He’s wrong on the technicality (like saying nobody likes grasshoppers on their pizza, when statistically there’s someone out there who does), but his point isn’t exactly lost.

OTOH, when someone has built their entire public persona on highly detailed numeric precision ... hyperbole is not exactly on-brand.

Maybe saying he forgot how to read a chart was...

You guys use that phrase way too loosely.  Nate silver is not mediocre and he has not failed upward.

In what way is he mediocre?

stfu next time

nate im sorry but you did a bad job reading the graph

In fairness, saying he can't read a chart could be described as hyperbole matched to hyperbole.

yeah, he did so well crunching the numbers in the last election.

I don’t like Bernie that much and have no intention of voting for him in the primaries but it is absolutely insane to see how much people are fixating on him and on their extremely contorted idea of what “bernie bros” are.

And yes, I’ve had guys who are Bernie supporters say obnoxious things to me before, too. They did…

Nate Silver is someone who is willfully wrong, as a habit. He knows he’s wrong, he knows whatever ‘argument’ his is making is specious. But he makes it with a straight face, and does it habitually. There is very little he produces that does not suffer from this in extremis. 

Yeh, by and large it’s not great, and is definitely one of the areas in which the new trilogy shines (the writing’s also generally better). I get that it’s not possible for many people to view the original trilogy objectively, but if you try to divorce yourself from how you felt about them as a kid, some aspects of…

He’s gay.

Empire’s probably next on the list for me. I haven’t seen in it in a long time. But neither Mark Hamill (at that age) nor Carrie Fisher are spectacular actors and Harrison Ford was already in “don’t really give a shit” mode about halfway through A New Hope. The plot is fine but it’s not exactly complex and the only…

It’s been almost two years. I’ve watched the movie five or six times. I acknowledge some of its weaknesses (fuel being important for the first time ever, the casino sideplot being essentially useless busywork for Finn, etc) ... I still think it’s better than any other Star Wars movie, including the two…

Goddamnit, NDGT.  What’s the leading method for suicide?

People in the grays do not like the fact that I am pointing out facts about the Great Second Amendment Lie.

Technically, he’s right. However, technically, he’s also coming off like an a-hole so maybe he better shut his pie-hole until the bodies are at least in the ground.

What do I win if I guess correctly?

It’s depressing now but if history has shown us one thing reliably it is that nations do not last regardless of the current inhabitants wishes. good riddance, america.