This past week, he just showed the quiet parts --- and said this "proved" it wasn't violent.

The House committee only showed the violent parts, because they were the only parts relevant. If you are arrested for robbing a bank, you can use it as a defense "What about all the time I went to a bank and DIDN'T rob it??"

We never said that Hawley was the only person who ran. We just said that running showed he was a hypocrite because earlier in the day, he was egging the crowd on. If he was such a supporter of them, he should have stayed.

Hmmm...
- Worst POS in History..
- Pedophilia
- raping a young lady
- massive corruption

So, you're talking about Trump?

He was being escorted out --- ya'know, like what they do when they arrest you. Also, look at the timestamp on the video "15:09" -- 3pm -- So, that was after they had been rampaging thru the Capitol for two hours.

When you've got 44,000 hours of video, it's easy to find two minutes where people aren't being violent.

It should be noted that in multiple segments on his show over three days, Tucker Carson only showed 4 MINUTES of video. From the way he was talking, you'd think he could fill the entire hour with these "non-violent" videos....

NO.

At no point in recorded history was it commonly believed that the world was flat. One need only see a ship slowly disappear over the horizon --- AND THEN COME BACK -- to realize the earth was round. Seeing the round moon and sun would also be a clue.

Anaximander was, among other things, a mapmaker, and he realized his maps be more accurate if they were designed on a curved metal surface. But his major innovation was putting the entire (known) world on one map. He did nothing to "prove" it was round (as that was unnecessary).

[quote=Wyantry]The inflation rate average [/b](what people actually have to “pay”) [b]is STILL currently 8.3 ![/quote]

Yes --- for things you buy once a year, those cost 8.3% more than the last time. For the things you buy monthly, they cost 0.3% more than last time.


And for a minute there, I thought you knew what you were talking about. You just averaged the summations of the Oct-19 to Sep-20, the Nov-19 to Oct-20, the Dec-19 to Nov-20, and the Jan-20 to Dec-20 inflation rates. Notice the problem? You counted Oct-19 once, Nov-19 twice, Dec-19 three times, Jan-20 thru Sep-20 four times each, and then Oct-20 three times, Nov-20 twice, and Dec-20 just once. That's not the way averages work.

If you want to know the inflation rate for the last three months of Trump's term, I gave you the link before:
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SA0&output_view=pct_1mth

The numbers in question are : Oct: 0.0, Nov:-0.1, Dec: 0.1
These compare to the last three months: Jul: 0.0, Aug: 0.0, Sep: 0.2

And besides, looking at the inflation rate in 2020 doesn't tell us anything --- 'cuz we were in the middle of the frickin' pandemic and a recession. (have you forgotten that already?) People weren't buying things other than necessities.

In 2021, as Biden came in, we started moving OUT of the lockdown, and people started getting back to their normal lives --- Buying things & producing things. But produced things takes weeks to get into stores, and people wanted to buy things now, so prices go up (law of supply & demand). Further, producing some things require buying other things which need to be produced first, and so on. This is known as the "Supply CHAIN" (perhaps you heard of the term).

Comments from an actual expert on these matters:

https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1588619219913961472

Okay, okay. A thread on why this is a screaming red flag as a Cloud Economist...
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Most client requests are of the form "help us predict and control our spend." Occasionally it's "lower the bill." Almost never is it "lower the bill by X dollars."

That happens as a side-effect of the others; pursuing it as the defined goal is courting disaster.
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You can save a boatload of money by, for example, deleting the data warehouse.

Yeah, that (probably) doesn't break Twitter's functionality, but suddenly your reporting doesn't exist anymore, along with your insights into what's happening on the platform.
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A significant spend source is observability. Turning all of that off will cut a giant portion of your bill--but the next time Twitter goes down there's a decent chance that it never comes back up again.

You absolutely don't need backups until suddenly you very much do.
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Further, I've spoken with a number of folks over the years who until recently worked at Twitter.

I'm not sure who needs to hear it, but these people aren't idiots. They're incredibly smart and capable. They weren't doing economically dumb things.
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Twitter has also been around for ~15 years. A lot of infrastructure "cruft" has built up. "Is that important or can it be turned off" is the kind of thing best answered via asking people.

50% of Twitter was let go today, and your oral tradition just walked out the door too.
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Saving a billion a year without massive re-engineering might (**MIGHT!!!**) be possible if and only if they had done none of this work ever before.
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It makes more sense if you reverse Republican/Democrat.

Although it makes the most sense if it's "IT Worker" & "Management"

(Sigh)..

ONCE AGAIN....8.2% is over the last YEAR... the summation of 12 monthly increases. But, No one can do anything about what happened 11 months ago.

Biden can only deal with NOW. And, now, the inflation rate is low. The last three monthly rates were 0.1, 0.0 and 0.4 or 0.5 for the quarter, annualized to 2.0%

Which is completely irrelevant to the point I was making.

As I said, no one can change what happened 10 months ago, only what's happening now. And, RIGHT NOW, inflation is low.

And why would they need to increase production?
You seem you want to have it both ways. DO we have too much gasoline or too little?

And when did I lie??
And I responded So, YOU said that these arrests would not be on CNN. So, I assumed you meant they WERE covered by the Right-wing media (for which we can use "Fox News" as a shorthand).

I then merely pointed out the very true fact that Fox News (and AON and NewsMax et al), would repeat anything that Trump said. That, by itself, would NOT be enough to prove those allegations to be true.

To prove the points I was making, I included links to articles showing a) a "big" voting scam in a local election in a small town, and b) several people (all Trump voters), voting twice, yielding just handful of fraudulent votes.

If you have any proof of widespread voter fraud, or even minor voter fraud commited by a Democrat in a national election, please share it.

Oh wait... I forgot one. Biden's policy of encouraging electric vehicles --- which is actually LOWERING the demand for (and therefore PRICE) of gasoline.

Nonsense. The only relevant energy policy is denying new oil field leases. BUT, the oil companies aren't using all the fields they've already leased.

Biden also canceled a pipeline, but it was years away from being complete, and the oil that would have flowed thru it neither came from nor was going to the US. It would have had no effect on the US oil supply even if it was complete.

For a minute there, I thought you knew what you were talking about. Apparently, you just know a few buzzwords.

I imagine any remaining Fortran programmers are settled into one company maintaining their decades-old application. I doubt they've been keeping up with modern developments in the technology. (My father was a "master-level" programmer from the 1960s-2000 but he still couldn't understand the Internet)

Twitter is coded in Scala, a modern language that integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages --- neither of which Fortran (nor COBOL) is. These "master-level" programmers would have to learn two new programming paradigms in addition to a completely new language before they could begin to understand the existing codebase. Then there's the dozen or so network and security protocols (most of which you wouldn't need to know --- unless you are running a website which has an entire industry trying to hack it)

HaHaHaHaHa.

First of all, no one is "freaking out" over Musk's purchase. We're amused. Those of us who use it are a bit upset it's about to come crashing down.

We are also upset it'll soon become "all propaganda, all the time" making it pretty much useless for legitimate communication. Remember, all the conservatives had to do to keep their Twitter accounts was to NOT SPREAD LIES!

And, let's cut the BS about who most wants to shut down free speech (hint: it's the party that wants to ban books, and stop teachers from mentioning gay people, and won't allow the teaching of the history of slavery)