Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another incredible day and the links!
Israel Defense Minister: Hamas Has Lost Control of Gaza
WaPo: “New” Evidence Shows Hamas Intended to Start Major War
Illegals in US could cost taxpayers $451 billion per year
Vulnerable Biden faces death by a thousand cuts of third-party candidates
FCC’s Digital Discrimination Order Turns Internet Expansion Into An ‘Equity’ Ploy
Thanksgiving: Looming government shutdown could cause disaster for holiday travel
Ga. lawsuit on alleged weakness in Dominion machines set for trial, with a push for paper ballots
Iceland ‘is on edge’ waiting for volcanic eruption
That’s all I for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
What kind of monster is that picture of? What’s that thing’s angle with that pleading face?
Kitten in a little furry cap with cat ears is my interpretation.
It is cute, you black hearted soul. 😉
Morning, Banjos!
You plotting on me?
It’s the larval stage of The Cat in the Hat. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Just wait until it whips out its Thing 1 and Thing 2….
Bad Cat’s article was very interesting. Thanks, Beau.
I may be slow but at least I’ll never catch up.
Yeah, read that too – good stuff.
You’re both welcome. I’m glad it was both seen and appreciated.
For the late risers amongst us, this.
“Israel Defense Minister: Hamas Has Lost Control of Gaza”
WTF does that mean? They no longer can use the people as human shields?
“WaPo: “New” Evidence Shows Hamas Intended to Start Major War”
Partially right. Iran wanted a major war because it needs to derail the current effort in the Middle East where Saudi Arabia, Egypt and others are seeking reproachment and ties with Israel, specifically because they know the current US administration is supporting Iran’s ambitions in the area and their nuclear weapons program.
“Ga. lawsuit on alleged weakness in Dominion machines set for trial, with a push for paper ballots”
So they handed out all those plea bargains and they still are going to end up in court where discovery will hurt the liars claiming there was no cheating?
Kanekoa has a monster thread identifying the ‘massive voting fraud’ in Georgia.
Ok, this I don’t get — assuming you’re not designing voting tabulation scanning for fraud, of course…. The ballots being scanned usually have your typical bar code / meta data printed on them somewhere. Part of that should certainly be a serial number, uuid, whatever that’s unique per ballot. The database / system / whatnot should reject reentry of a ballot that is already in the system. It wouldn’t help against the “found three boxes in my trunk” style ballot harvesting (filled out in fake or real voters names in advance, brought into the counting) — but it would prevent this precise case of mistakenly or maliciously re-scanning already scanned ballots.
If the system doesn’t do that — I can only conclude extreme incompetence (throw them out) or evil corruption intentions (really, really throw them out).
Obviously you need/want to anonymize the uuid vs. voter identification so the ballots are still secret, btw… that’s what the voter “sign in” sheet is for — a parallel “no duplicates” system, needed because you don’t want a hard voter to ballot reference.
Surveillance footage obtained by VoterGA shows large numbers of ballots being scanned multiple times. Pay attention to the women wearing yellow at the desk. According to VoterGA, she slides ballots into a scanning machine, removes the ballots, and then reinserts the same ballots.
Impossible! I’ve been assured there was no fraud! Their lying eyes must have deceived them.
It was just part of the vast right wing conspiracy.
Do you think the fact that the election system in most states is set up in such a way that it is all but impossible to audit votes and voting? Cause I will tell you the real reason it is such a shit show already and the people that profit from that want to make it easier to cheat, is the rewards of the cheating efforts. See Joe Biden in 2020.
I just assumed that ballots are NOT tied to individual voters.
If only because they never were in the past, so why bother now?
As far as I know, where any kind of audit has been performed on 2020 election results, the audit has been failed. Remember, it’s not the auditors job to prove there was fraud or errors, it’s your job to prove there was not. Even aside from the fact that, in the real world, refusing to cooperate is an automatic fail (and the election authorities all refused, to some degree, to cooperate), the results the auditors did get cannot be reconciled to reported results.
And nothing else happened.
