jkf
1mo ago
I've been Noticing lately that governments with any significant period of incumbency during the Covid period are tending to get hammered into the ground in the first 'dust-clears' election available. I suppose it's too much to think hope that voters are putting 2 + 2 together on the 'sky-money + forced business closure --> inflation + impending doom' thing -- but the 'inflation + impending doom' thing does seem to be enough.
jkf
3mo ago
As Dean says, you are totally doing that and have done that a lot in the past -- nobody is interested in TTV per se, they are interested in whether the election is fraudulent. What purpose does it serve to restrict discussion to TTV?
Anyways, if you want to talk about TTV I can say that I have substantial experience with exactly the kind of analysis that they claim to have performed with the mobile data -- IMPO what they claim to have done is completely technically feasible, and the various deboonking articles I've seen on the topic seem either ignorant of the realities of that technology or quite dishonest themselves.
This doesn't really say anything one way or the other about the quality of that analysis -- as I said, TTV is not very transparent in their methodology, and it would be easy to get incorrect results out of such datasets via either malice or blunder. I can't say anything about the truth value of what they've done without seeing their work.
That's what I think of TTV -- about the same as what I think of those who are trying to discredit them. Which is not much, and not really a very interesting discussion to have if you ask me.
jkf
5mo ago
So they were planning for a massively bloody revolution... and left their guns in Virginia?
jkf
7mo ago
Surely the proper legal jurisdiction for deciding with whom the State of Texas should do business is in fact the State of Texas, though?
It's kind of identical -- NY would probably not be going after Trump if not for his annoying persistence in wanting to be President, and there would be no problem with Wells Fargo banking Texas if not for their (mostly non-Texas) actions against Ruger. The fact that both actions are taking place in the appropriate venues does not delete the fact that the States in question are using the venues to influence things within a wider jurisdiction. (and I'd suggest humbly that "who can run for President" is a more consequential thing than "who can bank with Wells-Fargo")
jkf
8mo ago
OK, so all I'm saying that the Interpol Red-thingee means is that India feels it has enough evidence to charge this guy if he shows up back in India -- which is also normally enough to have a poke at extradition proceedings. (which may or may not succeed)
So if India wants this guy enough to order a hit, it seems weird that they wouldn't have tried a little harder to extradite him first. Unless Canada told them "you can try but we will say no".
(BTW one of the most consistently annoying aspects of conversations with you is your tendency to veer off the main point to nitpick things like calling an Interpol Red Listing (or whatever they call it) a warrant -- if you are going to do that you should at least take pains not to refer to it that way yourself at other times)
jkf
11mo ago
One approach is to make her want to quit, instead of firing her -- not sure what to suggest for making her life difficult in the context of a rec sports league though. Light-duty plausibly deniable bullying might do it, but for that you need a heartless bully.
jkf
11mo ago
Or just toughen the fuck up -- it won't kill you. Have a beer or something.
jkf
1yr ago
The virus is also going to be in your blood and spreading everywhere.
Sure, but AIUI it can only replicate in cells with ACE-2 receptors -- which is different from the mRNA vaccines, right?
jkf
20d ago
With all due respect, "I do what I want" is not a viable approach to building a quality space.
You are focussing on this part because the initial warning was indefensible -- the content was polite, just that the other poster didn't like it. She should absolutely continue 'doing what she wants' -- the mods are not gods.
jkf
3mo ago
I’m a utilitarian libertarian, not deontological. Seat belt laws are easily justified on a cost/benefit basis.
