@Larry said in Taken from the Communist Party USA platform of 1963: The only takeaway from this so far is that yet again the democrats refuse to even look at the truth about their political ideology. It's all about power. Some Democrats may not agree with them. " But the most important principle that I defended 20 years ago, that Joe Biden and many others are defending tonight is, let's count every legally cast vote and obey the will of the American people. " - Al Gore November 2020. Gore knows that if there is widespread belief the election was fraudulent, Biden's presidency is viewed as illegitimate. I suppose Gore is also fervently hoping no substantial fraud is found.

@Axtremus said in Remember when talking to foreign governments was collusion?: I get it, your guy (won/lost). You are (ecstatic/pissed), and with good reason. However, all of the (gloating/insults) are making you look a little small as a person and is doing your side no good. So why don't we chill? The state legislators/courts/electors will all have their say. It will be interesting and informative to watch and relay the various news articles, tweets, videos, etc... as it all plays out, but let's try to remember that there are real people on the opposite side that DO deserve respect (whether you think so or not). Link to video

Maybe if no one's looking.

When I told Mrs. George about this article, she reminded me... "Remember when you were a resident on OB, and because of a lack of staff, you were on call every other night?" Oh...yeah. That was a lifetime ago, of course, and the residency was quite different (not as busy - I could usually get 2-3 hours of uninterrupted sleep). Is more frequent call a good thing, ultimately? I don't know. This report seems to suggest that entering a residency while not having a rich late-night experience is detrimental, at least in terms of "feeling prepared." My experience was remarkable. The day after I grabbed my diploma, I was 100% ready, with no anxiety. I was confident in what I knew, and I was confident that I would have support from my senior colleagues (my resident) that he would help me if I needed it. It was not a surgical residency, but a medical one, but I think the basic point stands - my schooling made me ready.

Why would ANYONE put a trailer hitch on a Vette? Jesus.

@taiwan_girl said in Tonight's dinner. It's November, right? So TURKEY!!!: How was it? It was okay. Not great, but certainly okay. I think the broiling I did might have made it dry out a bit more than I'd like. I also cooked it for 2 hours (to 160 degrees). Perhaps that had something to do with it as well. However, in a tightly-sealed Dutch oven, probably not. At any rate, we got a total of 4 meals out of my efforts tonight!

@bachophile said in Pfizer FTW: Breaking news-zoom down 20% in the stock market https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/zoom-video-stock-price-pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine-success-telework-zm-2020-11-1029781479 I still believe face to face is the best way to do things. I realize that some companies look at the money and think that the difference is not worth it to fly someone out for a meeting, but in many cases, I do think so. I have fly to places where i have spent double or triple the time traveling than for the meeting. But it was worth it. I remember a commercial for a hotel chain a while back "You cannot FAX/email a smile" "You cannot text a handshake or pat on the back" "You cannot email a shared dinner and conversation" etc I realixe that the world is changing and video/audio conference will be used much more than before, but still

@Doctor-Phibes said in Can we try to tone it down a little?: It's no good bolting the stable door once you've led the gift horse to water. Yeah, but you can sit on its head and drown it.

@kluurs said in Joe's COVID Committee: BTW, he's a brother of Rahm Emanuel. So, I assume he has a gutter mouth.

Our Doc is recommending quarantine for 1 week and monitor his temp and see if he develops symptoms...

Yes it does.

Your ability to draw erroneous conclusions is breathtaking. 55555

Again if the Vaccine is 90% effective American perspective of the job to be done will be so so different. Mostly distribution effectiveness. Not like Biden will get us to think about how dangerous it is.

@George-K said in Labor Epidurals and Autism: @Klaus said in Labor Epidurals and Autism: @George-K said in Labor Epidurals and Autism: Children whose mothers were given an epidural during labor may face a slightly heightened risk of autism, a large, new study suggests. Correlation does not imply causation. And that's what the study says. And it's a retrospective study. True. I was judging the case by your "tl;dr" version, which uses the phrasing "may face", which sounds more like causality to me.

@jon-nyc said in Trump's reaction to losing: The problem is the websites you follow show rumors and apparent irregularities but don’t present the information when they are debunked or fully explained. Take for instance the two examples you give - the 6k error in that MI county has been identified as user input problem which has nothing to do with the functioning of the software and the WI apparent turnout anomaly was a combination of bad data and a lack of knowledge about how WI works. And you constantly follow the NYT, which is a steaming pile of calculated Left Wing bullshit. But I will give them kudos for it admitting it.

Also just saw the Pfizer vaccine news ... maybe that's also driving market reactions today.

I'm surprised the list is that short. If they were able to find the 6K votes glitch last week, how come they haven't found any since then? If there are supposed to be all these other counties that have the same problem, it seems like we should have heard some invalid vote counts from them by now.