Because he knows no one is going to dethrone OSU, King of the B1G.
What I don't understand is how he can watch the bum lose to shitty MSU teams, never win big road games, not win a bowl game in four years, hell, almost never win any big games at all! Aside from kicking ND's ass last year, does Harbaugh have any memorable, big Ws?
Looking forward to spending my Saturdays next fall outdoors.
Folks donating that kind of money to a university usually aren't doing it to support the school. They're doing it for vanity; it's conspicuous consumption.
Michigan happily takes my monthly donation to the Maize & Blue Cupboard, because it has students, staff, and faculty who are food insecure. At an organization with a $13,000,000,000 endowment.
Announcers are talking about the Camp Randall Classic back in 2010. Was in grad school at Wisconsin at the time, and oh man, was that a fun game. Cops were totally cool with people drinking as long as they weren't being stupid.
Not a witch hunt. Witch hunts end up with innocent people burned alive on a stake.
This MF'er was making a million f'ing dollars per year to show kids how to lift weights. If that's not a privileged position, what is? If you're fortunate enough as a professional to land such a cushy, high-profile gig, you can't do anything that even has the appearance of being racist. It just comes with the job. Much like you can't do anything that has even the appearance of being misogynist - did you call Meyer's firing 'guilty until proven innocent?'
Next 12-18 months? Continued volatility. Continued turbulence around 20,000. Hopefully mostly north of 20,000. I think the DJIA is high right now and am not buying anything else until it drops again.
US handling of C19 is an abject disaster and will remain an abject disaster because it appears about 1/5 of Americans are completely disconnected from this reality. We're going to be playing whack-a-mole with The Rona for another year. I won't be surprised if we approach 200,000 deaths by the end of 2020, and we'll still have thousands partying like they are at Lake of the Ozarks right now.
If Trump gets re-elected it'll be more off-the-rails crony capitalism, and if Biden gets elected it'll be more regulated and the growth sectors will be different.
There were a lot of incredible bargains in March/April, and there will be more during the dips over the next year. Relatively younger, longer-term folks like me could make many gambles on bargains and only need a few to hit big to be set up come retirement in 2-3 decades. I usually max my 401k but pared it to company match to free up cash to buy stocks and other instruments.
Why not cancer? Because cancer has been with our species for at least 1,700,000 years. (I was on the team that found and published that fossil!) It is not new, and we've understood cancer reasonably well for decades. Especially how to prevent many forms of it - like not smoking, not sitting out in the sun for hours without sunscreen if you're white, etc. My line of work (anatomy professor) inherently exposes me to carcinogens - but I take precautions in the form of wearing appropriate PPE to mitigate my risk. Anatomists have also changed how we embalm animals and humans over the decades (today's chemicals are MUCH safer than old school, formaldelhyde-heavy brews).
Why not heart disease? Because heart disease is also not new, though it's really only been with us as a plague for decades, not millions of years. We know how it happens. We know how to prevent it. Each of us takes appropriate steps to avoid getting it - or not - I certainly could get more exercise.
To most living Americans, neither cancer nor heart disease are traumatic and novel. They've been with us as long as we've been alive. Wars, on the other hand, are traumatic, and each one is novel. They require the tools to win. Americans also frequently view every challenge through the lens of warfare. We all know relative death counts from our major wars...whereas most Americans don't think about public health policy at all. Which is why our country did not have the right tools to fight a new virus - all of the PPE is made overseas, federal PPE stockpiles were allowed to rot away, we didn't have the best tests (or even very good tests). We got caught off guard and unprepared. Does that sound more like 9/11 or cancer?
Again, the premise of your entire post is a product of our hyperpartisan society. You've set up a false dichotomy: we either practice extreme social distancing and tank the economy (driving up unemployment, which then drives up all sorts of other negatives like crime) OR we reopen the economy (and we have more Rona deaths).
Unemployment does not directly drive up crime - poverty, not being able to put food on the table directly drives up crime. Have you ever read or seen Les Miserables?
Persistent unemployment does not drive up crime if it is mitigated economically through government-sponsored welfare or individual-facilitated charity.
Seems it takes a special kind of stupid to copy/paste a litany of how many people died in major world events throughout the 1900s then have your punchline be " Yet they survived through everything listed above."
There is more variation between different regions of the US than there is between some places in Sweden and some places in the US. Stockholm has more in common with NYC than either does with my smallish Arkansas hometown.