Please do so -- what is the net cost to you of increased traffic fatalities? (in a libertarian society if possible, but I guess that's hard mode -- even in today's US I think you will have a tough time)
jkf
5mo ago
The electors can elect whomever they want though, right -- so just throw a placeholder in there, mobilize the base (have rallys with him & Trump, etc to make the situation clear) and then the (Republican) electors throw their votes to Trump.
jkf
7mo ago
I don't think he was a spokesperson per se, but the report did seem to originate from an Israeli soldier on the ground -- there were pictures of him on Twitter that I saw.
jkf
8mo ago
Sorry, that's what I meant -- the point being, how can 'exhorting' modify 'Akpu'? It's not a property of Akpu, it's an action being taken towards him. (ie. a verb)
'I saw Babu run after Akpu' -- you would say that the 'run after' construction is some sort of adjective? It's not -- 'run after Akpu' is a subordinate phrase.
jkf
10mo ago
"Blocky forms made out of concrete" is brutalist enough for me -- what would you call the style of the 2021 winner?
Also what is "brutalistesqe"? 'esqe' as a suffix usually means 'similar to' -- so if buildings in a style similar to brutalism are winning architechture prizes, I would say this means that brutalism is still en vogue at least to some extent?
jkf
1yr ago
You’re confusing culture with politics.
No u -- the whole entire point of the Red/Blue tribes is that they don't map cleanly to right/left and most particularly not Dem/Rep.
Blue Tribe is very much a thing, and lots and lots of them vote Republican -- mostly for different reasons than the Red Tribe Republicans, but that's the point.
Nixon would probably be considered Blue Tribe by your standards
Nixon was raised working-class religious in Yorba Linda -- so probably not Blue Tribe, actually. The Bushes would be much closer, despite their down-homey pretensions.
jkf
1yr ago
Not at all -- most of the plausible "machine politics" rigging theories are strictly manual fraudulent ballot schemes. (Which, granted, have been happening in the US off and on since ~1776 -- but I don't think that makes them not count as "rigging"?)
jkf
1yr ago
Those sound like the sorts of things that would increase mortality from the baseline? Anyways I'm not particularly fixated on Hungary; the fact that there are such large differences at the moment (and that many places are quite elevated) is profoundly weird.
jkf
1yr ago
The refugees that have shown up in my area (rural-ish Canada) definitely include families and single men -- it doesn't seem overly disproportionate towards single women. There's been a lot of incentive for males to get out of the country -- does anyone have actual stats on this?
jkf
1yr ago
I'm not sure this is right; there's an (older?) sense of the word in which an older person develops a (non-sexual) relationship with a younger (too young to consent) person, and then scoops them up for a sexual relationship once they turn 18. (or whatever)
So the drag-queen thing can be viewed in a similar way; get children who are too young for sexual purposes inculcated into your personal fetish, which will increase the supply of adults for you (and yours) to sexually exploit down the road; "stochastic grooming," if you will.
jkf
24d ago
"what if the proles hate our guts so much that they ban cultured meat out of spite?"
What if the proles have caught on to the fact that it won't be 'tasty cheap nutritious cultured meat,' it will be 'expensive goo of dubious quality', and used as leverage in support of bans/punitive taxation on regular meat -- the justification being that 'modern alternatives exist, eat shit your beans, proles'.
jkf
3mo ago
Or I can respond in this thread! I can post wherever I want, it's crazy!
You seem to think that people who disagree with you in these matters should just submit to whatever form of discussion you think works best for your arguments -- why would they want to do that?
If you think somebody is Gish galloping, you don't need to respond to them either -- what's with this need to control the conversation?
While you do see medical research occasionally indicating the obverse, it's usually pretty bad and/or conducted by actors with pretty obvious motivations in the 'pushing vaccines' department. (looking at you, CDC)
He's almost certainly correct though:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(22)00287-7/fulltext
No vax booster has ever been able to explain to me what the proposed mechanism is for exposure by blood to a small subunit of the virus providing better immunity than exposure by mucous membranes to the whole actual thing; this makes no sense whatsoever when you think about it. Of course there could still be reasons why the vaccine is preferable, in the event that it actually prevented infection -- but to me the fact that hardly anyone was officially prepared to draw this distinction is evidence in the direction of general intellectual dishonesty in the (mostly North American I guess) public health community.
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