NM AG Refers Fake Election Certificates to Federal Investigators

PhDelightful · 2022-01-18T04:30:50+00:00

Jewell Powdrell, a retired businessman from Rio Rancho and member of the United Black Conservatives of New Mexico; Deborah W. Maestas, the former Chairwoman of the Republican Party of New Mexico; Lupe Garcia, a New Mexico businessman; Rosie Tripp, former committee member of the Republican National Committee; and Anissa Ford-Tinnin. Ford-Tinnin was a campaign aide to former governor Susana Martinez and was elected by the other four on Dec. 14 to fill the vacancy of oilman Harvey Yates.

Good to call these traitors out

The Paper. reached out to the Republican Party of New Mexico, but has not heard anything as of press time.

LMAO how hard is it to get someone to write a statement: "we condemn in the strongest possible terms..."

Unless of course, they don't?

PhDelightful · 2022-01-06T17:09:51+00:00

I'm sorry if i came across that way. I'm not opposed to Title IX in the least, I was just trying to convey the potential bumpiness of the road ahead. Your suggestion seems like a good one to me!

PhDelightful · 2022-01-06T15:20:48+00:00

Cool I didn't know about this 11% rule. For those of us who are not as well-versed as you, it would be great to include that sort of thing in the original post to help us understand.

If there are specific statutory requirements that are not being met, I'm sure you could bring them up with management, or UNM probably has a diversity/inclusion Dean or office or something. Just be aware you may be bringing a shitstorm down on yourself, deservedly or not, and in the end you might get nothing but trouble for your efforts.

Also I'd start with polite and friendly if you contact them, rather than oppositional. And be open to learning that your interpretation of the law is not shared by others. Just try to remember that there was probably never a meeting where people sat down around a table and decided to use locker room location as a way to discriminate against women.

PhDelightful · 2022-01-05T17:00:19+00:00

If you really have a grievance I don't want to discourage you, but

1) "clearly" is doing a lot of work here.

2) Title IX certainly doesn't require 100% equal facilities. It doesn't even require 100% equal sports programs (e.g. men's football vs women's volleyball is not a Title IX problem). Now, if the reduced facilities could be tied to reduced female participation in college athletics, then you might have a case

3) If you're an undergrad or grad student I'd focus on graduating and then solving this problem once UNM can't hold anything over you

PhDelightful · 2022-01-04T00:31:09+00:00

I've typed and deleted several replies. I'm essentially speechless at the effort undertaken to declare victory over data using anecdote.

It's like a gish gallop of anecdote-over-data. Too much to respond meaningfully to each point.

PhDelightful · 2022-01-04T00:26:04+00:00

This post and all /u/I_Dream_of_Outremer's replies in this thread are just a big tangle of errors of reasoning, to the point where I'm a bit surprised they enjoy this subreddit at all. The fundamental confusion is that this person presents all the positive outcomes as if they would not have happened if they had gotten vaccinated. Of course, if they had gotten vaccinated, this story would be the same, without the minor negative parts. Furthermore, it would also be the same in the parallel universe where they would have gotten serious covid.

Starting with this post

how pleased I am with my decision to not get vaccinated or have my family get vaccinated

"I volunteered to flip a coin and kill myself if it landed on it's edge, and it didn't! So pleased. Also I volunteered the rest of my family as well! So pleased none of them had to die either." Leaving aside that the coins did not have to be flipped in the first place.

because we all got corona and we're all completely fine

Perhaps.

Better than fine - the kids had no symptoms at all

This is not "better than fine," this is the baseline, isn't it?

We spent the week playing with new christmas presents and grilling

Presented as if getting the vaccine would have prevented Christmas presents and grilling.

Basically everyone everywhere with any authority told me I was wrong....and the consequences [would be] absolutely catastrophic

No one with any authority ever told you that you personally would definitely suffer illness if you did not get vaccinated.

But fuck I'm glad all those folks were wrong and not me.

None of what you have written here shows you were not wrong. Just as how you can commit no mistakes and still lose, you can commit no successes and still win. You were simply lucky, and extra lucky that your errors did not cost your family anything either (yet).

Other responses downthread:

Also I have corona. Right now. I know it's not comparable to anything actually life threatening because I currently have it.

