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RedDenver

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  1. Here's the article if anyone wants to read it and understand why these tweets are missing the point: https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/drop-climate-related-disaster-deaths-not-evidence-against-climate-emergency-2023-09-19/
  2. Having a functioning society is about not always getting the good deal. Sometimes we can let others get the good deal instead of ourselves.
  3. I have us at 8-4. Although I thought we'd only win 2 games this last season, so what do I know.
  4. As something of an expert on beating topics to death on this board, I do have moments of being reasonable.
  5. I've gotten into woodworking and have started to become a snob on where I buy wood and the quality of the cutting surface that cut/form the wood including the blades and the sandpaper.
  6. TL;DR Who gives a s#!t? They're gone. How do any of the past QB's that aren't on the team anymore have anything to do with the hiring of Glenn Thomas? Whatever happened and whoever we should or shouldn't have kept at QB doesn't matter for how the Glenn Thomas hire shakes out. Let's focus on who we have available at QB.
  7. Maybe move the stock bets to another thread? You'll probably get more views/comments outside the P&R forum.
  8. Remember there were years of violent talk before the violence began in earnest. And we're seeing a lot of the same from MAGA.
  9. I've already explained this to you several times. By all means, produce the survey questions and how they're combined into the ranking to prove me wrong. No, it's actually not. That's the entire point. Common sense and experience
  10. In the past when this has happened to me, I used a snow shovel to knock down the drift, snowplow the knocked down snow, repeat.
  11. There are tons of ways to bias surveys. One example is question dilution where you ask a lot of questions in a category if you know/suspect one of them will get low marks and the other questions will do better. Another is question elimination where you drop a question from the final results if you don't like the responses. Another is question modification where you ask the question in several ways and then use the one that performs they way you want in the final survey. Another is weighting the impact of the questions when combining them to create the ranking. Etc., etc. And you just have to trust JD Power that the people are selected randomly, which given the lack of transparency and invested interest in the results is pretty naive. So what happens if JD Power ranks a company highly that doesn't pay to market the award - like Tesla? JD Power loses money they would have gotten. That's the most obvious conflict of interest. There's also the indirect one where they don't want to piss off the OEMs paying for their data. If you don't think conflicts of interests affect business decisions and therefore work product, I don't know what to tell you. Believe what you want.
  12. None of that makes the JD Power rankings any more believable or unbiased. Their surveys can both be useful for improving your product while also having biased rankings based on the surveys. Never trust any ranking where the people making the list have a vested interest in the result. JD Power isn't going to lose money when they can tweak the questions, the weighting, the included survey takers, etc to make more money.
  13. Strong I can't believe the leopards are my face energy.
  14. AFAIK it's been operational for about a decade.
  15. Same. Although one of my two EGO batteries died this winter after just under 3 years of use. The other battery is still working fine and I love the snowblower otherwise.
  16. JD Power makes its money from the same companies they are rating. There's a not too surprising correlation between the brands that pay them and the top brands on their lists. Plus the awards are based on customer surveys, so how JD Power defines "quality" and the way they ask the questions has a huge influence on what the results look like. I searched around a bit and couldn't find the questions for the Initial Quality Survey, which makes it very hard to judge the value of the questions even before considering the segment of people surveyed.
  17. I don't think that's true. Saban was one of the top two or three head coaches of all time, maybe the top. But Alabama isn't a better place to go for a HC than the other roughly 25 top programs. In the modern era of college football, the NIL collective(s) are arguably more important than the schools themselves.
  18. I mean, that's something Iran has to decide. Iran could decide to get involved regardless of what we do. But not responding to attacks on international shipping lanes because a country might get involved is a dangerous way to decide policy.
  19. That's the speculation, but those targets are in Yemen. Or did I miss something in the reporting that it's actually Iranian military being hit at those sites?
  20. I know that, but the US is hitting targets in Yemen, which is not Iran.
  21. It's literally different countries.
  22. Agreed. Tesla's lack of third-party shops doing repairs is a giant issue. As for Hertz, it's also simply that rental cars are regularly turned over. Hertz is just selling off cars it bought a few years ago. It's interesting that they aren't buying more EV's to replace the ones they are selling but not really much of an indicator of anything. I see this sentiment on the internet a lot, and as an owner of a Tesla I have to push back on it. I have a 2021 Model Y and it's just as high quality as the Honda and Toyota vehicles I've owned. Maybe I just got lucky, but IMO the Tesla quality issues seem overblown. And JD Powers is nonsense and no one should bother with it.
  23. No, teams have a guy or two watching the sidelines during the game. I'm talking about a dedicated team working on it year-round. Since hacking into computer systems is actually illegal, they'll need to think outside the box: pay players on other teams to give them the signals, playbook, etc.
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