It’s shocking when I use newer version of Firefox and other browsers how little I can actually do.
Of course, that’s the point. “Security” was just a lie to snooker the rubes. The idea was to turn those browsers and all else into tracking-enabled consumption vehicles with no user control. Better for sales and pushing propaganda.
It is amazing, though, that so many people (even “smart” ones) have been convinced by the security tall tale. Propaganda like that really, really works.
I was thinking about why people who are supposedly better than math at me, and thus “smarter,” have trouble understanding the Monty Hall Problem. And though I did not get quite to the heart of why they have issues with this rather trivial problem, part of it is that I think to be good at math as most people define it, you have to ignore the real world almost totally.
I’ve never been able to do that. I need to deeply understand why a concept applies to the real world to be able to do anything at all with it.
And the Monty Hall Problem is all about the how and why of having more information then changes the odds. Almost all of the time, the mathematically inclined have no clue at all what any of their equations mean, imply, or could possibly be used for.
I find this very odd indeed.
Ideally (and I know this would never happen), we’d create a federal law with a mandatory one year sentence for refusing vaccination. Can’t have these utter dumbasses running around unvaccinated.
I’ve lost all patience with propaganda victims. People who believe masks don’t work, or that Covid-19 is some sort of hoax or “just the flu.” Just total idiots. Of course masks work; the science is clear on that. There’s a reason surgeons wear them in the OR and nurses wear them in general. And Covid-19 is far deadlier than the flu and worse by far, even among the non-elderly. Also very clear science on that.
And I can understand why liberals are telling people not to see their families over the holidays. But the thing is, people are tired of lockdown and social distancing. At most that was ever only going to last a few months before people snapped, and we’ve reached that point. Extended draconian lockdowns were never likely to work in the US and they did not. Could’ve told you that (and did) back in March.
Another prediction, then. We’ll have at least two working vaccines by next year, and about half of Americans, like the total fucking assclown dipshits they are, will refuse to take either of them.
And we’ll of course still have the troupe of monkey-libs screeching about “stay inside forever” and “don’t go out or visit your family” too, no different at all than now. Their tune will not change in 2021 and probably not in 2022, either. For them, as with the MAGAts, this clownworld will become their way of life, their identity — because the virus will never totally disappear, given its range of hosts and the anti-vaxxers, so these libs will become a weird new otaku class, except far more numerous.
Done with poor thinkers and propaganda victims on both sides. Mental defectives, be gone.
book i found in a JP free library pic.twitter.com/QWKnP72C08
— gฬพuฬพnฬพ (@rodentsheriff) November 15, 2020
I have read this book and I can tell you: do not read this book. You will regret it. Though like me you might be unable to stop.
I can't believe you took seriously my daily updated forecast filled with charts and graphs. How dare you treat it like science.
— Chris Arnade 🐢 (@Chris_arnade) November 12, 2020
Great point. We’re supposed to treat all that like gospel truth except when it goes awry, then a bunch of frantic hand-waving starts and we’re told that it’s just a possible model, it’s all meaningless, and that no one should have put any credence in any of it. This is by the very same people.
Can’t have it both ways, but they want it both ways.
I’m really interested in the liberals’ “stay inside forever” response to the pandemic. At first glance, I think this is a reaction to observed state failure and an attempt at seizure of certitude from the jaws of ambiguity and decline.
But how this withdrawal dovetails with the diminution of risk and pleasure even prior to the pandemic, and how many people (especially on the lib side) see the world as having gotten more dangerous even as it has gotten safer, has me reconsidering how deep this goes.
My guess is that the pandemic has accelerated, as it has in other arenas, something that would’ve occurred anyway: the lib dream future of all being wireheads, ensconced in the pod, watched over by Brautigan’s “machines of loving grace,” not having to deal with the messiness of the world at all.
Remember when all the mooks came out of the woodwork screeching, “250GB is enough for anyone and always will be!”
Once again, I was right; they were wrong. I am getting kinda used to that. A bit of a trend.
Told you the winter was going to be bad. Didn’t want to be right; was. As usual.
This is an example of when you tell people what they can or can't say, they go out of their way to say it.
My kind of people. Love you all. https://t.co/G02gR086uS
— GuruAnaerobic (@GuruAnaerobic) November 12, 2020
Indeed. I will now go nuts with these words. Why do people go so crazy to remove the richness of language, when these terms aren’t intended to be insulting anyone? It’s completely deranged and won’t actually help.
It’s insane virtue signaling and harms both language, comprehension and the people you think you’re helping.
These are not in any particular order, but these are my 10 favorite TV episodes ever made:
I think, though, if I had to pick a favorite ep of all time, it’d be “Today Is the Day” Parts 1-2 from Sarah Connor. The tension is almost unbearable and it has one of the very best monologues ever done on TV.
Biden flips Arizona, further cementing his presidential victory.
Told you. This should’ve been called last week. It was press malpractice that it was not.
Someone who understands what is going on:
Great thread by someone who really understands how one side of the propaganda machine works — the Repub/conservative side. The Dem/Lib side is different, however.
Oh you know it. This is all part of the larger “live in the pod and eat bugs” plan that’ll be overtaking the world soon enough. The pandemic has accelerated that, and much else bad, greatly.
Six Americans killed in peacekeeping force helicopter crash in Egypt.
Oh, that sucks. I served there; I was in the MFO. My beret changed from paratrooper maroon to MFO orange for that mission, and I got to fly in helicopters all over eastern Egypt. I saw some really amazing things there I will never forget.