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vxbush
8/24/2022 6:04:05 AM
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Pancake tacos? Interesting.
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vxbush
8/24/2022 6:04:55 AM
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Going back to yesterday:
In #14 Occasional Reader said: Good God. https://www.foxnews.com/world/canadian-soldier-suffering-ptsd-offered-euthanasia-veterans-affairs Again, I can't help but think that the goal of the governments and pharmaceutical firms these days is to get rid of as many people as they can so Gaia doesn't overheat. I want to be wrong, I really do.
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vxbush
8/24/2022 6:15:07 AM
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On to perhaps brighter news: We've known for a while now that education is failing our students. What I hadn't stopped to realize until today (thanks to that bad cat)
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vxbush
8/24/2022 6:19:19 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 3: ..... I'm going to remember to stop hitting Return when I enter a URL. Honestly, I will. Returning to the theme.... I didn't connect the poor educational system to the poor abilities of our leaders. I've known since the early 1990's that some graduate math students did not have the education necessary to cut it in grad school; I had a fellow grad student who studies at a Ivy League University who didn't know a lot of basic things that I was taught in my degree program. But I should have realized that applied across disciplines and across many of the big universities these people attend. Okay. So we know we have a huge problem there that we can't fix instantly. So to help discussion today (or, knowing me, causing everyone to run away): If you could teach everyone one key thing from your area of specialty, what would it be? For me, it would be something I keep pounding into doctors' heads: the distribution of "normal" test results for me (that is numerical, like various blood tests) is not identical to the normal curve for the entire population.
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vxbush
8/24/2022 6:23:53 AM
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In #4 vxbush said: For me, it would be something I keep pounding into doctors' heads: the distribution of "normal" test results for me one individual (that is numerical, like various blood tests) is not identical to the normal curve for the entire population.
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doppelganglander
8/24/2022 6:38:17 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 2:
You are not wrong. I plan to live to be 90 just out of spite.
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buzzsawmonkey
8/24/2022 6:55:31 AM
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Well, I wasted my vote in the NYC primary yesterday. The choices were vile, more vile, and nominally-less-vile. In the Oklahoma land-rush primary for the Democrat congressional nominee, we had a choice between the Levi Strauss heir who worked on the first Trump impeachment, the superannuated Liz Holtzman, several diversity candidates (many associated with the communist Working Families Party), etc. There was one candidate who was reasonably not-insane, but who had no chance of winning. The question was, do I vote for him, or for the Impeachment Boy frontrunner who had a chance of at least ensuring that a worse-whacko wouldn't get the slot? I ended up voting for Impeachment Boy, since the candidate most closely snapping at his heels was Working Families. Ugh. At the state-senate level, the choice was between an ex-aide to Chuck Schumer, and the more-radical Working Families candidate. Again, the choice was clear, but distasteful. But I did have a fun moment. After I left the polling place, who should be there trying to work the voters but the state-senate Working Families candidate himself! He buttonholed me and was talking about all the climate-change crap he hoped to work on with our loony governor in Albany. I told him that his/their "climate" initiatives were bullshit, and gave him a lecture on the stupidity of hybrid buses when the entire city had had an electric bus system for over half a century; I pointed to the street behind him and told him that in any vintage photo he'd be able to see the electric lines which used to crisscross the street to power the wholly-electric buses. I suggested to him that re-stringing those wires would be a jobs initiative, and that electricity generated at the plant, where stacks could be scrubbed, would be cleaner and safer than anything done with hybrids. He tried to say, well, whatabout the danger from the electric lines, and I told him that it hadn't been an issue when the original buses were running, so there should not be any issue if they were revived. I gave him an earful. I'm sure it fell on deaf ears, but I enjoyed myself.
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Occasional Reader
8/24/2022 7:31:32 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 7:
clearly, you are a domestic terrorist who should be put on an FBI watchlist immediately.
