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re: Tucker Carlson debate

Posted by Pigimus Prime on 9/18/24 at 11:12 am
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Agree with him or disagree with him but I feel very strongly that whatever he says he firmly believes at this point. After 50 years on the planet I feel like a have a keen BS detector and TC is not repeating a script.


Do you trust him based on what he says on his podcast/speaking tour more or less than what he said in private texts? To be clear I tend to agree with much of what he says now, but I also cannot easily get past what he said in the private texts in late 2020 when thinking there may be a distance between what he says for public consumption and what he believes in private.

re: Tucker Carlson debate

Posted by Pigimus Prime on 9/18/24 at 10:33 am
I think one just needs to read his private texts after the 2020 election to see how he feels deep down. He is no doubt right about many things, but he is also in a business that needs people to want to listen him to fuel their burning desires for validation.
IIRC, you might see vote totals by mode and even party registration, but they typically don't report outcomes until polls close on Election Day and then sometime there after (longer than it should be IMO).
Correct, but their prediction does not control for the confounding fact that any of this was related to anything but vaccination. And this excerpt says nothing about the point related to 98% vaccination in 2023.
I understand what you are getting at, but that vaccination rate claim of 98% was by 2023, yet the study covers 2020–2023.
This is not a publication, it is a preprint. If it were a publication it would be blatant malpractice to predict deaths during a pandemic and not control for the disease resulting from said pandemic.
You gotta love the citation of unpublished preprints and the failure to control for actual Covid-19 deaths in the regression. There is so much garbage taken as fact (on both sides) just to support a narrative. If this said the opposite and were published in the Lancet you all would dismiss it out of hand.
Hopefully the exposed purebloods can handle it since they are so badass.

re: FOX NEWS Cancels MY PILLOW

Posted by Pigimus Prime on 1/12/24 at 10:25 pm
Perhaps choosing who you do business with is?

re: FOX NEWS Cancels MY PILLOW

Posted by Pigimus Prime on 1/12/24 at 10:25 pm
Imagine being this mad over a news network you hate not wanting to do business with a pillow company.
Ah, the crazier of the Weinstein brothers with no actual knowledge of the topic about which he is speaking. Amazing. Of course he thinks he is right in the middle of the actual global conversation here. He actually claimed the Hamas War was a false flag so the global order could shut down his truth telling about vaccines.

Do you all know how much sovereignty the United States cedes to the UN and WHO by extension?
Amazing, I know the exact spot that roadsign picture was taken.
Which variables, in your opinion, do you think account for differences in life expectancy around the world and over time within the United States?
I literally just posted a link to the original source video from 9 months ago. She is a buffoon but the above video is fake, first of all they don’t put ridiculous music to congressional press conferences. Otherwise it is chopped and spliced for effect.
Aw, the ole let’s doctor this video from last year and act like it’s a few days old trick. Here is a link to the actual video (from 11/4/21) actually on C-SPAN:

C-SPAN

There’s plenty to critique for Nancy without doing this sort of thing.

re: Blockchain based voting system

Posted by Pigimus Prime on 7/30/22 at 1:47 pm
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I wasn’t aware of the WV situation. And yes, a private blockchain defeats the purpose of what I’m suggesting. A public and decentralized blockchain would guard against manipulation. It would definitely be a target of bad actors.


Any counterpoints to this?

Rivest et al working paper

re: Blockchain based voting system

Posted by Pigimus Prime on 7/30/22 at 1:35 pm
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Not all 50 states have to do it. Start with 1 state or a city/county to prove it out


WV has already done it with UOCAVA ballots and refused to share any audit data from the private, for-profit company that ran the chain.

So, you can have a public distributed ledger where a majority of whomever is on the network can decide which blocks are verified or not. Or, you can do like they did and have a private or otherwise single-party outfit control them ledger and who knows what could be in that codebase.

Basic paper ballots and robust verification procedures are all we need, it’s all we ever needed.