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Not penises. We should disenfranchise 'dicks'. Every once in a while I hear the 'Democracy would be improve if" argument. Along with old people I've heard that ;ow IQ ,and uneducated ( general or of the issues ) people shouldn't vote, immigrants ( although they pay taxes ) shouldn't vote, visible minorities shouldn't vote, women shouldn't vote, etc. Essentially anyone who has a difference of opinion to the person making the argument should not get a vote. For me, the best Democracy is one where I'm the only voter. Oh wait ... that's not Democracy; it's a dictatoeship !

Although the 'photon' concept arose From A Einstein's paper on the Photoelectric Effect, my favorite Physics Channel just presented a 'deeper dive' Does that mean no political videos can be discussed 🙂 ,

I won't copy the charts; just the headings ... "Harris Lost the Most Ground Relative to Biden Among the Youngest Men, Followed by the Youngest Women" "Younger Men and Women Most Disapproved of Biden's Job Performance and Handling of the Economy" "Younger Men Both Were More Favorable to Trump and Approved of the Job He Did as President" IOW, it was the changes from 2020 that handed D Trump the Presidency in 2024. X-posted with @TheVat

Not quite. V Putin has his balls in the Kremlin. But it was either attack Iran and alienate his base along with the opposition. Or alienate everybody with further J Epstein revelations. ( where are the FBI interviews with the 14 year old girl D Trump beat up because she bit his penis when he forced her to perform oral sex ? )

However, if you look at demographic polling data, you'll notice that younger people got us into the current mess 2024 Post-Election Survey: Gender and Age Analysis of 2024 Election Results

External regime changes never work. We, in the Western World are used to internal regime changes, where most countries in Europe and North America shed a lot of blood and lost many young lives, to get rid of their monarchies and establish democracies. Europe in the last century lost millions of lives and remembers their sacrifices. The US, 250 years ago, followed by a bloody Civil War 100 years later, gives the impression that they may be starting to forget how many lives were lost to establish their democracy, and are enabling bad actors in destroying it. If a people is not invested, with sacrifice and blood, in regime change because an external actor has forced it, they will descend right back into despotic, authoritarian governance. Not that I'm sorry the Ayatollah is gone, but unless the US has a 'plan', I fully expect a military or 'strong man' dictatorship, or the equivalent of the Islamic State, to arise in Iran. That's the point we're at; Trump, Hegseth, Bondi, Miller, Noem, Patel, Lutnick, Bessent, Gabbard, et al, couldn't come up with a 'plan' if their lives depended on it. The world has become way more dangerous in 1 year.

Well SNAP!, then. Er, or something. The following summer was the summer of Lou Reed Walk on the Wild Side and Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, heard through open windows everywhere.🙂 I was still in Gr 8 in 72-73. However the following year ( Gr 9 in 73-74 ) the Canadian band Rush, played in our school gymnasium. If you knew what I looked like back then, you could find me in the audience near the beginning of their documentary 'Beyond the Lighted Stage'. Didn't get to Uni until 5 years later, old timers 😄 .

I'm not sure if it's still a 'thing', but back when I was in school, the metric system had two dedicated systems of measuring units for science. The CGS ( centimeter-gram-second ) system, and the MKS ( meter-kilogram-second ) system. They are interchangeable, and fully consistent. The important thing to keep in mind is that Energy has units of ( Mass x Distance2 / Time2 ).

yeah, tell it to RFK Jr 😄 .

10 minutes is easy; plenty of time to whip up something. Even 2 min is kind of easy. How about less than a min, or 30 sec. Am I the only one who keeps a large jar of peanut butter in the fridge, and when feeling peckish, will indulge in a couple of spoonfuls ?

Although I take these studies with a 'grain of salt', as it may just be a correlation, and not a causation ( people who take the vaccine generally take better care of themselves in many other ways ), I decided not to take any chances, and got my Shingles vaccination this past summer. Also, I have known people who have gotten Shingles later on in life; the condition is quite painful and can last for years.

