Categories
The legal effort by the Dominion voting machine firm is starting to have a big impact – politicalbet
The legal effort by the Dominion voting machine firm is starting to have a big impact – politicalbetting.com
Statement from Dominion: "Platforms like American Thinker have helped amplify malicious lies about Dominion. … We are continuing to take steps to restore both our good name and the public's faith in elections by holding those responsible to account." pic.twitter.com/YwYH1GIBNm
0
This discussion has been closed.
Comments
There were some truly reckless claims after November, and so many people who must have known better not caring because it was for their own side, and hyping mere claims as proof of a problem. I hope we never get to that point here when it comes to fundamentals of our democracy. If you cannot trust the votes are counted, if you cannot trust losers will concede, things get dangerous.
Doesn't really seem like an apology cuts it when you've been so knowingly false.
The reference to 9 journalistic principles is interesting. Is that a standard number of accepted journalistic principles, or are there more but they've only abandoned 9?
https://twitter.com/jamesdoleman/status/1350214537522401281?s=21
And no other news other than Trump got reported.
You could almost pretend you were doing a 'just asking questions' kind of shit stirring with the former, but the latter can only ever be a complete lie, as by simultaneously claiming to doing good journalism you are undermining future use of the 'I'm really really stupid' defence.
There should be more of this. We need to see it, however painful and distressing. Let us learn
It is a failure going back decades by both labour and tory governments we dont know how many entered and how many left
This needs to be on breakfast TV or News at Ten. The British people need to see it
That's who's been eating my red-bag Doritos.
The ons figure is bullshit and too low, the supermarket figure is bullshit and too high. Both are based on absolute guesswork. There are certainly more than 66 million here, there are certainly less than 80 million. The fact you only decry one claim is sad
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1350196212109029376
It would have been so much more powerful if they'd just kept it, as the sole item on the plate. Here, eat this. This is Covid. This is what it does, this is what it is like. Right this moment. Now let's talk about Russia, or pollution.
Bad production, great journalism.
https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1177526685153026051?s=19
Seriously, I'm looking out the window and there's NOBODY out there. But you probably don't believe me, so we can split the difference and say it's probably closer to 35,000,000.
How accurate do you believe that to be?
The supermarket and independent agricultural supplier suggestions are based on the amount of food they sell. Certainly the supermarket had reason to sex up its figure.
How accurately can you estimate how many people you are feeding?
Personally I dont believe either. ONS is too low, supermarket too high
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55684595
JOKE HAHA
https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-ireland-event-2/
America totters towards apoclaypse
Here, I'm combining two non-overlapping sets of the government's figures:
- The 89243 COVID on death certificate figure to Jan 1st.
- The 10514 deaths within 28 days of COVID recorded for dates of death from Jan 2nd inclusive.
Which puts us on 99757 overall today. Whenever it comes it is a sombre landmark.
My thousand bed Trust has 400 covid patients, 56 on ICU, 9 on ECMO, and admitted 40-55 new covid patients every day this week. Next week is forecast to be worse.
If you think that's bad, we are still taking transfers from Essex and London, how much worse must it be there?
Yet there are still covidiot deniers...
https://twitter.com/nhswi/status/1350207234794467329?s=21
But you keep using supermarkets as a plural, when it was a single supermarket, and everyone else who gave evidence at that enquiry disputed the assertion.
And yet you are using it as if it were fact.
If it were fact, we could verify it by looking at lots of other data.
Supermarkets disclose their sales. You can download the investor presentations of Sainsburys, Tesco, etc. from their websites. If there are really 17 or 18% more adults, what are they buying? Why isn't the UK importing more food? Indeed, why have UK food imports - on a calorific basis - fallen? Have we really managed to grow 20% more food in the UK in the last two decades?
Find one bit of real, supporting data evidence. Go on: just one.
I understand the arguments against: it upsets people, who are already depressed, it is also cruel to people with loved ones in hospital,
But we are surely beyond that. This is the worst thing to happen to us all since World War 2. Accept it. Own it. And defeat it by energising people to take precautions.
Personally, I was minded to take a few modest risks next week - infections are falling, London is improving, blah de blah - after seeing that report, no way. So it worked on me.
Everyone has assumed his was lying.
Or was he just post-truthing, due to his Stalin worship? Did he disbelieve the evidence of his own eyes?
But here's the crazy bit: we can easily estimate the number of the people in the UK to within a couple of percent.
Look at total food calorific consumption in 1990 (ONS data). Work out average calories per person based on the 1990 population count.
Look at total food calorific consumption in 2019, and assume people are eating the same on a calorie basis.
My guess is that we'll come out with a a number that is a couple of percent (1-3%) above official government population estimates. Not 15%.
It seems highly unlikely that the confidence interval on our population estimate is e.g. plus or minus 10 million.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC9AjN5l4Gs
Not much by way of a hospital there to cope with numbers requiring help.
Pretty much so.
AFF output:
1990q3 90.5
2000q3 91.4
2010q3 88.5
2020q3 106.8
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/timeseries/l2kl/ukea
Its a very erratic measure but UK agricultural output has significantly increased.
You would think given events it might be a good idea to lie low for a bit.
A well-placed supermarket source will know how much THAT supermarket sells. They won't know their own market share beyond an estimate. They won't know how much food one person eats beyond an estimate. They won't know how much of the food is wasted beyond an estimate.
We don't know who the source is so whether they are even well-placed is an open question.
And Farmer Parkin with his leg wrapped in polathine agrees that there's bloody immigrants everywhere.
A flight to Glasgow or Oban might be needed I suppose. A helicopter if it is high tide.
No, sorry, this sounded a bit silly to start with but the more I think about it the more it sounds like a wild stab in the dark.
How big could it possibly be? We'd know right? If there were untold millions.
Oh.
£50 billion? In notes?
https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/37088/bank-of-england-called-to-account-over-50-billion-in-missing-banknotes
Using computers is OK, but you should under no circumstances have to trust them.
That is where the drug money is laundered.
The Bristow air-sea rescue helicopters should still be OK I think?
Living on the islands does seem very attractive but not if you have a medical emergency. Fingers crossed it doesn't get worse.
2 minutes. Christ.
Goodnight PB. Stay safe
Not many data points - but strangely stable ratios. Structural?
from a photo journey of the flight from Glasgow to Barra and back in 2019: https://simpleflying.com/flight-review-landing-on-the-beach-in-barra-scotland-with-loganair/
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50205956
Personally I always take my own wheelbarrow, can't be too careful with COVID and all that.
This asshole is - or has been - inescapable on US TV for some time, especially if you are watching broadcast which is full of ads aimed a geezers. For whom a good night's sleep is a REALLY big deal.
Personally would rather lay my weary head on a brick and wrap myself in newsprint that make use of a Putinist pillow and matching sheets.
Speculative, but worrying.
https://twitter.com/BillHanage/status/1349943613514526723
Disabled workers at one of the UK's oldest social enterprises, Clarity, have allegedly been denied £200,000 in wages by the new owner.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55664266
And not just there....he owns another business making caravans and allegedly done the same there.
https://www.lep.co.uk/business/consumer/union-demands-probe-furlough-payments-lancashire-caravan-manufacturer-3095293