Craig Sawyers Posted April 27, 2023 Report Share Posted April 27, 2023 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Sawyers Posted April 27, 2023 Report Share Posted April 27, 2023 And this is the story of Abraham Wald and survivorship bias https://medium.com/@penguinpress/an-excerpt-from-how-not-to-be-wrong-by-jordan-ellenberg-664e708cfc3d 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted April 29, 2023 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2023 Someone on the MV FB group I'm in got their account hacked and posted this obvious scam: So I posted my own version: 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Sawyers Posted April 30, 2023 Report Share Posted April 30, 2023 Alternatively alas in Texas https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65437185 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktm Posted April 30, 2023 Report Share Posted April 30, 2023 3 hours ago, Craig Sawyers said: Alternatively alas in Texas https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65437185 Here in SW Tennessee the metro Memphis area is a real Shooting gallery. Youngsters stealing cars are common. And they use those cars in robberies and drive by shootings. Morning newscasts are depressing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted April 30, 2023 Report Share Posted April 30, 2023 Now this is how you introduce changes! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Sawyers Posted May 2, 2023 Report Share Posted May 2, 2023 And we cheerfully eat these clearly sentient creatures? Discuss. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted May 3, 2023 Report Share Posted May 3, 2023 😄at Otto's actions, not at your commentary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Sawyers Posted May 3, 2023 Report Share Posted May 3, 2023 That octopus did not just do it once. Each morning there was an aquarium power outage and the 2,000W spot was blown. After a number of days, they staked out the tank at night and caught Otto blowing the lamp with a squirt of water. He also juggled with hermit crabs and rearranged his tank to suit his taste. A very strange lifeform with a distributed brain - 2/3 of which are in the arms. It has as many neurons as a dog. Hence the creature's smartness. I really don't have a problem with beef, pork, lamb or chicken. It is my view that these animals have done very well in terms of population by the fact we eat them. But I'm now unhappy about eating octopus, delicious though it may be - in raw intelligence it is similar to eating a dog. Deliciousness was the reason the dodo became extinct. The flightless and friendly bird was just too darned superb to eat. So sailors just ate all of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skullguise Posted May 4, 2023 Report Share Posted May 4, 2023 I just spent some time perusing a FB page for funny album covers, https://www.facebook.com/groups/1663551487049479 Some examples (one apparently produced by Brent): 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swt61 Posted May 4, 2023 Report Share Posted May 4, 2023 Why are they picking on Sonny James? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted May 4, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2023 Adam Yauch died 11 years ago today. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted May 6, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2023 Quote "Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!" 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted May 6, 2023 Report Share Posted May 6, 2023 (edited) Help!, Help! I'm being repressed. Come see the violence inheritance system! In 4K HDR? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq-VBIKNTUQ Indeed Edited May 6, 2023 by Grahame 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted May 7, 2023 Report Share Posted May 7, 2023 (edited) 11 hours ago, Knuckledragger said: Yeah, but can you trend on twitter? "Penny Mordaunt first woman to present sword to King" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-65508574 https://www.indy100.com/viral/penny-mordaunt-coronation-sword-memes https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/06/sword-wielding-penny-mordaunt-and-princess-annes-panto-hat-become-twitters-coronation-stars Edited May 7, 2023 by Grahame Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Sawyers Posted May 7, 2023 Report Share Posted May 7, 2023 (edited) You have no idea what we have had to put up with in the UK on this. It has been pretty much saturation on radio and TV for a good week before the coronation. By the way, there is a war raging in Ukraine and Sudan - 10 seconds - but what about the coronation chaps! BBC1, BBC2 and ITV showed it simultaneously, and if you missed a bit it was available on +1 and on streamed catch up. My daughter and her husband watched it in Australia, but they didn't get a week of preamble, so they were less jaded by the whole thing. Turned on in the evening, and a bit like football pundits there was a post coronation analysis running. Edited May 7, 2023 by Craig Sawyers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted May 7, 2023 Report Share Posted May 7, 2023 16 hours ago, Grahame said: Help!, Help! I'm being repressed. Come see the violence inheritance system! In 4K HDR? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq-VBIKNTUQ Indeed I thought it was "...inherent in the system..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted May 7, 2023 Report Share Posted May 7, 2023 2 hours ago, Dusty Chalk said: I thought it was "...inherent in the system..." Blame googles speech to text. Or an hereditary monarchy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted May 7, 2023 Report Share Posted May 7, 2023 9 hours ago, Craig Sawyers said: You have no idea what we have had to put up with in the UK on this. Well, we did get an inkling of the something like three years of news coverage on the queen passing. But things are a little different in America where we all rule… 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted May 8, 2023 Report Share Posted May 8, 2023 They celebrated even in Normandy, which has a rather complicated history with England. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiWire Posted May 8, 2023 Report Share Posted May 8, 2023 (edited) Thought this would be appropriate, since it's been 70 years... curtana (kɜːˈtɑːnə) in British English noun: the unpointed sword carried before an English sovereign at a coronation as an emblem of mercy from Anglo-Latin, from Old French cortain, the name of Roland's sword, which was broken at the point, ultimately from Latin curtus (short) To Microsoft: Hey, curtana... Edited May 8, 2023 by HiWire 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted May 8, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2023 This sketch aired 30 years ago today. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted May 10, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2023 (!) Look who's back: It's like 2007 all over again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skullguise Posted May 12, 2023 Report Share Posted May 12, 2023 One of several "animal" martial arts scenes....this is awesome! "ancient yodel of wisdom, peace, and justice..." 🤣 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted May 12, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2023 This is a photo of a group of boomers in a record store, taken in 1973. I have no idea what is the album that the woman in the middle is holding. I've asked several people and gotten either "I don't know" or wrong answers (CCR's Mardi Gras, which game out in '72 but didn't look like that.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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