Yeah, I roll my eyes every time some idiot tells me the proof the election was not stolen in 2020 is the fact courts never found anything. When you explain to them that what practically every single court did was say the people that brought the suits had no standing and dismissed that suit – never looking at anything at all – and that the courts that did take the cases and asked for audits resulted in the people under suspicion just giving them the same bullshit results they gave in the first place, their eyes glaze. Not a single instance where audits were asked for resulted in any real kind of audit in any sense of that function. Turning a blind eye to the fact that the system is broken and would easily be abused is not proof that there was no problem, but that is the argument from the people that think this line of logic proves their point.
Ask yourself how it is possible that a government we all know is dysfunctional in every space they are in and can’t do the basics has an inauditable election system that works without any problems. An election system that gives the winners the biggest prize on earth. It is not a question of if there is cheating, but a question of if the cheaters want to admit it happens/happened. Also remember that never in our election history did a contested election in the US result in action by government, directly or through social media, to punish and censor those questioning it.
Hey speaking of that, wasn’t there talk here last Weds about Loudoun County having 100+% voter turnout – more ballots than registered voters?
See, that is just a fact of Same Day Registration!
Honest.
Well except it turns out it wasn’t anything like that. That’s why I was curious about where that came from.
Supposedly it was a typo on the page that they corrected. The actual turnout was something like 40%.
Just vote harder next time. It’ll work out eventually.
Got concerns about the election coming up? No standing as no harm has been committed.
Got concerns after the election? Election is over, case is moot.
The machine geared up to remove the threat, which was DJT. Now that the threat has been removed, everything will go back to normal.
Honest.
Ah, what we do without the perennial “Evil Republicans want to ruin THIS critical government service” torrent of articles every time their stupid CRs are close to running out.
Dogs and cats!
Living in sin!
Anarchy!
Now tell your Stupid Party to bend over and
take it all the way!increase our budget again!“Ah, what we do without the perennial “Evil Republicans want to ruin THIS critical government service” torrent of articles every time their stupid CRs are close to running out.”
Bully Pulpit is bully pulpit. That is just a fact and of course the left and its minions will beat it into the ground, as it FUCKING WORKS. This is a losing issue for the right, and yet they keep falling for it. They don’t do it during a Rep presidency, which could offset some of the effects, as then they would be able to control the effects of it that the public sees. But, no. They only do it during a Dem presidency, who is going to go out of their way to make. it. hurt. And show every single citizen that it is the fault of the R’s.
It is a losing game, stop playing. Or, at the very least, change the rules so you can win.
“Disparate impact” – it’s not fair that some people get a mansion and I don’t.
The problem with people that tell you capitalism is bad is that they are mentally stuck in the economics of feudalism and collectivism/marxism where wealth is finite, and thus, for one person or group of people to get rich, others must lose and get poor (or poorer). In reality, capitalism is a system that allows willing people to trade for mutual advantage, and when someone manages to produce a product or service others want, generate a ton of wealth. We unfortunately don’t have that because social justice governments have created a system where they can make good money picking the winners & losers, always to serve their own purposes and financial gain, while painting the people that actually create value and wealth as the culprit for disparities. Do not trust the collectivist’s promise that they will fix inequality, unless you understand the only equality they can deliver is equality of misery for all but the people at the top.
Communist to comrade, “If you had two houses, comrade, would you give me one?”
Comrade, “Of course, you are fellow communist, of course I would share and give you one of my houses.”
Communist, “If you had two cars, comrade, would you give me one?”
Comrade, “Yes, definitely. Why do you even ask? I am communist and I would gladly share and give you one of my cars.”
Communist, “If you had two chickens, comrade, would you give me one?”
Comrade, “No.”
Communist, “No? Why no?”
Comrade, “Because I have two chickens.”
1) It never ceases to amaze me when people live in places like active volcanic zones [he says while knowing if Yellowstone lets go, we’re all screwed…]. Geothermal access is nice — but seems unwise.
2) Don’t want it to be Iceland (because I don’t want people killed over it), but part of me wouldn’t mind a nice volcanic eruption that lowers temperatures a degree or two to remind the climate change folks that nature laughs at their paltry efforts. I’m sure they’d find a way to blame it on fracking or something…
It seems everyone has forgotten about the Mt. Pinatubo cooling.
You mean the usual suspects have buried that information – deep – so they can indoctrinate and scare a bunch of kids that can’t think their way out of a paper bag?
I was thinking 1816 and 536, but yeah….
