If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

Service Dog wrote: ↑ According to me, the correct form is to say: "They is asking their father for money to pay rent."

We must talk like Ali G? This is the hill I die on.

That dude looks like a lady.

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑
Service Dog wrote: ↑ 9 Steersman posts in 4 days. This is not dialogue. This is spam:
Did you forget that Steerz is a Talking Football™ game into which some kid randomly inserting discs?

Haha. I agree that some people on the left are saying they will not accept these pronouns. But, I think people are going to settle in on the use of "transman" and "transwoman". My daughter is very active in the trans-rights stuff and she is starting to use these pronouns. I hope the world can settl...

I guess maybe if one believes in some 18th Century idea of man in a state of nature, freed from traditional dogma being some angelic, rational being.... then this process is just like Michelangelo chipping away at the marble block releasing the figure of David within. If there is no such figure with...

Haha. I agree that some people on the left are saying they will not accept these pronouns. But, I think people are going to settle in on the use of "transman" and "transwoman". My daughter is very active in the trans-rights stuff and she is starting to use these pronouns. I hope the world can settl...

John D wrote: ↑ I am on board with the use of transman and transwoman.

Bigot! Transmen are 100% men and always were, transwomen are 100% women and always were. There is no need for a new word.

I can confirm that Steer's mother is not a woman. I was with her last night and she assured me she couldn't get pregnant anymore. :cdc: This post is best read in the voice of Gilbert Gottfried. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkLqAlIETkA I would like the Pit to know that I will henceforth be readin...

I don't think the current crop of managers is very-good at their job. Depends on how you look at it. They seem to be pretty good at taking over institutions and making them part of the hive. If an old artisan who could make a car by himself looked at the workers on Ford's production line, he might ...

John D wrote: ↑ and she is pretty much typical as far as I can tell. We can all complain about "the media" or "the politicians", but really... it is the people that are the problem. Most people forget that they were lied too even after one week... and then they believe the new story... as if the ne...

and she is pretty much typical as far as I can tell. We can all complain about "the media" or "the politicians", but really... it is the people that are the problem. Most people forget that they were lied too even after one week... and then they believe the new story... as if the new story is now s...

John D wrote: ↑ I can confirm that Steer's mother is not a woman. I was with her last night and she assured me she couldn't get pregnant anymore. :cdc:

The important thing is that you made her feel like a woman, and at the end of the day, isn't that the same thing?

er of hospitalizations that was relevant, not the rate. My calculations - based on standard methodology - and that methodology shows that it's the rate. I haven't seen this - "My calculations - based on standard methodology - and that methodology shows that it's the rate." I've seen you use rate da...

@fafnir. I think you're misreading the table. 3xvax= 165 2xvax= 15 unvax= 943 Could be. Which table? There have been quite a few. Also, look at the Czech data for 03 — 09 Jan 2022 https://ockovani.opendatalab.cz/statistiky_srovnani Yes, this data looks somewhat different. The main things that jump ...

faf-- I like the way this guy breaks-down 2021 ... using the number of life-years-lived as a denominator: https://jestre.substack.com/p/keeping-score Thanks. That looks to be in line with a lot of my thinking. The big argument he is missing, I think, is that the increased risk of death of the unvac...

<snip> Based on the data of the woman you linked to hospitals are indeed not full of unvaccinated covid patients. So, that's the UK, Quebec and Alberta that aren't being overwhelmed by the unvaxed. Clearly, nobody should have gotten vaccinated and then nobody could have said that it was the vaccina...

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If hospitals are full of the unvaccinated rather than the vaccinated, why isn't that the data that people supporting the claim provide? Instead it's always differences in case rates broken down by age. Is it because if they showed the actual number of vaxed and unvaxed in hospitals it would refute t...

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fafnir wrote: ↑ ...

It just don't signify to me.

Maybe you could meme something with Rolf Harris, or if he's beyond the pale Tony Hart.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ds8CiWPWoAAX7bE.jpg

er of hospitalizations that was relevant, not the rate. My calculations - based on standard methodology - and that methodology shows that it's the rate. I haven't seen this - "My calculations - based on standard methodology - and that methodology shows that it's the rate." I've seen you use rate da...

For all their vaccines, boosters, face-fanny-pads and alcohol gel slathering antics, they're getting infected regular as clockwork. It begs the question - what's the fucking point? Well, the good people of DC got rid of Trump, trousered huge amounts of money and centralised a bunch more power.... s...

Don't think that argument holds a lot of water. Regardless of the reasons why there were more of the unvaccinated than of the vaccinated over the last 2 years, it seems pretty clear that the preponderance of the hospitalized and the dead from Covid are the unvaccinated. <snip> My recollection was t...

Quebec, par exemple, is not doing too great with 183k vaccinated COVID cases in the last month. https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff900e048-60c0-4aee-9620-a7c2...

Looks like I got one of those numbers wrong. In late December when the rest of the info I posted was gathered approximately 52million people in the UK had had at least one dose of the vax. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations Current UK population is about 67 million: https://www.ons...

OK, I think this report is the place to look for current UK data. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1045329/Vaccine_surveillance_report_week_1_2022.pdf That is for the last three weeks of 2021. What you find is that there were 9878 hospit...

Don't think that argument holds a lot of water. Regardless of the reasons why there were more of the unvaccinated than of the vaccinated over the last 2 years, it seems pretty clear that the preponderance of the hospitalized and the dead from Covid are the unvaccinated. Over the past 2 years this i...

What about the fiendish world conspiracy to kill everyone by scaring them to death with 'rona, and preventing them from chowing down on Equvalan??? There have been zero cases, and minus 2000 brazillion excess deaths in reality. And Trump won the election by 500 zillion votes. All of these problems ...

But I wonder exactly who you had in mind while you were mentally tarring a bunch of people with that brush. Me? No, I wasn't thinking about you for once when I wrote that. Kinda think that you're far more guilty of that than I - as you correctly, and somewhat amusingly, surmise, what it means to be...

But you may have something of a point - if an inadvertent one - about "associated metaphysics". The problem is, as Belgian virologist Mark Van Regenmortel has argued or at least suggested, the definition for female, and the question of whether sex is a binary or a spectrum "lies at the interface be...

Lsuoma wrote: ↑ Dogging means something entirely different in the UK...

Ironically, she looks like exactly the kind of person people are dogging in the UK.

What about the fiendish world conspiracy to kill everyone by scaring them to death with 'rona, and preventing them from chowing down on Equvalan??? There have been zero cases, and minus 2000 brazillion excess deaths in reality. And Trump won the election by 500 zillion votes. All of these problems ...

Apples wrote: ↑ Wat's up, everybotty? It's been awhile :hankey:

Got a lil catching up to do.

Stick to the posts discussing the definition of female and associated metaphysics. Nothing else was worth bothering with.

However, it is still the case - to a first approximation - that 75 out of every 100 cases of hospitalizations (and deaths) were among the unvaccinated or recently vaccinated, while the balance of 25 were among the vaccinated. Those numbers don't change - only the susceptibility rates do, those depe...

However, it is still the case that, as far as the hospitalizations go, 78% of them are the unvaccinated and recently vaccinated while 22% are the vaccinated. Which works out to a 3.55 to 1 ratio. Similarly for the deaths (74.2/25.8= 2.88). But, backtracking - taking another kick at the kitty, if 78...

I just went over and had a read of the FTB backchannel snippets. What a bunch of boring, petty, micropenised wankers. Is it just 40,000 emails of backbiting office politics and moaning? No wonder Lsuoma was losing the will.

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 09, 2022 8:58 pm
The median IQ in Nigeria is 70. Just sayin'.

And yet them make great scammers.

Does that match with the cellphone data? If they went back to town, presumably they would have come back into range of the cell towers? IDK. It's been a while since I looked at this case, but the stuff I just came across tosses every previous assumption on its head. We know the time of the 112/911 ...

65.1% of cases (209,083/321,061) since Jan 1, 2021 were unvaccinated or diagnosed within two weeks from the first dose immunization date 78.6% of hospitalized cases (10,252/13,036) since Jan 1, 2021 were unvaccinated or diagnosed within two weeks from the first dose immunization date 74.2% of COVID...

Passing though: It seems to me that the war on tobacco versus the push to decriminalise marijuana is largely a class war. Poor people smoke tobacco, rich people smoke marijuana. Especially the crusade against menthol cigarettes, for which blacks are the prime market. Cuz, as little monkey children*...

If we are bashing the experts, maybe this recent video from Viva Frei will be interesting. He talks about the emails from 2 years ago where the experts discuss there being good odds of Covid having come from a lab, and agree to hush it up on the grounds that it will harm science and international ha...

