DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 24, 2022
Don’t Think Kevin McCarthy Is Gonna Be The Next Speaker. Assuming the Rethugs win, which the Democratic Party has been trying to ensure happens:
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy denied ever believing that President Donald Trump should resign in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol ― in spite of an audio recording in which he says the opposite.
“No, I’ve never asked the president to resign. Never thought he should resign,” McCarthy said Friday.
In an audio recording published by The New York Times, McCarthy can be heard clearly telling Republican leadership that he would call Trump and urge him to step down. He says in the recording that he believed a riot-related impeachment resolution would likely pass, and says he would tell Trump: “It would be my recommendation that you should resign.”
Rethugs can get away with lying about anything, except dissing Le Grand Orange.
A Promising, Non-Police-Based, Solution To Gun Violence:
The recently completed trial tracked some 2,500 men in Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods and found that men who participated in an intensive, 18-month program called READI Chicago were nearly two-thirds less likely to be arrested for a shooting or homicide and nearly 20% less likely to be shot or killed themselves than a similar group of men that weren’t in the program. Those are all significant declines considering a third of participants had been shot at least once before enrolling, and had an average of 17 arrests on their rap sheet.
Participants were recruited by outreach workers and community members, or targeted from a list of high-risk Chicagoans generated by an algorithm that weighed their recent arrest history and violent incidents involving them or their social networks. Results were even better for the men who were referred in by outreach workers, with shooting and homicide arrests dropping nearly 80% and shootings and killings by almost half.The READI study was a randomized trial — comparing men who enrolled in the program against a control group of men who were turned away from the program — making it the first of its kind to evaluate a large group with the same statistical rigor used to evaluate medical treatments.
“A randomized controlled trial is the gold standard for research, and these are significant results,” said Roseanna Ander, executive director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, which helped develop the READI curriculum and conducted the research trial.
Meta lost a record $230bn in market value after a disappointing earnings report in February, in which it revealed Facebook had recorded its first-ever drop in daily user numbers.Meta’s struggle was not completely unexpected: chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg had warned that new privacy rules from Apple could cost the company $10bn in lost sales this year. The regulations prevent Meta from collecting certain user data and have prompted the company to shift some of its core advertising business models.
One such shift is placing substantial emphasis on Reels, its shortform video content that it has yet struggled to monetize. The company warned in last quarter’s report that year-over-year growth could continue to be affected in the first quarter of 2022 by these issues.
Dog Bites Man: Del. Rethug Legislator ‘Scrutinizes’ Why R Bills Move Slower Than D Bills. Actually, many of them move quickly–the nut-job bills are brought up in committees and are rejected from being released from committees. Why? Because they are truly nut-job bills that don’t deserve consideration on the floor. Teh Stoopid–It Burns. Maybe Shupe oughta scrutinize why virtually the entire R delegation in Dover is full of MAGAt nut-jobs. Plus, um, they’re not only in the minority, they are in the distinct minority. WTF does he expect? Hey, he got an article in the paper. That’s about as good as it gets.
What do you want to talk about?
“making it the first of its kind to evaluate a large group with the same statistical rigor used to evaluate medical treatments.”
The repeal of the ban on funding of research was signed by, of all people, Donald Trump.
“Rethugs can get away with lying about anything”
Lying to the “media” is regarded as virtuous among Republicans because the “media” is so liberal and fundamentally in opposition to anything conservative. Being caught in a lie has not cost, only benefits.
It is nuts, but there you have it.