::: 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.

@doctor-phibes said in "I was recently exposed to current popular music": @horace said in "I was recently exposed to current popular music": @axtremus said in "I was recently exposed to current popular music": A triangle is an acoustic instrument. I drew a triangle on a sheet of paper and whacked it with the pencil. Sure enough, it made a pencil whacking sound. Ax, you are correct. Your claim checks out. What a couple of squares. They'd also work, too, I think. Ax, can you confirm this?

They had a cutting edge technological civilization more than 100 years ago. Then, Obama became a community organizer. Then they became the murder capital of the country. That all checks out.

Excerpts from CNN: "A grave and specific ISIS terror threat is hanging over the frantic endgame of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan with time fast running out to rescue up to 1,500 Americans and the fate of fleeing Afghans looking darker by the hour. President Joe Biden is so far sticking to his Tuesday deadline for the final exit from a 20-year war in Afghanistan . . . But in an alarming sign of the deteriorating security environment, US diplomats in Kabul early Thursday local time suddenly warned American citizens to "immediately" leave several gates into the airport, citing security threats. The warning came hours after a US defense official had told CNN that officials were alarmed by a "very specific threat stream" about the ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan, which planned to attack crowds outside the airfield. US troops were already in a deeply vulnerable position on the airport, the last piece of Afghanistan they now control . . . But the added threat from ISIS-K makes the situation even worse. ISIS-K's ranks are believed to have been swelled by escapees from Afghan prisons and potentially a number of hardened fighters from Syria. "It's hard to overstate the complexity and the danger of this effort," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday. "We're operating in a hostile environment in a city and country now controlled by the Taliban with the very real possibility of an ISIS attack." ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Thank you, Captain Obvious.

One of them is getting “only” 6 years since he’s cooperating against the other jackasses. https://abc6onyourside.com/news/nation-world/1st-sentence-to-be-handed-down-in-michigan-govs-kidnap-plot-08-25-2021?fbclid=IwAR2ej-TIWLdX7sO2vWtFbukHY3BLMrm7QmrUo0XyH4BogSolyqqvKxVEYLA

@jolly said in Effect of Delta variant on vaccination rates: That's fear. Mostly. I do know a few people that said they were going to wait until July-August to give the vaccines 6 months or so in widespread distribution just to see if there were any negative reactions before getting vaccinated. I’m sure you also saw a big increase with kids 12-16 going back to school in August.

Nobody likes a funny governor.

I thought the Harris podcast and oddly enough, the CBS Sunday Morning CBS Sunday Morning segment were two of the better pieces done on the subject.

At least the wind turbines chopped up enough birds, that there's plenty of insects left for the birds who remain. See, there's a silver lining for every dark cloud!

Maybe just a bust for your office... [image: 15867935_2.jpg?v=8CFF952347CFC10]

I’ve seen that look in a Dr. Seuss piece. Still wish Trey would jump back in.

In fairness to Jobs the stock was overly sold when he was dying because people were worried they’d lose their magic without him. Part of Cook’s bump was recovering from too much pessimism.