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Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 10 Oct 2025 22:48
by Vayutuvan
saip wrote: 10 Oct 2025 21:55 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. :idea:

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 10 Oct 2025 22:53
by Vayutuvan
SRajesh wrote: 10 Oct 2025 14:53 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.

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Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 10 Oct 2025 23:01
by Vayutuvan
Cyrano wrote: 10 Oct 2025 12:20 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)

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 10 Oct 2025 23:06
by Vayutuvan
saip wrote: 10 Oct 2025 21:55 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. :lol:

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 10 Oct 2025 23:19
by chetak
Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado dedicates peace award to Trump


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


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Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 11 Oct 2025 00:45
by 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

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 11 Oct 2025 00:54
by 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.

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 11 Oct 2025 01:06
by 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.

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 11 Oct 2025 02:14
by 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.

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 11 Oct 2025 02:15
by Vayutuvan
saip wrote: 11 Oct 2025 00:45 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.

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Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 11 Oct 2025 02:58
by Cyrano
Vayutuvan wrote: 10 Oct 2025 23:01
Cyrano wrote: 10 Oct 2025 12:20 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 ;)

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 11 Oct 2025 03:40
by Vayutuvan
https://x.com/MariaCorinaYA/status/1976642376119549990
María Corina Machado
@MariaCorinaYA
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8h
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!
Red Flag to some here. :mrgreen:

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 11 Oct 2025 03:45
by Vayutuvan
María Corina Machado

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%AD ... ign_policy
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]

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 11 Oct 2025 07:24
by chetak
This is delusional.

After setting the entire kitchen on fire, this guy now says that the heat is too much for him to take

Also, he is finding it difficult to get out of the kitchen because he has already set many parts of the house itself on fire

His "voters" are baying for his blood, and he is bleeding soybean and corn, even as he is sweating diary and overpriced oil/gas

he initially entered the kitchen after claiming that he was a globally famous gourmet chef, renowned for his culinary efficiency, innovative recipes, and his innate ability to develop new and unique epicurean masterpieces on the fly

He fumbled badly on the basic recipes of palestinian, ukrainain, european, russian and israeli cuisines, not to mention his making a right royal dogs breakfast of his repeated forays into the complex gastronomic universe of the Indian pakwan.

In reality, it now turns out that, far from being a culinary connoisseur, he is just another greasy spoon hash house slop slinger

And now he says that it's not his fault and that the chinaman did it



After launching trade war on entire world, Trump rants against China alleging trade hostilities over rare earth export controls, threatens massive tariff increase


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