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1988/02/22/i-cooling-the-lava
Here’s a delightful read on the trash that is post-colonial theory.
That assumes that imperialism/colonialism can’t be an instrument for social progress. I’d say the results are decidedly mixed, but not 100% bad.
Of course, one of the largest imperialist projects of the 19th century – the British in India – was largely a project, at least initially, of the British East India Companyt not the British government.
/nitpicking OFF
Yes, he mentions that – that the British government subsumed the Company (which was a Crown Charter anyway – so talk about splitting hairs) role there.
The usual argument by these neo marxists is that the world consists of the oppressors (those that are successful, like western civilization, and especially the US or Israel) and the oppressed (everybody not as powerful or successful, and then because the oppressors prevented that). The new marxist doctrine teaches that the oppressors need to be decolonized to give the oppressed a chance. This logic is not just dumb, but insane, and allows these idiots to do away with the normal concepts of good vs. evil in favor of power balance shit that makes no sense. It allows you to cheer on barbarians and claim absolute evil is not that, because it was perpetuated on those that are successful/powerful.
Beware those that talk about colonizers. At the risk of going all Godwin, your fist step in convincing people one group is evil and thus worthy of killing, is to label them as the bad guys. When they accuse someone or some entity of being a colonizer, they are labeling that entity as evil. eventually they will tell you any and all actions are good in the fight against evil. It is the same logic driving the Obama admin weaponized unelected bureaucracy that first demonizes their political opposition as Nazis, racists, sexists, homophobes, misogynists, and so on and then concludes they are justified to steal elections, corrupt/abuse the law and use it as a tool to target your enemy, and eventually to just send them to camps and/or kill them.
Note the term Warby uses: correct enlightenment. This is why we are where we are – this is the logical outcome of the Enlightenment, or as he puts it Post Enlightenment Progressivism. And worst of all, having “social progress” come from the state – who’s only moral authority is the monopoly on force. Think on C.S. Lewis’s quote here.
I have always felt that the one problem with the enlightenment and with every collectivist system/movement that came out of it, is the fact people were made to believe that governments could deliver heaven on earth and fix all problems. Whether you are religious or not, it is telling that in all religions the concept that heaven can not be created on earth was stressed. Man is flawed. Government will consist of flawed people. Worse yet, imagine flawed people on a crusade to prove THEY can do the impossible.
Progressivism and progressives are always focused on the utopian outcome and sooner than later will justify any and all means to reach that end. Including 120 million dead people and 3 billion prisoners of an evil ideology which appeals to people that want government to solve problems for them for whatever reason.
Don’t forget the non-Marxist original Progressives in this country – believers in eugenics (and Buck v. Bell), anti-miscegenation, the Tuskeegee experiment. You can’t find a butcher bill like that on the conservative side (that was slower to follow the Enlightenment to its endpoint).
Like I said: progressivism is about making a new man that willingly subjugates their own needs and desires to those of the society in order to create heaven on earth. That logic quickly goes to “we should just get rid of those we can’t fix to the new man’s mold” in one or more ways…
It always ends with piles of bodies.
The Social Gospel was an adaptation of Christianity to Enlightenment ideals.
To jump in and then leave (in response to ji): Basically agreeing with you. Zooming out, the word “social” as an adjective is basically a Boolean “NOT” function. Just like “social justice” is the opposite of justice, the “social gospel” is the opposite of the gospel. Whereas the gospel describes something that has been done BY god, and for which one cannot work, the social gospel is an ideal, with the god-part gone, to which one is supposed to work (shorthand version).
Oh I agree with that, I’m just using the historical verbiage as it existed then.
They work to create a monopoly on Morals, not just force. That is what often gets missed in critiques of the left, as the critiquer is mistaken in thinking there will be room left for alternate thought.
See totalitarian countries for examples of this.
Illegals in US could cost taxpayers $451 billion per year
Don’t be so stingy you can afford it.
Also can I get one billion please?
Piker, you should ask for at least ten times that to be taken seriously by the people that will tell you sure as long as you give them their 10%.
At this point what difference does it make? It’s only paper with numbers that is used to measure things. Not like real wealth.
/Gives a billion to PITS
But I was told they were net taxpayers. Democrats wouldn’t lie.
Sure!
