Maximum Carnage Week Game Thread
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Only dumb-dumbs get COVIDBob_C said: -
@HuskyJW always rightGrundleStiltzkin said:
Only dumb-dumbs get COVIDBob_C said: -
Fuck Kristof with a rusty conical cheese grater up the dick.hardhat said:Something something minor inconvenience something something vaccines don't have microchips, sweaty
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Being as anyone that gets near him is vaccinated, what gives?GrundleStiltzkin said:
Only dumb-dumbs get COVIDBob_C said: -
Jay is clearly a MAGTARD science denier. One less, something somethingBob_C said:
Being as anyone that gets near him is vaccinated, what gives?GrundleStiltzkin said:
Only dumb-dumbs get COVIDBob_C said: -
Fingers crossed.Bob_C said: -
In this post-modernistic world, truth and objectivity are just mirages based on your
identityrace. So, we have post modern journalism in which pursuing "objectivity" is just imposing your racial view and the news needs to reflect these views to be reliable - or something. Following is the quick story about Jaime Escalante who taught his LatinX students white math to such a successful degree that his white administrators knew he was cheating and then once it was shown he wasn't then they got rid of him because it was embarrassing to have low income LatinX students learning white math. Then we have Rochelle Gutierrez on the state of Illinois university of payroll to "rehumanize" math and make sure we have LatinX math, Indian math, and black math. Apparently, Asian math is the same as white math so no attention needs to be given. "She also builds upon Indigenous principles and has argued for a new form of mathematics where humans are no long centered. This form of mathematics is referred to as living mathematx." Any student of her's is dead student walking.
Now, the mainstream news media is coping with economic and digital disruption, along with increasing competition from misinformation on cable television and the internet. Meanwhile, American society itself has been in upheaval over discrimination against and abuse of women; persistent racism and white nationalism; police brutality and killings; the treatment of LGBTQ+ people; income inequality and social problems; immigration and the treatment of immigrants; the causes and effects of climate change; voting rights and election inequality; and even the very survival of our democracy. Reporting reliably on all of this has critically challenged newsrooms, calling into question their diversity, values and credibility.
Amid all the profound challenges and changes roiling the American news media today, newsrooms are debating whether traditional objectivity should still be the standard for news reporting. “Objectivity” is defined by most dictionaries as expressing or using facts without distortion by personal beliefs, bias, feelings or prejudice. Journalistic objectivity has been generally understood to mean much the same thing.
But increasingly, reporters, editors and media critics argue that the concept of journalistic objectivity is a distortion of reality. They point out that the standard was dictated over decades by male editors in predominantly White newsrooms and reinforced their own view of the world. They believe that pursuing objectivity can lead to false balance or misleading “bothsidesism” in covering stories about race, the treatment of women, LGBTQ+ rights, income inequality, climate change and many other subjects. And, in today’s diversifying newsrooms, they feel it negates many of their own identities, life experiences and cultural contexts, keeping them from pursuing truth in their work....
Now, the mainstream news media is coping with economic and digital disruption, along with increasing competition from misinformation on cable television and the internet. Meanwhile, American society itself has been in upheaval over discrimination against and abuse of women; persistent racism and white nationalism; police brutality and killings; the treatment of LGBTQ+ people; income inequality and social problems; immigration and the treatment of immigrants; the causes and effects of climate change; voting rights and election inequality; and even the very survival of our democracy. Reporting reliably on all of this has critically challenged newsrooms, calling into question their diversity, values and credibility.
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https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/mathematx.php
MATHEMATX
Sometime back around 1990, I was privileged to get to spend some time with Jaime Escalante (d. 2010), the Bolivian-born high school math teacher whose compelling story was made into a feature film, Stand and
Deliver.
Escalante had become nationally famous in the 1980s when 18 of his hispanic students from a low-income east Los Angeles neighborhood scored highly on the AP calculus test in 1982. (The next year, 30 more of his students scored high on the AP test.) It was initially thought that these students must have cheated, because this never happens.
No—it really did happen, because Escalante was a gifted math teacher. His view was that every student could master calculus if they were willing to put in the work. That was the key point: He knew that you can’t master calculus in just 50 minutes a day watching a teacher at the blackboard. He motivated his students to come in after school and on Saturdays for extra hands-on work with him. And “hands-on” it was: he’d spend as much time one-on-one with with students as they needed to get beyond a hurdle. And then do it again the next day.
He was unfailingly supportive of every student, especially if they were struggling with the subject. He was never harsh with students, but neither would he accept excuses. Enrollment in his math classes at Garfield High School, and the number of his students taking the AP test quickly grew to over 500.
You know what happened next: jealous and resentful fellow teachers hounded him out of Garfield High...
To be sure, Escalante is a rare teacher. He was absolutely riveting in person. And while that kind of genius can’t be easily acquired, it can be studied and emulated as an example of human excellence and effective pedagogy. I suspect the number of education schools that teach a case study about Escalante (or Marva Collins, who I also met once) is precisely zero.
Instead of Escalante’s challenge, students at the University of Illinois they will get this:
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If that's not a blatant call for genocide, I don't know what is.WestlinnDuck said:In this post-modernistic world, truth and objectivity are just mirages based on your
identityrace. So, we have post modern journalism in which pursuing "objectivity" is just imposing your racial view and the news needs to reflect these views to be reliable - or something. Following is the quick story about Jaime Escalante who taught his LatinX students white math to such a successful degree that his white administrators knew he was cheating and then once it was shown he wasn't then they got rid of him because it was embarrassing to have low income LatinX students learning white math. Then we have Rochelle Gutierrez on the state of Illinois university of payroll to "rehumanize" math and make sure we have LatinX math, Indian math, and black math. Apparently, Asian math is the same as white math so no attention needs to be given. "She also builds upon Indigenous principles and has argued for a new form of mathematics where humans are no long centered. This form of mathematics is referred to as living mathematx." Any student of her's is dead student walking.
Now, the mainstream news media is coping with economic and digital disruption, along with increasing competition from misinformation on cable television and the internet. Meanwhile, American society itself has been in upheaval over discrimination against and abuse of women; persistent racism and white nationalism; police brutality and killings; the treatment of LGBTQ+ people; income inequality and social problems; immigration and the treatment of immigrants; the causes and effects of climate change; voting rights and election inequality; and even the very survival of our democracy. Reporting reliably on all of this has critically challenged newsrooms, calling into question their diversity, values and credibility.
Amid all the profound challenges and changes roiling the American news media today, newsrooms are debating whether traditional objectivity should still be the standard for news reporting. “Objectivity” is defined by most dictionaries as expressing or using facts without distortion by personal beliefs, bias, feelings or prejudice. Journalistic objectivity has been generally understood to mean much the same thing.
But increasingly, reporters, editors and media critics argue that the concept of journalistic objectivity is a distortion of reality. They point out that the standard was dictated over decades by male editors in predominantly White newsrooms and reinforced their own view of the world. They believe that pursuing objectivity can lead to false balance or misleading “bothsidesism” in covering stories about race, the treatment of women, LGBTQ+ rights, income inequality, climate change and many other subjects. And, in today’s diversifying newsrooms, they feel it negates many of their own identities, life experiences and cultural contexts, keeping them from pursuing truth in their work....
Now, the mainstream news media is coping with economic and digital disruption, along with increasing competition from misinformation on cable television and the internet. Meanwhile, American society itself has been in upheaval over discrimination against and abuse of women; persistent racism and white nationalism; police brutality and killings; the treatment of LGBTQ+ people; income inequality and social problems; immigration and the treatment of immigrants; the causes and effects of climate change; voting rights and election inequality; and even the very survival of our democracy. Reporting reliably on all of this has critically challenged newsrooms, calling into question their diversity, values and credibility.
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https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/mathematx.php
MATHEMATX
Sometime back around 1990, I was privileged to get to spend some time with Jaime Escalante (d. 2010), the Bolivian-born high school math teacher whose compelling story was made into a feature film, Stand and
Deliver.
Escalante had become nationally famous in the 1980s when 18 of his hispanic students from a low-income east Los Angeles neighborhood scored highly on the AP calculus test in 1982. (The next year, 30 more of his students scored high on the AP test.) It was initially thought that these students must have cheated, because this never happens.
No—it really did happen, because Escalante was a gifted math teacher. His view was that every student could master calculus if they were willing to put in the work. That was the key point: He knew that you can’t master calculus in just 50 minutes a day watching a teacher at the blackboard. He motivated his students to come in after school and on Saturdays for extra hands-on work with him. And “hands-on” it was: he’d spend as much time one-on-one with with students as they needed to get beyond a hurdle. And then do it again the next day.
He was unfailingly supportive of every student, especially if they were struggling with the subject. He was never harsh with students, but neither would he accept excuses. Enrollment in his math classes at Garfield High School, and the number of his students taking the AP test quickly grew to over 500.
You know what happened next: jealous and resentful fellow teachers hounded him out of Garfield High...
To be sure, Escalante is a rare teacher. He was absolutely riveting in person. And while that kind of genius can’t be easily acquired, it can be studied and emulated as an example of human excellence and effective pedagogy. I suspect the number of education schools that teach a case study about Escalante (or Marva Collins, who I also met once) is precisely zero.
Instead of Escalante’s challenge, students at the University of Illinois they will get this:
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In breaking news, masks don't work, the CDC doesn't really care. Walk into Fred Meyers and everyone in line at the pharmacy has to wear a mask pursuant to CDC guidance. Now, you can pick up your prescription, then take off your mask and go buy groceries and wait in the check out line because a grocery check out line is completely different than standing in line to get a prescription. Sort of like putting on a mask and walking to your table in a restaurant and then it was okay to take off your mask. Of course, this makes sense to mello and the dazzler and the people they vote for. Anyway, the pandemic ends on May 11th by imperial decree from the dementia patient who knows everything about the chicom crud and epidemiology.
https://ace.mu.nu/
Massive "Gold Standard" Meta-Study on Masks Finds That Masking Makes "Little to No Difference" in Covid Protection
—Ace
A meta-study is a study that doesn't create its own data set, but instead takes the data sets of already-published studies and re-analyzes that data, combining it into one big pool of information.
JustTheNews:
'Little to no difference': Massive mask meta-study undermines remaining COVID mandates
Researchers in "gold standard" collaboration struggle to find benefit from surgical over no masks, or N95 respirators over surgical. Findings buoy warnings by PPE expert that even "perfect rate of capture" by N95s can't stop COVID transmission.
An international research collaboration that reviewed several dozen rigorous studies of "physical interventions" against influenza and COVID-19 through last year failed to find even a modest effect on infection or illness rates from masks of all qualities.
Published in the peer-reviewed Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, run by the British evidence-based medicine charity Cochrane, the study raises new doubts about ongoing mask mandates and public health recommendations worldwide.
The CDC is still recommending masking in areas with "high" transmission levels -- fewer than 4% of U.S. counties -- as well as indoor masking to protect high-risk contacts in "medium" counties (27%).
Masks are still required in educational institutions in Democratic strongholds such as New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington and California, according to the Daily Mail. Boston Public Schools denied its "temporary masking protocol" in early January was a "mandate," following a public letter against the policy by student Enrique Abud Evereteze.
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The team added 11 new randomized controlled trials and "cluster-RCTs," which randomize groups of subjects rather than individuals, to its prior review from November 2020, for a total of 78 studies. The additions included COVID pandemic trials: two from Mexico and one each from England, Norway, Denmark and Bangladesh, the latter two well known internationally.
The Danish study had trouble finding a major journal willing to publish its controversial findings that wearing surgical masks had no statistically significant effect on infection rates, even among those who claimed to wear them "exactly as instructed."
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Nice to see that the FDA is expanding surveillance to < 5 year olds. But still, get those small kid vaxxed because Pfizer needs the money. Clearly, child abuse by the US medical bureaucracy and any doctor who gives a chicom crud vax to a six month old. Geezus.hardhat said:
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MelloDawg said:
[Citation Needed]Sledog said:
I was right. You were wrong. Now fuck the fuck off you soy slurping retard!MelloDawg said:
I’m shocked to hear that someone without credentials in molecular biology or immunology thinks something in molecular biology or immunology sounds strange.Sledog said:MRNA sounded very strange to me. New and improved tech they said. I saw the quotes from the inventor MRNA tech and he said they should NEVER give this to people.
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Trump has to go. Unlike in 2016, we actually have another MAGA candidate.
https://ace.mu.nu/
Trump Just Can't Stop Attacking DeSantis:
"The real Ron is a RINO GLOBALIST, who closed down Florida and even its beaches"
—Ace
I wanted to avoid this -- I hate being at odds with any readers -- but Trump won't let it go.
Trump is attacking DeSantis for, he claims, "shutting down Florida."
And that DeSantis is a "RINO GLOBALIST." I know his supporters and surrogates have been workshopping that attack line for half a year now.
Trump has two related problems:
1, Ron DeSantis is seen as a genuine hero who stood up to relentless media attacks to defy Trump's Regime medical advisors to open up Florida.
2, While some credit Trump for expressing a pro-opening agenda in speeches and on Twitter, many can't help but notice it was Trump's advisors -- Fauci, Birx, Watson, Wallensky, etc. -- who issued the directives and "guidances" that states and municipalities cited as justification for forced shutdowns, forced masking, and forced vaccination. And they also can't help but notice that while Trump might complain about these people on Twitter, he left them all in office rather than risking the media firestorm and firing their asses.
In addition, Trump continues bragging about the vaccines he helped develop, and seems unaware that most of his base is fairly skeptical of those vaccines, if not outright hostile to them. Particularly about mandates. Which Trump's advisors made possible.
The leftwing fake Republican -- who always is being paid by liberal outlets to attack conservatives -- Matt K. Lewis talks about the vaccines as a possible "knockout punch" against Trump.
The case for nominating DeSantis is precisely that he's just as tough and "MAGA" as Trump--but more competent. In addition to this, DeSantis has a specific opening, too: "I think the blood-in-the-water knockout blow is the vaccines," former conservative radio host John Ziegler told me recently, "because Trump is so deluded into believing that the vaccines--because he wants to take credit for them--were the greatest thing ever. That's where, with way more than 50 percent of the Republican base, DeSantis can strike a knockout blow."
In a rational world, Operation Warp Speed would be something worth bragging about [No it isn't]. But the Republican primary electorate isn't a rational world [We got the science right and it wasn't luck]. As such, greenlighting the COVID-19 vaccine is potentially a serious vulnerability for Trump in a Republican primary. Meanwhile, DeSantis--who wants to empanel a grand jury to look into COVID-19 wrongdoing--is positioned to lodge such an attack. But will he?
I don't think DeSantis will do that. That's another NeverTrumper fever dream, in which both people they hate mutually destroy each other so that Nikki Haley can be the nominee.
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I would still give Trump a pass for most of the covid bullshit but the line about lacking the GUTS to clean house hits home. He lost anyway so he literally had nothing to lose by firing Fauci and company
Again I was willing to accept the vaccine as an attempt to get shit open faster but to still be bragging about it is retarded
In summation I agree that Trump is toast and Deathsantis is in the driver's seat. Had this a couple months ago
Still a chance that Ron is a Rino globalist but he did better on covid than almost any governor other than Noem
This isn't Jeb Bush. 2016 won't work in 2024 IMO
So far Ron has resisted the bait. No reason to engage at all right now
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I said last week that Trump needs to STFU and focus on Trump. He sounds like a fucking idiot right now. DeSantis is nails and Trump needs to go play golf 365.
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I can't believe places are still requiring face diapers. Then again, I can given how wacked out coastal blue states are. The last time I had to wear one was in Manzanita last summer. It's whOregon so it makes sense.
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But never before, just right now. That assertion holds up.46XiJCAB said:I said last week that Trump needs to STFU and focus on Trump. He sounds like a fucking idiot right now. DeSantis is nails and Trump needs to go play golf 365.
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This will transition into WW3 game thread soon enough -
You've always been a woke faggot. So you have that going for you.MelloDawg said:
But never before, just right now. That assertion holds up.46XiJCAB said:I said last week that Trump needs to STFU and focus on Trump. He sounds like a fucking idiot right now. DeSantis is nails and Trump needs to go play golf 365.
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Now do Biden or is gargling his balls make it impossible to form the big words?MelloDawg said:
But never before, just right now. That assertion holds up.46XiJCAB said:I said last week that Trump needs to STFU and focus on Trump. He sounds like a fucking idiot right now. DeSantis is nails and Trump needs to go play golf 365.
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Fuck off Biden voterMelloDawg said:
But never before, just right now. That assertion holds up.46XiJCAB said:I said last week that Trump needs to STFU and focus on Trump. He sounds like a fucking idiot right now. DeSantis is nails and Trump needs to go play golf 365.
You voted for a drooling retard owned by China
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This is what honesty looks like Mello. Give it a try sometime.MelloDawg said:
But never before, just right now. That assertion holds up.46XiJCAB said:I said last week that Trump needs to STFU and focus on Trump. He sounds like a fucking idiot right now. DeSantis is nails and Trump needs to go play golf 365.
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Don’t even need to have to have Covid to paxlovid now.
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So it’s ivermectin but at $700 a pop. Fuck Pfizer.Bob_C said:Don’t even need to have to have Covid to paxlovid now.
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Hardcore Husky had that one in 2020.hardhat said:
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… and should be in gitmo.hardhat said:
