Pierce Nichols
@nocleverhandle.bsky.social
To understand computers, you must first understand Borges.
Summoning Ba'al and a Beef Wellington are really the same thing, right?
I want to be a fly on the wall for those conversations... I'm sure I'd learn many new-to-me obscenities.
LOL, I never connected that Ball Aerospace and the Ball that makes canning jars were the same company (or at least they were -- BAe bought Ball Aerospace last year).
The back half of this century will belong to whatever country or countries are best at attracting and integrating immigrants. The US has an absolutely *MASSIVE* head start here... one that the fucking MAGAts seem utterly dedicated to getting rid of.
When I was telling the story at a party, a friend of a friend dropped the absolutely best response to this sort of nonsense:
"I was born AT night, not LAST night."
Someone tried that last scam on me with a whole-ass car a couple of years back.
As it is in most places in the US. But Louisiana is... special.
In Louisiana, it's the here, hold this rule. Everyone but the driver can have an open container.
You can buy the electronics in a can, more or less, but integration with all the other bits isn't entirely trivial.
Dave Sim has a hammer lock on the title of most divorced man alive. That muskrat doesn't even come close.
I'm not sure that's direct evidence of a forced birth position so much as a completely *UNHINGED* take on parenthood. I know way too many people dive into parenthood with the notion that their kids are tiny little clones who will love them unconditionally and forever, but it's still inhinged.
I'm in commercial aviation (on the design/construction side, not the operator side)... and that's why I included the Trump Shuttle. He didn't just not understand the operations -- he didn't understand the customers either.
So he doesn't even understand how his own organization runs? That tracks... (see his casinos and the Trump Shuttle for more examples)
How is condemnation of kidnapping justification of genocide?
Oh, all likely true. However, one note -- ACA regulates private insurance in the US.
I said... precisely none of that. You're arguing with the voices in your head, not me.
Kidnappers treat their victims as things rather than people; it's inherent to the crime itself.
No -- I'm arguing that Israel has a right to rescue hostages by force. And I am arguing that it's entirely acceptable to kill kidnappers in the process of rescuing their victims. Neither denies the dignity of any person... but kidnapping, OTOH, certainly does deny human dignity.
So you think it's acceptable to kidnap civilians, as long as they're the 'right' civilians?
This is super easy to understand -- if you help kidnappers keep control over their victims, you are a co-perpetrator of that kidnapping. None of what you have said changes that basic fact.
That's not even remotely the same thing, and it's vile of you to suggest it. People helping Hamas hold hostages are co-conspirators in a kidnapping plot.
A truly excellent and extensive roundup of all of the evidence that COVID-19 originated in a wet market as a result of the wildlife trade.
When dealing with pseudoscience, the devil is in the detail - in this case, narrowing down a specific "Lab Leak" hypothesis.
In Dr. Chan's @nytimes.com OpEd there is, however, a very specific hypothesis for COVID-19 origin.
It's a prime example of conspiracism vs empiricism, so let's dive in.
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Shitting in a box beats the stuffing out of an anal probe.
You can say the same about any conscripted soldier, but it's not relevant -- they're still soldiers and legitimate military targets.
TIL about Rotman Lenses... which are both beautifully simple and completely unhinged. www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedia...
You can damage your kidneys by habitually failing to urinate when you have the urge, and that can kill you. But it's a slow process.
Whelp, that's another thing to add to my "incomprehensibly weird shit I will do if I win the lottery".
Speaking of gongs, if I had ‘what am I gonna do with all this money’ money, I’d have a gong room. Just go in there and make weird sounds, burn some incense or whatever. Just listen to these things, what the fuck.
Paiste - 80" Symphonic Gong played by Paiste Gong Master Sven
Paiste - 80" Symphonic Gong played by Paiste Gong Master Sven.Paiste Gongs available from Wind Chimes Australia @ http://www.windchimesaustralia.com.au/paist...
www.youtube.comThe US/NATO way of war is to remove the opponent's air defenses, use air power to remove the enemy leadership's ability to command and supply their troops... and then send in ground forces to mop up the unled and unfed survivors.
I learned about him earlier this year when @funranium.bsky.social posted about him. Fucking *WILD* shit.
We can point pretty directly to the problem -- the response rate to polls is now so low that there's no way to claim with a straight face that the responses are a representative random sample of the population at large. And you can't fix that with math.
TIL that the US has a national cricket team.
USA beats Pakistan in cricket world cup group match. I repeatedly checked whether this was a prank before posting it. www.skysports.com/cricket/news...
T20 World Cup: USA beat Pakistan in historic triumph after thrilling Super Over win
Co-hosts USA deliver a legendary cricketing upset with Super Over win over 2022 finalists Pakistan after both sides finished match tied on 159; watch all of the T20 World Cup on Sky Sports, including ...
www.skysports.comIf you don't know who the people on the other side of the transaction are, then you're probably supporting their local sex workers and drug dealers rather than your target cause.
Investing in a startup where you don't know the principals isn't anarcho-capitalist... it's just fucking dumb.
Aside from the fash angle, how completely cooked do you have to be in order to invest in a startup where you don't know the identity of the principals???
I first heard about that in what amounted to a 1929 version of Kid's Whole Future Catalog I got from my dad. Even eight year old me found that a little hair raising.
I don't honestly know... but Null is such a vile creep and terminal scoff law it's not like they're not going to find reams and reams of evidence of criminal behavior.