I think I took longer on the “Express” today than the main one… the 8 letter word just didn’t stick out for me.
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At least it was a hit for misspelling not because the world list has missing entries.
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Demi Rose shows off her enviable curves and covers her flesh with gold body paint as she poses in a TINY thong for a striking photoshoot
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12747429/Demi-Rose-covers-flesh-gold-body-paint-poses-nearly-naked.html
Da Fuq? Did the Spudmesiter hijack Pie’s account?
I occasionally try to troll the spud by stealing his shtick
5-D Chess… Nice.
Its been a while since i have seen a DR post.
WTF she doing in Turkey? kinda dangerous
Getting stuffed?
I’m not spatchcocking that.
Nepal bans TikTok because it disrupts the country’s ‘social harmony’
https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/11/14/nepal-bans-tiktok-because-it-disrupts-the-countrys-social-harmony
“President Trump’s older sister, retired judge Maryanne Trump Barry, passes away at 86 in her apartment”
Isn’t that the name of the DC mayor that was caught smoking crack?
You saying she was connected to Marion and thus also a pipe hitter?
Dream of a Bollywood-style wedding party? Here’s how you can say ‘I do’ in India
https://www.euronews.com/travel/2023/11/14/dream-of-a-bollywood-style-wedding-party-heres-how-you-can-say-i-do-in-india
India is encouraging tourists to say ‘I do’ at its fairytale palaces and dreamy beaches.
Your wedding day should be the most memorable of your life
No it fucking shouldn’t be. I hate overly elaborate weddings
Save your money for the elaborate divorces?
You can’t have an elaborate divorce without a substantial pile of savings.
Been there, done that….
But worth it…
Because businesses and hospitals aren't already doing this…
New York Plans Cyber Rules for Hospitals
Let’s set up a multi-billion dollar infrastructure stuffed with political appointees and wastrels and find out!
Winner!
In today’s episode of ‘Lets claim there is racism everywhere’, AI generated images.
https://twitter.com/DonNantwich/status/1724316667226865997
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Good stuff, Jimbo, but I’m not teaching anyone to walk this way…
I learned to do wheel chair wheelies in high school. It’s like riding a bike (except balance is a front/back problem not a left/right problem). Once you learn, you don’t forget.
I haven’t done it in 45+ years, but I expect it would only take a few minutes to get it back.
Ben Shapiro slams colleague @RealCandaceO
for her “absolutely disgraceful behavior” in front of a visibly shocked audience.
Shapiro goes on, saying “her faux-sophistication on this issue is ridiculous.”
Tensions rising at Daily Wire?
https://twitter.com/autumngroyper/status/1724327682878431399
I notice that Shapiro isn’t rushing to create a (((Lincoln Battalion))) and putting his money where his mouth is.
I’d have more respect for him if he did something like that. Instead he is insisting that we send Israel a bunch of taxpayer money – if not actual troops – to do the fighting instead.
What was the disgraceful behavior?
Basically implying that Israel’s actions in Gaza have been immoral but doing so in a vague way.
Also this goes back to Kayne’s tweet about ‘death con 3’ on Jewish people and Candance defended his right to stupid speech.
Does Kanye do any kind of speech other than stupid?
Man up Hollywood!
True dat.
That’s still around, just not as much as before. You should hear the stuff we say to each other in the locker room. Thankfully nobody cares about what a bunch of disabled guys say to each other.
Most guys still do this with each other, but now it is behind closed doors, because there always are those ready to accuse people of not accepting the new progressive norms.
Good article. 100% agreed.
by the broader culture
Disagree. The broader part of the culture is having this shoved down their throats by the culture shapers.
Rereading Gibbon and MacDiarmid’s 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘚𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘦 in advance of starting annotations for a new edition. For all the pessimism of the book, and of the Scottish Renaissance more generally, the quotations opening the book illustrate its comical and satirical slant.
https://twitter.com/se_lyall/status/1724387626914808188
In Albert Camus’ deeply under read final novel, “The Fall” he perfectly encapsulates the psychology of “progressive guilt”
https://twitter.com/QuetzalPhoenix/status/1690511440250044417
Nearly 2 in 5 Americans will receive an inheritance in their lifetime.
They’re most likely to be white and well off already.
