Four Seasons Loco Coffee and Total Landscaping Talk

[jstewismybastardson]

flash bangs have been reported going off in multiple downtowns in cities across north america ...Mysterious surge in ‘bear banger’ noise has Vancouverites losing sleep

 

[Comeds]

flash bangs have been reported going off in multiple downtowns in cities across north america ...Mysterious surge in ‘bear banger’ noise has Vancouverites losing sleep

Its been happening a lot in Baltimore city too.

 

[puckhead]

flash bangs have been reported going off in multiple downtowns in cities across north america ...Mysterious surge in ‘bear banger’ noise has Vancouverites losing sleep

should be able to track down who's buying them?
can't imagine you can just pick up a case of bear bangers at superstore.
(maybe walmart though)

 

[dash]

Its been happening a lot in Baltimore city too.

Baltimore Batman is on the case.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

should be able to track down who's buying them?
can't imagine you can just pick up a case of bear bangers at superstore.
(maybe walmart though)

cdn tire here

you would think they could track the purchases down ... hell ... vpd caught that guy that killed that elderly couple just by tracking the upc code that was still on the axe that was left at the scene

 

[forty_three]

lol

2,837 were paid gig actors

Citation needed. Not doubting it on some level, but I want hard numbers and proof. On a billboard. Outside the White House. On BLM Boulevard.

cdn tire here

you would think they could track the purchases down ... hell ... vpd caught that guy that killed that elderly couple just by tracking the upc code that was still on the axe that was left at the scene

Yeah, it could be tracked. I know of a case solved because security camera caught a guy and traced the T-shirt he was wearing to the hipster shop he bought it from.

 

[Comeds]

Baltimore Batman is on the case.

As soon as Darkstone helps me design a lightweight suit that is bulletproof......

 

[thedddd]

And why/how does the know this.....

 

[KennyBanyeah]

And why/how does the know this.....

Read it in a book? Or you know, saw the cover. OKAY she didn't see the cover either. But her friend on 4chan told her about it.

BUT she HAS heard of books before.

 

[dash]

As far as wearing the tie like a scarf is concerned, Brian Burke >>> Donald Trump

 

[KennyBanyeah]

As far as wearing the tie like a scarf is concerned, Brian Burke >>> Donald Trump

I'd take Burkie in a barn fight too.

 

[puckhead]

good to see response

 

[forty_three]

good to see response

Nice gesture for sure, but the cynic in me wonders how many people standing up for the show know who put the noose there?

 

[puckhead]

Nice gesture for sure, but the cynic in me wonders how many people standing up for the show know who put the noose there?

I'm guessing it won't take long to find out who did that/
Presumably access to the paddocks are pretty tightly controlled.

 

[thedddd]

Nice gesture for sure, but the cynic in me wonders how many people standing up for the show know who put the noose there?

I thought the same thing and I even went further thinking they only did this so they wouldn't lose their job.

 

[thedddd]

I'm guessing it won't take long to find out who did that/
Presumably access to the paddocks are pretty tightly controlled.

Yeah there has to be a closed circuit video somewhere.

 

[dash]

I'm guessing it won't take long to find out who did that/
Presumably access to the paddocks are pretty tightly controlled.

I saw Kyle Busch leading the pack and I recall a poster at the swamp who was a Busch fan as well as a Dallas Stars fan. I also recall puckhead and him exchanging "greetings"

 

[Darkstone42]

I saw Kyle Busch leading the pack and I recall a poster at the swamp who was a Busch fan as well as a Dallas Stars fan. I also recall puckhead and him exchanging "greetings"

Oh man, it just occurred to me that Hockey SportsHoopla could have beaten Trump in the election by playing his own refrain, because we actually did Drain the Swamp.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

 

[Darkstone42]

Okay, this article looks silly and harmless--and it honestly largely is--but it betrays in a very obvious way a fundamental weakness of public reporting of science. So bear with my rant a bit.

Women are less likely to date men posing with cats, study finds - CNN

The extremely limited (and honestly pretty flawed) nature of the study is almost completely ignored. The CNN article does give the age range, but does not mention that the study is limited to educated heterosexual women. The Limitations section of the paper (which is almost as long as any other section of the paper--an alarming feature) also betrays that sample of 708 women was likely overwhelmingly white, which limits cultural and experiential determinants to the outcome. And they only used two men, which further limits the scope and veracity of the study, and also made it--by the authors' admission--pretty easy for subjects to catch onto what the study was about, and intentionally choose their answers rather than simply answering honestly.

This study shouldn't have even been published. It wasn't rigorous, it was deeply flawed, and its conclusions are nigh on pointless. But CNN has run this public-facing piece on it without scrutiny, with insufficient context, and with a sensationalized headline only loosely reflective of the study's conclusions.

Now apply this to studies about climate change, or COVID-19. Something that actually matters for people's decisions, and informs real and important policy decisions. How underserved is the public by this failure of scrutiny and communication of scientific studies by a major news outlet? How, if this is how people are getting most of their science information, can we expect everyone to understand the threat of climate change? How can we blame people for buying into misinformation about wearing masks when national media sources have been complicit in confounding public understanding of the benefits of wearing a mask?

When writing about new research on the cutting edge, about things which really matter, it's so important to never oversell the conclusions, and to provide the full context of what still isn't known, and the uncertainty and limitations of the study. Failure to do that is how grifters can get people to latch onto, "The scientists were wrong!" rhetoric to sell their snake-oil and prevent necessary structural change. The scientists weren't "wrong." They were transparent of what they don't know and what doubts underpin their conclusions. News oversold those conclusions and made them look bad, made their work look sloppy.

Okay, I think I'm done now. Just needed to get that out of my system.