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Yavin4

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August 28, 2020

I'm not watching. I want an honest, objective opinion. How's he doing?

What will be the media narrative tomorrow?

August 28, 2020

What was the No. 1 song on your birthday?

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/birthday-no1/

For me:

The Animals - "The House of the Rising Sun" in the U.S.

The Kinks - "You Really Got Me" in the U.K.

The Newbeats - "Bread and Butter" in Canada

The Honeycombs - "Have I The Right" in Australia
August 27, 2020

I'm out. I'm not watching that speech tonight.

I'll wait for the reactions.

August 27, 2020

This country desperately needs Joe Biden as its president right now.

If he is not elected president with a huge majority, this nation is done for. Kaput.

August 27, 2020

This RNC convention is doing nothing more than what Fox News does every night.

It's not lies. It's pure propaganda. it's creating an alternate reality.

August 27, 2020

There's one more night of this.

Everything seems the same. Every speaker says the same thing. Over and over. Again and again.

August 26, 2020

I could be wrong, but I think Melania is reading from a teleprompter.

Like I said, I could be wrong.

August 26, 2020

Are these speeches live or on tape?

I think that most of them are on tape.

August 25, 2020

Let's say you have a huge bin full of 300 million M&Ms. Some are red. Some are blue. Some are green.

You're trying to estimate how just many M&Ms in the bin are either red, blue, or green. There's a scooper that can take out precisely 1000 M&Ms at a time.

You dip the scooper and get a count of 410 red, 520 blue, and 70 green.

You do it again and get 370 red, 530 blue, and 100 green.

You do it again and get 430 red, 550 blue, and 20 green.

You do this several more times over weeks and months, and each time you always get a count where the blue M&Ms are 7.5% (on avg) more than the red M&Ms, and 46% (on avg.) more than the green M&Ms.

You are now ready to say that the majority of the M&Ms in the bin are blue.

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