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NY Gov. Cuomo unveils a mountain sculpture symbolizing the COVID curve: “We don’t want to climb this mountain again.” pic.twitter.com/chHeC4YltB
— The Recount (@therecount) June 29, 2020
This is like the scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind where an obsessive Richard Dreyfuss carves Devils Tower out of mashed potatoes:
I’m sure a lot of Democratic insiders have been thinking, “Well, if Biden has a really bad Senior Moment, we can just dump him and replace him with a tested leader in his prime, like, say, Andrew Cuomo.”
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That mountain is comprised of the dead bodies of New York’s senior citizens.
Tragic dirt.
It has seemed like quite a few people we know have been obsessed with this thing.
I am always amazed at the stupid ways politicians and communicators of every kind try to make concepts understandable to a majority that can’t grasp things like Cartesian graphs, rates of change, or much of anything besides “food, car, job, poop, sex,” (not necessarily in that order).
A novelist once told me that to be a successful writer, whatever you put out has to be about the four Fs: Fighting, Fleeing, Feeding, and Fucking.
If I were his speech writer I would say something like this.
“Day zero was this date. This date is significant because it’s the day we realized that this virus was widespread & deadly. On day zero I implemented policy X. Spread of the virus accelerated and then plateaued on day 42, because of the policy I implemented and because New Yorkers were following proper CDC guidelines. As you can see day 42 saw the highest single day number of deaths. That was the peak of the mountain. The number of deaths then tapered out between day 42 and day 111. The total number of deaths is equal to the area under the curve, which is ∫ f(x) from day 1 to day 111. Essentially taking the number of deaths on each individual day and adding them all together. As you can see people are still dying on day 111. The number of deaths is not back down to zero, which means the virus is still spreading. We can’t afford to let our guard down; continue to follow CDC guidelines. If you don’t we will climb this mountain again and a lot more people will die. You don’t want to climb this mountain again.”
That’s got to be close to what Cuomo’s speech writer originally had written. It’s the only thing that makes sense. But he’s just a divvy. He has no stage presence, he can’t think on his feet. He doesn’t practice his speeches in front of the mirror the night before. These are our leaders.Replies: @Chrisnonymous
I was watching a news conference with Cuomo the other day and noticed his crazy suntan. His father had a dark complexion so it’s entirely possible it’s natural. But if not, between Cuomo and Trump, why do NY politicians love their fake looking tans?
Politicians in the sunbelt, the Southwest, or California have the opportunity to have an easy, sun-kissed glow year round. This is much less the case for politicians in the Northeast. So the latter probably have to resort to artificial means to achieve a photograph-ready appearance.Replies: @Known Fact, @Charlotte
I sprouted cheap coffee all over my keyboard.
Scientists trying to communicate with the music-emitting Mothership:
> “white lives matter, too”
> “white lives matter, too”
(silence)
> “white lives matter, too”
(long silence)
< "YA THINK?"
(all the windows are blasted out)
> “white lives matter, too”
Dies irae
> “white lives matter, too”
Dies irae
Italian American Grandma lays down the law. All it takes is for a few normal people to stand up to them. The revolution only works because good and decent Americans are staying indoors creating the illusion of a popular mass movement. It is a simulated revolution.
Gotta love Italian American New Yorkers. They have always known how to stand up to counter cultural punks.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=erL2czOyNocReplies: @ChrisZ, @Carol
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1277372267945738240Replies: @anon, @Clyde
OT: CHOP/CHAZ
If Seattle really thought Black Lives Matter, it would shut down CHOP chaos
Had Floyd not dropped fentanyl, all of that could have been avoided.
Bring in the Wolf.
One would be tempted to think that's the point of them.
PS why would dems ever want to dump Biden before the election? The plan is to dump him right afterward.
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1277371107612528647Replies: @Mike Pierson, Davenport Rector, Midfielder, @NJ Transit Commuter, @Goddard, @res, @syonredux, @J.Ross
At this point, I would be totally happy to have Italian American Grandmas running the country.
She's a bit of a holdover from another era, though--the urban machine Italian-American Democrat. She's been very good at shifting with the winds.
Cuomo did an excellent job according to most people
The problem with the virus is whites not social distancing and not using masks
Not just whites, but an increasing number of Americans, as evident by the spikes in Arizona, Texas, and Florida. The governors there are Republicans. But do not expect Mr. Sailer to offer that sort of NOTICING.Replies: @DCThrowback, @Daniel Williams, @anon
peopletiny ducksEspecially those in nursing homes, they're just dying to vote for him again!Cuomo has got a sign language dude on the right. More and more I see this simultaneous sign language stuff. Is this for real? Does anybody understand this stuff? Tell us that we are not being conned.
Whatever, it’s probably a good market for certified sign language emoters right now. One of the few trades that has a very steep growth curve.
What? And miss out on being led to the DIE promised land by President Abrams?
This means something…………………………………….
………………………….oh, that’s right. It means you killed thousands of people in New York’s nursing homes.
I remember that grinning gargoyle, Cuomo, holding forth during one of his press conferences in late March, saying “My mother isn’t expendable. You’re mother isn’t expendable. Nobody is expendable.” Then, long about May, after the policy vis-a-vis sending infected recovering COVID patients back into nursing homes came out, Cuomo was saying, in effect “Hey, people die. It happens. Move on.”
Man, I thought DeWine was bad!
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1277371107612528647Replies: @Mike Pierson, Davenport Rector, Midfielder, @NJ Transit Commuter, @Goddard, @res, @syonredux, @J.Ross
From a psychological point of view this clip is fascinating. The young protester in the American U. shirt is willing to be tough and obscene at first. But, as soon as his bluff is called, you can see him and the other protesters wilt and deflate. These protesters are bullies, and standing up to bullies has always been the best way to shut them up. This should be a lesson for politicians, police and others on how to stop vandalism and the other violent protests.
Gotta love Italian American New Yorkers. They have always known how to stand up to counter cultural punks.
But our supposed authorities are in the psychological position of the Soviet leadership of the late 1980s: they are completely cynical and have zero confidence in, or even affection for, the system they sit atop. So why bother defending it?
Deep down, I think they know they're just bending over to vandals and losers, and they loath themselves for what that says about their own weakness. So they're lashing out symbolically at what they fantasize as the "real" bad guys: traditional, law-abiding Americans. Their pathetic gesture is a danger, however, because they really do wield power to ruin lives and wreck the system for everyone.Replies: @Corvinus, @James O'Meara
That shot reminded me of the science project Mountain volcano where a cup of baking soda and a cup of vinegar produced the Mount Saint Helens volcano. I really thought he would unveil that as an additional prop for a depiction of HIS problems, of which I care little. By the way that mountain looks like a sixth grader made it in newsprint paper mache, likely the NYT.
OT: Why don’t more men prefer fat women to slender? Doesn’t fat make for better breeders?
Thing is (a) fashion is heavily run by gay men (b) fat these days means really, really, fat, which carries its own issues.
"There's space for your baby here, and i'll be able bring it to term and feed it."
and most desirably
"No one has put a baby here before. (I have no existing babies to look after and will devote myself to yours.)"Replies: @JimB, @Achmed E. Newman, @anon, @MBlanc46
My surmise here is that there are probably evolutionary or evo-psych explanations for what men like in terms of women's body types. Thin women are probably acceptable as potential mothers if either your society is well established without frequent periods of deprivation, or your society is transient and the women have to be ready to move distances over land by foot. Anything between these two extremes probably favors some fat stores in the hips and breasts.
Of course, there is a vast difference between women who are naturally curvy and what the female self esteem movement (i.e., the Press) tells women is "curvy." Christina Hendricks in Mad Men is curvy. Most of the rest are "curvy." One curve you really ought not have is a bulging gut, which at a certain point yields a single "curve" forming the figure of a sphere with a fat face protruding from it. Outside of paraphilia, I don't think "curvy" is something that men prefer, although they may be stuck with it.
Apparently people have purported to study the female body types depicted/favored in media and correlated them with social and political climates. Long story short, these people believe that men prefer bustier, more full figures in times of uncertainty (i.e., the ramp up of the Cold War) but prefer a more slender, elegant figure in times of peace and plenty.Replies: @anon
Lloyd George said about Churchill: “Poor Winston, his steering gear is weaker than his horsepower.” I think this describes Cuomo. And Dr.Fauci. Maybe it’s just the N.Y accent that gives one horsepower in a national emergency.
Did this really happen, or is this photoshopped? Governor Andrew Cuomo seems to be standing beside a pile of substance that reaches over his head, and that seems to represent data in three dimensions. The time axis goes from left to right, but what does the axis perpendicular to the screen represent? What is this large hill made of? (And what is its volume?) Who built it, and at what expense? After the press conference, what will happen to this “hill of beans”? And who is paying for the ASL signer in the lower right of the screen? Does the governor think that deaf people don’t know about the captioning option that they can turn on on their TV sets?
All this effort and expense conveys no more information than does a squiggle of ink on a two-dimensional graph.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind – You’re gonna love it, Ronnie!
Devil’s Tower I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpuMOKYTs9UReplies: @Steve Sailer, @anon
Speaking of, did you know that Trump is holding a White Supremacist Rally at Mt Rushmore next week? The Democrats know.
http://archive.is/ows8u
The Democrats thought better of that tweet once some blowback began, but the Internet is Forever.
All this effort and expense conveys no more information than does a squiggle of ink on a two-dimensional graph.Replies: @PiltdownMan, @ben tillman
The grey color and the jagged countours do make it look like a low-res 3-d graph that’s been photoshopped in.
OT: What if the ultimate way out of these race riots is to figure out simpler explanations for everything, so IQs over 120 can be ignored as wasteful? Eg, organic chemistry is soon going to get much simpler as we successfully animate all enzymes’ mechanisms. Being able to just zoom in visually instead of having to master abstractions will mean even stupid people will start to get it (imagine cell bio translated into a funky rap).
The understanding comes from internalizing a description of a machine that you can then manipulate in your head and that gives you expected answers (which then need to be checked against reality).
Watching CGI animations does not do that.
A lot what is on paper cannot even be visually represented at all. 1000 dimensions? Nah.
Churchill always found Lloyd George in their interpersonal struggles for dominance to be his master, with Churchill relegated to playing second fiddle to Lloyd George.
Unfortunately there are no “simpler explanations for everything”
You can zoom in on an equation in QM all you want, it’s not helping.
The understanding comes from internalizing a description of a machine that you can then manipulate in your head and that gives you expected answers (which then need to be checked against reality).
Watching CGI animations does not do that.
A lot what is on paper cannot even be visually represented at all. 1000 dimensions? Nah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT8vuM0OUh4
Devil's Tower I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezQ2UouoHDU
https://alethakuschan.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/dreyfus-without-the-mashed-potatoes.jpgReplies: @El Dato, @Intelligent Dasein
Has there ever been a movie that displayed a big conspiracy by the Military-Scientific complex like here? Getting a whole region evacuated under pretext of a “chemweapon incident” certainly is a rich idea. (And where are the politicians in this story??)
https://youtu.be/nzF3yoF7N_E
https://youtu.be/YMbSpnlOOtE
"It's madness unleashed by human error. The Crazies."George Romero in 1973 had a handle on the future:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyHyp7hmmsA
Men prefer slender to skeletal.
Thing is (a) fashion is heavily run by gay men (b) fat these days means really, really, fat, which carries its own issues.
That technically describes Nancy Pelosi.
