MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown

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MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

They are registered to the various states programs, but I can’t imagine there is a way to register with the DEA to sell a Schedule 1 drug for recreational use.

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

So… should we start a war in every place on earth that genocide is occurring? Really channel our inner dick Cheney and waste life and treasure in regime changes?

No one here is advocating for that. “Stop funding genocide” is a far cry for “Channel your inner Dick Cheney”

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

It’s because Hush Money Trial is pithy. It is succinct yet distinct. Fraud Trial would be a great name if there weren’t several more of them to differentiate from, and Election Fraud Trial Relating to the Disclosure of Hush Money Payments regarding a Mushroom Shaped Erection doesn’t fit in the headline.

Erection Fraud Trial does have a ring to it, though.

Does any language have a word for mixing a beverage by pouring from one vessel into another?

I don't mean something like "pour" or "mix" in the English language. The word should capture the idea of pouring from one vessel into another with the goal of going from a semi-heterogenous solution to a mostly-homogeneous solution....

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown , (edited )

Townsends has a video on flips. He might have used a historical word for it.

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ELI5 answer?

In the conventional calendar, there wasn’t a year zero and it wasn’t skipped. Zero is the moment in time that we use to begin counting time.

Think of an elementary school style number line: …-3_-2_-1_0_1_2_3… Each number is one year apart. This makes the numbers measure something like Age. If you are 3 years old, you can count 3 years between 0 and 3.

But a year is not an Age. It is the span of time between ages, and the years we name are actually the spaces between the numbers on the number line. So the first year (1 AD/CE) is the first space after zero (between 0 and 1), and the first negative year (1 BC/BCE) is the first space before the 0 (between -1 and 0).

Then there is the astronomical calendar, which does have a year zero. They get this by naming the year (the space on the number line) after the number to the right side of the space on the number line.

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

Your logic is correct, but you are off by 1.

0-1 is year 1
10-11 is year 11

German customs detains ship loaded with sanctioned Russian uranium, lumber ( kyivindependent.com )

The cargo ship, named Atlantic Navigator II, is registered in the Marshall Islands, but has a largely Russian crew. It was forced to stop in Rostock due to propeller damage, where it encountered trouble with German customs agents due to its cargo of sanctioned goods.

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Violating sanctions is a crime, no? And at this juncture, are they not undocumented immigrants?

Personally, I’d rather not deal too harshly with the crew lest we deter others from surrendering their cargo, or worse, decide the they a better off attempting to complete their journey in an unseaworthy vessel. I’d prefer we don’t have a Russian oil & uranium spill.

China is building a railgun that can hurl crewed spacecraft into orbit ( newatlas.com )

Rockets being passé, China is working on using an electromagnetic railgun to launch crewed spacecraft the size of a Boeing 737, weighing 50 tonnes, into orbit. This remarkably ambitious project is even more ambitious than it seems at first glance.

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

Make it a circular rail with an off-ramp; like a particle accelerator. Still very ambitious.

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,
  1. It’s established
  2. It is a general purpose platform: it has personal posting, business listings, messaging, groups, communities, photos, news, clip format video, live streaming, p2p sales, business sales, event coordination and advertising, payment processing and cash sharing, games…
    Most other platforms do one or several of those things much better than FB, but FB is good enough for lots of people. It’s a one stop shop, and it does a fair job at cross pollinating the various aspects of its platform. It has enough stuff to keep to keep users engaged even if their interest wanes from one or more particular platform components.

Speaker Johnson vows not to delay assistance for Ukraine: We won’t allow terrorists and tyrants to march through the globe ( www.pravda.com.ua )

Republican Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, reported that Congress’s priority is to finalise the budget of the US government for the year 2024. As this matter is nearly resolved, attention will soon shift to the aid package for Ukraine and its partners.

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

Actions > words, Kumquat.

What the Supreme Court Got Wrong in the Trump Section 3 Case ( www.lawfaremedia.org )

Trump deserved to lose on all these points, and the Colorado Supreme Court correctly rejected his arguments on them. But I think he did have a plausible argument on the issue of whether his involvement in the Jan. 6 attack was extensive enough to qualify as “engaging” in insurrection. At the very least, he had a better...

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

Our elections are a patchwork by design. The requirements to get on the ballot are different for every state.

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RNC is definitely going to cover his legal judgements now.

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They renamed it already‽

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

A bunch of posts are saying see a GP and/or Psychiatrist, and absolutely do that. But also make sure you have a working carbon monoxide detector in your home (you should have one anyway). This vaguely reminds me of that one Reddit post.

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

Red - the blood of angry men!
Black - the dark of ages past!

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Here’s a fair explanation, but in short there are different kinds of angels described in the abrahamic texts and traditions, and only some of them resemble the classical “human with a pair of wings” depiction. Many wings, many eyes, chimeric fusions, elemental fire and light, and non-biological (to our understanding) forms are among the features of those descriptions.

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

We have done so for the last 20 some odd years at least…

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

This is the second time I’ve seen cheddar bay waffles recommended. Fuck it! I have a box of this in the cupboard and a pizzelle maker. I’ll report back next weekend.

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

One in which it means that fascism gets the W.

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

The keyword here is the. Lots of folks care about D&D lore, but the official cannon is not sacred. It’s nice to have, but it’s a starting point, a framework, an inspiration.

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

I did not wake up this morning expecting to read someone claiming that Canada is an island.

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

I think this chart is out of date

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

AI does not exist, but it will ruin everything anyway.

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

I think with a human operator, we can be proactive. A person can be informed of bias, learn to recognize it, and even attempt to compensate for their own.

An AI model is working off of aggregate past data that we already know is biased. There is currently no proactive anti bias training that can be done to a AI model without massively altering the dataset, which, at some level of alteration, loses its value as true to life data.

Secondly, AI is a black box. we can’t see inner the workings of the model and determine what types of associations it is making to come to its result. So we don’t even know what part of the dataset would need to be altered to address the bias.

Lastly, the default assumption by end users will be, unless there are glaring defects, that any individual result is correct and unbiased, because “AI was made by smart people and data, and data doesn’t lie.” And because interrogating and validating the result defeats the whole purpose of using AI to cut out those steps of the process.

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

All thine base art belong to us

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Firefox Nightly

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

More like: Jayne of command.

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Edit: I’ll have to figure out how text markup works. Until then:
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