Favorites December 1st 2021
It really seems that way? Many takes on this today: Trump is one of the worst people to ever be president. One reporter realized that he was probably infected by Trump. Another realized Trump put military families at risk and then blamed them for infecting him.
My suspicion is that it's his immortal soup.
Based on oral argument, Supreme court looks like it's about to overturn Roe.
The sampling error in question is that of public comment, which is measurably unrepresentative of the demographics and views of the area. "The method by which local governments solicit public input on housing policy could charitably be described as a 'convenience sample'." Which is a term I had not heard before. Also, the pictured meme from Parks and Rec is an excellent example of local politics public comments.
Updates on Omicron continue to come in. Moderna thinks the current vaccines will not be effective, and the first case in the us has been detected in San Francisco, patient was fully vaccinated but no booster shot.
Wow, the difference in response by various international organizations to China's actions are wild.
Surprise, the Swedes are into flat-packing, even for homes! (To be clear, I am not joking, the 70% number was a surprise to me)
I only just saw this joke from August, and there's actually some depth to the analogy of the joke.
“ The sampling error in question is that of public comment, which is measurably unrepresentative of the demographics and views of the area. "The method by which local governments solicit public input on housing policy could charitably be described as a 'convenience sample'." Which is a term I had not heard before. Also, the pictured meme from Parks and Rec is an excellent example of local politics public comments.”
Indeed, public comment has not made sense to me for a long time, other than maintaining a tradition that once made sense when the community could fit into the local church. It seems like a problem stemming from our inability to scale socially past Dunbar’s Number in a meaningful way, using really poor heuristics instead. I have to constantly remind myself and others that discourse on the Internet is always a limited selection of people and should not reflect one’s sense of reality. That said, one can take advantage of this situation…