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Posted by badanov 2021-09-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top

#1 Can't wait for the board's Branch Covidian to argue otherwise - should be fun!
Posted by Raj 2021-09-14 00:55||   2021-09-14 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 The monkey author need to be taught basic probability theory - involving corporeal punishment in the process is highly recommended.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-14 02:00||   2021-09-14 02:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Stress and pressure every day. Loss of prestige, money and power. Most people have tuned them out. Going about their lives as best as they can. Trying to be positive in a negative environment. The chicken little's of the world look in the mirror and practice their mantras. The only people they see are themselves. Obsessed with their own thoughts the wheels are falling off their segway.
Posted by Dale 2021-09-14 04:00||   2021-09-14 04:00|| Front Page Top

#4 the good news is that Covid has virtually eliminated seasonal flu.

amazing.
Posted by Retard Strength 2021-09-14 07:13||   2021-09-14 07:13|| Front Page Top

#5 ...well if you rely heavily on statistics, it appears you are correct.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-09-14 07:35||   2021-09-14 07:35|| Front Page Top

#6 the board's Branch Covidian to argue otherwise - should be fun!

Dehumanize the messenger and recommend he be physically beaten. It all sounds soooo Scientific™
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-14 08:04||   2021-09-14 08:04|| Front Page Top

#7 ^Corporeal punishment is the only way to make a baboon like the author learn something.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-14 09:00||   2021-09-14 09:00|| Front Page Top

#8 baboon - because he disagrees with your professed authoritarian position?
Posted by Frank G 2021-09-14 09:07||   2021-09-14 09:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Baboon because he didn't bother to read the relevant Wiki article before setting off to proselytize on the subject wherein he knows (considerably less) than nothing.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-14 09:18||   2021-09-14 09:18|| Front Page Top

#10 #10 Didn’t your grade school teachers ever tell you to not cite Wiki? That’s like getting your info from Reddit…
Posted by Saltie Fork 2021-09-14 10:46||   2021-09-14 10:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Resetting nickname
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2021-09-14 11:35||   2021-09-14 11:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Well that didn't work.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2021-09-14 11:55||   2021-09-14 11:55|| Front Page Top

#13 ^Wikipedia is not cited in peer-reviewed publication because it is intended for laymen. Just like the article we're discussing is intended for laymen.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-14 12:00||   2021-09-14 12:00|| Front Page Top

#14 Funny thing about wikipedia. Once, you could trust it for non-subjective stuff, like say, the physical sciences. Now that science has become Science™, not so much.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-14 12:10||   2021-09-14 12:10|| Front Page Top

#15 ^So sorry, MM. I don't think you can find a reliably conservative source for science/or math - ideology & reality don't mix.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-14 12:27||   2021-09-14 12:27|| Front Page Top

#16 I'm not looking for a conservative slant. I do understand that some people are. I'm looking for straight facts only. Interpretation should be up to the scholar. A teacher I had waaaaay back in high school said it best: "All a decent education does for you is teach you how to sift shit efficiently."
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-14 12:57||   2021-09-14 12:57|| Front Page Top

#17 And as for the term "conservative," that's now fully loaded and subjective too. To a "progressive," a "conservative" is just someone who refuses to believe the "truth." To a "conservative," the "truth" is just sh*t that "progressives" believe with incandescent religious fervor.

