oromagi

Mojique sees his village from a nearby hill

Mojique thinks of days before Americans came

He sees the foreigners in growing numbers

He sees the foreigners in fancy houses

He thinks of days that he can still remember... now

Mojique holds a package in his quivering hands

Mojique sends the package to the American man

Softly he glides along the streets and alleys

Up comes the wind that makes them run for cover

He feels the time is surely now or never... more

The wind in my heart

The wind in my heart

The dust in my head

The dust in my head

The wind in my heart

The wind in my heart (come to)

Drive them away

Drive them away

The wind in my heart

The wind in my heart

The dust in my head

The dust in my head

The wind in my heart

The wind in my heart (come to)

Drive them away

Drive them away

Mojique buys equipment in the market place

Mojique plants devices in the Free Trade Zone

He feels the wind is lifting up his people

He calls the wind to guide him on his mission

He knows his friend the wind is always standing... by

Mojique smells the wind that comes from far away

Mojique waits for news in a quiet place

He feels the presence of the wind around him

He feels the power of the past behind him

He has the knowledge of the wind to guide him... on

The wind in my heart

The wind in my heart

The dust in my head

The dust in my head

The wind in my heart

The wind in my heart (come to)

Drive them away

Drive them away

The wind in my heart

The wind in my heart

The dust in my head

The dust in my head

The wind in my heart

The wind in my heart

-->@oromagi

"So you think Trump's own appointees are conspiring and making up falsehoods together"  Sure why not, Lots of people who he thought he could trust threw him under the bus and stabbed him in the back while he was President.  2/3 of Republican representatives and Senators did everything they could to try and sabotage anything he tried to accomplish.

People in govt will say and do anything to keep their govt jobs.  I have seen it time and time again, just look at history and how quickly politicians will throw each other under the bus.   This is no different.  This woman is doing what she is being told to do to keep her job.

-->@949havoc

I love how he left out that more people died from COVID under Joe Biden this year even with the vaccine being fully developed. 

-->@oromagi

That's it? Just some "she said this about Trump" and "she said that about Trump"?

Would you believe an allegation against a coworker with no questions asked if another coworker told you about it?

Speaking of which, what even is the allegation here? That he picked the wrong policy, that he was a buffoon, or that he was actively malevolent?

• It looks amazing.
  
• I disagree with Scientific American campaign to get the telescope renamed.
  
• Is the E-WEB heavy repeating blaster also named after James E. Webb?

Scroll back 1600 years, into the even dimmer past.

The scientists are not funded by Trump, they are funded by the govt that hates Trump.

-->@oromagi

  Statistics show that 97% of scientists agree with those who fund them.

 makes me feel good on my Wikipedia worshipping ass

You got an issue with me having a guy fawkes pic,

 You can fuck off with this utter bullshit calling me a poster boy for Trump

or trying to troll me into feeling I can't have my beautiful profile pic, you have not had a good-looking avatar since you joined the website, get some taste.

How many calories did each of us eat for breakfast? How far from home did everyone travel today? How big is the place that we call home? How many other people call it home? To make sense of all of this information, certain tools and ways of thinking are necessary. The mathematical science called statistics is what helps us to deal with this information overload.

Statistics is the study of numerical information, called data. Statisticians acquire, organize, and analyze data. Each part of this process is also scrutinized. The techniques of statistics are applied to a multitude of other areas of knowledge. Below is an introduction to some of the main topics throughout statistics.

Populations and Samples

One of the recurring themes of statistics is that we are able to say something about a large group based on the study of a relatively small portion of that group. The group as a whole is known as the population. The portion of the group that we study is the sample.

As an example of this, suppose we wanted to know the average height of people living in the United States. We could try to measure over 300 million people, but this would be infeasible. It would be a logistical nightmare conduct the measurements in such a way that no one was missed and no one was counted twice.

Due to the impossible nature of measuring everyone in the United States, we could instead use statistics. Rather than finding the heights of everyone in the population, we take a statistical sample of a few thousand. If we have sampled the population correctly, then the average height of the sample will be very close to the average height of the population.

Acquiring Data

To draw good conclusions, we need good data to work with. The way that we sample a population to obtain this data should always be scrutinized. Which kind of sample we use depends on what question we’re asking about the population. The most commonly used samples are:

• Simple Random
  
• Stratified
  
• Clustered
  

It’s equally important to know how the measurement of the sample is conducted. To go back to the above example, how do we acquire the heights of those in our sample?

• Do we let people report their own height on a questionnaire?
  
• Do several researchers throughout the country measure different people and report their results?
  
• Does a single researcher measure everyone in the sample with the same tape measure?
  

Each of these ways of obtaining the data has its advantages and drawbacks. Anyone using the data from this study would want to know how it was obtained.

Organizing the Data

Sometimes there is a multitude of data, and we can literally get lost in all of the details. It’s hard to see the forest for the trees. That’s why it’s important to keep our data well organized. Careful organization and graphical displays of the data help us to spot patterns and trends before we actually do any calculations.

Since the way that we graphically present our data depends upon a variety of factors. Common graphs are:

• Pie charts or circle graphs
  
• Bar or pareto graphs
  
• Scatterplots
  
• Time plots
  
• Stem and leaf plots
  
• Box and whisker graphs
  

In addition to these well-known graphs, there are others that are used in specialized situations.

Descriptive Statistics

One way to analyze data is called descriptive statistics. Here the goal is to calculate quantities that describe our data. Numbers called the mean, median and mode are all used to indicate the average or center of the data. The range and standard deviation are used to say how spread out the data is. More complicated techniques, such as correlation and regression describe data that is paired.

Inferential Statistics

When we begin with a sample and then try to infer something about the population, we are using inferential statistics. In working with this area of statistics, the topic of hypothesis testing arises. Here we see the scientific nature of the subject of statistics, as we state a hypothesis, then use statistical tools with our sample to determine the likelihood that we need to reject the hypothesis or not. This explanation is really just scratching the surface of this very useful part of statistics.

Applications of Statistics

It is no exaggeration to say that the tools of statistics are used by nearly every field of scientific research. Here are a few areas that rely heavily on statistics:

• Psychology
  
• Economics
  
• Medicine
  
• Advertising
  
• Demography
  

The Foundations of Statistics

Although some think of statistics as a branch of mathematics, it is better to think of it as a discipline that is founded upon mathematics. Specifically, statistics is built up from the field of mathematics known as probability. Probability gives us a way to determine how likely an event is to occur. It also gives us a way to talk about randomness. This is key to statistics because the typical sample needs to be randomly selected from the population.

Probability was first studied in the 1700s by mathematicians such as Pascal and Fermat. The 1700s also marked the beginning of statistics. Statistics continued to grow from its probability roots and really took off in the 1800s. Today, it’s theoretical scope continues to be enlarged in what is known as mathematical statistics.

->@oromagi

You seem to be incapable of grasping abstract concepts at this point. It's like you literally think there was no left-wing or right-wing to politics before the phrases to describe the sides of politics were invented.

It's like saying until we had the word 'lemur' there was no lemur, it's just ridiculous but I'll let you play around with this nonsense.

There's always been left-wing vs right-wing dynamics in politics. Always has been and always will be.

Ancient peoples did not think of universal human rights in the same way we do today.  The true forerunner of human-rights discourse was the concept of natural rights which appeared as part of the medieval natural law tradition that became prominent during the European Enlightenment. From this foundation, the modern human rights arguments emerged over the latter half of the 20th century.

17th-century English philosopher John Locke discussed natural rights in his work, identifying them as being "life, liberty, and estate (property)", and argued that such fundamental rights could not be surrendered in the social contract. In Britain in 1689, the English Bill of Rights and the Scottish Claim of Right each made a range of oppressive governmental actions, illegal.

