random - you get it.
Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 05:24 PM (LjwdX)
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