And never the twain shal meet...
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-14 13:00||   2021-09-14 13:00|| Front Page Top

#18 Another guy who made it to the apex of academia despite being an ape who was not spanked or whipped enough while growing up.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-14 14:57||   2021-09-14 14:57|| Front Page Top

#19 It looked like the summer 2021 wave of covid in the US had crested, but now it seems like we just had a short-lived & shallow dip and are entering another upswing. New variant? Effect of early vaccines wearing off?
Posted by Glenmore 2021-09-14 15:41||   2021-09-14 15:41|| Front Page Top

#20 People producing the "magic numbers" adjusting?
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-14 16:00||   2021-09-14 16:00|| Front Page Top

#21 I say get it and read it: A Field Guide To Lies
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-14 16:01||   2021-09-14 16:01|| Front Page Top

#22 #16 If you reject the entire Wikipedia because you didn't like some articles - and not even articles on science/math ...
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-14 16:02||   2021-09-14 16:02|| Front Page Top

#23 You didn't read what I said at all. I'm not surprised. Going way back I have found math junkies really don't take verbal skills seriously at all. Please quit diverting the argument or ignoring the parts you don't understand, don't have a serious answer to. That would be, us people who value words like to say, a sign of good will.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-14 16:08||   2021-09-14 16:08|| Front Page Top

#24 #17 And as for the term "conservative," that's now fully loaded and subjective too

For some people it means "sticking it to democrats, no matter the issue".
You know, there was a time when I might have thought that the Texas legislature’s creative lawmaking that lets random people sue those facilitating abortions was against my principles. But that was before “principles” became nothing more than a cynical codeword designed to tie our hands as the libs pillaged through our society like a bunch of hopped-up Visigoths who just got into Hunter’s secret stash.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-14 16:08||   2021-09-14 16:08|| Front Page Top

#25 New variant? Effect of early vaccines wearing off?

Embrace the power of "and" and add "cut my nose off to spite my face" - motivated by ideology - in some parts of the population
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-14 16:11||   2021-09-14 16:11|| Front Page Top

#26 Would any of the people here who got past "My First Reader" like to point out exactly where in my comments above I said "I reject the whole wikipedia?"
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-14 16:12||   2021-09-14 16:12|| Front Page Top

#27 For some people it means

Um. that's subjectivity. Big word for a math savant to manage, but there it is.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-14 16:13||   2021-09-14 16:13|| Front Page Top

#28 "All a decent education does for you is teach you how to sift shit efficiently."

If you can shift shit efficiently - then you'll know which articles to trust. In any case - the one I was talking about is straightforward probability theory. Or, you can look it up in any college probability textbook.

I have found math junkies really don't take verbal skills seriously at all

I found that lit graduates have superior verbal skills and nothing to communicate.
p.s. There isn't a single lit graduate among my favorite authors.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-14 16:20||   2021-09-14 16:20|| Front Page Top

#29 ^So sorry, MM. I don't think you can find a reliably conservative source for science/or math - ideology & reality don't mix.

And when I tried to get you to look up something in the 2017 Physician's Desk Reference you wouldn't.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-09-14 16:22||   2021-09-14 16:22|| Front Page Top

#30 And there you have it, kids, the reason all computer programming languages suck. To be mathematically describable (and thus compileable) a computer language has to be so boringly explicit that it's basically an intellectual straitjacket. Really good programmers are the ones that can re-inject the inflection and nuance that language normalization and description boil off. That's why the best programs are impenetrable without * drum roll * good human comments.
Hopefully, we will get to clever and perceptive AIs that can sit and do back and forth with really smart programmers to do really great sh*t. None of it will be done by someone using a calculator like a vibrator.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-14 16:22||   2021-09-14 16:22|| Front Page Top

#31 There isn't a single lit graduate among my favorite authors.

From a guy who considers anime to be literature. Low blow, but there it is.

Well, then, as Rick Masters said to Max Waxman in Live and Die in LA, "Your taste is in your ass."
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-14 16:26||   2021-09-14 16:26|| Front Page Top

#32 And I'm out on this thread now. I'm going to go read a book with no pictures in it...
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-14 16:27||   2021-09-14 16:27|| Front Page Top

#33 Anime is an art form that supersedes your "serious literature" the way electric light supersedes an oil lamp.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-14 16:31||   2021-09-14 16:31|| Front Page Top

#34 Oh, Jesus...
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-14 16:40||   2021-09-14 16:40|| Front Page Top

#35 to look up something in the 2017 Physician's Desk Reference

And when I asked you to look at Brazil - to see that all your HCQ arguments are garbage, what did you do?

Look, I'm tired of arguing with your covid is a hoax, anti-masker, anti-vaxxer nonsense.
Newsflash, it's not a Democratic plot to enslave freedom-loving American people. As you'd all realized - if you just looked at the rest of the world.

p.s. IMO, vaccinated anti-vaxxer is more disgusting than a limousine liberal.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-14 16:41||   2021-09-14 16:41|| Front Page Top

#36 #5 Real world doesn't consists of binary choices, Besoeker.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-14 09:01

I snorted.

From a different thread, but here at 6 months of only two kinds of people, its more appropriate.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-09-14 17:50||   2021-09-14 17:50|| Front Page Top

#37 From a guy who considers anime to be literature. Low blow, but there it is.

Odd what a guy (r) puts out about himself on this site. I know more than a few are taking more than mental notes.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2021-09-14 18:41||   2021-09-14 18:41|| Front Page Top

#38 #31 Great quote, great film. Don't engage the troll, he's bullshit down to the ground and it matters very little the which of the why you're on in this issue.
Posted by Cesare 2021-09-14 19:04||   2021-09-14 19:04|| Front Page Top

#39 And when I asked you to look at Brazil - to see that all your HCQ arguments are garbage, what did you do?

"Look at Brazil" isn't a solid cite. "Look at the 2017 Physician's Desk Reference" entry on Plaquenil" is a much more solid cite.

Look, I'm tired of arguing with your covid is a hoax,

Straw man argument

anti-masker,

Another straw man argument, I've tried not to waste energy with adherents of the Cult of the Mask. I think I want a plague doctor one myself...

anti-vaxxer nonsense.
Newsflash, it's not a Democratic plot to enslave freedom-loving American people. As you'd all realized - if you just looked at the rest of the world.

China is willing to cut down the rest of the world in order to get an alzheimer's ridden anti-industrialism extremist to be president. And heck, it worked.

p.s. IMO, vaccinated anti-vaxxer is more disgusting than a limousine liberal.

What about Alton Ochsner? Does he disgust you too?

(Also... if you think I don't think the virus exists why do you think I'm arguing with you about treatments?)
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-09-14 19:30||   2021-09-14 19:30|| Front Page Top

#40 Stupid F#ck want to argue about masks and vax while this site withhold data showing Israel is 40-50% vaxed in hospitals.
This site is deliberately stopping articles about vax failures. Maybe just because we are uncivil (we are).
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2021-09-14 20:13||   2021-09-14 20:13|| Front Page Top

#41 Sorry, I sound like Chris. (But he's right).
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2021-09-14 20:15||   2021-09-14 20:15|| Front Page Top

#42 This site is deliberately stopping articles about vax failures. Maybe just because we are uncivil (we are).

not me, or any other Mods that I know of
Posted by Frank G 2021-09-14 20:47||   2021-09-14 20:47|| Front Page Top

#43 #42 If you let an intermittent crackpot like me opine you're not trying to censor very much.

The worst I could say about this informative and incredibly useful site is you don't make it easy enough to donate.
Posted by Cesare 2021-09-14 21:42||   2021-09-14 21:42|| Front Page Top

#44 he worst I could say about this informative and incredibly useful site is you don't make it easy enough to donate.
Posted by: Cesare 2021-09-14 21:42

You are right. And I put my money where my mouth is.

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Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2021-09-14 22:26||   2021-09-14 22:26|| Front Page Top

#45 not me, or any other Mods that I know of
Posted by Frank G 2021-09-14 20:47|| 2021-09-14

Frank the deleter...
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2021-09-14 22:28||   2021-09-14 22:28|| Front Page Top

#46 You have little credibility, Frankly.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2021-09-14 22:31||   2021-09-14 22:31|| Front Page Top

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