Ritholtz claims that NS is gay. Honestly, I am starting to think about potential Seattle employers.
Better skiiing in CO, but not much traction for my line of work.
Gay people can't be cocksuckers?
Is every thread going to be about chicken?
It's funny, I was literally (not in the Joe Biden way) just heading over here to say that as quickly as that, the cult of Nate Silver has begun to annoy me. This post is timely, is what I'm saying.
I'm not worshipping him in a cult-like fashion; I'm simply noting that his thin, effeminate self is going to be attracting hot guys like a powerful magnet attracts iron filings. because SCIENCE!!11! nate silver gets extra love because republicans and some delusional leftish pundits who wanted to imagine they have a meaningful job were hating on him so hard of late. we can talk about sam wang if you'd rather.
Sam Wang doesn't need statistics to get laid. It's all right there in the name.
2: wait, nate silver is totally 100% gay, is this a problem for his either getting or giving oral sex? is there an effeminate man "mangina dentata" problem I don't know about?
6: my point was that I was coming over here to say this regardless. I was just surprised, and pleased, to find you pointing to an example of a phenomenon that's already begun to annoy me. Can I have a Slate column now?
Can I have a Slate column now?
You'll have to fight Saiselgy to death for it first.
12: that hardly seems fair. I have a limp.
But contrarians don't usually fight fair. It's a mystery, isn't it?
Wouldn't it be funny if we didn't know what terms were insulting and what terms were laudatory? Whole conversations would take place, the basis for which would be our ignorance.
it means performing fellatio like a necromancer.
8. I didn't know anything about the guy, still don't, just his well-considered thoughts.
"laudatory" means "bad day on the home front, so back here."
it must be that the text you remember was drunk.
the text I remember was a little bit cruel and longwinded.
'member when?
Wouldn't it be funny if Tom Hilde had left that thread and decided to enact his awful revenge by slowly taking over the blog, to be achieved by adopting several tiresome handles and then renting a room and posting non-stop, until the whole blog almost exploded?
And it almost worked until he forgot what Wizard Cocksucker meant.
and that it must always be capitalised!
27: Oh, I remember that text too. Also this one.
bathtub filled with gin
Heavy drinkers lose syntax as the day wears on, and usually clinical depression means sleeping badly. Just a dick.
"laudatory" means "praise a conservative".
oh, I thought it was something about poisonous yew berries. it just goes to show what you can learn on the internet. I mean, sure, "laus" is 3rd declension, seemed like a very likely source for the word, etc., but I needed to know more. that's why I asked text. in much the same fashion that sam wang's getting laid is self-explanatory, questions about words can always be answered by text, on account of il n'y a pas de hors-texte.
33: I only just now understood your 'pune' or 'play upon words,' nosflow. this is because I am handicapped. I suffer from pun-blindness.
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8 degrees right now. Forecast low for tonight is 3. Maybe it's time to turn on the heat.
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uh...what have you been doing up till this point, teo, burning the dining room chairs in turn?
Nate Silver was totally right when he said that Nate Silver is overrated, just like he's right about everything else.
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Hey cat, thanks for puking in my bed this morning, 40 minutes before I had to wake up, and when the kids were actually still sleeping soundly. Those last 40 minutes aren't particularly valuable and cozy and I could still be sleeping right now, for another 10 minutes.
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To be clear, the retching woke me up. I put it together a half beat two slowly and kicked him off the bed, making a puke smear all the way to the floor.
After the initial gross factor, puke smear has a nice sound to it. Puke smear! Puke smear! Come and get your puke smear!
12: You'll have to fight Saiselgy to death for it first.
I will note that he approvingly tweeted about the "Nate Silver: no big deal" article that Slate published yesterday.
the cult of Nate Silver has begun to annoy me
The thing is, it's not just about Silver personally. Thanks to their hysterical denunciations of him, expressing admiration for Silver is now a polite way of expressing contempt for the Brookses, Yglesiases and Wills of the world.
43: I don't remember Yglesias ever attacking Silver.
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You know how sometimes you visualize a person you've never seen, and when you finally meet them or see an image of them, they look nothing like you imagined? Well, sometimes they look exactly like you expected.
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contempt for the Brookses, Yglesiases and Wills of the world
Do you mean people who use computers? I don't think there's a tighter category for those three.
a tighter category for those three
"Pundits".
I mean, sure, "laus" is 3rd declension, seemed like a very likely source for the word, etc.,
Oh you had to go and be adorable after I went to sleep. I had actually meant to write "Robert Horry" as an exemplar but I got tripped up by the rhyming. This is probably an awkward moment to reveal that I can't read or write.
Everybody's a pundit nowadays. I've even got my own regular podcast, and I don't know how to tie my own shoes.
49: I finally learned thanks to this video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC7g3DawSgs
You can have sex in a car.
You can even have sex in an LTR, though that's less common.
43: Right. Silver's reputation is burnished by the people who hate him. Obama's too.
Someone reassure me that "re-scheduled" isn't actually hyphenated? The lawyer I'm editing generally spells better than I do, but that can't be right.
54: you're right, he's wrong. I'll eat my hat if I haven't been pwned by the time this comment posts.
What was throwing me is that I'm usually the over-hyphenator. I slip into T. Herman Zweibel-style "ice-cream" and "motor-cars" hyphenation all the time.
I really wish I had read this thread before making a "RT @nytimes: NATE SILVER UP TO HIS ELBOWS IN POON" joke on twitter, because then I would have known that Nate Silver was gay.
uh...what have you been doing up till this point, teo, burning the dining room chairs in turn?
Mooching off of the neighboring apartments' heat, I think. This seems to be a pretty well-insulated building. I didn't even end up having to turn on the heat last night; I just put on a sweater.
58: "CORRECTION: NATE SILVER UP TO HIS ELBOWS IN ASS."
"I am Nate Silver, Lord and God of the Algorithm!"
45: that's honestly kind of sad. I want to feed him south indian vegetarian food in moderate sunshine for six months. he looks like a factory-reject baloney that turned out too pale.
Now, now. There's nothing wrong with being a fat, pasty white guy.
Last night while reading a collection of essays from the center-left and far left viciously attacking Hardt & Negri, specifically one on the World Bank and post-nationalism post-Washington Consensus...Ray Bradbury and Truffaut and Nate Silverism and the delusion of facts again came to mind. Never mind how I guess.
Not at all new, but if we embedded chips in everybody like the monitors on focus groups so that in real time we could measure everybody's preferences and positions and prejudices including intensity would we need elections or representatives? Could we have a perfect democracy?
I mean, goddamn we would have a shitload of facts.
Not at all new, but if we embedded chips in everybody like the monitors on focus groups so that in real time we could measure everybody's preferences and positions and prejudices including intensity would we need elections or representatives? Could we have a perfect democracy?
Why go to all that trouble when you can just hang out at the Applebee's salad bar and eavesdrop on what the cab drivers are saying.
if we embedded chips in everybody like the monitors on focus groups so that in real time we could measure everybody's preferences and positions and prejudices including intensity would we need elections or representatives
bob, you might enjoy "Interface" by Neal Stephenson...
The comments below David Brooks latest article are fabulous. Every single one of them is taking him to task.
"People like you keep talking about "the work ethic". Work ethic is not up for discussion. It is a given. What Americans want is jobs - good jobs in which hard work results in security for them and their families and a better life for their children. It was you, and your GOP cohorts who made that dream that much more difficult (and for many, impossible) and then you have the unmitigated gall to talk about work ethic?"