Author Topic: Idiot of the Day 2016: Election year extravaganza of idiocy. (Read 15761 times)

dunie · « **Reply #125 on:** May 12, 2016, 09:10:09 PM »

Jesus Christ, I wish his family had just two seconds to heal without seeing their son's name dragged through media.

Grefter · « **Reply #126 on:** May 12, 2016, 09:26:43 PM »

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36281438

It was removed from auction.

Also the BBC coverage is fucking brutal.

dunie · « **Reply #127 on:** May 12, 2016, 09:29:23 PM »

Last I heard, another auction site took it up.

Excal · « **Reply #128 on:** May 12, 2016, 10:28:30 PM »

Because patriotism, and freedom, and free speech, and the right to be an absolute quivering pustule of an asshole.

Seriously, can a space rock randomly drop on him already?

Grefter · « **Reply #129 on:** May 12, 2016, 11:12:16 PM »

Karma can't fix what hunanity does.

AndrewRogue · « **Reply #130 on:** May 13, 2016, 04:16:52 AM »

Honestly, I gotta say, this is a new level of stupid.

Primarily because it would not shock me if someone bought it to shoot him.

The Duck · « **Reply #131 on:** May 13, 2016, 11:54:41 AM »

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36283242

Mr. Anti-Establishment has a butler! And he's a piece of shit!

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #132 on:** May 17, 2016, 04:15:54 AM »

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/5/16/1527124/-Conservative-congressional-candidate-shares-screenshot-forgets-to-close-porn-windows?detail=facebook

Link says it all. Gold.

The Duck · « **Reply #133 on:** May 17, 2016, 04:57:20 AM »

I would personally find the bookmark to Liberty University much more embarrassing.

Grefter · « **Reply #134 on:** May 17, 2016, 06:46:25 AM »

Was any of it even any good?

I figure at least Rob or Zenny has checked it out.

Captain K · « **Reply #135 on:** May 22, 2016, 04:09:45 PM »

Editor at Huffington Post attempts to show off all-female board meeting. Does not end well.

https://twitter.com/lheron/status/733758898855940098

NotMiki · « **Reply #136 on:** May 22, 2016, 06:05:00 PM »

Like, does HuffPo not have any male editors, or was this just a thing?

p.s. where are the black people

superaielman · « **Reply #137 on:** May 24, 2016, 12:21:43 PM »

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/23/politics/veterans-affairs-secretary-disneyland-wait-times/index.html

Get out.

Grefter · « **Reply #138 on:** May 24, 2016, 09:31:37 PM »

The guy is putting together a really shitty argument to improve their metrics. I am all for measuring based on Satisfaction rather than average time taken. Measuring by time in queue pushes people to make decisions based more on time in queue than taking into account actual context.

The ultimate outcome to this would be greater flexibility for VA to be able to flex how they address things and get to life threatening situations sooner. Focusing just on wait times pushes you to work first in, first out with less care for the effected people.

But holy fuck is he terrible at communicating that.

SnowFire · « **Reply #139 on:** May 24, 2016, 10:45:17 PM »

I'm with Grefter on this one. The VA could instantly end all wait times via this weird trick: discharge everyone who shows up on the spot without treatment. If we have Congresscritters harping on one metric exclusively, that's what will be optimized for, and it's the wrong one.

That said, I'm not sure the *quality* of VA care is all that great, and regardless, I'd say that "satisfaction" is also the wrong metric (new strategy: give all patients copious amounts of drugs, issue them survey immediately afterward). What we want are "healthy outcomes", whatever that means, and also "keep within budget".

Grefter · « **Reply #140 on:** May 24, 2016, 10:49:33 PM »

I think Satisfaction is a decent vector to at least measure. You can do a lot of drastic but cheap and effective treatments that are cheaper than rehabilitation

Cotigo · « **Reply #141 on:** May 25, 2016, 12:01:01 AM »

Quote from: Grefter on May 24, 2016, 10:49:33 PM

I think Satisfaction is a decent vector to at least measure.

no no no no no no no no no no no no no

not strictly VA related, but conversations with my immediate family who all work in hospitals have impressed upon me how absolutely stupid the metric of patient satisfaction is

going off of this metric makes medical providers focus less on quality care and more on making the customer (note the change in diction here, it is important) "satisfied"

don't you work in IT

don't you know how obnoxious and ornery people are when they think they're always right even when talking about things they have no bloody clue about? yeah that only gets worse when you're prescribing medication and treating illness

I agree that measuring quality of care based solely on wait times is a bad idea but measuring based on patient satisfaction is worse, or at least as bad.

Grefter · « **Reply #142 on:** May 25, 2016, 02:52:39 AM »

Sole measure of success it is terrible. As a soft weighted (10%?) where you set realistic targets it is pretty much just one more point of data.

I do work in IT. I know that user experience/usability is the first thing that dies on the altar of cost and delivery timelines and is the first thing that kills actual user take up of tools developed for them.

Edit - That is just my experience in one corporate IT landscape.

NotMiki · « **Reply #143 on:** May 25, 2016, 06:29:52 PM »

http://kotaku.com/mighty-no-9s-marketing-is-embarrassing-to-everyone-1778654467

whyyyyyyyyy

Captain K · « **Reply #144 on:** May 25, 2016, 07:37:16 PM »

Also why does the Retro Hero dlc look like a minecraft character rather than an actual retro 8-bit look?

Shale · « **Reply #145 on:** May 25, 2016, 07:40:15 PM »

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/trump-target-hillary-clinton-whitewater-223570

Man, nobody ever sends me confidential election strategies by mistake.

NotMiki · « **Reply #146 on:** May 26, 2016, 01:44:17 AM »

livin' the dream

superaielman · « **Reply #147 on:** May 26, 2016, 02:36:57 AM »

Man, you're dragging up that shit when Hillary is literally handing you the FOIA/email shitshow on a silver platter. Trump, not only scum, but bad at being scum.

NotMiki · « **Reply #148 on:** May 27, 2016, 09:18:20 PM »

http://deadspin.com/spelling-bee-twitter-account-burns-dude-so-hard-he-dele-1779157786

today in sick burns (I mean ok this is a meatball over the center of the plate but he knocked it out of the park)

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #149 on:** May 27, 2016, 10:32:15 PM »

http://www.kidspot.com.au/parenting/parenthood/dads/it-kills-me-when-people-say-they-dont-want-kids

Condescending tripe with a whiff of paternalism and anti-choiceness.

"But, as the memoir penned by Paris Hilton at age 24 might suggest, there is quite simply no value in hearing what a person aged between 20 and 30 thinks about anything deeper than “what is the best Instagram filter’."

for an extra eyeroll

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