To gain some perspective, I'd like to know how often Whites misinterpret Blacks vs how often Blacks misinterpret Blacks. It would kind of set a baseline for expectations of AI performance. I mean, I can't really expect an AI to do better than a Black listener to a Black speaker, can I?

China is not interested in your health if you are not one of theirs, and is only marginally interested in the health of its own citizens in that dead people don't produce. Everything they say publicly is suspect. Period. China lied about the existence of the virus, and imprisoned doctors that dared to speak out about it. China lied about the number of infections, and the number of dead. I see no reason to believe them now, about much of anything. The U.S. govt. is only marginally better in this regard. Individuals that have no reason to lie, making reports on the internet are far more credible than governments.

I have seen reports that some individuals who recover still test positive for the virus. So they are STILL capable of spreading it. I have also seen reports that the virus can re-infect using the antibodies developed from the first infection. Until these rumors are disproven, Madagascar and Greenland are still in play.

There is no scenario in which the left would praise Trump, or Pence... period. Trump could walk in with the world's most accomplished expert on the subject and the left would say that the person has no political skills or finesse, and is difficult to work with... so... there's that.

One kind of game, like chess, is finite. There are concrete win conditions, and when those are met, the game is over. Another kind of game has no end, and no real way to keep score. The objective of the game is to keep playing as long as possible. Business is like the second kind of game. So talk about 'winning' in business is largely meaningless on the long term. One can arbitrarily choose one metric, like, say, stock price, or market segment share, and declare a win over arbitrarily selected contestants. And perhaps that will suffice for a while. But eventually, this kind of limited thinking will lead to misapprehension of very real dangers to the company's long term survival. Andy Grove coined the phrase, "only the paranoid survive". He was referring to businesses, and the fact that survival (as a corporation) is the goal. The ability to keep playing the game is the only real measure of success. Much of this 'corporate speak' comes from a zero-sum model of business, which is not the game being played at all.

The economic disaster this is going to be, will be staggering.

The DNC has explained that regardless of who 'wins' in any primary, the DNC can and will run whichever candidate they choose to run. I believe this went to court since the 2016 election cycle, and this was established as fact. The DNC is not, regardless of the trappings and lip service, and democratic institution. Bernie does not stand a chance, head-to-head with Trump in 2020. The moderates are simply NOT ready for Bernie, not yet anyway. Turnout in Iowa for the Dems was low, or at least not high enough to say there is a highly motivated electorate in Iowa. So, it looks like the democrat drama will continue through super Tuesday and beyond, as the entire left continues to try to out left itself, alienating still more of the moderates. I predict an overall low democrat voter turnout in November. Not that the right can coast, or take anything for granted, but, that's how I see things going.

This article has many understatements... For a good primer on solar wind: https://youtu.be/_kZ6HSPkf8U?l... Solar wind and coronal mass ejections likely play a role in causing the largest earthquakes: https://youtu.be/-ye1Jz7Giac The impact of the solar wind and CMEs is increased by Earth's declining magnetic field as the poles begin to flip: https://youtu.be/nsqZJP54shg

I say again, if all smokers switched to vape today, there would be a huge improvement in overall health. No question. Is vape 'good for you'? I don't think anyone is making that argument.

The U.S. is big. Huge. Way bigger than your city where you ride your public transit everywhere and tell yourself you are oh so much better than those selfish Earth killing car owners. The rest of us need to get around in cars.

Inconsistency in logic IS invalidation of that logic. The tactics used by the Republicans in Oregon were used by the Democrats in Wisconsin. Kate Brown, Governor of Oregon, has used this tactic in her past. Leaving the state to eliminate quorum is a valid tactic. The majority needs to be more reasonable, they are overplaying their power. Tyranny of the majority, is what it is called. https://www.newsbusters.org/bl...

Satan managed to cloak himself long enough to code and sell a popular game to Microsoft, who would NEVER be in league with Satan. However, once Satan revealed himself, they distanced themselves from him, but kept the corrupt works of his hand. Thus they only value-signal. The trans population does not represent a significant portion of the Minecraft market, but Microsoft believes that the value-signalers DO represent a large enough portion of their market that they are willing to take any opportunity to value-signal for the purposes of advertisement. Notch is free to say what he wants, and debating the rightness or wrongness of his statements in the context of his relationship with Microsoft ignores marketing realities.

"The current global supply of several critical metals is insufficient to transition to a renewable energy system." So, demand for rare earth minerals will go up, increasing the odds that mining for such minerals will increase. "The list of environmental concerns that can be connected with rare earth elements is not a brief one." So... is the huge push for 'green' energy going to end up being as big of a problem for the environment as global oil production has been? (Consider that there are, already in nature, creatures that break down oil, but there are none that consume and render inert, rare earth metals.) https://www.metabolic.nl/publi... A while back in Slashdot: https://slashdot.org/comments....

So Mueller wants it both ways. He wants to fail at finding clear indications of collusion sufficient to prosecute, but also say that this failure is not an exoneration. Well, this isn't statistics, this is law. Failure to prove IS exoneration. Taken from the Mueller Report: "Conclusion Because we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment, we did not draw ultimate conclusions about the President's conduct. The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that would need to be resolved if we were making a traditional prosecutorial judgement. At the same time, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the PResident clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."

This is likely code for something like: "If the wrong people 'like' it, or watch it, you will not be getting kudos.