The thing about James Lindsay is that he's good at reading all the Frankfurt school and related stuff, but he pretty much just restricts his analysis to that. I think he still believes in the liberalism of the 90s, and doesn't really question any of that. He's taken the New Atheism world view and re...

Passing though: It seems to me that the war on tobacco versus the push to decriminalise marijuana is largely a class war. Poor people smoke tobacco, rich people smoke marijuana. There is also the element of needing to legalise it before you can wrap the kind of bureaucracy around it that there is w...

Steersman wrote: ↑ You might reflect on Hanlon's razor: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Or Conquests 3rd law: "The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies."

If they were murdered, then they failed to properly assess the environment or read their assailants. That seems a little bit unfair. Even the best prepared people can be taken out by bad RNG.Obviously they weren't the best prepared, but nonetheless, they could just have got very unlucky. Maybe so. ...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ If they had an accident and got stuck, then they were unprepared. Accidents can happen. You can get lost. So always be prepared.
- flashlight
- whistle
- mirror
<snip>

In an early Kate Winslet TV show, she always carried a paddle in her backpack in case she was ever up the creek.

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ If they were murdered, then they failed to properly assess the environment or read their assailants.

That seems a little bit unfair. Even the best prepared people can be taken out by bad RNG.Obviously they weren't the best prepared, but nonetheless, they could just have got very unlucky.

The puzzle is fitting a best probability scenario to avail evidence. Fitting scenarios to evidence, sure. The idea that there is really any process of comparing probabilities that isn't wildly subjective seems to me like self deception. If we are thinking of this in a Bayesian way, as people in the...

Meh. It addition to having an accident is somehow getting lost and then eventually dying or having a follow up accident. The lack of notes etc mitigated against them being hale and hearty stuck in the Bush. Sure, but then again the facts of the case as they are claimed seems to mitigate against any...

Still in the brave new world, unless we are the Eloi, we won't be able to travel to these places anyway. Setting aside your mixing of science fiction metaphors. -- so don't go. They're all shitholes, anyway. Beautiful scenery, sure, but you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy....

I also think it's way too risky for women to travel alone, without the company of a man, in much of the world. This for sure in many parts of the world. Wasn't there some woke rag a couple of years ago advocating women go on unaccompanied treks in rural pakistan etc? This might be it. https://www.f...

I think fafnir's point was that the press do a shitty job presenting the details of cases like these, omitting important details, while confusing or misstating others. The timeline is the key to solving disappearances and crimes; the timeline is usually bolloxed by the media. You than have the loca...

Re the phones and GSM. I’m not sure how well an iPhone 4 records GPS out of range, mostly turned off and in an area described as “cloud mountains”. The Samsung was of similar vintage. I would be surprised it didn't at least record something when it first established it's location after being switch...

About the dead dutch girls. It reminds me quite a bit of the way the Amanda Knox case felt when it was eating the JREF. On the one hand you have a fairly straightforward tragedy whose main elements can be understood in 30 seconds. You've then got a group of people who are emotionally committed to a ...

It turns out Steven Crowder has hopped on the Steersman train:

1hr10mins in.

Re the phones and GSM. I’m not sure how well an iPhone 4 records GPS out of range, mostly turned off and in an area described as “cloud mountains”. The Samsung was of similar vintage. I would be surprised it didn't at least record something when it first established it's location after being switch...

Thinking about it, there is a lot of info that must exist if the story is remotely true, but we don't have. Did they turn location services on their phones off, or surely both phones will have been recording GPS location info in some log or other. Given the information that seems to be available it ...

Taking all those photos at night might be attempting to use the flash to navigate? 5 mins on the internet leads me to think the moon wouldn't have been in the sky when the photos were taken, so presumably it was black as shit in the jungle. If the phones were already dead or they were preserving wh...

Some sources say they took with them a dog that belonged to the owners of the ‘Il Pianista’ restaurant and (unconfirmed information: call attempt 4 (112 and 911) with short-time connection to GSM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_Kris_Kremers_and_Lisanne_Froon This is the classic problem with...

Wilderness mysteries no. 347 The Dutch Girls in Panama 2014. Went for a 3hr return hike to a lookout. Low to moderate difficulty. Disappeared. 10 weeks later pack turns up on river bank with phones, camera and bras. 14 hours hike the wrong side of the hill. Eventually 15% of their bones turn up alo...

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