WAR ROOM LOUNGE V42: Some People are Finer than Others

We have lots of fine people on all sides. Who are the finest people? (choose 4)

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Trotsky said:
Same, the workers can never seem to understand me when I try to speak their native tongue when I order at Taco Bell.
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I used to get confused as being Mexican a lot. Would be nice to be able to slide in to another culture when the situation calls for it
 
georges snipierre said:
I regret not learning Spanish in school
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Same here..I took fucking Japanese in college..

And yea, it was all well and good, but I could have used some more Spanish.

I mean, I know the basic basic rudiments of Spanish, but I regret not being well versed in it.

And back in my kitchen working days, the Mexican chefs only taught me swear words and racial epithets
 
And on a related note, a good ice breaker to broach Mexicans who dont speak English is boxing...

Almost every Mexican I met loves this sport
 
Jack V Savage said:
Great piece on drug affordability, which is an issue that comes up here a bit:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/30/buspirone-shortage-in-healthcaristan-ssr/
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1st response:

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2nd response:

"I realize my political slant makes me blame poor regulatory choices for these sorts of things pretty often. And the Health Affairs article I’m drawing from makes a different argument than I do, arguing that their biological properties make insulins “natural monopolies” and that policy choices are only secondary to this. You should consider my biases before you necessarily take my words at face value.

But the NEJM article mentions that plenty of poorer countries do have biosimilar generic insulins, including such gleaming-high-tech bastions of cutting-edge pharmaceutical excellence as Peru. Which of the following do you think is true?:

1. Peru has better technology than the US, and so is able to make cheap biosimilar insulin using processes that our own scientists and engineers can’t manage.

2. Peru has a bigger market than the US, so there’s more money in creating generic insulin to sell to Peruvians than there is selling it to Americans.

3. Peru has a better regulatory environment than the US, and this is enough to make producing biosimilar insulins cheap and easy."

{<jordan}

Final thoughts:
We need to overhaul the entire healthcare system, and we need to get with our modeling of what the best system would look like. We don't necessarily need more or less regulation, we need intelligent regulation with a sustained focus on cost control and availability.
 
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Higus said:
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Ha. I am not even sure the 17% were aware what they were responding.

Reminds me of something they did on TV in the 90s in Germany. 'The Bundeskanzler is heterosexual, what is your opinion on this?' - 'DISGUSTING!!!'
 
Trotsky said:
Same, the workers can never seem to understand me when I try to speak their native tongue when I order at Taco Bell.
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Reminds me, I had an Air Force friend and roommate who heavily identified with Mexica culture (he was a sort of shaman in his teens/20s back home). The guy was a riot and pro-level improvisational cultural appropriation comic, even though that's not actually a thing to be.

We went into Taco Bell and he started in with his act, throwing shade at everything, like the "traditional Mexican napkin dispensers" and "culturally significant hot sauce packets." Really loud, so the whole lobby heard. He started in on the menu and told a story about "Mi abuela, when we would come to see her, she would make us mexi-nuggets, and they are very close to my heart!" And just on and on. He tore that Taco Bell and everybody in it to the ground, laughing. One of my favorite people ever.
 
LogicalInsanity said:
You are the perfect manifestation of that term.
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LI, I mean no offense here, but if there's an issue that's really important to you, you probably see it everywhere but don't appreciate how little it likely matters to others. To give a personal example, I'm a huge baseball fan. I clearly remember the first time being really convinced that, "damn, Trump isn't just this vulgar business guy, he's a legitimate moron" was watching him talk about baseball, I think in a booth. This is before he got into politics. But if I'm being fair, based on what I knew at the time (i.e., before Trump confirmed that he is, in fact, subnormal), it was very possible that he just didn't really follow baseball and was trying to sound like he did and that's why he sounded so dumb. I think that disrespect toward white people is something that you're hypersensitive to, and you probably take things wrong (meaning in a way that they are not intended) a lot along those lines.
 
