That's your current allocation?

I hear this a lot. Can you please put into a few bullet points what exactly our country is losing? While I feel we’ve hopefully only temporarily lost our way, all I feel we’ve lost lately is the ability to see both sides of an issue and compromise. I have no idea what Maddy is talking about, but I'...

The guy is a French literature critic; I think we can safely take him at his word and not question anything he says.

And thus they become... spacist astraholes.

A peasant custom from a couple hundred years ago is the secret to defeating the Wuhan. Economists and bureaucrats who ventured out into the countryside after the [French] Revolution were horrified to find that the work force disappeared between fall and spring. The fields were deserted from Flanders...

vnatale wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 27, 2020 9:15 pm

How many of you have read Tetlock's "Superforecasting"?

Here they are on the virus:

https://goodjudgment.io/covid/dashboard/

Vinny

I read it a few years ago. IIRC they are usually pretty accurate.

Felt cute, made a coronavirus playlist. Might delete later.

Radiohead - My Iron Lung

Atreyu - Someone's Standing On My Chest

Maroon 5 - Harder To Breathe

Bush - Machinehead

The Police - Every Breathe You Take

Berlin - Take My Breathe Away

As I Lay Dying - With No Lungs To Breathe

I was once again reminded of this quote from John Boehner We’ve got some of the smartest people in America who serve in the Congress, and we’ve got some of the dumbest. We have some of the nicest people you’d ever want to meet, and some that are Nazis. Congress is nothing more than a slice of Americ...

ATTN: Kriegsspiel: Till Lindemann is in an ICU. He’s got coronavirus. That's fake news. https://www.revolvermag.com/music/rammstein-refute-reports-till-lindemann-tested-positive-coronavirus I’m glad to hear it. That is good to hear, but it's true that we're all going to die at some point.

Tortoise wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:39 pm

I think Vinny must be referring to this clip:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4864233/ ... mi-pick-em

Jesus, that was worse than the British Parliament.

Xan wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:52 pm

Blech! No hoppiness for me, thanks.

Yup. I like every type of beer except IPAs. My favorite is hefeweizen.

Garlic is very easy to grow and stores well I tried once and failed -- thanks for making me feel bad! :P Not sure what happened, but it grew a green shoot up, but didn't actually grow the garlic cloves. Haven't tried since! HAH. Maybe you just didn't let them finish developing? You have to wait unt...