Stupid World

[Viking01]

https://www.rt.com/news/453560-israe...ction-posters/

I thought election posters normally showed politicians with ink
on their finger, encouraging the electorate to get out and vote.

[mashman]

"What would you do if someone told you the world was going to end, and they knew exactly how it would happen? They have graphs and studies, trajectory lines sweeping up to terrifying new heights, projections that can only possibly mean doom. The evidence is overwhelming and irrefutable, and yet all around you life goes on as normal. How does anyone deal with that?

Many people are more than capable of compartmentalising these things, and getting up for work in the morning. Some are utterly disbelieving, insisting that it simply cannot be happening. Some go numb. Others look at the concerning information, and agree that someone should probably do something about it, but perhaps in a few years."

[Viking01]

https://www.rt.com/news/453842-snowd...hut-intercept/

First Media owner:

https://russia-insider.com/en/pierre...utouts/ri26353

[mashman]

Bill Gates says poverty is decreasing. He couldn’t be more wrong... Seems like Max Roser of Our World in Data is a bit of a duplicitous moron who has been more than dishonest with his data and therefore any findings that come from it.

Our World in Data = propaganda for other duplicitous morons.

"There are a number of problems with this graph, though. First of all, real data on poverty has only been collected since 1981. Anything before that is extremely sketchy, and to go back as far as 1820 is meaningless. Roser draws on a dataset that was never intended to describe poverty, but rather inequality in the distribution of world GDP – and that for only a limited range of countries. There is no actual research to bolster the claims about long-term poverty. It’s not science; it’s social media."

"Scholars have been calling for a more reasonable poverty line for many years. Most agree that people need a minimum of about $7.40 per day to achieve basic nutrition and normal human life expectancy, plus a half-decent chance of seeing their kids survive their fifth birthday. And many scholars, including Harvard economist Lant Pritchett, insist that the poverty line should be set even higher, at $10 to $15 per day.

So what happens if we measure global poverty at the low end of this more realistic spectrum – $7.40 per day, to be extra conservative? Well, we see that the number of people living under this line has increased dramatically since measurements began in 1981, reaching some 4.2 billion people today. Suddenly the happy Davos narrative melts away."

[mashman]

SEC Stunned That Musk Failed to Get Pre-Approval of Tweets...

"The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it’s “stunning” that Elon Musk didn’t seek pre-approval of any of his tweets about Tesla Inc. in the months since he was ordered by a judge to do so."... .

[Ocean1]

Bill Gates says poverty is decreasing. He couldn’t be more wrong... Seems like Max Roser of Our World in Data is a bit of a duplicitous moron who has been more than dishonest with his data and therefore any findings that come from it.

Right, right. So the fact that the extremely poor had actually zero money way back then, didn't in fact know what that was, means that the UN, World Health etc etc, (where OWID numbers actually came from) are all lying through their collective teeth.

Let's face it, the only reason you're so desperate to believe shit like that is because the real world facts don't align with your cargo cult narrative and your evel capitalist bogeymans.

[carbonhed]

Right, right. So the fact that the extremely poor had actually zero money way back then, didn't in fact know what that was means that the UN, World Health etc etc, (where TWID numbers actually came from) are all lying through their collective teeth.

Let's face it, the only reason you're so desperate to believe shit like that is because the real world facts don't align with your cargo cult narrative and your evel capitalist bogeymans.

Hey! They may have had no moneys or foods but they were happy as Larry... living off the land, shitting in the fields. They may not have had cell phones but they did have Bilharzia!

[mashman]

Right, right. So the fact that the extremely poor had actually zero money way back then, didn't in fact know what that was means that the UN, World Health etc etc, (where TWID numbers actually came from) are all lying through their collective teeth.

Let's face it, the only reason you're so desperate to believe shit like that is because the real world facts don't align with your cargo cult narrative and your evel capitalist bogeymans.

It is the fact that that dataset is used at all that's bemusing. They have real data. The only reason to add a dataset pre-1981 is duplicitous and to promote a narrative that doesn't exist i.e. poverty is on the decline.

Rational anarchist you say? Yet can't handle the fact that his dataset is bullshit and instead goes for the messenger............ I ain't the desperate one, dude.

[TheDemonLord]

It is the fact that that dataset is used at all that's bemusing. They have real data. The only reason to add a dataset pre-1981 is duplicitous and to promote a narrative that doesn't exist i.e. poverty is on the decline.

Rational anarchist you say? Yet can't handle the fact that his dataset is bullshit and instead goes for the messenger............ I ain't the desperate one, dude.

So, in order to track Change over Time, you're complaining that they've used...


















Data from a Time period?!?


Those Bastards!

[Ocean1]

Those Bastards!

That's duplicitous morons to you, fella.

It's behavior you often see from socialist fanbois; "We're not sure what this hard data stuff is, but our feelings on the subject don't like it. Shockingly, sheeple aren't convinced by the power of our emotional argument alone. But we're right, so we'll just cobble up some of this data stuff that says what we want and that'll be as good as anything the bogeyman says.

Classic cargo cult mentality: We want the same shit rich pricks have, but the story that you got to work hard to get it is just diversionary bullshit, so we'll cobble up something that looks similar to what dem rich pricks do. That'll work...

... And whine like little bitches when that don't work.

[Ocean1]

It is the fact that that dataset is used at all that's bemusing. They have real data. The only reason to add a dataset pre-1981 is duplicitous and to promote a narrative that doesn't exist i.e. poverty is on the decline.

Rational anarchist you say? Yet can't handle the fact that his dataset is bullshit and instead goes for the messenger............ I ain't the desperate one, dude.

Messenger eh?

Who was it that went for Max Roser? The guy who gave you data from the UN and WHO? Sounds like some of that there "projection" you're always blaming on everyone else that doesn't agree with you.

Face it, the only people that can't bring themselves to believe that there's been a massive international convergence of wealth and massively improved standard of living across the board are fuckwits that have a vested interest in even more aggressive redistribution of wealth than is already in place.

[mashman]

Messenger eh?

Who was it that went for Max Roser? The guy who gave you data from the UN and WHO? Sounds like some of that there "projection" you're always blaming on everyone else that doesn't agree with you.

Face it, the only people that can't bring themselves to believe that there's been a massive international convergence of wealth and massively improved standard of living across the board are fuckwits that have a vested interest in even more aggressive redistribution of wealth than is already in place.

It's the data, dude

[Viking01]

https://southfront.org/expanding-glo...al-operations/

[Viking01]

https://www.france24.com/en/20190324...-2016-election

What ? Two days after Donald has declared "victory", and not even a
comment on this thread ? Surely people are not as depressed as poor
Rachel Maddow :

https://www.rt.com/usa/454554-maddow...rt-indictment/

Not that the Russians will be celebrating the outcome. You can be sure :

- there will be further US financial sanctions applied against the RF
(and against companies supporting its economy and energy business) ;

- any Russian businesses operating in the US will come in for more
scrutiny (maybe even regulation) ;

and that :

- the US will continue to seek to use its oil and gas resources to try
and monopolise the world energy market (to counter combined Saudi -
Russia influence).

But given that signs for the local US fracked gas market are not all
that rosy :

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019...as-crisis.html

US investors might have to hope for a more positive outcome in Venezuela
(sorry, I should have said "a win for democracy and western values").

[Ocean1]

Racism causing health disparities.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/hea...le-study-finds

Apparently.