Maybe next time I make a post like this I’ll put [Banned in the_dunk_tank!] in the headline.

They should have paid heed to a lyric in the 1977 song “Godzilla” by BOC…

Nature points out the folly of man.

ManVsFilm (especially after what happened with his wife)

What happened to his wife?

Why is he smoking a cigarette?

Hot-off the presses - Scientists identify new Antarctic ice sheet ‘tipping point,’ warning future sea level rise may be underestimated - Hexbear

I guess we need to do a Kosner and grow gills.

The normalization of a batshit insane reality in the US is highly disturbing.

Trump voice: “If we stop counting - we’d have fewer dead.”

DangerOps is a Cohen Brothers movie about the MIC. What’s the plot? I don’t know. It’s up to them.

DangerOps a fantastic term. - https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg?t=84

Lathe time?

TMZ announcer: “The Pulitzer Prize wining novel Fohn Jetterman has been green lit for an HBO miniseries. Journalist Benjamin Wallace who wrote the novel and who has no showbiz experience will be directing eight episode project. It’s rumored to have a 200 million dollar budget. Wait - we thought this was boring political stuff. What’s up with that yuge budget? Are there superheroes up in this joint? What’s goin’ on here?! The TMZ Investigative Team is on the scene…”

I really laughed in the second half - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg&t=51s

What did they think would happen after they showed the horse the entire Predator franchise?

the characters were snacking

"You know what I’m in the mood for? Ruffles Potato Chips. Ruffles have r-r-r-r-r-r-ridges®."

I just had the terrible thought of AI injecting ads into everything.

At least there was a mention of biology. Eventually the fundies and then the republicans in general are going to say stuff like we must not interfere because it’s the Hand of God hand at work.

Miles Davis was questioning the increasing length of John Coltrane solos and Trane answered “I don’t know how to stop.” Davis replied with “Try taking the fucking horn out of your mouth.”

I’m sure that never happened but it’s still a cool quote.

They need to ask follow up questions.

-–

𝙷𝚘𝚠 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚗𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎?

𝟷. 𝙾𝚗𝚎
𝟸. 𝙰 𝚏𝚎𝚠
𝟹. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚢
𝟺. 𝙰 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚍

That sounds like the opening line from a very bad novel.

I believe the polling results would be far different if they spoke to people face-to-face. But pollsters avoid doing that like the plague. It’s far more expense and complex than simply calling people. So they always call people.

Polling people by phone requires the pollsters to call an insane number of people and call over again too. I assume any poll about something like politics that’s phone-based is suspect for young people results even if pollsters oversample. What sane, rational young person answers a call from an unknown number and if they do - keeps taking?

Another thing is polling assumes people are being honest and truthful. I’m not a conspiracy theorist but I think this election will prove to be a (very) weird one. I think the average young person thinks both parties suck. Non-GOP people are virtue signaling that they support Biden and the dems more than answering honestly. And I think on the right there’s virtue signaling for the GOP and Trump.

Yet another r/politics thread - of course they have the opposite view. Emphasis mine.

gradientz comments on Young voters backing Biden over Trump by 23-point margin: Poll

The difference between this poll and others is that YouGov made an active, concerted effort to oversample young people (a notoriously difficult demo to poll) to help get to a more accurate result with far lower margin for error. Unsurprising that this additional effort got them closer to the result we would expect.

I use YouGov data all the time at work (advertising agency) because they have the most representative sample of the American consumer. It’s really interesting to combine these answers (which came off their weekly question bank) with the data from their annual survey (the broader demographics and psychographics) to understand the mindsets of different types of voters. Not that I’m in poli-sci, but it’s still cool to play with the data and understand these audiences.

“The American consumer”. It’s true that the the Biden/Democrat Brand took a ding due to the Gaza situation but that’s offset by…

An r/politics thread