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Imagine thinking one knows more than basic math. Basic ****ing math.
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I'm aware that such people exist.
There are actually a lot of Republicans living in California. Even so, if I was someone who doesn't like liberals, I wouldn't move to California.
This is just a devolution (de-evolution, as I think CO would put it) of his previous arguments that he understood higher math better than other mathematicians. Such as his previous insistence that non-linear equations are something other than what they are.
That gives reactions like this:
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Having trouble with the direct pic paste on my phone, but you get the idea
Once again, I fail to see the importance or relevance of your 20% statistic. In most cases these kinds of discussions about rate increases is intended to attract attention, produce ratings, cause clicks, or scare people into action. It’s an emotional appeal. Bleah.
De-evolution is a reversion. (Reversal for those of you in Loma Linda.)
Devolution is a deterioration.
Not the same thing.
It isn't an appeal, it's math.
Saying 2+2= 4 is not intended to alarm you or to otherwise shake your fragile constitution.
Saying 2+2= 4 is not intended to alarm you or to otherwise shake your fragile constitution.
Jesus, people, give up. Sheldon Cooper has spoken and he is never wrong. Just ask him.
Good grief. Back to square 1. My chance of dying this year without covid is 4%. My chance of dying with covid is 4.8%. That is an increase of .8%.
COVID-19 increased your risk of death by 20%, by your calculations, from the previous condition.
Your math is correct. But your point is different and irrelevant. You are calculating the rate of change, not the change.
You aren’t arguing 2+2=4. You are arguing the change from 2 to 4 is 100%.
This thread fully encapsulates CoHs descent into Trumpism. You can deny basic facts simply by being shameless to the truth. The more inconvenient the truth (say forced family separations) the more shameless the defense. Trump has taught so many Americans the art of gaslighting. Apparently both the smart and the dumb.
Soooooo did anyone notice that he again genuinely expressed concern for the girlfriend of a convicted pedophile who is accused of being a ringleader of a massive human sex trafficking organization?
Does that not raise a red flag or two?
Does that not raise a red flag or two?
Your example about inverted ratios is similar to one of Jim Cramer's rules about investing in stocks. He says you should probably sell any stock whose price decreases 8% because it is unlikely the price will return to where it was in a reasonable time.
Cramer uses the example of a stock with a price of $100 that drops $8 to $92 -- that's a decrease of 8%. However, for that same stock to increase $8 from $92 to return to $100 would be an increase of 8.7% (i.e. 92 ➗8). Cramer then points out that, statistically, very few stocks increase by 8.7% in a short period of time, so you should admit it was a bad investment and sell it.
(It'll be interesting to watch the trolls politicize what I just wrote.)
If I have $20 already, then you give me another $20. What has happened? I have then doubled my money. My wealth has increased 100%.
It's OK to admit that you don't understand.
You were good in that movie, BTW
If I have $20 already, then you give me another $20. What has happened? I have then doubled my money. My wealth has increased 100%.
It's OK to admit that you don't understand.
You were good in that movie, BTW
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Not exactly. The unit of measure I’m talking about Is already expressed as a percentage. When I add .8%, I’m increasing the percentage. You want to talk about a percent of a percent. That isn’t important or relevant.
LOL. You turn an argument about the importance of rate of change in chances of death into TRUMP and you call me shameless? Well, okaaaaay.
For the diehard Trumpers, up can be down, down can be up, it all depends on how the orange wind blows.
Facts are obsolete and all is opinion. To them, science is just someone's opinion. Math is just someone's opinion. The rate of nuclear decay is just someone's opinion. The velocity of an unladen swallow is just someone's opinion.
DJT loves the poorly educated, the people of the land, the common clay of the West, the morons. And they love him back. If they have to lose grandma for him, well, it is what it is. Bye granny!
Facts are obsolete and all is opinion. To them, science is just someone's opinion. Math is just someone's opinion. The rate of nuclear decay is just someone's opinion. The velocity of an unladen swallow is just someone's opinion.
DJT loves the poorly educated, the people of the land, the common clay of the West, the morons. And they love him back. If they have to lose grandma for him, well, it is what it is. Bye granny!
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I lived in California. I'm a tolerant person . . . I golfed with Democrats too.
I'd refer to that as an increase of .8 of a percentage point.
I used to be tolerant person. 25 years ago I was in "agree to disagree" territory. That started to change during the Gingrich Era. By the end of GWB any respect for the political opinions of the right was completely gone. At this point... after watching how they treated Obama then applauded Trump... my respect for Republicans as humans is pretty much gone.
I'll be polite enough in real life, but I don't deal with right-wingers any more than necessary. Trump 2016 was a line in the sand for me, and once true colors are shown, they can't be unseen.
You have summed up in a short post the unmistakable emerging "progressive" trend that certain voices in the US are to be quashed and never heard. This is your view of tolerance and open discussion? Cancel culture is indeed a thing. You are not a liberal and you are not a progressive.
I don't recall ever claiming to be tolerant of bigotry.
I sincerely wish your kind hadn't painted itself into the corner the way you have. We'd all be better off now if you hadn't so stubbornly held on to your ignorance.
As I explained above, I reached the point, fifteen years ago, that I couldn't respect your side of the discussion. How can I when all you bring is rationalizations for policies and behavior that any decent, moral, compassionate, rational human would find repugnant?
I choose not to ignore willful stupidity.
Instead, I aim to enlighten.
Some dark bastions of unreason stubbornly shun all light shined upon them, unfortunately, despite noble efforts.
Still, we marshall on, speaking the truth, attempting to illuminate the darkest recesses of obstinate, feeble, but perhaps somewhat minimally functional minds.
Instead, I aim to enlighten.
Some dark bastions of unreason stubbornly shun all light shined upon them, unfortunately, despite noble efforts.
Still, we marshall on, speaking the truth, attempting to illuminate the darkest recesses of obstinate, feeble, but perhaps somewhat minimally functional minds.
Lol. The response of a man who knows he's beaten, but won't admit it.
I currently have 19 people on my Ignore list. You aren't one of them. You must be doing SOMETHING right!
Beaten? No, he accomplished exactly what he wanted to. This was a thread about Trump's obvious lack of intelligence being put on full display.. Now it's about CoH alternative mathematics. .
BRB, registering thighland.com and selling it to a porn site.
I now understand why you are a Trump supporter. You are willing to deny basic math (or maybe you just don’t understand) in order to prove a point that 150k deaths are simply, to put it in the orange hair idiots own words, “it is what it is”.
You should take another vacation. According to Trump yo-semite is a great national park to visit.
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