PaterMagnus

Christian, husband, father, veteran, and all around guy.

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In Ohio, a man came to install my internet.

He asked what I wanted to name the network.

I said the network already has a name. It is printed on the box.

He said, "Nobody keeps that."

He turned his tablet around and showed me every network the house could see. Eleven of them. My neighbors.

FBI SURVEILLANCE VAN 4
PRETTY FLY FOR A WIFI
TELL MY WIFI LOVE HER
NO THIS IS PATRICK
IT BURNS WHEN IP

I asked which house was which.

"No idea."

I asked whether the neighbors know who is who.

He shrugged. "Probably not."

Then he said the thing that finished me. "It's just there."

Every house on this street is telling a joke. The joke has been running for years. It plays to anyone who walks past holding a phone. Nobody signs it. Nobody is standing at the window to see whether it landed.

A jest performed in an empty field, with no expectation of laughter, is the most disciplined act I have witnessed in this country.

He asked me again what I wanted.

I did not have a joke. I had a fear of dishonoring the street.

I named it THE HOUSE OF THE CAREFUL FLAME.

He typed it in with no expression whatsoever and said, "That's a good one."

He did not ask what it meant. He did not ask why a man would name a router after a fire he is watching. He plugged it in, it went out over the fence into the air, and that was the entire ceremony.

Three days later the network across the street changed to THE HOUSE OF THE SLIGHTLY BURNT CHICKEN.

I have no proof it was aimed at me. I have never spoken to that house.

I checked every morning for a week. I am not going to pretend I was not checking.

Four days after that, the corner became HOUSE OF THE MISSING LID.

In May there was a stretch I would rather not put down here. I stopped opening the blinds. On the Sunday, a network appeared that had never been there before.

CAREFUL FLAME IT'S FINE COME OUT

I went out. A man two doors down was standing in his driveway holding a hose he was not using.

He said, "Hey."

That was the whole conversation.

At the cookout in August a woman I had never met pointed at me with a paper plate. "You're the flame guy."

Her husband said, "Chicken guy's out back."

I have lived here one year. I do not know the last names of four of my neighbors.

I know all four of their routers.

They know mine.

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@JoJoFromJerz 😂

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@Aaronbennett

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@chiky_handlr I spend far too much time trying to discern whether accounts like this are satire. Sadly this one is not.

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@mindys4Biden He wins and speaks the truth. Democrats condemn him because they hate winning and they hate the truth.

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@TaiigerBlue People’s lack of sarcasm or irony is perhaps the greatest signal of our downfall.

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@AnnieAndrewsMD Non-sequitur award goes to…

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@ChrisDJackson @IfindRetards

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@CindyMarze74869 @_MAGA_NEWS_

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@JamieBonkiewicz Strangely, I haven’t watched Fox News since I cancelled cable in 2013. Try again.

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@ML3democrats Gayest post of the day.

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My timeline provided a better synthesis of the free market vs. collectivist thinking than Hazlitt, Mises, Hayek, or Friedman ever could.

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@SenatorWarnock Weird, I just go and vote on Election Day. Never felt “silenced” by that.

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@DemocraticWins Dollar Store Obama

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Had AI run a statistical analysis on Pratt coming in 3rd based on the ballot drops.

See below:

The trajectory established in the first three batches showed the gap closing at 0.18 points per 1% of ballots counted.

The late batches closed the gap at 0.54 points per 1% counted.

The late batches were moving 3 times faster than the early batches established.

If the trajectory from the first three batches had simply continued, Pratt would still have been leading by +2.93 points at 83% counted. He was actually trailing by -0.40 points. The late batches moved 3.33 points further toward Raman than the established trajectory predicted.

The z-scores on that deviation are -7.81 and -11.29 for the last two batches. The probability of both late batches deviating that far from the established trajectory by chance is effectively zero.

The t-statistic for the acceleration between early and late batch rates is -6.225. With two degrees of freedom, anything above 4.303 is significant at the 5% level. This is well past that.

The plain English answer: The early batches established a clear, consistent trajectory. The late batches didn’t continue that trajectory they moved three times faster in the same direction. That acceleration is not explained by the trajectory that preceded it. The probability that it happened by chance is statistically indistinguishable from zero.

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@mariashriver You care more about his demeanor than the truth. You’d prefer a polite socialite liar than a brawler telling you the truth.

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@marlene4719

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@KeenanPeachy @nicksortor @ccpecknold @USAttyEssayli I think she was on Sanford and Sons.

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@GovPressOffice Because fraudulent votes SHOULD NOT BE COUNTED.

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@harryjsisson Cracker Jack Biden?