Understanding the US - Again

[Vayutuvan]

What kind of letter from China made this Orange Monkey hyperventilate like this? Any thing to do with him waking up and finding that he is not getting the Nobel?

2025 Nobel nomination deadline was in Jan, 2025.

[Vayutuvan]

OMG
Trump looses Piece Prize!

SRajesh ji, while I don't care a hoot abouit lit, peace, economics "yes"bulls, here is something to cogitate upon which captures the stupid campus pro-hamas wokistan thinking.

[Vayutuvan]

Very different take on life compared to the 4 ashramas of Hindu tradition namely Baalya, Vaivahika, Vanaprastha and finally Sanyaasa.

A small nit. The four ashramas are brahmacharya (staying at gurukula and learning), graahastya (family life - which is the longest IMHO), vaanaprastha, and sanyasa.

baalya till 8 years of age is all play and freedom and learning to show difference to elders and learning to learn from a guru.

The life stages (not ashrama but passage of time) are baalya, kaumaarya, yavvana, vriddhaapya.

(sorry for OT)

[Vayutuvan]

What kind of letter from China made this Orange Monkey hyperventilate like this? Any thing to do with him waking up and finding that he is not getting the Nobel?

Looks like some folks want to secede and join China. They are hoping that their state will break off, physically break off that is, and drift across the pacific to join China at the hip.

[chetak]

Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado dedicates peace award to Trump

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... s?from=mdr

[saip]

We know most monkeys have no concept of time. Orange Monkey is no exception. Already complaining of not getting THIS YEAR'S Nobel. As I predicted, fireworks have begun.
Link

[saip]

The Venezuelan regime’s rigid hold on power and its repression of the population are not unique in the world,” the committee said. “We see the same trends globally: rule of law abused by those in control, free media silenced, critics imprisoned, and societies pushed towards authoritarian rule and militarization.”

If this is the criterion for Nobel then the Orange Monkey may never get it. But he can threaten Norway with 5000% tariff.

[A_Gupta]

American innumeracy (I don't know if it is unique to the US though. )
https://ritholtz.com/2025/09/denominato ... l-edition/

I spill a lot of words about Denominator Blindness in “How Not to Invest.” The opportunities to demonstrate terrible examples of this framing error are never-ending. The latest example — and one of the most absurd cases of denominator blindness you will ever see — comes from somebody who should know better, Senator Ron Johnson.

Here is what the Senator had to say:

Ron Johnson: “In 56 years of tracking Tylenol, there have been 39,540 death reported to FAIRS. That’s 706 per year. For ivermectin – remember the one that they said was so dangerous? – in 29 years reporting, 493 deaths, 17 a year.”

It’s a classic denominator blindness example, because you are NOT seeing the total number of doses in question. By only showing the number of deaths (the numerator) but not the size of the data set (the denominator), we see an obvious attempt to mislead the viewer.

To do a fair “Apples to Apples” comparison, the first thing you would need is the number of doses of each drug that are consumed annually:

“More than 25 billion acetaminophen doses are sold in the US annually.” That’s in 2023; this year, the number is over 28 billion.” (See GMI, JAMA, and ATrain)

And Ivermectin?

“Approximately 450,000 outpatient prescriptions for ivermectin were filled in the United States in 2023.” (See Cognitive, ClinCalc).

In other words, there are roughly 50,000 times more doses of Acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, consumed each year than doses of Ivermectin.

If as few doses of Tylenol were consumed each year as Ivermectin, there would be one Acetaminophen death every 72 years.

And, if as many doses of Ivermectin as Tylenol were consumed each year, the body count in the U.S. for the antiparasitic drug would be over 850,000 deaths annually. That would be like losing the entire population of a city like Indianapolis or San Francisco – every year.

[Vayutuvan]

I have seen this kind of incorrect comparisons even in STEM papers. They skip the normalization step to make the numbers look good.

For example, all the Euro climate activists talk about India's absolute greenhouse gas emissions, nor per capita nor cumulatively over the years per capita.

[Vayutuvan]

We know most monkeys have no concept of time. Orange Monkey is no exception. Already complaining of not getting THIS YEAR'S Nobel. As I predicted, fireworks have begun.
Link

This was posted just before a TDS driven whining post by @chetak gaaru.

viewtopic.php?p=2662296#p2662296

[Cyrano]

Very different take on life compared to the 4 ashramas of Hindu tradition namely Baalya, Vaivahika, Vanaprastha and finally Sanyaasa.

A small nit. The four ashramas are brahmacharya (staying at gurukula and learning), graahastya (family life - which is the longest IMHO), vaanaprastha, and sanyasa.

baalya till 8 years of age is all play and freedom and learning to show difference to elders and learning to learn from a guru.

The life stages (not ashrama but passage of time) are baalya, kaumaarya, yavvana, vriddhaapya.

(sorry for OT)

Absolutely right you are! I somehow mixed up the two. Thanks for the nit