I don’t understand what your objection is. Designing questions with a scale of difficulty, and then converting raw scores to a normal distribution, is precisely what I am talking about: the tests are designed to produce a normal distribution. That doesn’t mean the trait they are supposed to be measuring—if there even is such a trait—is actually normally distributed.
I’m hung up on the semantics of ‘produce’, I think - they aren’t designed to ‘produce’ any kind of distribution, but are forced into it after testing.
I’m genuinely amazed that someone who is a Muslim could support the GOP. That just doesn’t compute for me.
I will add that the outgoing GOP chair who told them to leave is Indian-born Abraham George, who has himself faced racism.
Well, when you compare the tenets of Islamic fundamentalism to the tenets of Christian fundamentalism, they really aren’t all that different. Both are, if broadly implemented, incompatible with basic human rights and democracy itself. So I’m not too surprised.
It is truly one of those things that would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic that fundamentalists of different stripes (a) have the most in common; (b) would vehemently deny it (c) hate their soulmates with such passion.
When hate is your central organizing tenet it really doesn’t matter which way you aim your fire - as long as it’s outward.
But when such people don’t realize that they are “outward”, the leopards eat.
Everybody is outward to somebody.
But yeah, when folks think they’re inside but they’re actually outside, a surprise “friendly” fire event is all but assured. Followed by leopards feasting.
As you’ve rightly pointed out several times, the nature of Fascism requires that if they ever did succeed in eliminating the Other, they’ll simply redefine “Other” to be whoever is least to the center of their own followers. Lather rinse repeat in an endless race to be perfectly orthodox and perfectly homogenous.
And oh by the way, what ordinary folks learn is that the way to survive the longest with the least hassle is to drive themselves towards that orthodox center as hard and as fast as they can. Perhaps easier to do with one’s online posts or bumper stickers than with one’s ethnicity or religious affiliation. Oh well; sucks to be them.
Those in the article themselves describe how they were focused on the “pro-business” (=don’t tax or regulate), “traditional family” (=homo/transphobia), “social order” (=put “thugs” in their place) message. And wilfully ignored the ethnoreligious bigotry until someone got literally right on their face with it. AND they STILL state they WILL most likely vote for Republicans.
As the song almost says:
Three out of four ain’t bad.
Have a friend who has owned multiple spreads of property over the years, mostly as business/investment but also as a place to live. For decades he’s bitched about rules and regulations and no one should have a right to tell a property owner what to do with the land he owns.
Well, he sold nearly all of his investment properties a couple years ago to fund his retirement, choosing to live on a spread in a rural county. Was thrilled to pieces when Trump was elected again. Talked about how rights would finally be respected.
Well… seems a data center is going up about a quarter mile from his house…
Apparently, given the rights of private property owners in this state, there’s not a goddamned thing anyone can do about it.
I hope he enjoys the day he voted for.
Shoulda been an intensive hog farm.
I suspect data centers are very benign immediate neighbors. All their negative externalities affect the whole county or state, not the immediate neighbors.
Where they dump the runoff into the stream that goes through the guy’s property. “You can’t tell me what to do!”
The people that live nearby get sick of the constant noise.
Christ on a crutch - It’d be like living next to a jet airplane. Amazon is trying to put one next to the Nashville Zoo. The Mayor is fighting it like hell.
“When they told me we’d “own the libs”, I thought I’d have some hippy as my slave!”
And you would be wrong. Let’s see what’s happening to the neighbors of xAI.
Thanks for the education everyone. I still think @Broomstick’s neighbor deserves a hog farm. Preferably upwind.
But a datacenter nearby is an excellent start.
JD Vance’s time in the barrel is almost here:
Trump then suggested who will take the fall if the deal doesn’t pan out.
“This is a memorandum of understanding. It’s very important, but it might not be the kind of a document that I should be signing,” Trump said.
“If it works out, I’m going to take the credit. If it doesn’t work out, I’m blaming JD.”
JD can’t be fired. But, he can be impeached.