EHNIX: Evolving a Grass-Roots Fractal Syndicalistic Holarchy under Subsidiaty

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I should have listened to the #discord peeps. I won't attempt productivity here again.

Go on, then.  Let them wipe your tears.

This is why I take so long to get attached to noobs.  They're flimsy, these days, and go all to pieces at the slightest excuse.

Trip and Cram say he's a good guy.  I don't doubt that for a moment.

But he's not a rock n roller.  He isn't ready for the coming weird times, in this glorious mess we call "the 21st Century".

[LMNO]

I made an sincere attempt to communicating an idea because I thought this might be a place where productive dialogue occurs... I won't attempt productivity here again.

For the record, this part of the post made me brace for shit-throwing.

Yep.

Also, the guy uses a lot of jargon language while also using a lot of language wrong, which is a distressingly unreadable combination.  I assume it is largely because English is a second language for him, but it is exhausting to parse nonetheless and when you add the attitude (which I could be interpreting mistakenly, but which appears to be fairly well-communicated in the above quote) that he is believes that our difficulty parsing his writing is due to his academic and intellectual superiority, I definitely start to get a "fuck this" feeling.

I also am not sold on the argument that what he says makes perfect sense to a PhD level theoretical biologist. The problems I have noticed with language persist regardless of the educational level of the reader.

"Theoretical Biologist" is a thing?

[Kai]

I made an sincere attempt to communicating an idea because I thought this might be a place where productive dialogue occurs... I won't attempt productivity here again.

For the record, this part of the post made me brace for shit-throwing.

Yep.

Also, the guy uses a lot of jargon language while also using a lot of language wrong, which is a distressingly unreadable combination.  I assume it is largely because English is a second language for him, but it is exhausting to parse nonetheless and when you add the attitude (which I could be interpreting mistakenly, but which appears to be fairly well-communicated in the above quote) that he is believes that our difficulty parsing his writing is due to his academic and intellectual superiority, I definitely start to get a "fuck this" feeling.

I also am not sold on the argument that what he says makes perfect sense to a PhD level theoretical biologist. The problems I have noticed with language persist regardless of the educational level of the reader.

"Theoretical Biologist" is a thing?

Totally. As you might expect, they never look at the organisms. Everything is done with computer models. A large part is modeling epidemics these days.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Epidemics are interesting.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Epidemics are interesting.

In about 4 different ways that I can think of, and I'm not even an expert or anything.

1.  The mathematical progression, from "patient zero" to burn out.
2.  The public reaction to the perceived threat level, as compared to the actual threat level.
3.  The reaction to the CDC by congress and the president when the disease is perceived as only targeting minority groups (AIDS, etc).
4.  The expectation of zombies.

[Kai]

Epidemics are interesting.

In about 4 different ways that I can think of, and I'm not even an expert or anything.

1.  The mathematical progression, from "patient zero" to burn out.
2.  The public reaction to the perceived threat level, as compared to the actual threat level.
3.  The reaction to the CDC by congress and the president when the disease is perceived as only targeting minority groups (AIDS, etc).
4.  The expectation of zombies.

5. The increase in probability of outbreak associated with anti-vaccer communities.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Epidemics are interesting.

In about 4 different ways that I can think of, and I'm not even an expert or anything.

1.  The mathematical progression, from "patient zero" to burn out.
2.  The public reaction to the perceived threat level, as compared to the actual threat level.
3.  The reaction to the CDC by congress and the president when the disease is perceived as only targeting minority groups (AIDS, etc).
4.  The expectation of zombies.

5. The increase in probability of outbreak associated with anti-vaccer communities.

Now THAT stuff is fascinating, because it's such an incredibly effective illustration of how individual actions affect the group. We all tend to think "I am only one person, how can I make a difference?"

It turns out that you can refuse to vaccinate your kid, and cause preventable disease outbreaks!

[LMNO]

We have a small measles outbreak here.

DARWIN, DO YOUR THING.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

I've read some interesting general-audience stuff on the interaction between graph theory and epidemiology. I'm not surprised that theoretical biology seems to be very mathy (and specifically heavily dependent upon statistics).

DARWIN, DO YOUR THING.

I'd be more OK with this were it not for herd immunity fucking everything up. Not vaccinating your kid is unlikely to directly effect you or your kid, and is more likely instead to fuck over someone only tangentially related.

[Cainad (dec.)]

This thread embarrassingly reminds me of how I tended to write only a few years ago. I was so enamored of my ability to make lots of words that I would go completely fucking overboard. When I wasn't being verbose, I was usually being obtuse. It was an ugly time.