Amazing meme choice. Sounds like a fun read.

“An improved analysis method of Phrenology”

Congratulations. I hope your edits are few and potential publications are plentiful. What was the topic?

Committee members for supervising thesis and dissertations are normally locked once you submit the committee form. There are no changing them unless it is under extreme circumstances. We are talking circumstances like death, retirement, and pending legal issues. Otherwise, things like scheduling, professional conflicts, and personality differences are not acceptable reasons. Sucks for OOP for being stuck with a shitty person.

The really crazy part is when you look at it as a percentage of the budget and compare it to pre war levels. It isn’t what you think. In 2000 the budget was $304 billion, a total of 16.7% of the federal budget. Then 2 wars later of ballooning costs and it grew all the way up to $962 billion (the 2025 approved budget. Not counting the random $500 billion he is trying to add in). But this is now only 13.7% of thr total budget. Somehow the percentage has gone down.

Now, if you know numbers you should know that percentages get messy and are misleading to look at. The real question is what the fuck is going on with the giant ballooning budget that has gotten spending so out of control that this monstrous defense spending is now somehow a lower percentage than pre-war spending??? And the real kicker is that we are ballooning on spending, but none of it is going to actually helping the people paying the taxes! None of it is helping built up infrastructure, invest in education, build communities -nothing that helps build this country.

Trump is blowing through money and we doing even get anything out of it.

The HPV virus is also slowely being implicated in causing some throat, neck, and tonsillar cancers in men. The vaccine in men helps prevent those too. It is argued that everyone should get it, and the younger the better (younger as in around 14, not 20’s or 30’s).

The crowd you see in the first pic, to the left of the stage, is symmetric to the other side, just not shown in the pictures I put in the post. The crowd behind the sight line of the camera is the big question. But if you go by normal venue layouts and make an educated guess based off the width you can see, I would put it at maybe 3x deeper then the stage, plus wings. So maybe 200? No more than 300. So, like I said it would be about a large club or medium rock lounge. Think slightly smaller than your standard House of Blues venue.

This is not from the TP USA halftime show. Easily verifiable not. The real halftime show pictures look like this.

https://share.google/images/uK1RQ4gxBgmvRVBng

https://share.google/images/MdKlpr495TlLIDzaW

You can see the venue isn’t that deep on the sides though. And all the pictures are intentionally not showing the crowd (180 view from pictures). The venue isn’t that big. A large club or mid size rock lounge is about the same size. Still laughable, but we don’t need to miss-attribute pictures and lie about their context.

$300/month (at the beginning of the month) invested over 30 years, compounded annually at 6% = $198,290.40

If you kept that going for a full 50 years, the last 20 years of interest really starts to ramp up and gives you a final value of $1,084,402.22

If instead, you ONLY paid the mortgage for 30 years, then invest the full mortgage payment of $2,648 into the investment account for the next 20 years (a total of 50 years out. Same end point) you would have an investment account worth $1,215,042.49

So, even in your scenario it is still a loss to take a 50 year over the 30 year, and the 300$ difference is negligible. If $300 was the difference of someone being able to afford groceries or not for the month, then they should not have qualified for a $2,648/mo mortgage.

Not to intentionally interclude, but perclude and reclude seem to have seclude from english.

We do not wish to exclude the population because it would preclude comparative analysis, but we wish to disclude them from this study in order to conclude the initial hypothesis.

If anyone wants to look up the test, there are only two screeners that he would have done, both have some strong overlap. There is the MMSE and the MoCA. it is more likely he did the MoCA, it is the more popular, more commonly given, and slightly better for detecting MCI (mild cognitive imparement). With that said though, you can have dementia and still pass these. There really isn’t a ‘best’ screener developed. This exact problem gets brought up all the time in dimentia research. Basically, if you have strong suspicion they have to go to a neurologist that specializes in memory care and do a full evaluation. Good luck telling trump to do that.

If you want to see them, do a search for it (MMSE or MoCA) and select images.

I was actually curious what the ratio is for normal vs rich in the US. If we look at who we call rich, we need to set a boundary first. A normal family that saves and invests right should retire at just over a million dollars. If you have a well paying job even 4-5 million is very attainable. Then you look at people with a well paying job in an expensive city, like what this post is centered around, we could realistically see someone as affluent but not truly rich at about 10 million. I would draw the line there though. To attain more than that by retirement age, you were definitely rich and living rich at some point in there, even in a big city.

A quick search tells me that there are about 900,000 people in the US above that number, possibly more depending on whose number you take, but I think the best study put it there. The population is about 340,000,000. If we put this as a ratio trying to figure out 1:xxxx people and move some numbers around we end up with 1 rich person (over $10M) for every 378 normal people (under $10M).

I am not I your field, so take this as you may: I have seen two things in common across fields when it comes to prolific publishers.

1. low hanging fruit. There are papers that need to be written or have never been written simply because people see it as low hanging fruit and too easy or low effort. This issue for the field would be that people still want to reference something that says this simple idea in their paper. This means that the people who write these ‘low hanging fruit’ papers get cited a ridiculous amount for their simple, basic, bullshit paper.

2. collaborations. My PI (again, different field) is up there as one of the top contributing authors of the field and is easily what you would consider a prolific publisher. The has anywhere between 2-4 publications per year in high impact journals. And this isn’t counting posters, presentations, or the occasional bonus authorship you get for just being around when that paper was written. She does this through constant networking with people and collaboration in projects. She is also more than happy to look at other people’s long running projects and take out a slice of data and do a writeup on it. There are several projects people do that look at huge data collections, but then only analyze what they cared about and ignored the rest. Those become easy papers to write.

Fun fact- several of the contracts DOGE canceled were “preferential purchasing” contracts. Basically, the government knows it will be ordering pens, paper, computers, and all the other bullshit out there. So supply companies pitch contracts that say ‘for every thing on this random list that you buy, we will sell it to you for X% under market rate, but you have to purchase the first however many hundred or thousand from us, or until you reach some amount of money.’ And they pitch prices based on current market rates, even though they know these contracts are locked in for 5+ years some times and simply have some basic 2-3% yearly increase built in.

It’s a win-win. The government gets to save you shit loads of tax dollars on things they were going to buy anyways, and some company is now doing massive volumes of buisness and pumping out jobs.

Then DOGE comes in and cancells all of the contracts and claims they ‘saved’ the amount the contract amount was for. Ignoring that the government was going to buy those things anyways. And now we have no way to purchase things. So contracts get hastily redone at post inflation prices, plus everyone is now padding their numbers, because ‘if they canceled the last contracts on a whim, why won’t the do the same again? And we have to make our profit.’

So now we have to pay a shit load more for everything all because DOGE wanted to claim they were saving us money.

When I hire contractors, if they are good at the job is the first thing I check. Then, if they are fascist sympathizers is the second thing i check. I want to know and google is stopping my from knowing.

Half the articles I needed to read couldn’t be accessed due to aws. I figured I would grade assignments in the mean time, up until I learned e-learning was down as well. Nothing came back up till about 3.

Thanks for asking. How was your day? Was it affected by the AWS outage?

EBSCO was down. Ask me how my dissertation writing progressed today…

That’s actually pretty cool and I did not know. Also, I see people did not like my US presidency joke. Should have added the /s…

US presidency: did you know this roll can be played by a range of skin colors? But yes, the default is white.

Isn’t his brother also white?