Note that this poll should only be taken by people who plan to vote for Trump in November. Scott Adams took a similar poll among his followers recently, and I think he said a large percentage of them (something like 40%) said they had lied at least once about supporting Trump -- presumably to avoid ...

At first I was confused as to why you were linking a picture to some random guy in this thread. Then I was like "holy shit". Yup, it's Depp! I thought the arm tats would give it away, but I probably should have been a bit more obvious. The sad thing about that photo is that it was taken b...

Personally I don't know who to believe any longer. Maybe Fauci is right. Maybe he is wrong and lying, or wrong and not lying but just very cautious. Although to be so cautious on health, when there is countervailing evidence say from the cruise ship situation, and not to look at the entire situatio...

I just noticed this addition to your sig, Smith. Good one!

Knucklehead (noun): Someone who knows the expense ratio of everything but the value of nothing.

Political ads are always a stark reminder of how low the average person’s IQ is.

For what it’s worth, I personally know a few teachers, and all of them put in many more hours (including during summer “vacation”) than what they officially get paid for. One of them used to be a nurse, and she told me nursing was less stressful. It sounds like hard work — at least for the teachers ...

The Knuckleheads are anti-LTT as well? Huh. What’s their main reason — because a diversified total bond market fund is supposedly safer, or because Treasury bonds tend to have the lowest yield?

Could there be a way of de-activating this "feature"? That would probably require an admin modification by Xan. The workaround I use is to always click "Preview" before "Submit". That way the new-post warning (if any) shows up on the preview screen and doesn't interfer...

When you wake up from a drunken stupor with melted ice cream in your lap and realize you've hit a new low: https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/hPyP7L.SAhYmXPfL3PvCBg--~A/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAw/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2020-07/c4ba3d60-c540-11ea-b...

You know how the media and Emperor Newsom have been saying that California's Lockdown 2.0 is a response to the state "reopening too soon"? I.e., California supposedly screwed up by reopening too soon, and there's been a big spike in cases as a result? Well, I decided to look at the "T...

By the way does that "feature" which has caused me more problems than ever provided any benefit....has it ever been of any benefit to you (or to anyone else reading this)? I've never benefitted from it. Usually any new post that appears while I'm writing my post doesn't change what I plan...

What a disappointment. Easily [Schiff's] worst interview on JRE. Don't get me wrong, he had great insights as always. He just never bloody took a breath. He just kept going and going and kept bulldozing Rogan every time he wanted to ask a question or change the pace of conversation. It wasn't a pod...

The stuff that drives me crazy is that I have to put on a mask to go into a restaurant and then walk 20 feet to my table, Then I can take it off. I would love for an expert to calculate for me the chances of catching or spreading a virus in that 20 foot walk. Especially when the restaurant is runni...

flyingpylon wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 12:12 pm Some colleges are saying they will require a COVID test done within 10 days of arrival [...]

The public health equivalent of security theater.

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 11:29 pm It's July 2020

and my finger is hovering above the "Buy Now" button for a genuine Black Death Plague Mask and Hat.

But I repeat myself.

Just buy it, man. If you chicken out and don’t wear it at Wal-Mart this summer, you can always at least be a smash hit at a Halloween party.

I assume the "aggressiveness and extroversion" refers mainly to the people at or near the top of organizational hierarchies (executives, chiefs, etc.). Even then, I think assertiveness would be a more accurate term than aggressiveness.

I actually agree that their list of “white” qualities are indeed commonly observed in white cultures throughout history.

Now, to even better educate ourselves, shall we examine a similar list of qualities commonly observed in black cultures throughout history?

The federal Cares Act $600/week unemployment benefit expires later this month, so there's that.

I suspect a lot of the people who have been receiving that benefit will start reconsidering their position on lockdowns when that extra dough stops rolling in.

I’ve thought about this occasionally over the past few years. How many people in the world, whether famous or not, could survive the level of constant, 24/7 scrutiny and all-guns-blazing attacks by the establishment on multiple fronts simultaneously as Trump has apparently managed to do? How many of...

So are you telling me that if the media started reporting every single day ad nauseam how many people were hospitalized or died today on the roads then we would all have our cars taken from us? I feel like that is what you are saying. :) Yes, basically. ;) We already had the automobile risk "c...

Regarding the risk of sending children back to school in-person, the evidence strongly suggests it's minimal. This study found that children under 16 years old account for < 2% of COVID cases , with "no documentation of child-to-child or child-to-adult transmission": https://pediatrics.aa...

I am, for about the next 2 weeks, ok with letting the media have its day with the breaking news, and surge in cases, yada yada. If those don't translate into a material increase in deaths, then I will call bullshit. One thing to keep in mind when you look at death stats is that around 1/3 of the ex...

That list is useful, but it's based on broad averages. The total tax bill could potentially look very different for each state depending on a person's income and the size of home/property they choose to own.

My understanding is that housing prices have been rising for years in places all over the world, not just in Texas or even just the US. I suspect it has something to do with the interest rates across the world having been low for many years now. Regarding the high property tax in Texas, at least be ...

I've been using LastPass for a little while now and love it. Password managers seem like the simplest and most secure way to simultaneously (1) use a different password for every site and (2) deal with the fact that every site has its own annoyingly specific format requirements for allowable passwor...