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I feel like it's always a brave call to predict a 14-2 season no matter how good you are. There are so many variables (health not being an insignificant one), especially in a year that's been as wild as this already, that I don't think 11-5 is an inappropriate or disrespectful prediction from...

Thugs with a licence to have their jackboots licked. That's something schoolyard bullies do. Adding to what I said above, the fact that none of these guys are probably going to face any kind of justice (charges, demotion, removal) sums up the second issue neatly. No accountability.

There's a town in New Hampshire called Keene, with a population of 23,000 - which is around the population of Levin, where I lived. The police there have a Bearcat (which they got by citing their pumpkin festival as a terrorism target). Demilitarising the police should be a priority for this...

If I were made emperor I'd make it even simpler and just seed the playoffs by record. Winning your division still guarantees you a place and could be a tiebreaker over a wild card team, so there's still plenty to play for. But it means you don't reward teams for being the least useless in a...

My guess is that the stats are population-weighted - not unlike how more people are killed by cars than planes but it's about even when you look at them on a transport hour basis. Of course, that has the problem of those 235 deaths coming from a pool that includes someone's 70-year-old Aunt...

How often do those two groups go to prison for it? I'm reasonable, if they both go to prison at a similar clip (1 murder = 1 equivalent prison stint) that's the kind of stat that would make me open to changing my mind (assuming there's nothing funky going on with the counting etc). But if...

Based on what you've said in the past I don't think I'd disagree if you did get started. In NZ, the first policymakers to act in response to the covid crisis was the Reserve Bank dropping interest rates. The country's facing a supply crisis, a demand crisis and a liquidity crisis at the same...

Central banking is a reasonable topic of discussion (hell, I got a job offer on the back of a research paper I wrote about advice for businesses in the face of changing monetary policy so I don't mind a discussion in good faith), but if you're going to argue that any government at all is statism...

Everyone wants the benefits of living in a society without having to pay for it. A nuanced discussion about tax is one thing, but you shouldn't have to haggle with the fire service when your house (or your neighbour's house) is burning down. If you have THAT much of a problem with paying tax...

Feel free to create your own society, with blackjack and hookers.

Haha classic. You can see the wheels turning in his head. I'm a genuine swing voter (I've never voted for the same party twice) but I can't say I'd have any faith in Muller as PM. The whole MAGA hat thing in 2016 was next-level IR amateur hour - and I'd be saying the same thing if he'd backed...

I was going to ask a few days ago at what point you no longer have a police force but rather another paramilitary wing. Looks like that's a moot question now...

Page 46 is when Murray was drafted. I feel like the collective reaction speaks for itself lol. https://purpleflock.com/threads/1901/page-46

I never said things will go back to normal. But some countries will suffer worse from it than others and I've already been over the ones who'll get out from it less badly. Like I say, I hope you'll be around in the future to talk about how to strengthen mental health facilities, suicide...

Of course there are side effects. Most of these come back to the strength of other parts of the country's infrastructure and in the following years, the countries we all say "XYZ handled this really well" will be the ones that acted decisively against the virus but also had these complementary...

I feel sorry for Greece in this case. They did all the right things early on and closed everything down, and now they're in kind of a no-win situation. They either risk introducing the virus after getting it largely under control or they lose a massive export earner. Everyone's in a no-win...

It doesn't pay to underestimate the risk of the second wave just because the lockdowns are being lifted in places. It doesn't mean the virus has been eradicated, it just means they have room for people in hospitals again. That's the Spanish flu death toll over time, and you can see where...

I didn't say it outright but I was thinking of masks as a two-way thing (potentially preventing you from getting infected as well as potentially preventing you from infecting others). Unless someone has/finds reputable evidence to the contrary, it doesn't hurt to address a risk factor like that...