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Sandbox – 6apr23

06 April 2023

[Good news department. It turns out that if you drink both modestly and regularly, then all kinds of health benefits can accrue to you. For most men that means no more than two drinks (wine, beer, whiskey) a day, and no more than one drink a day for women – a drink contains about 12-14 grams of alcohol. Hallelujah! (More here) gjr]

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230 responses to “Sandbox – 6apr23”

Don Bessee

12 April 2023

And they cant get up –
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/elon-musk-says-san-francisco-has-fallen
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Scott O

12 April 2023

scenes 2:02 – “…de-dollarization continues…”
And that’s the big one. Coupled with our nation’s inability to rein in the debt we might be facing some serious financial problems sooner than anyone might want to believe. Once countries start to lose faith in our green paper, it might end up being a stampede to the exit door.
Most all American citizens and our politicians (a very few exceptions) have no friggin clue how propped up our economy is with assets that are over priced due to how we abuse the fact that the US dollar is the basis for most all other currencies.
This is something the individual states cannot escape. Our best hope now is that China mishandles their economy worse than ours.
And hope is not a plan.

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Humphrey Ploughjogger

13 April 2023

Why are the Fowlers not working with Yuba Docs?
Is it about rent increases, or for other reasons that the Fowlers are kicking Yuba Docs out?

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scenes

13 April 2023

re: HP@6:41AM
I hadn’t heard or read anything like that, dunno what the details were.
It always seemed insane to me that the urgent care wasn’t physically attached to the ER. Triage nurse sends you to one or the other if it wasn’t obvious to begin with, and it could probably stand to have 24/7 staffing by a PA or similar. It was nonsensical for people to get $13k bills for simply being sick, or for people to be directed to the ER after waiting an hour or three at the urgent care center.
Maybe it’ll end up that way.
https://yubanet.com/regional/dignity-health-medical-group-sierra-nevada-welcomes-clinicians-from-yubadocs-urgent-care/

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scenes

13 April 2023

re: Scotto@10:04PM
I suspect that bond markets combined with the ability to quickly move money will multiply any currency collapse (aside from sheer inertia). For all it’s faults, moving promissory notes, bits of paper, metal, probably acted as a kind of circuit breaker.
No doubt the central banks’ responses will be to ladle on more and more control circuitry while barely understanding derivatives on derivatives. Feedback loops are a helluva thing.
I’m praying for the Drag Queen Federal Reserve Board to take office, the perfect modern solution.

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Humphrey Ploughjogger

13 April 2023

Scenes,
Here is another article. At the end of the article there is a Scribd image of a now deleted link showing much community support.
https://www.theunion.com/lifestyles/yubadocs-closes-its-doors-for-good-efforts-to-keep-urgent-care-fail/article_f26e604e-d981-11ed-9072-a302966a0d8e.html

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scenes

13 April 2023

“Here is another article. ”
Huh. Werd. I wonder why the owners of a horrid-looking little strip mall would care who is in the space. Maybe they want to tear the building down.
In any case, it could well be that binding urgent care more closely to the hospital is a good thing. Given the current health landscape, I’m surprised we have either one at all.
Speaking of which, the upcoming war between GPT-X and the cardiologists, radiologists, etc. should be pretty wild. Lots of iron rice bowls at stake and medical testing is an area that shrieks out for AI.

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Scott O

13 April 2023

It sounds like the reason for the Fowlers not wanting the space to continue to be a medical facility is actually contained in the arguments made that it just absolutely should be a medical facility.
If the “community” thinks it’s just so darn necessary to have that operation going, then the “community” can put their coins together and buy some land and get the permits and build such an operation. My goodness – they had to PAY to have their stuff moved out!! Maybe the Fowlers should do it for free? It’s the Fowler’s property – they’re not throwing a little crippled woman out on the gutter from her home. Almost all of the info is from one side of the story.
I suppose the whole thing gives the locals something to run their jaws about since the mine deal looks dead.

