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GOP 2024: We can't govern one part of one third of the federal government....give us nukes!

 

I haven't had my coffee yet, but it looks as if they did but they didn't (if that makes any sense). They plotted different bachelors-vs-not trends for men and women occasionally, but they never show or discuss a composite trend that would account for the sex (or gender if we must) profile of the two cohorts. However, that's something between them and their reviewers in the scientific realm. It's pretty dishonest, though, for them to put this out there for public consumption the way they did (i.e., with this huge factor not accounted for or even mentioned).

 

In my experience, that kind of thing often has a formal use ... "Come study at OU in Italy!" ... that is less important than its unstated use ... "We're very interested in laying out how your contributions might further our mission. Would you be available to meet with our senior development staff at our villa in Italy?"

 

I wonder if the other papers from which they funneled and aggregated a lot of this stuff had taken these differences into account.

I agree the elision and oversimplification of how they arrived where they did - 'Deaths of Despair,' the new hotness in public health theory as it relates to capitalism - should have been sussed out and addressed by the editors before the piece ever ran.

In fact, if I were The One True King of OpEd™, I'd insist every science piece run with a boxed, plain-English / common sense methodology explainer next to it.

 

Here is a local story today about one of the five police departments we have in the county. It's not technically a 4th amendment issue, but it sure is some Big Brother crap.

The Bugtussle Police Department has initiated Operation Gatekeeper and has installed License Plate Reader technology at multiple locations throughout the town.
Operation Gatekeeper is designed to enhance the community’s safety by providing an additional tool to further protect residents and visitors from criminals who enter the town. This program is not enforcement based nor does it access a database containing personnel information. The systems alert on vehicles associated with a crime and on a hotlist, which is generated from the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database. Law enforcement agencies enter wanted persons, missing persons, felony-involved vehicles, stolen plates, and stolen vehicles into NCIC so other law enforcement officers are aware of the alert status by checking the license plate.
Operation Gatekeeper will not be used for anything traffic enforcement related, and it will only be used to guard the community from vehicles attached to a hotlist or investigate crimes.

 

1, Bug Tussle is an unincorporated community in Fannin County, Texas, United States. Bug Tussle was so named from an incident in the 1890s when a swarm of insects spoiled an ice cream social.[2] Bug Tussle has been noted for its unusual place name.[3]

2, Bugtussle is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, Kentucky, United States. It is located in the southern part of the county, immediately north of the Kentucky-Tennessee state line. Kentucky Route 87 connects the community with Gamaliel to the northeast and Lafayette, Tennessee, to the southwest (the highway becomes Tennessee State Route 261 at the border). Bugtussle was so named on account of doodlebugs being frequent there.[2] The community has been noted on lists of unusual place names.[3][4]

 

More importantly:

 

Reminder: The FEMA test on all our phones is today at 2:20 eastern. As someone who works nights, my phone will be turned off.

 

They tested ours (several times) the other day. Worked great.

And no more zombies than usual.

 

I already had someone say her dad took all phones in the family, wrapped them in foil, and left them in the microwave when they all left the house this morning. No one was allowed to carry their phone.

 

I am aware of the real places, and I chose to use the name of the Beverly Hillbillies version to protect the guilty.

 

The accompanying editorial:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/04/life-expectancy-solutions-united-states/

People in the United States, The Post explains, are dying earlier and earlier than people in the rest of the world. Among wealthy nations, ours was once about average; now, it is behind its peers and falling fast. This drop began before the coronavirus pandemic, after life expectancy peaked at 78.9 years in 2014, but covid-19 accentuated the crisis, killing dramatically more people per capita here than in similarly well-off countries. People in the highest-income areas of the United States do not live longer than people in the poorest parts of France.