23508 pts · July 12, 2015
I’m a Betamax, the far superior format.
He’s a guy with one black woman friend who lets him borrow her phone to make tweets. It’s the only sensible explanation. https://www.rawstory.com/joey-mannarino/
That doesn’t seem right. I’m too busy to watch the rest of it now. I’ll have my assistant watch it and take notes. He has the patience to wait all the way to the end of a gif, and that’s what I pay him for.
Lessee…ball in the air…kid wearing a helmet. Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks! Imgur should have a service where you can hire people to summarize overly long gifs for busy executives like myself.
I didn’t wait for it. Can someone please summarize?
Internet Explorer Logo: Hey, I’m thinking maybe MAGA is a cult.
We tried this to get rid of a futon, putting a sign on it for $25, hoping someone would just take it, then some nice lady knocked on our door with money in hand. We didn’t take the money, but felt bad about our cynical opinion of our neighbors.
This is Charles Pierce, who’s been a fantastic liberal political commentator for decades. He’s the head of the Esquire’s news & politics section, and looking at the landing page, the headlines read like imgur’s political posts, but funnier. Esquire is a men’s fashion and lifestyle magazine.
My kids told me this is from Minecraft, then they giggled.
He worked his ass off, the tree worked his pants off his ass.
I might be thinking of John Kelly, not Gen Milley.
Ok, but that’s not what happened. Gen. Milley asked him to clarify, giving him an out to explain he wanted obedient generals, not that he admired Hitler. Instead, he said H did some “good things”. Milley explained that H did everything in service of his evil goals, even the “good things”. If at that point T said, “I just want generals to do what I say. That’s it.” then, yeah, you could let the comment go. Instead, T changed the subject.
The only source I could find was https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/257066/more-human-embryos-destroyed-through-ivf-than-abortion-every-year — but given the source, it could be exaggerated. However, years ago, I did the same sort of estimations using available data and came up with similar ratios.
A good guy with a gun won’t shoot first and ask questions later. A bad guy with a gun probably will if both are equally armed, but maybe won’t if the good guy isn’t armed. If the bad guy is there specifically to kill you, then you’ll probably die. Too many people think they’re the “good guy” and then shoot a stranger who accidentally knocks on the wrong door. That makes you the bad guy. You’ll likely never get to be an actual good guy with a gun and defend your home, so why bother?
It’s not that they’re dumb, it’s just that conformity matters most. If they find something their church community believes in is not supportable by the evidence, they are taking a step down the slippery slope to losing their identity and community. They recoil from the evidence as if touching a hot stove. To coax them away, you have to give them a way out that lets them preserve their identity and community, while building critical thinking skills. It’s an uphill battle, for sure.
Until 2023, almost none of the evangelical pro-lifers were anti-IVF, at least not the laypeople. I think leaders in the pro-life movement were secretly anti-IVF, knowing that they’d lose their own supporters if they attached an IVF ban to overturning Roe. But now that Roe’s gone, they’re turning their sights on IVF. Suddenly, pro-lifers are learning that IVF, something they’ve supported in the past, kills more “babies” than abortion.
That concludes 3 pages of search results that anyone could do in about 15 minutes if all they cared about is fact-checking someone. Longer if you stop to summarize each article and track links down to primary sources and share them with imgurians who have a completely justified hate-boner for Elon that blocks their critical thinking and curiosity.
The number of Tesla fire safety recalls may be > 0 since I last looked. Unfortunately, the only source is a garbage ad farm that only links to itself rather than any primary source, and attempts to search for a good source only returns “OMG LOOK AT TESLA ON FIRE” articles and no “Ah, look at the data” articles.
Overall recall numbers from https://datahub.transportation.gov/d/mu99-t4jn — filtered for recalls issued 2010-2024 for vehicles. Tesla’s not in the top 10.
AAA cites 2020 NFPA study saying that EV fire rates are inconclusive, but there’s no evidence to suggest EVs have more risk than ICE cars https://ev.aaa.com/articles/expert-qa-evs-and-fire-safe/
https://electrek.co/2022/01/12/government-data-shows-gasoline-vehicles-are-significantly-more-prone-to-fires-than-evs/ cites AutoinsuranceEZ, and a number of other gov’t and other sources. The recall stats for 2020 that AutoinsuranceEZ gave are attributed to recalls.gov
Another article from The Conversation cites this research paper https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/6/8/325
https://insideevs.com/features/720764/ev-electric-car-fire-risk-safety-burn/ cites EV Firesafe, a Norwegian study, and the Swedish study mentioned below
https://theconversation.com/electric-vehicle-fires-are-very-rare-the-risk-for-petrol-and-diesel-vehicles-is-at-least-20-times-higher-213468 cites EV Firesafe, an Aussie company, as well as the Swedish figures. They also note an internal report from Tesla, but the stats (fires per million miles driven) don’t have any comparison outside Tesla, so not terribly useful.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilwinton/2022/03/02/electric-car-fire-risks-look-exaggerated-but-more-data-required-for-definitive-verdict/ cites AutoinsuranceEZ, but also NTSB, and has discussion about reliability of the data from other experts why it may be too soon to tell if EVs have greater fire risk.
https://www.edmunds.com/electric-car/articles/electric-car-fires.html cites data from a Swedish gov’t agency
https://www.autoweek.com/news/a38225037/how-much-you-should-worry-about-ev-fires/ also cites AutoinsuranceEZ
https://www.popsci.com/technology/electric-vehicle-fire-rates-study/ cites AutoinsuranceEZ, saying they got their data from the NTSB
I’m a Betamax, the far superior format.
