[MitzaLizalor]

Heaven never enters the thoughts of secular-rationalists who probably did that chart. Did anyone notice the way lines were drawn arbitrarily to not group countries obviously clustered together? South Korea, Russia and Moldova, for example? Chile, Malaysia, Turkey? Not even the categories are consistent. Malaysia for instance has sharia enclaves able to gazump the federal courts yet is grouped NOT as islamist but with Cyprus, Thailand and Poland in SOUTH.ASIA.

From: The Law Library of Congress

https://www.loc.gov/law/foreign-news/article/malaysia-federal-court-rules-that-state-sharia-court-has-jurisdiction-over-apostasy-cases/

(summary: even if you want to go to the Fedral Court, the State based mullahs will not allow you to do so and the Court of Appeal must kowtow to Syariah authority.)

But not "Islamic" ………r i i i i ght.

Another chart was linked in with that nonsense, similar gobbledygook announcing what the conclusion was going to be before you'd even looked at it so the idea is that you don't and prate the header in conversation but it isn't conversation really is it.

I looked at the chart. The graphics were atrocious so I cleaned it up a bit and added some yellow rings:



Looks like they flicked some cake mix against the wall and drew a line through it – but say you didn't just want to parrot "People in more unequal countries trust each other less?" Maybe you'd notice at the 40% level (I've added the yellow rings) some widely divergent places, according to the chart, having almost identical levels of trust. Quite the opposite of what the chart was supposed to show.

There was a very obvious absence, too. All those places in perpetual poverty where everyone's starving to death. OK, there might be a couple pocketing all the foreign aid but they're both in Monaco or Dubai swanning around in gold plated sports cars if they can get out of the bordello long enough to remember where they put the keys. The rest of them are murdering one another like it's going out of fashion. Equal? Yes. Trust? Not even long enough to grab the nearest machete. On the chart? No.

[Basilissa]

Originally Posted by Social Construct

People complain that diversity statements are a waste of time, but it's only because they use time-wasting obsolete systems like freckle-counting.

This is the correct way to determine your place on the racial hierarchy. Upper-Right is the oppressor races who do nothing but evil. Lower-left is The People. The future is the Lower-Left:

Should I be triggered by the fact Poland is not on that drawing?

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Originally Posted by MitzaLizalor

"People in more unequal countries trust each other less?"

I'm not going to argue with the trend line - The last time I tried connect-the-dots the result I got was even sloppier.

My argument would be that they are confusing cause and effect. People are willing to share and care with relatives and psudo-reletives (fictive kinship) if they have a reputation for returning the favor. Or if you're facing the threat of public execution by hungry lion.

As for this example of gerrymandering:





Simply recoloring it by average skin tone would be more illuminating. Especially the top, which would outright glow.

[Social Construct]

Originally Posted by Joanna Lytton-Vasey

Enjoy Southern Rhodesia, or "Zimbabwe"

I'm not supposed to go there, that's colonization. They are supposed to come here, that's diversity.

[Johny Joe Hold]

We in Freehold have studied the diversity issue to see if there may be a way to satisfy this national obsession with it while preserving our mandate to follow the Bible. We have decided our diversity will be in the heights of people. There are people of many heights in Freehold and all of them, except midgets, have equal opportunity.

[MitzaLizalor]

Originally Posted by Basilissa

Should I be triggered by the fact Poland is not on that drawing?

I thought I saw it on the border between South Asia and Latin America? That would place it about the middle of the Pitcairn Islands, in the green section.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Originally Posted by MitzaLizalor

I thought I saw it on the border between South Asia and Latin America? That would place it about the middle of the Pitcairn Islands, in the green section.

In between Cyprus and Zambia on the map, I think? That makes sense.

[MitzaLizalor]

Originally Posted by Joanna Lytton-Vasey

In between Cyprus and Zambia on the map, I think? That makes sense.

No. I've flown over Zambia a bit- it never comes up. The map's a bit obscure but it could be between Cyprus and Chile?

[Alvin Moss]

I've always believed it was over near to Russia and China.

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond

I
As for this example of gerrymandering:

If anyone thinks "gerrymandering" is an unfair term, compare it to US congregational districts in states with Republican governors. Can YOU tell the difference?

[Johny Joe Hold]

On this topic of diversity, I admit most of our residents in Freehold are blond and fair skinned like people in Northern Europe. We are to a person Baptists.

But, if there were no diversity whatsoever everyone would look exactly the same. This is not the case in Freehold. I know almost everyone who lives in the city and can distinguish each one. That is our testament to diversity.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Originally Posted by Social Construct

[M]y department is made up of 27 Chinese guys, 2 Chinese women, an Eh'rab and me (186 freckles last count). All the heads are Chinese. Most of the senior staff are Chinese. All the heads of neighboring departments are Chinese. To do my part for diversity I'll try to find a Chinese person to replace me.

First off, this individual needs to stop oppressing the minorities in his workplace - I know it's in his nature, but stop it. Second, I think I've found his replacement. Two in fact, available very cheaply. Just don't read their CVs or look at their work very closely (shouldn't be a problem for his diverse bosses).

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Frances Arnold retracts paper

American scientist Frances Arnold, who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry, has retracted her latest paper.
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It has been retracted because the results were not reproducible, and the authors found data missing from a lab notebook.
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Science published a note outlining why it would be retracting the paper, which Ms Arnold co-authored with Inha Cho and Zhi-Jun Jia.
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"It is painful to admit, but important to do so. I apologize to all. I was a bit busy when this was submitted, and did not do my job well."

Being "a bit busy" is of course academic slang for drinking latte in the Faculty Club while 27 imported sweat laborers churn out fine science in the basement. Who cares about quality, feel the quantity! Mmmm. Truly shocking that the work was irreproducible [incidentally this word should be on the American language test]. But don't fret - it was just a freak one-off random occurrence that could only happen once, and if it happened more than once each case is unique and different and can't be compared.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Originally Posted by Dr. Anthony J. Toole

First off, this individual needs to stop oppressing the minorities in his workplace - I know it's in his nature, but stop it. Second, I think I've found his replacement. Two in fact, available very cheaply. Just don't read their CVs or look at their work very closely (shouldn't be a problem for his diverse bosses).

Of the three authors of that paper, if I were looking for diversity I'd be inclined to hire the third woman. You don't get much more diverse than a disgraced female Nobel prizewinner who's either too idle to read the papers she puts her name to or too incompetent to understand them.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Originally Posted by Joanna Lytton-Vasey

Of the three authors of that paper, if I were looking for diversity I'd be inclined to hire the third woman. You don't get much more diverse than a disgraced female Nobel prizewinner who's either too idle to read the papers she puts her name to or too incompetent to understand them.

Yes. It's possible she didn't even know about it - plausible deniability and all - there's probably an additional layer of diverse managers that oversee the diverse labor force, freeing up the Nobel Prize winner to remain a bit busy. However, owning up to something instead of throwing people under the bus is a worrying trait. Next.

[Trent Harvey, Jr.]

Originally Posted by Social Construct

Went to that Wop place. Ate spageddee. Didn't puke. Where's my parade?

Update: I went back, and this time I puked.

[MitzaLizalor]

Originally Posted by Basilissa

Should I be triggered by the fact Poland is not on that drawing

Originally Posted by MitzaLizalor

I thought I saw it on the border between South Asia and Latin America [i.e.] Pitcairn

Originally Posted by Joanna Lytton-Vasey

In between Cyprus and Zambia

Aha! They have an animated version.
Poland has not always existed, popping into being during the seventh second.
On the border between Africa (islamic) and Latin America.

excerpts 1 & 2 POLAND ARROWED IN 2 (first appears: 1988)
the animated map: see nations migrate

I trust this clarifies the situation regarding Poland's migration from approx. Tristan da Cunha via Inaccessible Island and St Helena to it's present location near Pitcairn v.s.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Originally Posted by MitzaLizalor

Poland has not always existed, popping into being during the seventh second.

Isn't it wonderful what can do?

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Originally Posted by Joanna Lytton-Vasey

Isn't it wonderful what can do?

I always thought the theory of continental drift seemed silly, but after watching the movie, I think I get it. It certainly explains how most of America's oil ended up under Muslim countries.