Good game
The Eagles topped the Chiefs in the Super Bowl rematch. I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw them play again this year. The US lost to Trinidad in soccer, but they still won. F1 drivers want an earlier start in Vegas. Which gives them something in common with American race fans. And that’s pretty much it for sports.
Wow. Cool. Thanks for the info. Now kindly fuck off.
Don’t care. Fight your own war.
That’s it. Kick that hornet’s nest. We had every chance to get out of there without starting WW3. And these dumb bastards can’t just walk away without doubling down.
This should surprise nobody. It will also surprise nobody when the government ignores it.
It’s about time science was used for good. I hope I see a Nobel Prize in their future.
Welp, she’s back in the news. Which is probably all she really cared about.
Reenactment
“Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a bitch?” OK, probably not all that exciting. But it is funny.
Curious they only mention the make/model when it’s a specific company. I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.
Wow, that price seems a bit excessive. Regardless who it’s being imposed on.
Love those keyboards. And everything else about the song. And here’s a lovely track. And the video is just pure 80s. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
What, so they actually have some track temperature? Perish the thought! 😉
We actually had a front move through Saturday (got a little welcome rain… so rare around here), I was more than half wondering if it would cruise over Nevada just in time for the race. That would have thrown a real wrench in the works — and can you just imagine a “desert” style street circuit… and rain? Mwa-ha-ha-ha!
Obligatory for PPP’s 5-alarm cake
Morning, Sloopy! Morning folks!
Hmm… highly depends on what “plant-based options” they’re talking about. As I recall the “Beyond” style stuff — anything done to “replace” meat and sold commercially tends to be high-sodium, highly processed itself. I’m sure OMWC has a lot of good recipes — but moving the masses to what they want (to supplement the ubiquitous bug-burgers and eventually Soylent Green) isn’t likely to be much healthier.
But yeah, sure. Put data out there and let folks
tell you to fuck off in peacemake their own decisions is good.They can’t do that, people might make the wrong decision.
That Squealer quote from Animal Farm just keeps staying topical, doesn’t it?
“Hmm… highly depends on what “plant-based options” they’re talking about.”
Soilent green…
How is beef not a ‘plant based meat’?
Your jib — I like the cut of it!
Exactly. Cattle just happen to be very efficient at turning cellulose into delicious protein.
Who sits around thinking about what they want to force other people to eat? To what end? Oh, money you say? Power?
What kind of sick fuck spends their time thinking about how to have control over the minutia of other people’s lives?
No, Suthen.
The control of others is the point. Moreso than anything else. Not simply raw power, as that can be exercised without the direct control, the micromanagement is the point.
— PJ O’Rourke
I thought we were the Johns. Paying for everything, promises of a little loving at the end of our lives.
If we’re the Johns, we’re supposed to be paying them to go away as I understand things. And they’re definitely not doing that.
Divorce is the long form version of paying someone to go away.
There is a whole class of sick-fucks that dream of having power over other people. It is sadly an intrinsic part of humanity, generation after generation. Thinking we can ever be rid of that is like believing in the New Soviet Man.
I guess to some fucking someone that didn’t want you to do that to them is more fun…
Yes. Right now they are tech wizards who think they need to use their “genius” to save the world.
Who sits around thinking about telling others how to live their lives? It looks like most people unfortunately.
I did not have “National policies that make less sense than the Austria-Hungary memo to Serbia” on my bingo card for this decade, that’s for sure. I can’t help but believe there’s a lot of truth to the “keep covering up for PPP’s bribery misdeeds” and “What about those odd bio-labs there?” that makes these idiots just refuse to stop. I suppose in 40 years someone might know the truth if we’re not worrying about radroaches and the lingering Enclave Remnants (and boy oh boy… does the PPP admin fit right into the Enclave, doesn’t it?)
I wonder if there has been any thought at all as to what exactly the end game is supposed to be here? Or is there just no thought beyond “keep the grift going”?
That’s my impression (grift and “keep the Ukranians who know quiet), yeah. Maybe the Vindmans and what’s-her-name-at-State-that-hates-Russian somehow think we can “break Putin” and invade Russia next… but they’re fucking idiots even by the standard of the rest of the fucking idiots in DC. (Nuland? Whatever the hell her name is… she’s a warmongering moron who wants to get us into a shooting war with a nuclear power because it hurt her fee-fees or something…)
And all the while they continue to degrade the fighting ability of the US military. Stupid as well as evil and corrupt.
I would agree that it is stupid to do if I was not certain that is the actual agenda: to destroy US’ ability to resist the globalist moves.
You get a gold star.
My favorite part is the people who have dispassionately looked at Ukraine and asked “you call this a democracy?”
I’ve moved firmly into the elites wanting a mass extinction event camp. The Plandemic fizzled and didn’t kill nearly enough of us off, so WWIII is the only guaranteed option to wipe enough of us out.
“Curious they only mention the make/model when it’s a specific company. I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.”
The guy that owns this is a threat to the 2024 fortification efforts. Don’t you know the “good guys” must fight that orange Nazi who seems to not understand his place?
It really kills the left that they have lost the ability to censor speech on Twitter.
Yeah, removing X from their control is part of it — though I think they’d be hating on Tesla anyway because the UAW put out marching orders when their hard earned investment took office, too.
If the Tesla had landed in the swimming pool rather than flying over it, the story might have been pyrotechnic. That’s why I thought it worth mentioning the make and model.
See prior comment about needing to cover up. And of course the perpetual “Feed Raytheon” contingent combined with the war-boners that never met a conflict they aren’t willing to kill somebody else’s kids in. Bleah.
So far they’ve been smart enough to keep it to our treasure and not our blood. Given the recruitment shortfalls, they won’t have a choice in the matter until they re-instate the draft.
Dammit, Janet — no one ever wanted to hear from you!
“Wow, that price seems a bit excessive. Regardless who it’s being imposed on.
They should claim to be muslims and see what happens then!
Nobody would believe them until they chop off a couple of heads/blow up some shit.
You have to show proof, and that counts as positive proof, right?
Be funnier if the other car was driven by Ryan Stiles.
I guess they saw a submarine in the water, and being a sub hunter, went after it?
Hmmm… a P-8 Poseidon? Must have been quite an adventure.
Wilhelm Scream
Bet the pilot is going to get some career counseling after this.
“Maybe Try Dental School, cause you can’t fly a Poseidon”
A comment from last article that asked about using AI to write code compelled me to mention this:
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SID (Synthesis of Integral Design) was a logic synthesis program used to generate logic gates for the VAX 9000. From high-level behavioral and register-transfer level sources, approximately 93% of the CPU scalar and vector units, over 700,000 gates, were synthesized.[28]
SID was an artificial intelligence rule-based system and expert system with over 1000 hand-written rules. In addition to logic gate creation, SID took the design to the wiring level, allocating loads to nets and providing parameters for place and route CAD tools. As the program ran, it generated and expanded its own rule-base to 384,000 low-level rules.[28][29] A complete synthesis run for the VAX 9000 took 3 hours.