She’s a bit of a holdover from another era, though–the urban machine Italian-American Democrat. She’s been very good at shifting with the winds.
I understand that the x axis represents days. Days since when? What’s the date of day zero and what is it’s significance? What day is day 42? And what is the y axis. What actually is the peak of the mountain, what does that represent. Is that sars-cov-2 infections, covid-19 cases, or deaths possibly? And what the heck is the Z axis? Why is the mountain 3D, what could the z component of the curve possibly represent? Or is that just a texture added to make the curve look like what it is; a giant load of BS. If I was the governor of New York I would spend 60 seconds looking at the graph and figure out how I’m going to explain to the people what they are lookin at. This dude is an idiot. Idiocracy; rule by idiot.
Whatever, it's probably a good market for certified sign language emoters right now. One of the few trades that has a very steep growth curve.Replies: @tyrone, @Jim Christian
Fav of all time,the guy at Mandela’s funeral.
Good luck with getting rid of Biden……not gonna happen…..he’s just what the dems and left want (a marionette)….if he wins Jill will be right there like an old mother hen.
It appears his ineptness killed many people yet he’s still out there blabbering away. It’s not funny anymore. He and others such as DeBlasio, the rioters and looters have all become disgusting figures in American life. Cuomo has no shame.
My peeve with Cuomo is he holds his news conferences midday and gives the Covid numbers for his state based on the numbers at that time. E.G. yesterday he said there were only 6 or 8 new covid deaths for the day but 12 would in fact die on 6/29. They just died AFTER Cuomo’s news conference.
I’m glad New York has gotten its infection and fatality rate down. Took much too long but to hear him claim victory is a bit like hearing the Governor General of Poland claiming Warsaw was now Jew free without mentioning that the Jews were all dead and that he had had then killed! Cuomo presided over the greatest pandemic in a century and at its peak all he could do was demand Trump fix it for him!
Looks like that pile of dinosaur crap from Jurassic park.
The thought was they would dump Biden because his dementia would cause him to lose to Trump. Now that Trump has made a total mess of the riots they are much less worried about that.
Gotta love Italian American New Yorkers. They have always known how to stand up to counter cultural punks.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=erL2czOyNocReplies: @ChrisZ, @Carol
You’re right of course, Commuter. That this has gone on for a month now is unconscionable; a show of force or even resolve would have stopped it. The blacks are mostly in it now for fun and games, and after day two would have gleefully gone home to enjoy their stolen booty. The white “street fighters” look like they’re overwhelmingly p*ssies (as you note about the kid in the video); once exposed to real violence against them they would have dropped the LARPing and gone back to the security of their video games. In my suburban town (from which I too commute) the “demonstrations” are filled with teenage girls and their moms. None of it could be called, or feared as, a revolutionary vanguard.
But our supposed authorities are in the psychological position of the Soviet leadership of the late 1980s: they are completely cynical and have zero confidence in, or even affection for, the system they sit atop. So why bother defending it?
Deep down, I think they know they’re just bending over to vandals and losers, and they loath themselves for what that says about their own weakness. So they’re lashing out symbolically at what they fantasize as the “real” bad guys: traditional, law-abiding Americans. Their pathetic gesture is a danger, however, because they really do wield power to ruin lives and wreck the system for everyone.
The problem with the virus is whites not social distancing and not using masksReplies: @Corvinus, @No Recent Commenting History
“Cuomo did an excellent job according to most people. The problem with the virus is whites not social distancing and not using masks.”
Not just whites, but an increasing number of Americans, as evident by the spikes in Arizona, Texas, and Florida. The governors there are Republicans. But do not expect Mr. Sailer to offer that sort of NOTICING.
A rise in cases driven by a rise in testing (i.e., anyone who walks into a hospital) has not been accompanied by a similar rise in deaths, thus proving that COVID is only deadly to those who are old, infirmed or someone suffering from something else (perhaps along w/ COVID). In addition, over 45% of COVID deaths in the US are from people in long term healthcare facilities. These numbers were juiced by the (D) governors of NE states like NJ, NY and PA moving patients post-COVID back into those facilities. You tell me whether that was just being stupid or evil. Either way, it should be permanently disqualifying for higher office.
These (R) governors are choosing to listen to enemy propaganda rather than their own correct intuition, and, as a result, are curtailing the freedoms of their people and delaying their own states' economic recovery. This is not hard for any intelligent person to see. Substituting contrarianism for argument is not just for Monty Python skits.Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Alexander Turok, @Polynikes, @Corvinus
Deplorable blacks and groveling whites are responsible for the increase in Covid, not the law-abiding whites who stayed at home to guard their property with good old American fire arms.
Gotta love Italian American New Yorkers. They have always known how to stand up to counter cultural punks.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=erL2czOyNocReplies: @ChrisZ, @Carol
She gets away with this because she’s a little old lady. The day is coming when they knock her down and kick her in the head til her IQ is as low as Floyd’s was.
The "little old lady with muscle nearby" approach seems effective. Perhaps a good lesson to learn.
That said, you make a good point. It is important to know your audience. Not sure I'd try that with other demographics.
There were very few old women upbraiding people in Podrinje or Bratunak (or, later, central Srebrenica) or in Sniper Alley in Sarajevo.
All these folk bleating about the current puerile nonsense, need to pull their fucking heads out of their asses and examine what it looks like on the ground when "Don't kick the fuck out of old women who mouth off" is actually completely off the table.
Then examine the situation leading up to periods where that happens - and notice that the final lurch to societal collapse is easy to spot, and the conditions for that are entirely absent in the current US bullshit (which is largely carried out by a campaign of microaggressions on Twitter, and some damage to statuary).
The whole thing is barely more aggressive than the average snit between gay dudes over interior design.
But our supposed authorities are in the psychological position of the Soviet leadership of the late 1980s: they are completely cynical and have zero confidence in, or even affection for, the system they sit atop. So why bother defending it?
Deep down, I think they know they're just bending over to vandals and losers, and they loath themselves for what that says about their own weakness. So they're lashing out symbolically at what they fantasize as the "real" bad guys: traditional, law-abiding Americans. Their pathetic gesture is a danger, however, because they really do wield power to ruin lives and wreck the system for everyone.Replies: @Corvinus, @James O'Meara
“But our supposed authorities are in the psychological position of the Soviet leadership of the late 1980s…”
With Trump taking it to whole another level. But do not expect our resident pattern recognizer to offer his take on such matters.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53231840
What you're saying is exactly what Savannah Guthrie was reading off her teleprompter this morning.
There is no second wave, just testing centers finally hitting their stride on the Federal government dime.
The arrogance of people who think they can stop a variant of the common cold astonishes me.Replies: @anon, @Alexander Turok, @Corvinus
Tragic dirt.Replies: @Thirdtwin, @Prester John
Yep. Cuomo’s mass grave. “Grandfill”, if you will.
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1277371107612528647Replies: @Mike Pierson, Davenport Rector, Midfielder, @NJ Transit Commuter, @Goddard, @res, @syonredux, @J.Ross
I’d like to see more Americans get leaner and meaner like this grandma. Enough of this flabby, smiley-faced, fake niceness.
Scientists trying to communicate with the music-emitting Mothership:
> "white lives matter, too"
> "white lives matter, too"
(silence)
> "white lives matter, too"
(long silence)
< "YA THINK?"
(all the windows are blasted out)Replies: @Thirdtwin
“white lives matter, too”
> “white lives matter, too”
Dies irae
> “white lives matter, too”
Dies irae
Whatever, it's probably a good market for certified sign language emoters right now. One of the few trades that has a very steep growth curve.Replies: @tyrone, @Jim Christian
The ugly, dopey looking signers are for equally dopey deaf folks who don’t know how to turn on closed captioning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT8vuM0OUh4
Devil's Tower I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezQ2UouoHDU
https://alethakuschan.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/dreyfus-without-the-mashed-potatoes.jpgReplies: @El Dato, @Intelligent Dasein
Steve-o-sphere in a nutshell:
https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Screenshot-2019-10-03-19.47.57.pngReplies: @Ray P
A Klansman who carved a huge picture of Lincoln? Weird.
OT
A black architect in Madison, Wisconsin, has decided to fight racial disparities in the architecture industry … by resigning his job as an architect … to operate architecture race and equity camps for kids and consult with architecture firms on race and equity.
https://madison.com/ct/news/local/education/local_schools/hip-hop-architect-michael-ford-leaves-firm-hopes-to-help-diversify-profession/article_5be57f58-3495-5478-9191-e46ca5975db3.html
I think there may be more to this than meets the eye. The guy was hired partly because he brought with him a supposed contract to build a hip-hop museum in the Bronx. But his name seems to have disappeared from recent information about the museum.
I also see online that his official title at the firm upon hire was “architectural associate,” which in its most common usage means that the employee has not passed the licensing exams and is not a member of the AIA.
I also see that architecture requires more math than I had thought (“calculus, physics, statics, and general structures”) and the ability to crunch numbers in your head. And the life is apparently not that sexy for all but those at the very top. You make very detailed plans that cannot contain errors and you need to juggle various legal building requirements in your head.
On the other hand, hustling for new business is an important skill in the field.
Except for the last item, it seems like a profession that might not be ideal for black career seekers, which could explain the racial disparities.
By the way, architecture was declared a STEM subject a couple of years ago by Congress, which may have more to do with immigration scams and funding of trade schools than reality. Some sorts of economics were also moved into the STEM category several years ago to facilitate more foreign grad students in universities.
Even back then it was taught as a junction of art, humanities, and social work.
My fellow students lacked knowledge of anything technical, even basics like drafting standards.
Tragic dirt.Replies: @Thirdtwin, @Prester John
The largest single group of people over 70 years of age who died from the Covid in NY State were nursing home patients. All because of Koomo. But, hey, he reduced the surplus population. To make an omelette, ya gotta break a few eggs. A quintessential demokrat.
Not just whites, but an increasing number of Americans, as evident by the spikes in Arizona, Texas, and Florida. The governors there are Republicans. But do not expect Mr. Sailer to offer that sort of NOTICING.Replies: @DCThrowback, @Daniel Williams, @anon
I used to think you served a purpose, but lately it is clear you do not. Your commentary decline has been noticeable.
A rise in cases driven by a rise in testing (i.e., anyone who walks into a hospital) has not been accompanied by a similar rise in deaths, thus proving that COVID is only deadly to those who are old, infirmed or someone suffering from something else (perhaps along w/ COVID). In addition, over 45% of COVID deaths in the US are from people in long term healthcare facilities. These numbers were juiced by the (D) governors of NE states like NJ, NY and PA moving patients post-COVID back into those facilities. You tell me whether that was just being stupid or evil. Either way, it should be permanently disqualifying for higher office.
These (R) governors are choosing to listen to enemy propaganda rather than their own correct intuition, and, as a result, are curtailing the freedoms of their people and delaying their own states’ economic recovery. This is not hard for any intelligent person to see. Substituting contrarianism for argument is not just for Monty Python skits.
https://alexanderturok.wordpress.com/2020/06/30/corona-the-basic-question/
There is nuance here you should consider.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/06/models-show-rising-us-covid-19-cases-deaths-months-ahead
"thus proving that COVID is only deadly to those who are old, infirmed or someone suffering from something else (perhaps along w/ COVID)."