Yet almost no one has to pay an “estate tax” anymore. It’s one of the biggest loopholes for the rich in the US tax code
https://twitter.com/byHeatherLong/status/1724094437733626104
Oh, that’s a pet peeve of mine. You fuckers already taxed the shit out of it when people were alive. You have no claim to it being passed to the next of kin other than just theft — and that kind of shit is how you destroy multigenerational small farms and businesses.
Keep your fucking grubby paws off, you racist bastards.
you sound like an angry white man. this must be some o that there white fragility
EXACTLY!
There is no justice unless government gets to rob you and fuck your corpse on the way out!
“I wonder what Grandpa did with all his money”?
“Did you forget all the investment trips to Las Vegas”?
It’s a “loophole” that the government doesn’t getty the money.
Over 100,000 ancient coins have been discovered cached in Maebashi City, Japan. A sample of 334 coins revealed 44 distinct currencies, running from China’s Western Han Dynasty (175 BC) to the Southern Song Dynasty (1265 AD)
https://twitter.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1723996277812109657
Some collector is mad that they touched his stuff.
Why pets don’t really bring humans happiness nor improve their well-being
https://studyfinds.org/pets-dont-bring-people-happiness/
The vast majority of dog and cat owners will say their pets enrich their lives in countless ways and bring immeasurable levels of extra happiness, but researchers from Michigan State University suggest that most pet owners may just be telling themselves what they want to hear. Their new study found that despite owners claiming pets improve their lives, researchers did not see a reliable association between pet ownership and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In all, the study authors assessed a total of 767 people on three separate occasions in May 2020. The research team opted to adopt a mixed-method approach that allowed them to simultaneously assess several indicators of well-being, all while also asking participants to reflect on the role of pets from their point of view in an open-ended manner.
Crucially, however, when study authors actually compared the happiness of pet owners to levels seen among non-pet owners, the datasets showed no difference in the well-being of pet owners and non-pet owners over time.
Ah, the tell…
horse shit
There are four cases to test: 1) non-owners who are already happy not having a pet; 2) owners who are already having a pet; 3) non-owners forced to take on a pet; 4) owners forced to lose their pet.
There is no difference between owners and non-owners who are already happy, because they got to where they are through their own choices.
Try studying people who have recently lost their pet. You’ll get a different outcome.
Also, people who report being “happy” tend to regard it as a stress metric.
Hence why parents with young children are less “happy”. However, parents who have had children will then later on in life report themselves more content and fulfilled.
And people with more demanding jobs are less “happy”. But look back on that job as more fulfilling.
Etc.
I question whether being temporarily “happy” is an important metric. I often jokingly refer to it as the “loser metric”
It’s probably missing from the study, but I wouldn’t dispute the idea that people, in general the youth, are forgoing meaningful relationships with other people and replacing them with pets.
A family pet is of course a great thing.
Isn’t “happiness” the most most bullshit metric of all time though?
Pretty much. It’s even more stupid when they try to compare various countries by “happiness”. The concept is impossible to estimate within one culture, but then they “measure” it and compare “happiness” in both Sweden and Laos.
Try to explain the hordes of people smuggling themselves into Bhutan.
Every young kid needs a dog.
When the world is against you and your parents are looking up orphanages in the phone book a dog will curl up with you and let you know that the pack needs you and loves you. Dogs always remember that kids need unconditional love. Sometimes us parents forget that.
Then they grow up. The parents, I mean.
Now with more contrived emotionalism
Released every five years, the National Climate Assessment is a congressionally mandated evaluation of the effects of climate change on American life. This new fifth edition paints a picture of a nation simultaneously beset by climate-driven disasters and capable of dramatically reducing emissions of planet-warming gasses in the near future.
This is the first time the assessment includes standalone chapters about climate change’s toll on the American economy, as well as the complex social factors driving climate change and the nation’s responses. And, unlike past installments, the new assessment draws heavily from social science, including history, sociology, philosophy and Indigenous studies.
Complex social factors; like evil white supremacist capitalism.
The new approach adds context and relevance to the assessment’s robust scientific findings, and underscores the disproportionate danger that climate change poses to poor people, marginalized communities, older Americans and those who work outdoors.
“Climate change affects us all, but it doesn’t affect us all equally,” says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, one of the authors of the assessment. But threaded throughout the report are case studies and research summaries highlighting ways “climate action can create a more resilient and just country,” she says.
Life is not fair, Katherine. Stop pretending you can (given enough of other people’s money) make it so.
WE DEMAND EQUALITY OF OUTCOME!
/idiots
I can’t decide if they’ve never read Harrison Bergeron, or they did and thought it was a how-to manual.
It sure feels like they read every dystopian book out there and decided they were “How to” manuals for progressivism’s end goal, yes….
How unsurprising that equity nonsense finds its way in.
Looking forward to the debunking of this.
I literally just saw a graph yesterday that showed average temperature in the U.S. from NOAA data and it was pretty flat.
I know if you chart my region of North Texas, it’s actually gotten a bit cooler (but warmer in the winter) in my lifetime. (which is awesome)
Australia says “hold my beer”:
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/australia-offers-tuvalu-citizens-historic-climate-visa/103096364
All of the actual, real negative effects of “climate change” are due to actions being done in support of the climate change agenda, and I would not be one bit surprised if they hit poor people disproportionately. In fact, I would expect it.
And I sure the guild will discipline or disbar them, right?
Texas Law Firm Says Former Partner Lied About Relationship With Judge
https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-law-firm-says-former-partner-lied-about-relationship-with-judge-9a62a69f?st=vbcqzlo2oz7ovxs&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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In computer science, a one-way function is a function that is easy to compute on every input, but hard to invert given the image of a random input. Here, “easy” and “hard” are to be understood in the sense of computational complexity theory, specifically the theory of polynomial time problems.
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The existence of such one-way functions is still an open conjecture. Their existence would prove that the complexity classes P and NP are not equal, thus resolving the foremost unsolved question of theoretical computer science.[1]: ex. 2.2, page 70 The converse is not known to be true, i.e. the existence of a proof that P≠NP would not directly imply the existence of one-way functions.[2]
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Although the P versus NP problem was formally defined in 1971, there were previous inklings of the problems involved, the difficulty of proof, and the potential consequences. In 1955, mathematician John Nash wrote a letter to the NSA, in which he speculated that cracking a sufficiently complex code would require time exponential in the length of the key.[5] If proved (and Nash was suitably skeptical), this would imply what is now called P ≠ NP, since a proposed key can easily be verified in polynomial time. Another mention of the underlying problem occurred in a 1956 letter written by Kurt Gödel to John von Neumann. Gödel asked whether theorem-proving (now known to be co-NP-complete) could be solved in quadratic or linear time,[6] and pointed out one of the most important consequences—that if so, then the discovery of mathematical proofs could be automated.
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So if someone (say, me) invented a true random number generator, that would be a one-way function, and so would resolve the P vs NP problem.
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A proof showing that P ≠ NP would lack the practical computational benefits of a proof that P = NP, but would nevertheless represent a very significant advance in computational complexity theory and provide guidance for future research. It would allow one to show in a formal way that many common problems cannot be solved efficiently, so that the attention of researchers can be focused on partial solutions or solutions to other problems. Due to widespread belief in P ≠ NP, much of this focusing of research has already taken place.
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Spoiler: P ≠ NP
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2023/11/proof-of-existence-of-one-way-functions.html
Let’s not judge before all the facts are in
Mayor Karen Bass, who also spoke at the press conference, made sure to urge the public not to jump to the conclusion that the fire was set by homeless people in the area, 16 of whom were living in the immediate vicinity when the fire erupted on Saturday.
“There is no reason to assume that the origin of this fire, or the reason this fire happened, is because there were unhoused individuals nearby,” she said.
All 16 of those unhoused people have been provided temporary housing, Bass noted.
It were global warming wot dunnit.
Dey didn do nuffin.
Could have been a white supremacist.
There is no reason to assume
Ok, Karen.
Iceland ‘is on edge’ waiting for volcanic eruption
Which will be the most exciting thing to happen to Iceland since 1940.
Kinda hope it’s a big blasty one and not a disappointing dribbler like the last one.
That happens as you get older. Nothing to be ashamed about
That’s what she said!
WaPo: “New” Evidence Shows Hamas Intended to Start Major War
You don’t say.
They probably even thought they had a winning plan!
