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Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]Ill be wearing masks way into the future, even when no ones around. I much prefer them to sunscreen. Great coverage with a hat and cotton scarf.[/quote] Oh, you must be that person I saw walking around in black, with a black hat pulled low over the eyes and red cotton scarf….☺ kind of a old western bad guy look; almost like Lee Van Cleef.
Participant[quote=sdrealtor]It was not as catastrophic BECAUSE it was pumped to be. People stayed home, businesses shut down, people wore masks and socially distanced. In the absence of that it would have been as catastrophic as it was pumped up to be. We dodged a much worse situation through the actions taken here and abroad.[/quote]I got your point, but I said the point is not quite as valid as you are trying to make it. The steps of staying home, social distancing were not necessarily hysteria, however “it would have been as catastrophic as it was pumped up to be” may not be as true.. remember Sweden. On top of this, the restrictions weren’t always consistent. For example, Home Depot at restricted opening at so called 25% – the interpersonal spacing ended up being 100’… not 6, not 12 etc. The restrictions were applied somewhat capriciously.
As I said, hysteria without real facts make it sound like a chicken who said the sky was falling because a nut landed on its head.
Yes there were real facts. It was known towards the end of February 2020 that COVID-19 was airborne. Something that didn’t come out until much later.
Another fact; whether you get a viral infection also greatly depends upon the duration of exposure and the ‘strength’ of exposure. Light exposure for short durations separated by time can actually immunize because the viral load is so light that first level defenses (like white blood cells) can take care of it. The body analyses the results and can use that to build up antibodies(which are specific to a type of infection).
Participant[quote=sdrealtor]I can’t believe people are still having these conversations. The death toll was only what it was because of the “drama” and it being “overdone”. Such short memories have you of pandemics and housing bubbles[/quote]
There was a lot of incompetence to spread around here, which is quite likely part of the cause of the death toll. At the same time, the drama may have caused some people to disregard some of the precautions they should have taken. What I have been talking about is compared to the drama the media presented along the lines of ‘Dirty Laundry’, it was not as catastrophic as it was pumped up to be.Drama without good facts is useless(I was not listening to the media – I was pulling down research papers to find out what was happening). Even officials were contradicting themselves on how bad it was at the beginning. China(CCP) and WHO were saying it was nothing far into the situation and they have ‘revised the facts’ to make it look like they warned people sooner than they actually did.
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]
The creator is a sadistic teacher/taskmaster who likes to watch us flail about in various conditions and judge us, according to unclear standards, rewarding winners and squashing losers.Maybe trump is the Lord. Or capitalism? Or our superego. Or all 3? The holy trinity.
It could be just as ive expected all along …the universe is a giant rat race, but the rat race is inside us.
And why are there no professional rat races being run? So much cheaper to keep than ponies.[/quote]
Deteriorata comes to mind…ParticipantI always felt the drama on COVID-19 was a bit overdone. It is a disease to be concerned about, but it is no small-pox, black-death nor ‘Spanish’ flu. Because the population is larger – deaths will be correspondingly higher. Because the population now lives closer together – means any disease can spread faster.
As I am getting older.. grayer.. I realize that the quality of life is really important, don’t stress out on the small stuff. I wish to live as health, active and rational as possible… then hope to pass quickly.
My theory on death is that the result is not ‘Heaven’.. but that we are currently in what could be called ‘Purgatory’; where we have to get our individual acts together. If we die, we start over until the lessons are learned by our souls… then it is??(Different plane of existence?) If we really screw up, we may come back as another ‘lessor’ life form – ie. Rat? Mouse? Amoeba and have to work back up the chain. I find the concept that the best of the end of life is sitting around strumming a harp as being incredibly boring.
ParticipantSpring tends to be the best, after all frosts are done.
BTW, putting cactus around a house as a hedge is something I did on a property years ago. There was a way back way someone could sneak onto the property on blind side… (ill intent was the only reason someone would want to take this convoluted path to the property)
So I planted yucca(s) three layers deep (more than 6′ wide). The needles on a Yucca actually has a skin irritant on it, not to mention being very sharp and rigid.
Be careful with pets around these though. Some pets are not to bright and you don’t want to run into these at speed.
