The NYT is working to avoid triggering panic attacks among people who felt the election needle duped them into believing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would easily win. The needle supposedly created confusion between real-life election data and flawed predictive polling. […]
“People have expressed a concern that even though our real-time election model is extremely valuable, that despite that, we should still be very cautious about featuring the needle prominently in our coverage on Election Night — not because we’re not confident in it, but because certain readers may have a nervous reaction to the re-introduction of the needle,” he added.
“… because certain readers may have a nervous reaction to the re-introduction of the needle…”
I weep for our generation. If people are such snowflakes that they can suffer mental / emotional trauma at the sight of a needle, what’ll they do when confronted by a bayonet?
I think we have some idea with some ideological fictitious “red lines” that exist only in some imaginations.
Silly Y.Knott …
The millennials won’t meet their fate by bayonet … it’ll be via a Chinese Robot Drone, delivering their new Amazon basics iPhone case (coated in enough ricin to eliminate everyone in the household). Or some equivalent. They’ll never see it coming. Because they don’t think in such terms. They only think of themselves, and what Santa is delivering next.
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i guess that’s why cbc filters the news…
The picture accompanying the article features
a banner clearly stating that Muslims want to
literally hang Asia Bibi. The CBC captioned
it as “protesters shout slogans against Asia
Bibi.”
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These people get to vote!
Just watched some toad hag on ctv phoning democrats living in Canada making sure they cast an absentee ballot.not a word about the reporter cussing out the Republican candidate by accident on his voice mail
Too bad, that needle graphic was tremendously entertaining on election night 2016, the wife and I were glued to Fox TV and had a laptop at our side, when the needle would bottom out for Trump we cheered (it was a little slow for Florida for some reason…).
Socialism is a crime against humanity and socialist governments always, always, declare war on their own population.
Well I didn’t have a dog in this fight before, but if the Democrats having a repeat of 2016 is going to have the same meltdown as 2016, I would be immensely pleased with the Republican party keeping control of both houses.
lol !!!
ah snowflakes. currently I am in the midst of a, umm, ‘discussion’ with the mgmt of the local gymnasium regarding the new policy I announced to the effect I will NOT tolerate ANY callousness and indifference or hostility in actions, words or demeanor from the other clients. I labelled them the narcissist generation. the final straw came when I was gathering up a bunch of plates to pile onto the leg press machine and (gasp!!!) audaciously STEPPED ON a mat blocking my access to the at the time unused eqpt. came the sharp rebuke “can you not do that”.
well flake, can you NOT put the fcuckin mat *in my way* in a room of some several goddamn THOUSAND square feet? hmmm?
ya, so I sent an email to the mgmt advising them I really am fed up with getting this type of language hurled at me by a snot nose millennial. coup de gras came when I asked the attendant at the time, would mr narcissist talk like that if I was the hottest co-ed on campus? (the trick is to quickly size up the situation and shove the most effective retort right in their goddamn face)
it is 1240 pm tuesaday local time, I have not check results yet if any.
I will stick my neck out and maintain that the present POTUS one Donald Trump will be TRiUMPhant in this election.
audaciously STEPPED ON a mat blocking my access to the at the time unused eqpt. came the sharp rebuke “can you not do that”
I deal with that sort of thing a lot in our apartment complex’s gym. Some snowflake comes in (with electronic thingy in hand, naturally) and then proceeds to help himself to the weights that are on the machine that I’m using, doing so without first asking me if I intended to used them. The last time someone tried that, I gave him a swift verbal rebuke and he looked aghast, like how dare I question what he’s doing.
I wanted to tell him not to try stunts like that out in the real world if he hoped to live a long life, but I decided against it. No point in denying him the Darwin Award he so richly deserves.
Once I’m done settling my father’s estate, I intend to move to another place, probably an age-restricted unit where I won’t have to cross paths with twerps like him.
lol !!
re “age restricted” make sure the restriction covers, oh, say ages 6 to 26. that demographic got a lot in common.
heh heh heh !!!
The one age-restricted facility I spoke with a while back set 40 as the minimum. Of course, there have been rumours that Red Rachel would abolish such conditions. Never mind that older people might like to have a place where they can live in peace and quiet.
I first lived in my current apartment complex nearly 40 years ago. When I moved in, I was a bit older than most of the snowflakes who inhabit the place but, good heavens, I don’t remember being that stupid back then. (Hey, dummies, if you make a mess, clean it up. By the way, shopping carts belong outside the building, not parked in the lobby–the door’s only a few paces further.)
To anyone who bursts into tears because their political candidate lost: grow the fu*k up!
IF the Democrats lose the House and the Senate, I expect antifa and the rest of the Left’ s thugs will go absolute snakeshit crazy and riot, pillage, and burn, and they’ll kill any unarmed person who gets in their way.
They remind me of many of the students I dealt with while I was teaching. If they didn’t get the grades they thought they deserved, they would complain to my department head with the hope of having me fired. Sorry, kiddies, if you want high marks, you’ll have to earn them.
Ah yes…
“Yes, the lectures are optional. Graduation is optional, too.”
At the institution where I used to teach, graduation was almost guaranteed if one’s application was accepted.
That’s no joke. During my last year there, I taught a service course to a different department. A number of the kiddies failed, largely because they didn’t think they had to do any work. (And why not? Their regular courses didn’t require it, so why should they put in any effort for mine?)
Most of those names, somehow, ended up on the graduation list. I suspect their department head used some administrative sleight of hand (i. e., arbitrarily raising marks because he thought it was “fair”) in order to get them to pass.
By then, I had quit my job. After seeing that, I knew I had done the right thing.
when I was working and getting my BSc back in the 80s, I was on really good terms with the academic counselors/TAs etc
(because of the many ways I got them up to speed with the eqpt etc)
the rule about contesting a mark consisted of the *entire exam, assignment, paper, etc* would be reassessed.
ie the final mark could actually go down.
it was only fair eh?
That’s how it was at my university alma mater.
However, at the institution where I used to teach, it was mandatory that the students pass by any means necessary. One could use what we called creative marking or, as I know my department head did with one of my courses one year, raise marks to a passing level at his discretion.
In that situation, I had at least 2 students who were between 40 and 47%, which meant they qualified for supplemental exams. (A grade of 48 or 49% was assumed to be within an acceptable margin of error and was almost always rounded up to 50%. I did that early on, but I decided that I’d rather let the department head take responsibility after that.)
One of them officially requested to write one of those exams, so I lent him a textbook and told him to contact me when he came back from summer break. When we re-convened for the following term, the kid said he didn’t need to write that exam because he “passed”. I knew very well that he earned less than 45%, so someone higher up had bumped up his grade.
So much for educational integrity.
Sadly elections have degraded to just another I get to vote for my favorite celebrity gong show.