<div dir="auto"><div>Am I a silver fox? Wow!<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The fact that my income now is greater than when I was working has a lot to do with inflation. At this point I am saving for my children and grandchildren. On my birthday when my family ask what gift I want I say that I don't want any because I already have too many things. You'll get there; they accumulate.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes, I did miss EricC's question. The answer is that anyone who was 1/4 black would not have been included in the study. Or at least they would have been excluded from any analysis of the effects of race.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Did you hear me say that the cars I buy are not luxury cars? They are fast cars. More narcissism.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The bullying of my CMU colleagues was carried out by StuK. I was aware of the paper before he was and it didn't occur to me to raise a question about authorship. I published a few papers about experimental tests of various algorithms for reverse engineering of GRNs. Glymour et al were co-authors.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If you can stand a little psychodynamic theory: everyone is narcissistic. The question is whether it's pathological. An example of normal and adaptive narcissism is the wish to have child(ren) which you have experienced.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I care about you too Jon which is why I have tried to help you at times. Putting you in touch with Steve Awodey didn't work out but was well-intentioned.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Frank</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 12:41 PM Jon Zingale <<a href="mailto:jonzingale@gmail.com">jonzingale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">"""</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Also on Friday you said that you are happy when people my age die. So it
doesn't matter to you that 95% of people who die are unvaccinated.</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">"""</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Something similar to that, so thank you for this opportunity to clarify. What are examples of goals that others not like yourself might have? For one, they may not think that saving a few million lives is worth preserving the status quo, the power structures that have the world veering toward its death. I suggested (with tongue only partially in cheek) that mother nature offered a solution for recalibrating the power distribution and that we found a vaccination for it. Sure, hot words, but not that much more triggering than the shit we usually say in a Friam meeting. I hear ageist, racist and classist remarks nearly every Friday, so shrug.</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For instance, you made it clear that everybody in Pittsburgh knows who is black and who isn't. Another suggested that life was easier back then. EricC slid one under your radar by asking if it was based on the standard definition that of having 1/4 black heritage, to which you thoughtlessly agreed. Nick or maybe someone else pointed out that the studies did not hold up in Africa and that the correspondence was maybe not the result of "race" (whatever that is) but relatively recent cultural pressures (the descendants of those that did not die on a difficult journey across the ocean and into slavery to serve your ancestors[!]).</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">It is clear that continuing to push your personal work is your own narcissism and not because it is relevant to anything (like your anecdote about StuK and you bullying some researchers that actually did work into adding you both onto their paper). What could it mean to be relevant? I leave that to you as an exercise.</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">All said, I care about you Frank, and I also must call a spade a spade (that is a saying isn't it?) There is no reason for you to collect more per month now than anytime in your working life when so many people continue to work harder than you could have ever imagined for yourself, often risking their lives so that some silver fox can demand a refund for their steak being a little overcooked. I am not asking that you give away your comfort, but to acknowledge and maybe even attempt to set things right. Btw, I recognize and deeply respect the good things you are doing for your grandchildren.</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">What I am asking for is the vulnerability to hear that others may be upset and their reasons worth feeling. Generationally speaking, I am a genX-er and we are very clear that there were never enough of us to matter and that the protests of our generation were quickly silenced by a phony war on terror. There is no part of me that wishes for what you boomers had (and squandered in your great numbers), but rather, I wish to understand how to support the generations after mine that are left with the legacy of boomer self-obsession. So, um... whatever dude.</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">[!] But please, tell me again about your native american heritage.</pre></div></div>
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