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[pinball1970]

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Hot topic!

 

[pinball1970]

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That is animal cruelty. Let them watch a decent film for crying out loud. Start them off with Lassie, something they can relate to.

 

[pinball1970]

Propaganda has often been compared with marketing.

It is. It is finding out if a significant % of the population is ready for buying an idea then selling it to them.

 

[WWGD]

Somehow the Billy Elliot pic reminds me of the massive stampede of rats as a result of " Riverdance". Imagine rats underground minding their business and then hearing a barrage of heels clacking infernal noise for hours.

 

[WWGD]

There's this person I run into and chat with often at the coffee shop. He started telling me at some point, " I have to go to the bathroom". So I would reply "Ok, write me a report", so he stopped doing it for a while. But he slipped again today. You don't need my permission, dude.

 

[WWGD]

Edit:Wonder how many who say " I have another call, I'll call you back ", realize they're really saying " Other call/person is more important than yours/you". Barring emergencies, of course.

 

[Astronuc]

My wife shared the following with me regarding a job description of a genealogist.

Geneaologist - We do precision guess work based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.

 

[Mayhem]

The root of my anger issues is having to use Excel for data analysis.

 

[fresh_42]

The root of my anger issues is having to use Excel for data analysis.

You don't. Export the data as csv file, analyze them, and re-import them again via csv.

 

[Mayhem]

You don't. Export the data as csv file, analyze them, and re-import them again via csv.

In Python? Yeah, heavily considering it.

 

[Ibix]

In Python? Yeah, heavily considering it.

Or SAS if you like the anger issues and want more of them.

 

[WWGD]

Wonder if "What's my IP address" tells you your public address. Specially if you use NAT.

 

[WWGD]

In Python? Yeah, heavily considering it.

What IDE are you using?

 

[WWGD]

Ok, TDS, not Tedious. Please pronounce more carefully.

 

[Mayhem]

Ok, TDS, not Tedious. Please pronounce more carefully.

What?

 

[WWGD]

What?

TDS:= Tabular Data Stream, from Sql Server. Saw a video where it's pronounced as ' Tedious'.

 

[Mayhem]

What IDE are you using?

Geany + pip

 

[WWGD]

Geany + pip

Jupyter + Pandas has worked reasonably well for me.

 

[WWGD]

Weird. Ran into someone I had not seen in around 10 years. Then saw her 3 days in a row.

 

[WWGD]

What I hear when I'm hungry/thirsty:
Workshop= Pork Chop
Zachary = Daikiri

 

[Mayhem]

If anyone has experience with configuring Maestro from Schrödinger suit, hit me up.

 

[WWGD]

If anyone has experience with configuring Maestro from Schrödinger suit, hit me up.

Any links/refs?

 

[WWGD]

Extremely nice argument about $$e^x \neq 0$$. If you accept $$e^x .e^y=e^{x+y}$$, then $$e^x e^{-x}=e^0=1$$ forces $$e^x \neq 0$$.

 

[Astronuc]

When Birds Migrated to the Moon​

From the ancient Greeks to the 17th century, a terrestrial phenomenon baffled scientists: Where did the birds go in winter?
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-birds-migrated-to-the-moon/

 

[WWGD]

Anyone desperately low on cholesterol?

 

[gmax137]

My buddies and I drove to Fort Lauderdale for spring break. This was before I-95 was completed. Stopped for breakfast at a diner along a two-lane highway in Georgia. I still remember the waitress, asking "you want sausage or brains with your eggs, honey?"

 

[fresh_42]

Mankind can't get enough brain.

 

[Astronuc]

Love, Loss, and the Banality of Survival: Charles Darwin, His Beloved Daughter, and How We Find Meaning in Mortality
https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/02/12/annie-darwin/
A bittersweet signal from the discomposing territory between reason and hope.

The article is also about medical quackery.

 

[WWGD]

Big deal is now mixing baking soda with lemon juice. The cure for everything. Just like all previous ones were.

 

[Astronuc]

Somebody in Russia gets it, and now so do some television viewers.

The programme was 60 Minutes, the flagship twice-daily talk show on Russian state TV: studio discussion that promotes the Kremlin line on absolutely everything, including on President Putin's so-called "special military operation" in Ukraine.

The Kremlin still maintains that the Russian offensive is going according to plan.
But on Monday night, studio guest Mikhail Khodarenok, a military analyst and retired colonel, painted a very different picture.