New on Veritasium, the couple of year old story of how a foreign actor ( or possibly state sponsored actors ) nearly compromised the secure shell ( SSH ) of 'open source' Linux systems by exploiting the weakness of the XZ compression tool dependency. ( maybe @Sensei can comment further on the excellent video ) I myself did nor know that open source Linux was the system of choice for the large majority of the world's institutions (although my Samsung phone has been telling me that for about ten years now ). Funny how 'open source' systems like ARM microprocessor implementations, and Linux distributions have essentially 'eaten the lunch' of established ( proprietary ) actors like Intel, Microsoft and Apple.

yeah, not together; either oatmeal with raisins, OR, baked beans. They 'stick to your ribs' and warm you up, in cold Canadian winters. When I have time, I'll make a batch of 'pasta fagioli' with panchetta and freeze it for later consumption. I only use bacon on my tomato sandwich on 'special occasions' ( ie when I have the time ). It is mostly the tomato/mayonnaise combination, especially using ripe, red, plum tomatoes, picked from the garden. That is the 'taste of summer' for me.

In the winter, oatmeal with a handful of raisins, or a heated can of baked beans ( not too often; I like them but they give me gas ). In the summer, toasted tomato sandwich with processed cheese and mayo ( no bacon as that would take longer than 2 min ).

The irony is that 'manual' laborious jobs cannot be replaced by AI, while information processing jobs are already being replaced by relatively 'primitive' AI. A lot of young people have been lied to.

If you mean English as spoken in certain parts of Britain, I don't think I can understand it now !

You may be right, but I'm hoping he gets scared enough to start naming names, and some other people, who also seem to want to hide their past offences using their personal Department of Justice, are dragged into the spotlight.

I'm not a Luddite; I was building 8 bit computers in 1979, programming Z80 assembly, faithfully reading BYTE magazine ( and Steve Ciarcia;s hardware column ) along with Microprocessor Report in the University library, and waiting for the micro-computer revolution which came 15 years later. I do think that AI has its uses, as others have outlined. I don't think it's the panacea that a large number of people think can substitute for independent thought. The 'group-think' of LLMs is no substitute; think for yourself, before someone, or something ( AI ), does your thinking for you.

our health is being sacrificed on the altar of profits for billionaires.

I have heard of cases where young kids fall through the ice of frozen lakes, and are pulled out as long as 15 min later, that have survived ( this is cold Canada; it happens more often than you'd think ). This probably has to do with the 'malleability' of young brains, and the effects of the cold temperatures. But I wouldn't say they were conscious during those submerged 15 min.

I heard about this incident this morning ( but happened a few months ago ). In the US, Baltimore to be exact, they have a program to combat gun violence. This program makes use of AI to 'detect' students who may be armed, and notifies Police. As many as 8 police cruisers showed up, all with weapons drawn,, threw a 16 year old kid to the ground and handcuffed him before realizing he was actually carrying a bag of Doritos ( corn chips ). Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US AI seems to be the new 'lazy' way to get 'easy' results/solutions to problems. I hope the kid's family sues the sh*t out of the police, the school, and the board of Education, or the City, that allowed such a project. What is this world coming to ...

Today I learned that the fake snow, used on the set of 'The Wizard Of Oz' was actually fluffy Asbestos fibers. Veritasium just dropped another video on the history, use, dangers, and attempts to regulate the use of Asbestos. These are my favorite kinds of videos produced by Veritasium. Turns out the spray-on insulation protecting the steel structure of the World Trade Center buildings was impregnated with Asbestos, which was then pulverized in those huge dust clouds, as the buildings came down. To this date, more than twice as many people have died from 'asbestosis' ( pulmonary fibrosis related to Asbestos exposure ) and related cancers, than in the original event, from simply breathing the resulting dust.

Standard First Aid training teaches that the brain can survive ( in various states ) up to 4 minutes without oxygenated blood flow. Any longer, without re-setting the heart with a defibrillator, or manually pumping with CPR, is usually useless.

For a deeper dive into how the probability of a state depends on the number of allowed microstates, see the first part of this video. The rest of it goes on to describe how the 'arrow of time' emerges, from an estimation of the early universe's entropy, compared to the possible maximal entropy.

A very useful mathematical tool. ( as are all other theories which portend to describe the workings of 'reality' ) What is the matter with the SFn servers lately ? They are extremely slow to respond and sign in. And just now, caused a doubled post.