Or make their own document

@doctor-phibes said in Priorities: @horace said in Priorities: Ezra Klein His face is almost as punchable as that of Ben Shapiro. They should put them in a cage-match. That would be epic. I know, I know, I'm really shallow. Sounds a lot like an upcoming exhibition match between Thor Bjornsson (world's strongest man and The Mountain on GoT) and Devon Larratt, best arm wrestler of all time. https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a37395782/hafthor-bjornsson-abs-transformation-shirtless-selfie/

@catseye3 said in Word of the day: Used in a sentence: "Many people who write on the Internet are ultracrepidarianesque." Today everyone is an expert on the Dunning-Kruger effect.

I'm not predicting Elder will win. As an anti-racist, I hope he does, but I understand that not enough Californians are anti-racist.

Hope he requested the bottom of the ninth.

Incremental. Hard to get too excited but glad they are still working on it. Lily is big on antivirals, not so much on vaccines.

Richard Nixon won 49 of 50 states. That's pretty good.

Well, she's gonna be 74 this fall...

Evening in America.

@doctor-phibes said in 2nd worst job in the world: The best job in the world is repairing them. Job security, FTW!

@doctor-phibes said in Lord, did I kick a hornet's nest.: @horace said in Lord, did I kick a hornet's nest.: @doctor-phibes said in Lord, did I kick a hornet's nest.: @horace said in Lord, did I kick a hornet's nest.: @doctor-phibes said in Lord, did I kick a hornet's nest.: @jolly said in Lord, did I kick a hornet's nest.: Have people gone nuts? There's no real logic to the anti-vax argument. I'm not saying it should be forced on people, and I'm not saying it's a miracle cure, but currently it's the best we have. If somebody is arguing otherwise, they're not really arguing from a position that makes any sense, and it's going to ignite a lot of passion, because it's all based on emotion. “I don’t want to get the vaccine and I understand my decision is not in the best interest of the collective” makes sense. It makes a lot of sense when you internalize and fully accept that people make selfish decisions not in the interest of the collective every day and as a matter of course. If you can’t leverage selfishness in a society’s rules, then the rules are ignorant, magical thinking. That is the beauty of capitalism. At least it’s not ignorant, magical thinking. How is not getting the vaccination in the best interest of the individual? Depends on the individual. Maybe the emotional value of giving the middle finger to the authorities telling them what to do outweighs the emotional value of being healthier. Maybe the emotional value of a piece of cake outweighs the value of being healthier. Like I said, there's no real logic to the argument, it's emotional thinking. They’re being selfish. For most of us, the selfish choice is to get vaccinated. They have a different value system, in which ignorance probably, but not necessarily, plays a role.

::: It hadn’t occurred to me that no strategy is worse than 0.5 but it makes sense. Because if I had a strategy that gave p<0.5 for red I could apply it to black and get 1-p for red. :::

@larry said in Tennessee Owie: @doctor-phibes said in Tennessee Owie: @jolly said in Tennessee Owie: @larry said in Tennessee Owie: Ax, you are as dumb as shit. Even the article you linked to tells you what's going on: the health department was mailing notices directly to minors, not their parents, and doing vaccinations at the schools. I know you don't have a problem with government replacing parents or any other form of government control of our lives, but in Tennessee we still believe that you deal with the parents, not the child. The only... ONLY thing that has changed is the mailings will be addressed to the parents, not the kids, and vaccinations will be given as usual, just not on school property. I swear.... liberal democrats are stupid as a whole, but you are the poster child for it. You have to understand Ax. With his Asian background, he believes the needs of society as determined by the government, always trump the rights of the individual. ...and with your American background, you clearly believe everything is explained by race Apparently Ax isn't the only one who's dumb as shit. Thanks for your input.

He’s just one of those dedicated folks that can’t help but take their work home with them.

It might be a bit like Bill Bryson, except, well, without Bill Bryson. Which should be an improvement.

@axtremus Read what Black wrote, "If there were the will to act on that ultimatum, it would be successful." That's a big "if" in this day and age. I doubt if there are any politicians in the G7 that would "act" and Black very well knows that.