The New Coffee Room

Still doesn’t work. Money the US receives has to go to the treasury and be spent by Congress. There is no constitutional provision for a presidential slush account funded by plunder.

And he’d never get the votes for that in Congress.

Thursday I got a message from Bootsy saying he had an extra ticket to the NY Phil.

We saw Yefim Bronfman playing the Schumann concerto and Tchaikovsky’s second symphony.

Excellent seats, 6th row just left of center. Here’s a picture of them placing the piano.

Two great performances.

Imagine arguing with a straight face that Congress seriously intended to give the president the power to impose "emergency" tariffs on imports from US treaty allies so he could forcibly acquire the territory of one of those allies.

For fuck sake, scotus, end this next week.

And going to 25% in June.

He’s going to end his presidency with a global boycott of American goods if he keeps this shit up.

@andyd I would say the corrupting force is more status seeking than financial greed.

That’s why the second column is a better metric - top 10% of cited papers.

Of course it’s not perfect but it’s pretty good

I do think LD’s view is exaggerated. Take masks for instance. Generally speaking observational studies showed a positive effect and randomized trials didn’t.

But wait, aren’t randomized trials the gold standard? Well sure if they’re double blinded and the intervention (be it treatment or placebo) is sure to happen.

But in masking both trial types had issues. RCTs (half the study told ‘wear a mask’, the other half not told that) have obvious adherence issues. Observational trials (look at what they DO) have obvious cofounding issues. The guys that mask all the time probably do a bunch of other things to lower their risk of transmission.

I think to a great extent (with some exceptions of course) the problem was over-interpretation and simplification of studies rather than the studies themselves.

The tranny stuff is in its own category as it truly suffered from ideological capture. That I’ll give you.

It’s also from over a year ago which is a long time in AI video quality advancement