Jack V Savage said:
LI, I mean no offense here, but if there's an issue that's really important to you, you probably see it everywhere but don't appreciate how little it likely matters to others. To give a personal example, I'm a huge baseball fan. I clearly remember the first time being really convinced that, "damn, Trump isn't just this vulgar business guy, he's a legitimate moron" was watching him talk about baseball, I think in a booth. This is before he got into politics. But if I'm being fair, based on what I knew at the time (i.e., before Trump confirmed that he is, in fact, subnormal), it was very possible that he just didn't really follow baseball and was trying to sound like he did and that's why he sounded so dumb. I think that disrespect toward white people is something that you're hypersensitive to, and you probably take things wrong (meaning in a way that they are not intended) a lot along those lines.
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This just isnt accurate, I'm hypersensitive to racists of all stripes and racial injustice everywhere. (More so against asians for obvious reasons)
I take issue with WPEMs greatly because not only of their self loathing but they preach an accepted form or racism...that fucking irks me.
 
There was a high speed chase now a bunch of cops and looks like swat surrounding this guys car. Looks like he got his hands on a gun and a bullet proof vest on or something.

This is live right now so if you press play later it will look like a 4 hour stream
Be warned anyone with BDS(black derangement syndrome), this is a black comedian who just turned this on at the end of his show
 
BarryDillon said:
Final thoughts:
We need to overhaul the entire healthcare system, and we need to get with our modeling of what the best system would look like. We don;t necessarily need more or less regulation, we need intelligent regulation with a sustained focus on cost control and availability.
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Agreed (also similar to the conclusion). The bad thing is that the issue is much more complicated than people understand or want to acknowledge (and that certainly applies to people who think deregulation is a magic fix).
 
LogicalInsanity said:
This just isnt accurate, I'm hypersensitive to racists of all stripes and racial injustice everywhere. (More so against asians for obvious reasons)
I take issue with WPEMs greatly because not only of their self loathing but they preach an accepted form or racism...that fucking irks me.
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OK, let's make it fun. Can you cite any posts of Barry's that you think led you to believe that he's a whatever-that-dehumanizing-acronym stands for?
 
Jack V Savage said:
LI, I mean no offense here, but if there's an issue that's really important to you, you probably see it everywhere but don't appreciate how little it likely matters to others. To give a personal example, I'm a huge baseball fan. I clearly remember the first time being really convinced that, "damn, Trump isn't just this vulgar business guy, he's a legitimate moron" was watching him talk about baseball, I think in a booth. This is before he got into politics. But if I'm being fair, based on what I knew at the time (i.e., before Trump confirmed that he is, in fact, subnormal), it was very possible that he just didn't really follow baseball and was trying to sound like he did and that's why he sounded so dumb. I think that disrespect toward white people is something that you're hypersensitive to, and you probably take things wrong (meaning in a way that they are not intended) a lot along those lines.
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That's so funny. I specifically remember when I first realized Trump was a moron too. And it had to do with sports! I was watching Best Damn Sports Show Period back around 2003. They had Trump on to talk about Shaquille O'Neal and Trump was talking about how he's 7'5 350 lbs (Shaq was actually about 7'1 325 at the time). The host, Chris Rose, gave a smirk to the camera and I thought "what a dick, so what if this old man happens to have that detail about Shaq's measurements wrong - not everyone is a sports info nerd!"

But then Trump started talking about how Shaq had a tremendous jump shot, and I was like
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georges snipierre said:
I regret not learning Spanish in school
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People that took three years of Spanish annoy me because they will correct my Spanish when I'm speaking to Mexicans but refuse to speak it in front of native speakers.

Work in a kitchen for a bit or pop down to Playas de Tijuana and hang out in bars for a week.
 


Gorsuch: ... we don't have any evidence disaggregating the reasons why the forms are left uncompleted. What do we do with that? I mean, normally we would have a regression analysis that would disaggregate the potential cause identify to a 95th percentile degree of certainty what the reason is that persons are not filling out this form and we could attribute it to this question.

@waiguoren, as the WR's (and maybe America's) biggest Gorsuch fan, how do you respond to that? Don't they teach basic stats in law school? @Trotsky? Not only does he sound like a moron, he sounds like a moron who is trying to sound smart, which is so much worse.
 
Trotsky said:
Same, the workers can never seem to understand me when I try to speak their native tongue when I order at Taco Bell.
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I refuse to believe you haven't watched my stand up after this post.



Fast forward to 5:15. It's one of my favorite bits.
 
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