Isn’t “happiness” the most most bullshit metric of all time though?
Garbage in…
SCIENCE!
Thanksgiving: Looming government shutdown could cause disaster for holiday travel
As if I need an excuse not to travel.
I’m going all the way to Allentown, for my Boston Market.
The banality of evil.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/uk-infant-baptized-forced-life-support-father-devil-courtroom
There was no cost to the UK here, but we can’t have certain peasants more equal than others.
I’m not religious, yet his words remind of the painting where the archangel Michael defeats Satan.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/48QAAOSwDNZeuCmD/s-l300.jpg
Perhaps the purpose of Indi’s life was to expose wickedness and inspire others to fight it.
I am religious and the easiest place to find evil in this world is in a big government bureaucracy.
big government bureaucracy
Truly banal.
I’m not, but my wife and extended family are as are many friends.
Appeal to magic
It’s true that the 10 isn’t just any freeway. It’s one of the busiest corridors in the country, and the primary route between east and west Los Angeles. The section of the 10 Freeway damaged Saturday morning by a pallet yard fire is a major artery carrying some 300,000 vehicles in, out and through downtown most days. (The fire is being investigated as arson.)
So the temporary shutdown is a big deal. It’s also a painful reminder of Los Angeles’ transportation challenges. This sprawling region, where many people commute long distances to jobs and school and for other needs, remains too dependent on cars as the primary mode of transportation. Past temporary freeway closures have been considered so potentially catastrophic that they were given names like Carmageddon and Jamzilla. And now we have the Palletpocalypse.
In an ideal world, a freeway closure wouldn’t upend lives and businesses. With more bus and rail lines, along with faster, reliable service, there would be no need to panic. Travelers would have ample choices to get to their destination, and with fewer passenger cars on the road, cargo trucks could have easier passage.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom have pledged to get the 10 Freeway fixed and reopened as fast as possible, which is good and necessary. But why stop there? They should also push for a rapid expansion of transit service. That would serve travelers now during the closure and encourage people to keep using transit after the route reopens.
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Transit advocates want L.A. and California leaders to turn this emergency into an opportunity, by accelerating existing transit services and programs. For example, Los Angeles could speed up the installation of bus-only lanes in areas affected by the 10 closure so riders don’t get stuck in traffic.
Wave your magic wand, Governor Newsom. Show the world what a forward-thinking leader you are. Now is the time to turn catastrophe into triumph. We can turn our freeways into parks.
I was all in up to $50m. Who here won the Ferrari?
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/fine-art/a-ferrari-sold-at-auction-for-52-million-bb36607b?st=9lge2ok6eeu52qp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Jeez… for $52 million used and auctioning, I’d be expecting a light aircraft carrier… not a single car.
Or a private jet. A pretty darn nice one at that.
Henry Manney a writer for Road and Track had a 250 GTO as a daily driver in Paris. It was apparently pretty tatty when he sold it via R&Ts Cars For Sale section. It went for $2,500.
I wouldn’t pay more than $51 million for that.
I tapped out at $50.
Good riddance, race traitor
On Monday, the former SNL star returned to guest-host The Daily Show, where she made sure to bid farewell to the South Carolina senator’s presidential dreams in perfectly brutal fashion.
Scott dropped the bombshell on Sunday while speaking to Fox News’ Trey Gowdy, telling him that voters, “who are the most remarkable people on the planet… they’re telling me, ‘Not now, Tim.” Which both enraged and amused Jones.
“Not now? NOT NOW?!,” she repeated, somewhat incredulous. “No, ‘not now’ is what you say when a telemarketer calls you during dinner time. This was more like: ‘We ain’t ever—ever, ever, ever, ever—voting for your fucked-up ass, anti-abortion, anti-gay, Milk Dud-looking motherfucker.’”
I can see why she is so popular. She serves as the proxy for all those white liberals who want nothing less than to call Tim Scott a dumb nigger to his face.
She seems nice.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bcYLzcFk7nU/T-CWbulUQ-I/AAAAAAAABhI/1IkMhr6MOi8/s1600/bedevilledrabbit+(39).jpg
That’s some black privilege there.
Who here won the Ferrari?
I’d rather have a 250LM.
Those Ferrari GTOs are cool, but they are susceptible to getting carbon on the valves.