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An alternative to IIRC, which takes one more letter to type and two more syllables to say.
An alternative to IIRC, which takes one more letter to type and two more syllables to say.
The vote gaps in Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania were each more than 100k, but then so were the number of voters erroneously removed from blue-district rolls, ims.
by WhatwasIsaying February 3, 2025
Get the IMSmug. Success in life depends largely on your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas, in that order.
A somewhat depressing observation that the best ideas don’t necessarily win out in the end, but depend on salesmanship, including thinking on one’s feet and a compelling in-person presentation.
Source: Prof. Patrick Winston
A somewhat depressing observation that the best ideas don’t necessarily win out in the end, but depend on salesmanship, including thinking on one’s feet and a compelling in-person presentation.
Source: Prof. Patrick Winston
by WhatwasIsaying January 25, 2025
Get the Winston’s Lawmug. In blackjack, you try to get as close to 21 wogo.
On the Price is Right, you win if you're closest to the price wogo.
On the Price is Right, you win if you're closest to the price wogo.
by WhatwasIsaying July 16, 2023
Get the wogomug. The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
Also known as the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle.
Coined in 2013 by Alberto Brandolini, an Italian programmer.
Related to the quote attributed to Noam Chomsky, "It takes a minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it."
Also known as the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle.
Coined in 2013 by Alberto Brandolini, an Italian programmer.
Related to the quote attributed to Noam Chomsky, "It takes a minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it."
Trolls rely on Brandolini's Law to tie up well-meaning people in time-consuming debunking, with a minimum of effort on their own part.
by WhatwasIsaying December 24, 2024
Get the Brandolini's Lawmug. IMS, she preferred a fuss being made of her birthday but not of Valentine's Day.
IMS, when this problem came up in the past, a shorter HDMI cable solved the problem.
IMS, this is the club I was told not to use a credit card in, if I didn't want to be double-charged for alcohol.
IMS, when this problem came up in the past, a shorter HDMI cable solved the problem.
IMS, this is the club I was told not to use a credit card in, if I didn't want to be double-charged for alcohol.
by WhatwasIsaying February 16, 2025
Get the IMSmug. Mail sent to an address by the government to ask for confirmation that the resident still lives there; if the resident does not respond, e.g., because s/he mistakes it for junk mail, the state uses non-response as its excuse to purge the voter from its rolls
The (in)accuracy of non-response to assess residency can be corroborated by comparing purged name-address pairs with recent USPS and Amazon shipments.
The (in)accuracy of non-response to assess residency can be corroborated by comparing purged name-address pairs with recent USPS and Amazon shipments.
I never returned that poisoned postcard, which explains why I had to fill out a provisional ballot. I wonder if it was counted.
by WhatwasIsaying February 15, 2025
Get the poisoned postcardmug. If you ask the top people for their opinions first, you won’t get effective advice from the people below them.
A group of people can be asked to make a decision and will march off in a direction they never would have taken by themselves.
When doctors are preparing to perform brain surgery on your wife, pull the top surgeons and physicians into a breakroom with residents and other medical staff and ask the people on the lowest rungs of the profession for their opinions on the surgery first.
Source: Astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, in 2014 at the annual Visitor Industry Luncheon at the Sioux Falls Convention Center
“I learned you do not want to ask the space shuttle commander, the flight director, the chief engineer or program manager his opinion first. If you do, you don’t get effective advice from the people below them.”
A group of people can be asked to make a decision and will march off in a direction they never would have taken by themselves.
When doctors are preparing to perform brain surgery on your wife, pull the top surgeons and physicians into a breakroom with residents and other medical staff and ask the people on the lowest rungs of the profession for their opinions on the surgery first.
Source: Astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, in 2014 at the annual Visitor Industry Luncheon at the Sioux Falls Convention Center
“I learned you do not want to ask the space shuttle commander, the flight director, the chief engineer or program manager his opinion first. If you do, you don’t get effective advice from the people below them.”
At Los Alamos, visitors Niels Bohr and brother Harald obeyed Kelly’s Rule of Inquiry by running their ideas on the current work by Richard Feynman before asking anyone higher up.
by WhatwasIsaying January 25, 2025
Get the Kelly’s Rule of Inquirymug.