Initially it was somewhat controversial but was accepted in order to reduce the overall VAX 9000 project budget. Some engineers refused to use it. Others compared their own gate-level designs to those created by SID, eventually accepting SID for the gate-level design job. Since SID rules were written by expert logic designers and with input from the best designers on the team, excellent results were achieved. As the project progressed and new rules were written, SID-generated results became equal to or better than manual results for both area and timing. For example, SID produced a 64-bit adder that was faster than the manually-designed one. Manually-designed areas averaged 1 bug per 200 gates, whereas SID-generated logic averaged 1 bug per 20,000 gates. After finding a bug, SID rules were corrected, resulting in 0 bugs on subsequent runs.[28] The SID-generated portion of the VAX 9000 was completed 2 years ahead of schedule, whereas other areas of the VAX 9000 development encountered implementation problems, resulting in a much delayed product release. Following the VAX 9000, SID was never used again.
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So yeah, computers are better than people at designing computer circuits and have been for 40+ years.
Insert your HAL, Marvin, and Terminator jokes here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xUEi7Sd9bE
Fun fact: I used to watch my dad fix bugs on VAX mainframes. They’re still used to run the 911 systems in most major cities.
Given compiler optimizations and the Itanium era (some of which survives) for speculative execution and loading (and the compiler rewriting for that), there’s an argument to be made that we’ve had “AI” (aka glorified pattern recognition and substitution) for some time in software development (yes, I would hope circuit design given the optimal layouts for the core structures have been known for some time, and most of it is figuring out how to do the substrates and metal pathing, which is good for compute being graph problems essentially would have already been doing it). That said, work is pushing “AI partner programming” and I give a resounding “Meh” for now. I don’t need function auto-complete or substitution for basic loops. We’ll see, I suppose.
Off of the top of my head: Our logic is based on our experiences in the real world. Our logic is flawed in many respects because our experience is limited.
We design the logic that AIs use with our faulty logic. AI’s need to learn using a second tier flawed logic yet have no experience in the real world.
AI in it’s current state is amazing alright but I think it has a long way to go.
The other interesting thought is – the world is analog and digital is merely an approximation.
Which I regard as inarguably true, no matter how much it offends the “math is the language of the universe” people.
I thought part of the point of quantum mechanics is that when you get down far enough, analog is really integrals of digital states. Which feeds into the whole “lunacy I really don’t understand” what if the universe is a holographic simulation stuff, maybe.
Humans have an endless ability to deceive themselves.
The point of quantum mechanics is to have a placeholder for God for people that don’t believe in God.
Every gorram episode of Through the Wormhole gets to the part they can’t explain and then points at quantum mechanics.
Except, it’s not inarguably true.
You can poke around and find evidence that space might be quantized.
However, there is also some evidence that it’s not, and that might mean that gravity isn’t a quantum effect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aR77s9RLck
JI – Yes, that is what I was getting at. Our own logic is merely an approximation. If it were not it would not create paradoxes.
RC – Yes. Math is not the language of the universe, also part of what I was getting at. If it were there would be no mathematical paradoxes.
The human eye can only detect 3 wavelengths of light. All the colors we perceive are just combinations of those 3.
Fun fact: one of those wavelengths is not for yellow.
Nope, just green, red, and blue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3unPcJDbCc
Almost all the chemical reactions in living things are from just a dozen different kinds of atoms.
Free your mind, guys.
One thing I have always wondered is whether, barring actual colorblindness, what I see as a given color is seen the same way by others, or if the brain wiring leads what my mind presents as blue to appear as what my mind presents as yellow to someone else, but because the frames of reference are all external objects and language, we believe we see the world the same way.
My wife is quite adamant that I don’t see colors the same way she does. And I was under the impression, that’s actually a common thing.
Or women just enjoy messing with our fragile little minds. Who’s to say….
Fun fact – in visual processing, women are capable of discerning smaller differences in color than men on average. The standing hypothesis is that this had to do with the separation of labor of a hunter gatherer lifestyle that represented such a long period of human existence.
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The idea of linguistic relativity, also known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis , the Whorf hypothesis, or Whorfianism, is a principle suggesting that the structure of a language influences its speakers’ worldview or cognition, and thus individuals’ languages determine or shape their perceptions of the world.
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The knowledge argument (also known as Mary’s Room or Mary the super-scientist) is a philosophical thought experiment proposed by Frank Jackson in his article “Epiphenomenal Qualia” (1982) and extended in “What Mary Didn’t Know” (1986).
The experiment describes Mary, a scientist who exists in a black-and-white world where she has extensive access to physical descriptions of color, but no actual perceptual experience of color. Mary has learned everything there is to learn about color, but she has never actually experienced it for herself. The central question of the thought experiment is whether Mary will gain new knowledge when she goes outside the colorless world and experiences seeing in color.
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Sokath, his eyes uncovered!
Uncivil gets it.
Even expanding the wavelengths we can see or hear there would still be limitations, information we cannot have access to.
We require some kind of machinery to gather info, biological or mechanical, and every machine has limits.
We can never directly experience the world around us.
I suppose the old death is one with the universe thing is true but then we have the problem of no machinery with which to make sense of it.
Our situation is either not enough info but a great processor or all of the info and no processor.
Oh well.
Truth can only be approached asymptotically.
Other than the names, waveslengths, and what types of pigment blends will produce a pigment of a given color – how does one actually describe color? It’s one of the archetypes of labels applied to a sensory value.
What does this actually mean?
UCS lives in a blue world…and all day and all night everything he sees is blue…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ukg4E75HBU
If I could see through someone else’s eyes, do they actually see a color as the same shade I do, or does the filter of language and external references mean that while our perceptions are intrinsically different, we are unable to realize that because within our individual frames of reference, everything is still internally consistant?
UnCiv, this seems like a restatement of the question “what is consciousness?”
Because the color receptors are real physical things. The nerves likewise are real (and AFAIK, not specialized), and the vision processing regions are generally the same (barring injury).
Blue world you say.
I do not have that much faith that the brain’s software works that consistantly from instance to instance.
Pretty sure color is ROM.
Nothing in that slop is read-only.
We ain’t got nothing on the mantis shrimps.
https://phys.org/news/2013-09-mantis-shrimp-world-eyesbut.html
Libertarian sight..
Eh, not quite true.
I’ve noticed you doing this a lot in your self-guided exploration of chemistry. You’ll take a general/simplified statement/rule of thumb and then extrapolate out from that too early or arrive at a surface level conclusion without knowing what’s the actual underlying cause.
Not that I’m discouraging you from this endeavor, just a caution.
Please elaborate on both points. Also, it’s nice to know that someone is noticing my chemistry work besides random Slovakians.
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Humans normally have three types of cones, usually designated L, M and S for long, medium and short wavelengths respectively. The first responds the most to light of the longer red wavelengths, peaking at about 560 nm. The majority of the human cones are of the long type. The second most common type responds the most to light of yellow to green medium-wavelength, peaking at 530 nm. M cones make up about a third of cones in the human eye. The third type responds the most to blue short-wavelength light, peaking at 420 nm, and make up only around 2% of the cones in the human retina.
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Huh. Wild that we only need a relatively small number of S cones to see blue.
Light: notice how that later quote mentions that each receptor is sensitive to wavelengths (plural)?
So you had a bit about molecules “containing” N,O, etc. having certain properties. While that’s not false, but it’s closer to true to say it’s about where those heteroatoms are, and not just their presence. If you look up aromaticity, You can swap in heteratoms in carbon rings and if you change the number/arrangement of the remaing carbon atoms, you can maintain the properties of the original.
Relatedly “like dissolves like,” is a thing but “likeness” is less about what atoms are there and more about what they’re attached to, the more general underlying principle being “polarity.” This ties directly into the “where are the atoms attached” bit from earlier in that you can take a compound ordinarily insoluble in water and by exposing those accessible atoms to an acid or a base, you can give the compound sufficient charge to make it both water soluble and also convert it into an easier-to handle solid. When you see the name of a drug with “HCl” after the name, that drug is insoluble in water, but they’ve charged it by exposure to hydrochloric acid. Likewise any time you see a drug name with a group I atom in front of the name, or a words after it ending in “-ate” those are compounds that have been handled by the acid-base extraction/preparatio.
Free your mind and your ass will follow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zZfbkUkodY
JI — this funny because it’s binary.
I prefer to see digital as a subset of analog. Just look at the almost laughable reality of ‘digital memory’.
LOL
Yes/no is digital.
Maybe is analog.
Fresh out of college, I used to argue with the hardware guys that the world was discrete (quantized) but they couldn’t measure it with their crude hardware.
Just FYI: we employ a lot of people to write the design rules that the computers will use to design new ICs.
Can you convince the machine that the design should not have six fingers, three legs, and sixteen knees?
Oddly enough, I do not work for Open AI. We’re a money-making manufacturing company, not a cult.
DIY Silicon: Man Builds Integrated Circuit That’s Similar to Intel’s 4004
By Aaron Klotz published August 16, 2021
What one man can do in 2021 was only achievable by a whole company in the 1970s
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/man-builds-own-silicon-chip-at-home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6auDCAGJgE
To be fair, he did have access to what they learned and what was learned in the decades after to aid him. Not to mention probably doing the design on a computer instead of by hand.
Not so say it was easy, but it was harder the first time around.
So, by committee. *rolls eyes*
Maybe so, but our shit works, yo.
They are being misinterpreted!
By being downplayed in their intent and the extent of the sentiment.
His translation is incorrect. It says:
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God is the greatest
They have magnified and raised the cry which has come from the
promise of God
God is the greatest
Death to America
Death to Israel
A curse upon the Jews
Victory to Islam
***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz7b3igb4yM
The Gist wasn’t far off.
Well, it does say something about their bedroom proficiency if “A curse upon” can be equated to “We shall fuck”, I suppose.
The Arabic phrase corresponding to “fuck him” is “[may God] destroy his house”
It sounds like: yakhrib baythu.
Minyook means “fucker” in Arabic and is used the same way as in English. When I worked at NSA, I sometimes had to bowdlerize translations, and for minyook, I used “rascal” as a PG substitute.
Rascalfucker?
“Ahmid was a real sheep rascal”….
I don’t want Hachana on my bread!
I think I’ve narrowed down why I don’t rate In n Gadda Da Vida higher. Of the seventeen minute runtime, you have three minutes with vocals, split by a fourteen minute instrumental, of which ten are wasted, repedtive and not that interesting to listen to. I just wish they had done something with the time that didn’t make me threaten to nod off waiting for the musicians to get back from wherever the drugs had taken them.
Related
I don’t have much use for any of the ’60s era protracted drug-fueled jam “classics”.
Somewhat related…
It’s a bit odd. I’ve grown so accustomed to the cover of Carry on wayward son by Frog Leap Studios that when I hear the original, it sounds wrong.
Hear hear!
*Bangs copy of “Sky Pilot” on desk
I am always amazed when such celebrities continue to tout their complete lack of morals for decades on end without a moment’s pause for reflection or reconsideration.
I posted when this happened, but indulge me one more time in this am kick in the balls. It is a perfect example of the banality of evil from the state.
Britain’s NHS Left Indi Gregory to Die
Envy of the world.
I don’t remember the part about killing children when they were dancing with hospital beds at the Olympics.
And this is why they need to take people’s guns…
And yet the “universal healthcare” morons will insist it couldn’t happen here.
Or worse, argue that it’s a good thing the child was removed from the cost ledger.
What’s even sadder here is there was no cost to the UK taxpayer.
Problem is they can’t have somebody escape the system.
That was the story with the last couple of babies the NHS intentionally murdered too
Cost is absolutely of lesser concern than control.
I have seldom been moved to desire to murder….this might be one of those times.
A. May is the same as may not.
B. Sick of the endless wars. Sick of hearing about how difficult it is to extricate ourselves from them. All lies and bullshit and it will continue until we get our house in order.
C. As I said, we need to get our own house in order.
D. Preventing hangovers is easy. I have a foolproof method.
E. I have nothing to say about empty, broken, evil people other than “Shut the fuck up.”
F. I dont know who Wayne Brady is.
G. And?
H. Despite an attempt by the county to muddy the water it appears to me the church has a sound case. Any new lines laid? By whom? I can see the price if that is the case. Need more info.
Here, enjoy some Wayne Brady.
I am happy to see action like this and this. The cancel culture fucks need to feel financial pain or they will not stop.
Da Fuq???
X’s lawsuit is interesting. Apparently, they checked the metadata, and Media Matters found an (arguably) white supremacist account and hammered the refresh button until certain ads came up, screenshotted them, and sent them to the advertisers. X claims that Media Matters is literally the only viewer of those ads on that feeed.
I am happy to see action like this and this. The cancel culture fucks need to feel financial pain or they will not stop.
Make it cost them money please!
What an inspired collaboration between those two. Just genius for two brief albums.
And no one misses men’s hairstyles of the 80s.
Whatever do you mean?
/runs clippers over head, straps on some Docs.
I miss the luscious hair I had in the 80’s
I’m guessing you didn’t wear it in the style of that keyboardist.
I miss my hair from the 80s.
Drink a red from a country that doesn’t use pesticides and don’t get headaches. I only drink French or Italian reds, as much as I want in a sitting, and never get headaches. Touch even a little bit of the stuff from California and I’m done the next morning.
Yup, I drink a lot of reds from Argentina, Chile, France, and Italy and have never had a headache. But if I let that shit from Cali past my lips, I am going to have a headache if I don’t retch first.
I’ve gotten headaches in as little as 2 hours while drinking domestic wines. That doesn’t include Boone’s Farm.
Strawberry?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Heh… the little girl is quite the charming ham. Thanks, Your Holiness!
From the sidebar… I didn’t have a little girl… can just imagine the fun fantasy drama (before the actual teen years drama).
Yeah, too bad they have to grow up…
There is that but ya know…..I have always been very fond of the grown up ones too.
Swapping processed meat for plant-based foods may cut diabetes and heart disease risk, new review finds
I am already eating plant-based food. The cows eat grass. I eat cows.
This comes from the same group of fuckers that told people the Kung Flu “vaccine” stopped the Kung Flu, right? Fuck that shit.
Nothing to see…
EV Startup Fisker Has Lost Another Chief Accounting Officer
After one month.
Possibilities:
A: The financials are simply a mess, and trying to get them sorted out causes aneyrisms.
B: There are intentional shenanigans going on with the finances of the company.
C: Both.
I did a couple of brief consulting stints at Peregrine Systems back in their hey-day. They couldn’t reconcile internal systems and that was because it was hiding shenanigans. I knew it was weird at the time, but it wasn’t until a couple of years later that it all crashed down and for me it was “ah, now it all makes sense”.
Friend of mine took delivery of an Ocean last month. I haven’t seen it in person yet.
Which one? Arctic? Indian? Atlantic?
Billy.
Maybe we need to rethink our business model? Nah, it’ll be fine.
Future hobos, only-fans porn providers, street walkers, and welfare recipients…
I’m assuming this was a link to a Carnac the Magnificent bit, but it’s a bad link.
Sis Boom Bah
“Failure to Link, Five Yard Penalty, Second Down.”
LINK.
So… they want More uneployment?
They just want to be paid to make TikToks, I think. Because they’re “building the vibe” or whatnot.
Funemployment is back baby!
Well, we didn’t achieve anything, but we sure felt good doing it.
Checks out for libtards. I don’t think this applies to all Gen Z.
As Alex says in the end reality always wins. Every fuckin’ time.
We had every chance to get out of there without starting WW3.
We had every opportunity to prevent the conflict in the first place. The west/NATO/US should not have been dicking around in Ukraine.
NATO should have been disbanded in the ’90s.
Then who would have paid for Europe’s military, Europe? That’s crazy talk.
My thought at the beginning was that the US should immediately sit down with Russia and keep talking. I don’t care if they talked about the weather. You don’t end this without talking. But as usual tuff guy Joe wanted to prove he still has testosterone and escalated the situation.
Hey you can’t prove you are tougher than the tough guy without toughing it out!
More voters back funding for U.S.-Mexico border than foreign conflicts
Border control and mass deportations I hope. But it doesn’t matter when the US government is facilitating an invasion of the states.
The latest NBC News national poll finds Democrats divided over more aid to Israel, while Republicans are divided over Ukraine funding.
We shouldn’t be funding either.
Won’t anyone think of the
kidsteachers?Two thirds of the school levies passed, but the MSM still needs to chastise the plebes for not giving teachers all they want. Class sizes are getting as big as 30!!!!! (I think every class I was ever in was around 30).
I have to admit I laughed at that. The referendum was supposed to be all about getting kids new technology so they could be smarter. Then they let the fact drop that the teachers were hoping for that extra money as part of their negotiations.
But a new study from researchers from the University of California, Davis, proposes that the real cause of red wine headaches is a flavanol known as quercetin.
So I should stick to chardonnay?
I’m going to assume this is like other food allergies.
Is that quercetin the same quercetin I take as a supplement? Why am I not getting headaches from that if so?
Well, done, not reading the article like a proper Glib!
But combined with alcohol, quercetin changes into a toxic compound known as acetaldehyde that can cause some people headaches.
Thanks for enacting my labor!
Re: the church water hookup:
As part of the Hochul’s “we are totally not banning gas stoves or furnaces” push, there was a bill (don’t know if it passed) that would ban not only gas hookups in new construction, but forbid builders from running a line from the main to the homesite. Homeowners would be completely free to pay for whatever costs and regulatory procedures would be needed to tie into a gas main if they wanted a gas stove.
Fake news. Nobody is coming for your gas stove.
No one can waste gas on their personal use, it must all be kept for the massive gaslighting ops.
Television host and comedian Wayne Brady was involved in a two-car crash in the Los Angeles area, police said, and reports are emerging that he may have gotten into an altercation with the other driver.
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Brady was one of two parties involved in the collision around 7:30 p.m. Sunday on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.
Who’s line on the road was it anyway?
I give the guy Proops for not going postal at least.
Now, now — don’t make a Mochrie out of the situation.
Will his side of the story Carey water?
If the other driver was Asian he may have been ryan about what happened.
Who wants to tell him?
If you vote for anyone but Joe Biden, you are voting to destroy American Democracy.
I was already planning to not vote for him. You don’t have to sell me on it.
That moron is still talking?
My thoughts exactly. He could at least keep it to himself.
He really is a meathead.
People who say things like this are encouraging election cheating and violence.
They’re destroying our democracy and doing a coup. Election interference even!
Shut up Meathead. – Archie
Me on Thanksgiving after one beer
Actually that me either several beers deep or none at all.
That’s just Tuesday.
[golf claps]
Does VOX have an article about how I should talk to my relatives at T-Giving dinner about Argentina (or Israel or Ukraine)?
Did you get your talking points autoupdate? Lets fix that.
npcObj(“Pope Jimbo”).inload.update(‘force’, true);
I saw several articles saying that people wanted to avoid politics at Thanksgiving this year. I think even the progs have enough low cunning to realize trying to tell everyone how Biden has made everyone better off may be a hard sell at Thanksgiving diner.
Re: Tim Robbins’ husband-
One of my favorite parts of the SyFy Children of Dune adaptation is her performance as Wensicia. If you’re unfamiliar with the character, she’s a stereotypical behind-the-scenes schemer/chessmaster, except Herbert breaks the trope by making her kind of a tard that is nowhere nearly as smart or effective as she thinks she is. I have no idea if Suzie was playing the role straight or not, but her insufferable self-regard just shines through.
Maybe its too early, but do we have info on who is running for LP nomination next year?
Too early. Decision is in May. Dates and full list of candidates is here:
https://ballotpedia.org/Libertarian_Party_presidential_nomination,_2024
Lots of peeps named “David” this year is my insight.
They have the 2008 candidate wrong. Looks like a copy/paste error.
Also, 31 candidates so far.
Too bad we can’t get Milei.
Why not, we already scrapped the whole “born in America” thing.
In the “Really shouldn’t have tried to guess the bonus of the day” category, I present my Squardle score… bleck. I will say they sure made the long words bleedin’ obvious in this one…
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 11/21:
*20/20 words (+3 bonus words)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
I played https://squaredle.com 11/21:
*25/25 words (+2 bonus words)
⏱️ In the top 16% by speed
🔥 Solve streak: 114
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 11/21:
*20/20 words (+10 bonus words)
📖 In the top 7% by bonus words
I played https://squaredle.com 11/21:
*25/25 words (+5 bonus words)
📖 In the top 8% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 2
Still stuck in the warm-up round. Stupid work.
Trooney Tune Tuesday
KJP: “Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we grieve the 26 transgender Americans who were killed this year. Year after year, we see that these victims are disproportionately black women and women of color.”
They mostly kill themselves. But it’s good to see the WH concentrating on the important things…
As opposed to young black men killed by other young black men.
A fairly large portion of them are workers who don’t reveal themselves until after they’ve given some guy a blowjob or whatever and it all goes south. Not a justification for murder but they’re living dangerously in a dangerous business. Surprised it’s not higher actually.
Considering that it seems like one out of every five people under the age of forty claims to be a yanker nowadays that number is exceedingly low.
26 dead? In Chicago that’s known as “Tuesday”.
How convenient.
Four people were shot Monday night in the Walmart in Beavercreek, Ohio by a man who walked in and started firing, police in the Dayton suburb said. The victims were taken to area hospitals and their conditions weren’t known, police said.
According to police, the gunman died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound and officers didn’t fire any shots.
His motive was unclear and his identity wasn’t released.
Local to me, so I’m sure I’ll be hearing about little else at least through the end of November Nielsen sweeps. I’ll let y’all know if we get any real info.
could have been a beaver
His motive was unclear and his identity wasn’t released.
Always makes me wonder if an Aloha Snackbar was involved.
I took note of that.
Some years back a jihadist let off with a shotgun in a mall in Las Vegas. He went nuts screaming something about a snack bar…maybe he got bad food or something. His name and words were memory holed but sometimes things manage to claw their way out of that hole. It took maybe a year before someone leaked it.
Speaking of shoved back down a hole – the Nashville shooter manifesto.
Or practically. anything to do with the Vegas shooter. There was a lot of very fishy shit going on there that has never been explained. My money says the FBI was involved in some way or other. There is nothing I would put past that bunch of evil fuckers. ‘Beyond the pale’ is their starting point.
Or he could’ve just been stone crazy.
If that was all the shooter was, bat shit crazy, they would have not worked so hard to hide the details, and instead they would have wasted our time trying to convince us the dude was so hardcore MAGA he wanted to shoot up people that were just a little MAGA or some such nonsense.
When the story goes away., its because they can’t make it work within the narrative, and just crazy can easily be molded to the narrative as we have seen over and over.
Way too much other stuff was wrong — like the response timeline and the claim that they couldn’t figure out what room he was in… while he was actively shooting.
What Vegas shooter?
The company you keep
Luminaries of the global far right are in raptures over Javier Milei’s thumping election victory in Argentina which experts predict will turn Buenos Aires into a new stomping ground for the populist radical right.
Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro led the merrymaking after their Argentinian ally trounced his rival, the Peronist finance minister Sergio Massa, by nearly 3 million votes in Sunday’s presidential election. The former US president predicted Milei would “truly make Argentina great again” while Brazil’s ex-president applauded a victory for “honesty, progress and freedom”. Bolsonarista and Mileísta activists predicted Milei’s win would be the first in a trio of rightwing conquests that would see Trump and Bolsonaro reclaim power in 2024 and 2026.
This is completely different from the widespread leftist celebrations when Lula won.
populist radical right
It’s popular but radical…
The unpopular orthodox left doesn’t like what the plebs think.
Not what the more lurned college commies think people should believe…
Just like my BMX ten speed from the 80’s.
Would you prefer “fringe majority”?
👍👍
I like that one.
“Peronism,[a] also called as justicialism,[b] is a labour and left-leaning Argentine political movement based on the ideas and legacy of Argentine ruler Juan Perón (1895–1974).[1] It has been an influential movement in 20th and 21st century Argentine politics.[1] Since 1946, Peronists have won 10 out of the 14 presidential elections in which they have been allowed to run.[2]
Ideologically populist,[1] it has been described by some as a Latin American form of fascism.[3][4][5] Others have criticized this as one-dimensional for having negative connotations, as it also includes a form of national-populism and nationalist socialism”
Should Peronism not be a dirty word?
Nice piece up over at NR about long term consequences (and of course why progressives are always surprised by them).
in the long term we are all ded
Yet for all the rightwing euphoria, experts cautioned against viewing Milei’s election as a sign of a major conservative shift in Argentinian politics.
Yanina Welp, an Argentinian political scientist from the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, said culture-war issues and identity politics might have influenced some citizens, but voters mostly wanted to punish the Peronists for leading Argentina into one of its worst economic crises in decades.
“Massa is the minister of economy, and the country has [nearly] 150% inflation and almost half of the country is living in poverty. So it’s quite easy to understand the rejection of the status quo,” Welp said. “More than being in favour or Milei or Milei’s program, this is [a vote] against the Peronists and the current government.”
Keep telling yourself that.
Whether this is a shift or not will be determined by the results of policies. If things get way better we’ll have to put the Guardian staff on collective suicide watch but if things stay shitty with no end in sight Argentina will just go back to the devil they know.
as a sign of a major conservative shift in Argentinian politics.
Because the bureaucracy will be against him.
Can he shut down the aagencies? Lock them bureaucrats out of their offices and stop paying them?
To drain a swamp, first you need to keep the water from getting in.
Acktchually…
In the draining of literal swamps, the process was to create a channelized path for the water and drainage into it so that the water could escape at a rate faster than it entered. The exact form of the ditches dug depended upon the source of the water and where they routed it to.
But I suppose you could create a system of dykes to form holding ponds that feed the drainage channel to help protect the clearances.
More than being in favour or Milei or Milei’s program, this is [a vote] against the Peronists and the current government.
You’re either with us (and the status quo) or you’re against us!
Burning down the house
The parrot sketch, argument from design edition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7yAEh-PU4M
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Your Eyes Are Wired Backwards: Here’s Why
The human eye is optimized to have good color vision at day and high sensitivity at night.
But until recently it seemed as if the cells in the retina were wired the wrong way round, with light traveling through a mass of neurons before it reaches the light-detecting rod and cone cells.
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You forgot about the blind spot in the middle of the visible area caused by a blood vessel during the growth of the eye in utero, or the fact that pretty much all vision is post processessing rather than sensory data, with the gaps being filled in by the brain.
Way back in my grad school days I had a class in AI (back when Marvin Minsky was touting it as the future). I recall the observation that if it wasn’t for the example of human eyesight, it would be deemed impossible. Because the efforts to mimic it were so logically challenging. I wonder if we’ve solved that now just through sheer computational brute force or if we’ve actually had some programmatic insight.
Why make the machine see like human biology?
Was it just the challenge of reverse engineering the system, or was there a point to the goal?
Miss Little Princess 2023 – Shooting Day con le finaliste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RXzeUJgkdY
Sometimes these bikini pageants in Italy look like a prostitution auction with sleazy pimps checking out the merchandise. This looks like preparing the pictures for future clients.
And he’s experienced a lot of pudding. Time for his bran muffin.
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: “It’s not about age, it’s about the president’s experience! … The proof is in the pudding!”
The proof of the pudding is in the eating, Fusilli Kary.
Awash in hate
The nation’s largest LGBTQ rights group released its latest data on fatal attacks on transgender and gender-nonconforming people, describing an “epidemic of violence” targeting the community, especially young Black trans women.
The Human Rights Campaign found that at least 33 transgender and gender-nonconforming people have been killed in the United States since November last year. Of those deaths, 26 have been recorded so far this year, following a total of 41 recorded deaths last year. The annual report was released Monday to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance.
“The epidemic of violence against transgender and gender non-conforming people is a national embarrassment,” Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson wrote in the report. “Each of these lives taken is a tragedy — the result of a society that demeans and devalues anyone who dares challenge the gender binary.”
That’s like a summer weekend’s worth of tragedies in Chicago.
“especially young Black trans women. ” Hmmm…
Does Andy Ngo have to do the legwork again that will likely come to the same conclusion as last time – that not a single death had anything to do with “a society that demeans and devalues anyone who dares challenge the gender binary”?
^!
If even one of those deaths had been at the hands of a self-proclaimed right-wing, social conservative the national media would have been screaming from the rafters about it for days on end. Seems more like an internal problem.
One of domestic dispute, drug deal gone wrong, or trick-turning mishap was the cause in all cases.
Look, the numbers of deaths due to drug and gang violence and the identity of the killers of trannys runs contrary to the narrative. Shut up already, we dont talk about that.
Where the hood at?
Polling is clear on the unpopularity of inheritance tax even when information given on thresholds. But I really struggle to get my head round it. Why would it bother you if you were very unlikely to pay it?
https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/1726923188402086279
Amazing. Why indeed.
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On August 5, 1861, President Lincoln imposes the first federal income tax by signing the Revenue Act. Strapped for cash with which to pursue the Civil War, Lincoln and Congress agreed to impose a 3 percent tax on annual incomes over $800.
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Ah, the first step onto that slippery slope.
$800 in 1861 is about $28k today. Today, the lowest income tax bracket starts at about $10k.
One, it was later found unconstitutional, hence the need for the income tax amendment.
Two, Standard deduction is about $14k*, so for a married couple, really close to that $28k.
*$14,600 in 2024, so $29,200 for married filing jointly.
An average worker in 1862 was lucky to make $500 per year, thus escaped income taxation. Until the civil war, the federal government got by fine on tariffs and excise taxes.
Thanks for admitting your moral bankruptcy, twit.
Principle – you mean like Gustavo?
Travis Kelce has to be first person to have his reputation *improved* when we found his tweets from ten years ago
https://twitter.com/defenestr8rboi/status/1726449352028373459
Ironically, his reputation has taken a hit for many here in KC due to his ads for Bud Light and the new Covid/flu cocktail.
You mean you watch a football game to watch football and not see a player’s possible girlfriend up in the stands?
The crowd and the talking heads detract from what spectator value the sport has.
Besides, I can’t tell one player from another, they’re all wearing uniforms.
Never understood the Tay Swift obsession. Nice gams but she’s little prettier than most chicks working retail. As far as the music, you could hit me in the head with her whole catalog and I wouldn’t recognize a one aside from that Shake it Off song and that’s only because my seven year old niece with Downs likes to sing along to the Disney kids version.
Whether this is a shift or not will be determined by the results of policies. If things get way better we’ll have to put the Guardian staff on collective suicide watch but if things stay shitty with no end in sight Argentina will just go back to the devil they know.
Stand by for a steady flow of reports about the insufferable cruelty of Milei’s insane austerity budget.
You know it. He will have a hard tome overcoming the psychotic screechings of leftists wronged.
Probably but most of the people who voted for him likely knew there’d be a certain amount of short term pain for long term gains. Hopefully they’ll have a bit of patience because it really is likely to (necessarily) get worse before it gets better.
I’m back from a rather underwhelming hockey tournament. But it was nice to be warm for a few days. I think I have enough to write up a story.
Those are good songs. Music trivia: The singer of Yazoo (aka Yaz) went solo so the keyboard guy found another androgenous sounding singer and they became Erasure.
Also, that guy was Depeche Mode’s original keyboardist.
21 November 1978: stamps issued in the GDR depicting scenes from Rapunzel
https://twitter.com/GermanAtPompey/status/1726907959404384398
stamps issued in the GDR depicting scenes from Rapunzel
Rapunzel was a counterrevolutionary criminal, hoarding all that hair for herself.
It also included a call for lawmakers to take action to address violence toward LGBTQ people by passing legislation such as the Equality Act, which would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in numerous arenas, including employment, housing and education. The bill passed a House vote in 2021 but has not seen movement in the Senate.
Another nail in the coffin of free association. That will help.
Enjoy:
https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1726850958427091054?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
Black women of African descent were more likely to die of the medieval plague in London, academics at the Museum of London have found.
lol. Awesome.
So both of them kicked it? Jesus fucking Christ BBC…
A lament from the Beeb that Pakistanis are abandoning the cultural tradition of marrying their cousins:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67422918
The birth defects were making them unattractive.
Fine by me, that just leaves more fine Pakistani ladies for the Stinkster.
“The research concluded that higher death rates amongst people of colour and those of black African descent was a result of the “devastating effects” of “premodern structural racism” in the medieval world.”
Fuck.
Off.
Wait, “scholars” have assured me that racism was only invented in America and the multicultural paradise of the middle ages was whitewashed from history by Americans.
Which naturally calls into question everything The West has said, done, or thought ever since.
Meanwhile, at roughly the same time, North Africans enslaved over a million Irish and British peasants but nobody ever brings that shit up for some reason.
I mean that has to be a joke
Yes. The BBC is a joke.
Counterpoint: They died because they didn’t have IBS or Chron’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwoFTcpI2ME
Ironically, his reputation has taken a hit for many here in KC due to his ads for Bud Light
Does he wear a wig and a dress?
This is interesting.
After Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, et al., stop-and-frisk fell more in some areas than others, but crime was unaffected.
But stop-related arrests declined somewhat: non-violent misdemeanors/violations fell more in areas with greater stop reductions.
https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1726790418376085875
article link
Stop and Frisk was an Unmitigated Disaster
https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2023/11/20/stop-and-frisk-was-an-unmitigated-disaster/
What’s “decolonization”?
It’s undoing this. At every single level.
@saralikeclara
FFS it’s simple
https://twitter.com/saralikeclara/status/1726895670555271654
lol
Not following the link, I’m convinced that it’s “Destroy whitey and anything he made.”
not really
It is worth seeing… That first flow chart makes the second one look like it missed more word salad…
Keep beating that tin drum, little wind-up monkey
The hottest year on record is coming to a close, emissions of planet-warming gases are still rising globally, and the most ambitious climate goal set by world leaders is all but impossible to meet, according to a new analysis by the United Nations.
The annual report from the U.N. Environment Programme lays out how far behind the world is on controlling planet-warming pollution, most of which comes from burning oil, gas and coal.
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Between 2021 and 2022, global greenhouse gas emissions grew about 1%, the analysis finds. Emissions need to fall as quickly as possible to avoid catastrophic climate impacts such as runaway sea level rise, unsurvivable heat in some areas and mass extinction of plants and animals, scientists warn.
Right now, the world is headed for at least 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit of warming this century compared to global temperatures in the late 1800s. That assumes that countries will do everything they have currently promised under the Paris climate agreement, including things that some governments have said they’ll only do if wealthy countries follow through on promises to help foot the bill. For example, helping to pay for renewable energy infrastructure in less wealthy nations.
If such conditions aren’t met, the planet is headed for more than 5 degrees Fahrenheit of warming, the analysis finds.
We’re running out of water, they say. Maybe melting the polar ice will help.
well at least where I live it was damned hot and dry
Not all heroes wear clothes derived from petroleum products but this one does.
https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1726725922936741981
The reactions are gold…
Having your whole world view shown to be idiotic that quick and simple would cause brain damage if your world view was actually based on any kind of logic.
*thunderous applause*
‘you need to stay at home and go live in a forest’
What did the forest ever do to you, sir? You think the forest wants a bunch of stinky environuts ruining it?
They won’t last long. After a few weeks, it’ll be like Japan’s suicide forest, skulls and bones everywhere.
Sounds pretty metal.
The end of Rainbow Six was the best part.
We only have so many breaths in our lifetime. Dude is wasting some of his.
Got the slide stop in from CZ Custom. It works, though it’s significantly tighter than the factor one. However, I am only able to find factory parts n Europe, and those have an estimated 40 days lead time. And the $/EUR exchange rate isn’t great.
why do you need a slide stop.
To stop the slide, duh.
Without it, you just keep sliding and hit yourself in the face.
And the lower target is likely out of reach entirely at this point — a finding that is backed up by another recent study. Progress on phasing out fossil fuels has simply been too slow, that study found.
The new analysis underscores once again that reining in oil, gas and coal operations is key to controlling global warming. It finds that, if humans extract and burn all the oil, gas and coal currently in development worldwide, countries would collectively emit enough greenhouse gases to basically hit the higher temperature target under the Paris Agreement.
That means all new oil, gas and coal extraction is essentially incompatible with avoiding catastrophic warming later this century, according to the analysis. Right now, many countries including the United States are still allowing new fossil fuel extraction.
The sole purpose of all this theatrical weeping and wailing is the total elimination of fossil fuels. Nothing else matters.
Yesterday, just for fun, I was doing a little poking around on the interwebz for info about ethanol from sugar beets. It may surprise you to discover sugar beets are a more efficient feedstock than corn.
But they don’t grow sugar beets in Iowa.
They do in Minnesoda and Norf Dakoda. I used to live just north of the Crystal sugar beet processing plant in Moorhead. Smelled like burnt sugar all the time.
Remember the idiot ‘scientist’ that went to Antarctica, came home and said “Oh woe is us! It is already too late. Doom is upon us!”
I remember him. After he said that *POOF!* he disappeared. The idiot clearly did not understand how a scam works. The sense of urgency over a looming crisis is critical.
The crisis must always loom, never actually arrive.
These guys are dangerously close to believing their own bullshit. If they start saying that outlaid the whole confidence game will collapse. On the upside maybe they will all kill themselves to avoid the misery of being cooked to death.
One of my direct reports is going into terminal leave this week and is putting in a bunch of individual leave requests instead of one longer request. I’m wondering what they’d do if I randomly denied one in the middle…
Do it and let us know what sort of shit show follows, please!
Our marketing department – who decided to also be project managers – is puzzled about why their decision to launch a huge site revamp the week after T-Giving is proving to be so difficult. Combine the holiday week with our company’s policy of use-it-or-lose-it vacation and tons of people are missing.
This is going to be a disaster and I really don’t care at this point in time. Marketing picked a shit vendor to work with, never really figured out when they could realistically release. In early summer I begged them to rethink things, but they knew best.
I have a lovely response related to the national paperwork cave in Boyers, PA. The server squirrels keep eating it.
There’s a great WaPo article about it called The Sinkhole of Bureaucracy. That sounds like the Vogon version of System of a Down.
He’ll still need to file a request with the national paperwork cave to get his retirement.
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In BOYERS, Pa. — The trucks full of paperwork come every day, turning off a country road north of Pittsburgh and descending through a gateway into the earth. Underground, they stop at a metal door decorated with an American flag.
Behind the door, a room opens up as big as a supermarket, full of five-drawer file cabinets and people in business casual. About 230 feet below the surface, there is easy-listening music playing at somebody’s desk.
This is one of the weirdest workplaces in the U.S. government — both for where it is and for what it does.
Here, inside the caverns of an old Pennsylvania limestone mine, there are 600 employees of the Office of Personnel Management. Their task is nothing top-secret. It is to process the retirement papers of the government’s own workers.
But that system has a spectacular flaw. It still must be done entirely by hand, and almost entirely on paper.
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But of course.
That’s the Fed.
I’m state. We file with the OSC, and they get to it when they get to it.
Sounds like a successful carbon sequestration scheme.
5-10 years ago this would have been shocking, thrilling even for many. Today it looks tired and low-energy and barely treading water. But who knows, there’s still a lot of mileage in exhaustion.
https://twitter.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1726967354196906427
Elagabalus was a woman which explains being a shit emperor
So they’re done gaying all of history now they’re starting trying to trans all of history.
Yes, this is tiresome.
We need a “Quit gaying things up” movement..
Since there’s some discussion re: digital/analog/computers/biology, have a commercial-grade analog computer that has blinkenlights and bells:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue-1JoJQaEg
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The MONIAC (Monetary National Income Analogue Computer), also the Phillips Hydraulic Computer and the Financephalograph, was created in 1949 by the New Zealand economist Bill Phillips to model the national economic processes of the United Kingdom, while Phillips was a student at the London School of Economics (LSE). The MONIAC is an analogue computer which used fluidic logic to model the workings of an economy. The MONIAC name is suggested by associating money and ENIAC, an early electronic digital computer.
Description
MONIAC dashboard
The MONIAC is approximately 2 m high, 1.2 m wide and almost 1 m deep, and consisted of a series of transparent plastic tanks and pipes which were fastened to a wooden board. Each tank represented some aspect of the UK national economy and the flow of money around the economy was illustrated by coloured water. At the top of the board was a large tank called the treasury. Water (representing money) flowed from the treasury to other tanks representing the various ways in which a country could spend its money. For example, there were tanks for health and education. To increase spending on health care a tap could be opened to drain water from the treasury to the tank which represented health spending. Water then ran further down the model to other tanks, representing other interactions in the economy. Water could be pumped back to the treasury from some of the tanks to represent taxation. Changes in tax rates were modeled by increasing or decreasing pumping speeds.
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Designed by Professor Frink for one of the five richest kings of Europe…
If it used the blood of peasants for fluid it would have been more accurate.
Just remove some blood from the right arm, spill some, and transfuse the rest into the left arm. Presto, stimulus!
Stimulus is Latin for the stick used to poke an ox in the ass so it walks forward and pulls a plow. In the King James Bible, it is translated as “prick”.
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The phrase “kick against the pricks” occurs in Acts 9:4-6 in the King James Version and the New King James Version. Sometimes the phrase is translated as “kick against the goads”. The phrase does not occur in most of the other major translations. The phrase you refer to is found in Acts 9:5,
And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Acts 9:5 (KJV)
The English word pricks comes from the root Greek word kentron. Kentron is sometimes also translated as goads. This word has the idea of a “sharp, pointed projection used in stinging.”[1] The prick or goad was a pointed stick that was used to urge some stubborn animal to move. The stick was made of wood or metal (Judges 3:31; 1 Samuel 13:21). Sometimes the animal refused to move and would kick back at the pointed object and as a result stab itself on the goad or prick.
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Now, to introduce just a tiny bit of realism, each valve and pump will be operated by different people who all refuse to speak to each other.
well at least where I live it was damned hot and dry
Always with the negative waves. That also means young ladies in sundresses.
What post are supposed to drop our WAWR in? It’s this Friday, right?
SOL SOAP IS COMING 🌞
– 100% organic extra virgin olive oil
– Lye
– Distilled water
And that’s it. The cleanest, purest soap made from elite olive oil.
https://twitter.com/SolBrah/status/1726757789211779252
influencer merchandising is getting weird
That was called Gray Soap, and it was an import to Elizabethan England used in preference to black soap for scrubbing coal smutz off things that needed to be white because it didn’t stain them as much as the black soap did.
We’ve since developed better soaps.
I still want to know what’s in that 55/100th% of Ivory soap. 🤨
Probably Lead. /sarc
And yet it still floats! 😃
Asbestos.
That formula is called Castile soap. It has been around forever and is easy to get.
Dr. Bonner says hello and a few other incoherent things as well.
Sodium Hydroxide —> solid soaps
Potassium Hydroxide —> liquid soap
Once we bring our pimp-game and start courting you to be one of the many bitches in our stable, fuckery will result in a show of our strong pimp hand, mother fucker!
Bwhahahaha – like China can reach out and smack Argentina? I wanna see that.
Ask anyone that has been snowed by the CCP’s belt and road initiative and you would now they are quickly held by the balls. Sri Lanka is basically fucked these days cause they pissed the Chicomms. Greece needs lube because China has been fucking their entire shipping industry over for them…
The Chicoms make the IMF bank look like an angelic entity.
I thought Sri Lanka was fucked from going along with the WEF agenda (and foregoing the use of nitrogen based fertilizer)?
The fact is China is a paper dragon. The last real fight the PLA was in they got their asses handed to them, by Vietnam.
I thought this was going to be about one of those life coaches.
Today I learned: not only is there no formula for the perimeter of an ellipse, there is no formula for the arc length of any curve formed by a conic section. The only exception is the circle.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That’s one of those things I probably knew but forgot. Kind of wild, but I guess I’d you say that we don’t know the real value of pi, then or formulas for circles are also approximations.
We know the real value of pi. Pi=C/r
In what application is the exact decimalized value necessary for our purposes?
You know, I was waiting for someone to point out that my math was wrong.
Mine was too. Should’ve been 56/100ths%. Clearly the pedants are pedanting elsewhere today.
Sorry to keep you waiting. I was in the shower.
Saying pi equals C/d is what mathematicians would call the trivial solution: correct but doesn’t tell you anything new. From a practical perspective, the bigger a circular object you’re making, dealing with, the more accurate your approximation of pi needs to be. Also, many formulas have pi in them.
See the physics section on this page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_formulae_involving_%CF%80
It comes back to significant figures. If you want accurate values for various physical constants, you need an accurate value of pi.
There are formulas for the perimeter of an ellipse (integrals, infinite series), but they aren’t simple ones like P = 2 pi R.
That’s because circles have a fixed proportion.
We used the same link. Great minds think alike.
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The perimeter of ellipse is the length of the continuous line forming the boundary of the ellipse. Unfortunately, unlike other shapes, there is no formula to calculate the exact (or) accurate value of the perimeter of an ellipse, or any other figure of the conic section.
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I guess it all depends on whether an approximation counts as a formula.
Ellipses have a fixed proportion too. It’s the set of all points equidistant from a pair of points.
Every circle is topologically equivalent to an ellipse. Whatever circumference of a circle, it is possible to construct an ellipse with an equal perimeter.
Analysis by Oliver Darcy
Elon Musk has an ever-deepening crisis on his hands.
Days after the billionaire conspiracy theorist endorsed an antisemitic post on his hate-drenched platform, X, there is mounting pressure for others to take additional action against the unhinged businessman.
Musk’s attention, however, has not been focused on profusely apologizing to the public for his reprehensible remarks, nor has it been on ensuring his advertisers that he takes their complaints seriously. Instead, it has been on threatening and trying to exact revenge on critics.
It’s a critical juncture for the Musk-owned company. Here are six questions about the calamity besieging X:
The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. journalisming is a calling, not a job.
Bwahahaha
And give up their primary source?
Shorter Oliver Darcy:
How dare people do things I disapprove of, and associate themselves with people and organizations I don’t agree with? They are stupid poopyheads and I hate them.
That’ll learn him
The White House on Monday launched accounts on Meta’s Threads service for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, gaining a sizable following on an app that competes with Elon Musk’s X.
Accounts on Threads were also established for the first lady and second gentleman as well as for the White House itself. Biden’s account racked up 2 million followers within an hour of its debut.
The Threads push comes after Musk last week called an antisemitic conspiracy theory “the actual truth” on X to his 163 million listed followers. He also said some “Jewish communities” promote “anti-white” messaging and views, calling out the Anti-Defamation League and minorities. White House officials repeatedly rebuked Musk for what they called “anti-semitic rhetoric” on X over the last week.
Did they announce it on X?