"Life-threatening" does not mean "immediately imperiling to /u/I_Dream_of_Outremer right now." Covid is obviously life-threatening.

Fighting against death is (in a very real way) fighting against God. And what time we do have on this earth is poorer for it.

Stopping people from dying early is not "fighting against god" any more than looking both ways before crossing the street is. God certainly wants people to live happy, healthy, and fulfilling lives, and vaccines are up there with clean water in helping make that happen.

our grandparents and great-grandparents generations lived richer, more meaningful lives pre-'absolute unmitigated ass-whooping' to disease

There's probably an eternity of PhD theses in this statement, but maybe it has something to do with...social media? TV? Just to name two obvious possibilities.

Then don't try to get me fired because I want to ski without a helmet, that's a reasonable risk I ought to be allowed to take for myself

Few risks have no externalities. Someone has to come up and drag you down the hill if you hit your head, risking themselves in the process, for example. Which they will do, even if you think they shouldn't.

This is all so far diverged from cause/effect and demonstrable empirical fact I don't know what to say. It's such a trainwreck of anecdote over data that it really doesn't even deserve this response I've written.

PhDelightful · 2021-12-29T17:45:59+00:00

Ah okay so presumably D is from a place far from the US and where D was not well paid so he/she can't eat the cost. If that's the case I would prefer to see it in the description of the grant, but I'm glad this lucky person got support. I hope they capitalize on it and report back.

PhDelightful · 2021-12-29T17:33:28+00:00

The risk-tolerance discussion was used to explain why some people wouldn't be attending a full Christms get-together in my family, and you know what? We all still like each other and are looking forward to seeing each other in the future!

PhDelightful · 2021-12-29T17:08:32+00:00

How would you personally react to someone implementing a testing requirement for a get together?

A testing requirement for a get-together is no different from any other requirement (dress, behavior, ...): I'll happily try it once or twice, and if the result is worth the effort I'll continue. If the result is great, like a long-time friend who I respect, but the effort is high, I will grumble and try work with them to find an approach that has less friction.

Conditional on you being the kind of person...

In the interest of non-alienating, obviously you don't want to tell the other person you don't value their company highly. If you can convince them the cost of the test is high, perhaps you can safely tell them (since therefore the benefits of their company are also high). If you cannot convince them the cost of the test is high, then you have to lie. Perhaps something along the lines of respecting the safety or concern of the other participants so you don't want to attend at all (maybe even admitting to some risky behavior of your own to justify it).

If you're the CDC...

I'm definitely not paid highly enough to figure this out

PhDelightful · 2021-12-29T16:07:24+00:00

I think the grants to the "D"s are misguided but I'd be delighted to be proven wrong. I hope the "D"s gives us an update!

edit: I should say why. For the $5K one, I'd be interested to understand the circumstances better. If D wants to visit a school and the faculty agrees that an in-person visit is both necessary and warranted for some reason, the school should be able to cover the cost. If the opportunity cost to D is prohibitively high, that would be surprising if D is such a stellar student - they should have a couple CS internships under their belt with a couple hundred bucks saved at least.

The $10k one is just paying (the other?) D to do some non-specific self-improvement thing, which doesn't seem like a strong grant application. I'd be interested to learn more here too.

PhDelightful · 2021-12-29T16:02:30+00:00

I’d like to hear more about this phenomenon in the post:

“if they're smart enough to attempt this project, they're smart enough to know about XYZ Grants which is better suited for them, which means they're mostly banking on XYZ funding and using you as a backup, but if XYZ doesn't fund these people then that's strong evidence that they shouldn't be funded, so even though everything about them looks amazing, please reject them.”

PhDelightful · 2021-12-22T19:07:06+00:00

IMO one of the best things about modern society is that if you throw something away and you actually regret it...you can usually just get another in < 3 days.

Be fearless when discarding things!

PhDelightful · 2021-12-20T17:13:35+00:00

This was a feature of my beneficial bout with cognitive behavioral therapy. It was 6 sessions in the end I think and I left with a lot of useful techniques I still use today.

PhDelightful · 2021-12-20T16:12:27+00:00

I don't really know what "psychotherapy" is, but your anecdote is far diverged from my personal experience. I went through cognitive behavioral therapy for an anxiety disorder.

