So will DFT just wing it now, or will he appoint a new Death Czar?
Damn useful puns for me. I never knew how to pronounce “Ayn”.
To be fair, I still might not, but I’m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.
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The Hoover Institute is working exactly as intended.
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Idiots like Atlas have really polluted a valid scientific idea with their quackery that’s going to take a bit to unlearn. I reflexively cringed at a headline “CDC thinks we can achieve herd immunity by May” until I realized that they were talking about real herd immunity with vaccine rollout.
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Ah, but just look at that beautiful Dow!
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Yes, the Hoover Institution’s purpose is to produce junk science promoting indefensible industries and policies.
Stanford should kick them to the curb, but after over a hundred years, that’s unlikely to happen.
eta: smh at this in Wikipedia:
Hoover was ranked as the tenth most influential think tank in the world in 2020 by Academic Influence , and the 22nd of the “Top Think Tanks in the United States” by the Global Go To Think Tank Index Report in 2019 (Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania).[7][8]
Checking that Global Go To Think Tank Index Report, it may have been done at UP, but zooming in, it was from the Lauder Institute, which is yet another grafted-on think tank, funded by one of the Lauder family, who’s another inheritor asshole.
A libertarian think tank circle jerk.
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Puns and rhymes have saved my keester more than once on that score. Just remember, it rhymes with “MINE!”
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Good to know.
For years, I thought aine, after your post I thought ION.
But then again, I used to fuck up Deus Ex Machina.
To figure out how, try pronouncing the first word the same way the French say 2.
Much humiliation.
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Damn useful puns for me. I never knew how to pronounce “Ayn”.
Me neither, ‘til I had girlfriend with that name. I pronounced it many ways, she pronounced it as eye-on.
Remember, when puns are outlawed, only outlaws will have puns.
No? How about it takes pun to know pun?
Never mind…
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Aw, pun you, you punning pun!
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You’re among other people who also probably learned a lot of words from reading instead of hearing, so I totally get this. I do feel that some of the mistaken versions I came up with really deserved to be words. (No examples come to mind.)
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Pretty much it
Nothing at my fingertips either
Partly it’s due to our language. A young Theodore Geisel aka Dr. Seuss summed it up pretty well with the title “The Tough Coughs As He Ploughs The Dough.”
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Full disclosure: I had a VERY close friend whose SO is a Hoover fellow. When we invaded Iraq, she and I got into an argument about the invasion. Her SO wrote something about all the Hollywood people who “just don’t know things” and use their platform for misinformation. Apparently, her SO had heard Cheney and Rice speak and was convinced that there were WMDs in Iraq.
Even with the intel trickling out, she still doubled down. She’d tell me, “You just don’t know everything.” I pointed out that she didn’t either and neither did her SO. Just because he is a Hoover fellow who writes op-eds doesn’t mean that he has a security clearance.
As I said in another thread, 9-11 did a number on all sorts of reasonable people, and the Hoover Institution took advantage of this. People have got to stop treating it and AEI as if they do the same work as the CDC or even the Urban Institute. It’s just a place where like-minded conservatives go to pad their resumes. They do no real research from what I know of it.
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What I find interesting is that while all of you are counting on a vaccine to return normalcy to the world, none of you seem to realize that herd immunity is literally how vaccines work.
in fact vaccines are pretty much the only way herd immunity works for humans. but try explaining that to atlas… or heck the brits who also were going down the “infect everyone we can” road for a bit
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When someone advocates “herd immunity” as a strategy to deal with the virus, they mean allowing uncontrolled spread through the population, on the false basis that old people can stay at home and younger people won’t be badly affected if they get infected. We know this because there were people talking this way at the beginning of the pandemic, when there was no prospect of vaccines becoming available soon and no way to achieve herd immunity except uncontrolled spread.
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Actually, anyone who posts here regularly realizes that, in fact the term comes from vaccine studies. As gatto said, only vaccines provide herd immunity in humans, and only vaccines will halt this pandemic.
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Áine Ó Rand was a republican socialist feminist revolutionary surely?
(fictitious, but Áine is pronounced awn ye fwiw).
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Round about when Al de Pfeiffel got it. The projections were absolutely horrific so they overruled Cummmings. Ditched the scientist recommending the lockdown for breaking it (though not Cummmings obvs, de Pfeiffel’s girlfriend saw to that).
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