OFFS: The Forsakening

[Mo]

Tariffs. All the Wall Street jackasses have been looking at each other like "eh, nobody could be *that* stupid, right? Keep up the buying." Now that it's becoming clear that, yes, in fact, someone is that stupid, and he gets to control the economy until his party sacks up and forces him in line, they're going to freak.

Market undulations are not the economy. The tariffs have the potential to do serious damage, but Wall Street throwing a hissy fit isn't the same thing, and may even be the lever that lifts those tariffs. If they are lifted before the next congress, I don't even see any damage to international relations, certainly none that won't evaporate with the next administration.

The big issue is in a market like China. It took American business and farmers decades to get strong penetration in the market. There's decent potential that replacement of things like American soy with Brazilian soy will take years to regain lost share.

[Mo]

In America, we don't wear t-shirts with flags of .... American territories.

The most surprising thing is that Irizarry's brother didn't get arrested for hassling the old dude.

[Ellie]

strong penetration in the market

that's what she said

[Shem]

There's decent potential that replacement of things like American soy with Brazilian soy will take years to regain lost share.

If it goes, it's never coming back. Once the constituency is dead, the drive to subsidize will go with it, and we won't be able to beat Brazil's prices.

[Warren]

There's decent potential that replacement of things like American soy with Brazilian soy will take years to regain lost share.

If it goes, it's never coming back. Once the constituency is dead, the drive to subsidize will go with it, and we won't be able to beat Brazil's prices.

And good riddance.

[Aresen]

In America, we don't wear t-shirts with flags of .... American territories.

The most surprising thing is that Irizarry's brother didn't get arrested for hassling the old dude.

Luis Arroyo Jr., a Cook County Board Commissioner said he felt the officer “did not do his duty.”

“And I will not accept anything else but this officer’s termination,” Arroyo said.

Will you settle for THREE weeks paid vacation instead of two?

[Aresen]

Stevo Darkly put this up on his Facebook page.

This is a map from a real textbook.

[thoreau]

Trade wars are good and easy to win.

Book smarts mean nothing.

We have a dire STEM shortage.

[Ellie]

I saw that. All I noticed, until somebody else pointed it out, was that 15 was in two categories simultaneously. I am not a Geography Type of Person.

[Highway]

I also noticed that there's a dark blue color that's not in the legend. But that's cause I'm used to reviewing maps, and assuming that the people who made them aren't gigantic fucking idiots.

[Jadagul]

I also noticed that there's a dark blue color that's not in the legend. But that's cause I'm used to reviewing maps, and assuming that the people who made them aren't gigantic fucking idiots.

Also a lavender color that also isn't on the legend.

Also what the fuck do any of those words mean? The entire map is a mess. It's probably wrong but it's hard to tell because before you can conclude that it's wrong, you have to figure out what it's claiming in the first place.

[Aresen]

I also noticed that there's a dark blue color that's not in the legend. But that's cause I'm used to reviewing maps, and assuming that the people who made them aren't gigantic fucking idiots.

Also a lavender color that also isn't on the legend.

Also what the fuck do any of those words mean? The entire map is a mess. It's probably wrong but it's hard to tell because before you can conclude that it's wrong, you have to figure out what it's claiming in the first place.

You did notice that's not South America, didn't you?

[Jadagul]

I also noticed that there's a dark blue color that's not in the legend. But that's cause I'm used to reviewing maps, and assuming that the people who made them aren't gigantic fucking idiots.

Also a lavender color that also isn't on the legend.

Also what the fuck do any of those words mean? The entire map is a mess. It's probably wrong but it's hard to tell because before you can conclude that it's wrong, you have to figure out what it's claiming in the first place.

You did notice that's not South America, didn't you?

Oh, no, I didn't. Oh god, that's even worse.

[nicole]

I'm also pretty sure there's more than one type of perching bird in the US. But I mean, I'm no ornithologist.

[Warren]

So nobody else noticed the surprisingly high density of perching birds in the middle of the Sahara Desert?

[Painboy]

I would really like to know the history (no matter how horrifying) of how this thing came to be.

[thoreau]

I would really like to know the history (no matter how horrifying) of how this thing came to be.

Without a doubt there were several Ed.D.s involved.

And probably something something multiculturalism.

[Shem]

It's an "apply the scientific method to real data" factbox, with the questions cut out. The edition in the book didn't have Africa, but was otherwise the same. It also had a citation for the information. I suspect what happened was, they made the factbox and then simplified the data to make the exercise easier, and the map actually readable. There's a link to their citation in Stevo's post on FB, but I'm not a subscriber to Science, so I can't read it.

(The most recent edition of the book doesn't even have a section 3 in chapter 5.)

[JD]

I'm also pretty sure there's more than one type of perching bird in the US. But I mean, I'm no ornithologist.

If by "perching birds" they mean the order Passeriformes*, then there are over 50 families, and some of those families have over 50 species each.

* Passerines have three toes facing forwards and one back, and no webbing. But a lot of birds have similar feet and are not passerines, for reasons I don't quite understand. Also, plenty of birds literally perch, but are not passerines, like hawks and parrots.

[Kwix]

Apparently cancer and dementia are time travelling diseases.
A village 150 miles downstream from a proposed gold mine "passed the resolution (to oppose its construction) due to our elders having cancers, and now we're finding out more on these elders having dementia in our villages".

[dhex]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwkz ... he-murders

"I'm a better person than a fictional asshole having a psychotic break"

[Aresen]

Apparently cancer and dementia are time travelling diseases.
A village 150 miles downstream from a proposed gold mine "passed the resolution (to oppose its construction) due to our elders having cancers, and now we're finding out more on these elders having dementia in our villages".

New Age Medicine.

[Painboy]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwkz ... he-murders

"I'm a better person than a fictional asshole having a psychotic break"

Jeebus. What's sad is that actually could have been a decent article. Instead of beating off to his own wokeness he could have talked more about how the area had changed and why. That might have been interesting.

[lunchstealer]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwkz ... he-murders

"I'm a better person than a fictional asshole having a psychotic break"

Jeebus. What's sad is that actually could have been a decent article. Instead of beating off to his own wokeness he could have talked more about how the area had changed and why. That might have been interesting.

Speaking of wokeness gone wrong:

[Aresen]

Speaking of wokeness gone wrong:

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Saw that and laughed. I can think of a few people who need that training. Similar programs need to be implemented for Smug Canadians, "Real 'Muricans"®, Xtian fundies and others.