My PhD is in human anatomical evolution. I've been dealing with creationists for decades, and one of the most important lessons of that 100+ years culture battle is that creationists' arguments are simply not worth discussing. Their facts are not facts - they are feel-good falsehoods. If you can't agree on facts, you can't have an educated discussion.
Why? Because you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason into!
It's another example of sacrificing long-term strength for short-term gains. Reopening the economy yields a tangible improvement NOW, even though it will have negative long-term consequences. It's wishful thinking at best and cynical bet hedging ('we just need to keep the shit from really hitting the fan until election day') at worst.
I also question whether this push to reopen the economy is actually aimed at improving the economy - or if it's aimed at keeping Americans from realizing that robust, functional social safety nets are potentially preferable to our widespread cultural norms prioritizing independence.
See, for example, conservatives' concerns that too much stimulus money given to individuals would make people realize they were better off not working than working for minimum wage. That's a nice deflection away from how abysmal a minimum wage standard of living affords millions of Americans, isn't it?
We read Carl Sagan's "Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" for one of my philosophy classes at UM. It was an excellent, inspiring, and informative read that's helped me through my career as a scientist. One of the passages from it has been making the rounds on social media:
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..."
Sagan wrote that in the early 90s. It is clearly prescient.
The federal response to this has been an abject disaster mitigated only by most governors (both Rs and Ds) stepping up and most Americans (both Rs and Ds) eventually realizing how bad this could be...sadly a vocal minority continues to be seduced by astroturfed civil unrest campaigns financed by far-right extremists.
It's astonishing that more Americans will die from COVID-19 than were killed in Korea, Vietnam, and probably even WWI all because of how hyperpartisan our country has become.
'The good thing about a democracy is the people get what they deserve, and they get it good and hard.' - Mencken
Haven't been in to the office and lab since Friday, March 3rd.
This time of year I'm not actively teaching, I'm doing research and mentoring students. Research hasn't been disrupted (yet) because my main three projects are well past the data collection stage and my colleagues are scattered around the globe, so this is really no different. My colleagues with kids are struggling but that's OK because we're functional, supportive teams.
Mentoring students is harder to do remotely, and now I've a few students whose family members are getting sick and dying. Medical school is already stressful and anxiogenic during the best of times...I can't tell a student to focus on their studies when their aunt died last week and there was no funeral. Had another student last week ask me why they should put themselves through medical school if they're not even going to get PPE when they practice. That was a fun conversation!
Preprint that looks legit came out yesterday on COVID-19's functional evolution. They looked at a few different strains and found pathogenicity varies by as much as 270x between them.
But you'll read little to nothing in the media about how some places are getting hammered harder than others because of viral variation and evolution.
We still have A LOT to learn about this new bug. Frankly I keep wondering why we don't know more about the flu...seems wildly understudied itself.
We're supposed to spend eight days at Sequoia & Kings Canyon NPs the first week of June. Probably won't decide until mid-May. Part of me hopes the NPs are still closed so I don't have to make the decision!
It won't make it past peer review. The selection bias alone dooms it, but there are other issues. Not the context to be playing fast and loose lest it become another Wakefieldian debacle.
For undergrad, my folks had the MET program from the mid-80s for when I started in the late 90s. (For which I am eternally grateful!) I only applied to UM and MSU. I was competitive for anything short of Harvard/Yale but if your choice is a free degree from UM or six-figure student loans from Cornell or Duke, it's an easy choice.
For grad, UM was my second choice to Wisconsin. While I was somewhat disappointed at the time, it was a similar choice - either a free PhD from Madison or six-figure student loans from UM. Not a difficult decision.
Right on, sir. I think we all feel like that going up through the ranks. I got put on academic probation when I was at Ann Arbor. Fortunately that meant I had my shit together when I was at Madison and had a fairly straightforward path to the PhD. Lucked out with multiple international newsworthy discoveries while an assistant professor - whenever I'm invited to give talks, I talk about imposter syndrome.
Medical school professor here. This time of year I rarely lecture and those are now simply online. Research is more productive than usual because now it is a distraction keeping me sane. I'm lucky to have colleagues around the globe - Italy, Spain, China, Japan, South Africa, etc. My students are all over the country, too. Constant comparative data allays the anxiety. From what I'm hearing from them and reading from the experts... It is going to get much worse.
I'm hopeful my small, stand-alone medical school will be OK to resume in-person instruction as scheduled in early August. I miss my students. Most of them, anyway!
Zero employment and financial concerns. Anxious and worried about my practicing students who are now on the front lines. Anxious and worried about my elderly relatives, especially the ones back in Michigan. Anxious and worried about my sister and BIL as they are both physicians. My sister is a palliative care doc and she's on her hospital's Committe To Decide Who Gets A Ventilator.
COVID-19 is making our nation's societal inequalities blindingly apparent. It will be fascinating to watch how COVID-19 changes societies around the world. And how it doesn't change them.
For perspective, about 60,000 Americans died during the Vietnam War and about 400,000 Americans died in WWII. When Fauci said COVID-19 could kill 100,000 Americans, he was reporting a reasonable estimate that is optimistic.
I hope more than anything else our society realizes that supporting and heeding its experts could have prevented this virus from becoming a pandemic. America is too hostile to and disdainful of science, and this is the consequence.
As a professor, Buck Russell's critique of educators helps form how I interact with my students.
"I don't think I want to know a six-year-old who isn't a dreamer, or a sillyheart. And I sure don't want to know one who takes their student career seriously. I don't have a college degree. I don't even have a job. But I know a good kid when I see one. Because they're ALL good kids, until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag them down and convince them they're no good."
Uncle Buck is filled with so many memorable scenes and quotes: the enormous pancake, Pooter the Clown, Bug Spray, etc.
Recent Comments
Curious, how much cash is in one of these Mickey D's bags? For example, does a 4-star recruit get four figures, while a 5-star gets five?
lmao. Do recordings of these games ever get uploaded somewhere? I'd like to keep this one for future amusement.
Because he knows no one is going to dethrone OSU, King of the B1G.
What I don't understand is how he can watch the bum lose to shitty MSU teams, never win big road games, not win a bowl game in four years, hell, almost never win any big games at all! Aside from kicking ND's ass last year, does Harbaugh have any memorable, big Ws?
Looking forward to spending my Saturdays next fall outdoors.
Haven't been able to keep up with sports the last few weeks.
Why were so many Wolverines out for this series?
UM looked good against a good Badgers team a couple weeks ago, but I see the Ls piling up - any insights into what is going on?
Folks donating that kind of money to a university usually aren't doing it to support the school. They're doing it for vanity; it's conspicuous consumption.
Michigan happily takes my monthly donation to the Maize & Blue Cupboard, because it has students, staff, and faculty who are food insecure. At an organization with a $13,000,000,000 endowment.
80 if we are lucky.
They gotta get two Ws vs ND next. Games are in Ann Arbor, and the Badgers comfortably swept ND last weekend. No reason at all to not beat the Irish.
jfc
lmao
wtf
jfc
lmao
YEAHHHHHHHHHHH
last night was more fun
Nice PK...puck don't lie!
What are these clowns doing?
Wow, that's some bullshit.
That was the second in as many minutes that I saw. Bleh.
Bout damn time, lol…
WOO WOO
Bout damn time, lol. I was getting frustrated!
Bah, 1-0 UW.
Badgers swept Notre Dame last weekend. They're a good team.
Both promising and frustrating first period!
lol, one of these damn shots has to go in
Wolverines look…
Good PK.
Wolverines look good, but the Badgers are hanging right with them. Michigan isn't getting any lucky bounces on many very nice shots.
Shaping up to be another excellent game.
Game over, man! Game over!
4-2!
WOO WOO
4-2!
UM PP!
Well, shit, they…
Agreed.
Well, shit, they score.
Fuuu...that was awful. Hope he's OK. That might be a major...
This is a good Wisconsin squad but the Wolverines are markedly better.
I've seen most of the UM vs UW hockey games in the last decade and these teams are both well above average for the schools.
This is an enjoyable game. Wish I were in Madison for it.
Announcers are talking about the Camp Randall Classic back in 2010. Was in grad school at Wisconsin at the time, and oh man, was that a fun game. Cops were totally cool with people drinking as long as they weren't being stupid.
Not a witch hunt. Witch hunts end up with innocent people burned alive on a stake.
This MF'er was making a million f'ing dollars per year to show kids how to lift weights. If that's not a privileged position, what is? If you're fortunate enough as a professional to land such a cushy, high-profile gig, you can't do anything that even has the appearance of being racist. It just comes with the job. Much like you can't do anything that has even the appearance of being misogynist - did you call Meyer's firing 'guilty until proven innocent?'
Next 12-18 months? Continued volatility. Continued turbulence around 20,000. Hopefully mostly north of 20,000. I think the DJIA is high right now and am not buying anything else until it drops again.
US handling of C19 is an abject disaster and will remain an abject disaster because it appears about 1/5 of Americans are completely disconnected from this reality. We're going to be playing whack-a-mole with The Rona for another year. I won't be surprised if we approach 200,000 deaths by the end of 2020, and we'll still have thousands partying like they are at Lake of the Ozarks right now.
If Trump gets re-elected it'll be more off-the-rails crony capitalism, and if Biden gets elected it'll be more regulated and the growth sectors will be different.
There were a lot of incredible bargains in March/April, and there will be more during the dips over the next year. Relatively younger, longer-term folks like me could make many gambles on bargains and only need a few to hit big to be set up come retirement in 2-3 decades. I usually max my 401k but pared it to company match to free up cash to buy stocks and other instruments.
Good luck!
Why not cancer? Because cancer has been with our species for at least 1,700,000 years. (I was on the team that found and published that fossil!) It is not new, and we've understood cancer reasonably well for decades. Especially how to prevent many forms of it - like not smoking, not sitting out in the sun for hours without sunscreen if you're white, etc. My line of work (anatomy professor) inherently exposes me to carcinogens - but I take precautions in the form of wearing appropriate PPE to mitigate my risk. Anatomists have also changed how we embalm animals and humans over the decades (today's chemicals are MUCH safer than old school, formaldelhyde-heavy brews).
Why not heart disease? Because heart disease is also not new, though it's really only been with us as a plague for decades, not millions of years. We know how it happens. We know how to prevent it. Each of us takes appropriate steps to avoid getting it - or not - I certainly could get more exercise.
To most living Americans, neither cancer nor heart disease are traumatic and novel. They've been with us as long as we've been alive. Wars, on the other hand, are traumatic, and each one is novel. They require the tools to win. Americans also frequently view every challenge through the lens of warfare. We all know relative death counts from our major wars...whereas most Americans don't think about public health policy at all. Which is why our country did not have the right tools to fight a new virus - all of the PPE is made overseas, federal PPE stockpiles were allowed to rot away, we didn't have the best tests (or even very good tests). We got caught off guard and unprepared. Does that sound more like 9/11 or cancer?
Again, the premise of your entire post is a product of our hyperpartisan society. You've set up a false dichotomy: we either practice extreme social distancing and tank the economy (driving up unemployment, which then drives up all sorts of other negatives like crime) OR we reopen the economy (and we have more Rona deaths).
Unemployment does not directly drive up crime - poverty, not being able to put food on the table directly drives up crime. Have you ever read or seen Les Miserables?
Persistent unemployment does not drive up crime if it is mitigated economically through government-sponsored welfare or individual-facilitated charity.
Seems it takes a special kind of stupid to copy/paste a litany of how many people died in major world events throughout the 1900s then have your punchline be " Yet they survived through everything listed above."
No, millions of them did not.
There is more variation between different regions of the US than there is between some places in Sweden and some places in the US. Stockholm has more in common with NYC than either does with my smallish Arkansas hometown.
Some views are stupid and worthless.
My PhD is in human anatomical evolution. I've been dealing with creationists for decades, and one of the most important lessons of that 100+ years culture battle is that creationists' arguments are simply not worth discussing. Their facts are not facts - they are feel-good falsehoods. If you can't agree on facts, you can't have an educated discussion.
Why? Because you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason into!
It's another example of sacrificing long-term strength for short-term gains. Reopening the economy yields a tangible improvement NOW, even though it will have negative long-term consequences. It's wishful thinking at best and cynical bet hedging ('we just need to keep the shit from really hitting the fan until election day') at worst.
I also question whether this push to reopen the economy is actually aimed at improving the economy - or if it's aimed at keeping Americans from realizing that robust, functional social safety nets are potentially preferable to our widespread cultural norms prioritizing independence.
See, for example, conservatives' concerns that too much stimulus money given to individuals would make people realize they were better off not working than working for minimum wage. That's a nice deflection away from how abysmal a minimum wage standard of living affords millions of Americans, isn't it?
We read Carl Sagan's "Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" for one of my philosophy classes at UM. It was an excellent, inspiring, and informative read that's helped me through my career as a scientist. One of the passages from it has been making the rounds on social media:
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..."
Sagan wrote that in the early 90s. It is clearly prescient.
The federal response to this has been an abject disaster mitigated only by most governors (both Rs and Ds) stepping up and most Americans (both Rs and Ds) eventually realizing how bad this could be...sadly a vocal minority continues to be seduced by astroturfed civil unrest campaigns financed by far-right extremists.
It's astonishing that more Americans will die from COVID-19 than were killed in Korea, Vietnam, and probably even WWI all because of how hyperpartisan our country has become.
'The good thing about a democracy is the people get what they deserve, and they get it good and hard.' - Mencken
Was talking about this with a bud just yesterday. I'm surprised by how little I miss much of my pre-Rona life. Like MLB.
Haven't been in to the office and lab since Friday, March 3rd.
This time of year I'm not actively teaching, I'm doing research and mentoring students. Research hasn't been disrupted (yet) because my main three projects are well past the data collection stage and my colleagues are scattered around the globe, so this is really no different. My colleagues with kids are struggling but that's OK because we're functional, supportive teams.
Mentoring students is harder to do remotely, and now I've a few students whose family members are getting sick and dying. Medical school is already stressful and anxiogenic during the best of times...I can't tell a student to focus on their studies when their aunt died last week and there was no funeral. Had another student last week ask me why they should put themselves through medical school if they're not even going to get PPE when they practice. That was a fun conversation!
Preprint…
No shit, dude.
Preprint that looks legit came out yesterday on COVID-19's functional evolution. They looked at a few different strains and found pathogenicity varies by as much as 270x between them.
But you'll read little to nothing in the media about how some places are getting hammered harder than others because of viral variation and evolution.
We still have A LOT to learn about this new bug. Frankly I keep wondering why we don't know more about the flu...seems wildly understudied itself.
We're supposed to spend eight days at Sequoia & Kings Canyon NPs the first week of June. Probably won't decide until mid-May. Part of me hopes the NPs are still closed so I don't have to make the decision!
It won't make it past peer review. The selection bias alone dooms it, but there are other issues. Not the context to be playing fast and loose lest it become another Wakefieldian debacle.
For undergrad, my folks had the MET program from the mid-80s for when I started in the late 90s. (For which I am eternally grateful!) I only applied to UM and MSU. I was competitive for anything short of Harvard/Yale but if your choice is a free degree from UM or six-figure student loans from Cornell or Duke, it's an easy choice.
For grad, UM was my second choice to Wisconsin. While I was somewhat disappointed at the time, it was a similar choice - either a free PhD from Madison or six-figure student loans from UM. Not a difficult decision.
Right on, sir. I think we all feel like that going up through the ranks. I got put on academic probation when I was at Ann Arbor. Fortunately that meant I had my shit together when I was at Madison and had a fairly straightforward path to the PhD. Lucked out with multiple international newsworthy discoveries while an assistant professor - whenever I'm invited to give talks, I talk about imposter syndrome.
My dude, this is all incredible! Did you even dream during undergrad or grad school you'd ever do all of this?
Medical school professor here. This time of year I rarely lecture and those are now simply online. Research is more productive than usual because now it is a distraction keeping me sane. I'm lucky to have colleagues around the globe - Italy, Spain, China, Japan, South Africa, etc. My students are all over the country, too. Constant comparative data allays the anxiety. From what I'm hearing from them and reading from the experts... It is going to get much worse.
I'm hopeful my small, stand-alone medical school will be OK to resume in-person instruction as scheduled in early August. I miss my students. Most of them, anyway!
Zero employment and financial concerns. Anxious and worried about my practicing students who are now on the front lines. Anxious and worried about my elderly relatives, especially the ones back in Michigan. Anxious and worried about my sister and BIL as they are both physicians. My sister is a palliative care doc and she's on her hospital's Committe To Decide Who Gets A Ventilator.
COVID-19 is making our nation's societal inequalities blindingly apparent. It will be fascinating to watch how COVID-19 changes societies around the world. And how it doesn't change them.
For perspective, about 60,000 Americans died during the Vietnam War and about 400,000 Americans died in WWII. When Fauci said COVID-19 could kill 100,000 Americans, he was reporting a reasonable estimate that is optimistic.
I hope more than anything else our society realizes that supporting and heeding its experts could have prevented this virus from becoming a pandemic. America is too hostile to and disdainful of science, and this is the consequence.
Medical school professor here. Start thinking on the scale of a few months, not a few weeks.
As a professor, Buck Russell's critique of educators helps form how I interact with my students.
"I don't think I want to know a six-year-old who isn't a dreamer, or a sillyheart. And I sure don't want to know one who takes their student career seriously. I don't have a college degree. I don't even have a job. But I know a good kid when I see one. Because they're ALL good kids, until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag them down and convince them they're no good."
Uncle Buck is filled with so many memorable scenes and quotes: the enormous pancake, Pooter the Clown, Bug Spray, etc.
+1 for U-571. Very good war movie.
One of the rare instances when the movie is about as good as the book.
Could not agree with you more. Hope your current infection is mild and brief and you get a vacation this year.