Half of the new COVID-19 cases detected in recent weeks have been in adults under 35, Vice President Mike Pence said today during a press conference held by the White House coronavirus task force—the first press conference by the group in nearly 2 months.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/06/covid-19-cases-among-us-young-adults-spike
"These numbers were juiced by the (D) governors of NE states like NJ, NY and PA moving patients post-COVID back into those facilities."
Sources?
"These (R) governors are choosing to listen to enemy propaganda rather than their own correct intuition..."
Are you implying that the advice of health care professionals constitutes "enemy propaganda"?
"as a result, are curtailing the freedoms of their people"
In a health care emergency of national and international standing, there will be decisions made to ensure the safety of citizens. It's called being responsive to the general welfare of the people.
Not just whites, but an increasing number of Americans, as evident by the spikes in Arizona, Texas, and Florida. The governors there are Republicans. But do not expect Mr. Sailer to offer that sort of NOTICING.Replies: @DCThrowback, @Daniel Williams, @anon
Isn’t it crazy how it’s happening in those particular, electorally significant states? Almost seems … ginned up.
When those states opened up too early and now are dialing it back, yes, it is crazy.
"Almost seems … ginned up."
Not in the slightest.
OT: BBC accidentally describes how China has gone woke on the West but, obviously not itself. (Has anyone, even in the Trump admin mentioned that a province of Sichuan with a large Tibetan population has had education in the Tibetan language banned post lockdown? https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/23/bitter-blow-tibetan-mother-tongue-education)
Also, the BBC has a ‘Gender and identity correspondent’.
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53208274
‘How George Floyd’s death changed my Chinese students’
It’s starts strong with things that definitely happened in the 90s and 2000s. Why do all the rare racist incidents happen to just a few people? It’s like how UFOs keep appearing to the same guys… I mean, it’s not like a person like her would stay in the deep south. Why not move to New York? Chicago? Atlanta? Why this premise that she needed to move to China.
Does anyone ever ask Cuomo why he’s never wearing a mask?
The thing about Cuomo’s bullshit story about “New York came together blah blah blah” is that the curve he represents with his grade-school mountain is the same curve of every flu virus in history, is the same curve that would have happened had New York not shut down anything, and is the same curve that would have happened even if New York’s shutdown had been more draconian and destructive.
Flus — it’s what they do!
Total cause mortality will spike this year largely due to shutdown-induced deaths. The actual Covid deaths (a number impossible to obtain accurately due to huge and deliberate fudging of the numbers) are likely to be that of a bad flu year. Deaths could have been greatly reduced had the media and D’s not treated HCQ like it was administering cyanide (Trump would have saved thousands with his typically excellent hunches, but Orange Man Bad and all that).
Bottom line months into this charade: it’s just the flu, bro.
A black architect in Madison, Wisconsin, has decided to fight racial disparities in the architecture industry ... by resigning his job as an architect ... to operate architecture race and equity camps for kids and consult with architecture firms on race and equity.
https://madison.com/ct/news/local/education/local_schools/hip-hop-architect-michael-ford-leaves-firm-hopes-to-help-diversify-profession/article_5be57f58-3495-5478-9191-e46ca5975db3.html
I think there may be more to this than meets the eye. The guy was hired partly because he brought with him a supposed contract to build a hip-hop museum in the Bronx. But his name seems to have disappeared from recent information about the museum.
I also see online that his official title at the firm upon hire was "architectural associate," which in its most common usage means that the employee has not passed the licensing exams and is not a member of the AIA.
I also see that architecture requires more math than I had thought ("calculus, physics, statics, and general structures") and the ability to crunch numbers in your head. And the life is apparently not that sexy for all but those at the very top. You make very detailed plans that cannot contain errors and you need to juggle various legal building requirements in your head.
On the other hand, hustling for new business is an important skill in the field.
Except for the last item, it seems like a profession that might not be ideal for black career seekers, which could explain the racial disparities.
By the way, architecture was declared a STEM subject a couple of years ago by Congress, which may have more to do with immigration scams and funding of trade schools than reality. Some sorts of economics were also moved into the STEM category several years ago to facilitate more foreign grad students in universities.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Buffalo Joe, @The Wild Geese Howard
Architecture is a bad career choice except for trust-funders.
People who can get through Archtitecture School are eminently employable.
Obviously, Architecture jobs in which you get to design and build the next 333-storey Fantasy Tower in Dubai are rare, but all of the Architecture majors I have known are super smart and employed doing important things. Nary a trust-funder nor a dilettante among them.
I get your point though about the trust fund/ architecture nexus. I knew a trust fund guy who pretended he was some sort of Architect (a lá George Costanza).
He was not well liked.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @res
Poor Corvinus. He takes “unnamed sources” from the NY Times and WaPo to be arbiters of truth. No wonder he’s such a dolt.
The intelligence was considered significant and credible enough that it was included in the President’s Daily Brief. It is a collection of the most significant analysis on issues affecting national security and foreign policy. Leading Republican lawmakers confirmed its contents. Trump lied about NOT viewing it. Now why would he other than tell the truth here? I get it, though. Your deep affection for Trump clouds your judgement.Replies: @Peterike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpuMOKYTs9UReplies: @Steve Sailer, @anon
I once was standing in line behind Valerie Jackson at the Kinko’s: in person, she talks exactly like she did on TV, only more so.
Victoria (Stereo) (2019 - Remaster)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_tqqqoNbSs
UHF - re:View
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcFlmIR02Uw
Cuomo never seems to have any charts, graphs or dungpiles showing NY’s hike in crime and unemployment
My surmise is that if you’re frequently photographed in public, you’re probably somewhat conscious of what the photos that get published look like. Politicians and the celebrities in New York probably get a lot more impromptu photographs taken of them than politicians in some out of the way State Capitol in a smaller state. Pasty and pale often photographs poorly.
Politicians in the sunbelt, the Southwest, or California have the opportunity to have an easy, sun-kissed glow year round. This is much less the case for politicians in the Northeast. So the latter probably have to resort to artificial means to achieve a photograph-ready appearance.
OT: For all those people around here who love to talk about Trump “losing it” and various other figments of their imagination, read this piece. Trump is more on the ball than all of Congress put together. The problem is he is fighting almost alone.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/trump-is-right.php
Interesting comment:
In response to a question on whether he expects to soon be banned by Twitter — where he has over 82 million followers — Trump said: “Yes, I do.” The president believes the ban from the popular platform will happen in the fall before the 2020 election, an opinion shared by others in the White House.
I’m about 99% certain myself that this will happen.
This caught my eye.If he did it right he could help their uptake immensely. Imagine the message: "If you want to hear banned thoughts from your president then go to parler.com."
P.S. But this bit from the comments should give everyone pause.
Victoria Jackson, as an unapologetic Christian was marginalized by Hollywood. Her voice didn’t help.
If Seattle really thought Black Lives Matter, it would shut down CHOP chaosHad Floyd not dropped fentanyl, all of that could have been avoided.Bring in the Wolf.Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Thoughts
El, the Mayor of Seattle said they were…”Going to have a Summer of love.” Apparently, four shot, two dead, is tough love.
Cliff, that was a cliff-hanger! I mean, I don’t want a pool floatie, a money-machine piggy bank, or that kitty brush, even at those low, low, Bob Barker-era prices, but I was on the edge of my seat, nonetheless. Whewww!
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1277371107612528647Replies: @Mike Pierson, Davenport Rector, Midfielder, @NJ Transit Commuter, @Goddard, @res, @syonredux, @J.Ross
Thanks. I think the video following that is even better.
Carol, that day that you say is coming is here, right now. You can easily find a video of a 92 year old white women being knocked unconscious by a black ex con and then try “Looters beat Rochester woman with 2x4s when she asks them to stop breaking into her store.” All fun and games for the punks.
Steve, that was a very funny post! I do remember that mashed potatoes scene. These kinds of scenes, along with pretty much every Sopranos episode, make me hungry. Was there a plug for instant mashed potatoes in that scene? Even if not, these bastards and their subliminal bullcrap… positively Orwellian.
Oh, I did think you were going to make some comment about middle-school science fair projects. Everyone wants to do the volcano thing, but I forget the chemical you burn at the bottom. Back in my high school days, it would have been just one simple M-80. The resulting hearing loss of the judges makes it hard for anyone to get proper ribbons, which fits in well with our everyone’s-a-winner Educational methods of today.
A black architect in Madison, Wisconsin, has decided to fight racial disparities in the architecture industry ... by resigning his job as an architect ... to operate architecture race and equity camps for kids and consult with architecture firms on race and equity.
https://madison.com/ct/news/local/education/local_schools/hip-hop-architect-michael-ford-leaves-firm-hopes-to-help-diversify-profession/article_5be57f58-3495-5478-9191-e46ca5975db3.html
I think there may be more to this than meets the eye. The guy was hired partly because he brought with him a supposed contract to build a hip-hop museum in the Bronx. But his name seems to have disappeared from recent information about the museum.
I also see online that his official title at the firm upon hire was "architectural associate," which in its most common usage means that the employee has not passed the licensing exams and is not a member of the AIA.
I also see that architecture requires more math than I had thought ("calculus, physics, statics, and general structures") and the ability to crunch numbers in your head. And the life is apparently not that sexy for all but those at the very top. You make very detailed plans that cannot contain errors and you need to juggle various legal building requirements in your head.
On the other hand, hustling for new business is an important skill in the field.
Except for the last item, it seems like a profession that might not be ideal for black career seekers, which could explain the racial disparities.
By the way, architecture was declared a STEM subject a couple of years ago by Congress, which may have more to do with immigration scams and funding of trade schools than reality. Some sorts of economics were also moved into the STEM category several years ago to facilitate more foreign grad students in universities.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Buffalo Joe, @The Wild Geese Howard
SixFourSix, a lot of what they call architecture is design engineering. So, if you are designing a coal fired steam power house, the first set of prints are the “Architecturals.” Then a shit house of “associates” are assigned different phases, you design the foundation including concrete and rebar, Steve designs the structural steel, Reg designs the process piping, Art gets the electrical and so on. All of this is the then handed off to detailers who draw the rebar prints and detail the connections for the structural steel, draw the piping, size and type for the water, steam etc. Lots of boring work, and you always find mistakes.
A rise in cases driven by a rise in testing (i.e., anyone who walks into a hospital) has not been accompanied by a similar rise in deaths, thus proving that COVID is only deadly to those who are old, infirmed or someone suffering from something else (perhaps along w/ COVID). In addition, over 45% of COVID deaths in the US are from people in long term healthcare facilities. These numbers were juiced by the (D) governors of NE states like NJ, NY and PA moving patients post-COVID back into those facilities. You tell me whether that was just being stupid or evil. Either way, it should be permanently disqualifying for higher office.
These (R) governors are choosing to listen to enemy propaganda rather than their own correct intuition, and, as a result, are curtailing the freedoms of their people and delaying their own states' economic recovery. This is not hard for any intelligent person to see. Substituting contrarianism for argument is not just for Monty Python skits.Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Alexander Turok, @Polynikes, @Corvinus
Yeah, I agree, at least I think so.
The argument that more testing is leading to higher statistics without the epidemic actually getting worse is confusing.
It seems to me that what we don’t know is why people are being tested who are asymptomatic? And what is the ratio of positive to negative tests?
And when they test positive does this mean that they have Covid 19 with no symptoms but are able to spread it or does it just mean that they are pre-symptomatic and about to develop symptoms and enter a more contagious phase when they will spread it by coughing?
To me it makes no sense to be tested if you are asymptomatic, because if you test negative there is no knowing whether you might test positive the next day.