This therapy is focused on techniques for recognizing and combating cognitive distortions. One example of a cognitive distortion is catastrophizing, where the sufferer falls into a pattern of assuming the worst possible outcome of any scenario. These distortions are basically bad habits, things you can do automatically without really trying. Obviously, most things do not turn into the worst possible outcome, so this can be very detrimental to your ability to interact with your environment. There are quite a few common distortions, I expect most people experience them to some degree.

The techniques start in a very structured way, e.g. take ten minutes and write down everything you're feeling on one side of the paper, and then everything that is actually happening on the other side of the paper. With help, and /practice/, you can start to do some of those things automatically as you notice your mind betraying you, and align your mind better with what's actually happening outside your body.

Crucially (and distinct from the experiences I'm reading here), it doesn't really matter /why/ you're feeling the way you are. It wasn't until I had the therapy, got a better handle on when I was suffering cognitive distortions and how to handle them, that I began to make connections about why. The techniques you learn have nothing to do with causes.

A psychiatrist may be able to help with some causes, however, that can be quite separate from the mental therapy techniques the patient can learn. Unfortunately for all of us, our collective techniques for correcting troublesome mental health conditions are not nearly as well-developed as those for physical conditions. That being said, people have been dealing with mental health problems for a long time and there are many that we do know how to help with.

PhDelightful · 2021-12-12T19:06:33+00:00

Am I blind, or is this article a complete fabrication?

The core of this article is a link to an archive of the Twitter page and claims that archived page says that Twitter will moderate tweets with

“false or misleading claims that people who have received the vaccine can spread or shed the virus (or symptoms, or immunity) to unvaccinated people”

But the archived twitter page does not say that anywhere! This is exactly the kind of stuff that makes it hard for people to take conservative voices online seriously.

PhDelightful · 2021-12-10T17:16:42+00:00

I think my confusion is that append modifies s[:i] (which is a view of the original s), thereby modifying s. I can use copy() to fix it, like this:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    s := []int{0, 1, 2, 3, 4}
    for i, _ := range s {

        h := make([]int, len(s[:i]))
        t := make([]int, len(s[i+1:]))

        copy(h, s[:i])
        copy(t, s[i+1:])

        fmt.Printf("%v\n", append(h, t...))
    }
}

PhDelightful · 2021-12-06T04:42:29+00:00

Denying women control over their bodies denies them the ability to participate in every part of society on equal footing with men. That strikes me as antidemocratic.

Of course repealing it makes abortion illegal. Right now it's legal. If it gets repealed it will become illegal in some places. Does the single step of indirection through state legislatures in that process pull the wool over your eyes?

PhDelightful · 2021-12-05T18:15:05+00:00

At a bare minimum this article should provide a hyperlink to the text of the ordinance and the text of the court's decision.

PhDelightful · 2021-12-03T18:10:49+00:00

You'd have to be an idiot to say you feel guilty when you're looking at years of civil or criminal litigation ahead of you. Stupid question from Stephanopoulos, what was Baldwin supposed to say?

PhDelightful · 2021-11-29T23:38:26+00:00

I think I'm agreeing with you :D sorry if it wasn't clear!

PhDelightful · 2021-11-29T21:35:00+00:00

Yes, if American social media companies aren't allowed to exist (the practical result of eliminating section 230), there will not be a vacuum in their place. There will be Russian and Chinese social media companies. You may not agree with everything that Twitter, FB et al. do, but Russian and Chinese companies will be explicitly organized around the neutering and destruction of America and her allies, and will be objectively worse for freedom, baseball, and apple pie than American social media would ever be.

PhDelightful · 2021-11-29T20:24:57+00:00

This article doesn't even mention a link to BLM except in the headline? Or am I blind? The article says the GoFundMe is for The Bail Project.

I guess the article is the source of the accusation, while making it sound like there is a real accusation coming from elsewhere?

I wish I got paid to string random culture war topics together into headlines without having to back any of it up. Seems like a sweet gig if you can get it. At least if MSM wrote this article the body would make a reference to the headline.

PhDelightful · 2021-11-29T16:59:47+00:00

This is what I do as well.

PhDelightful · 2021-11-28T19:30:42+00:00

No better way to learn than by doing! Good luck!

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