There you go. Guess I need more coffee

Son of Ryan Routh (man arrested for suspected golf club attack on Trump) arrested for possible possession of child pornography

I’ll admit it’s hard to find a way to phrase it that’s clear. Unless you remove the bit about Trump.

He just posted a letter he got. They actually seemed to take the issue seriously including removal and an offer of compensation for any losses.

That’s a refreshing change

Very cool. And gives me some ideas for Halloween costume lighting

It’s a link to Amazon digital product. Specifically Rick Astley “The Best Of Me” album with Never Gonna Give You Up.

The “description” of the product doesn’t matter as long as the product code is the same.

https://www.amazon.com/Whatever-You-Want-Here/dp/B07X66DCLM

A trick I saw used a couple times on Reddit a few years back

It was a webcomic that took itself too seriously and it was so panned that the mockery of it reverberates even today.

May not be for everybody but it was definitely something to experience at the time. Sometimes the internet has these weird flashes of communal focus (which can be both good and bad) but either way these allusions are all of us nudging each others side with our elbow and winking at the same inside joke when we see it.

It’s not funny on its own. It’s funny because it’s an inside joke we all share.

The community mockery and allusion to the original is what makes the entire phenomenon.

Kind of like this pop up book on Amazon is a “isthisloss” in 3d.

https://www.amazon.com/Is-This-Art---4-Panel-Popup/dp/B07X66DCLM

It’s clever because it’s unexpected even if we all know what it is

Oh no. They published Outer Wilds, Stray and alot of other great titles.

It’s sad to see this happen to another publisher and I worry about what happens to such great IP’s going forward.

You’ll love Milo Rossi’s MiniMinuteman

Here’s his series on Hancock’s last “special”

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXtMIzD-Y-bMHRoGKM7yD2phvUV59_Cvb

And the shorts are a good quick “riled up session” about some of the stupid things people “postulate” online

It’s damaging because it adds doubt to any kind of scientific consensus.

“They” don’t want you to know that vaccines are dangerous.

“They” are only pushing chemo for big pharma.

“They” don’t want to admit that this was where ancient civilizations had some global empire.

It’s the same kind of attitude of “fantastical claim you can believe if you just dismiss all the evidence that you don’t like”

And that is very damaging because it further erodes understanding of the scientific method.

What is my greatest weakness?

I’m aware of my own gaps in knowledge. I have a PHD but the more I ponder on what I learned and the program I was involved in the more I realize what I don’t know.

My greatest strength?

My willingness to not give too much weight to what I know and focus on what I don’t know.

I did both… never could settle on one or the other.

But finding areas suited to intermediate components (such as oil to plastics, fuel byproducts, etc in one area) then using trains to send them to be used in more complicated factories was fun.

So extraction to intermediate for some things across the map and then all those shipped to a mega factory for larger and final products could be a compromise

I prefer the lead singers solo work on his Clotting Heirs album myself

I know it’s not the point of the article but seeing a person in a trench/ditch with no reinforcement and no slope makes me so nervous.

That’s a bad way to go if it collapses.

https://www.osha.gov/trenching-excavation

The more I look at it the more it may not be quite 5 feet requiring it. Here’s hoping so.

The Chaser by John Collier… that ending … still gives me chills

Tnut should do the trick. If not you could use the same bolt all the way through for the tensioner but that might be a pain to line up right.

I think you misunderstand.

Here’s an example. It has the math but doesn’t require that you “know” how to work the formulas or equations.

Because he’s doesn’t require that you know the math. He shows it, explains it, and visualizes the concept.

Quantum Mechanics 1b - Birth of the Quantum II

I can’t remember which video it was but in one he explains about how Einstein was shown that the Heisenberg uncertainty principle was related to relativity in a series of letters. At which point Einstein conceded the point.

All this was done showing the equation… and then shifting the pieces around and explaining what they were. Until at the end what was left… was e=mc^2.

Edit: It was this video but I misremembered. It uses Einsteins equations to prove the uncertainty principle

Quantum Mechanics 3b - Probability and Uncertainty II

My point isn’t that the math isn’t there. It’s just that you’re not dropped into a video with here’s a formula… solve it and you’ll see why XYZ is true. The equations themselves are explained, visualized, etc.

If there’s a concept such as bell curves he shows that without requiring you do the numbers by showing how random motion will lead to certain probabilities over others.

Check this out

Quantum Mechanics 1a - Birth of the Quantum I

And then compare to this next episode in the series

Quantum Mechanics 1b - Birth of the Quantum II

And this later one. Where he gets more and more into the mathematics. But you’re not just thrown into the deepend at the start

Quantum Mechanics 5a - Schrödinger Equation I

It’s not at all. I’m saying it was good then and it is now.

It’s gotten heavier and more technical but that’s because as it goes on you learn and it gets deeper. And yet they still find a way to make it accessible even though they’re obviously still only scratching the surface.

As a counter point via science is really good but tries to avoid the deep math as much as possible while explaining the concepts behind it. All the while it’s been pure science and less of the popular topic as a way to introduce the science.

Line go up. That’s all the matters. Every quarter it must go up.

If we have to gut the “machinery” that will make us money tomorrow in order to make it go up today then that’s what we do.