So to make sense of it we need to know what percentage of people who are being tested are symptomatic and what percentage of people are not symptomatic. And we don’t have that information. Maybe President Trump and the governors do, but we don’t.
https://i.ibb.co/rGDLSdW/testmil.png% of tests that are positive:
https://i.ibb.co/bPkJGHp/percentpos.pngCould be either asymp, presymp, or symp. A positive test is just a positive test.It's basically just a flu. I can't believe people are trying to do this again. The worst of it was 4-5 months ago now and the death rate has been declining ever since. Adjusted for population it will not hit 1968 flu levels of fatalities in the US.
My neighbor's son was partying a UCF. The next week he wasn't feeling well and then heard one of the guys he was with was Xi+. So he got tested and was Xi+. But also been hanging out with his church youth group a few days after hanging out with this guy... so all those kids had to go get tested.
Turned out what what making him feel bad was he'd picked up strep. But this kicked off a round of testing.
It turns out young people are more social--especially after being locked up all spring--and can spread a virus. Who knew?
It seems to me that we do have that information.
https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2020/06/01/asymptomatic-patients
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200612172208
https://www.thecut.com/2020/06/how-many-people-with-the-coronavirus-are-asymptomatic.htmlReplies: @Jonathan Mason
- Hospitals are testing everyone
- So are other institutions
- Positive people get retested every day and counted as new positive cases
- In some cases anti-body results are being mixed in with viral results
Did you notice the man just behind to her right? Take a look (and listen) around 0:47. You get a better view of him at 1:12 in the red tank top. It seems clear they would have regretted it if they had tried anything of the sort.
The “little old lady with muscle nearby” approach seems effective. Perhaps a good lesson to learn.
That said, you make a good point. It is important to know your audience. Not sure I’d try that with other demographics.
Mansa Musa made pilgrimage to Mecca with, among others, 12,000 slaves. Excellent starting point for black history.
“Architecture is a bad career choice except for trust-funders.”
People who can get through Archtitecture School are eminently employable.
Obviously, Architecture jobs in which you get to design and build the next 333-storey Fantasy Tower in Dubai are rare, but all of the Architecture majors I have known are super smart and employed doing important things. Nary a trust-funder nor a dilettante among them.
I get your point though about the trust fund/ architecture nexus. I knew a trust fund guy who pretended he was some sort of Architect (a lá George Costanza).
He was not well liked.
The problem with the virus is whites not social distancing and not using masksReplies: @Corvinus, @No Recent Commenting History
Cuomo did an excellent job according to most
peopletiny ducksEspecially those in nursing homes, they’re just dying to vote for him again!
Kind of reminds me of the “egghead” guidance counselor from “Clerks.”
When people snap, they do so in unique and amusing ways. I’d imagine if Obama lost his marbles he’d create a false reality of being the best NBA star ever.
"Six foot five, six nine with the afro."
"Four million dollars a year that's true, but he earn every nickel."
"He truly defines grace under pressure."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7AUpGXLDdk
People who can get through Archtitecture School are eminently employable.
Obviously, Architecture jobs in which you get to design and build the next 333-storey Fantasy Tower in Dubai are rare, but all of the Architecture majors I have known are super smart and employed doing important things. Nary a trust-funder nor a dilettante among them.
I get your point though about the trust fund/ architecture nexus. I knew a trust fund guy who pretended he was some sort of Architect (a lá George Costanza).
He was not well liked.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @res
Going to architecture school is good for the employers of graduates of architecture school, but is it good for the graduates of architecture school?
Or is this an Wildean epigram, not meant to be answered?
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1277371107612528647Replies: @Mike Pierson, Davenport Rector, Midfielder, @NJ Transit Commuter, @Goddard, @res, @syonredux, @J.Ross
If that’s what a grandma can do……..
-Mark Twain
One thing I learned after moving to Japan: In a land of thin women you never have the “fat or pregnant” doubt. Twenty pounds of pregnant looks completely different from twenty pounds of fat. Also, young, thin women, in their twenties, can just have a baby and be back to normal instantly. It’s almost as if women weren’t designed to leave their reproductive systems up on blocks in the garage for a couple of decades and then expect them to work perfectly.
Says the troll who is constantly BTFO’d in the comments and doesn’t have the intellect to get his own blog.
# of tests per million people:
% of tests that are positive:
Could be either asymp, presymp, or symp. A positive test is just a positive test.
It’s basically just a flu. I can’t believe people are trying to do this again. The worst of it was 4-5 months ago now and the death rate has been declining ever since. Adjusted for population it will not hit 1968 flu levels of fatalities in the US.
A black architect in Madison, Wisconsin, has decided to fight racial disparities in the architecture industry ... by resigning his job as an architect ... to operate architecture race and equity camps for kids and consult with architecture firms on race and equity.
https://madison.com/ct/news/local/education/local_schools/hip-hop-architect-michael-ford-leaves-firm-hopes-to-help-diversify-profession/article_5be57f58-3495-5478-9191-e46ca5975db3.html
I think there may be more to this than meets the eye. The guy was hired partly because he brought with him a supposed contract to build a hip-hop museum in the Bronx. But his name seems to have disappeared from recent information about the museum.
I also see online that his official title at the firm upon hire was "architectural associate," which in its most common usage means that the employee has not passed the licensing exams and is not a member of the AIA.
I also see that architecture requires more math than I had thought ("calculus, physics, statics, and general structures") and the ability to crunch numbers in your head. And the life is apparently not that sexy for all but those at the very top. You make very detailed plans that cannot contain errors and you need to juggle various legal building requirements in your head.
On the other hand, hustling for new business is an important skill in the field.
Except for the last item, it seems like a profession that might not be ideal for black career seekers, which could explain the racial disparities.
By the way, architecture was declared a STEM subject a couple of years ago by Congress, which may have more to do with immigration scams and funding of trade schools than reality. Some sorts of economics were also moved into the STEM category several years ago to facilitate more foreign grad students in universities.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Buffalo Joe, @The Wild Geese Howard
This post is hilarious to me because I spent two years in a pre-architecture program in the late 90s.
Even back then it was taught as a junction of art, humanities, and social work.
My fellow students lacked knowledge of anything technical, even basics like drafting standards.
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1277372267945738240Replies: @anon, @Clyde
… which is based on race. All of those statues and monuments had one thing in common: they’re all of white men, or at least that’s what the crowd thinks. Conservatives — The Daily Caller in this case — are worthless. They lie and deflect constantly in order to defend liberalism. There is an obvious racial component here. Have none of these people seen the graffiti painted on these monuments? Black Lives Matter, White Supremacy, 1609 … x countless other slogans. The many stories covered here on this blog and elsewhere make it plain as day, so stop fooling yourselves with happy talk. Blacks, social climbing POC, and SJW whites (who’ve been brainwashed to hate themselves by the education establishment) have torn down our society with a blatantly racial motivation in mind. They’ve said it directly.
Men naturally prefer women whose bodies say:
“There’s space for your baby here, and i’ll be able bring it to term and feed it.”
and most desirably
“No one has put a baby here before. (I have no existing babies to look after and will devote myself to yours.)”
Politicians in the sunbelt, the Southwest, or California have the opportunity to have an easy, sun-kissed glow year round. This is much less the case for politicians in the Northeast. So the latter probably have to resort to artificial means to achieve a photograph-ready appearance.Replies: @Known Fact, @Charlotte
Cuomo is well known to get out and have fun on weekends — zipping around in his fast car and enjoying the great outdoors. He’s not shut in poring over policy papers, and that’s fine unless he joins other Dems in shaming Trump for playing a little golf.
It’s a 3D Plot. Deaths x Age x Time?
"There's space for your baby here, and i'll be able bring it to term and feed it."
and most desirably
"No one has put a baby here before. (I have no existing babies to look after and will devote myself to yours.)"Replies: @JimB, @Achmed E. Newman, @anon, @MBlanc46
I’m not sure that’s true. What better proof of fertility is there than young age AND motherhood? Dump any kiddies with an earlier mate with their paternal grandparents.
So you certainly will not have an evolved male preference for it.
No the preference will always be for "all systems indicate successful launch"--but complete devotion to launching *your* payload not some other dude's.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
Because they realize they’ve been in contact with someone who has had it.
My neighbor’s son was partying a UCF. The next week he wasn’t feeling well and then heard one of the guys he was with was Xi+. So he got tested and was Xi+. But also been hanging out with his church youth group a few days after hanging out with this guy… so all those kids had to go get tested.
Turned out what what making him feel bad was he’d picked up strep. But this kicked off a round of testing.
It turns out young people are more social–especially after being locked up all spring–and can spread a virus. Who knew?
“This kid from the streets of Harlem.”
“Six foot five, six nine with the afro.”
“Four million dollars a year that’s true, but he earn every nickel.”
“He truly defines grace under pressure.”
Americans with Disabilities Act imposed. And now an SJW/+QTBGL gub’ment teat.
Cuomo had some bigger challenges–international connection, lots of non-compliant “population groups” (blacks, latins, orthodox Jews).
But i think it’s fair to say Cuomo did about the worst job of any of the big state governors. Basically he should have done two things:
— required people to mask up, especially on public transport
— kept the Xi+ cases out of the nursing/retirement homes; used all the temp hospital space
He did not do the former, and did exactly the reverse of the later–under the rubric of “non-discrimination” forced nursing homes to take Xi-pos people in thus stoking the carnage.
It’s interesting that to Democrats/liberals, utter failure in handling a problem is a non-issue. It’s showing … “leadership”. I.e. ordering bureaucrats to do something, yapping in front of the camera, “governing”.
He’s about the best the dysfunctional Dems can field in NY at this point. But how he ever had higher aspirations is dumbfounding.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/trump-is-right.php
Interesting comment:
In response to a question on whether he expects to soon be banned by Twitter — where he has over 82 million followers — Trump said: “Yes, I do.” The president believes the ban from the popular platform will happen in the fall before the 2020 election, an opinion shared by others in the White House.
I'm about 99% certain myself that this will happen.Replies: @res, @Sandmich
Good article. Thank you.
This caught my eye.
If he did it right he could help their uptake immensely. Imagine the message: “If you want to hear banned thoughts from your president then go to parler.com.”
P.S. But this bit from the comments should give everyone pause.
Because, from an evolutionary standpoint, being Western-level “fat” is unnatural and therefore unattractive. (See hunter-gathers: even with an abundant food supply you can’t get fat eating only deer, kale and the occasional in-season wild fruit).
Men don’t like model-skinny either. I imagine it looks even worse in person. The modeling and entertainment industry skews heavily gay, so you get thin women with masculine features and bodies (ie big jaws and small hips). As an example, Google Gisele Bundchen and her sister. The former “super model” looks like a tranny (big jaw, small hips) while the aforementioned normal Bundchen looks like a regular attractive woman (small feminine features and child bearing hips).
I think the non-brainwashed preference has to be for evolutionarily normal female body fat levels (20-30%) and feminine facial features and physique. Not anorexic tranny or artificially fattened up on Twinkies and McDonalds.
Women are attractive when they look like they are *ready* to get pregnant, carry a baby to term and nurse it.
Not when they look like they are already pregnant or look like boys--that's the influence of the media's queers.
~~
(Giesle has Germanic look and good facial symmetry, but mediocre curves--too straight a body--and a not terribly feminine face. A quick google--my preference would be a dip into several of her sisters. Less work, more fun.
Never understood why Tom Brady settled for this just because she's a "super model". The dude makes plenty of money and could have a spectacular, smart, sweet girl, who didn't have her own career, who'd have given him five or six kids and made him much more reproductively successful. On the other hand she isn't Megan Markle, LOL.)Replies: @Chrisnonymous
Paul Walker news!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCBgvw_jn2w/
Question:
Who is hotter? Gisele vs Paul Walker's daughter?
I'm going with Paul Walker's daughter....
https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2020/6/30/21308360/paul-walker-vin-diesel-childrenReplies: @Steve Sailer
People who can get through Archtitecture School are eminently employable.
Obviously, Architecture jobs in which you get to design and build the next 333-storey Fantasy Tower in Dubai are rare, but all of the Architecture majors I have known are super smart and employed doing important things. Nary a trust-funder nor a dilettante among them.
I get your point though about the trust fund/ architecture nexus. I knew a trust fund guy who pretended he was some sort of Architect (a lá George Costanza).
He was not well liked.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @res
Can you give an idea of how much of that is value added by the school and how much is just this?
I think engineering (my background) teaches habits and techniques of thought which are broadly applicable. I am guessing architecture does the same, but would be interested in hearing about what those specifically are and how they might differ from other fields.
“Habits and techniques of thought” are indeed broadly applicable, and explain success in every useful field of endeavor.Replies: @res
"There's space for your baby here, and i'll be able bring it to term and feed it."
and most desirably
"No one has put a baby here before. (I have no existing babies to look after and will devote myself to yours.)"Replies: @JimB, @Achmed E. Newman, @anon, @MBlanc46
Good way to put it AnotherDad, but hopefully commenter Anon #293 knows that we don’t hear that literally. (It’d be kind of weird in fact!). The big rush to the certain parts are Mother Nature’s way of telling us this, well before we really care about any of it. It takes till 40 y/o or later to really understand what you wrote here.
All this effort and expense conveys no more information than does a squiggle of ink on a two-dimensional graph.Replies: @PiltdownMan, @ben tillman
I’m wondering the same thing.
But i think it's fair to say Cuomo did about the worst job of any of the big state governors. Basically he should have done two things:
-- required people to mask up, especially on public transport
-- kept the Xi+ cases out of the nursing/retirement homes; used all the temp hospital space
He did not do the former, and did exactly the reverse of the later--under the rubric of "non-discrimination" forced nursing homes to take Xi-pos people in thus stoking the carnage.
It's interesting that to Democrats/liberals, utter failure in handling a problem is a non-issue. It's showing ... "leadership". I.e. ordering bureaucrats to do something, yapping in front of the camera, "governing".Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Redman
Another Dad, in NY we used to talk about “the three men in a room” who ruled NYS. Sheldon Silver is in jail, Bruno, whose first name I forgot, is in jail and the Moreland Commission came this close to finding the stink on Andrew that he shut it down. Lots of baggage. Andrew has no use for anyone who is not uber lib and uber liberals are pushing voters away from the left. Read the comments on the NYT and WaPo about defunding police, monument smashing etc.
Anonymous Jew, I reread Peter Freuchen “Book of the Eskimos” last month. Fruechen spent 50 years living with the Eskimos and his first wife was an Eskimo. They were the consumate hunter-gatherers, no agriculture, and the men liked their women plump. Seal and whale loaded with fat and you get plump.
In such a culture, the evolved preference will be for women who are currently fattened up, as they'll be much more likely to make it through the next nine months even if the seal hunt or the whale hunt or the salmon run fails.
In more settled stable environments even if there's malthusian pressure, the male preference will be for women who are simply adequately nourished and have the normal curves/fat reserves that indicate they are sexually mature and likely to carry a baby to term.Replies: @Buffalo Joe
Victoria Jackson.
Victoria (Stereo) (2019 – Remaster)
Here’s what I read on Twitter yesterday from a senior executive of a Texas ER chain: It’s largely employer-driven. Emp0loyee at work coughs or sneezes, employer sends employee to be tested. So not asymptomatic but mildly symptomatic. If they test positive they get a steroid shot and perhaps some antibiotics, and they’re asymptomatic a few days later.
Source?Replies: @ben tillman
Well, you hurt the ones you love.
Statistically speaking, most American men are stuck with someone generously proportioned whether they prefer that or not.
My surmise here is that there are probably evolutionary or evo-psych explanations for what men like in terms of women’s body types. Thin women are probably acceptable as potential mothers if either your society is well established without frequent periods of deprivation, or your society is transient and the women have to be ready to move distances over land by foot. Anything between these two extremes probably favors some fat stores in the hips and breasts.
Of course, there is a vast difference between women who are naturally curvy and what the female self esteem movement (i.e., the Press) tells women is “curvy.” Christina Hendricks in Mad Men is curvy. Most of the rest are “curvy.” One curve you really ought not have is a bulging gut, which at a certain point yields a single “curve” forming the figure of a sphere with a fat face protruding from it. Outside of paraphilia, I don’t think “curvy” is something that men prefer, although they may be stuck with it.
Apparently people have purported to study the female body types depicted/favored in media and correlated them with social and political climates. Long story short, these people believe that men prefer bustier, more full figures in times of uncertainty (i.e., the ramp up of the Cold War) but prefer a more slender, elegant figure in times of peace and plenty.
Could be. Here's some reading on the topic.
Preferred Women’s Waist-to-Hip Ratio Variation over the Last 2,500 Years
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4401783/
Preference for Women's Body Mass and Waist-to-Hip Ratio in Tsimane' Men of the Bolivian Amazon: Biological and Cultural Determinants
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4141791/
Assessment of Waist-to-Hip Ratio Attractiveness in Women: An Anthropometric Analysis of Digital Silhouettes
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4050298/
By the way, in the 1st world "Fat acceptance" is also "diabetes acceptance" and "knee replacement acceptance" plus some "hip replacement acceptance".
Very instructive Twitter post from the great Alex Berenson about the situation in Texas. (Just saw ben tillman’s comment: this is probably the post he refers to.)
Creepy Uncle Joe wants mandatory facediapers for the rest of our lives, so I’m not sure why you’re critical of him. Creepy Joe is on your team, Sailer.
DeBlasio today announced the deal with the city council to cut $1 billion from the cops (out of about $6 billion) and redirect it to “youth programs” and social programs — like broadband for families in need. Maybe he can put his wife in charge of that cool billion.
My dad lived in Manhattan for 30 years, so I’ve seen it all, but this takes the cake
Corvinus, you should apply to be an on air personality with the Today show on NBC.
What you’re saying is exactly what Savannah Guthrie was reading off her teleprompter this morning.
There is no second wave, just testing centers finally hitting their stride on the Federal government dime.
The arrogance of people who think they can stop a variant of the common cold astonishes me.
That's a total coincidence. There is no evidence whatsoever that Coronovinus posts talking points off of a script. None! None, I tell you!
That would be Fake News on your part.
https://www.covid-19facts.com/?p=84367Replies: @Kyle, @usNthem
"There's space for your baby here, and i'll be able bring it to term and feed it."
and most desirably
"No one has put a baby here before. (I have no existing babies to look after and will devote myself to yours.)"Replies: @JimB, @Achmed E. Newman, @anon, @MBlanc46
Also, it is difficult to “put a baby in” fat women and not as much fun.
A: they're both fun to ride, but you don't want your friends to see you
The riots are on blue state mayors and governors who preferred giving Trump the finger to accepting his help. What did Jenny Durkan and Bill de Blasio do to cool things off in their cities? Well, de Blasio sent his kids out to protest against the police.
Andrew Mark Cuomo = A cow-mound marker
I did a couple image searches to find pre-Western Eskimos, and all the photos that I saw were of a relatively lean people. At the most, they look to be on the thick side for hunter-gatherers (what Americans call lean to normal). I don’t believe most humans can get fat on our natural diet. It takes unnaturally high-glycemic foods – ie recently invented refined grains and sugars.
Don’t worry. The Mohawks or Iroquois or Algonquin will declare it holy and prohibit our entry.
Just like others did at Devil’s Tower, Ayer’s Rock, Mauna Kea, McKinley, and Mecca.
What’s the over under on daily deaths in 4 weeks time? That will be the real indicator.
As others noted, the Hong Kong Flu killed over 160,000 when adjusting for population. It’s too late. Just let er rip, and those that feel it necessary are free to self isolate.
Btw: is that a fake tan or is Cuomo just Sicilian?
But our supposed authorities are in the psychological position of the Soviet leadership of the late 1980s: they are completely cynical and have zero confidence in, or even affection for, the system they sit atop. So why bother defending it?
Deep down, I think they know they're just bending over to vandals and losers, and they loath themselves for what that says about their own weakness. So they're lashing out symbolically at what they fantasize as the "real" bad guys: traditional, law-abiding Americans. Their pathetic gesture is a danger, however, because they really do wield power to ruin lives and wreck the system for everyone.Replies: @Corvinus, @James O'Meara
Anyone not destroyed by the mob, will be destroyed by the “authorities” lashing out at “the real danger”, i.e., White people.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/trump-is-right.php
Interesting comment:
In response to a question on whether he expects to soon be banned by Twitter — where he has over 82 million followers — Trump said: “Yes, I do.” The president believes the ban from the popular platform will happen in the fall before the 2020 election, an opinion shared by others in the White House.
I'm about 99% certain myself that this will happen.Replies: @res, @Sandmich
Those normies there are some flavor of hopeless. “I love black people, it’s the democrats destroying America that I hate!”. Yeah, guess what black people hear: that you hate their politics and their own vision of what America should be. They need to get their head out of their tail, our current situation isn’t due to a lack of effort in training blacks and browns on the glories of Adam Smith.
Not just whites, but an increasing number of Americans, as evident by the spikes in Arizona, Texas, and Florida. The governors there are Republicans. But do not expect Mr. Sailer to offer that sort of NOTICING.Replies: @DCThrowback, @Daniel Williams, @anon
What I noticed, Corvinus, is that the BLM riots and looting over many weeks were the biggest super-spreader event imaginable, occurring nation-wide.
Deplorable blacks and groveling whites are responsible for the increase in Covid, not the law-abiding whites who stayed at home to guard their property with good old American fire arms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpuMOKYTs9UReplies: @Steve Sailer, @anon
Where have I seen that guy in the video before?
If Seattle really thought Black Lives Matter, it would shut down CHOP chaosHad Floyd not dropped fentanyl, all of that could have been avoided.Bring in the Wolf.Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Thoughts
Somehow all these liberal policies keep getting black men killed.
One would be tempted to think that’s the point of them.
I believe the films “Resident Evil 2” and “Andromeda Strain” fit the bill. I believe there are others.
Brings to mind the old joke: What do fat women and mopeds have in common?
A: they’re both fun to ride, but you don’t want your friends to see you
Given how ugly a lot of the left are, could there be method in Sailer dude’s madness?
My surmise here is that there are probably evolutionary or evo-psych explanations for what men like in terms of women's body types. Thin women are probably acceptable as potential mothers if either your society is well established without frequent periods of deprivation, or your society is transient and the women have to be ready to move distances over land by foot. Anything between these two extremes probably favors some fat stores in the hips and breasts.
Of course, there is a vast difference between women who are naturally curvy and what the female self esteem movement (i.e., the Press) tells women is "curvy." Christina Hendricks in Mad Men is curvy. Most of the rest are "curvy." One curve you really ought not have is a bulging gut, which at a certain point yields a single "curve" forming the figure of a sphere with a fat face protruding from it. Outside of paraphilia, I don't think "curvy" is something that men prefer, although they may be stuck with it.