Ancient Egypt was the epitome of right-wing politics and is one of the oldest civilisations in existence.

-->@oromagi

I don't know how anyone could apply left/right dichotomies to societies before liberty, equality, fraternity took root.

Liberty and equality are not always the same thing, it's why I don't agree with crossing over 'progressive' with 'liberal'.

Left-wing is the wing that is pro-sharing wealth and pro-balancing things out in more ways than one.

Right-wing is the wing that is pro-keeping what one has (whether rightly earned or not)

and pro de-balancing things in favour of whichever tribe/clan/lineage/corporation (yes, corporation even) one associates with.

Guy Fawkes certainly was right-wing in ways but one cannot simply dub him as that, he had left-wing and sheer wingless liberalism as motives.

Sure, semantics.

-->@oromagi

People who stand for Liberty don't murder people for the wrong religious belief. 

The agenda was to eliminate oppressors of a religion from the perspective of Fawkes.  You are saying in your perspective the ruthless way they treated Catholics and tried to eradicate Catholicism weren't the real focus, you believe that the Prostestantism itself was the focus.

Your outlook isn't what people who use the mask as a profile picture generally believe, they see the tyranny as the focus.

You can throw a hissy fit all you want, I'm free to use the image and couldn't give a shit if you think it's an icon of Trump.

Actually, the king at the time and England at the time were far from Democratic,

If you are so triggered by a Guy Fawkes mask, I couldn't care less.

He stood for wingless liberty in general

but at the time was more allied to those on the Right Wing.

-->@thett3

The fact that Virginia is in play is about as shocking as Virginia’s descent into deep-blue territory was.

If Rs lose, it’s time for western Virginia to merge with West Virginia 🔥 

"All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical-left Democrats, which is what they’re doing. And stolen by the fake news media. That’s what they’ve done and what they’re doing. We will never give up, we will never concede. It doesn’t happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved."   Donald Trump  Jan 6, 2021

• You can't say you believe in govt. by the people and then punish local govts for mask mandates
  
• You can't say you believe in govt of the people and then lie about the results of free and fair elections
  
• You can't say you believe in govt for the people and then oppose every infrastructure and working class tax credit that get proposed
  

gouge your fucking eyes out.

Tell me what has increased to over 1,000,000 incidents again this year

• HR109 never advanced in the Senate and so failed as a bill to become law. 
  
• Why are you doing a three year interim report on a bill that was introduced two years ago?
  
• Why are you doing a countdown on a bill that died in the Senate two years ago?
  
• talk about your straw man arguments- "let's critique the current, short-term effectiveness of a public policy proposal that was never enacted!" 
  

• I think most renewable advocates accept that the transition will take 50 years, whether or not we choose to exceed our max carbon budget .
  
• The number one carbon saving measure we could take right now is kill all coal and switch to natural gas.  Coal currently adds 90% of all new carbon emissions and we could easily get rid of all coal burning in 10 years
  
• Then run on natural gas for 20 years while we bring nuclear online
  
• Then run on nukes for 20 years until renewables are preponderant and reliable enough to replace non-renewables
  
• (pretty much the way Sim City taught us to futurize our energy network 30 years ago)

You will have to guess my topic.

-->@oromagi

So your response is irrefutable ....and the reason people died is a direct result of something Trump did.

and the numbers are indisputable

You would bet your life on all of these things.

Or would you like to recant

and say its a political narrative that you want people to drink like Kool-Aid.

You know as well as I do this is complete made up political BS.

How could you ever prove why people died and how many.

You cant. Its complete BS .

You are a never ending unoriginal political talking point. Nothing you say is of your own mind and thoughts when it comes to anything having to do with politics. Kinda like a collage student regurgitating their professors political diatribes.

Make sure to gouge your eyes out.

You are as predictable as the sun coming up in the morning.

-->@oromagi

sadolite isn't the type to listen to reason. he thinks what he thinks, and you can't change any of it. 

