ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF BAYESIAN STATISTICS IS THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO UPDATE YOUR INITIAL HYPOTHESIS ABOUT HOW A POPULATION OF INTEREST IS DISTRIBUTED BASED ON NEW INFORMATION. THUS, YOU DON'T CONFIRM YOUR PRIORS, YOU UPDATE THEM IN RESPONSE TO INFORMATION DERIVED FROM A SAMPLE (WHICH CONTINUES TO BE A SYSTEMATIC SET OF MEASUREMENTS OF MORE THAN ONE THING AND HAS NOT, NOR HAS IT EVER BEEN, WHAT A JOURNALIST SEES ON A TV SHOW), AND THE EXTENT TO WHICH YOU UPDATE THEM REVEALS INFORMATION ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THOSE INITIAL ASSUMPTIONS. TO STATE THAT YOU ARE CONFIRMING YOUR PRIORS IS TO REVEAL THAT YOU NEVER INTENDED TO REVISIT YOUR ASSUMPTIONS IN THE FIRST PLACE AND ARE INCAPABLE OF REASONING, NOT ENGAGING IN IT.

Chia seed pudding with coconut milk and fresh mango, almond butter toast, or, when I can be bothered to make them (which isn't super often these days), crumpets

THAT'S NOT HOW BAYESIAN REASONING WORKS THE PRESIDENT IS NOT A PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION IF YOU DO NOTHING ELSE AT LEAST READ THE DANG WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE

He caused a famine in Afghanistan, too, that one seems to have fallen off the radar.

Meanwhile the age gap between Biden and Macron is so wide that it's eligible to run for president.

Even dumber than that, it was kicked off by a jilted boyfriend who aired out their dirty laundry on Tumblr and the whole discourse centered around how women keep getting a pass for everything.

But yeah, life is too short and precious to spend any of it caring about gamergate.

I've lived 10,000 human lifetimes, patiently lying in wait for the next sentient species to arise. Now I will go forth, mentor them, and poison their academic research forever by explaining that a bidet was for washing one's face.

TFW you realize it's too late to marry your teacher

At least the medals are tangible objects

Turns out when you turn a tragedy into a pop cultural lodestar in order to gin up popular support for starting forever wars in two countries, you leave said event open to parody

The sentient lichen archaeologists are going to have so much fun in 10 million years.

because they’ve never wavered in their commitment to working people.