Sunday, May 24, 2020

Cynema & Zombie with a shotgun.

Zombie with a shotgun is a fun web series, and an indie film you should like.




Cynema is a great podcast about movies, horror in particular.


In this episode Harrison Smith has Hilton Ruiz on.


Therefore it's double good and you should listen to it.



Wednesday, April 22, 2020

This is a lie. Just a lie.

Look, it does not matter what you think about FOX, Hannity or Carlson. Which you think is worse, or better. Forget that for now.
That's a bait and switch by the liar to hide their lies.
There is no conceivable way that anyone could have meaningful data on which fox viewers preferred Hannity to Carlson AND actually died of COVID-19.
Nope.
Shut up. Sit down and listen to me. This is one of those times when I actually know what I'm talking about.
Typically around 8K Americans die every day.
It is the 113th day of the year.
The official number of Americans who have died of COVID is 45,365
We should expect that in a typical year by the 113th day that 870,100 Americans have died so far.
45,365/870,100 = .05
That's a lot of people, it's a tragedy, a catastrophe right?
But it's still nowhere near enough data for you to claim to that you can meaningfully sort out which of those 45,000 people watched FOX news, which of them liked Hannity but not Carlson, and what percentage of those people only died because of COVID-19
You would need at least three thousand data points to even pretend you weren't just making that shit up.
You really think the people who claim this is a "study" have measurable data about the Hannity/Carlson divide among Fox viewers of more than a one thousand Americans who died of COVID-19?
One in forty?
Oh, and I have no idea how you determine which Carlson fans "didn't die" but they were just making shit up, so they didn't care at all.
So... Before you die of COVID-19, there's a checklist you have to fill out? And it asks if you like Fox news? And whether or not you like Hannity more than Tucker Carlson?
FFFFS
This story was probably rejected by Infowars for being too obviously "just some shit I made up"
There is no fucking way anyone has measurable, meaningful, statistically significant data on something like whether or not you're more likely to die of COVID if you watch FOX news, and like Tucker more than Hannity or vise versa.
But there is absolutely no way in hell you have good enough date to make these claims, or sample sizes of good enough date to even pretend that it's statistically significant.
That's just bullshit. It's just a lie.
Anyone who has even the slightest clue how math works knows this.
Someone needs curbed stomped, like tonight.
CORONAVIRUS DEATHS GREATER AMONG FOX NEWS VIEWERS THAT PREFER HANNITY OVER TUCKER CARLSON, STUDY SAYS

Monday, April 13, 2020

Cases and deaths per capita by state

I got these numbers from these two web sites. Sunday, April 12th Feel free to correct my math or tell me I made a mistake.

Ask yourself why most of you are seeing this for the first time from a snarky internet Vampyre.

The answer isn't politics or conspiracy. It's the incredible incompetence and pathetic innumeracy of almost everyone who works in the American media. 


Coronavirus map of the US: latest cases state by state


State Population Cases Deaths Cases Per Person Deaths Per Person Cases per 100K Deaths Per 100K
New York 19,453,561.00 189,086 9,385 0.0097198657 0.0004824 972 48
New Jersey 8,882,190.00 61,850 2,350 0.0069633728 0.0002646 696 26
Louisiana 4,648,794.00 20,595 840 0.0044301812 0.0001807 443 18
Massachusetts 6,949,503.00 25,475 756 0.0036657298 0.0001088 367 11
Connecticut 3,565,287.00 12,035 554 0.0033756048 0.0001554 338 16
Rhode Island 1,059,361.00 2,665 63 0.0025156675 0.0000595 252 6
Michigan 9,986,857.00 24,244 1,479 0.0024275906 0.0001481 243 15
Pennsylvania 12,801,989.00 22,997 557 0.0017963615 0.0000435 180 4
Delaware 973,764.00 1,625 35 0.0016687822 0.0000359 167 4
Illinois 12,671,821.00 20,852 720 0.0016455409 0.0000568 165 6
Washington 7,614,893.00 10,530 510 0.0013828165 0.0000670 138 7
Maryland 6,045,680.00 8,225 236 0.0013604756 0.0000390 136 4
Colorado 5,758,736.00 7,307 289 0.0012688548 0.0000502 127 5
Georgia 10,617,423.00 12,550 442 0.0011820194 0.0000416 118 4
Indiana 6,732,219.00 7,928 343 0.0011776206 0.0000509 118 5
Vermont 623,989.00 727 27 0.0011650846 0.0000433 117 4
Mississippi 2,976,149.00 2,781 96 0.000934429 0.0000323 93 3
Florida 21,477,737.00 19,895 461 0.000926308 0.0000215 93 2
Nevada 3,080,156.00 2,836 112 0.0009207326 0.0000364 92 4
South Dakota 884,659.00 730 6 0.0008251767 0.0000068 83 1
Tennessee 6,833,174.00 5,508 106 0.0008060676 0.0000155 81 2
Idaho 1,787,065.00 1,407 27 0.0007873245 0.0000151 79 2
Alabama 4,903,185.00 3,583 93 0.0007307495 0.0000190 73 2
New Hampshire 1,359,711.00 985 23 0.0007244186 0.0000169 72 2
Utah 3,205,958.00 2,303 18 0.00071835 0.0000056 72 1
Missouri 6,137,428.00 4,272 118 0.000696057 0.0000192 70 2
South Carolina 5,148,714.00 3,320 82 0.0006448212 0.0000159 64 2
Virginia 8,535,519.00 5,274 141 0.0006178886 0.0000165 62 2
New Mexico 2,096,829.00 1,245 26 0.0005937537 0.0000124 59 1
California 39,512,223.00 23,207 675 0.0005873372 0.0000171 59 2
Wisconsin 5,822,434.00 3,341 144 0.000573815 0.0000247 57 2
Ohio 11,689,100.00 6,604 253 0.0005649708 0.0000216 56 2
Iowa 3,155,070.00 1,587 41 0.0005029999 0.0000130 50 1
Oklahoma 3,956,971.00 1,970 96 0.0004978556 0.0000243 50 2
Arizona 7,278,717.00 3,542 115 0.0004866242 0.0000158 49 2
Texas 28,995,881.00 13,748 286 0.0004741363 0.0000099 47 1
Maine 1,344,212.00 633 19 0.0004709079 0.0000141 47 1
Wyoming 578,759.00 270 0 0.0004665154 0.0000000 47 0
Kansas 2,913,314.00 1,344 56 0.0004613303 0.0000192 46 2
Kentucky 4,467,673.00 1,963 97 0.0004393786 0.0000217 44 2
North Carolina 10,488,084.00 4,590 90 0.0004376395 0.0000086 44 1
Arkansas 3,017,825.00 1,280 27 0.0004241465 0.0000089 42 1
Nebraska 1,934,408.00 791 17 0.0004089106 0.0000088 41 1
North Dakota 762,062.00 308 7 0.0004041666 0.0000092 40 1
Alaska 731,545.00 272 8 0.0003718158 0.0000109 37 1
Montana 1,068,778.00 387 6 0.0003620958 0.0000056 36 1
Oregon 4,217,737.00 1,527 52 0.0003620425 0.0000123 36 1
Hawaii 1,415,872.00 499 9 0.000352433 0.0000064 35 1
West Virginia 1,792,147.00 611 8 0.0003409319 0.0000045 34 0
Minnesota 5,639,632.00 1,621 70 0.0002874301 0.0000124 29 1