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High Weirdness / Re: Colombian bishop hopes holy water will curb city's crime

« on: September 15, 2019, 08:14:21 am »

Holy Water – It's Not Just for Baptisms and Fighting Crime and Corruption Anymore!

Yes, Priests Air-Bombed a Russian City With Holy Water to Stop All the “Drinking” and “Fornication”

As per the article:

“Priests in the Russian city of Tver took to the skies this week to save local citizens from drunken craziness by air-bombing the town with holy water.

Clergymen poured out 70 liters’ worth of sacred liquid from a large chalice through the open door of a rickety green plane on Wednesday, in an escalation of their battle against “drinking” and “fornication,” local outlet Tvernews reported.

Local television showed a priest strapped into a harness to keep him from accidentally falling from the airplane while tipping gallon after gallon onto the city below.”

Here's the link: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3azzx/stop-leaving-cigarettes-and-beer-on-funeral-altars-irish-priest-begs?utm_source=reddit.com

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: Weekly Science Headlines

« on: September 15, 2019, 08:09:12 am »

Honestly, that definitely seemed unwarranted.

The first article was interesting in that we solved a problem, but uninteresting in that the problem only existed to be a problem. The article sold itself on the strength of a pop culture reference.

CNO’s reaction was justified there, in the same way that an article that examined Trump’s political history to talk about astrology and his star sign would justify a broadly similar reaction. E.g. “You can do better, and if you can’t then you should not have done it at all.”

Meanwhile, CNO actually stepped up when you told him to, and shared an area of math that is legitimately awesome and vital to the modern world, and explained in depth why it was awesome without resorting to “Ha Ha remember This Old Joke fellow humans? Wasn’t that Just The Funniest?”

And you tell him to fuck off.

As I said before: unwarranted.

See my above post.

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: Weekly Science Headlines

« on: September 15, 2019, 08:04:35 am »

I changed my mind.

Take your coolness unto death attitude and fuck right off.

If you post a link that is just pop-science fluff, I will say so.

If you don't like this, you have options.  You can fight me, you can ignore me, you can block me.  You can tell me why you think my reaction is unwarranted.

Telling me to fuck off?  Not likely to work.

Take your “I'm the smartest guy in the room” shtick, and go fuck yourself with it too.

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: Weekly Science Headlines

« on: September 14, 2019, 05:59:29 am »

Feel free to post some red meat math.

Impress the shit out of me.

It doesn't really belong here, so I tossed it in my junk thread.

https://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,38717.msg1430611.html#msg1430611

Really, my complaint about the posted article was that it didn't explain why effort was being spent on that particular problem, and it didn't tell me anything interesting about how it was solved.  It was fluff science reporting.

Edit:  If not satisfied with meatiness of product, ask me to go into Galois field extensions personally, rather than just posting a link.  That stuff approaches my cognitive limit, so it will be an interesting, not to say traumatic, exercise.

I changed my mind.

Take your coolness unto death attitude and fuck right off.

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: Weekly Science Headlines

« on: September 13, 2019, 02:37:38 pm »

Feel free to post some red meat math.

Impress the shit out of me.

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: The Tech Forum

« on: September 13, 2019, 02:30:45 pm »

True, the power generation is not impressive. But, I do find the technology interesting.

This article caught my eye because I remember well the big industrial search, of years ago, for energy to be harvested from waste heat.

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: Weekly Science Headlines

« on: September 13, 2019, 01:56:45 pm »

Deep Thought Might Be Right

Two Mathematicians Just Solved a Decades-Old Math Riddle — and Possibly the Meaning of Life

As per the article:

“In Douglas Adams' sci-fi series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," a pair of programmers task the galaxy's largest supercomputer with answering the ultimate question of the meaning of life, the universe and everything. After 7.5 million years of processing, the computer reaches an answer: 42. Only then do the programmers realize that nobody knew the question the program was meant to answer.

Now, in this week's most satisfying example of life reflecting art, a pair of mathematicians have used a global network of 500,000 computers to solve a centuries-old math puzzle that just happens to involve that most crucial number: 42.

The question, which goes back to at least 1955 and may have been pondered by Greek thinkers as early as the third century AD, asks, "How can you express every number between 1 and 100 as the sum of three cubes?" Or, put algebraically, how do you solve x^3 + y^3 + z^3 = k, where k equals any whole number from 1 to 100?

This deceptively simple stumper is known as a Diophantine equation, named for the ancient mathematician Diophantus of Alexandria, who proposed a similar set of problems about 1,800 years ago. Modern mathematicians who revisited the puzzle in the 1950s quickly found solutions when k equals many of the smaller numbers, but a few particularly stubborn integers soon emerged. The two trickiest numbers, which still had outstanding solutions by the beginning of 2019, were 33 and — you guessed it — 42.”

Here's the link: https://www.livescience.com/diophantine-42-solved-meaning-of-life.html

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: The Tech Forum

« on: September 13, 2019, 08:05:55 am »

A Cool New Thermoelectric Generator Has Been Developed

Device generates light from the cold night sky

As per the article:

'An inexpensive thermoelectric device harnesses the cold of space without active heat input, generating electricity that powers an LED at night, researchers report September 12 in the journal Joule.

"Remarkably, the device is able to generate electricity at night, when solar cells don't work," says lead author Aaswath Raman (@aaraman), an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. "Beyond lighting, we believe this could be a broadly enabling approach to power generation suitable for remote locations, and anywhere where power generation at night is needed."'

Here's a link: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/cp-dgl090519.php

Diehard technology fans can access the original paper here: https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(19)30412-X

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High Weirdness / Not Quite Instant Karma

« on: August 28, 2019, 01:02:10 am »

Thief's car stolen while he robbed store across the street

As per the article:

“A man in Washington who called police to report that his car had been stolen wound up behind bars himself when police discovered he had allegedly been robbing a store across the street when his vehicle was taken.”

Here's a link: https://abcnews.go.com/US/mans-car-stolen-robbed-store-street/story?id=65213007&cid=clicksource_4380645_null_card_hed

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Good Night, Funnyman

« on: August 25, 2019, 01:05:59 am »

Ron Perlman gives his condolences to the Kochs

Here's the link: https://twitter.com/perlmutations/status/1164916244270612480

I love it!

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Good Night, Funnyman

« on: August 24, 2019, 12:58:20 am »

There are few death notices I can see first thing in the morning that make me say "GOOD."

We could use a couple more of those.

“Good,” was my exact response this morning as well.

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High Weirdness / Re: NRA Chief Wanted Security of Gated Community after Parkland HS Mass Shooting

« on: August 13, 2019, 11:47:42 pm »

Well, being a member of the persecuted and vulnerable white minorities of the country, it's only reasonable.

In this climate where white men are being constantly targeted and bashed by the jewish sponsored media, their churches bombed, their jobs taken away, Wall Street being shot up by liberals every week... you too would be scared.

But … but, he told me all of the guns I bought, and carry, and take to bed with me at night, would keep me safe.

If you can’t have a beltfed heavy machinegun, an autocannon, and an automatic grenade launcher, you can’t be safe.

All of that stuff is kind of heavy to lug around.

I'm thinking about upgrading to Claymores mounted on all of the doors and windows, and a nice, little flamethrower for personal protection. After all, I do love the smell of Napalm in the morning.

Anyone interested can buy their flamethrower of choice right here: https://throwflame.com/

They even have one that can be drone mounted. Is this a great fucking country, or what?!

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High Weirdness / Re: NRA Chief Wanted Security of Gated Community after Parkland HS Mass Shooting

« on: August 13, 2019, 09:25:02 pm »

Well, being a member of the persecuted and vulnerable white minorities of the country, it's only reasonable.

In this climate where white men are being constantly targeted and bashed by the jewish sponsored media, their churches bombed, their jobs taken away, Wall Street being shot up by liberals every week... you too would be scared.

But … but, he told me all of the guns I bought, and carry, and take to bed with me at night, would keep me safe.

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High Weirdness / Re: NRA Chief Wanted Security of Gated Community after Parkland HS Mass Shooting

« on: August 13, 2019, 01:14:03 pm »

He just needs a Safe Space

So, a Safe Space with its own courtyard, a marble fireplace, a golf cart, a larger closet, and two cars.

Yeah, sounds legit.

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High Weirdness / NRA Chief Wanted Security of Gated Community after Parkland HS Mass Shooting

« on: August 13, 2019, 06:03:29 am »

Report: NRA Chief Wayne LaPierre Tried to Have the Nonprofit Buy Him a $6 Million Mansion After Parkland Shooting

As per the article:

“... LaPierre told the NRA that he needed to live in a more secure place after the shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead. The house they landed on was a 10,000-square-foot estate with its own courtyard and a marble fireplace. LaPierre and his wife toured the property, and they later negotiated furnishings, asked to keep the previous owner’s golf cart, and even complained in an email about the size of one of the closets. LaPierre also tried to get the NRA to purchase two cars for him, according to the Post.”

Here's the link: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/nra-chief-wayne-lapierre-mansion-deal.html

I thought Wayne LaPierre was the Grand Poobah of “Good Guys with a Gun.” Surely, he of all people, knows how to lock and load. Doesn't he own, at least, one AR-15, or AK-47, and a closet full of 9mms? Surely he owns, at least, one M1911 .45 caliber in good working order. And, doesn't he have Concealed Carry Permits from just about every jurisdiction in the country?

I'm sorry, but I just don't understand what is going on here. I mean, it can't possibly be true that Mr. Wayne LaPierre, the Chief Executive and Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association, is really just another loudmouthed, fucking pussy who doesn't know how to protect himself, can it?