The black and green scarecrow as everyone knows

Stood with a bird on his hat and straw everywhere

He didn't care

He stood in a field where barley grows

His head did no thinking

His arms didn't move except when the wind cut up

Rough and mice ran around on the ground

He stood in a field where barley grows

The black and green scarecrow is sadder than me

But now he's resigned to his fate

'Cause life's not unkind, he doesn't mind

He stood in a field where barley grows

I could while away the hours,

conferrin' with the flowers 

Consultin' with the rain.

And my head I'd be a-scratchin'

while my thoughts were busy hatchin'

If I only had a brain.

I'd unravel every riddle

for any individ'le,

In trouble or in pain.

With the thoughts I'd be a-thinkin' 

I could be another Lincoln

If I only had a brain.

Oh, I could tell you why

the ocean's near the shore. 

I could think of things I never thunk before.

And then I'd sit, and think some more.

I would not be just a nuffin'

my head all full of stuffin'

My heart all full of pain.

I would dance and be merry,

life would be a ding-a-derry,

If I only had a brain.

Gosh it would be awful pleasin'

to reason out the reason,

for stuff I can't explain.

And perhaps I'll deserve ya,

and be even worthy 'erv ya,

if I only had a brain.

When a man's an empty kettle

he should be on his mettle, 

And yet I'm torn apart.

Just because I'm presumin'

that I could be kind-a-human,

If I only had heart.

I'd be tender - I'd be gentle

and awful sentimental

Regarding Love and Art.

I'd be friends with the sparrows ...

and the boy who shoots the arrows

If I only had a heart.

Picture me - a balcony.

Above a voice sings low.

Wherefore art thou, Romeo? 

I hear a beat.... How sweet.

Just to register emotion,

jealousy - devotion,

And really feel the part.

I could stay young and chipper

and I'd lock it with a zipper,

If I only had a heart.

Yeh, it's sad, believe me, Missy 

When you're born to be a sissy

Without the vim and verve

But I could show my prowess 

Be a lion, not a mouse

If I only had the nerve

I'm afraid there's no denying 

I'm just an awful dandy-lion

A fate I don't deserve

I'd be brave as a blizzard

I'd be gentle as a lizard

I'd be clever as a gizzard

If the Wizard is a Wizard

who will serve

-->@oromagi

So this is absolute fact and you would bet your eyes on it?

Or does it fit your political narrative and you want to try and get people to join in on your political narrative by posting something that fits your narrative?

It is impossible for me or you to prove one word of this.

• The 40% stat gets tossed around often because that is the difference between US and European deaths per capita from the virus.  That is, if Trump had only been as bureaucratic and slow to act and politically weak-handed as the average European politician, we would have seen 40% fewer deaths per million than we did.
  
• That's sort of the base, easy to prove number. There's a good argument to be made that if Trump had halted all international flights when the scientist told him to (Feb 7th or any time before Feb 20th) and implemented stringent testing and quarantine, the pandemic might never have taken hold in the US and American deaths would be in the thousands rather than the hundreds of thousands.  
  
• The oldest and best known medical journal in the world, The Lancet, is famously conservative and British, so less invested in US party politics. 
  
• That journal estimates that the life expectancy of the average American declined by 3-4 years because of the Trump administration and lays a huge amount of destruction in global health policy infrastructure at Trump's doorstep even before the arrival of COVID-19
  
• The report found that Trump
  
• ·Politicised and repudiated science, leaving the US unprepared for the covid-19 pandemic
  
• Eviscerated environmental regulation, hastening global warming
  
• Incited racial, nativist, and religious hatred, provoking religious and police violence
  
• Denied refuge to immigrants fleeing violence and oppression
  
• Undermined health insurance coverage
  
• Weakened food assistance programs (pre-pandemic)
  
• Curtailed reproductive rights
  
• Undermined global health cooperation and started tradewars
  
• Shifted resources from social programs to military spending and tax benefits for corporations and the wealthy
  
• Subverted democracy both nationally and internationally
  
• That non-political entity estimates the number of easily preventable COVID deaths due to Republican malfeasance at 471,000 Americans dead.

