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ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1358093106235674624


That one goes in IOSM.

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mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

My girl did this to me once when and I ended up laughing so hard she stopped feeling bad.

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007
https://twitter.com/vodkasnowflake/status/1358083326716837889?s=21

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

That is a god-tier burn holy gently caress.

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


Who's the dude in the Stetson?

SiKboy
Oct 28, 2007

Oh no!😱

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Who's the dude in the Stetson?

:bahgawd:

wash bucket
Feb 21, 2006

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Who's the dude in the Stetson?

Jim Ross. A wrestling announcer that yells stuff like, "That killed him! As god as my witness he is broken in half!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypot3CYECwE

Slippery
May 16, 2004


Muscles Boxcar

zoux posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/AetiusRF/status/1358001618067853314

Thinking about becoming the worst rear end in a top hat on the planet, as a bit

Seriously. Ironic rear end in a top hat is still an rear end in a top hat

toanoradian
May 31, 2011


The happiest waffligator

I'd expect a statistician to know how important it is to take time to digest a lot of data to get something right. What's happening with Silver?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I think he is a hot take machine more than he is a statistician.

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

toanoradian posted:

I'd expect a statistician to know how important it is to take time to digest a lot of data to get something right. What's happening with Silver?

He should really just stick to sports statistics.

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost

toanoradian posted:

I'd expect a statistician to know how important it is to take time to digest a lot of data to get something right. What's happening with Silver?

He got lucky on one guess a fuckin' long-rear end time ago and has spent his career up until now covering up his methodology (which is increasingly likely just pulling numbers out of his rear end based on tummyfeel).

MockingQuantum
Jan 20, 2012



Silver being mostly wrong about a bunch of elections in a very loud way has made him feel empowered to be mostly wrong about a bunch of other things in a very loud way. This isn't the first time he's been called out for just throwing out opinions about things he has no expertise in, and I doubt it'll be the last.

Hellblazer187
Oct 12, 2003


So lmao at the burn and then lmao at using JR there to signify that Silver got bodied. lmao all around. Good show.

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
https://mobile.twitter.com/GarbageApe/status/1357215165821972481

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


Nate's not a statistician but he's not that bad at modeling. A lot of the criticism he gets is due to discrepancies between what the polls predict and what the actual election outcomes are, which isn't really something that anyone at 538 has any control over.

The problem is that he's decided that getting some numbers right means that he's qualified to be a pundit, and boy howdy is he a godawful pundit. He's also said some pretty stupid things about covid and the vaccines. We'd all be happier if he'd just shut up and stick to things that he's done well at, but that's boring, and showing your rear end all over Twitter gets engagement, so here we are.

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.
He really, really, needs to go back to gambling on sports.

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

OwlFancier posted:

If you did not have a butt, how would you sit?

If anything I use my rear end for sitting more than making GBS threads so the optimal rear end is one that can sit at a wide range of distances and hold traction on any surface. The ideal rear end is therefore something like a hydraulic jack.

Weird way to find out I have the perfect rear end, but I'll take it.

trapped mouse
May 25, 2008

by Azathoth








https://twitter.com/Gilgemeth/status/1357041128571351046

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

https://twitter.com/HornyHouseJr/status/1357098070916407297

:hmbol:

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

WASP CREW
https://twitter.com/donokuda/status/1357794543706329089?s=19

toanoradian
May 31, 2011


The happiest waffligator
Ohhh, that 'Elfrid Payton' guy has a twitter account where he pretends to be some anonymous person so he can be his own fan or something. I glazed over because I thought it's a sports reference, but it's just your classic sockpuppetry!

Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009

ultrafilter posted:

Nate's not a statistician but he's not that bad at modeling. A lot of the criticism he gets is due to discrepancies between what the polls predict and what the actual election outcomes are, which isn't really something that anyone at 538 has any control over.

The problem is that he's decided that getting some numbers right means that he's qualified to be a pundit, and boy howdy is he a godawful pundit. He's also said some pretty stupid things about covid and the vaccines. We'd all be happier if he'd just shut up and stick to things that he's done well at, but that's boring, and showing your rear end all over Twitter gets engagement, so here we are.

He wrote an entire book about how dumb pundits are and then turned himself into a pundit.

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost
hey, that prolly added a zero to his net worth at least

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Bobby Digital posted:

He wrote an entire book about how dumb pundits are and then turned himself into a pundit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WfRcnF4iZI&ab_channel=DarkLegend

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

bob dobbs is dead posted:

hey, that prolly added a zero to his net worth at least

drat now he's worth 0000

toanoradian
May 31, 2011


The happiest waffligator
If Nate Silver had stuck to baseball statistics, he could stick with the title 'sabermetrician'. That title is so cool, man.

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/posadist_trapgd/status/1358108923056824323

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
https://twitter.com/Lee__Drake/status/1357911580671758337

Well, that's terrifying.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Ok so shoggoths were real and do live in the antarctic but they're just a bit smaller than lovecraft thought.

One More Fat Nerd
Apr 13, 2007

Mama’s Lil’ Louie

Nap Ghost

Bobby Digital posted:

He wrote an entire book about how dumb pundits are and then turned himself into a pundit.

Turns out punditry is what pays!

Danaru
Jun 5, 2012

何 ??

No loving wonder our predecessors grew feet to get the gently caress out of the ocean. Shits loving nuts down there

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

What the gently caress.

Grey goo is real and it’s in the water.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019


vibeod

https://twitter.com/PeterBrannen1/status/1120762637514493957

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


OwlFancier posted:

Ok so shoggoths were real and do live in the antarctic but they're just a bit smaller than lovecraft thought.

Quite literally the thing that should not be.

Trevor Hale
Dec 8, 2008

What have I become, my Swedish friend?

Jesus Christ. I am changing the topic away from that nightmare

https://twitter.com/prairieire/status/1358167212650020864?s=21

Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009
https://twitter.com/rmcelhenney/status/1358226455906275332?s=21

Wolfechu
May 2, 2009

All the world's a stage I'm going through



OK, I read this as 'big enough to see you and even pick you up' at first

flavor.flv
Apr 18, 2008

I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches




You want to get real hosed up? The largest single-celled organisms can grow over 150 feet long



That is a picture of some multi-cellular vertebrates being dwarfed by an even bigger vertebrate, which is absolutely miniscule next to a single cell of algae

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Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider
After a few meals maybe

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