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Yeah, never ever get mad over how athletes and movie stars have bargained their way into a piece of the pie. Be mad if you're not getting your fair share.

These people are f***ing over Americans by seizing shipments, including those bound for Kentucky, which voted for them. Why are you acting surprised? More importantly, why are you making an appeal for decency? I'm speaking rhetorically, of course. I mean, kind of, there is nothing sacred, no...

As they say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data". All this scrambling around such weak evidence has, rather predictably, just lead to a run on chloroquine which has left the people with a proven need for such drugs in the lurch. Also the occasional poisoning, because that class of drugs is...

You see a number and assume "it's not working" when in reality the answer is "this is bad, but if we did nothing it would be far worse". A lockdown literally can't "not work". Even if only half the people obey it, that's still taking half the potential infected off the board for a period of...

I'm torn on this. On one hand, Data gets a proper farewell speech. On the other hand, I don't think it's ever a good idea to bring a character back just to kill him again. On the third hand, "Data" wasn't really Data, but a near facsimile cobbled together from pieces and not necessarily the...

That's all well and good, but then they should've stuck with that. Leave him dead instead of in some virtual purgatory that exists solely for him to have one more conversation before getting killed again. It was less of a "meld" than a psychic assault. Jurati was not okay, or herself. Still...

It's actually kind of amazing how the TPTB had all the right pieces, and then they managed to put them together in the least satisfying way possible. Example: Picard, Data, Resurrection via Clone, Mercy Killing are the four pieces to the end. I don't think anyone wanted Picard brought back and...

The world's still on fire, but at least the two of us can come to an agreement. :techman:

Looking at the trends, the expert isn't necessarily wrong. However, the trends in the UK are not applicable to the US. The two countries are on entirely different trajectories. I'm sure there's a source one can support than explains the former without confusing it with the latter.

The problem with that line of thinking is that disinformation is worse than no information. The cure isn't switching to "no news" but to better sources. A blog that takes one outlier prediction, and extrapolates a media conspiracy as to why it's not being widely reported, is not a good source.

The endgame isn't "peaking" infections right now, because all this starts over the moment the quarantines lifts. This is a rather insidious affliction that spreads quietly and quickly. So the goal is slowing the pace, minimizing hospitalizations at any given time while maximizing medical...

I recommend not getting health news from a political blog.

New York might also be catching up with the actual cases. It'll be 2-3 weeks before we'll know for sure whether or not NY has bent the curve. Also, the 1,000th American to die from COVID will very likely pass before dawn tomorrow. The 2,000th will be early this weekend.

Fun fact: it cost more to develop the B-29 ($3B+) than the Manhattan Project ($2B). Just as the Manhattan project had two parallel designs (uranium gun and plutonium implosion) the bomber project developed the ambitious B-29 and the safer B-32 (a development of the B-24) as a fallback.

Russia stronk, will all war itself. /s The Soviets were years away from building a Navy sufficiently large to threaten Japan. The nuclear bombs weren't just about leveling cities. The allies already proved their ability to lay waste to cities. What the nuclear bombs changed was how many...

I'm gonna have to exclude myself from your "we". At the time, I was taking bets on which west coast city would get the first positive and how long it would take to reach NYC. I was betting LA, but Seattle was the first port of entry to find cases. LA, SF, Denver and Chicago had their patient...

It's a national problem that ignores borders. You can't delegate it to the states. This is the definition of a national, indeed global, problem. Even now, without nationalization of medical resources, companies are bidding states against each other over limited supplies. There needs to be a...

Direct payments is not stimulus, per se, since we're not trying to encourage people to go out and spend (stimulate the economy). The policy objective is, frankly, the opposite of that. We want everyone at home, and the payments are there to basically keep the financial system from imploding...

It's 600 deaths today, it was only 100 a week ago, and it will be 2,500+ a week from now, and ~12,000 a week after that. If you think I'm bullshitting, look at my previous estimates and see how they've turned out. This thing is growing at a very predictable rate, and the US has *not* bent the...

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