Participant[quote=EconProf]Purgatory Correctional Facility[/quote] That gave me a good laugh!! I like the name.. though I would have just called it ‘Purgatory’.. and then the state lockup would be ‘Hell’… ☺
By the way, Purgatory is in Maine and Hell is in Michigan
ParticipantI worry about the robo-‘advice’ being tainted with advice that more favorably benefits the advisor (ie: Wealthfront or Wells Fargo) than the one being advised… see ‘Frontrunning’. The one that controls the info, decisions, also controls the market.
There may also be the problem of more ‘black swans’, and periods of extreme volatility. The current more diverse set of people making investment decisions tends to dampen volatility better than a whole group doing the same thing on the advice of a very few people.
Participant[quote=EconProf]So far only one Pigg nailed it.
Another hint: great scenery[/quote]
Humm.. that makes me think St George, UT… which is about 40 miles outside of Zion National Park. It is also near Snow Canyon State Park and Red Cliffs National Conservation Area.I went through there early fall 2020 on a visit to Bryce and Zion. It was a bit warm in St. George and Zion. Bryce’s weather was very nice though. Good timing on my part though because about a week later it snowed in Bryce.
Participant[quote=an]You can correct me if I’m wrong, but I think you’re assuming at all Asians are the same. There’s a huge difference between Chinese/Korean/Japanese with highly educated parents immigrant vs Hmong, Laotian, Cambodian who in general don’t value education as much.[/quote]
I do know that there is a significant difference between the different ‘Asians’. One thing that tends to be more significant overall is the tendency to help family members. It is something that I am seeing getting lost in white and black families these days… of course there are always exceptions.[quote=an]As the Yale lawsuit shows, you’re 1/10 likely to get into Yale as an Asian compare to Black, but only 1/4 less likely if you’re White. So, as a whole, you’re worst off being Asian.[/quote]
Reference for the statistics??
BTW; I assume you are referring to this lawsuit.. ???
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/03/politics/yale-university-affirmative-action-lawsuit/index.htmlParticipant[quote=Coronita]
When it comes to education and career opportunities, the average Asian male of course is white. that’s why things like sca-5 and prop 16 conveniently disregard asians as minorities. Prop 16, which ironically got defeated because not only asians overwhelming voted against it , but so did latinos….I guess now because both asians and latinos make up a large percentage or UC and CalState demographics based on merit, both groups really don’t want any sort of government heavy hand changing that….lol.[/quote]
The same applies to career opportunities and education for those of Indian (not American Indian, but those of East Indies descent). This is why my comment of ‘black… but not black’. Somehow there are people of ‘color’ that have managed to be successful as a race in the current job market. None of the current racial equality activists seems to want to ask themselves why (maybe it is an uncomfortable question). These same people decry income disparities but do not look at what education paths that different races tend towards. I went through college initially as a Physics major, 3rd year I switched to EECE because of career opportunities. I had already been programming computers since I was 14 – since mid ’70s – easy transition. Within those course fields (Physics, EE, EECE, CS), I only saw one person of black descent in my classes or classes I TA’d. Most students of black descent were in Sociology, Linguistic and some in Psychology. One’s choice of major can significantly affect future income. I don’t think those racial equality activists want to look at this aspect. If the real solution was known and used, there would not be much to demand funding or special set-asides for. Choices in life really matter.[quote=Coronita]Is an asian american male being denied senior management positions at tech firms simply because he isn’t a big NFL or NBA fan or a frat boy?[/quote]
I’m not asian, however I ran into this problem at one of my previous job. The promotion path was through the company’s golf club. (Senior Management was… very senior). Sales staff and some other upper management was very NFL/NBA/MBL. Being a gear-head though, did not help much with upwards job mobility, and I suspect that these days it helps even less. That all said, my investments have ended up making me more each year than any two years or more together on the W-2 job.. and much less stress than the W-2. Any failures on investments are not caused by anyone else and then pushed off on me to fix. I also don’t get such comments on salary review where I am blamed for “Gold Bricking” a project at the same time told that my actions are responsible for saving the company a lot of time and money by doing work that does not need any rework as well as the ability to get the job done difficult projects.[quote=an]Coronita, when it comes to higher education, it’s worst being Asian than white.[/quote]I would have to disagree with you there. A surprising number of white families do not pull together to help their college bound students.
ParticipantHoly crap. I don’t get how White Supremacy Culture is centered around getting the ‘right’ answer and ‘showing your work’…
These people seem to forget that Asians also emphasize the same thing.. and your tiger mom makes sure of it! I didn’t know that Asians were white too!! As well as ‘dark skinned’ people from India, who are black… but not black.. because they work hard to be successful.