He’s a guy with one black woman friend who lets him borrow her phone to make tweets. It’s the only sensible explanation. https://www.rawstory.com/joey-mannarino/
That doesn’t seem right. I’m too busy to watch the rest of it now. I’ll have my assistant watch it and take notes. He has the patience to wait all the way to the end of a gif, and that’s what I pay him for.
Lessee…ball in the air…kid wearing a helmet. Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks! Imgur should have a service where you can hire people to summarize overly long gifs for busy executives like myself.
I didn’t wait for it. Can someone please summarize?
Internet Explorer Logo: Hey, I’m thinking maybe MAGA is a cult.
We tried this to get rid of a futon, putting a sign on it for $25, hoping someone would just take it, then some nice lady knocked on our door with money in hand. We didn’t take the money, but felt bad about our cynical opinion of our neighbors.
This is Charles Pierce, who’s been a fantastic liberal political commentator for decades. He’s the head of the Esquire’s news & politics section, and looking at the landing page, the headlines read like imgur’s political posts, but funnier. Esquire is a men’s fashion and lifestyle magazine.
My kids told me this is from Minecraft, then they giggled.
He worked his ass off, the tree worked his pants off his ass.
I might be thinking of John Kelly, not Gen Milley.
Ok, but that’s not what happened. Gen. Milley asked him to clarify, giving him an out to explain he wanted obedient generals, not that he admired Hitler. Instead, he said H did some “good things”. Milley explained that H did everything in service of his evil goals, even the “good things”. If at that point T said, “I just want generals to do what I say. That’s it.” then, yeah, you could let the comment go. Instead, T changed the subject.
The only source I could find was https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/257066/more-human-embryos-destroyed-through-ivf-than-abortion-every-year — but given the source, it could be exaggerated. However, years ago, I did the same sort of estimations using available data and came up with similar ratios.
A good guy with a gun won’t shoot first and ask questions later. A bad guy with a gun probably will if both are equally armed, but maybe won’t if the good guy isn’t armed. If the bad guy is there specifically to kill you, then you’ll probably die. Too many people think they’re the “good guy” and then shoot a stranger who accidentally knocks on the wrong door. That makes you the bad guy. You’ll likely never get to be an actual good guy with a gun and defend your home, so why bother?
It’s not that they’re dumb, it’s just that conformity matters most. If they find something their church community believes in is not supportable by the evidence, they are taking a step down the slippery slope to losing their identity and community. They recoil from the evidence as if touching a hot stove. To coax them away, you have to give them a way out that lets them preserve their identity and community, while building critical thinking skills. It’s an uphill battle, for sure.
Until 2023, almost none of the evangelical pro-lifers were anti-IVF, at least not the laypeople. I think leaders in the pro-life movement were secretly anti-IVF, knowing that they’d lose their own supporters if they attached an IVF ban to overturning Roe. But now that Roe’s gone, they’re turning their sights on IVF. Suddenly, pro-lifers are learning that IVF, something they’ve supported in the past, kills more “babies” than abortion.
That concludes 3 pages of search results that anyone could do in about 15 minutes if all they cared about is fact-checking someone. Longer if you stop to summarize each article and track links down to primary sources and share them with imgurians who have a completely justified hate-boner for Elon that blocks their critical thinking and curiosity.
The number of Tesla fire safety recalls may be > 0 since I last looked. Unfortunately, the only source is a garbage ad farm that only links to itself rather than any primary source, and attempts to search for a good source only returns “OMG LOOK AT TESLA ON FIRE” articles and no “Ah, look at the data” articles.
Overall recall numbers from https://datahub.transportation.gov/d/mu99-t4jn — filtered for recalls issued 2010-2024 for vehicles. Tesla’s not in the top 10.
AAA cites 2020 NFPA study saying that EV fire rates are inconclusive, but there’s no evidence to suggest EVs have more risk than ICE cars https://ev.aaa.com/articles/expert-qa-evs-and-fire-safe/
https://electrek.co/2022/01/12/government-data-shows-gasoline-vehicles-are-significantly-more-prone-to-fires-than-evs/ cites AutoinsuranceEZ, and a number of other gov’t and other sources. The recall stats for 2020 that AutoinsuranceEZ gave are attributed to recalls.gov
Another article from The Conversation cites this research paper https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/6/8/325
https://insideevs.com/features/720764/ev-electric-car-fire-risk-safety-burn/ cites EV Firesafe, a Norwegian study, and the Swedish study mentioned below
https://theconversation.com/electric-vehicle-fires-are-very-rare-the-risk-for-petrol-and-diesel-vehicles-is-at-least-20-times-higher-213468 cites EV Firesafe, an Aussie company, as well as the Swedish figures. They also note an internal report from Tesla, but the stats (fires per million miles driven) don’t have any comparison outside Tesla, so not terribly useful.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilwinton/2022/03/02/electric-car-fire-risks-look-exaggerated-but-more-data-required-for-definitive-verdict/ cites AutoinsuranceEZ, but also NTSB, and has discussion about reliability of the data from other experts why it may be too soon to tell if EVs have greater fire risk.
https://www.edmunds.com/electric-car/articles/electric-car-fires.html cites data from a Swedish gov’t agency
https://www.autoweek.com/news/a38225037/how-much-you-should-worry-about-ev-fires/ also cites AutoinsuranceEZ
https://www.popsci.com/technology/electric-vehicle-fire-rates-study/ cites AutoinsuranceEZ, saying they got their data from the NTSB