@Larry said in Scaling back federal support for COVID-19 testing ...:

Ax... TNCR's very own Karen...

If it were male, it would be a Chad. Karens are female.

To the extent the left allows the Ferguson effect into conversation, they dismiss it as myth. That’s another in a large collection of beliefs of the left that is non disprovable by any imaginable statistic. Like everything else having to do with race charged issues.

@taiwan_girl said in I'd like to congratulate the Left:

@Jolly said in I'd like to congratulate the Left:

@Doctor-Phibes said in I'd like to congratulate the Left:

If I never have to watch and listen to Al Jolson again, it's just conceivable that all the rioting may have been worthwhile.

Could I make a request for Lawrence Welk to also be banned in perpetuity?

Polka like your life depended on it!

Link to video

Actually, the accordion looks quite hard to play. What is the left hand doing?

Those are piano accordions. The button accordions are harder to play.

And Texas.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/504680-texas-to-shut-bars-restaurants-to-stop-virus

How do I catch COVID-19? With a big box and a stick with a rope tied to it. I bait it with my 75-year-old neighbor.

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@89th said in We've reached a new peak of new cases:

Can someone please check the poop tubes (sewer) to see if it predicted the uptick?

Hello? Is someone on this or what?

Perhaps different regions use different terminologies, perhaps you are more familiar with the spelling "window grilles" or the term "window grids". In any case, the following picture shows an example of what I mean:
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Multi-purpose. And to answer your question? 64. Almost 65.

@Mik said in A bracelet prediction:

Not true. His are purple.

Are we still talking about handcuffs?

@Mik said in *Trump!* on the window...:

On a pink Cadillac? Srsly?

Is that really a Caddy? How can you tell?

Hard to social distance in a tank.

Wassup Mainer Mike, you around?

There's a moose with its very own thread. And video. Really! Not kidding. Video of an angry moose, right here on TNCR. From Maine of course. And it was all for you, so hope you can find it (the moose topic, I mean, not Maine, you're there so, well, duh, you know that and all).

@xenon said in Thought Experiment-Biden as President:

If there was somehow a way to get data on all the drivers of the economy (or let's say the top 100) - you could run a regression on that data.

My view is similar to TG's - what you'd see is that the President is a non-zero coefficient, but other things like tech progress, size and health of global markets, earnings of domestic firms, etc., etc. - would dwarf any direct actions from the President.

Now you can see in the long arc of history the government sets the rules of the game (patent law, anti-trust law, regulations, etc., etc.) and the President has influence there - but those sort of changes have an effect on a scale of decades and even centuries.

In times of crises, the President's coefficient get's a lot bigger.

But if you were to make that equation, and look at the coefficient on Presidential actions - it wouldn't be accurate to say things like "Trump's economy" or "Obama's economy"

Maybe their coefficient is greater than any other single person - or maybe the Steve Jobs of the world beat them in some years.

Thank you Xenon. You said it better than I ever could. 🙂

@Horace said in "Not my instrument":

Another example from sports is the Patriots, who have to adjust to the real rules every away game. It’s such a seismic shift from video/audio of the opponent sideline and huddles, deflated balls, and totally fraudulent officiating. It shows great adaptability.

I know even less about baseball.

Solar ovens work ok, given the right circumstances, but even in poor countries most people don't use them...

@Rainman said in Cancel Funding:

@Loki
It's spelled grand.
Was I right?

Lol. You have one of the words right!

Meesemeat is delicious.

It's an interesting look into human nature. Discrimination of one sort or another will always be with us.