Aaaand now we're flip-flopping again. “F” ing Kevin Graham, folks.
Kevin Graham wrote:You know, you can really be pretty stupid sometimes. There was nothing in Mak's short quip that "corrected" anything I said nor did it change the point I was making.
Given the level of hysteria that it caused in an entire state, I don't see what's so "loony" for me to wonder how Russia could possibly take notice and advantage of this incident in the future.
Given the fact that Trump has made it perfectly clear that government operated intelligence agencies like the FBI and CIA cannot be trusted and that FOX News is the ultimate source of all information that is worth knowing, why is it such lunacy to ponder what he'd do if he were given into fake alerts the way he is fake news all the time?
Kevin Graham wrote:
Maksutov wrote:This is about the state government's incompetence. The guv is a D, by the way.
You missed the point. It had nothing to do with blaming anyone for the false alarm. But what a horrible 38 minutes the entire state of Hawaii had to endure. The mountain of tweets/texts saying goodbye to loved ones was heart breaking.
You can pick one, but only one "point" you were trying to make, PC Principal.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Doc's Theorem on Loony Post-Modern Neo-Marxist Totalitarian (PMNMT) hysteria:
Let's say you are on a Hawaiian island with lots of people. 1/3 of the people on the island are PMNMT nutjobs, and 1/4 of the people in the room have No Mental Illness (NMI). This means that if we choose a random person in the room, there's a 1/3 probability that the person is a mentally ill PMNMT (let's call this A) and a 1/4 probability that the person has NMI (let's call this B). In mathematical notation this means P(A)=1/3 and P(B)=1/4.
In order to find the KG among this population you just apply my simple formula:
According to Doc's theorem to find a Kevin Graham: P(A|B)=P(B|A)*P(A)/P(B). In our case P(A|B) = (2/5)*(1/3)/(1/4) = 8/15. So the probability a Kevin Graham is a PMNMT nutjob is 8/15.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
subgenius wrote:Again, freak outs over nothing are currently a Democratic party policy.
subs, you gotta up your game a notch or 7, dude.
The uninspired attempt to seed the thread with troll posts like this is rendered impotent from 8 years of a collective, hysterical Republican pants-soiling freak out during the Obama years, regarding the 'any day now' threats of instituting Sharia Law, outlawing Christianity, invading Texas, nuking Charleston N.C., FEMA death camps, etc., etc. ...
EAllusion wrote:That graph should be contrasted against trivial things that became whole media cycle scandals regarding Obama. A few off the top of my head:
1) Obama wore a tan suit.
2) Obama ordered a spicy dijon mustard for his hamburger once, proving he is a hoity toity elitist.
3) Obama saluted a solider with a coffee cup in his hand.
Don't forget that Obama bowed too deeply to a foreign head of state.
1) Obama chews gum too much / at inappropriate times.
2) Obama has a distasteful habit of putting his foot on desks when talking on the phone.
3) Obama had a marine hold an umbrella over him while he spoke at a press conference once.
These were treated as scandals in the press, leading to full-on freak outs in right-wing culture. Like when Trump was made fun of for his bad taste in steak, but treated as a legitimate scandal.
