Saturday, January 13, 2024

Why do we care what other people think about anything?

 
Why would I - or anyone else for that matter - give a shit about the opinions of people who have absolutely zero presonal experience with or first-hand knowledge of the subject of the poll they're responding to? That makes no sense. 
If you took a public opinion poll about polls, odds are that a majority would offer some rather unfavorable views of pollsters and the uses to which their work is put. Many potential respondents might simply slam down their telephones. Yet if you asked whether politicians, business leaders, and journalists should pay attention to the people’s voices, almost everyone would say yes. And if you then asked whether polls are, at least, one tool through which the wishes of the people can be discerned, a reluctant majority would probably say yes to that too.
 

There's a fascinating disertation on this here if you're interested:
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/polling-public-opinion-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/
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Forget about war with China or Russia. We're looking right down the barrel of what will be the next world war - Muslim vs. Non-Muslin countries around the world. I'm half convinced we're on the threshold of that right now, especially if this Gaza-Israel thing escalates. Juss' sayin'...
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This guy in The Villages thought installing the solar panels was a good idea. The jughead forgot he lives on a golf course, about 175 yards from the 14th tee box.
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The Yankees almost never start the season at home. 
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Florida is considering honoring Jimmy Buffett by renaming State Road A1A to 'Jimmy Buffett Memorial Highway.' Legislators are also proposing to introduce Margaritaville-themed license plates that would be sold across the state.
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Valentine's Day is coming up soon, and
 showing her you love her is this easy...
 
Click on the picture for more information on this beautiful bracelet.
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The sad truth that most of these retailers are learning is just that - that most people are just thieving dooshbags who'll beat ya in a heart beat given the chance.
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12 comments:

  1. I actually believe self checkout was designed to make shoplifting socially acceptable, like when they changed from actual food stamps to credot cards.

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  2. The next conflict is absolutely coming against the Muslim horde- wonder how all those people in places like Michigan and Minnesota who imported them by the bushel,basket are feeling these days?

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  3. Solar panels in The Villages:
    that's a pretty good grouping at 175 yards (that's over 500'), I don't know if I coud do as well with my AR-15.

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  4. Well I too agree that it’ll be the Middle East which will ignite the world’s next major conflict. However I don’t want the powers that be make Israel back off the Gaza offensive at all. The moslem terrorists pull this shit off all of the time. You notice they actually never engage in war only cowardly acts of terror. I’m 67 years old and this has been going every bit as long as I been alive. It’s time the USA and the Brits unleash our entire military on these pukes

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  5. Minnesota poll, that place is a leftist shithole anyway.

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  6. That self-checkout photo--
    Dollar General?
    Seriously?

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  7. Whaaaaat??? Ann Coulter? Fisting? Please explain.

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    1. Some leftist created a parody to try an embarrass Coulter and at the same fulfill their own juvenile desires.

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  8. “How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apa­thy.”

    - Winston Churchill

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  9. This islam thing with kids with guns. Shoot them all and burn their bodies in pig fat.
    Heltau

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  10. When you get a discount for using the self checkout, it might have some appeal.
    Until then, yes, most people will take their own discount.

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  11. The logo of that Kare11 station reads kind of like Karen :)

    w.

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