That was my first sentence. Does it really need a translation?

T%he Loudoun County, VA School Board is more interested in protecting a policy of gender neutrality of bathrooms than admitting to having had a sexual assault occur on their ground.

• This is the second time you've told this lie without bothering to refute my attempts to correct your falsehoods.
  
• There is no reliable evidence that there any gender identify issues in this case.  The source of this information is the victim's father who has been politicizing and publicizing his daughter's assault all summer. 
  
• Trump administration changes to Title IX reporting prevent principals and school boards from investigating until after criminal investigations are concluded- officially, nobody on the School Board had any information until this week.
  
• unofficially, the principal sent the school board a one sentence notification this summer  that some sort of sexual assault had happened on campus and that he would advise when permitted
  
• The Title IX changes also require the school to continue educating the suspect until the County determines guilt or innocence.  If you really need to blame somebody it should be President Pussy-grabber
  
• Normally, such a criminal investigation would have been processed before the new school year but COVID delays to DNA testing prevented a hearing on the case until late Oct.
• The Loudon County Sherriff asked the Principal not to contact parents or discuss the case, so you have no grounds for dissatisfaction with the School Board (except those are the only Democrats in this story).
  

• Zero cover up.  When you say "cover up" you are repeating a lie for political gain without any evidence
  
• Zero gender identity.  When you say "gender identity" in this case you are repeating an unsubstantiated rumor spread by an enraged and politically motivated family member.
  
• Please stick to established facts and please tell the truth about those facts, even when it makes Republicans look pro-rape.

Dr. Deborah Birx, who helped run the coronavirus pandemic response for former President Donald J. Trump, told congressional investigators earlier this month that Mr. Trump’s White House failed to take steps that could have prevented tens of thousands of deaths.

In closed-door testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, Dr. Birx said that tens of thousands of deaths could have been prevented after the initial phase of the pandemic if Mr. Trump had pushed mask-wearing, social distancing and other efforts to slow the spread of the virus.

“I believe if we had fully implemented the mask mandates, the reduction in indoor dining, the getting friends and family to understand the risk of gathering in private homes, and we had increased testing, that we probably could have decreased fatalities into the 30 percent less to 40 percent less range,” Dr. Birx testified, according to excerpts provided by the committee.

The committee’s interview with Dr. Birx was conducted on Oct. 12 and 13. In her testimony, she also lashed out at Dr. Scott Atlas, a former Stanford neuroradiologist who became an adviser to Mr. Trump and advocated for allowing the virus to spread through much of the population in order to let otherwise healthy people build up immunity against it.

She told the committee that Dr. Atlas had relied on incomplete information to draw dangerous conclusions that she felt could have long-term consequences for people who were infected with the virus and got sick.

“I was constantly raising the alert in the doctors’ meetings of the depth of my concern about Dr. Atlas’ position, Dr. Atlas’ access, Dr. Atlas’ theories and hypothesis, and the depths and breadths of my concern,” she said, referring to a group of doctors involved in the White House response who gathered regularly.

Dr. Atlas did not immediately respond to an email sent Tuesday morning. But in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece last December, he continued to argue against lockdowns and other measures for containing the virus.

“Lockdown policies had baleful effects on local economies, families and children, and the virus spread anyway,” he wrote.

During her testimony, Dr. Birx said she repeatedly pushed Mr. Trump and others in the White House to do more to embrace efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus, especially in the fall of 2020. That was a period when Dr. Atlas was at the White House and Dr. Birx spent most of her time on the road, traveling from state to state to urge them to embrace prevention measures.

Asked whether Mr. Trump did everything he should have to counter the pandemic, she said: “No. And I’ve said that to the White House in general, and I believe I was very clear to the president in specifics of what I needed him to do.”