Nicolas Nassim Taleb & Black Swanshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb When one refuses to intake information because of ideology and policy, we have Black Swans come a calling. All politicians run on promises, but typically what overtakes a politician are emergencies, aka crises. One example was the wind down of the US military from WW2 only to get surprised by Stalin and Mao's endorsing the North Korean Kim's invasion of the South. Perhaps the standard of political office or of economics should be "Can you you us examples of how you managed, or would manage a crisis?"
-----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Crowell <[email protected]> To: Everything List <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Sep 13, 2021 5:51 am Subject: Re: NYTimes.com: White House Seeks $65 Billion for ‘Apollo’ Plan to Prepare for Future Pandemics On Sunday, September 12, 2021 at 11:38:06 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: It doesn't matter how brainy you think you are if you are wrong. Robert Reich predicted a stick market crash in his column commenting on Trumps win in 2016, and he was dead wrong. "but wait, wait, look how brainy I am. Look at my intellectual level-aren't you awed?!" No, and only success matters because as that social construct Madonna sang many years ago, "we are living in the material world, and I am a material girl." -----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Sep 10, 2021 6:17 am Subject: Re: NYTimes.com: White House Seeks $65 Billion for ‘Apollo’ Plan to Prepare for Future Pandemics On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 6:46 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > You discard the Post as I discard the the Ny times. I maintain it would be impossible for a disinterested observer to read the New York Times and the New York Post and conclude they both operated at the same intellectual level, and that the New York Times was not far far more intelligently written and more diligently fact checked. > For Fauci we look to the Australian media using The Intercept as a news > source. The Intercept is nice and Left, but they obtained the evidence, so > they ran with > it.https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/dr-anthony-fauci-accused-of-lying-about-gainoffunction-wuhan-research/news-story/9e73396f5dd25ed50a29b5c561f1437c Nice and Left? The website you cite is owned by News Corporation, the exact same Trump worshiping propagandist that owns both Fox News and your previous right wing source, The New York Post. It's no wonder you have such a warped worldview if that's the only sort of stuff you read. Maybe there is some truth to the virus coming out of the Wuhan lab story, but if there is we're not gonna learn about it from unscientific nincompoops like that. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis xox -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/c47bad14-b17e-4027-9e34-dc043059c801n%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1975640200.254878.1631725926574%40mail.yahoo.com.
