Heh, that would have been perfect.

Yeah, no one “flashes a Mensa card” unless they are a jerk. We joined many years ago when we lived in Iowa for the social aspect. The parties are a lot of fun and the people are all fascinating. Not all people you want to spend time with, but fascinating. We let our memberships lapse when we moved back to Colorado.

Nearly universally, Mensans recognized that IQ is only measure of how well you do on an IQ test (which, as you may know, was never intended as a test for the upper end, only to find students who needed intervention) or the other allowed tests.

There were materially successful people and not, socially adept and not. People we learned to avoid and people who became friends. Cringe and connection.

I suppose it is like any other social club where you have something in common with the additional kicker that people were not holding back in conversation. You had the chance to rapidly be humbled in that case if you went on at length about some favorite topic only to find out the person you were talking to was an expert in it.

Plus there were cool speakers and field trips. “Dumb things smart people do” was one of our favorites.

City of heroes is still available for free and is a lot of fun. Pre-WOW but the graphics are decent. A great community too.

I was a peer writing tutor at a top engineering school. I would be surprised if an engineer had verb-noun agreement. (That said, my kid was a nuclear engineer and is a great writer, so that is the danger of stereotypes…)

Don’t mistake aggregate with individual responses. In aggregate a survey sample might result in a sum of 98% are Muslim, Catholic or Jewish but no individual selected that sum. We could imagine a scenario where each individual chose one of those as a large majority, for example.

That said, it is true that many people really don’t understand data and it’s implications and tend to consistently overestimate many unlikely probabilities. Source: I teach statistics…

City of Heroes/Villains https://forums.homecomingservers.com/getting-started/

Some public water naturally has flouride in it without adding it. IIRC it was high flouride well water in Colorado that revealed its benefits You can also use flouride rinses or just not rinse after brushing. This doesn’t help kids though, which as I understand it are the primary beneficiaries of flouride in waterr.

Sorry friend, “Rubio” is a Hispanic name, so off to El Salvador he goes…no crime necessary.

Pardon me, but do you have any Grey Poupon?

Of course it is, along with the Administration ignoring a judge’s order. The point is that this DOJ will not prosecute it. AG Bondi had made that clear.

Exactly who are you thinking would bring criminal charges? The DOJ certainly won’t. His family might get some sort of civil judgement. Possibly a civil rights case filed with a state?

It can also be EXTREMELY long code to do something relatively simple. I bounce between base and ggplot, and use ggh4x for some oddly difficult stuff in ggplot.

That is one reason to do tariffs. However, as someone who’s consulted in a variety of industries, it’s stupid to do non-targeted tariffs like this. There’s no way this is going to rebuild industry on shore in the US, exactly as you say. That takes years or decades to even build up an infrastructure and a supply chain, not to mention that, at least recently, we’ve had low unemployment rates and no one to work the jobs anyway.

The CHIPS act was a better way to do it. If you believe you need to re-onshore an industry, then give multiple years’ warning before implementing tariffs and provide support for redeploying domestic production capacity. However, for some strange reason, the Republicans don’t like that act.

I think your general point may be correct, but remember that tariffed countries don’t pay anything, it is the US importers that pay and pass that along to US consumers.

BE NOT AFRAID…🙄

The guy behind Wing Commander (and my favorite game of all time, Privateer) has a mission based space flight game out next year. You can see the first hour of gameplay here: https://youtu.be/1H-0x4xk2Xk

Keep in mind, cutscenes are in-engine not pre-rendered.

My eyes are burned into my head due to someone using a pie chart on these data…

There have been two disaster declarationss near where I live. The town of Lyons was flooded and the Christmas Marshall fire. I also know someone whose property flooded in Florida just recently. In all of these I know people who got/are getting significant government help. I have a family member who lost their property in the LA fire, but it is to soon except for the emergency relief in this topic.

There is plenty to criticize, but saying that the government will only pay these people $770 is wrong and the product of right wing misinformation.

Here is an article from Fox. Look for the link Can I get more assistance. https://www.foxla.com/news/california-fires-770-fema-checks-how-to-apply

You can find the same information in many other sources.

Do you have any actual proof that other disaster victims received “exactly the level of aid” of $770 without further assistance? Or, is it a consequence of misinformation?

Surely you all know that this is not the end of the aid the government is going to give, that it is only a quick cash infusion to help with immediate expenses? Because some of your are acting like you don’t know that. This was the same line put forward by the Rs after the Vermont floods. It takes time to get full disaster relief to an area, especially when one party is threatening to put preconditions on that aid or to block it entirely.

Whether it is enough or not is a different question…