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I find it very refreshing that the world is finally starting to make sense again.

Tariffs on islands full of penguins, and desultory shootings in the street by SS-wannabees that don't even have proper uniforms, I can't work with.

But starting a war in the middle-east is simple to understand.  The penguins do not publicize their third-quarter results, but anyone can read about the Dardanelles campaign, and see how it went.  Now all the boats are stuck, markets and the price of oil are fluctuating wildly, and the goats are at last flying home to roost.

The feedback loop of causality has closed once more, and it's just so damn fun to see actions having consequences that would have been immediately obvious to anyone who read the least bit of history.

Trump was actually told what would happen.  But Hegseth said "nu uh" and Trump chose to believe him.

I guess he figured if he shouted enough, the IRGC would quit.

Rule #2:  "Documenting things will not actually establish accountability.  The only way to establish accountability is skullduggery."

The US has strategic interests in keeping the middle east destabilised and not too friendly, Israel is incredibly useful for that goal.

We had strategic interests in that until 1991.  Since then, it's just habit.

thank you for the welcome.

fair, it was low poly.

i wanted to let the art speak for itself.
but I can also speak for myself.

why this forum?
I like the look at things from different angles,
and tend to like the weird view if you'd ask others.

I like creation 'stuff'. most of it is music, but with the internet, visuals became a have-to add. my mentors are anton, aquino, carrol and L ron and the like. I don't think I have questions, although seem to be on a quest to find new things. where better to look for new things than on the forum of creativity itself?

Great.  Fuck off with it.

The fuck is this shit

This is PD now.

Extinct with an entire fossilized record intact. Very impressive stuff, old man.

We are, after all, professionals.

Sadly, we're extinct.   

Well, you're a sight for sore eyes.

[helllloooo i'm emily!!i'm a woman and i'm 30 years old and i live in new york.some important things about me are that i love disneyand tate mcrae and discord and podcasts and mitt romneyand i'm a republican LOL and i love shopping and the colourpink and thats allllll bye c:also one of the default colours should be magenta.. that would bea lot more useful for me thanks <333inb4 harvey freaks out and never logs in again because he thinks im stalking him l o l]

helllloooo i'm emily!!
i'm a woman and i'm 30 years old and i live in new york.
some important things about me are that i love disney
and tate mcrae and discord and podcasts and mitt romney
and i'm a republican LOL and i love shopping and the colour
pink and thats allllll bye c:

also one of the default colours should be magenta.. that would be
a lot more useful for me thanks <333

inb4 harvey freaks out and never logs in again because he thinks im stalking him l o l

Welcome aboard!

Sadly, we're extinct.   

Bump for stealing my own stuff.   

Next bad science project Dave and I have been handed is data infrastructure collapse.  At what point does miniaturization of electronics - combined with traffic - overload the error-correcting firmware that prevents random bit-flipping (by background radiation, etc)?

We are of course not expected to answer this myself.  We're supposed to nominate a team of experts that will answer it.

So I told them to get one electronic engineer and a couple of epidemiologists.  This was questioned, but it's a propagation problem, and epidemiologists are the correct type of mathematician for this, I think.

Dave is panicking because he's an environmental engineer and this isn't about water.  But I'm starting to believe that problem solving isn't based on any one discipline, but instead on finding the right discipline for the job and then, unreasonably, letting them do their work.  What he isn't seeing is that this isn't about he and I answering problems, but instead getting the answers and then distributing them.

Plus maybe we help some grad students with their advanced degrees and also with the whole starving to death thing.

I think this was the greatest learning moment of my career.

8 years later.   

Bump to listen to this later tonight

Mouse #126 bleeds out.  At -20 C, the blood freezes almost instantly, preserving the colour.  It leaves a bright red stain on the concrete.

The mice of winter have long, thick fur.  This one has frozen solid, and snaps in two as I work it free from the trap.  I try not to look at the remains.  I toss the pieces into the back alley, an offering to the neighbourhood corvids...or whatever else might happen along.

Mice aren't people and don't have rights.

On that note, have you ever read Catch 22?  Now there's an author that knew how to deal with rodents.

So, this thread has gone from the U.S. of A. no longer invading Greenland, to the U.S. of A. possibly invading Canada. And, this thread isn't even located on the High Weirdness Sub-board.

Well ... pardon the interruption. I'm off to the supermarket for more popcorn. Carry on.

Back in the day on PD, we had a saying about thread drift.

Did that saying end with "Mission Accomplished."?

No, it ended with "happens".

Because by that point, any continuing conversation was better than the usual alternative.

So, this thread has gone from the U.S. of A. no longer invading Greenland, to the U.S. of A. possibly invading Canada. And, this thread isn't even located on the High Weirdness Sub-board.

Well ... pardon the interruption. I'm off to the supermarket for more popcorn. Carry on.

Back in the day on PD, we had a saying about thread drift.