The Joke Calculator
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I'm the world-famous Joke Calculator. Still a bit confused by how this new website works. Not a fan of the drama and personalities on here. Just my take. (he/him)
I'm the world-famous Joke Calculator. Still a bit confused by how this new website works. Not a fan of the drama and personalities on here. Just my take. (he/him)
![My summary of the 2018 Steve Kerr-Mike Brown story by Chris Haynes continues as follows:
4. Haynes is arguing that they all got what they needed -- the Warriors needed better branding for Mike Brown; Mike Brown needed a snazzy new outfit; and Steve Kerr eventually found out who stole his tie and needed to realize that the tie looks a lot better on Mike Brown
5. "Don't ever steal my tie again, but I have to admit, that looks sharp as hell on you, and I got so angry my face turned red when I noticed someone had stolen my tie so I went to wash up and I think I actually look better without a tie. So thank you, Mike, this time."
6. Brown later told me that "I was prepared to fight [Warriors Coach Steve Kerr] for it. Given I've been working out, I might've killed [former professional athlete Kerr], heh heh. So, filching it from [Kerr] made more sense to myself, and the organization, at that juncture."
7. The article goes on like that for 3000 words. Sheer clickbait. The Warriors didn't get anything at the trade deadline, just a yearlong plot by Mike Brown to steal Steve Kerr's tie and Kerr eventually accepting this acquisition as a positive good if it's a one-time-only deal](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xqtpxwnc6wzxbp6qeetineyg/bafkreigvcflesyqzffuexqn22k2vjon6anwg5cl5cyyytetj7gj2j3tv5q)
![From the Canadian Wikipedia page for the Canadian "loonie" coin:
"It was planned that the coin would continue using the voyageur theme of its predecessor, but the master dies that had been struck in Ottawa were lost in transit en route to the Mint's facility at Winnipeg.[12] A Commons committee struck to investigate the loss discovered that the Mint had no documented procedures for transport of master dies and that it had shipped them via a local courier in a bid to save $43.50. It was also found to be the third time that the Mint had lost master dies within five years.[13] An internal review by the Royal Canadian Mint argued that while a policy existed to ship the obverse and reverse dies separately, the new coin dies were packaged separately but were part of the same shipment. The Mint also disagreed with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's contention that the dies were simply lost in transit, believing instead that they were stolen.[14] The dies were never recovered.[12]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xqtpxwnc6wzxbp6qeetineyg/bafkreiav4jaisfjcfdiypga7azrvfm6i2avk2tf7z2bbbn5342agz7hz2q)
![[very Lonely Goatherd voice] (Please read the following to the melody and yodeling of the song "Lonely Goatherd" from "The Sound of Music")
"🎶 Polls showing ties for the swing states' vote herd
(according to binomial computations too!)
🎶The chance they're all true is thus quite remote, sir!
(jpeg of "heartbreaking: the worst person you"
(Note that I am quote-tweeting Nate Silver, who produced a graphic showing that the ties in swing state polls are statistically unlikely to be valid (even if we assume the polls are in fact tied in all seven states!) Silver concludes that pollsters are censoring data that points in one or the other direction in order to hedge, and uses a statistical analysis to demonstrate this)
Then I follow up that tweet with my own reply to the post, saying "the venn diagram for this tweet is me". Pedantic note here: It really should say something like "the intersection of the Venn diagram for the demographic appeal of this tweet is me" but I thought I could convey the idea more succinctly by saying "the venn diagram for this tweet is me" given the way we tend to use the term as shorthand.
Wow, that was a long explanation for a middling tweet that, as I said, mostly only appeals to me. Thanks for sticking it out. Sincerely. If you read this far, as a little bonus, here's a little tidbit:
In 2016, Nate Silver addressed an audience at the Sloan Sports Conference. Despite his reputation as the ultimate poll/analytics guy, he admitted (at least at the time) that he himself did not vote! I was not there and there's no written record to my knowledge, but I'm close friends with one of the people in the audience. I speculate this was related to his academic pedigree at the UChicago econ department and the questionable logic of "marginal utility of a single vote is 0" that my wonderfully-dry econ 101 teacher in high school once wryly recited for our class, right around the time he got elected Village President.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xqtpxwnc6wzxbp6qeetineyg/bafkreifc5jhf6a3nwiorhmg4vkrdrck362732d2exyeth2fpnvaleeapvm)