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Scott O

13 April 2023

scenes 7:17 – “I’m praying for the Drag Queen Federal Reserve Board to take office…”
Yes.
Combined with the fact that the Fed will soon find their precious “tool box” of fixes will be worse than useless.
The only thing the Fed can do to fix the problem of waaaaay too much printed money chasing a declining base of real value is to jack up the interest rates. And WOKE Inc is driving our value base to the basement.
Good times, fer sure.

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Misanthrope

13 April 2023

Posted by: Scott O | 13 April 2023 at 09:29 AM
Culture warrior Scott may be correct. Kim Janousek of CABPRO fame (or infamy) is part of Team Fowler.
Or it might just be good old money grubbing going on. Commercial landlords sometimes require a percentage of the gross revenue. Maybe they are seeing ($)($) if they are getting a piece of the action of Dutch Bros. receipts.

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Scott O

13 April 2023

“Or it might just be good old money grubbing going on”
Really? The Fowlers can only ask and the would-be tenants can say no.
Money grubbing is folks demanding 5 million ’cause they got caught dealing drugs.
“Commercial landlords sometimes require a percentage of the gross revenue.”
Only if the tenants agree to the deal.
Missy is making my point. The Fowlers might like to actually have some control over the property beyond being forced to pay taxes and insurance on the place. Imagine their surprise that what they thought was theirs is now “a community asset”.

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scenes

13 April 2023

“If the “community” thinks it’s just so darn necessary to have that operation going, then the “community” can put their coins together and buy some land and get the permits and build such an operation. ”
I expect that they are busy buying tickets to cover bands to help pay for KVMR.
To be fair, my gut tells me that there was a time when prominent local businessmen actually bought things for a town, but that’s long over. If nothing else, bidness dudes are rare on the ground due to outsourcing (to huge corporations) of most commerce.
And, of course, the tendency is to let someone else deal with all your problems once the Free Shit Army really latches onto a place.
What do you bet that building a new medical facility is nearly impractical? After years of accreted building codes, permits, wrangling with city councils & county bureaucrats & planning commissions & ‘consultants’ it’s usually a lot better to just work with the grandfathered facility you’ve got. I can imagine how bad it is for clinics. Everyone has their hand out in a deal like that.

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scenes

13 April 2023

I mean, seriously, who sat down and wrote this?
https://hcai.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2019_1226.6-Primary-Care-Clinic_Checklist_123121-1.pdf
It reminds me of Joel Salatin’s book, ‘Everthing I Want To Do Is Illegal’.

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Bill Tozer

13 April 2023

As Scott O said, we only have one side of the story. I am so out of touch that I thought Urgent Care was next to ER at Sierra Nevada Hospital. If you had a sickness/ailment more than a couple days, they sent you to Urgent Care. If less than 24 hours, ER took you in. Urgent Care was cheaper…….er……less expensive.
I will hold my fire until both sides of the story are in.
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Good ole Andy Ngo. He dug a wee bit deeper than all of MSM. He checked the dude’s FB page.
‘ANDY NGO REPORTS: Exclusive details about ‘disturbing and gruesome’ video capturing murder of Portland taxi driver by trans suspect’
https://thepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-reports-exclusive-details-about-disturbing-and-gruesome-video-capturing-murder-taxi-driver-by-trans-suspect

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Misanthrope

13 April 2023

Culture Warrior SO might not have heard of a Triple Net Lease where taxes, insurance, and maintenance are covered by the tenant.
As Culture Warrior BT says we don’t know why Team Fowler would not want a corporation like Dignity Health as a tenant.

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Don Bessee

13 April 2023

Assuming facts not in evidence which makes an ass out of u @1233
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Misanthrope

13 April 2023

General A-hole DB, needy for attention, chimes in with nothing to say.