He warned that "the situation [for Russia] will clearly get worse" as Ukraine receives additional military assistance from the West and that "the Ukrainian army can arm a million people".

Referring to Ukrainian soldiers, he noted: "The desire to defend their motherland very much exists. Ultimate victory on the battlefield is determined by the high morale of troops who are spilling blood for the ideas they are ready to fight for.

"The biggest problem with [Russia's] military and political situation," he continued, "is that we are in total political isolation and the whole world is against us, even if we don't want to admit it. We need to resolve this situation.
"The situation cannot be considered normal when against us, there is a coalition of 42 countries and when our resources, military-political and military-technical, are limited."

Retired colonel speaks out on Russian TV​

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61484222

The other guests in the studio were silent. Even the host, Olga Skabeyeva, normally fierce and vocal in her defence of the Kremlin, appeared oddly subdued.

In many ways, it's a case of "I told you so" from Mr Khodarenok. Writing in Russia's Independent Military Review back in February, before Moscow attacked Ukraine, the defence analyst had criticised "enthusiastic hawks and hasty cuckoos" for claiming that Russia would easily win a war against Ukraine.

His conclusion back then: "An armed conflict with Ukraine is not in Russia's national interests."

Bravo, Colonel Khodarenok!

 

[Tom.G]

I wonder if we will hear about Mr. Khodarenok's upcoming relocation to either the Siberian tundra or the local Grave Yard.

 

[fresh_42]

I saw Ed O'Neill today at the grocery store. Of course, not. Chances would have been around $10^{-50}.$ But the similarity was astonishing, body language included!

 

[WWGD]

Were Bud or Christina nearby? Peggy? Did you ask to buy shoes from him for your wife/girl?

 

[WWGD]

Seems some are making money of Bitcoin owners who have lost their password.

 

[fresh_42]

Were Bud or Christina nearby? Peggy? Did you ask to buy shoes from him for your wife/girl?

I don't know. I was busy looking for Sofia.

 

[WWGD]

I don't know. I was busy looking for Sofia.

Wow, seems you're more of a fan than I am. Who was that?

 

[fresh_42]

Wow, seems you're more of a fan than I am. Who was that?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442437/reference/

 

[WWGD]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442437/reference/

Never watched that one. Only Married...But, yes, she's very attractive.

 

[fresh_42]

Never watched that one. Only Married...But, yes, she's very attractive.

It's on Comedy Central here and the channel is next to a documentary channel I often watch. So it happens that I look at it from time to time.

 

[WWGD]

It's on Comedy Central here and the channel is next to a documentary channel I often watch. So it happens that I look at it from time to time.

Haven't had a TV in a while. Maybe I'll try one of those Streaming Services.

 

[WWGD]

I've been curious about this but didn't know how to categorize it. If I knew someone, say 10 years ago I last saw them. Would I say s/he _was_ a good person, which msy imply they no longer are, or s,/he _is_ a good person/overweight/wealthy?

 

[WWGD]

It's on Comedy Central here and the channel is next to a documentary channel I often watch. So it happens that I look at it from time to time.

Documentary channel? Discovery? Hope not the History channel, since it jumped the shark a while back.

 

[fresh_42]

Documentary channel? Discovery? Hope not the History channel, since it jumped the shark a while back.

A German one.

 

[LCSphysicist]

I miss believing in God. So much

 

[WWGD]

 

[Rive]

Flying cars like this:

I'm pretty sure that at the concept phase this started like this...

 

[BillTre]

 

[Astronuc]

On a more serious note, veteran Russian diplomat to the U.N. Office at Geneva, Boris Bondarev, has resigned in protest to Russia's aggression in Ukraine. He handed in his resignation before sending out a scathing letter to foreign colleagues inveighing against the “aggressive war unleashed” by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-u...and-politics-2019b1448217f57e68d2b18b6727bf99

“In 18 years, he (Lavrov) went from a professional and educated intellectual … to a person who constantly broadcasts conflicting statements and threatens the world with nuclear weapons!” he wrote. “Today, the (Russian) Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not about diplomacy. It is all about warmongering, lies and hatred.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...lomat-in-geneva-resigns-over-ukraine-invasion

Asked whether he had asked for asylum outside Russia, he said: “I think that if someone offers to help in this difficult situation, I think it would be very gratefully accepted.”

As to returning to Russia, he said that “would not be a very good idea right now”.

Yeah - now would not be a good time for him to return to Russia.

 

[WWGD]

I thought this chart was pretty cool: