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“The leader of Russia going around actually going to where the work he ordered was being done, and inspecting how well the job was being done.”
How often do we see US presidents listening instead of doing all the talking? I read that JFK used to pick his child up from school and ask the mothers there what they thought about his policies. Those days are long gone.
Taken yesterday.
From Melissareinlively
Look at that suppressed smile. The perks of being famous.If there is a violent reaction to vaxx injuries it will likely be by the vaxxed and their relatives but will probably blamed on the unvaxxed.
According to ChatGPT the answer is ? = -1
Q: f(9) = 90, f(8) = 72, f(7) = 56, f(6) = 42. What is f(3)?
A: If we assume that f is a polynomial function of degree 3 (i.e., a cubic function), we can use the given values to find the coefficients of the function and then use that function to determine f(3).
We can start by assuming that the cubic function has the form:
f(x) = ax^3 + bx^2 + cx + d
where a, b, c, and d are constants that we need to determine.
Using the given values, we can set up a system of four equations with four unknowns:
f(9) = 90 -> 729a + 81b + 9c + d = 90
f(8) = 72 -> 512a + 64b + 8c + d = 72
f(7) = 56 -> 343a + 49b + 7c + d = 56
f(6) = 42 -> 216a + 36b + 6c + d = 42We can solve this system of equations using a variety of methods, such as elimination or substitution. One possible way is to use matrix algebra:
|729 81 9 1| |a| |90|
|512 64 8 1| |b| = |72|
|343 49 7 1| |c| |56|
|216 36 6 1| |d| |42|We can solve this system by inverting the matrix on the left and multiplying it by the column vector on the right:
|a| |729 81 9 1|-1 |90|
|b| = |512 64 8 1| |72|
|c| |343 49 7 1| |56|
|d| |216 36 6 1| |42|Using a calculator or computer program, we can find that the solution is:
a = -1/9, b = 7/3, c = -11, d = 190
Therefore, the cubic function that passes through the given points is:
f(x) = (-1/9)x^3 + (7/3)x^2 – 11x + 190
Finally, we can evaluate this function at x = 3 to find f(3):
f(3) = (-1/9)(3)^3 + (7/3)(3)^2 – 11(3) + 190 = -1
Therefore, if f is a cubic function with the given values, then f(3) = -1.
Pattern matching, shmatter patching.
Harrison Bergeron
“THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal.”
Vonnegut was a prophet.@AFKTT
I very much agree with jsnyder. I don’t care how many times you repeat your airstrip cipher. I don’t want to memorize it or keep a note card nearby that tells me which airstrip is the US, which is NZ and which is Mos Eisley. You may have interesting things to say but my solution is just to skip all your comments.
We don’t watch TV at home but are in a hotel and turned it on. Pfizer has a commercial where 4 celebrities talk about their increased risk of Covid 19 because of their comorbidities (asthma, diabetes, being overweight and depression … the depressed celebrity was Michael Phelps). The commercial directs you to the website knowplango.com. It looks like a public service announcement but near the bottom there are a bunch of Pfizer disclaimers and a tiny Pfizer logo. The money line is
“This form can act as a handy checklist if you test positive for COVID-19. Fill it out now and, if you test positive, use it to discuss with your healthcare provider whether a prescription for an authorized COVID-19 oral treatment is right for you.”
They are hoping that of all the many authorized COVID-19 oral treatments out there you will choose Paxlovid. /sarc@aspnax
I bet the number is negative.
The number is the product of the benefit of the vaccine times the risk of dying of Covic, both of which are imaginary, so yeah, it’s negative.
Kevin Bass admits in Newsweek that he was wrong but he leaves out several key factors. One is that it was all about money. He basically says that it was kind of an overzealous but honest mistake. He never mentions the immense profits made by pharma and their control of the government and the media and the corruption of the medical establishment. He also never mentions the early treatments that could have saved many lives but were vilified. IMO he is still in denial.
I don’t know much about climate change but I can do basic math and 480 ppm = 0.048 pph (because 480 / 1000000 * 100 = 0.048). To say it equals 0.00000048 pph is off by a factor of a hundred thousand and is, well, embarrassing.
I do know a little about semiconductor physics and doping silicon at a rate of 1 part per million has a huge effect on semiconductor conductivity. Saying that 480 ppm has no effect on a system because “it’s just so small” is naive. Get a better argument. And stay away from fentanyl.