Apparently people have purported to study the female body types depicted/favored in media and correlated them with social and political climates. Long story short, these people believe that men prefer bustier, more full figures in times of uncertainty (i.e., the ramp up of the Cold War) but prefer a more slender, elegant figure in times of peace and plenty.Replies: @anon
My surmise here is that there are probably evolutionary or evo-psych explanations for what men like in terms of women’s body types.
Could be. Here’s some reading on the topic.
Preferred Women’s Waist-to-Hip Ratio Variation over the Last 2,500 Years
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4401783/
Preference for Women’s Body Mass and Waist-to-Hip Ratio in Tsimane’ Men of the Bolivian Amazon: Biological and Cultural Determinants
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4141791/
Assessment of Waist-to-Hip Ratio Attractiveness in Women: An Anthropometric Analysis of Digital Silhouettes
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4050298/
By the way, in the 1st world “Fat acceptance” is also “diabetes acceptance” and “knee replacement acceptance” plus some “hip replacement acceptance”.
For three decades New Yorkers were fascinated by the media-friendly exploits of a real estate tycoon with unusually-colored skin. His name escapes me.
What you're saying is exactly what Savannah Guthrie was reading off her teleprompter this morning.
There is no second wave, just testing centers finally hitting their stride on the Federal government dime.
The arrogance of people who think they can stop a variant of the common cold astonishes me.Replies: @anon, @Alexander Turok, @Corvinus
Corvinus, you should apply to be an on air personality with the Today show on NBC. What you’re saying is exactly what Savannah Guthrie was reading off her teleprompter this morning.
That’s a total coincidence. There is no evidence whatsoever that Coronovinus posts talking points off of a script. None! None, I tell you!
Just like others did at Devil's Tower, Ayer's Rock, Mauna Kea, McKinley, and Mecca.Replies: @Ray P
Plant olive trees on it and tribesmen closer to the NY governor’s heart and bank accounts will claim it.
It is clear now that BULLSHIT-2020 is a terror attack perpetrated by the Democratic Party. Say no to the facediaper, open up your business, tell the Democratic Party to fuck itself.
We Are In This Together, Together We Are Stronger, Together We Will Make BULLSHIT-2020 end. And absolutely do not vote for Joe Diaper in November.
“They started something they can’t stop.”
“It’s madness unleashed by human error. The Crazies.”
George Romero in 1973 had a handle on the future:
Known Fact, if you shredded the policy proposals and plans for all the social programs in NY and NYC the confetti would make a pile much higher than Mount Cuomo. And that mountain would actually keep growing.
AJ, just quoting the author of a book about Eskimos. And, again, he spent 50 years living with them. But we’re good.
What you're saying is exactly what Savannah Guthrie was reading off her teleprompter this morning.
There is no second wave, just testing centers finally hitting their stride on the Federal government dime.
The arrogance of people who think they can stop a variant of the common cold astonishes me.Replies: @anon, @Alexander Turok, @Corvinus
Yet China did so. Your perception of arrogance is likely due to you projecting your own incapability onto others. If everyone was a smart as you, it would indeed be arrogant for any of them to say they could stop coronavirus.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/asia/coronavirus-beijing-outbreak-intl-hnk/index.html
I'm not projecting. I'm observing that SARS CoV2 is still spreading in the face of lockdowns, social distancing, and masks.
Considering the “intelligence community’s” record over the past few decades, when they say they aren’t sure about something, well…
Her voice was great. Speak for yourself.
SCTV – The Merv Griffin Show – The Special Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJel7QwXm2k&feature=youtu.be&t=156
Politicians in the sunbelt, the Southwest, or California have the opportunity to have an easy, sun-kissed glow year round. This is much less the case for politicians in the Northeast. So the latter probably have to resort to artificial means to achieve a photograph-ready appearance.Replies: @Known Fact, @Charlotte
The photograph angle is plausible. Bronzed skin tends to look better on film. There’s an association of tanned skin (at in males) with athleticism and aggression, too.
“He takes “unnamed sources” from the NY Times and WaPo to be arbiters of truth”
The intelligence was considered significant and credible enough that it was included in the President’s Daily Brief. It is a collection of the most significant analysis on issues affecting national security and foreign policy. Leading Republican lawmakers confirmed its contents. Trump lied about NOT viewing it. Now why would he other than tell the truth here? I get it, though. Your deep affection for Trump clouds your judgement.
But i think it's fair to say Cuomo did about the worst job of any of the big state governors. Basically he should have done two things:
-- required people to mask up, especially on public transport
-- kept the Xi+ cases out of the nursing/retirement homes; used all the temp hospital space
He did not do the former, and did exactly the reverse of the later--under the rubric of "non-discrimination" forced nursing homes to take Xi-pos people in thus stoking the carnage.
It's interesting that to Democrats/liberals, utter failure in handling a problem is a non-issue. It's showing ... "leadership". I.e. ordering bureaucrats to do something, yapping in front of the camera, "governing".Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Redman
I’m not a fan of Mario. Who was my governor for 12 years. But junior is a very poor specimen of a pol in the Mario mould.
He’s about the best the dysfunctional Dems can field in NY at this point. But how he ever had higher aspirations is dumbfounding.
What you're saying is exactly what Savannah Guthrie was reading off her teleprompter this morning.
There is no second wave, just testing centers finally hitting their stride on the Federal government dime.
The arrogance of people who think they can stop a variant of the common cold astonishes me.Replies: @anon, @Alexander Turok, @Corvinus
“The arrogance of people who think they can stop a variant of the common cold astonishes me.”
That would be Fake News on your part.
https://www.covid-19facts.com/?p=84367
A rise in cases driven by a rise in testing (i.e., anyone who walks into a hospital) has not been accompanied by a similar rise in deaths, thus proving that COVID is only deadly to those who are old, infirmed or someone suffering from something else (perhaps along w/ COVID). In addition, over 45% of COVID deaths in the US are from people in long term healthcare facilities. These numbers were juiced by the (D) governors of NE states like NJ, NY and PA moving patients post-COVID back into those facilities. You tell me whether that was just being stupid or evil. Either way, it should be permanently disqualifying for higher office.
These (R) governors are choosing to listen to enemy propaganda rather than their own correct intuition, and, as a result, are curtailing the freedoms of their people and delaying their own states' economic recovery. This is not hard for any intelligent person to see. Substituting contrarianism for argument is not just for Monty Python skits.Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Alexander Turok, @Polynikes, @Corvinus
The fact that you think policy decisions about a pandemic should be made on “intuition” tells me all I need to know about how intelligent you really are.
https://alexanderturok.wordpress.com/2020/06/30/corona-the-basic-question/
Well said AJ.
Women are attractive when they look like they are *ready* to get pregnant, carry a baby to term and nurse it.
Not when they look like they are already pregnant or look like boys–that’s the influence of the media’s queers.
~~
(Giesle has Germanic look and good facial symmetry, but mediocre curves–too straight a body–and a not terribly feminine face. A quick google–my preference would be a dip into several of her sisters. Less work, more fun.
Never understood why Tom Brady settled for this just because she’s a “super model”. The dude makes plenty of money and could have a spectacular, smart, sweet girl, who didn’t have her own career, who’d have given him five or six kids and made him much more reproductively successful. On the other hand she isn’t Megan Markle, LOL.)
“Here’s what I read on Twitter yesterday from a senior executive of a Texas ER chain…”
Source?
How about this:
The arrogance of people who think they can stop a virus that is already endemic, without a vaccine, astonishes me.
Eskimos were chronically under intense Malthusian pressure–at risk of starvation.
In such a culture, the evolved preference will be for women who are currently fattened up, as they’ll be much more likely to make it through the next nine months even if the seal hunt or the whale hunt or the salmon run fails.
In more settled stable environments even if there’s malthusian pressure, the male preference will be for women who are simply adequately nourished and have the normal curves/fat reserves that indicate they are sexually mature and likely to carry a baby to term.
That would be Fake News on your part.
https://www.covid-19facts.com/?p=84367Replies: @Kyle, @usNthem
He means that it’s a respiratory virus that spreads airborne rapidly like a common cold. There is no such thing as the common cold, many different viruses cause it. And some of them are coronaviruses. He’s right. The CDC knows it’s impossible to test & trace this virus out of existence. That’s why they never even tried. It’s not PC to say that publicly so that was never said publicly. That’s why the establishment was so freaked out by this virus in the first place. Once it gets a strong foothold its going to be here forever. ~25 million infections is a strong foothold. It’s like mono that you can get once a year and could kill you. Trust me Corvirus, you can’t stop this.
That is not natural–or healthy–behavior and certainly not the behavior you’d want the woman to be doing with your baby.
So you certainly will not have an evolved male preference for it.
No the preference will always be for “all systems indicate successful launch”–but complete devotion to launching *your* payload not some other dude’s.
Men are not shopping around for ideal baby receptacles, they are shopping for cute, worshipful, sexy, adoring fan-club presidents, who spring the "guess what news?!" once you're pheromonally hooked.Replies: @jsm
Berenson is one of the few truth tellers out there. The covid “surge” numbers are being manipulated by the same people who did it initially and for the same reason – get DJT.
Alden, why go anon? We can tell it’s you.
It is a faith article regarding these riots that blacks are totally blameless, and all the window-breaking and arson is the work of evil whites. This extends to the media throwing antifa under the bus after having bickered about their violence or their very existence, and to the never-ending pursuit of Phantom Nazis. It is a demonstration of goodthinking and willful blindness, like pretending to not see patterns in FBI crime statistics: a demanding one given gigs of phone and drone and local news and security camera video.
A German anon points out though that Seattle is only supposed to be eight per cent black. Are all the blacks in the city demonstrating?
But when did he live with them? Reindeer herders in Mongolia nominally eat their traditional diet except that they can also get wheat flour, corn oil, and occasional vodka and sugar imported from China. It’s true that in older photos, Alaskan Inuits don’t look obese, although they do look kind of round, not like photos of Australian aborigines who subsist on traditional diets. I suspect they just have a naturally short and squat shape. If you try living on just meat and fat, you will find it is difficult to keep on body fat. Google Shawn Baker and carnivore diet…
So you certainly will not have an evolved male preference for it.
No the preference will always be for "all systems indicate successful launch"--but complete devotion to launching *your* payload not some other dude's.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
Cart/horse. Women establish intimacy and pair-bonding loyalty first, then they slyly get you to commit to a project of their choosing which will consume all your time and resources — after they’ve got the fish on the line.
Men are not shopping around for ideal baby receptacles, they are shopping for cute, worshipful, sexy, adoring fan-club presidents, who spring the “guess what news?!” once you’re pheromonally hooked.
What makes 'em cute and sexy? They have a hip to waist ratio of .7 and small jaw and big eyes. Those traits are all under the control of high estrogen. And high estrogen means fertility.
So, men who found big eyes and .7 h/w attractive and worth pursuing were more likely to sire offspring -- who, of course because preferences are genetically controlled, also like such things. That's why what's defined as cute and sexy is what men want. You're genetically programmed to do so, because your reproductively successfully multi-x great grampas did. So yeah, you actually *are* shopping around for baby receptacles; you just don't know it.Replies: @ben tillman
Women are attractive when they look like they are *ready* to get pregnant, carry a baby to term and nurse it.
Not when they look like they are already pregnant or look like boys--that's the influence of the media's queers.
~~
(Giesle has Germanic look and good facial symmetry, but mediocre curves--too straight a body--and a not terribly feminine face. A quick google--my preference would be a dip into several of her sisters. Less work, more fun.
Never understood why Tom Brady settled for this just because she's a "super model". The dude makes plenty of money and could have a spectacular, smart, sweet girl, who didn't have her own career, who'd have given him five or six kids and made him much more reproductively successful. On the other hand she isn't Megan Markle, LOL.)Replies: @Chrisnonymous
A lot of supermodels are not much better-looking than other women you can see on the street, assuming your preference for that kind of face/body. So, I have always assumed that the supermodel/runway model success is influenced by some interpersonal factor of charisma that doesn’t translate into photos–something that you can detect only in conversation or in person. That would explain why Brady likes her. Plus, she’s not digging for gold or overawed by his fame. Plus, his faggy diet indicates some other weird personality quirk he has.
Somebody should tell George Costanzo quickly.
I think we’ve found out what a Cuomo ‘promise’ is worth. Back in March Cuomo was begging the rest of America to send him help. America did sending ventilators, a huge hospital ship, PPE, medical staff and Cuomo promised he would send help back when other states were in trouble.
Now we learn that instead of help, Cuomo is prohibiting well over 100 million Americans from even setting foot in his state. Nice Andrew you are a true New Yorker. All take and no give.
In such a culture, the evolved preference will be for women who are currently fattened up, as they'll be much more likely to make it through the next nine months even if the seal hunt or the whale hunt or the salmon run fails.
In more settled stable environments even if there's malthusian pressure, the male preference will be for women who are simply adequately nourished and have the normal curves/fat reserves that indicate they are sexually mature and likely to carry a baby to term.Replies: @Buffalo Joe
Another Dad, Fruechen mentions often that starvation was common in the Artic and sadly mothers would strangle their children rather than see them starve. Also, when food was plentiful they would gorge themselves.
https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Screenshot-2019-10-03-19.47.57.pngReplies: @Ray P
He’d be six nine with an full afro.
China has another outbreak, if you believe CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/asia/coronavirus-beijing-outbreak-intl-hnk/index.html
I’m not projecting. I’m observing that SARS CoV2 is still spreading in the face of lockdowns, social distancing, and masks.
That would be Fake News on your part.
https://www.covid-19facts.com/?p=84367Replies: @Kyle, @usNthem
The only people, who, in their arrogance, think they can stop the kung fru – a variant of the common cold, are our “esteemed” politicians. Hey, here’s an idea, let’s lock the economy down and put tens of millions out of work and create ramifications for which no one has any f-ing clue how they’ll play out. However, one thing I can guarantee, is in the main, they won’t be any f-ing good.
My thoughts exactly: she is relying on the people observing social norms like “Don’t kick the fuck out of old women who mouth off“. She’s ‘brave’ because she knows that society is still intact.
There were very few old women upbraiding people in Podrinje or Bratunak (or, later, central Srebrenica) or in Sniper Alley in Sarajevo.
All these folk bleating about the current puerile nonsense, need to pull their fucking heads out of their asses and examine what it looks like on the ground when “Don’t kick the fuck out of old women who mouth off” is actually completely off the table.
Then examine the situation leading up to periods where that happens – and notice that the final lurch to societal collapse is easy to spot, and the conditions for that are entirely absent in the current US bullshit (which is largely carried out by a campaign of microaggressions on Twitter, and some damage to statuary).
The whole thing is barely more aggressive than the average snit between gay dudes over interior design.
He will die in office. Then Abrams will rule over her new African Kingdom. The Uganda State of America.
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1277371107612528647Replies: @Mike Pierson, Davenport Rector, Midfielder, @NJ Transit Commuter, @Goddard, @res, @syonredux, @J.Ross
An over-confident and unopposed minority of crazy people with foreign support is how the Soviet Union happened.
“He means that it’s a respiratory virus that spreads airborne rapidly like a common cold.”
No, he did not mean that.
“There is no such thing as the common cold, many different viruses cause it. And some of them are coronaviruses. He’s right.”
Actually, there is a thing called the “common cold”, as well as the “flu”. Indeed, both are respiratory illnesses but they are caused by different viruses.
“That’s why the establishment was so freaked out by this virus in the first place”.
Not the establishment, but leaders of nations and their citizens.
“Once it gets a strong foothold its going to be here forever. ~25 million infections is a strong foothold.”
Certainly. We shall see how we are going to proceed in the next year. A second wave is imminent. We are not even out of the woods yet with the first wave.
I am always amazed at the stupid ways politicians and communicators of every kind try to make concepts understandable to a majority that can't grasp things like Cartesian graphs, rates of change, or much of anything besides "food, car, job, poop, sex," (not necessarily in that order).
A novelist once told me that to be a successful writer, whatever you put out has to be about the four Fs: Fighting, Fleeing, Feeding, and Fucking.Replies: @Kyle
I don’t think governor Cuomo or his team can grasp Cartesian coordinates. Someone on his team can and it started off as a great idea to visualize “the curve.” But a critical mass of his team are idiots. Something got lost in translation. The love-gov is left hung out to dry with a creepy foam science fair project sputtering an incoherent sound byte, “You don’t want to climb this mountain.” I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. It’s only a 30 second video clip. Maybe watching the full version he would explain what the x and y axis represents. But no, he’s kinda just rambling out sound bytes. The same ones repeatedly.
If I were his speech writer I would say something like this.
“Day zero was this date. This date is significant because it’s the day we realized that this virus was widespread & deadly. On day zero I implemented policy X. Spread of the virus accelerated and then plateaued on day 42, because of the policy I implemented and because New Yorkers were following proper CDC guidelines. As you can see day 42 saw the highest single day number of deaths. That was the peak of the mountain. The number of deaths then tapered out between day 42 and day 111. The total number of deaths is equal to the area under the curve, which is ∫ f(x) from day 1 to day 111. Essentially taking the number of deaths on each individual day and adding them all together. As you can see people are still dying on day 111. The number of deaths is not back down to zero, which means the virus is still spreading. We can’t afford to let our guard down; continue to follow CDC guidelines. If you don’t we will climb this mountain again and a lot more people will die. You don’t want to climb this mountain again.”
That’s got to be close to what Cuomo’s speech writer originally had written. It’s the only thing that makes sense. But he’s just a divvy. He has no stage presence, he can’t think on his feet. He doesn’t practice his speeches in front of the mirror the night before. These are our leaders.
"...so come with me, and we'll go see,
the big peak COVID mountain."
I don't have time now, but the first rhyme for mountain that springs to mind is "countin' "...
“Isn’t it crazy how it’s happening in those particular, electorally significant states?”
When those states opened up too early and now are dialing it back, yes, it is crazy.
“Almost seems … ginned up.”
Not in the slightest.
“So to make sense of it we need to know what percentage of people who are being tested are symptomatic and what percentage of people are not symptomatic. And we don’t have that information.”
It seems to me that we do have that information.
https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2020/06/01/asymptomatic-patients
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200612172208
https://www.thecut.com/2020/06/how-many-people-with-the-coronavirus-are-asymptomatic.html
Also it is not clear if mass testing is going on as screening, for example in prisons or in the military, or whether tests are doctor ordered to rule out CV-19 or just tests that people volunteer for out of curiosity, or the curiosity of their employer, or as part of a contact tracing process.
Or, as Polynikes pointed out below, if the same people are being double counted on more than one test, whether negative or positive
What I do know is that these tests are still quite hard to come by in the area where I live, and I have only actually personally known of one person who had the illness.
I have been to the doctors myself a couple of times for lab work during the Covid-19 era and have never been offered a test, so it appears that mass screening is not going on in my area. (My primary care provider for Medicare is the local Department of Health.)
The one case I personally know is a very fit and healthy man of 70 who ended up in the intensive care for several weeks and very nearly died. His doctors twice told his wife that he was not going to make it, but he did and he is now back at work in his dental practice.
Couple reasons:
– Hospitals are testing everyone
– So are other institutions
– Positive people get retested every day and counted as new positive cases
– In some cases anti-body results are being mixed in with viral results
A rise in cases driven by a rise in testing (i.e., anyone who walks into a hospital) has not been accompanied by a similar rise in deaths, thus proving that COVID is only deadly to those who are old, infirmed or someone suffering from something else (perhaps along w/ COVID). In addition, over 45% of COVID deaths in the US are from people in long term healthcare facilities. These numbers were juiced by the (D) governors of NE states like NJ, NY and PA moving patients post-COVID back into those facilities. You tell me whether that was just being stupid or evil. Either way, it should be permanently disqualifying for higher office.
These (R) governors are choosing to listen to enemy propaganda rather than their own correct intuition, and, as a result, are curtailing the freedoms of their people and delaying their own states' economic recovery. This is not hard for any intelligent person to see. Substituting contrarianism for argument is not just for Monty Python skits.Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Alexander Turok, @Polynikes, @Corvinus
The R govs are listening to polling that shows Rs struggling with the +65 group because the media successfully scared the shit out of them.
The intelligence was considered significant and credible enough that it was included in the President’s Daily Brief. It is a collection of the most significant analysis on issues affecting national security and foreign policy. Leading Republican lawmakers confirmed its contents. Trump lied about NOT viewing it. Now why would he other than tell the truth here? I get it, though. Your deep affection for Trump clouds your judgement.Replies: @Peterike
More “unnamed sources.” Dude, the MSM lies to you. Every day. It’s what they do. Wine Aunts, soy men and grade schoolers are the only people left who believe them. Which are you?
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1277372267945738240Replies: @anon, @Clyde
Bingo on the second video which I have seen before. She is very well spoken. “This is not about race. It never really was.”
"There's space for your baby here, and i'll be able bring it to term and feed it."
and most desirably
"No one has put a baby here before. (I have no existing babies to look after and will devote myself to yours.)"Replies: @JimB, @Achmed E. Newman, @anon, @MBlanc46
And women will never understand why that should be the case.
Men are not shopping around for ideal baby receptacles, they are shopping for cute, worshipful, sexy, adoring fan-club presidents, who spring the "guess what news?!" once you're pheromonally hooked.Replies: @jsm
Sweetie, you’re not getting it.
What makes ’em cute and sexy? They have a hip to waist ratio of .7 and small jaw and big eyes. Those traits are all under the control of high estrogen. And high estrogen means fertility.
So, men who found big eyes and .7 h/w attractive and worth pursuing were more likely to sire offspring — who, of course because preferences are genetically controlled, also like such things.
That’s why what’s defined as cute and sexy is what men want. You’re genetically programmed to do so, because your reproductively successfully multi-x great grampas did. So yeah, you actually *are* shopping around for baby receptacles; you just don’t know it.
She has dabbled in local politics, having unsuccessfully run for a NYC state senator-ship. This incident might prove to be the impetus for another try.
No, not beyond a certain level.
Women who are fat in childbearing years often have PCOS as the cause. PCOS interferes with ovulation. Good insulin levels are necessary for general health and fertility, which PCOS sufferers tend to have excessive insulin.
And, women in childbearing years who are fat, beyond a certain level, for reasons besides PCOS, also have fertility problems, because fat of itself makes estrogen. Excess estrogen interferes with FSH, so again, difficulty with ovulation.
Ideal fat levels for childbearing are 20-30 percent of weight is body fat.
Source?Replies: @ben tillman
The Twitter poster is named Berenson.
Stick to attacking Trump on COVID-19. Not many of us have trust in the deep-state peep-state creep-state system.
Despite her contrary protestations, the lady in question (like Tucker Carlson) knows that it is all about race. But the proprieties must be observed!
He’s BTFO when commenting on BLM, but is usually right on when talking about covid. Is he a troll? Maybe. But just as “you’re just a kid” is not evidence that the Emperor is wearing mighty fine clothes, you could prove he was an IP in Tel Aviv and that wouldn’t change the fact that Trump has mismanaged the pandemic.
What makes 'em cute and sexy? They have a hip to waist ratio of .7 and small jaw and big eyes. Those traits are all under the control of high estrogen. And high estrogen means fertility.
So, men who found big eyes and .7 h/w attractive and worth pursuing were more likely to sire offspring -- who, of course because preferences are genetically controlled, also like such things. That's why what's defined as cute and sexy is what men want. You're genetically programmed to do so, because your reproductively successfully multi-x great grampas did. So yeah, you actually *are* shopping around for baby receptacles; you just don't know it.Replies: @ben tillman
Waist-to-hip ratio of .7, I hope.
A rise in cases driven by a rise in testing (i.e., anyone who walks into a hospital) has not been accompanied by a similar rise in deaths, thus proving that COVID is only deadly to those who are old, infirmed or someone suffering from something else (perhaps along w/ COVID). In addition, over 45% of COVID deaths in the US are from people in long term healthcare facilities. These numbers were juiced by the (D) governors of NE states like NJ, NY and PA moving patients post-COVID back into those facilities. You tell me whether that was just being stupid or evil. Either way, it should be permanently disqualifying for higher office.
These (R) governors are choosing to listen to enemy propaganda rather than their own correct intuition, and, as a result, are curtailing the freedoms of their people and delaying their own states' economic recovery. This is not hard for any intelligent person to see. Substituting contrarianism for argument is not just for Monty Python skits.Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Alexander Turok, @Polynikes, @Corvinus
“A rise in cases driven by a rise in testing (i.e., anyone who walks into a hospital) has not been accompanied by a similar rise in deaths…”
There is nuance here you should consider.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/06/models-show-rising-us-covid-19-cases-deaths-months-ahead
“thus proving that COVID is only deadly to those who are old, infirmed or someone suffering from something else (perhaps along w/ COVID).”
Half of the new COVID-19 cases detected in recent weeks have been in adults under 35, Vice President Mike Pence said today during a press conference held by the White House coronavirus task force—the first press conference by the group in nearly 2 months.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/06/covid-19-cases-among-us-young-adults-spike
“These numbers were juiced by the (D) governors of NE states like NJ, NY and PA moving patients post-COVID back into those facilities.”
Sources?
“These (R) governors are choosing to listen to enemy propaganda rather than their own correct intuition…”
Are you implying that the advice of health care professionals constitutes “enemy propaganda”?
“as a result, are curtailing the freedoms of their people”
In a health care emergency of national and international standing, there will be decisions made to ensure the safety of citizens. It’s called being responsive to the general welfare of the people.
“More “unnamed sources.” Dude, the MSM lies to you. Every day. It’s what they do. Wine Aunts, soy men and grade schoolers are the only people left who believe them. Which are you?”
It is virtually impossible to argue with people such as yourself who cling on this “Fake New” or “media lies” meme. Any argument brought to the table, they immediately attack the SOURCE, rather than the substance. Thus, it is easy to deny there is ANY evidence at all. This phenomenon has been brewing for a long time, and it has reached a critical mass at our point in world history. Unfortunately, more people become ignorant by facilitating echo chambers and confirmation bias. Rather than yell at the top of one’s lungs “Fake News” when they read a mainstream or alternative media story, and immediately discount everything, people ought look CRITICALLY at the facts, consider any bias, read other sources on the issue, and then draw their own conclusions, realizing that those conclusions will require verification from valid sources when challenged.
Stated in a different way, “Fake News” is a farce, a joke. It leads people to become patently ill-informed. How? Because all it takes is someone to utter that phrase, and the assumption becomes “true”. A person who desires to be informed delves into the matter by perusing several sources and by astutely investigating one’s own recency or confirmation biases. In this manner, the person is more likely to arrive at a more objective finding of the available facts. Instead, anything that does not automatically fit into one’s crafted narrative as “fact” or “truth” becomes “Fake News”.
Do you enjoy being a dope and a dupe?
As to Biden’s mental competency:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGXLdMuM7EY
I watched the first few minutes of a Biden speech from today. He seemed lucid. Is dementia cyclical? Maybe off vs. on meds? Or are bad moments are related to fatigue?
It’s confusing.
If I were his speech writer I would say something like this.
“Day zero was this date. This date is significant because it’s the day we realized that this virus was widespread & deadly. On day zero I implemented policy X. Spread of the virus accelerated and then plateaued on day 42, because of the policy I implemented and because New Yorkers were following proper CDC guidelines. As you can see day 42 saw the highest single day number of deaths. That was the peak of the mountain. The number of deaths then tapered out between day 42 and day 111. The total number of deaths is equal to the area under the curve, which is ∫ f(x) from day 1 to day 111. Essentially taking the number of deaths on each individual day and adding them all together. As you can see people are still dying on day 111. The number of deaths is not back down to zero, which means the virus is still spreading. We can’t afford to let our guard down; continue to follow CDC guidelines. If you don’t we will climb this mountain again and a lot more people will die. You don’t want to climb this mountain again.”
That’s got to be close to what Cuomo’s speech writer originally had written. It’s the only thing that makes sense. But he’s just a divvy. He has no stage presence, he can’t think on his feet. He doesn’t practice his speeches in front of the mirror the night before. These are our leaders.Replies: @Chrisnonymous
This is calling out for an anti-Cuomo parody song based on Big Rock Candy Mountain…
“…so come with me, and we’ll go see,
the big peak COVID mountain.”
I don’t have time now, but the first rhyme for mountain that springs to mind is “countin’ “…
You know what we haven’t had on iSteve in a long time?
Paul Walker news!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCBgvw_jn2w/
Question:
Who is hotter? Gisele vs Paul Walker’s daughter?
I’m going with Paul Walker’s daughter….
https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2020/6/30/21308360/paul-walker-vin-diesel-children
Paul Walker news!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCBgvw_jn2w/
Question:
Who is hotter? Gisele vs Paul Walker's daughter?
I'm going with Paul Walker's daughter....
https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2020/6/30/21308360/paul-walker-vin-diesel-childrenReplies: @Steve Sailer
I’d sort of assumed Vin Diesel was gay because you didn’t hear much about his private life, but it turns out he has got three kids. He named his youngest, Pauline (b. 2015) after Paul Walker (d. 2013).
I’m not good at riddles, so I will just guess uh… no?
Or is this an Wildean epigram, not meant to be answered?
What most men actually like in real life and what a fashion industry dominated by “camp” homosexual men says most men like can diverge wildly. I can count the number of men I’ve met who find bulimics attractive on one hand: they exist, but so do men who like women who are twice their weight. We’re wired to be attracted to women precisely *because* they are different, not hard and angular like us.
That does not translate into finding obesity attractive, but for a large amount of American men, it’s either a fat woman or no woman at all. There’s no analogue with “too-thin” women demographically. Mind, it’s not as if American men are doing themselves any favors. Slovenly appearances and obesity in the US are agnostic to sex, as is the general lack of focus on becoming a good partner rather than obsessing over getting one.
(I have noticed that it does revolve heavily around class status, though. Being in shape is increasingly a wealth indicator.)
To some degree, there is a genetic component as well: some people are never going to be thin no matter what they try, even if they are in peak physical health, and women tend to have more body fat in the first place because they give birth. And that’s just fine: a lot of men do not want classically thin women, contra traditional pop culture.
But there’s a huge, absolutely astronomical difference between that and the obesity epidemic you see in the United States, and increasingly elsewhere in the world. The latter is the direct result of lifestyle, not genetics. Modern American-style obesity simply does not exist in an environment where there’s no junk food and you have to exert physical effort every day.
My only point was that Architecture grads are near-uniformly smart and ultimately mostly successful, whether they are short-shrifted by potential employers in their chosen field (as Sailer implies) or not.
“Habits and techniques of thought” are indeed broadly applicable, and explain success in every useful field of endeavor.
But I would prefer to hear the perspective of someone who knows from experience rather than guessing (no matter how good I might be at guessing ; ).
P.S. Another factor is how good a field of study is at weeding out the less smart and motivated. Making the degree more valuable as a credential signalling those characteristics.
I WAS speaking for myself.
To clarify, I like her and her voice and her convictions. Other people don’t.
It seems to me that we do have that information.
https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2020/06/01/asymptomatic-patients
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200612172208
https://www.thecut.com/2020/06/how-many-people-with-the-coronavirus-are-asymptomatic.htmlReplies: @Jonathan Mason
Thanks, Corvinus. The Science Daily link is down. The other two links mention various studies that have produced various hypotheses however you cannot look at, for example, the Florida Covid-19 dashboard and immediately see how many tests were carried out on a particular day and how many of them were positive and how many of the positive testees had symptoms
Also it is not clear if mass testing is going on as screening, for example in prisons or in the military, or whether tests are doctor ordered to rule out CV-19 or just tests that people volunteer for out of curiosity, or the curiosity of their employer, or as part of a contact tracing process.
Or, as Polynikes pointed out below, if the same people are being double counted on more than one test, whether negative or positive
What I do know is that these tests are still quite hard to come by in the area where I live, and I have only actually personally known of one person who had the illness.
I have been to the doctors myself a couple of times for lab work during the Covid-19 era and have never been offered a test, so it appears that mass screening is not going on in my area. (My primary care provider for Medicare is the local Department of Health.)
The one case I personally know is a very fit and healthy man of 70 who ended up in the intensive care for several weeks and very nearly died. His doctors twice told his wife that he was not going to make it, but he did and he is now back at work in his dental practice.
Now we learn that instead of help, Cuomo is prohibiting well over 100 million Americans from even setting foot in his state. Nice Andrew you are a true New Yorker. All take and no give.Replies: @res
Also worth remembering the reaction to the idea back in March of restricting the travel of people leaving New York.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/29/new-york-leaders-look-ahead-harrowing-week-154706
This page is also worth a look for showing the early mindset.
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2020/03/17/new-york-coronavirus-latest-will-new-york-city-have-to-shelter-in-place-be-on-lockdown
“Habits and techniques of thought” are indeed broadly applicable, and explain success in every useful field of endeavor.Replies: @res
My comment was agreeing with that.
But I don’t think that was what Steve was implying. I took his comment more as asking how good a job architecture programs did of developing the talents of those smart people. Especially for those who end up pursuing careers in other fields. Perhaps also whether architecture as a field is well stocked with good paying jobs relative to the number of people who study it. Maybe Steve could clarify?
OK. Could you elaborate what forms of those an architecture program develops? I am guessing a combination of quantitative thinking and visual design along with a practical streak given that buildings have to actually be built and last in the real world.
But I would prefer to hear the perspective of someone who knows from experience rather than guessing (no matter how good I might be at guessing ; ).
P.S. Another factor is how good a field of study is at weeding out the less smart and motivated. Making the degree more valuable as a credential signalling those characteristics.
Cris, the only animals Eskimos have are their dogs, which they will eat if desperate. Fruechen lived with the Arctic Eskimos in the late 1800s to the early 1900s. Get the book, a great read about the most resurceful people on the planet, well at that time.
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