They are forgetting that our current numbering system is not really white – it is Arabic. If it was white, it would be something like XXI for 21. It gets worse real quickly. The circumference of the earth is about 24,901 miles, or “MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMCMI”… humm.. time for some M&Ms…
So if a bridge collapses because the stress loading was incorrectly calculated because the emphasis was not on getting the correct answer nor on showing the work so that it could be double checked. Would the resulting collapse of the bridge be considered a racist event? What about crash of an airplane?
Oy Vey.
January 6, 2021 at 10:47 PM in reply to: O/T: Shock – National Association of Manufacturers calls for Pence consider 25th amendment #820364ParticipantPence can’t directly invoke the 25th, it requires a bit more. Politically, it might also not be a good idea for him to do it. This is because it would limit him to only one more term of Presidential office beyond the short few day term impeachment would give him. If he waits for Trump to term out, then he would have the potential of two full terms as a President if voted in, not one. NOTE: Removal from office only occurs after the trial portion of impeachment… so we would probably be looking at more than 3 weeks if it was started today. The exception to this is Vice President and Congress by majority – however there is also a time delay here too… up to 21 days…
Currently Trump is effectively a lame-duck, probably trying to keep what he feels is his base ‘motivated’ so that he could start a comeback in 4 years. In reality, his most recent actions have guaranteed that a ‘come-back’ will not happen… ever. The problem is how much of the Republican party he will end up taking down with him.
Trump didn’t do too bad as President – despite what some people might feel.
- Economy did well up until the Pandemic.
- Economy did not collapse during the Pandemic despite the dramatic shut down. Power’s still on, food is still available, very few additional people homeless, no 1929 repeat. He did not do the ‘doom and gloom’ which would have completely collapsed the market. There are more than just fundamentals that drive the market. There is also a hard to quantify aspect related to people/companies willing to take the financial risk to make a new product, build a company etc. If people don’t feel safe, they will just sit on their cash – which happened in the Great Depression.
- We finally got hospital price transparency, no ‘surprise surprise surprise’ with the bill.
- The initial reports from China and WHO were saying that the virus was nothing to worry about, but when facts came out – money was dispensed to get a vaccine, money was dispensed to people who lost income/jobs. yes, Trump talked about the virus being a no big deal. It may have been to keep people from panicking, it could have been for other reasons. For most people, this virus was just a bad flu. NOTE for comparison: in 1918, the ‘Spanish’ flu deaths were 675,000 in the US, 50million world wide. US population was 99million, world population 1.9billion. Current US population is 331 million, world population 7.8Billion. Scaling 1918 flu deaths to current population would mean 2.26million US deaths compared to 361,000 current COVID deaths, 205.26million world wide deaths, compared to 1.88million COVID. By the way, the 1918 ‘Spanish’ flu is also known as A/H1N1, which should sound familiar – it still comes around…
- While Trump did not get a Treaty with North Korea, one has to remember that North Korea violated the previous Treaties with the US with respect to stopping nuclear weapon development. No Treaty with sanctions in place is better than a Treaty without the ability to verify.
- Same as above for Iran.
- While Russia has been a thorn in the US’s side for a long time, China in many ways is worse. Forced technology transfer, non-reciprocation of deals(re-writing deals when it became their turn to deliver). At least Trump finally recognized China for its current behavior.
At this point though, all of Trumps current actions will way overshadow any of the good of earlier. It is not a good way to bookmark his presidency…
Participant[quote=phaster]
all my cabinets are built out of birch plywood (which purchased from TH&H) and they also have all the accessories like fancy looking chrome closet rod, drawer slides, lights, etc
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in the end all the bedroom closets in my house look very period BUT have a very modern adjustable desin element and will last because everything is built out of birch plywoodbuilt the cabinets using pocket screw joints, but found out things can be just a hair off,… to get things just alined “spot on” bought a festool domino tool AND use now use pocket screws to clamp things together using Titebond III
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Sounds like you do some of your own finish carpentry. I put myself through college doing rough and finish carpentry. I do kind of miss it, though I don’t intend to do it for income anymore. The world has changed. I can’t yet get back to it as a ‘hobby’ – too much junk in the garage right now, which is something that has got to change. -
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