It has long been understood that, in the event of nuclear war, nukes will be reserved on a delayed timer to automatically nuke any survivors emerging to rebuild. 10 years, 25 years, 50 years, 100 years. Whenever they have calculated is “optimal.”
In the Postman both sides launch orbiting missiles that will nuke anything broadcasting a radio signal for as long as the missiles will stay in orbit.
If its human-built it’s not a coral reef.
Coral reefs are built by corals.Kind of like how beehives are built by bees?
People at work today were talking about Zelensky’s great speech at the golden globes last night.
The first world war claimed millions of lives, the second world war clamped tens
of millions of them. There will be no third world war. It is not a Trilogy. Ukraine will stop the Russian aggression on our land. We will make it together with a whole free world and I hope that
all of you will be with us on the victorious day,the day of our victoryWith no speaker of the House the next in line for President is Patty Murray, President pro tempore of the Senate. This might be a good time for the Democrats to remove Biden and get Harris to resign.
Over at the Unz Review Ron Unz has written an article arguing that the increase in deaths is due to Long Covid and not the vaccine.
I have to believe that the authorities know whether the people dying suddenly had Covid and/or were vaxxed. This data could help us know what is really going on but I doubt we will ever see it. Also he says nothing about autopsies not being done and Unz completely ignores the question of denied early treatment which possibly could have kept people from getting Long Covid at all.
That said, I really appreciate Unz for allowing diverse opinions (not all of which he agrees with) on his site.
There is no such thing as too many people
I side with AFKTT on this one. There is such a thing as carrying capacity. It can be increased using lots of energy but that’s risky business and hard to maintain. Maybe go read the history of Easter Island. Or maybe the story of the Donner party. To call names and hurl insults ain’t gonna change it.
I found this very useful website that extracts the transcripts of Youtube videos, e.g. here is the Gonzalo Lira transcript from today
Very useful if you want to understand a video without watching the whole thing.
Here’s the essence of what Gonzalo is saying today:and so Douglas Murray is of a type a
type of guy in the west that you should
be aware of people like um I don’t know
people like uh mataibi people like Ben
Shapiro people like uh Sam Harris who
pretend to be dissidents of the
narrative in one little very narrow area
but when it comes to war making when it
comes to the serious stuff when it comes
about protecting and looking after the
best interests of the people of the West
there with the narrative with that
Cosmopolitan leadership class because
people like Doug Murray care more about
money and Prestige and being in good
with the right crowd
as opposed to actually helping people@DBS
“Doesn’t Bitcoin (or ANY digital store of value) essentially reside on computers which in turn depend on the continued operation of the World Wide Web of networked computers, which in turn depend upon the continued generation of really BIG quantities of carefully directed flows of electricity?”
You are correct. Bitcoin depends on the continuation of the world wide web. There are features built in to compensate for temporary or partial web outages/disconnections. But if you yourself can’t get on the web and connect with a server that contains the ledger you can’t transact using Bitcoin. There is no Bitcoin without the web.@ram
Rainbow table have to do with encryption. Bitcoin mining is not the same as encryption. It’s a completely different process. I suspect you don’t actually understand how bitcoin mining works.All the “crypto” currencies and their corresponding wallets were based on a false premise … that the product of large primes is “hard” to factor
This is true for the wallets but not for bitcoin mining itself. Bitcoin mining is based on finding a hash for a block of data that has a certain number of leading zeroes. This can only be done by lots of trial and error. In 2018 it took around 3 quadrillion hash attempt to find an acceptable hash for each block and it has gone up from there.
I sometimes read a prepper blog. People often ask what other preppers think about gold and the opinion is almost always that it has no intrinsic value (you can’t eat it) and that it should be avoided. Gold’s allure is that it is rare and pretty. An ounce of gold takes about 3 tons of ore plus a lot of energy to create and in some sense that’s what gold is, condensed environmental damage and energy.
Bitcoin is similar in that it has no intrinsic value (you can’t eat it) but some people find it pretty (or rather, elegant) and it too is more or less condensed environmental damage and energy.
The problem that bitcoin and the block chain purportedly solves is that it is tamper proof. You could theoretically change something in the blockchain ledger from a year ago and recalculate all the hashes since then but this is impossible in practice because of the number of calculations necessary.
A thought experiment: Try to devise a ledger that is tamper proof. For instance you could carve the ledger into the Rock of Gibraltar and have a camera on it at all time so that no once could modify it. One can of course think of several ways this could be hacked. If you could come up with a way to create an unhackable ledger the world would beat a path to your door and you’d be a billionaire. Bitcoin may fail but it is probably the closest thing we have seen to a tamper proof ledger.
Wallets on the other hand are hackable.It’s “toe the line” (or “toeing the line”). It means to obey authority, to follow the rules set forth by others. “Tow the line” would mean to pull something.
Toe the line may mean “obey authority” now (language changes), but it used to mean to get ready to compete. I heard it on the Daniel Boone show in the 1960’s. Two men disagreed (one was Boone I think) and a line was drawn in the dirt and the men were told to “toe the line” where they stood and fought until one could no longer stand at the line and fight which made the other the winner, kind of a trial by combat. Google says it originally meant to move to the starting line of a race which is similar, but I like the Daniel Boone metaphor better.
It’s true that I made your life hell
And locked you for years in a cell
I tortured your wife
And ruined your life
We both made mistakes, now we’re swell@oroboros
I’m not an Obama fan but the clip you showed is fake. Here is the original:
Obama in Michigan
It was one heckler and Obama was a little flustered but the FJB chant was not in the original.More planets than seconds? Somebody’s bad at math. So you’re telling me more than 1 planet was created every second since the universe began, and this doesn’t set off any alarm bells for your theory? Do you even know how large a planet is?
There are about 3X10^7 seconds in a year. If the big ban happened 14 billion years ago that meas about 4X10^17 seconds. If there are 10^11 galaxies each with 10^11 stars that equals 10^22 stars so thousands of planets got created for every second of the universe’s existence.
A 10 year old human has lived for about 3X10^8 seconds and has around 3X10^13 cells in his/her body. That’s thousands of cells created for every second of their life. Also sounds unbelievable but true. The exponential function strikes again.
@DBS
“When did the term “conspiracy theory” enter the lexicon as a common pejorative?”
I’d say around 1940 just as they were trying to convince Americans to get into World War 2.
And a related question:
What is the opposite of Conspiracy Theorist? Authority Credulitst
You can’t have one without the other.Regarding the question around, did we know about stopping immunization before it entered the market? No. These, um, you know, we had to really move at the speed of science to really understand what is taking place in the market.
This statement doesn’t say anything about whether they knew about the vaxx stopping transmission or not but it does contain a couple interesting slips:
1) “did we know about stopping immunization” – The vaccines “stop immunization”, that is, they stop one from getting immunity via natural means. Stunning that she admits this and claims they didn’t know. CYA.
2) “speed of science to understand what is taking place in the market” – Science for them isn’t about understanding what is happening with people’s health, it’s about understanding “the market”, it’s about making money. No surprise here.Science is not “logical;” science is factual.
Science progresses logically but is factually guided. Mathematics however is logic based and not fact based. It’s been “designed” to model “the real world” but there is plenty of math that was invented for it’s own sake and may or may not have real world application. Math doesn’t model the real world exactly but is good enough to get a man to the moon. All models are wrong but some are useful.
Speaking of model the US could have pursued a Nash equilibrium with Russia and China, a state where changing our strategy didn’t benefit us and the same for them. But our fearless leaders thought they could get all the marbles and now an equilibrium will have the US and EU in much poorer position.
Anyway, WWIII has now started.
Maybe WWIII will consist only of sabotage, a passive aggressive war where we destroy each other’s vulnerable infrastructure without admitting what we do.
I have a Russian co-worker who doesn’t like Putin and claims he is pure evil. He still has family in Moscow and claims they are grabbing young men off the street for the army. He is trying to get his nephews to leave the city and spend some time at the family dacha until things blow over.
He believes the referendum in Ukraine is not fair and sent me a link to this video. It says that so far the voting has been on the street and at people’s homes and that voting at a polling station will only be on the last day. It shows someone going door to door with an armed escort. The voting that is shown is anything but private. The video claims that people voting incorrectly are detained. If you watch the video you can get it to auto-translate with English subtitles, such as they are. I thought this might be of interest to people here.
