One Of My Very Own
*Sorry about the imbecility.
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PONDERABLES
"I thought we were done with masks."
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*There are still commenters who believe masks do nothing to protect you from an airborne pathogen. My question is: Why would every scientist in the world lie to them? What would be their motivation?
Pride is important because 25% of America refuses to believe they exist.
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By 1934, more than two dozen states passed gun-control laws. West Virginia required gun owners to be bonded and licensed. Michigan mandated that the police approve gun buyers. Texas banned machine guns...
“A machine gun, of course, ought never to be in the hands of any private individual,” Attorney General Homer Cummings said at a House hearing. “There is not the slightest excuse for it, not the least in the world, and we must if we are going to be successful in this effort to suppress crime in America, take these machine guns out of the hands of the criminal class.”..
The NRA gave qualified support to the proposed law...
Yesterday my wife wore something from five years ago and it fit! I'm so proud of her. It was a pair of socks, but still, let's be positive here.
*That is the first of three cartoons in this post that I don't understand.
Despite global distaste "The Human Centipede" isn't that bad. Most of it is tongue in cheek.
SELDOM SEEN EVENTS
I'm fascinated by the way it can soar along with hardly any effort at all.
Reminds me of this guy...
This phone stopped the bullet from killing a Ukrainian soldier
Talk about your family heirlooms.
"Ralph Henry votes Aye."
St. Joseph Catholic Church in Parks, Louisiana, has a painting of the Last Supper. It is not the da Vinci version, but an original that shows Jesus with four of his disciples. When Reverend Nicholas DuPré arrived at the parish in 2019, people told him there were rumors of a bottle of Tabasco sauce on the table in the painting! But he didn't think much about it until the folks at the McIlhenny Company, which produces Tabasco sauce, contacted him to ask if the rumor was true. DuPré did his due diligence, carried a 12-foot ladder into the church, and climbed up to check. Yes, right there on the table was a distinctive tiny Tabasco bottle!
If actions speak louder than words why can't I hear mimes?
Me at the repair shop: My car is making that weird noise when I accelerate.
My car: I'm not doing it for him. This is just between you and me.
GET LEARNT
This lighthouse looks a bit dangerous, doesn't it? This is the Kiipsaare Lighthouse, erected in 1933 near the coast of Saaremaa, Estonia.
Back then, "near the coast" meant 150 meters inland. Since then, rising sea levels have moved the shoreline, and now the lighthouse stands more than 50 meters out in the sea. And the formerly-stable ground underneath it is no longer stable, so the lighthouse has leaned as much as 15 degrees off plumb.
In Japan, a bow conveys a lot of messaging in a brief and sometimes slight movement. Using the wrong bow conveys the wrong message. For example, the eshaku, which is a 15º bow, is a casual greeting. The keirei, which is 30º, is a more formal bow used in the working environment. The saikeirei, which is 45º, expresses deep respect for a social superior. The gentleman pictured above is demonstrating the dogeza, which is an abjectly apologetic bow used to beg for a great favor or forgiveness for a serious wrong.
The dogeza sometimes does not go far enough. That's when the more extreme dogeritsu is necessary. In addition to having committed a huge offense, the dogeritsu requires substantial athleticism, especially if it is necessary to hold the position while waiting for the aggrieved party to consider the apology.
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You'd think the world's largest plant would have already been "discovered," but this one is in the ocean. Also, it's been seen quite a lot, but scientists have recently discovered that a field of seagrass is all one connected plant. The species of seagrass is Posidonia australis, also called fiber-ball weed or ribbon weed. The single plant with its millions of blades covers 200 square kilometers or 77 square miles! That dwarfs the previous record holder, quaking aspen called Pando which has 47,000 stems covering less than a square mile.
The secret to life is to always use more spinach and less rice than you think you'll need.
"MACHINES WILL SOON BE AS SMART AS PEOPLE"
Okay, but WHICH people?
IN HONOR OF NATIONAL BAD HAIRCUT WEEK
And my favorite...
I eat an apple a day. Snapdragon and Honeycrisp are my favorite.
Get it?
9 comments:
Puzzle time: blind date
Get it? = Blind Date
Puzzle Obviously that is a blind date.
OK, I think I finally got the meme about Topology Department Athletic Fields. I didn't get it when you've posted it the first time some time ago. The joke was clearly mathematical and it clearly had to do with Topology Theory. So I had to step in this time again, just like the last time when you've posted something smart few years ago (;- just kidding) -- that wrong joke with the swimming pool on the roof of the car.
As I said the meme was related to the Topology Theory. My problem was my poor understanding of popular in USA sports and the fact that Americans call football soccer.
Topology studies shapes with respect to the number of holes in them. Basically Topology doesn't distinguish shapes after you bend or stretch them in any way as long as you preserve the holes. For example the letters {A,R,D,O,P,Q} as shapes are equivalent (undistinguishable from Topology point of view) as all of them have one "hole", the letters {C,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z} are equivalent as they have no "holes", the letter {B} is one of its kind as it has 2 "holes" which no other letter has.
Let's look at the third part of the picture: Basketball, (American) Football, Parallel tracks. Basketball field is a plane with 2 sticks and 2 rings (2 "holes"), which is equivalent to the shape with 2 "holes" on the picture. The same goes to (American football) and Parallel tracks -- the construct of the gates and the tracks are topologically equivalent to the shape with 2 holes on the picture.
The same logic is applicable to the first picture -- there are no constructs with "holes" (the only weak side of this meme is the net of the soccer gates -- actually it is full of holes).
Tee same logic is applied to the second part of the picture: badminton, volleyball, high jump.
The last part of the picture has croquet, which is clear -- it has multiple "gates" on the field each representing a "hole". I don't understand why olympic swimming is there. Anyone?
See more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology
Cheers,
Borys
A1
You cannot prove that one of the myriads of religions isn't correct. It is very unlikely, but not 0. Hence Sagan's quote is valid.
A5
Before the pandemic, the consensus was that masks aren't effective. Do you have a link to the studies that proved otherwise ? Some countries (Austria, Germany) enforced using FFP2 (~N95) masks. Most didn't. That meant a piece of material statisfied the requirements. How would that be effective ?
A7
Katte's (Frederick's alledged lover) last words to him, were : "there is nothing to forgive"
A8
Finland changed their schooling system in 2017. It remains to be seen if they maintain their PISA levels.
B7
Excellent
C1
Erosion, not sea levels rising have resulted in the lighthouse being at the waterline
D1-D10
They are certainly breaking the rules
Puzzletime
Blind date
A1 Atheist also here, but have you ever taken a megadose of mushrooms or any other psychedelics? There's some weird shit I've encountered and even with all my comprehensive arguments within my mind I still cannot come up with a solid excuse for what I've seen other than.... "The Bible was written by a bunch of hallucinating guys" I mean damn I could be the next messiah with what I've seen 🤣
A5: Not every scientist. Remember Bullwinkle’s AKA?
https://journals.lww.com/md-journal/Fulltext/2022/02180/The_Foegen_effect__A_mechanism_by_which_facemasks.60.aspx
An Olympic-sized swimming pool has ten lanes. So nine lane dividers which are fastened to the walls of the pool at each end create the topological holes.
@Borys
The swimming pool has 9 lanes and you cannot cross between them
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