HWFO Newsletter 11/12/2020 … YOU ARE (HERE)

This is a screenshot from a Facebook discussion I was in, in early October. Annotated.

Enough said about that.

New Material

Quitting drinking for a bit has led to insomnia, and insomnia leads to articles, so everyone wins.

The current media melee revolves around election fraud and Biden’s Covid plans. On election fraud, I find it highly likely that there was some fraud somewhere, but intensely unlikely it could have possibly changed the result of the presidential election. Put simply, you’d have to have an operation much larger than 20,000 votes worth of fraud to have stolen it. Orders of magnitude larger. Biden is president, we all should accept that as quickly as possible, although rooting out fraud is good for its own sake. Conceptual Fraud Math, with time travelling spacemen:

https://medium.com/handwaving-freakoutery/an-outside-look-at-election-fraud-87bdba723e73

Part of the great Covid debate is how vaccines should be distributed, and who gets to choose that distribution plan. Cuomo has been all over the media talking about this, and pissing people off, and potentially killing people with his actions, but he has a curious point that’s definitely valuable and is worth looking at. Stacking Cuomo’s bodies to find the nugget beneath the math:

https://medium.com/handwaving-freakoutery/steelmanning-cuomos-body-count-3e53a09b5203

Stay frosty.