Well, here it is: the end of math

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Aug 212022
 

Do you want to see the *dumbest* approach to math you’ll see today? If so, behold this presentation from the University of Michigan:

http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~glarose/dept/teaching/resources/RehumanizingMathematicsSlides.pdf

If that link doesn’t work, the Wayback Machine can hook you up:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210124223803/http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~glarose/dept/teaching/resources/RehumanizingMathematicsSlides.pdf

This presentation is on the topic of “Rehumanizing Mathematics” by one Rochelle Gutiérrez. Right from the get-go you can tell it’s stupid… if there’s one thing mathematics is *not* it’s “humanized.” Math doesn’t care about your feelings. Nor your politics, religion, ethnicity, family history, gender or any other kind of identity. 1+1=2 no matter your beliefs on the matter. 1+1=2 even if you are *dead,* or you are a parrot, or a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or a godlike entity from beyond the Antares maelstrom. And yet…

1. How we think/talk about our work matters
• Diversity (attention to difference, also used when no difference, often ignores history, no attention to positionality)
• Equity (often highlights universal approaches, closing achievement gaps, leaky STEM pipelines)
• Inclusion (tolerate, allow, participate on own terms, focus on individuals, understand exclusion)
• Centering historically oppressed (place at the core, dedicate resources and energy there, requires political clarity)

Ummm… no.

If you ever wonder why our infrastructure is falling apart and we can’t seem to do Great Things anymore… well, here ya go.

If you *really* want to burn off some excess brain cells and don’t have the funds for a few gallons of white lightning, watching this video will probably help. It’s about an hour of the person responsible for the above presentation. I can’t *really* say what all’s in it, as I only got a few seconds in before my Brain Worms alarm went off: “I just want to start by acknowledging that as a white settler nation we are standing on stolen grounds…” Blah, blah, virtue signal blah. What do you want to bet she happily collects those white settler dollars?

Also: anyone else get a distinct AOC vibe from her voice? Yeah, that’s not a compliment.

And here’s an idea. if you believe that this is a “white settler nation” *and* that that’s a bad thing…

 Posted by at 11:21 am

The pandemics march on

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Aug 162022
 

How thrilling.

Texas toddler presumed positive for monkeypox

Regardless of how the kid contracted the disease… A) it’s not the kids fault and B) kids tend to crawl all over each other. The more morons who couldn’t control their baser actions get the disease, the more likely they are to pass them on to kids, and then the more likely those kids are to pass them on to *other* kids. And soon enough… BAM, the schools shut down again.

A dog tested positive for monkeypox, and may have contracted the virus from his owners, raising questions about human-to-animal transmission

One more reason for the barbarians in charge of China to whack all their pets. If I lose pets due to this nonsense, I’m at the very least going to join a  class action suit against any organization that put on “Pride Month” events that spread this. My cats busting out on pustules because a bunch of perverts and weirdos could keep it in their pants for a few weeks would be the sort of thing that I would not forgive.

Polio May Have Been Spreading in New York Since April

Yay. I know Progressives think that FDR was actually a good President with a lot to emulate… but come on.

And it’s good to see how well Our Leaders  follow the science:

 Posted by at 11:52 pm

Expand your vocabulary

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Aug 132022
 

A word for today:

vacuous [ vak-yoo-uhs ]

adjective

  1. without contents; empty: the vacuous air.
  2. lacking in ideas or intelligence: a vacuous mind.
  3. expressing or characterized by a lack of ideas or intelligence; inane; stupid: a vacuous book.
  4. purposeless; idle: a vacuous way of life.

Example:

Imagine “fireside chats” and “state of the Union” addresses like this.

 Posted by at 2:18 pm

And that’s the important thing

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Aug 132022
 

WHO plans to rename monkeypox over stigmatization concerns

Hey, here’s a thought: rather than renaming the disease, how about you tell people in important risk categories to stop being dumbasses and keep it in their pants for a month or two?

Oh, hey, and more good news:

Poliovirus detected in wastewater samples in New York City, health officials say

Anybody else remember when polio was one of them “old timey” diseases that nobody got anymore? Good times.

 Posted by at 12:31 am

Best line I’ve read in a while

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Aug 102022
 

“Quora” allows any goober to ask any goofball question, and anyone can respond. I have no idea when or why Quora decided to send me emails with some of the latest and greatest posts, but a couple times a day, there they are. Anyway, this one popped up today:

I support banning guns in the US. Can pro-gun people provide some reasons why gun control is bad?

There are a bunch of answers of varying levels of wisdom. But one line that jumped out:

So whenever anyone says “I don’t think you should have guns” or “I don’t trust you with guns”, I must ask in turn, what are you planning to do to me that you think I’d shoot you over?

What are you planning to do to me that you think I’d shoot you over?

 Posted by at 8:59 pm

No! You don’t say!

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Aug 092022
 

The New York Times hits us with this dumbfounding newsflash:

Electric Cars Too Costly for Many, Even With Aid in Climate Bill

Who could have seen that?

Yes, as technology advances and becomes more popular among the rich, it’ll get cheaper so the well-off can get it, then the comfortable, then the middle class, then the poor. That’s how it happened with computers and televisions and microwaves and such. But the problem with cars is that various governments are mandating that by such-and-such date, this new, expensive technology will be *mandatory.* Never mind whether the price has dropped enough for it to be affordable.

Bonus article:

Most electric vehicles won’t qualify for federal tax credit

The Feds are offering a tax credit of up to $7500. Great. But for a car to qualify, the battery must be Made In America. Also great. Problem: there really aren’t any, because the US allowed the Chinese to yoink all the tech and the manufacturing.

I’m a libertarian, but I’m also something of a nationalist. The US government should be doing things that support US-based businesses rather than funding foreign communists. But in order for a tax credit for a car to be meaningful, that kind of car has to actually *exist.* So maybe rather than demanding a conversion to EV’s, the US government should do like the NACA used to do, and hunker down on the research required to make it happen *and* pass regulations that support US manufacturing… *then* and only then, when electric cars are not only US-made but US-affordable and US-practical (they have a range of 300+ miles and can charge in under 10 minutes, say, while carrying a family of five and a full load of groceries and a couple days worth of range supplies)… *Then* start suggesting that people transition.

 Posted by at 1:16 pm

Well there’s something you don’t see every day

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Aug 052022
 

If you live in a city that has been run sufficiently poorly, it’s quite possible that you *do* see robberies of stores on a daily basis. But the store employee/owner shanking the hell out of one of the robbers? Kinda innovative.

People dressed like Antifa getting what’s coming to people who act like Antifa? I’m not remotely upset about it.

 

UPDATE: video enlongered:

FAFO.

The store owners response to “Please don’t let me die, this wasn’t my idea” is comedy GOLD.

 Posted by at 6:40 pm

Why isn’t this a bigger news story?

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Jul 312022
 

I’m sure we *all* can think of a lot of incidents that sure seem like they’d get more media traction. But here’s one that seems like it aught to be like catnip for the press… on July 29th, more than fifty shots were fired at a party in Albuquerque, New Mexico. With today’s media freakouts over Evil Guns, this should be a no-brainer. So… why the radio silence?

Possibilities:

1) It sounds like there are multiple guns going off. Possibly a substantial number of people blazing away. This of course means it’s far more likely “gang related” than “lone mass shooter.”

2) Reportedly, with all those bullets flying, only one person killed and two injured (if THIS is the same incident… one dead, four injured). That’s *terrible* marksmanship. Again indicating more like gangs than a lone shooter.

3) Fully automatic weapons are fired. Legally owned Class Three automatic weapons are vanishingly rarely used in crimes. Far more likely, this was an illegally modified Glock. Hard to argue that you need more gun laws to ban something that’s already banned (but they’ll try, of course).

Can’t see diddly on the videos below, other than people panicking in the dark. Can’t see any of the shooters. So it might well be that the shooters are, somehow, in some way, inconvenient to report on.

If this is gang related, then the viewer at home will wonder something like “gosh, why don’t they do something about the gangs.” And we can’t have that.

 

 

 Posted by at 9:18 pm

It CAN happen here

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Jul 312022
 

It’s common enough to point and laugh at crazy furriners carrying out government sponsored acts of terrorism against their own people based on arbitrary and generally insane rules and “laws.” Recently a lot of this laughter has been direction Britainland way, and rightly so. But we should remain vigilant lest the more fascistic of Americans, such as the Democrats, get it into their heads to do the same sort of nonsense here. Because, as we’ve seen from the House recently voting to pass a blatantly and admittedly unConstitutional bill banning the transfer of items in common use, they are more than happy to abuse power.

Moment army veteran is arrested ‘for causing anxiety’ after retweeting meme of swastika made out of Pride flags as force is condemned by its own crime commissioner for the ‘proportionality and necessity’ of its response

I do wonder how many of those police officers actually believe they’re doing the right thing, how many don’t care, and how many are actively opposed to this nonsense. This situation is, of course, monumentally stupid. The dude posted this image:

 

Which somehow caused someone “anxiety.” Why the police should give a rat’s ass that someone has anxiety, I’ve no idea. How they determine that the anxiety caused by a meme is worse/more legally actionable than the anxiety caused by, say, foreign rape gangs or BLM riots or historic statues being torn down or lockdowns or unsolved burglaries, assaults and murders while the police chase down people who post memes, I’ve no idea.

 Posted by at 6:44 pm

Monkeypox is an STD

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Jul 292022
 

In this case, a Stupidity Transmitted Disease.

First, a news video:

The guy with the pox here is said have likely gotten it from going to a bar and “kissing another person.” That’s… a little vague. Fortunately, he’s one of those attention-seekers who goes out looking for clout and ends up being a cautionary tale. Behold:

Gay Houston Man Battling Monkeypox Raises Awareness

“I knew what it was, I knew I was at risk,” he says. “I tried to get the vaccine, but I couldn’t. I thought I was being careful. Clearly, I wasn’t being vigilant enough.” 

Over the July Fourth weekend he went to several bars and, while he was shirtless, hugged and kissed a few men. The following weekend, he started seeing little white bumps under his chin. 

That’s… that’s just *stupid.* But wait! There’s more!

Wallace is going on a month of prescribed quarantine, but he thinks his lesions will be healed in a week and he will at least be able to leave his house again.

FFS.

So, yeah. Another case of someone going out and actually *working* at catching the latest fashionable disease, then acting shocked. And if it stayed strictly within people who have no sense of self control – men, women, gay, straight, whatever – then… who cares, that’s on them. But these yahoos could well come into contact with, say, children. And children come into contact with *other* children. And viruses mutate, and the more people who have a virus, the more opportunities for mutation.

People this frikken’ dumb could doom us all.

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