“We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which furious party cries will be raised against anybody who says that cows have horns, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening mob with the news that grass is green.“ G.K. Chesterton

It mainly comes down to corpus delicti, or the body of the crime. It’s a bedrock component of jurisprudence and steeped heavily in common sense as to avoid kangaroo court scenarios. Essentially, no crime can be proven without tangible evidence. For example, no one can be convicted of murder simply because 10,000,000 people say a certain individual murdered someone. It’d I guess be similar to if someone in your life decided you are a child molester as the result of flawed logic, assumptions, inferences, innuendo, word of mouth, etc. fueled by some kind of beef. There’s no credible way to entirely disprove it beyond a shadow of a doubt, so there is inherently a reason to believe it to be true by means of a conscious choice and preconceived biases. If that is the standard you want to live by from a prosecutorial standpoint, best of luck if you happen to piss off the wrong person.

Good signs.

Din Tai Fung? That place is so good.

A little while back, I posted how the PDO has a unusually high correlation with EPO in October (-PDO favors +EPO). It was a 75% correlation, going back to 1948. Now LR models are developing a +EPO for at least early October (this is a cold H5 anomaly vs the central pacific warmth of -pdo). I'm just saying.. it's working as a forecasting tool, whether the driver or not..