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by SomeDude
Sat Aug 07, 2021 2:50 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: A Visit to Wokeville USA
Replies: 1
Views: 666

Re: A Visit to Wokeville USA

A scientific poll was conducted of the population of Wokeville. It confirmed that 29% of the population was related to, or close friends with, someone who died of the Heinekenvirus. This means 2,900 people were either related to or close friends of one, and only one, of the 18 fallen, average age, 7...
by SomeDude
Sat Aug 07, 2021 2:40 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: A Visit to Wokeville USA
Replies: 1
Views: 666

A Visit to Wokeville USA

Note - I'll add to the Wokeville experience as time permits. I'll try to limit it to factoids of truthiness based on the USA. If i get something wrong in the conversion I'm sure you guys will help me correct it. I'm writing when scarce time permits and just eyeballing numbers. Revisions might be nec...
by SomeDude
Sat Aug 07, 2021 1:49 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Get woke, go broke
Replies: 9
Views: 3078

Re: Get woke, go broke

Not surprisingly, % market share of razor blade sales plummeted after Gillette's toxic masculinity ad. ::) https://medium.com/@georgi_georgiev/350-mln-in-6-months-the-cost-of-the-2019-gillette-advertising-fiasco-86785f29a4bf I told the wife no more gillette and never again once that "ad" came out. ...
by SomeDude
Sat Aug 07, 2021 8:57 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan
Replies: 1909
Views: 399827

Re: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan

The people I "know," when it comes to relationships that actually have any meaning to me, number less than 100. The people I "know," when it comes to a death, or to a tragic event, or to anything warranting of publicity, easily exceeds $100,000. Its very telling that you used a dollar sign Maddy. T...
by SomeDude
Fri Aug 06, 2021 4:43 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan
Replies: 1909
Views: 399827

Re: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan

Kriegsspiel wrote:
Fri Aug 06, 2021 4:27 pm
I can't remember if I had posted this graph when I saw it, it's about a year old:

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This must be facebook people, and who the Hell are "others"? Must be Asian. That number seems believable.
by SomeDude
Fri Aug 06, 2021 4:26 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan
Replies: 1909
Views: 399827

Re: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan

Long-time lurker here. I can help with the math part. But then I'm going to need your help. If 600k people have died from Covid out of 328 million, then we can say the fraction of U.S. people that died is 0.6/328 = 0.0018 (0.18%). I search a bit on-line for an estimate of how many people the averag...
by SomeDude
Thu Aug 05, 2021 7:18 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan
Replies: 1909
Views: 399827

Re: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan

I'm in the most densely populated county in the state and have still not heard of a single person hospitalized for Covid or even someone that someone knows. It's very odd don't you think? I know it's hard to step back from making it all about you, but here's a recent poll: https://docs.cdn.yougov.c...
by SomeDude
Thu Aug 05, 2021 4:28 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Bitcoin is Galt's Gulch
Replies: 52
Views: 9559

Re: Bitcoin is Galt's Gulch

I just don't see how "anonymity" and "technology that immutably and forever keeps a complete record of all transactions ever" go together at all. Anonymity is unfortunately not baked into Bitcoin and will probably never be. However, my previous example showed how one could own Bitcoin anonymously. ...
by SomeDude
Thu Aug 05, 2021 4:25 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Coronavirus General Discussion
Replies: 5196
Views: 1783202

Re: Coronavirus General Discussion

Delta, apparently, received only a "meh" response. So as this morning, they've rolled out Lambda. They've also tried donuts, beer, lotto tickets, sex (tinder), threats of losing your job to get the anti-vaxxers to grow up. Looks like we'll be moving into starvation as the next tactic. I'll be filli...
by SomeDude
Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:05 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Coronavirus General Discussion
Replies: 5196
Views: 1783202

Re: Coronavirus General Discussion

Delta, apparently, received only a "meh" response. So as this morning, they've rolled out Lambda. They've also tried donuts, beer, lotto tickets, sex (tinder), threats of losing your job to get the anti-vaxxers to grow up. Looks like we'll be moving into starvation as the next tactic. I'll be filli...
by SomeDude
Thu Aug 05, 2021 9:48 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Bitcoin is Galt's Gulch
Replies: 52
Views: 9559

Re: Bitcoin is Galt's Gulch

Geeze KBG looks like there's something we agree on at about a 99% level. Crap does that mean i have to rethink cryptos now? ;D My biggest issue with it is that it has no tangible or intangible value, its just a digital token as far as i can tell and only belief that someone will want it props the pr...
by SomeDude
Thu Aug 05, 2021 9:44 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Coronavirus General Discussion
Replies: 5196
Views: 1783202

Re: Coronavirus General Discussion

Delta, apparently, received only a "meh" response. So as this morning, they've rolled out Lambda. They've also tried donuts, beer, lotto tickets, sex (tinder), threats of losing your job to get the anti-vaxxers to grow up. Looks like we'll be moving into starvation as the next tactic. I'll be filli...
by SomeDude
Wed Aug 04, 2021 4:27 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan
Replies: 1909
Views: 399827

Re: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan

The "highest number of reported cases in a day" is fake news that's been making the rounds. Florida shifted from daily to weekly Covid case reporting in early June. That should be called out. Jerks. What is your reaction to this stat? Capture.JPG What is a covid 19 hospitalization? This says 1 in e...
by SomeDude
Wed Aug 04, 2021 12:16 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan
Replies: 1909
Views: 399827

Re: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan

The "highest number of reported cases in a day" is fake news that's been making the rounds. Florida shifted from daily to weekly Covid case reporting in early June. That should be called out. Jerks. What is your reaction to this stat? Capture.JPG What is a covid 19 hospitalization? This says 1 in e...
by SomeDude
Tue Aug 03, 2021 3:27 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Who should not be allowed to vote?
Replies: 29
Views: 5600

Re: Who should not be allowed to vote?

Additional thoughts: Only employed USA citizens are eligible,.... Grab the popcorn and wait to see what AARP would say about that idea. At least Florida would be less of a factor in Mountaineer's world of elections. And Medicare and SS reform should become very doable. My opinion: Employment not re...
by SomeDude
Tue Aug 03, 2021 2:27 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Is the PP a Libertarian Investment Philosophy?
Replies: 21
Views: 3584

Re: Is the PP a Libertarian Investment Philosophy?

But in taxable investing, this stuff becomes important. I wish I'd realized that a long time ago. No it doesn't actually do anything except to defer capital gains which is only useful if you believe you will be taxed lower in future years. Not a great way to plan. Over a general retirement investme...
by SomeDude
Tue Aug 03, 2021 1:40 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Who should not be allowed to vote?
Replies: 29
Views: 5600

Re: Who should not be allowed to vote?

Additional thoughts: Only employed USA citizens are eligible,.... Grab the popcorn and wait to see what AARP would say about that idea. At least Florida would be less of a factor in Mountaineer's world of elections. And Medicare and SS reform should become very doable. My opinion: Employment not re...
by SomeDude
Tue Aug 03, 2021 12:24 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Who should not be allowed to vote?
Replies: 29
Views: 5600

Re: Who should not be allowed to vote?

I know Mountaineer is one of the more overtly religious people around here; while I respect his right to hold such beliefs it always amazes me that some of the most "screw the less fortunate and people who are worse off than me" types of people are some of the most "Christian" ones....at least that...
by SomeDude
Tue Aug 03, 2021 12:12 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan
Replies: 1909
Views: 399827

Re: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan

And, just like many here don't give two craps about what I say, why would I care about whoever these Twitter people are? Twitter and social media apparently more than anything has given people the right to be assholes out in public, not just with their friends and family. You have an opinion that m...
by SomeDude
Tue Aug 03, 2021 12:09 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan
Replies: 1909
Views: 399827

Re: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan

For Somedude... Capture.JPG Thanks Vinny. I am sure my experience is different from some others here, but again ZERO, ZERO personal evidence from friends and families and coworkers that there is a pandemic, and i work in a global company involving India, Canada, and Czech Republic people daily as w...
by SomeDude
Tue Aug 03, 2021 7:16 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Who should not be allowed to vote?
Replies: 29
Views: 5600

Who should not be allowed to vote?

I'm guessing we pretty much all agree there should be an age restriction. If you don't agree with that please start your own thread instead of disrupting this one. If we agree at least that children or even toddlers shouldn't be voting, then we agree there should be some restrictions. Anyone have an...
by SomeDude
Mon Aug 02, 2021 12:58 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Is the PP a Libertarian Investment Philosophy?
Replies: 21
Views: 3584

Re: Is the PP a Libertarian Investment Philosophy?

If you perfectly recreated the S&P with the 500 stocks in the exact same proportion on Jan 1, by Dec 1 you'd have virtually the identical return as the index. Excluding transaction you'd be ahead because of 0% management fees. You could then sell all the losers and have a big capital loss to offset ...
by SomeDude
Mon Aug 02, 2021 12:07 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Is the PP a Libertarian Investment Philosophy?
Replies: 21
Views: 3584

Re: Is the PP a Libertarian Investment Philosophy?

My mother's savings are heavily into individual stocks, and she's done quite well plus has a lot of losses built up so that she could probably sell the whole lot and not pay a penny in taxes. I'm a bit jealous! The index fund approach has its good points, but it sucks when it comes to tax liability...
by SomeDude
Mon Aug 02, 2021 11:56 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Coronavirus General Discussion
Replies: 5196
Views: 1783202

Re: Coronavirus General Discussion

I have seen some more masks return (never really left), and last night, Walmart had a sign on the door saying they now recommend masks whether vaccinated or not. Whatever. You want to wear one, go ahead. You want to force me to wear one in your store to get in, fine, it's not going to kill me. Howe...
by SomeDude
Sat Jul 31, 2021 7:24 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan
Replies: 1909
Views: 399827

Re: Reasons why I will not be getting injected for the Wuhan

The Swedish mortality might only look a lot better than the US because the US numbers are fake Nice! I need to use this one more often. Super compelling argument you got there. I walk slowly, head down off the field of debate, soundly defeated. I will say that is pretty good post KBG. Last April, D...