Objectively intelligent.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I was buying it. Thanks for bursting my bubble.

You just need a little more will in your willful suspension of disbelief.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Pretty sure all this is impossible, because Sebby told us at the time that Barr would never risk his credibility.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Pretty sure all this is impossible, because Sebby told us at the time that Barr would never risk his credibility.

Biden v. Trump.

Meet the new boss...

Market’s going to fly if either wins. And control as it’s been remains in place.

I’d like a change when feeling human. But then I think like a lawyer and recall I’ve had a nice ticket. Tend your garden, Ty.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

If you figure that this thing has a similar transmission rate as the 'flu (which it probably doesn't because a lot of us are getting 'flu shots and/or have other exposure based immunity to 'flu), it'll hit about 35.5 million people (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html) in the US based off of last year's 'flu numbers.

I'm pretty sure it's in this area by now given the flyers up looking for epidemiologists to head over to Ft. Bend County for surveillance. It's probably in a lot of other areas that haven't yet been reported. We will have a better sense in the next few weeks. But yeah, a lot of elderly people are going to die here, and a lot more are going to get really, really sick.

This seems well reasoned: https://slate.com/technology/2020/03...-we-think.html

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

This seems well reasoned: https://slate.com/technology/2020/03...-we-think.html

Did you get this from the same site where you got the "hillary has it in the bag" predictions?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

“If you take Singapore as the gold standard, estimating the proportion of cases not detected … only 40% of cases exported around the globe were actually detected.”

link

Seems like the US is doing a worse job of testing than a lot of other countries.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Biden v. Trump.

Meet the new boss...

Market’s going to fly if either wins. And control as it’s been remains in place.

I’d like a change when feeling human. But then I think like a lawyer and recall I’ve had a nice ticket. Tend your garden, Ty.

Yes, Voltaire was clear on this point. Everyone should be an amoral self-interested narcissist. POTUS reached the same conclusion without even having to read (or know of the existence) of Candide, but I like how you dress up your sociopathy in classical literature.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Yes, Voltaire was clear on this point. Everyone should be an amoral self-interested narcissist. POTUS reached the same conclusion without even having to read (or know of the existence) of Candide, but I like how you dress up your sociopathy in classical literature.

I think you'd actually like a change.

But apparently, most of your party would not. They'd like some of the same old same old... That sweet, sweet country club republican/Clinton democrat establishment economic system that delivers for 20% of people and leaves the other 80% in a fragile state.

"Townshend described the song as one 'that screams defiance at those who feel any cause is better than no cause.'"

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Did you get this from the same site where you got the "hillary has it in the bag" predictions?

It's only bad for those with compromised systems and the aged.

The sooner a lot of people get this and recover from it and we normalize it as just a novel form of the flu, the better we all are.

It's going to be everywhere soon enough and you aren't going to avoid it. You're a healthy guy. Live your life and stay away from grandma. Unless you're looking to get an inheritance faster.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Pretty sure all this is impossible, because Sebby told us at the time that Barr would never risk his credibility.

I never said a judge wouldn't have a basis to demand the unredacted Mueller Report.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

“Beliefs?” Hello, the 70s called, wants their ethos back. No one in the know today can afford to believe. You want to make it you got to think what you want as what you believe. Look how Trump does it. Do you think any one making policy “believes?” Of course not, and you, me, we can hardly afford to believe when the puppet masters don’t.

You sound like those pathetic middle managers I see at cocktail parties talking about what bothers them in the political discourse. What they, and you, should do is act like the political statements are what you want them to be. Hell tell others the take you want to be true. Beliefs, what are you, twelve?

The suggestion I was attacking Warren's sex is silly. It's also cheap. But that's how people roll these days. They read everything with an eye toward finding something that they can say is offensive and shaming the author.

For those of us who refuse to geld our thoughts to avoid this policing, for those of us who don't care, this is just "the noise" you get from people of that mentality.

They shame and opportunistically characterize things incorrectly, or in a childish hyper-sensitive manner, so predictably, so often, that no one really cares much anymore. "I'm offended!" "That's insensitive." Okay. Whatever. They're entitled to seek to score points in that manner. Their speech is as free as anyone else's. And the overwhelming majority of the world is free to do what it does in response: Roll our eyes.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

The suggestion I was attacking Warren's sex is silly.

You were dismissing her in a gendered way. And as usual, when called on it, you just get defensive.

Note, no one said they were offended. You just made yourself look like a dick. Again.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I never said a judge wouldn't have a basis to demand the unredacted Mueller Report.

No, you dolt, you said we could all trust the AG to be straight with Congress about what was in the Report because he wouldn't risk his credibility.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Adder

You were dismissing her in a gendered way. And as usual, when called on it, you just get defensive.

Note, no one said they were offended. You just made yourself look like a dick. Again.

Calling Warren a "good little girl" is the sort of the thing you would expect to hear from a 75-year-old man, twenty years ago.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Calling Warren a "good little girl" is the sort of the thing you would expect to hear from a 75-year-old man, twenty years ago.

Bollocks. It's the sort of thing you'll still hear people say. I'm not slapping a waitress on the ass and saying "Be a good little girl and get me a coffee." I'm taking a shot at someone who's a firebrand, but in the face of the Establishment is going to knuckle under, like a little child, and do as she's told.

Maybe she'll surprise me. Maybe she'll endorse Bernie, or refuse to endorse anyone. But I don't think so.