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Bill Tozer

13 April 2023

Brother Jones
‘BREAKING: Video shows reinstated TN State Rep Justin Jones stopping cars and assaulting drivers in summer of 2020’
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-video-shows-reinstated-tn-state-rep-justin-jones-stopping-cars-and-assaulting-drivers-in-summer-of-2020

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Don Bessee

13 April 2023

Ya got that right –
“It’s a good thing when people are allowed to speak freely. It’s a bad thing when Big Tech and the government work together to decide what we’re allowed to say. Why? Because they often get it wrong. Even worse, they get it wrong on purpose. As I said in my testimony before Congress, censorship guards the narrative, not the truth. In fact, it guards the narrative at the expense of the truth,” Dillon wrote.
He continued, “In today’s post-truth, anti-reality world, describing a male person as a man is considered ‘hateful conduct.’ If Big Tech is tasked by the state with eliminating hateful or misinformative content, they’ll stuff everything they don’t like into those categories, including opinions, jokes, and even factual statements. We’ve already experienced it first hand. We need laws that prohibit viewpoint discrimination, not laws that compel it under threat of penalties (and under the guise of good-faith content moderation).”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/babylon-bee-sues-california-ag-stop-social-media-censorship-law-wrong-purpose
😉

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Gregory

13 April 2023

General A-hole Missy, needy for attention, chimes in with nothing to say at 115p.

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Scott O

13 April 2023

“Triple Net Lease where taxes, insurance, and maintenance are covered by the tenant.”
Yeah, the building owner forces that on the tenant at gun point. And if the taxes don’t get paid, the govt won’t ever, ever hold that against the owner of the building.
Right.
Lil’ Missy is doing a grand job of shitting all over herself today.

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Misanthrope

13 April 2023

Gregory, joins the fray with nothing to say, yay!

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Misanthrope

13 April 2023

Culture Warrior SO, make up your mind. I thought you were all about free markets, laissez-faire, screw the community, it’s all about the buck, take it or leave it.
Now you’re bitching about evil landlords.
ROTFLMAO

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Bill Tozer

13 April 2023

Missy Throat.
Love how you connect the dots. Nothing wrong with being a slumlord as long as you don’t have to live there. I am a evil landlord. You should see my humble abode.
Sorry (NOT!) that we here are not jumping on the bandwagon to skewer The Fowlers at this point, I knew Greg Flower, wife and kids, once. But I switched to A-Z back then. Nice guy. Good morals. But Greg probably does not call the shots. There are even matriarchs in the Bierwagon family, albeit Chris is an outstanding individual. He couldn’t do jury duty because of his strong moral beliefs, lol.
Anyway, the beef seems to be with Fowler negotiators and Dignity Health negotiators. Not that far to drive to Sierra College Blvd.
GRASS VALLEY, Calif, April 12, 2023 – Dignity Health Medical Group — Sierra Nevada, is announcing that clinicians from Yubadocs Urgent Care are joining their group. Roger Hicks, MD; Andrea Harris, MD; Trevor Nichols, PA; and Marya Hicks, MD will be joining the primary care practice at 280 Sierra College Drive on May 1, 2023.
The clinic will offer online scheduling, same-day appointments, and workers’ compensation services for community members Monday through Saturday. Dignity Health Medical Group — Sierra Nevada plans to expand their services to offer walk-in urgent care appointments in the coming months. Through Dignity Health, most major health plans will be accepted, including Medicare.”
Learn something new everyday. A clinic on Sierra College Drive. I got my free no wait vax at Dignity Health up on Whispering Pines. Used to be where the kids’ pediatrician office was. Punchy will just have to drive to 280 Sierra College Dr. for tick removal.
Missy, before you leap to conclusions, the all black or white thinking does remind me of the Pony Tail of Ignorance.

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Bill the (non SJW)Cultural Warrior

13 April 2023

Pic
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=543881834561160&set=a.539662801649730

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Scott O

13 April 2023

“Now you’re bitching about evil landlords.”
I’m sorry – I forgot I’m dealing with a mentally deficient person here. I’ll re-post.
(sarc on) Yeah, the building owner forces that on the tenant at gun point. (sarc off).
If this still confuses you, Missy, maybe have your mommy help you.
And –
“I thought you were all about free markets, laissez-faire, screw the community, it’s all about the buck, take it or leave it.”
You “thought” wrong, moron – and I’m being nice giving you credit for synapse activity inside your skull.
You’re batting zero today. Good for you! Don’t want to screw up your average.
Thanks for playing!

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scenes

13 April 2023

re: The mentally ill man-in-a-dress on a Bud Light can fracas.
The executives claim they didn’t know about the marketing plan….
Seen on Twitter:
“Unless they fire their entire PR team on camera while Spuds Mackenzie looks on in disgust flanked by the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders I don’t believe them.”

Now, there’s a man with some wisdom.

also on Twitter. I just love this kind of thing. Fishwives are where you find them.
https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1645770432807575553

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Bill Tozer

13 April 2023

‘Muslims Turning the Tide in the School Culture Wars’
https://www.creators.com/read/betsy-mccaughey/04/23/muslims-turning-the-tide-in-the-school-culture-wars
No chicks with dicks wearing sports bras in the pool.

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Bill Tozer

13 April 2023

They took the Indian off Land O’Lakes Butter but kept the land.—Eric Erickson

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Scott O

13 April 2023

BT 7:01 – Ya, I know it looks cute, but having the Religion Of Peace beat back a little of the fanatic left doesn’t bode well in the long run.
The left only backs down a bit because the Moose-lums tend to actually remove folks’ heads from their bodies.
And the Followers Of Allah really don’t give a shit what the lefties do to the rest of us.
Hint: they’re not on our side.
If us Judeo-Christians can’t vote and advocate for sanity to rule our nation, cheering on the Camel Jockey faction of the Mormons (Bring’em Young!) as our saviors has a bad vibe.

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Scott O

13 April 2023

The march of the idiots:
“gun owners will be required to safely store all firearms and ammunition when around minors under new laws signed Thursday by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.”
And this will be enforced how?
Pro tip for morons – most all gun safes can be opened in a minute with common tools. There’s that “dark web site” called YouTube to show you how.
“Anyone who wants to buy a gun in Michigan will have to undergo a background check”
No they won’t.
Best yet – “Extreme risk protection orders are intended to temporarily remove guns from people with potentially violent behavior to stop them from hurting themselves or others.”
Oh – “potentially” violent behavior. Great. Seems like trannys have “potentially” violent behavior, so none of them should ever own a fire arm…
Are we having fun yet?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/michigan-governor-signs-stricter-background-check-storage-bills-rcna79648

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Don Bessee

13 April 2023

Now we know how truly screwed we are if the crackhead is translating English for creepy grampa joe! –
Hunter Biden had to explain a child’s question to his father, President Joe Biden, during the president’s trip to Ireland Wednesday, shocking social media users. The apparent confusion came after the elder Biden struggled to answer the child’s question about success.
“What’s the top step to success?” the child asked the president.
“What’s the top what?” Biden responded.
“Step — steps — step to success,” the child answered.
Biden responded that the way to be successful is to stop COVID-19 from spreading.
“Oh, well, making sure that we don’t all have COVID. What — why — what are we talking about here?” he asked.
At this point, Hunter Biden intervened.
“If you can — what’s the — what’s the key to success?” the president’s son asked, attempting to clarify the child’s question.
“Oh, what’s the key to success? You know what I found out is the key to success is? And I’m not sure I’m the best guy to explain it; these guys can tell you,” the president responded.
He then talked about the importance of not personally attacking people with whom you disagree.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/joe-biden-mocked-hunter-explain-childs-question-ireland-embarrassed-country
😉

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Don Bessee

13 April 2023

Screw the citizens let them eat cake and pay for the world –
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is applauding President Joe Biden’s move to open the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
On Thursday, Biden announced that DACA illegal aliens will soon be eligible to secure taxpayer-subsidized healthcare benefits through Obamacare and Medicaid. In 2009, then-President Obama promised that Obamacare would not be open to illegal aliens.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/13/dhs-chief-mayorkas-obamacare-for-daca-illegal-aliens-now-amnesty-next/

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Bill Tozer

14 April 2023

Scott O @ 7:24 PM
“Hint: they’re not on our side.” No hint needed, Mr. O. The Muslims want to take over and convert us all….or extract a handsome fee for not worshipping the Property or Allah. I would say, “duh”, but duh sounds rather condescending.
Make no mistake about it. Bill Maher is not our friend nor others who are saying whoa to the far left excesses and bat shit crazy ideas.
I post pushback from all sources. The Muslims have the Woke’s ear, we do not. The radical American hating lefties will capitulate to the Islamists, not us. We get cancelled, erased, and never work in this town again. Ostracized. Just the way it is, not how it should be.

