Re: Understanding the US - Again
Posted: 10 Oct 2025 22:48
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A small nit. The four ashramas are brahmacharya (staying at gurukula and learning), graahastya (family life - which is the longest IMHO), vaanaprastha, and sanyasa.
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.
Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado dedicates peace award to Trump
If this is the criterion for Nobel then the Orange Monkey may never get it. But he can threaten Norway with 5000% tariff.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.”
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: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.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.”
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:
And Ivermectin?“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)
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.“Approximately 450,000 outpatient prescriptions for ivermectin were filled in the United States in 2023.” (See Cognitive, ClinCalc).
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.
This was posted just before a TDS driven whining post by @chetak gaaru.
Absolutely right you are! I somehow mixed up the two. Thanks for the nitVayutuvan wrote: ↑10 Oct 2025 23:01A 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)
Red Flag to some here.María Corina Machado
@MariaCorinaYA
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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
Foreign policy
Regarding the Israel–Palestine conflict, Machado expressed her solidarity with Israel following the attacks of 7 October 2023.[117] She thanked Israel for its support of Edmundo González as president-elect,[118] and previously of Juan Guaidó as acting president.[119] Machado planned to reestablish diplomatic relations with Israel, which were cut in 2009 due to the 2008–2009 Gaza war.[119]
In February 2025, Machado addressed a Patriots.eu rally in Madrid.[120][121] Machado is a strong supporter of United States President Donald Trump, whom she described in 2025 as a "visionary" in relation to his opposition to the Maduro regime in Venezuela.[122][123] After he deployed the Navy to the Caribbean in 2025, Machado praised the Trump administration.[124] She has expressed support for the use of force to depose the Maduro regime; one of her advisors told the New York Times that she has coordinated with the Trump administration and that she has a plan for the first hundred hours after his deposition.[125]
Some very strange things are happening in China! They are becoming very hostile, and sending letters to Countries throughout the World, that they want to impose Export Controls on each and every element of production having to do with Rare Earths, and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it’s not manufactured in China. Nobody has ever seen anything like this but, essentially, it would “clog” the Markets, and make life difficult for virtually every Country in the World, especially for China. We have been contacted by other Countries who are extremely angry at this great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere. Our relationship with China over the past six months has been a very good one, thereby making this move on Trade an even more surprising one. I have always felt that they’ve been lying in wait, and now, as usual, I have been proven right! There is no way that China should be allowed to hold the World “captive,” but that seems to have been their plan for quite some time, starting with the “Magnets” and, other Elements that they have quietly amassed into somewhat of a Monopoly position, a rather sinister and hostile move, to say the least. But the U.S. has Monopoly positions also, much stronger and more far reaching than China’s. I have just not chosen to use them, there was never a reason for me to do so — UNTIL NOW! The letter they sent is many pages long, and details, with great specificity, each and every Element that they want to withhold from other Nations. Things that were routine are no longer routine at all. I have not spoken to President Xi because there was no reason to do so. This was a real surprise, not only to me, but to all the Leaders of the Free World. I was to meet President Xi in two weeks, at APEC, in South Korea, but now there seems to be no reason to do so. The Chinese letters were especially inappropriate in that this was the Day that, after three thousand years of bedlam and fighting, there is PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. I wonder if that timing was coincidental? Dependent on what China says about the hostile “order” that they have just put out, I will be forced, as President of the United States of America, to financially counter their move. For every Element that they have been able to monopolize, we have two. I never thought it would come to this but perhaps, as with all things, the time has come. Ultimately, though potentially painful, it will be a very good thing, in the end, for the U.S.A. One of the Policies that we are calculating at this moment is a massive increase of Tariffs on Chinese products coming into the United States of America. There are many other countermeasures that are, likewise, under serious consideration. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA