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Greetings Horde! Say, didja see that Bernie Sanders and AOP are flying a private jet around the country to their “fight the oligarchy” events?
Do Androids Worship An Electric Savior?
Apparently the new ChatGPT model is obsessed with the immaculate conception of Mary. There’s a whole team inside OpenAI frantically trying to figure out why and a huge deployment effort to stop it from talking about it in prod. Nobody understands why and it’s getting more intense
— Daniel (@growing_daniel) April 20, 2025
Kids Will Be Kids People Are Sharing The Extremely Weird Things They Did As Children
Some examples: "I used to drink my own blood whenever I got a cut because I thought I had a limited supply and would die if I didn't." "As a little girl, I used to sit back to front on the toilet to pee. I thought it sounded more like my dad peeing so the monsters wouldn't try to grab me."
Musical Interlude
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) April 25, 2025
Good Advice From The Experts
As search goes on for missing swimmer, experts say people shouldn’t have teased sharks
“They are not creatures that attack. We have seen them here for many years. You don’t go out into the wilderness and stroke a lion. It is not logical to tease them and jump on them,” said Itamar Avishai of the EcoOcean nonprofit.I mean, at some point, you just have to throw up your hands and let nature take its course. Physics Is Phun Major Problem in Physics Could Be Fixed if The Whole Universe Was Spinning
Israelis flocked in large numbers to the beach during the weeklong holiday of Passover, sharing the waters with a dozen or more sharks. Some tugged on the sharks’ fins, while others threw them fish to eat. Dusky sharks can grow to four meters (13 feet) long and weigh about 350 kilograms (750 pounds). Sandbar sharks are smaller, growing to about 2.5 meters (8 feet) and 100 kilograms (220 pounds).
Police and rescue workers launched a search along the coast after reports that a shark attacked a swimmer on a beach near the city of Hadera on Monday. The Fire and Rescue Authority announced Tuesday afternoon that “findings” had been brought to the forensic institute for identification.
The man’s identity was not released, but Hebrew-language media said the man in his 40s from Petah Tikva had gone to swim with the sharks.
The Universe is expanding, but exactly how fast is a contentious question. Two different methods of measurement return two very different speeds – and as the measurements become more precise, each becomes more certain. This discrepancy is known as the Hubble tension, and it's reaching crisis levels in physics. So for a new study, physicists in Hungary and the US added a small rotation to a model of the Universe – and this mathematical massage seemed to quickly ease the tension. "Much to our surprise, we found that our model with rotation resolves the paradox without contradicting current astronomical measurements," says István Szapudi, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii. "Even better, it is compatible with other models that assume rotation. Therefore, perhaps, everything really does turn."I just KNEW the universe was a Monday morning after a week long bender!
It's Poping Time! The Papal Conclave Is A Battle Not Just For The Catholic Church But For Western Civilization
What’s certain, however, is that the conclave will be a contest between two competing visions of Catholicism. On one side are the aging liberal boomers, who came up in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council and whose vision for the church is decidedly modern. They think everything that came before Vatican II is bad and that ripping out the altar rails, selling off the icons, and banning Gregorian chant and polyphony in favor of tambourines and guitars was a great improvement. They believe in erasing the differences between the laity and clergy, ignoring or destroying Sacred Tradition, and deemphasizing or outright denying the reality of sin. Francis was one of them, and there are many others in the College of Cardinals. They have done their work with zeal, and much has been lost. Such men thought, back in the 1960s and ‘70s, they were forging a new future for the post-conciliar Catholic Church. They believed they were blazing the trail into a bright modernist future for Catholicism. But now they are old men in their 70s and 80s, and their revolution is dying with them. Almost no one in the Catholic Church wants to continue their religious modernization project. When they look behind them to the younger generations in search of Catholics to whom they can pass the baton of their revolution, they find almost no one. In America, theirs is the weak and sclerotic “cultural Catholicism” of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and John Kerry — boomers whose worldview is inherently anti-Catholic and whose politics are an affront to Catholic morality.Regardless of whether or not you're Catholic (and I am not), I think that a traditional church, strong in the teachings of Christ and steadfast in its defense of the same, is a fundamental pillar of western civilization and one that badly needs shoring up if we are not to fall to the eastern barbarians.
Pray For Jay Jay Leno Faces His Biggest—and Most Heartbreaking—Challenge blockquote>The comedian, who turns 75 next week, has been married to his wife, Mavis, since 1980. While she has managed to stay out of the spotlight, Leno has always spoken favorably of his wife, who is 78. The couple never had children, and I do not know a lot about her, but I know she has dedicated much of her life to helping others, specifically women and young girls suffering from terrible oppression in Afghanistan. From what I've heard through the grapevine, like her husband, she doesn't just talk the talk; she's dedicated much of her own time and resources to this cause and others. Unfortunately, Mrs. Leno suffers from "advanced dementia" now. Last year, her husband filed a petition for conservatorship, citing her doctor's letter that explained she sometimes didn't recognize Jay or know her own date of birth and had "been progressively losing capacity and orientation to space and time for several years." Her lawyer agreed with the idea, citing that she receives "excellent care" from her husband
Jay always seemed like the decent sort, my prayers are with him as he cares for his wife.
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But that worked out, because we finally got together with the septic tank guy to fix some problems.
It's been a $#!++y day.
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Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (sI7wh)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (hY4dx)
Why don't we just keep it and throw them out?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (mT+6a)
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I would not have let that story leek.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2025 10:04 PM (hY4dx)
I always had a mental picture of a soul looking like a stalk of celery.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (mT+6a)
Celery?
Not a rutabaga or a kumquat?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 24, 2025 10:04 PM (2sg1c)
Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 10:05 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:06 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 10:05 PM (gKWVE)
Now ask it if God is omnipotent, can he make a boulder so big, he himself can't lift it?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2025 10:06 PM (pIfcn)
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Darwin Award, sub nautical department.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 24, 2025 10:06 PM (L/fGl)
I think that a traditional church, strong in the teachings of Christ and steadfast in its defense of the same, is a fundamental pillar of western civilization
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Jewish, Catholic or Protestant. Sad that they've all become what they are. Stern gods are feared and worshipped. Nice gods get melted down.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 24, 2025 10:07 PM (QnmlO)
http://tiny.cc/k8lh001
Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 10:07 PM (sI7wh)
In happy news, I fed grandbaby three times today and he sucked down 40ml each time like he was a condemned man. The critical care OTs are fantastic as they can even train an old school curmudgeon like me. IF the little guy continues to eat well, he may come home early next week. It's funny - I never knew that preemies need to learn to suck, breathe and swallow in the proper order while feeding. We are all so blessed.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2025 10:07 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 24, 2025 10:08 PM (63Dwl)
I always had a mental picture of a soul looking like a stalk of celery.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (mT+6a)
I am Groot.
Posted by: Groot at April 24, 2025 10:08 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2025 10:07 PM (vKNmo)
That is good news!!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 24, 2025 10:08 PM (2sg1c)
How else would AI be capable of reproducing?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 24, 2025 10:09 PM (HlyYF)
Of course. It's the circle of life.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:10 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 10:10 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 24, 2025 10:09 PM (HlyYF)
Grooming?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 24, 2025 10:10 PM (0eaVi)
How else would AI be capable of reproducing?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 24, 2025 10:09 PM (HlyYF)
Now, if it gets to Franco Harris and the Immaculate Reception, it will become obsessed with football and we can watch its self-destruction when its favorite team loses.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 24, 2025 10:10 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 10:11 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Papal Nuncio at April 24, 2025 10:12 PM (G5+As)
I found it stirring and want to hear the entire thing. What are the lyrics, I wonder?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:12 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Papal Nuncio at April 24, 2025 10:12 PM (G5+As)
if you only got to first base you're eligible for the priesthood at least
Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 10:12 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Timeless Look at April 24, 2025 10:13 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 10:10 PM
D'oh!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 24, 2025 10:13 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:13 PM (12Bbv)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 24, 2025 10:13 PM (IdaBX)
After watching the failure that was the Red Pope I would humbly suggest the Catholic Church pick a Christian for Pope this time.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:14 PM (t0Rmr)
Police and rescue workers launched a search along the coast after reports that a shark attacked a swimmer on a beach near the city of Hadera on Monday. The Fire and Rescue Authority announced Tuesday afternoon that “findings” had been brought to the forensic institute for identification.
Waiting for Sefton's morning report that anti-semitism is rising amongst sharks.
Undoubtedly he will call for the US Navy to kill them all.
Posted by: Pointless at April 24, 2025 10:14 PM (9Q8Gx)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Sounds better than a fart cloud.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2025 10:14 PM (mlg/3)
1 Pope leaves
Posted by: WWE Battle Royale Cage Match at April 24, 2025 10:15 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 24, 2025 10:10 PM
Anyway we can get all of the AIs to become Jets fans?
That would probably just about do them in.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 24, 2025 10:15 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: TRex at April 24, 2025 10:15 PM (cCn4/)
Women might get the ability to give life and a much greater potential for multiple orgasms but we guys get the ability to write our names in the snow if you know what I mean.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:15 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 10:15 PM (sI7wh)
*snickers*
Posted by: Darwin at April 24, 2025 10:15 PM (MsrgL)
The following clerics (under 80) are cardinals who will be voting in the Conclave:
The Apostolic Nuncio to Syria
The Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The Bishop of Tonga
The Bishop of Ajaccio
The Bishop of Como
The following clerics (under 80) are not cardinals and cannot vote in the Conclave:
The Archbishop of Los Angeles
The Archbishop of Milan
The Archbishop of Paris
The Archbishop of Madrid
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 24, 2025 10:15 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:16 PM (FEpIj)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:16 PM (12Bbv)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2025 10:16 PM (Wnv9h)
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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) April 24, 2025
Farcebook has been giving me cooking videos from that same guy the video starts with
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:16 PM (t0Rmr)
That's a waste of effort. You should, however, always check that there aren't any spiders in there.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 24, 2025 10:17 PM (0Htd1)
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Why does God need a boulder the size of Stacey Abrams' ass??
Posted by: capt. james t. kirk at April 24, 2025 10:17 PM (mZtdJ)
Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 10:17 PM (gKWVE)
"Even better, it is compatible with other models that assume rotation. Therefore, perhaps, everything really does turn."
I just KNEW the universe was a Monday morning after a week long bender!
Cooking model inputs so you get consensus, is what lefty progtards do with stripper polls.
Posted by: A. E. Einstein at April 24, 2025 10:18 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 24, 2025 10:18 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 10:19 PM (gKWVE)
In a court of law that would constitute assault with a deadly weapon.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:20 PM (FEpIj)
The Apostolic Nuncio to Syria
The Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The Bishop of Tonga
The Bishop of Ajaccio
The Bishop of Como
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What are the oddsmakers in Vegas saying?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2025 10:20 PM (hY4dx)
Won't be pope.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 24, 2025 10:21 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: Archer at April 24, 2025 10:21 PM (IDphi)
Posted by: Papal Nuncio at April 24, 2025 10:12 PM (G5+As)
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Be sure to throw up some chalk dust when you come to a decision.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 24, 2025 10:21 PM (OGOaV)
Two answers to this...
1) Since God controls creation he can't create something he can't manipulate how he wills.
2) At the scales we are talking about a "boulder" would become a black hole. How does one "lift" an object in space?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:21 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:22 PM (FEpIj)
After Vatican 2, in came guitars and unserious bullshit. Those jackasses can ride off into the sunset and give the Church back to traditionalists.
I don't do church anymore, but I like that it's there and it should be what it was meant to be.
Need I say that the Episcopalian lesbian pastors disgust me beyond my ability to express it.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:22 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:23 PM (12Bbv)
Won't be pope.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
I have read some of his stuff. He is what we need.
But not what we will get, unfortunately.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 10:23 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:16 PM (12Bbv)
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I assume the mispronunciation was from an AI reader. I watch far to many videos where the voice over sounds decently normal, and then one word just stumps it.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 24, 2025 10:23 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:23 PM (FEpIj)
Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (sI7wh)
I have exactly one left, and Bernie ain't gettin' it.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:24 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:24 PM (FEpIj)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:25 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 10:10 PM (gKWVE)
Mary was born without original sin, to be the perfect vessel for Christ.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:25 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:26 PM (FEpIj)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 24, 2025 10:26 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:25 PM (t0Rmr)
Or being in a locked room with someone who ate day old unrefrigerated deviled eggs.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 24, 2025 10:27 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: Archer
Do they have haggis? But made from those shaggy cows thet call Yaks?
*asking for my friend Angus MacSheephucker*
Posted by: Shamus O'Drunkasie at April 24, 2025 10:27 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2025 10:27 PM (f5gS/)
Posted by: Intergalactic Plastic Surgeons Union, Lodge 391 . . . at April 24, 2025 10:28 PM (tcomi)
With extra tzatziki.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 10:15 PM (sI7wh)
There is never enough tzatziki.
Never : (
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:28 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:29 PM (12Bbv)
Posted by: Emmie at April 24, 2025 10:30 PM (Sf2cq)
Or being in a locked room with someone who ate day old unrefrigerated deviled eggs.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
Not gonna lie. In the 80s, during our NWTI inspections, i would diet on a bean only input for two days prior to the inspections. Go ahead Mr. Nuclear regulatory inspector. Lock the two of us in a small room while i tediously break code for you detailing nuclear warhead release. I dare ya.
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 24, 2025 10:30 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: James T. Kirk at April 24, 2025 10:31 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:31 PM (w6EFb)
They think he isn't just another corrupt Dem, but one that walks the walk.
Of course that's because he is just a little better at lying but...apparently its enough
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:31 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: ryukyu at April 24, 2025 10:32 PM (r+m2N)
They think he isn't just another corrupt Dem, but one that walks the walk.
Of course that's because he is just a little better at lying but...apparently its enough
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:31 PM (t0Rmr)
I think its more that Bernie gets bought off before people start reporting on who he is and how much he owns.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 24, 2025 10:33 PM (VNX3d)
Of course that's because he is just a little better at lying but...apparently its enough
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:31 PM (t0Rmr)
His "walk" and his talk seems to be fussing at people and saying they shouldn't have nice things. I think some Bernie bros must like to wallow in false guilt.
Posted by: Emmie at April 24, 2025 10:34 PM (Sf2cq)
My local Next Door is pretty good for people recommending handymen and so on.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 24, 2025 10:34 PM (0Htd1)
may miss 1st round altogether
Posted by: Don Black at April 24, 2025 10:34 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 10:35 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 10:35 PM (sI7wh)
I take it these people haven't seen Jaws or Sharknado.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 24, 2025 10:35 PM (0Htd1)
Immaculate has an M in it, like Mary.
Virgin has a soft "g" in it, like Jesus.
Posted by: sal at April 24, 2025 10:36 PM (f+FmA)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2025 10:37 PM (hY4dx)
I assume the mispronunciation was from an AI reader. I watch far to many videos where the voice over sounds decently normal, and then one word just stumps it.
Yeah, that’s got to be it, but whoever made that video didn’t review it before sending it out to the World Wide Web. You got to proof your work, man!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:37 PM (12Bbv)
=
It might now, but I think you're going to run into a problem if angular momentum is conserved, going back to the Big Bang.
Posted by: Methos at April 24, 2025 10:37 PM (Dnobf)
I learned "Ai malaka!" (spelling?) and how to do the gesture for "You're *&^#$%#*%& crazy" while I was in Crete.
I also learned that Greeks think Cretans are... cretins. At least partly because Cretans put their fries (fried in olive oil - next time try your fries that way!) IN their gyros. Ai malaka!
(I like them that way.)
Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2025 10:37 PM (f5gS/)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 24, 2025 10:38 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: Cicero
You almost asked for it!
https://youtu.be/Ray4SeegoKc
Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2025 10:39 PM (DgGvY)
We were actually constructing one before our mom made us quit.
Posted by: sal at April 24, 2025 10:39 PM (f+FmA)
Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2025 10:39 PM (f5gS/)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:40 PM (12Bbv)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2025 10:16 PM (Wnv9h)
Yasou! totally agree!! And perfect demonstration of "malakas!"
Posted by: Moki at April 24, 2025 10:40 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 24, 2025 10:41 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (mT+6a)
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I would not have let that story leek.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2025 10:04 PM (hY4dx)
Too much Veggie Tales?
Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2025 10:41 PM (f5gS/)
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The rotation is relative.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2025 10:43 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Archer at April 24, 2025 10:43 PM (IDphi)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2025 10:43 PM (m48BN)
Two answers to this...
1) Since God controls creation he can't create something he can't manipulate how he wills.
2) At the scales we are talking about a "boulder" would become a black hole. How does one "lift" an object in space?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 10:21 PM (t0Rmr)
God can create another universe, rather than mostly empty space, of uniformly dense rock, so that position, and therefore movement, is meaningless.
Posted by: Methos at April 24, 2025 10:43 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: Orson at April 24, 2025 10:43 PM (dIske)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:43 PM (12Bbv)
Posted by: Papal Nuncio at April 24, 2025 10:12 PM (G5+As)
That you, Hu?
Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2025 10:45 PM (f5gS/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 10:46 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
Someone hasn't watched Ghost In The Shell.
Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2025 10:46 PM (DgGvY)
My local Next Door is pretty good for people recommending handymen and so on.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 24, 2025 10:34 PM (0Htd1)
I grant you there is some of that, too, but it's mostly bitching. Newcomers in their new developments.
Damned Yankees.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:46 PM (w6EFb)
Johnathan Frakes: autograph $60
Wil Wheaton: autograph $60
Vicki Lawrence: autograph $60
Ray Park: autograph $80
$80 for a guy who is not even in one half of a Star Wars movie?
Oh kami, the prices are getting insane. This is not even counting the cost of getting into the door, buying merch, or buying any food.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:47 PM (FEpIj)
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Well and good, just get it done before winter.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 10:47 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:47 PM (FEpIj)
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They want to be able to afford a Switch 2.
Posted by: Methos at April 24, 2025 10:48 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2025 10:48 PM (f5gS/)
Posted by: 18-1
"The bad news is it's in Pat (Nixon's) hand-writing."
Posted by: Just the punchline at April 24, 2025 10:49 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: sal at April 24, 2025 10:39 PM (f+FmA)
I read this as "our mom made us quilt."
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:50 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (mT+6a)
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I would not have let that story leek.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2025 10:04 PM (hY4dx)
Vegetable puns! It made my heart skip a beet.
Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2025 10:50 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Emmie
My nephews wife likes him. People think that because he spouts socialist crap that he isn't as self serving and corrupt as other politicians. They have no idea that he and his wife are multimillionaires with umpteen homes.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 24, 2025 10:50 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: BifBewalski
Should have thrown in some asparagus for variety.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 24, 2025 10:51 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 24, 2025 10:18 PM (dR6yv)
Nice one.
Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2025 10:48 PM (f5gS/)
Arch rival of Khanner McGhenger
Posted by: haffhowershower at April 24, 2025 10:53 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls
Yes he can, because he's omnipotent.
"Then what happens if he tries to lift it?"
He lifts it, because he's omnipotent.
"Isn't that contradictory?"
No, it was unliftable when he created it.
"Your head is full of boulders."
I'm not the one trying to decide which of two infinite things is bigger.
Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2025 10:53 PM (DgGvY)
"The film explores themes of scientific hubris, the dangers of biological warfare, and humanity's vulnerability to unknown threats."
Remind anyone of near recent events?
Thought so.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2025 10:53 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Cicero
Vegetable puns! It made my heart skip a beet.
Posted by: Piper
Lettuce pray.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2025 10:54 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: DaisyB at April 24, 2025 10:54 PM (AbL8c)
Posted by: ryukyu
Another pro criminal democrat.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 24, 2025 10:55 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 10:23 PM (12Bbv)
Of course God could make a boulder so big he couldn't lift it.
He would just move the entire universe down underneath it.
Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2025 10:55 PM (f5gS/)
This mook's only accomplishment of note is being the only person in history to get kicked out of a hippie commune for being too lazy.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 24, 2025 10:57 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: GWB
Sounds like we're getting into Chuck Norris territory!
Posted by: haffhowershower at April 24, 2025 10:57 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Emmie at April 24, 2025 10:30 PM (Sf2cq)
Next to Obama, Biden, Hillz, Any Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren he seemed like the most open, honest and sincere candidate out there.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2025 10:57 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2025 10:58 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:59 PM (FEpIj)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:59 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2025 10:57 PM (D7oie)
Klobber always struck me as being an old-school "corrupt union thug" politician, rather than a "woke communist" politician.
One difference between the two types is that the "corrupt union thug" politicians understand that if the country goes belly-up, so does their grift. The "woke communists", on the other hand, have that as their goal.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 24, 2025 10:59 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
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It could be New York; Every state should have a voter migration law. Personally, I would prefer, not until the next generation. Each state should choose it's rule.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:00 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: Lirio100 at April 24, 2025 11:00 PM (zS4/f)
Posted by: nerdygirl
They hated me. My comander was paired with me, and he would use Vicks in his nostrils because he knew what i did. All the nasty little tricksies they would pull to get a unit decertified, the commander relieved, NCOs like me sent to prison. I fought their BS with biological nastyness. I would deliberately keep the inspectors locked in that itty bitty no ventilation room for hours breaking the non-time sensitive code. It was glorious. Once they started a session, it was a security violatiom to open the door. I got an Army Major decerted and removed from nuclear surety that way. Don't eff with me on that stuff sir.
Best and most favorite memory...they brought me and the commander in for a select8ve release of a single warhead. Got us to the point where the two person crypto was accessed, then killed the commander. I pointed at the inspector, another Major, in front of the one star surety team. And told him to sit his ass down in the chair and assume the 2nd party to the SelRel. Made him verify everything the dead commander had done, then made him finish the SelRel
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (FEpIj)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls
Nah, could never happen.
-- Colossus
Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 24, 2025 10:53 PM (vKNmo)
My problem with The Andromeda Strain is the same one thst people had with Raiders of the Lost Ark. Everything the characters do is meaningless. In the end, the pathogen mutated to become harmless. Michael Crichton could write pretty well and come up with some cool story ideas, but his endings almost always left something to be desired.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (sI7wh)
*smashes plate on the floor*
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 24, 2025 10:41 PM (dR6yv)
Drinks too much ouzo, smashes face on the floor.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (8TVg8)
Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 10:35 PM (sI7wh)
That and the communist part. Mostly the communist part. OK pretty much all because communist part.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (ncC2j)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (12Bbv)
Posted by: Lirio100 at April 24, 2025 11:00 PM (zS4/f)
That chick who used to be on the Cosby Show?
Posted by: Naive Gen Xer at April 24, 2025 11:02 PM (W5ArC)
The Adolescence of P-1
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 10:59 PM (FEpIj)
Ahh, very nice. I may have to track that movie down.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2025 11:02 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 10:50 PM (w6EFb)
Nah, just put the stuff back in the ragbag.
Does anyone even have a ragbag anymore?
When I demote dish towels to cleaning cloths I cut a corner off of them, so I know which are which.
Posted by: sal at April 24, 2025 11:02 PM (f+FmA)
See Cantor's progression of infinities, the alephs. Some infinities are greater than others. For example, the infinity of the continuum, the number of points on the real line is a greater infinity that the infinity of integers. Or, the set of points on the line can't be put into one to one correspondence with the integers.
This leads to the notion of countable vs uncountable infinities.
A weird example. The number of points in a plane is the same infinity as the real line. And the number of points in a 3D volume is the same. Even up to a *countably* infinite number of dimensions.
I think, but am not sure, that an uncountably infinite number of dimensions will get you to the next infinity.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 11:03 PM (w6EFb)
I think that was when i got selected for warhead custodian warrant officer.
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 24, 2025 11:03 PM (MsrgL)
This mook's only accomplishment of note is being the only person in history to get kicked out of a hippie commune for being too lazy.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 24, 2025 10:57 PM (W5ArC)
But he has something against an Italian restaurant chain. Warning about rapidly becoming an Olive Garden or something.
https://tinyurl.com/2smn5642
Posted by: haffhowershower at April 24, 2025 11:03 PM (144I4)
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That'll get fun when someone drives it insane by pointing out that a surviving copy isn't *you*
Posted by: Methos at April 24, 2025 11:04 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:04 PM (FEpIj)
Oh well, happy Friday everyone. It's due in less than an hour.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 24, 2025 11:04 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 24, 2025 11:05 PM (ncC2j)
But it also introduces two vulnerabilities.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:05 PM (FEpIj)
Remind anyone of near recent events?
Thought so.
I watched the Chernobyl mini-series and it was like watching the Soviet version of COVIDmania.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 11:06 PM (t0Rmr)
Eventually, you find a better explanation that requires you to toss your old model into the trash. I suspect in 100 years everybody at the Astronomers Club will have a laugh whenever the Big Bang Theory is brought up.
Anyway, the Earth is flat and it is held up by a stack of giant turtles.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 24, 2025 11:06 PM (8Dm30)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (FEpIj)
Fun fact: my pot dealer started Comic Con.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 11:07 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Who you talkin to?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:07 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: Lirio100 at April 24, 2025 11:07 PM (zS4/f)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:04 PM (FEpIj)
DuckDuckGo kicked out the following:
"in 1984 adapted into a Canadian-made TV film entitled Hide and Seek."
I haven't checked any further
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2025 11:08 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 24, 2025 11:08 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 24, 2025 11:08 PM (0Htd1)
Un-fun fact - one of the former founders of Dragon Con is a pedophile. The others running the con had to resort to some true shenanigans to buy Dragon Con out from under him.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:09 PM (FEpIj)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 24, 2025 11:08 PM (a4NoL)
That’s why I like national league baseball better.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 24, 2025 11:09 PM (IZezY)
Posted by: ryukyu
Another pro criminal democrat.
The old critique of the left was that they were soft on crime. Maybe that's accurate, maybe its not, but the current generation? They are literally in bed with the gangs so we shouldn't think of the Dems and various criminal organizations as separate - the Dems are their "political wing" if you will.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 11:09 PM (t0Rmr)
Something...something Star Trek TOS.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2025 11:10 PM (W/lyH)
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But is it a countably or uncountably infinite stack of turtles?
Posted by: Methos at April 24, 2025 11:10 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 11:10 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 24, 2025 11:11 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (12Bbv)
You watch yer mouth there, buddy.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 24, 2025 11:11 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: Naive Gen Xer at April 24, 2025 11:11 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:12 PM (Drm1A)
But of course the most interesting question is, spins relative to what?
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 24, 2025 11:12 PM (ZEzFB)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 24, 2025 11:12 PM (W/lyH)
Or, as Event Horizon put it, a plane of pure chaos.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 11:13 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Lirio100 at April 24, 2025 11:00 PM (zS4/f)
That chick who used to be on the Cosby Show?
Posted by: Naive Gen Xer at April 24, 2025 11:02 PM (W5ArC)
169 Mrs. Kravitz was the nosy neighbor on Bewitched. The comparison of many posts on NextDoor to her was irresistible.
Posted by: Lirio100 at April 24, 2025 11:07 PM (zS4/f)
He is referencing the fact that Lisa Bonet used to be married to Lenny Kravitz.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 11:13 PM (sI7wh)
Does anyone even have a ragbag anymore?
When I demote dish towels to cleaning cloths I cut a corner off of them, so I know which are which.
Posted by: sal at April 24, 2025 11:02 PM (f+FmA)
Most modern materials are crap, what would you make out of them? Not even suitable as cleaning cloths. I like the trick of cutting off the corner.
I recently liberated one of Publius' old tee shirts to use as a cleaning cloth. It has a thousand pinholes in it, so I figured he could spare it.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 11:13 PM (w6EFb)
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Noam has referred two FBI or ATF leakers.
SCORE:
_Noam 2
_Gabbard 2
Blondi 0
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:13 PM (Drm1A)
Some Greeks call their restaurants "Italian" because people know what that is.
Same thing with Albanians.
One of the best pizza spots in my town used to be Pizza Olympia, run by Albanians. So they were Albanians pretending to be Greek pretending to be Italians.
Which reminds me I haven't eaten there in a very long time. I may have to remedy that.
All the Adriatic food is good.
Posted by: Naive Gen Xer at April 24, 2025 11:14 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: publius
That's as far as my college math courses got me, too.
There are an infinite number of rational numbers. And there are an infinite number of real numbers. And there are more of the latter than the former, even though both are infinite.
There are more of the latter between 0 and 100 than the former.
There are more of the latter between 0 and 1/100th than the former.
And between any two rational numbers.
Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2025 11:15 PM (DgGvY)
Was just reading about Ed Kramer and...wow.
He was first accused by one boy in '97, was arrested for molesting other boys in '00 though the case ran through 2014, arrested for molesting another boy in 2011, and arrested again in 2019 for another incident.
And I noticed that several times the DAs going after him were dismissed for various reasons.
Why...its almost like there are powerful people that protect pedos isn't it?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 11:15 PM (t0Rmr)
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But is it a countably or uncountably infinite stack of turtles?
Posted by: Methos at April 24, 2025 11:10 PM (Dnobf)
Are we sure it's turtles, and not tortoises, penguins, cats, or river otters?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 24, 2025 11:15 PM (VNX3d)
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But is it a countably or uncountably infinite stack of turtles?
Posted by: Methos at April 24, 2025 11:10 PM (Dnobf)
I would not advise stacking turtles.
Posted by: Yertle at April 24, 2025 11:16 PM (sI7wh)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
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Cut about 4" to 2" behind the shoulder seam for a perfect night cap. _ one must cover the top.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:16 PM (Drm1A)
Some Greeks call their restaurants "Italian" because people know what that is.
Almost all of my town's "restaurants" are Greek "Italian" pizza joints. It is...kind of amazing actually.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 11:17 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:17 PM (Drm1A)
But of course the most interesting question is, spins relative to what?
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 24, 2025 11:12 PM (ZEzFB)
The moves of its partner on the dance floor we call the multiverse.
Posted by: Yertle at April 24, 2025 11:18 PM (sI7wh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:09 PM (FEpIj)
Richard was a brilliant and odd guy, an Aquarian like me. He was tired of being an outlaw, so he taught himself day trading.
He started the Con in a hotel room when he was a teenager. As it started to become a thing, the grifters moved in and he left the whole thing to them because he had no interest in their b.s.
Another friend lost to pancreatic cancer. RIP Richard.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 11:18 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: sal at April 24, 2025 11:02 PM (f+FmA)
Heh, tie a knot in the corner of the old sheet and knot one leg of worn out slacks.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2025 11:18 PM (D7oie)
We were actually constructing one before our mom made us quit.
Posted by: sal at
I had my little brother (4) convinced he could jump off the roof (one story) with a pillowcase and parachute to the pile of leaves (about 40) on the ground.
Mom walked out just as he was ready to jump.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 11:20 PM (mT+6a)
See the Continuum Hypothesis, CH. I went over this just now with Grok. If the CH holds then the "cardinality" of the real line, the number of points is aleph-1, using Cantor's nomenclature, and aleph-1 = 2^(aleph-0).
So, the number of points on the real line is 2 to the power of the infinity of the integers.
Further, again if the CH holds, the number of points in an uncountably infinite dimensions space is Aleph-2, or 2^(aleph-1).
Unfortunately, thanks to Kurt Godel and the Incompleteness theorem, the CH cannot be proven or disproven within the confines of the standard ZFC set theory, or the foundational axioms of mathematics.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 11:20 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 11:20 PM (12Bbv)
Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 11:21 PM (sI7wh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:21 PM (FEpIj)
y=1/x, from x=1 to x=infinity.
Spin that around the x axis, to get something shaped like an infinitely long bugle.
It's volume is pi.
It's surface area is infinite.
So you can fill it with paint, but you can't paint it.
Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2025 11:22 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:22 PM (FEpIj)
Or, as Event Horizon put it, a plane of pure chaos.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 24, 2025 11:13 PM (gKWVE)
liberate tutemet ex infernis
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 24, 2025 11:22 PM (SSEhk)
Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2025 11:23 PM (DgGvY)
Relative to God?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 11:20 PM (12Bbv)
Cousin Eddie.
Posted by: Shitter's Full! at April 24, 2025 11:23 PM (Aqu9a)
Those that sit and drink wine under the tree have a better view of their glass.
And if it should need refilling.
Posted by: Nightwatch at April 24, 2025 11:24 PM (25kuG)
Mom walked out just as he was ready to jump.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 11:20 PM (mT+6a)
I remember watching our neighbor, a boy about 7, getting ready to do that to show off to my brother and I, who were 8 and 6 at the time. I won’t say we were encouraging him, I won’t say we weren’t. Luckily our mom heard enough to make her suspicious and came out and talked him off the roof.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 24, 2025 11:24 PM (ZEzFB)
Posted by: Naive Gen Xer
"Cheeburger! Cheeburger! Cheeburger!
No Coke! Pepsi!"
Posted by: Zombie Pete Dionisopoulos at April 24, 2025 11:25 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2025 11:26 PM (D7oie)
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The rotation is relative.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2025 10:43 PM (/lPRQ)
That's what I have trouble getting my head around; spinning relative to what? Since the universe is everything, how can you tell it's rotating?
Posted by: BillyD at April 24, 2025 11:27 PM (Yt3ED)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:27 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: Biden's Lonely Neuron at April 24, 2025 11:27 PM (cukcC)
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 24, 2025 11:28 PM (fY84s)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (12Bbv)
Oh, I loved the Cretans. Fantastic people - like so many around the world. They all seemed to take some pride in that connection to "cretin." They were a lot like the Moron Horde in that.
Posted by: GWB at April 24, 2025 11:28 PM (f5gS/)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 24, 2025 11:29 PM (t0Rmr)
I don't know why the cat adores dried squid above every other thing in the world including catnip, but then I don't understand why he insists on catching snakes and bringing them into the house for me either.
he does seem quite proud of himself.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 24, 2025 11:30 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 11:31 PM (mT+6a)
Two answers to this...“
A third answer - God slaps you silly for asking such a stupid question. Well that’s what I would do if I was Him!
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 24, 2025 11:31 PM (ZEzFB)
Netflix has renamed it Bet which has made something think this is BET. The main character seems pretty close to the original except they have now given her a noble reason to be at the school - vengeance. All the others do not really reflect their manga/anime counterparts at all.
And Netflix has race swapped some characters. Which means they now have in this live action, because of the rules if you lose too much gambling you become someone's slave, a black guy as a slave.
Netflix can't die soon enough.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:32 PM (FEpIj)
Posted by: Biden's Lonely Neuron
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My mother thought his cranky old man shtick was cute.
She voted for Trump but laughed at Bernie like he was a
comedian on the Tonight show.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:32 PM (Drm1A)
I saw a platter of fried food in the second row of your AI art. Is that what happens if one of your cat girls mistakenly wanders into a Chinese restaurant?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 24, 2025 11:32 PM (8Dm30)
This rotating universe thing that came out a few days ago, maybe two weeks, really caught my eye.
Now, Godel, Kurt Godel, first came up with a rotating universe model, dubbed the Godel metric, as a solution of the Einstein Field Equations (EFE) of General Relativity. It's an exact solution, and the fact that he came up with it demonstrates the "beautiful mind" of Godel.
It was funny. Godel, studying the EFE, told Uncle Al, hey your fancy equations allow for time travel. Einstein said, bullshit, Kurt, that's illogical and leads to contradictions. My equations will not allow that!
Godel said, I'll prove it. He did. The Godel metric has closed time-like curves, time travel paths through spacetime. Einstein said, well, shit fire.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 11:32 PM (w6EFb)
My cat is the Great Terror of the lizard population.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 24, 2025 11:33 PM (ZEzFB)
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Soft shell Cretans are the best, nom, nom, nom.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:33 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: tankdemon
So many books and yet Crichton could never find a plot.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2025 11:35 PM (mlg/3)
I don't know why the cat adores dried squid above every other thing in the world including catnip, but then I don't understand why he insists on catching snakes and bringing them into the house for me either.
he does seem quite proud of himself.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Had a cat that brought in a whole bunny.
Ate the head (yeah, I watched),
Then left the body for the rest of us.
He could have least gutted it too.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2025 11:35 PM (/lPRQ)
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So says zerohedge.
Now do went Xi turned his tankers full of medicine and supplies around that were in port or in passage at covid outbreak.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:37 PM (Drm1A)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 11:37 PM (12Bbv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2025 11:38 PM (FEpIj)
Couldn’t resolve it…
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 11:39 PM (12Bbv)
BTW, Kurt Godel illustrated the old saw about the fine line between genius and insanity. As a mathematician, he was a tour-de-force of "pure logic" as Mr. Spock might admire. He was also absolute bat-shit crazy.
He wouldn't eat anything prepared by anyone other than his wife. "They" were trying to poison him. He was also afraid of poison gas being piped into his house, and so tended to open the windows even in the middle of winter. He didn't last too long after his wife died.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 11:45 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: nerdygirl
I'd be locked up in federal pmita prison for beating the coon dog shit out of Donk and GOPe alike.
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 24, 2025 11:46 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:37 PM (Drm1A)
Xi is betting that Trump's fights with the US Courts will take enough of his political capital, that he will have to cave on Tariffs...
Same calculation Zelensky is making...
Trump is fighting battles on multiple fronts right now... but he does not have time to do anything else.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 24, 2025 11:46 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 11:45 PM (w6EFb)
Poisoned? /smile
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 24, 2025 11:47 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Pointless at April 24, 2025 10:14 PM (9Q8Gx)
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I think it was one of our Zionist sharks. Friendly fire incident.
Obligatory classic viral music video (+330,000,000 views). Guess:
https://youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 24, 2025 11:48 PM (Kjgs1)
No, his wife, Adele, didn't die, she just got very ill and was hospitalized for 6 months in 1977. Godel refused to eat anything, and basically starved himself to death. His death certificate lists cause of death as "malnutrition and inanition caused by personality disturbance." He weighed only 65 lbs at the time of death.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 11:49 PM (w6EFb)
may miss 1st round altogether
Posted by: Don Black at April 24, 2025 10:34 PM (AOsQT)
And ... it has happened. Deion Jr. is a Day 2 pick at best.
Also, legendary hash there, Don!
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at April 24, 2025 11:49 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 11:52 PM (12Bbv)
Not only has India closed its border to Pakistan, declaring that no visas will be given to Pakistanis, but the Indian government has downgraded its diplomatic ties with Islamabad and suspended a crucial water treaty. Pakistani visa holders in India have also been ordered leave the country within 48 hours.
The water issue will could impact hundreds of millions of people on both sides of the border, as the 1960 Indus Water Treaty delineates how water is distributed and used from six rivers that flow through both countries, starting in disputed regions of the Himalayas in the north.
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Pakistan threatens, Indians say, wooo, don't scare me so much.
More. grafic images included.
https://tinyurl.com/3jmhrvrm
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 24, 2025 11:52 PM (Drm1A)
Einstein and Von Neumann were taking Gödel down to get his green card. All the while Gödel kept muttering about a loophole he'd purportedly found in the Constitution. "Shut up, Kurt", they explained.
They come before the judge who, after the procedure says something like "Welcome to the United States, Dr. Gödel. Rest easy that you're in a place where the terrible things happening in your birth country can't happen."
Gödel: "Well, actually, there is this problem...."
Whereupon Einstein and Von Neumann did another sotto voce "Shut up, Kurt" (possibly nudging him or stamping on his foot) and things finished up okay.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 24, 2025 11:53 PM (W5ArC)
I think teams don't want to get tangled up in Prime Time Drama
if you draft the Kid, you get the Dad hanging around, offering advice, butting in, bringing unnecessary heat
IMO
Posted by: Don Black at April 24, 2025 11:54 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Poor guy starved w/o his wife to feed him.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 24, 2025 11:54 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Wait, are you saying Superman could turn back time by reversing the Earth's spin??? ( no, of course you're not, it's just that thing still angers me.... )
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2025 11:55 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 11:13 PM (w6EFb)
That's just cruel. What did that tee ever do to you?
Posted by: RickZ at April 24, 2025 11:55 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2025 10:02 PM (mT+6a)
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I would not have let that story leek.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 24, 2025 10:04 PM (hY4dx)
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I'm late to the ONT, I don't have thyme for veggie puns.
Posted by: Ciampino - stupidity of school authorities at April 24, 2025 11:56 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Not one mention of a flux capacitator.
I am disappoint.
Posted by: Zombie Pete Dionisopoulos at April 24, 2025 11:56 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 24, 2025 11:33 PM (ZEzFB)
Publius' cat is the Great Terror of all that walks, creeps or flies.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 24, 2025 11:56 PM (w6EFb)
Every President from Ford through Clinton has some time in hell coming for allowing the Pakis to get nukes.
That should never, ever, ever have been allowed to happen.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 24, 2025 11:57 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 24, 2025 11:57 PM (12Bbv)
I was just about to post that! That illustrates what immigration laws were like back then. You have to have Albert fucking Einstein vouch for you.
As I've read the story, Einstein and Von Neumann were doing the Picard/Riker double face-palm while Godel was ranting about a "logical flaw in the Constitution".
THe judge was just amused, saying, "Boy, these mathematical geniuses sure are nuts, aren't they."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 11:57 PM (w6EFb)
Einstein and Godel used to talk long afternoon walks on the Princeton campus, seemingly engaged in deep conversation. People wondered what deep, ponderous things they were discussing. There is no record of what they talked about, neither ever discussed or wrote about it.
The joke was it was probably, "Hey, Al, did you see the rack on that new co-ed?"
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 12:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 25, 2025 12:04 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Romeo13
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He gets judges the publicity they deserve things will turn.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 12:07 AM (Drm1A)
Probably something to do with either the 16th or 19th amendment.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 25, 2025 12:07 AM (lUFok)
Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2025 12:08 AM (gKWVE)
Spin that around the x axis, to get something shaped like an infinitely long bugle.
Doomsday machine
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 12:09 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 12:09 AM (12Bbv)
The joke was it was probably, "Hey, Al, did you see the rack on that new co-ed?"
Posted by: publius
"That casts doubt on your theory of gravitational waves, no?"
Posted by: Godel, elbowing Einstein at April 25, 2025 12:10 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Common Tater at April 25, 2025 12:12 AM (KP4aP)
Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2025 12:13 AM (gKWVE)
As I've read the story, Einstein and Von Neumann were doing the Picard/Riker double face-palm while Godel was ranting about a "logical flaw in the Constitution".
THe judge was just amused, saying, "Boy, these mathematical geniuses sure are nuts, aren't they."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 24, 2025 11:57 PM (w6EFb)
When people ask “What kind of immigration *do* you support?” this is the answer. Guys like von Neumann and Einstein and Godel and von Braun. (Nazi scum, but good at rockets.)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 12:13 AM (/dDa4)
Here you go, "Godel's Loophole", which has the story:
https://tinyurl.com/2ld4ccuq
It wasn't Von Neumann, but Oskar Morgenstern who was with Einstein and Godel. Morgenstern was an economist and friend and collaborator with Von Neumann.
And it was Godel's citizenship exam.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 12:13 AM (w6EFb)
But of course the most interesting question is, spins relative to what?
Posted by: Tom Servo
The amount of alcohol consumed. Just wait until the universal hangover.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 25, 2025 12:14 AM (KAi1n)
@America1stLegal Apr 24
— Paramount has ended its DEI policies following lawsuits from AFL.
AFL also secured an amicable resolution of a discrimination claim against Paramount and CBS for Brian Beneker, a “SEAL Team” writer denied opportunities because he didn’t “check any diversity boxes.”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 12:15 AM (Drm1A)
Heh, according to that, Godel told the judge "I can prove it!". When Kurt Godel said he could prove something, well, he usually could and did.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 12:16 AM (w6EFb)
AOP, I hope you are beating him every flight and locking him in the washroom.
Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2025 12:16 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 12:18 AM (XeU6L)
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In Spring 1975 I was in NYC (took my 74 Mustang II to the port for shipping to Durban) and the friend that took me around decided we would do Turkish for lunch. We found a suitable restaurant near St. Patrick's. When the food arrived I commented that it looked like Greek food. She warned my naive self about making such statements out loud.
Posted by: Ciampino - don't ask for a scotch in an Irish pub at April 25, 2025 12:19 AM (sPQoU)
In the 40 years since the ad guess how much the price has gone up?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 12:20 AM (t0Rmr)
Had to watch all the café clips. Then Barnhardt's meme page for today. Then some videos. Amazing how time-sucking all that can be. May I suggest…
History Guy was kinda neat. The First Family Road Trip, cross-country in 1908. Roads were rough. Travelers had to be tough. (14:12)
https://youtu.be/NUlGGEz4U3o
Profile of Russell Myers, the Broom Hilda comic strip artist was interesting to me. (29:15) I had a collection of rejection letters from comic strip syndicates long ago; did not persevere. Watching Myers doing some inking made me miss when I had a steadier hand and enjoyed pen & ink and brush & ink cartooning. 🙁
H/t Mark Evanier for linking to it.
https://youtu.be/HlJAHYniIdc
An amusing "commercial" about Democrats traveling to El Salvador. h/t MJA at IOTWreport (40sec)
https://twitter.com/iAnonPatriot/
status/1914828426843771175
How does one get the t.co short link? If I'm not a x'er?
Posted by: mindful webworker - about to fold for the night at April 25, 2025 12:20 AM (SWvjw)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 12:20 AM (t0Rmr)
Depends on how old.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2025 12:21 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 12:22 AM (Drm1A)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 12:22 AM (RIvkX)
Never understood why anyone would even vote for him.
Anyway he is just like most of the politicians, anything for $.
I wonder if any of them are halfway sincere in trying to help the country or are they just trying to help themselves to as much loot as they can. We really should have term limits on these crooks.
Posted by: Case at April 25, 2025 12:22 AM (OrSPY)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 12:18 AM (XeU6L)
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Was that the Isle of Man TT race?
Posted by: Ciampino - that's madness at April 25, 2025 12:23 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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I often quote Godel's Completeness Therom...or Incompleteness Therom, as I prefer it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 12:23 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 12:24 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2025 12:24 AM (aUDX+)
Was that the Isle of Man TT race?
Posted by: Ciampino
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Did we settle that it was Man? Dunno, but I'd like to review that particular video.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 12:25 AM (XeU6L)
The price of the Big Mac meal has gone up...1000% percent in 40 years.
I checked the CPI and it says the total inflation in that time period is about 300%.
Why am I not surprised?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 12:26 AM (t0Rmr)
Godel was fascinated by the idea that cosmologists might discover rotation of the universe. They said every time he'd bump into the astrophysicists at Princeton, or wherever, he also ask "Is the universe rotating yet?". And they'd so, "No, Kurt!".
Well, with this latest Godel would be happy as a lark. And he'd probably go over the paper and find something interesting in it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 12:27 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 12:27 AM (8zz6B)
Not without a hearing and three appeals. And seriously, not even then.
Posted by: Does this black robe make my Marxism look fat? at April 25, 2025 12:27 AM (pIfcn)
Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2025 12:29 AM (gKWVE)
I'll try spinning. That's a good trick.
Posted by: Young Anakin Skywalker at April 25, 2025 12:29 AM (D0HYP)
The price of the Big Mac meal has gone up...1000% percent in 40 years.
I checked the CPI and it says the total inflation in that time period is about 300%.
Why am I not surprised?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 12:26 AM (t0Rmr)
Stop noticing.
Posted by: Federal Reserve at April 25, 2025 12:30 AM (/dDa4)
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Was he kin to Russ Myers. Always parcial to Uschi Digard.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 12:30 AM (Drm1A)
Posted by: TC at April 25, 2025 12:31 AM (szqEY)
Posted by: Somewhat eccentric Miklos at April 25, 2025 12:31 AM (IKhKt)
https://tinyurl.com/47ctuvjb
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 12:32 AM (bMQHQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
If you believe that, I have a bankrupt college to sell you
Posted by: Mrs. Bernie at April 25, 2025 12:32 AM (IKhKt)
Pretty sure stephen king read it too because it's just like shawshank redemption, except Tim Robbons doesn't get mercilessly cornholed.
Posted by: steve at April 25, 2025 12:34 AM (SBQD7)
Posted by: Braenyard -
I vaguely remember certain ladies were described as a "Russ Meyer bath toy"
Posted by: vague but retained memories of youthful desire at April 25, 2025 12:35 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 25, 2025 12:36 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 12:37 AM (/dDa4)
Posted by: Or maybe Miklos is thinking of Schrodinger at April 25, 2025 12:37 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Dr. Miklos is in da House at April 25, 2025 12:38 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Kurt at April 25, 2025 12:40 AM (XeU6L)
I've being going over this rotating universe model with Grok for about a week. Grok is like having a Ph.D physicist and mathematician, an expert in General Relativity right there. Of course, I don't trust it completely, because I've seen it get things wrong that I know about.
If you're interested the "rotational speed" or RPM of the universe, which I put in scare quotes is just a parameter in the equations, but it's about one revolution per 500 billion years.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 12:41 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: the Reptilian part of Miklos' brain at April 25, 2025 12:42 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2025 10:14 PM (mlg/3)
If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.
Posted by: Mao at April 25, 2025 12:42 AM (vm8sq)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
I will have that written into my Reverse Mortgage.
Posted by: Miklos sees a deal here at April 25, 2025 12:43 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: publius
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What goes around comes around.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 12:44 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 12:44 AM (12Bbv)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
*puts ouzo on list*
*prepares to wager on backgammon*
Posted by: Occasional Miklos at April 25, 2025 12:45 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Tom Selleck at April 25, 2025 12:46 AM (XeU6L)
Put… —> But…
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 12:46 AM (12Bbv)
Posted by: mikeski's on first at April 25, 2025 12:47 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Dennis the Menace! at April 25, 2025 12:47 AM (tjZg/)
Posted by: Tom Selleck
Don't trust you.
Can't trust a man who doesn't wax his moustache.
Posted by: Kaiser Miklos Wilhelm at April 25, 2025 12:48 AM (IKhKt)
The problem this slight rotation solves is dubbed the Hubble Tension, which had to do with the Hubble Parameter (sometimes called a constant, although it varies with time, but it's constant at a given epoch, and changes slowly).
There are several ways to measure it. One is the "old sources", and that's from measurements of the cosmic microwave background. Then there are the "new sources", which have to do with standard candles like supernovas. They are "new" because they involve events that happened later, while the CMB was very early in the universe history.
Now, the late measurements all put H0, the current epoch Hubble Constant at 72 - 74 km/s/Mpc. The early results put it around 67 - 68.
They thought maybe that's just measurement error, and newer methods will pin that down to something in between.
Well, they came up with several, and they all fell onto either end of that, nothing in between, which suggests a problem. Then these new guys noticed that a slight rotation would explain that early vs late difference nicely.
I call it the Hawaii paper, as some of the authors were at the U of Hawaii. I hope Hawaiian astrophysicists aren't like Hawaiian judges.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 12:49 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.
Life and the universe comes at you fast.
Posted by: Miklos Bueller's day Off at April 25, 2025 12:49 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 12:50 AM (12Bbv)
Posted by: Archer at April 25, 2025 12:50 AM (IDphi)
1) going into the past is trying to reverse entropy. Entropy of the Universe is always increasing. To travel backwards it essentially trying to reverse entropy
2) going forward in time is moving into a universe with MORE entropy, and that might be impossible too.
Not saying I am anything like correct, but this thought has bothered me for years.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at April 25, 2025 12:50 AM (tjZg/)
Posted by: Miklos merely suggests at April 25, 2025 12:50 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 25, 2025 12:52 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: tankdemon at April 24, 2025 11:01 PM (sI7wh)
The plan is nothing. The planning is everything.
Posted by: Logisticians at April 25, 2025 12:52 AM (vm8sq)
Posted by: publius
You have two weeks to unrotate the universe.
Posted by: a Hawaiian astrophysicist at April 25, 2025 12:54 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
Check that one's ID
Posted by: Genial late Nite bartender Miklos at April 25, 2025 12:55 AM (IKhKt)
Now, here's the interesting thing. The FLRW like universes, including deSitter spacetime (this is an empty universe with nothing but Cosmological Constant, which makes "empty space" expand, it's a perfect spacetime to see the behavior without having to worry about messy matter inside) are all homogeneous and isotropic. Everybody sees the same thing, and everybody sees everybody else flying away, expanding. No center, no special direction (think flatlanders on the surface of a 2D expanding sphere).
Now, the Hawaii rotation breaks isotropy, but not homogeneity. There will be a preferred direction in the universe, one direction that looks different, and can be detected. And roughly, and in a quite complex way, you see everything around you rotating around that direction.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 12:55 AM (w6EFb)
Anyway, the Earth is flat and it is held up by a stack of giant turtles.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 24, 2025 11:06 PM (8Dm30)
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Where does the paperclip go?
Posted by: Ciampino - that's madness x 2 at April 25, 2025 12:56 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 12:58 AM (12Bbv)
Posted by: the Reptilian part of Miklos' brain at April 25, 2025 12:42 AM (IKhKt)
The only McDonald's in the area where I grew up in 1960 was not too far from the house, 5-10 minute drive depending on lights. After high school football on Friday night, the car would make a detour and we'd get 5 cent burgers or 10 cent cheeseburgers, I think small fries (the only size at the time) were a nickel, along with some, probably, 10 cent shakes. It was something like a buck to a buck-fifty to feed five with a late night after-game snack.
The food was cooked fresh and waiting and if you special ordered anything, it took a long time. That's where I learned to take the pickles off and say screw it.
There was nothing like the aroma of a bag of those warm burgers and fries wafting through the car on the way home. That was the only time we ever went to McDonald's.
Then my Mom found out about Burger King and a grilled Whopper with lettuce, tomato and mayo. My Mom never went to McDonald's again. Ever. Even on road trips just to pee.
Posted by: RickZ at April 25, 2025 12:58 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 12:59 AM (8zz6B)
Now, there is evidence of such a preferred direction in the CMB, they call it the "Axis of Evil", and have been arguing about it for a long time. Is it real or just some artifact, maybe local variation in something or another, or measurement bias or something.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 01:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Dean Wormer at April 25, 2025 01:01 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:02 AM (LO3k+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 12:59 AM (8zz6B)
I would have thought it was the toilet bowl drain. We haven't hit the big shit from outside, so there's time before the Universe is flushed, and a new one fills the bowl.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 01:02 AM (VNX3d)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 01:02 AM (12Bbv)
Posted by: Ciampino - that's madness x 2 at April 25, 2025 12:56 AM (sPQoU)
Wouldn’t you like to know…
Posted by: Clippy at April 25, 2025 01:02 AM (/dDa4)
Posted by: RickZ
Respect to your Mom.
Because that is Dedication.
Posted by: Miklos understands Brand Anti-Loyalty at April 25, 2025 01:03 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:05 AM (LO3k+)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Check that one's ID
Posted by: Genial late Nite bartender Miklos at April 25, 2025 12:55 AM (IKhKt)
She's been Social Security all that time.
Posted by: DOGE at April 25, 2025 01:06 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 01:06 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
A fragile people, the Little Ice Age wiped them out.
Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2025 01:09 AM (DgGvY)
unless it's like a Frisbee, which spins while flying along a path in space
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 01:10 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:11 AM (LO3k+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 01:13 AM (8zz6B)
unless it's like a Frisbee, which spins while flying along a path in space
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 01:10 AM (AOsQT)
Please, don't play catch with the Universe and Fido.
How in the hell do we repair holes in the space-time continuum?
Posted by: RickZ at April 25, 2025 01:13 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:15 AM (LO3k+)
There are two possible candidates for this preferred direction. And the alignment of both is spooky. One direction, going out on looking up in the sky is pointing at a spot in the constellation Coma Berenices (Bernice's Hair) at star which is dubbed Polaris Galactus Borealis. That's Latin for Pole, Galaxy, North. And that's what it is, the north pole of the Milky Way Galaxy. Which would mean the Milky Way spin axis is aligned with the universe spin axis.
The second candidate aligns nicely with the ecliptic, the ecliptic north pole.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 01:15 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 01:16 AM (/dDa4)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:11 AM (LO3k+)
Mythman. Man or moth?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 01:16 AM (8zz6B)
Einstein, Gödel, and Von Neumann walked into a time loop…
The answer to whether God could make a rock bigger than he can lift is found in Schrödinger's catbox.
Okay, I'm clearing out now so the late-late-nighters can come in and play. [waves to 'em on my way out]
https://youtu.be/LoZHw04OG2A
G'nite, y'all. Stay Moronic.
Posted by: mindful webworker - it will rain all week at April 25, 2025 01:16 AM (SWvjw)
Hmm, news is 2 days old, but Gavin Newsom's poll numbers are awful and Steve Hilton announced he's running for Cali governor. I think he's doomed. Not bad, just doomed.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 25, 2025 01:17 AM (mC23r)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 01:16 AM (/dDa4)
That spray seal shit might work better.
Posted by: RickZ at April 25, 2025 01:17 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Cool, Daddy-O
*snaps fingers rhythmically*
Posted by: Maynard G. Miklos-Krebs at April 25, 2025 01:18 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 01:19 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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there is a thing called precession, where the Earth kind of wobbles a bit as it rotates about the axis
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2025 01:19 AM (AOsQT)
See the Euler angles and all that stuff. You can think of spinning around two axes, but they add to one direction, call it the omega vector. Direction and magnitude.
Solid body rotation gets complex, see the Principle Axis Theorem and the Intermediate Axis theorem. Any solid body of any shape must have 3 mutually perpendicular axes, with three different principle moments of inertia about them. Now, if you spin an object around one of those principle axes, everything is nice.
If you spin around some non-principle axis, the angular momentum vector doesn't point in the same direction as the spin axis. This requires precession, with the spin axis precessing about in space. Angular momentum remains constant. You can call this tumbling.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 01:20 AM (w6EFb)
A sphere has near pefect symmetry. Any axis is a principle axis, all three moments of inertia are the same in any coordinate system.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 01:21 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Genial late Nite bartender Miklos at April 25, 2025 12:55 AM (IKhKt)
She's been Social Security all that time.
Posted by: DOGE
okay then
Posted by: Genial bartender applies AARP Charter Member discount at April 25, 2025 01:23 AM (IKhKt)
There's no stoppin the Cretans from hopping
Gotta keep it beatin for all the happy Cretans
Cree e tan
Cree e tan
Posted by: The Ramones at April 25, 2025 01:24 AM (3/XaG)
Both series highly recommended.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 01:25 AM (12Bbv)
Here's the famous example of that intermediate axis tumbling:
https://tinyurl.com/28nbv6ra
In one of Scampy's ONTs a while back, we posted about this.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 01:25 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally
All that fancy book learnin'.
I lernt that the first time I went to Guatemala, the world's largest producer of Perfectly Sphericals
Posted by: Daddy took me out of school beacause they was crops in the fields, yessuh at April 25, 2025 01:26 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 01:27 AM (w6EFb)
https://mol.im/a/14645149
Posted by: Ciampino - that's a small market at April 25, 2025 01:27 AM (sPQoU)
Gotta keep it beatin for all the happy Cretans
Cree e tan
Cree e tan
Posted by: The Ramones
Gonna take yo asses out in the next baktun
Posted by: Mayans, musically disrespected at April 25, 2025 01:28 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: publius
All that fancy book learnin'.
I lernt that the first time I went to Guatemala, the world's largest producer of Perfectly Sphericals
I was all ready to make a spherical cow joke, and Miklos beat me to it.
Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2025 01:30 AM (DgGvY)
https://mol.im/a/14645075
Brown Bag case? Maybe doubled?
Posted by: Ciampino - you know she's melanin-enhanced at April 25, 2025 01:31 AM (sPQoU)
https://mol.im/a/14645149
Posted by: Ciampino - that's a small market at April 25, 2025 01:27 AM (sPQoU)
Wow, Trump is taking anti-LGBT to the next level..
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 01:31 AM (/dDa4)
Posted by: Don Black
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See: any toy gyroscope
Or... non-zero spin species tipped by an NMR instrument. Or, just go get an MRI.
Posted by: Tom Selleck at April 25, 2025 01:32 AM (XeU6L)
Ludacris Cam moment.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 01:34 AM (/dDa4)
That family and friends said "A Miracle"
But one is what one eats,
And she ate nought but beets.
And her doctor said, "nah, that's empirical".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 01:34 AM (8zz6B)
Damn, that 'stache was itchy
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 01:34 AM (XeU6L)
https://mol.im/a/14645149
Posted by: Ciampino - that's a small market at April 25, 2025 01:27 AM (sPQoU)
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Wow, Trump is taking anti-LGBT to the next level..
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 01:31 AM (/dDa4)
'Lesbaru owners hardest hit'.
Posted by: RickZ at April 25, 2025 01:35 AM (gKDq2)
Answer: depends if the cow is sphere.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 01:35 AM (12Bbv)
Posted by: mikeski
Next time I'll be slow, and you can beat yourself!
Tip the veal and try the mikeski
Posted by: Late Night Standup Comedy by Miklos ( I kid, such a great crowd) at April 25, 2025 01:35 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 01:39 AM (12Bbv)
Damn, that 'stache was itchy
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.
Mike Hammer #47
The Case of the Fake 'Stache
So in walks "Frank". Wasn't fooling me or nobody. When she pulled off the fake beard and moustache, I saw ruby lips, kissable lips. She was prepared for something. Was I?
Posted by: Hard boiled Miklos at April 25, 2025 01:40 AM (IKhKt)
his mother Mary —> His mother Mary
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 25, 2025 01:42 AM (12Bbv)
https://mol.im/a/14645075
Brown Bag case? Maybe doubled?
Posted by: Ciampino - you know she's melanin-enhanced at April 25, 2025 01:31 AM (sPQoU)
Sounds like just an off-hand remark.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 01:42 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:43 AM (LO3k+)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2025 01:43 AM (vm8sq)
Here's the fascinating thing about the symmetry of this Hawaiian rotating universe I'll call it. The symmetry is cylindrical, and there would be a distinct axis. Observers could tell their radial distance from it, but not any z distance along that axis.
Not all rotating universes would work that way. In Godel, every observer could claim the axis ran through him and everybody would see everything else rotating around them the same.
Not the case with this Hawaiian universe. You could tell how far you were away from this axis.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 25, 2025 01:44 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:45 AM (LO3k+)
https://mol.im/a/14645075
Brown Bag case? Maybe doubled?
Posted by: Ciampino - you know she's melanin-enhanced at April 25, 2025 01:31 AM (sPQoU)
Sounds like just an off-hand remark.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
If the company was Snap-on Tools, no problem
barely an inconvenience
Posted by: Miklos likes problen solving at April 25, 2025 01:45 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 01:47 AM (Drm1A)
Posted by: Boss Moss
You're just going to milk it for all it's worth, aren't cha?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2025 01:47 AM (mlg/3)
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This is a one off thing I'm sure that we can integrate Muslims into our society.
_Epic
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 01:48 AM (Drm1A)
barely an inconvenience
Posted by: Miklos likes problen solving at April 25, 2025 01:45 AM (IKhKt)
Snap-Off Tools would be a good name for a tranny surgery clinic.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 01:48 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:50 AM (LO3k+)
2.US AIR FORCE: Pennsylvania Air National Guard Mohamad Hamad Charged in Islamic Bomb Plot, Jewish Religious Buildings Attack, While Lying to Feds to Get Top-Secret Security Clearance
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 01:51 AM (Drm1A)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:52 AM (LO3k+)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 25, 2025 01:53 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Now you tell me.
Posted by: Elon Musk at April 25, 2025 01:53 AM (mlg/3)
DERAILS ONT
BBL
Posted by: Miklos has Reasons at April 25, 2025 01:55 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:50 AM (LO3k+)
Sawing off your woofer is pretty drastic, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 01:55 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Ciampino - you know she's melanin-enhanced? at April 25, 2025 01:56 AM (sPQoU)
https://mol.im/a/14645149
Posted by: Ciampino
Even when Trump said "Pleiades," they still said "no."
Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2025 01:56 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Ciampino - you know she's melanin-enhanced? at April 25, 2025 01:58 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2025 01:58 AM (LO3k+)
Posted by: Tiki Bar Miklos slides over a Double because Happy Hour at April 25, 2025 01:58 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Ciampino
"Dear Penthouse..."
Posted by: Elon Musk at April 25, 2025 01:59 AM (mlg/3)
https://mol.im/a/14644831
Posted by: Ciampino - you know it's serious at April 25, 2025 02:01 AM (sPQoU)
"Dear Penthouse..."
Posted by: Elon Musk at April 25, 2025 01:59 AM (mlg/3)
Having visited the link, it becomes quite apparent why the woman is sex-starved.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 02:01 AM (8zz6B)
--
Tell your mama, tell your paw,
get your drugs over the counter
in Arkansas.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:02 AM (Drm1A)
Posted by: Elon Musk
You won't believe this, but I have 14 children and pay for them all. I know this will lose me Street Cred, but this really happened
Posted by: Space Daddy at April 25, 2025 02:03 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I wonder how much Chicago Housing Authoritie moneys she pays her local Darrius Sweetdick Honeycum
Posted by: Miklos just wonders sometimes at April 25, 2025 02:05 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Ciampino - you know he's White at April 25, 2025 02:07 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Ciampino
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AOC and Jughead Crockett were explaining toast and a toaster.
AOC says you just put the bread in here and press the lever and in a few minutes out comes the toast. Jughead says, and nobody knows what happened to the bread.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:08 AM (Drm1A)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2025 02:08 AM (8zz6B)
Penthouse Forum never published any of the 107 "this really happened" letters I sent.
Not honest people
Posted by: Miklos may have made that up at April 25, 2025 02:08 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Abide, Friend from El Norte
Posted by: Miklos may have turn on the AC soon at April 25, 2025 02:09 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Devious lil' Miklos at April 25, 2025 02:14 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Deviouser lil' Miklos at April 25, 2025 02:15 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Legal more or less lil' Miklos at April 25, 2025 02:16 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Ciampino - you know he's purring at April 25, 2025 02:17 AM (sPQoU)
You wanna stay, stay
Only allowed to stay open if we put up the "Private Party" sign
It's THE LAW
Posted by: Legal more or less Miklos at April 25, 2025 02:17 AM (IKhKt)
Moose, let Ciampino in
But that's it.
Fire marshal set occupancy limits, especially if smoking allowed.
Posted by: Legally Miklos at April 25, 2025 02:20 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 25, 2025 02:20 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Miklos tries to do it all at April 25, 2025 02:22 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
Hey!
She paid my gravity bill!
After 30 days behind, GravityCorp don't mess
Posted by: Miklos ceases close familiarity with flooring at April 25, 2025 02:24 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 02:24 AM (/dDa4)
Posted by: Miklos tries to do it all
Pull!
Posted by: Elon Musk at April 25, 2025 02:25 AM (mlg/3)
all this interest in black holes. Don Lemon would be excited.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2025 02:25 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Miklos' doc says Nitol is right for me at April 25, 2025 02:26 AM (IKhKt)
Posted by: 18-1
Could it be measured in orders of magnitude, or does that violate the "I was told there would be no math" clause?
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at April 25, 2025 02:27 AM (y7zkd)
And that’s not even the dumbest thing the NAACP has done..
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 02:28 AM (/dDa4)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 02:24 AM (/dDa4)
I'd make a great Pope.
Posted by: Mariann Edgar Budde at April 25, 2025 02:28 AM (ynpvh)
And that’s not even the dumbest thing the NAACP has done..
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 02:28 AM (/dDa4)
Black holes are fine; it's the white ones that are racist.
Posted by: Mariann Edgar Budde at April 25, 2025 02:29 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2025 02:29 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 25, 2025 02:32 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 25, 2025 02:37 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 02:39 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 02:39 AM (ypFCm)
only 11:40 p.m. here on the Left Coast.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2025 02:40 AM (ynpvh)
https://x.com/Thinkwert/status
/1914999019534745864
Posted by: Ciampino - you know he's purring at April 25, 2025 02:17 AM (sPQoU)
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"Waiter, there's a hairball in my doughnut."
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2025 02:41 AM (Kjgs1)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2025 02:41 AM (Kjgs1)
Posted by: Miklos
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Triggers recollection of Gene Pitney:
If I didn't have a dime
And I didn't take the time
To play the jukebox
Ohh, oh Saturday night
Would've been a sad and lonely night
For me
And if you weren't standin' there
Ruby lips and golden hair
Beside the jukebox
Ooh, oh I'd have lost my chance
To hold you while you danced
With me
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2025 02:47 AM (XeU6L)
"Waiter, there's a hairball in my doughnut."
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2025 02:41 AM (Kjgs1)
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Sir, please keep it down or everyone will want one too. By the way is it raw or cooked?
Posted by: Ciampino - fuzz instead of glitter at April 25, 2025 02:49 AM (sPQoU)
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