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Bill Tozer

14 April 2023

It’s time to recognize and medically “affirm” eunuchs
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/04/13/its-time-to-recognize-and-medically-affirm-eunuchs-n543718

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scenes

14 April 2023

re: BillT@11:57AM
You know, I can’t think of any reason for the Democrats to not expand recreational surgery into any number of new genders.
One place that lead me was to one Dr. Teetus Deleetus who does a lot of what is euphemistically known as ‘top surgery’.
She appears to have a sense of humor as her website claims that “Dr. Gallagher is dedicated to bringing cutting-edge care…” No doubt.
I do keep wondering when they’ll start humoring the folk who have the limb deletion fetish, which is a thing.
But…right…the Republicans are the crazy ones here. I forget. Mea culpa.

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scenes

14 April 2023

BillT, it seems to me that you have this mutilation thing all wrong.
According to this dude, not giving kids puberty blockers is mutilation.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1646908238963568643
lol. You know, if I were female, these kinds of guys would piss me off. They do this imitation of women that’s completely wrong, but it’s the way they think girls are. It’s like poorly mimicking an accent.

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Gregory

14 April 2023

From The Union:
“Eric Mayer, Nevada Union physics teacher and the president of the teacher’s union for NJUHSD reported that the NJUHSTA was selected by the CTA state council for an award regarding the work the teacher’s union did to shape the current board of directors seats. Mayer also announced that teacher’s union dues will increase to fund scholarships for 75 members with children graduating in the next 15 years. Each child of a teacher who enrolls in college after high school receives a scholarship of $1,000. Mayer also urged the board to finalize negotiations, including a salary increase, before August.”
Yes, the local teacher’s union did get the hard-leftist candidates elected.

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Bill Tozer

14 April 2023

scenes
https://intellectualtakeout.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/04/fallon-fox.jpg

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Don Bessee

14 April 2023

I suspect its more widespread as the wokesters/blm/antifa took hold –
He argued that as black and Hispanic populations grew, so did the public’s want for more discriminatory sentences.
But that was not true, as the original data apparently showed no relationship between growing minority populations and demands for increased prison sentences.
Pickett said that their sample size had somehow increased from 500 to over 1,000 respondents, the counties polled had decreased from 326 to 91, and the data was altered to the point of mathematical impossibility. Thus, he accused Stewart of doctoring the sample size so that the study yielded his desired outcome
Stewart reportedly refused to provide a copy of the original data for over four months after Pickett confronted him.
Soon after, that study — and five others dating back to 2006 — were retracted.
Pickett now says the problem of data manipulation is widespread in academia.
“There’s a huge monetary incentive to falsify data and there’s no accountability. If you do this, the probability you’ll get caught is so, so low,” Pickett told The Florida Standard. “There’s too much incentive to fake data and too little oversight.”
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2023/04/14/professor-leaves-florida-state-university-after-being-accused-of-faking-data-on-racism/
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scenes

15 April 2023

re: DB@5:29PM
Not to worry. He’ll pick up a gig at BlackRock or in some grifter non-profit. There’s always a place for a right-thinker.
https://www.theflstandard.com/fsu-criminology-professor-abruptly-leaves-after-accusations-of-cooking-race-data/
Aside from the fact that most sociology adjacent disciplines are chock full of BS, you do get the problem of someone who starts with a conclusion and works backward. A quick look at Mr. Stewart’s published stuff show yer typical extended-form ‘here’s what I feel’ combined with ‘personal anecdote’ and ‘a few quasi-related references to other semi-useless papers’.
Nice work if you can get it.
To some extent you can rejoice in this kind of thing. The fact that we’ve accumulated so much cruft and drones in the hivemind might simply show how rich this society is. It’s like having a large overhead of a priest class who take in produce and fine bulls from the subsistence farmers and then have a nice dinner after offering it all to the gods.
I’m holding out hope that GPT-7 or -8 will write more accurate studies on this kind of thing but strongly suspect that they’ll either be neutered by the installation of lots and lots of adjustment knobs or be censored as the results will not be to the liking of the nomenklatura.
Accurate or not, I don’t doubt that all university sociology/criminology/etc. departments could be replaced by large language models, probably right now.

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Bill Tozer

15 April 2023

That Kaiser Gun Study The Media Love Is Garbage
https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/14/that-kaiser-gun-study-the-media-loves-is-garbage/

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fish

15 April 2023

Oooh….good headline!

Just Perfect: For 2024, Dems Pick a Dying Chicago to Showcase a Lost Joe Biden

https://redstate.com/andrewmalcolm/2023/04/12/just-perfect-for-2024-dems-pick-a-dying-chicago-to-showcase-a-lost-joe-biden-n730079

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Misanthrope

16 April 2023

Cute ad. Did Eric and Don Jr. create it?
https://twitter.com/MAGAIncWarRoom/status/1646839424460771329?t=5vw5ZDO_t7ofTesJE_oKTA&s=19

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scenes

16 April 2023

re: M.@6:29M
lol. Brilliant. If nothing else it gives all the bolshies something to chew the carpet about judging from Twitter. (Biden voters and DNC-run ‘news’ outlets: HOW DARE THEY INSULT DESANTIS!!! WE HATE TRUMP EVEN MORE!!!!)
In the long run, ie. a week or so, people will just have DeSantis associated with something unpleasant looking, they just won’t know why.
The real action will be in amateur political ads and funny pictures as MSM and MSM ad buys fade from view.
https://i.redd.it/nc9hw4kligpa1.png
Memes will rule the universe, and things like MidJourney are their handmaiden. There’s a lot of clever people out there, and 99% of them are smarter than old school media folks.
In terms of photo-ops, I would strongly suggest that Kamala Harris doesn’t eat any county fair hotdogs.

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scenes

16 April 2023

“That Kaiser Gun Study The Media Love Is Garbage”
What I’m waiting for is automated garbage-checkers going through old academic papers en masse. Perhaps using this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
perhaps there are more sophisticated things. LLM ability to read language would be great help I would think. The uproar would be a beautiful thing. Poor knowledge of statistics by researchers combined with the grift-o-matic machine working 24/7 should provide plenty of bad science.

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Don Bessee

16 April 2023

What a novel thought for an educational institution just dont let the dei demons know –
Pollack called the initiative “critical,” per the report, arguing that the university’s must focus on its mission to “think deeply about freedom of expression and the challenges that result from assaults on it, which today come from both ends of the political spectrum.”
“Learning from difference, learning to engage with difference and learning to communicate across difference are key parts of a Cornell education. Free expression and academic freedom are the bedrock not just of the university, but of democracy,” she said.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ivy-league-university-prioritize-free-expression-students-heckled-conservative-pundit
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scenes

16 April 2023

Gregory: “Yes, the local teacher’s union did get the hard-leftist candidates elected.”
Oh well, what could go wrong?
A small article…
https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/algebra-for-none-fails-in-san-francisco
…but the value is in the linked references.

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Scott O

17 April 2023

Chicago’s Summer Of Love is starting early this year –
“Hundreds of teenagers flooded into Downtown Chicago on Saturday night, smashing car windows, trying to get into Millennium Park, and prompting a major police response. At least one person in a car was attacked.”
The new mayor’s response: “However, it is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/hundreds-of-teenagers-flood-into-downtown-chicago-smashing-car-windows-and-prompting-police-response

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scenes

17 April 2023

re: Mostly Peaceful Riots in Chicago.
I ran into that one too. Naturally, my first inclination was to check and see if the code words ‘teen’ and ‘youth’ meant what I thought they meant. So, off to youtube.
What totally cracked me up was the ad that ran before the video. It was for something called the ‘Brite Bat’ which is basically a supersized baseball bat shaped Maglite that also has a big ol’ knife hidden inside.
It would be funny to see how Google has matched up ad space for pepper spray, clubs, security cameras with news items on mostly peaceful riots involving youths and teens. There’s definitely a dollar to be made here.
You can argue that making Portland, Chicago, San Francisco what they are makes a great deal of sense. It’s what the Soviets called a ‘kettle’.

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