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vxbush
8/24/2022 7:51:13 AM
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In #7 buzzsawmonkey said: I gave him an earful. I'm sure it fell on deaf ears, but I enjoyed myself. It probably did fall on deaf ears, but at least you tried.
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Occasional Reader
8/24/2022 8:26:55 AM
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In #4 vxbush said: If you could teach everyone one key thing from your area of specialty, what would it be?
Don't buy Argentinian national debt...
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buzzsawmonkey
8/24/2022 8:49:35 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 11: Moolah for Mullahs™ 2.0!
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JCM
8/24/2022 9:03:28 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 11:
Iran's annual GDP is $192 billion. That "proposal" is $143 billion a year. 75% increase in the Iranian GDP. And will add around 15% to the annual deficit. WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT
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vxbush
8/24/2022 9:34:43 AM
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In #13 JCM said: Iran's annual GDP is $192 billion.
That "proposal" is $143 billion a year.
75% increase in the Iranian GDP.
And will add around 15% to the annual deficit.
WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT Well my gob is smacked.
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JCM
8/24/2022 11:11:26 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 14: Not to mention it allows Iran to continue to pursue nuclear development. We'd be essential funding a enemy states weapons of mass destruction.
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Occasional Reader
8/24/2022 12:33:11 PM
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Reply to JCM in 15:
Yes, but other than all that, it's a terrific deal!
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vxbush
8/24/2022 12:33:30 PM
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In #15 JCM said: Not to mention it allows Iran to continue to pursue nuclear development.
We'd be essential funding a enemy states weapons of mass destruction. Wouldn't that mean that if other countries have Iran on a terrorist list, we could also go on such a list as accomplices?
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vxbush
8/24/2022 2:23:13 PM
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In #18 Occasional Reader said: Via Insty: Nancy Pelosi is pleased as punch that the POTUS's authority to cancel student debt, which she was denying this time last year, has now magically appeared, out of nowhere. So the president can: - magically create money (but needs some help from Congress)
- magically cancel student debt (sole superpower)
- apparently has all sorts of superpowers
Ugh. I think I just threw up in my mouth.
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JCM
8/24/2022 3:13:26 PM
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Reply to vxbush in 17: They would be justified in calling for regime change!
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Kosh's Shadow
8/24/2022 5:09:24 PM
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In #4 vxbush said: If you could teach everyone one key thing from your area of specialty, what would it be? It would be to compare theory and reality. So you think there should be distribution of wealth? Show me ONE place it worked. Too much today is not political science, but political alchemy, trying to turn people's base instincts into gold.
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Kosh's Shadow
8/24/2022 5:31:19 PM
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On the Iran deal - Malley has been described as a tourist in the Persian bazaar with pockets full of money saying "I won't leave here without buying a carpet!"
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Kosh's Shadow
8/24/2022 6:04:57 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 23: Jukebox
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Kosh's Shadow
8/24/2022 6:18:46 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 24: Another jukebox
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buzzsawmonkey
8/24/2022 6:52:04 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 26: I love "Green Hills of Earth," Kosh, but your link to it comes up blank.
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buzzsawmonkey
8/24/2022 7:19:41 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 26: Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 27:
And, at the risk of being the proverbial fly in the ointment, I will point out that the musical link contains verses not in the story from which the song comes, and also elides verses from that very story, such as: We rot in the molds of Venus We retch at her tainted breath Foul are her flooded jungles Crawling with unclean death Sorry to be picky.
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Kosh's Shadow
8/24/2022 7:24:50 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 31: Yes, but I have been trying to find a version that I could stand, and this is the best one I have found.
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Kosh's Shadow
8/24/2022 7:39:00 PM
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And if Heinlein wrote that today, would he have had to allow those who identify as aliens to long for the red plains of Mars and the hot lands of Venus?
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Kosh's Shadow
8/24/2022 8:12:52 PM
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Which makes me think - do sun worhsippers drink Corona?
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