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.
Year: 2020
Marks
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.
Podding
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.
MFO
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.
Two Definitions of Impossible
Ebola vaccines were kept at -80 in DRC. Here’s my photo from Beni. They go from the big freezers, to the green Arktek canisters, to dry ice canisters in freezer boxes that are transported on motorbike down dirt roads.
Where there’s $$$, political will and a plan, there’s a way. https://t.co/5mA7mVFUuY pic.twitter.com/UTmOMgYx1L
— Amy Maxmen (@amymaxmen) November 12, 2020
Agreed, but assuming the US is as organized now as even a middling African nation is a bit of a stretch. We probably are not.
What’s “impossible” here is all too often easily possible in other countries.
Slurp
What could be more on-brand Democratic Party™ than bending over backwards to unite with & capitulate to McConnell & the GOP while they plotting a coup?
— Arash Kolahi (@ArashKolahi) November 11, 2020
The Dems are so incompetent and worthless — that’s why it makes me laugh, the idea that they could steal an election.
They couldn’t even steal a fucking Slurpee from 7-11 on free Slurpee day.
Martial
By the way, those people panicking over a Biden mask mandate and a national lockdown: Biden cannot do either of those things without declaring martial law, which has a 0.000000000000001% chance of happening.
Otherwise, those decisions are handled at the state level, which means they will mostly stay the same as they are now under a Biden admin.
So many people like to complain and panic about the system of government without bothering to comprehend in the least how it works. I cannot fucking understand.
Gate
I thought the photos were fake…
This gator in Naples is massive 😳
🎥: Jeff Jones pic.twitter.com/aotOKeNBKU
— Zach Abolverdi (@ZachAbolverdi) November 12, 2020
No, that’s just Florida. It’s fairly big but I’ve seen larger in person. That one is 10-11 feet. I’ve seen one in the wild that was around 14 feet.
Meeting It
the interesting part of this to me is when he says “hard to be positive when that’s reality”, when the reality right in front of him only *just* got morphed by his reality distortion field.
It’s not reality that screwed him here, but the expectations that he has about reality https://t.co/VujX8KlzNf
— visa is cleaning out his notes (@visakanv) November 11, 2020
What a loser. But he made himself one. All self-created.
I’m 5’8″ and post high schoool, I’ve never had a problem meeting women. That’s because I rule.
Just the Fax
Amazing how Bowie nails the revolutionary nature of the medium-message interplay of the internet.
An open-ended, emergent, ‘alien life-form’.Juxtapose with Paul Krugman’s “the internet will be no more impactful than the fax machine”.@EconTalker 😉@mgurri@EPoe187 https://t.co/vJnuSg73Tw
— Joe Rini (@JoeRini6) November 11, 2020
Bowie was right. I was right. Ian Welsh and many, many others were and are wrong about this.
The internet is Gutenbergian in its effects and consequences, and the first truly significant change in human communication in 500 years. No, I don’t think radio and TV were even close, though they certainly are not nothing.
The reason I think the above about radio and TV is the just one website — Facebook — has had more impact on the world in a decade than radio or TV has had in toto since their advent.
FF
we found some fraud https://t.co/Z4aNzO6Ljm
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) November 10, 2020
The fraud fraud.
Risk World
"We are terrible at assessing risk," vaccines expert @DrPaulOffit tells reporters in briefing. "People ask me what's the most dangerous aspect of getting vaccines – the most dangerous aspect is driving to the location to get the vaccine."
— Meg Tirrell (@megtirrell) November 10, 2020
Exactly this. Driving (or riding in a car) is more dangeous by far than even barely-tested vaccines.
I want to teach a class called “Risk and the Real World” somewhere. No one would let me, even though I’d be really fucking good at it, but 99%+ of people really need this class.
Prop Victim
This is the site I’ve been using to see the full vote tallies and how many votes remain to be counted.
As always, it often takes 2-3 weeks for the full tally. Just usually it does not matter. This time, it did (a little), though 2020 wasn’t nearly as close as it was in 2016. In a few states, the Repubs managed to make it impossible to tally mail-in ballots early to sow confusion and doubt.
This is why Pennsylvania took longer than normal. They did not manage to get this done in Florida.
But, people will believe any old propaganda. I prefer believing the real. It’s sad — really sad — to realize how many people are propaganda victims.
Jaynes Addiction
So much of evolutionary neuroscience is a barely-veiled restatement of Julian Jaynes’ theory of the breakdown of the bicameral mind, recast in more science-y terms to conceal the origin.
I think this is good, because Jaynes was onto something. But no one is allowed to really say that out loud.
Hard To Steal
Assuming the Dems are competent enough to steal an election is fucking hilarious.
They can barely win an election with tons of resources and vast time to prepare. The effort to actually steal one is an order of magnitude harder when you’re not the party in power.
It’s the most moronic conspiracy theory in the world, believing the Dems can have some master plan to alter election results when they can’t even do a single other thing right.
It takes a real dipshit to believe something so obviously impossible. I wouldn’t trust the DNC to sweep my floor; they simply could not steal an election.