@george-k said in No more fact-checking.: USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/04/29/fact-check-joe-bidens-first-speech-congress/4886570001/ Biden said he inherited the “worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.” But when he took office, the economy had recovered some from its low point earlier in the pandemic. He repeated the debunked claim that he had “traveled over 17,000 miles” with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Biden referred to the American Jobs Plan creating “millions of jobs” and generating “trillions of dollars in economic growth.” The jobs estimate is accurate, but economic growth projections are mixed. The president said he is “restoring the program” to address the causes of migration from Northern Triangle countries that “the last administration decided … was not worth it.” Although funding for the initiative declined and was delayed during the Trump administration, it wasn’t completely eliminated, as Biden’s remark may have suggested. Biden said the “vast majority” of the “over 11 million undocumented folks” in the U.S. overstayed a visa. But immigration experts estimate that most people living in the U.S. illegally crossed the southern border without authorization. By WaPo standards, that means Biden lied 6,016,500 times in that speech.

Civil lawsuits are a feature of our democracy and happen all the time. I don’t see the value in making this a political issue and if the laws applicable to a Capitol Police Officer are different than others then there is a process to change that. If an arbitrary standard is being applied to withhold his name then that should be pointed out.

@george-k said in Stowaway: @horace said in Stowaway: I thought it was groundbreaking that both lead characters are women. Yes, and a POC and an Asian! They were in a safe space, but due to white male supremacy, they had to leave earth to find it. Sad.

@jon-nyc said in Puzzle time - rolling a die: But you were on the right track with your logic, I'm not sure where it went wrong. I thought about this again. My model computes a subtly different probability. p(13,6) = 0.5138 means that if I roll the dice 13 times, then in 51.38% of the cases I'll hit all 6 numbers. If I do this only 12 times, then in 43.8%. I verified this with a simulation and it is indeed true. But that's different from "how many times do you need to roll a die before all six different numbers have turned up?". That's an expected value that averages over any number of rolls: Sometimes I need just 6 rolls, and if I'm unlucky I may need 500. So I have answered a related but different question that would have been a nice follow-up puzzle

LOL https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/1387825889094819844?s=20

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@axtremus see the "Fact Checking" thread for more analysis from other sources.

FFS.

@doctor-phibes said in Kass on Fake Italian Beef: @horace said in Kass on Fake Italian Beef: There's a chance they might be able to make a reasonable fake italian beef or low-quality burger at some point. There is no chance they'll ever make a passable fake ribeye or porterhouse, not in our lifetimes. Dude, they flew a helicopter on freaking Mars. There's every chance. Just the variation from different breeds and different feeding methods, all that nature, is not going to be replicable in the lab. They'll eventually make something in the lab, but it'll be different. Not to worry though, there won't be a lack of folk eager to claim that it's actually better.

Maybe we need to make a few more things here. Maybe start with steel, computer chips and pharmaceuticals.

Just some really long gloves.

@horace said in Violent crime and politics.: @jolly said in Violent crime and politics.: As police across the country are leaving cities in droves and it becomes harder to recruit new officers, To what extent is this going on? Clearly, white people entering the police force these days are doing so with the understanding that they'll get figuratively spit on for being in their profession, so it must be going on to a meaningful extent. NYPD had a 75% increase in cops quitting the force or retiring, 2020 vs. 2019. Denver had a 61% increase. Chicago cops are retiring at twice the rate if the previous year. Portland had a record number of cops retire. Seattle had the most cops leave in a decade. Most of the cops leaving the force across the nation, tend to be retirements or early retirements. But they sre retiring in droves.

There are no benefits to those who pay taxes

That was from several years ago. I recall us discussing it in the old place.

@horace lol

I can’t believe the parents sued rather than tanning her hide.

OK, I'm not going to waste the electrons and seconds by wading through that piece. I'll simply say, "What the actual fuck are they talking about?" Or, "Global cooling, er... warming Climate change, is there anything it can't do?"

@copper said in Baton-wielding LA cop scares youngster.: Our golf course has lots of those babies at the moment Flying rats...