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HaHa - we still have a few faculty in the Engin school who take joy in nailing students who report too many sig figs! But TBF, if you are using a spreadsheet and you want it to look decent you have to pick a number of decimals that covers all the magnitudes - so I'd cut the authors some slack. We probably shouldn't take the fact that too many sig figs appear in the larger numbers as an implication of certainty as much as an artifact of presentation form. Short of using scientific notation, which would make it hard to read, or having all the columns out of line what are your choices? I suppose they could have forced non-sig digits on the right to zero, if they knew how - but that's only marginally better.

LOL - can't lose track of which side we're on!

right- Congress' refusal to do anything to prop up the system didn't leave the Fed much choice unless they were going to see themselves preside over a market bloodbath and a possible deflationary spiral. You can argue, and I probably would, they they could have tapered it off sooner but that's picking nits to the larger question of why the Fed felt forced to go it alone.

There is truth to the fact that the combination of Bernanke’s inability to sell fiscal stimulus, Obama’s own economic conservatism, and the GOPs commitment to total obstruction did result in most of the post crash stimulus being monetary instead fiscal, which would have been a more normal course. Monetary stimulus does tend to flow much more as a benefit to the class that already holds capital, while fiscal stimulus like infrastructure goes much more to wage earners. But this is an explanation which should not stand as an excuse. It was still bad governance choices that produced this outcome. And it only accelerated the trend to wealth concentration begun by the Reagan reductions in the progressivity of the tax code.

You telling’ me Henry wasn’t da Man!?

Yup

Or he has just figured out that coaching teams without quality and stability at QB is a loser! 🤣

So, both my grandfathers were born in Anatolia, and both had blue eyes. The local joke in that part of the world was to call people that fair “crusader babies” because the locals knew well how those those traits got into the population. 🛡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🛡

Not sure where you get that. There was an anti-Roman zealot movement that had been tied to the Macabees, but Jesus was most definitely not associated with that movement. Nor was he associated anything like the aims of a separatist movement such as the Essenes, though there is speculation that he knew of them. He was an itinerant preacher, the only thing extreme was the radical nature of what he preached and that was purely personnel, he never exhorted anyone to any kind of external action in support of what he preached.

what you ignore with your list of difference is that despite those differences, inequality was not as bad here 30 yrs ago as it is today. The point is we are getting worse faster than other places and as long as we keep claiming everything is hunky-dory because we are so unique and have problems no-one else does, we give ourselves the excuse to not address our problems. and yes, this is a very big part of the problem - the people who will never admit that everything isn't roses stand in the way of addressing problems as much as anything. The belief in 'exceptionalism' gives Americans the excuse to look around and say we needn't pay attention to what any other country in the world is having success with because 1)it couldn't possible be more success if it's somewhere else, and 2) even if it is what they do can't possible inform our decisions as to what we should do because we are soooo special. This a very destructive mindset America has gotten into. Historically - meaning pre-WWII, the US was more than willing to look around the world and import the best models it found anywhere. The genius of America was to take what it found anywhere, use it and improve it. The refusal to keep doing that has been our peril.

Well, I think your 'prejudices are in the right place. Anyone who cares to actually read the book knows that the #1 target of Jesus' scorn were the organized 'church' and orthodox practitioners of his day. And of course according to the available reporting, it was 'churchmen' that did him in.

they are in generally worse here than in most 1st world countries. Economic inequality by most measures, which was not that much different in the US than Europe in the past, has grown steadily worse in the US in recent years. https://wol.iza.org/articles/measuring-income-inequality/long#:~:text=The most commonly used inequality,top end of the distribution. https://wid.world/news-article/why-is-europe-more-equal-than-the-united-states/#:~:text=Key-results%3A,to 21% in the US.

No doubt, if hanging wallpaper doesn't end a relationship, nothing will. I, for one, have not been sad to see home decorating styles return to the greater use of paint.....

I was surprised when I took an edition of the KJV from World Publishing from sometime before 1960 down from the self and saw that all the color plates depicted people of various dark shades and Jesus was always shown looking very middle Eastern with black beard and hair. OTOH, the people in the color plates in an RSV - also from World and released in 1962, so maybe a few years later, looked Euro. Mixed bag I guess.

but woe betide the poor enlisted man who cops an extra helping of strawberries....

serious question though - given the place that 'honor' is still said to hold at the academies, how do these officers who lie about this stuff not get CM'd, or at least ridden out on a rail?

Task force 9 tried to kill Syria https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/us/airstrike-us-isis-dam.html Lie, deny, minimize. Nothing has changed at USDOD since 1965.

given that he can probably hear Trout's and Ohtani's clocks ticking in his sleep...

this is the crux. American is great place to live if you are upper middle class or above. But we are a society completely segregated both by race and class. You can easily just stay in your social cocoon and you never need to worry how the other half lives. For most everyone else it's been getting worse since the 80's. I can't help but find that....disappointing. As a nation we have also become terribly cavalier about killing people around the world, but that's a whole 'nother digression.

to me one of the stranger things is human race hatred history is that the Nazis latched onto the word 'Aryan' when the real Aryans probably looked mostly like Persians or even Indians, certainly not any kind of Germanic/Nordic idealization.

it's curious, they say once you reach 90 your odds of dying in any given year level out. They are still pretty high of course......

It ain't over till the fat lady sings (the one in the Bronx that is)

I don't see how that can not be a factor. That and that election expenditures are capped so money/=speech to a much lesser degree in England.

sure, there is the phenomenon of getting to where you play instinctively without thinking and at that point everything you do is faster, but Zadina still doesn't do much for me. Maybe I was over optimistic to think he had the legs for it but I saw Zadina as a potential Draper or at least Glendening type player who could be disruptive on the defensive fore check apart from his scoring, but I'm not seeing any reason to keep believing that. I imagine he has has the rest of this season to show improvement, but if he doesn't I won't be surprised not to see him next year.

Wordle 215 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 took a while to convince myself letters could be repeated.