November 08, 2020
Science! (Again)
One of The Brickmuppet's Crack Team of Science Babes has just run back into the blogs vast underground control room with an addendum to the last post.
"Sorry 'bout that. THIS is the kind of science you wanted right?"
I....OK. Wow.
It appears that during WW2, spies behind enemy lines in Europe were sometimes provided with carrier pigeons rather than, or supplemental to, radios as carrier pigeons were jam proof and did not emit RF radiation that could be detected and triangulated.
They had to deliver the poop producers somehow.....
So they applied SCIENCE! to pigeonry.
That there is a "Pigeon Service Manual" makes me happy.
"Science Babe" in this and the previous post is the awesome Makise Kurisu from Stein's Gate.
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Science!
One of The Brickmuppet's Crack Team of Science Babes has contacted us suggesting that she has some links of interest. It'll be good to avoid election news for a bit.
"Oh. No... I....uh...just was going to share some expository links on Benford's law...'cause I thought they'd be relevant. They're...here, here, and here. Also a paper applying Benford's Law to elections is here. Sorry, bye."
Oh. FFS.
Thank you imaginary 2-D assistant.
Well, let us discuss why they're well and truly relevant.
Someone posted this link on Facebook and had it taken down. It's gone strangely viral as various people post it and get their facebook pages censored with the link removed.
Facebook is defending their decision by saying that the link contains "adult sexual exploitation". I challenge you, gentle reader, to go read the article and point out the lewdness in the comments (we need some amusement). In any event people are having their Twitter accounts locked for linking it.
Whatever one thinks of Trump's increasingly slim chances of pulling this election out. These actions will do nothing to dissuade people of the legitimacy of his protests. Banning any discussion of analysis that does not comport with their worldview is not the act of a movement that is confidant in its position or without guilt. Likewise, the creation of lists, to render unemployable, and deny services to ones defeated political opponents is not the actions of a movement that thinks it is in the catbird seat...and certainly not the action of people who are fit to lead, let alone rule.
There is some discussion of this in the form of opinionated political disquisition rather than mathematical analysis here, here, here, and here. There is an amusingly relevant BBC article on the overall topic here.
You may wonder Why I am allowed to host this most problematical of math links and get away with it.
That's because I blog on Mee.nu, part of a growing social network dedicated to free speech. You should check it out. Note that there are some upgrades in the works as well. Me 'n You won't fix the world, and is not arrogant enough to try, but it will let you communicate in good faith without fear of your social network enabling reprisal.
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Cuba, Marathon, and,The Conch Republic, Are About to Get Wet
No doubt people in those places are interested in its E.T.A.
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November 07, 2020
SplodyFalcons are GO!
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November 06, 2020
Scrolling Through the Headlines......
....I'm seeing:
Election News
Election News
Scary Election News
Stupid Election News
Election News
Election News
Hot Takes on Election News
Election News
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November 05, 2020
A Compromise Proposal
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November 04, 2020
Nothing to See Here. Move Along
Watch on Bitchute
Nothing to see here either.
Also: A person named Jason Demoine Daniel voted in last night's election (In Michigan). He voted Absentee, which, I suppose is fine since, having been born in 1850, he's probably quite frail. He was 11 at the start of the Civil War, he saw the nation transition from agricultural, developing country to industrial powerhouse. What things this person might have seen; Passenger Pigeons, American Locusts, the first cars and planes, Hell, given his proximity to Illinois, he might have witnessed The Great Chicago Fire! There is no telling what knowledge he might be able to impart to us. We should have some historians go interview this amazing human resource.
Unless....his longevity is due to him being a Dracula or something. In that case send monster hunters.
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First They Came For The Oppai...Then They Came For The Rogue A.I.
A few months ago we noted that an American V-Tuber with the admittedly spicy name Oppai Pantsu was banned for a TOS violation. The violation was that Twitch retroactively decided that "Oppai" was a banned word on the platform. They had never mentioned this and had not given the girl the opportunity to change it. She had to re-launch her channel under the name Oppapan and lost her Partner status. Her channel has never really recovered its once impressive viewership (no one can search for her under her old name).
Today, Projekt Melody got the same treatment, though there is, as yet, no indication as to why.
No indication at all...Just a pink screen.
What's weird is that despite Projekt Melody's other channel, her Twitch stream was fairly inoffensive (double entendre's notwithstanding). Projekt Melody was an entertaining Twitch streamer. She was no pro-gamer, but she was enthusiastically learning video games and her streams were enjoyable in large part because of her enthusiasm and dry wit. She did a lot to help up-and coming streamers by leveraging her sudden celebrity. Despite her official backstory (She is a rogue A.I. damnit. That is her story and she is sticking to it!) there was a remarkable sense of sincerity and fun in in her show.
This is really bizarre, I'm not sure what Twitch is up to aside from drunkenly swinging the banhammer.
I do note that Melody was one of the few streamers that spoke up in defense of those Holo-Live girls that got temporarily banned last month.
UPDATE:
Hambly can't spell "extortion" which is unfortunate as that is the reason for Melody's absence. A DMCA notice was filed by her character designer, apparently in breach of contract.
UPDATE 2:
As per Wonderduck in the comments, Melody is back.
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Take of the Day
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November 03, 2020
I've Got to go to Work
But this may be a leading indicator.
The Yuan is tanking. Apparently the CCP is suffering some sort of reversal as of 23:21 Tuesday evening.
Via.
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While We Await the Inevitable Chaos...
...let's take a moment to appreciate just how darned gorgeous this MOBILE game is.
...and what a good editor Kuro Ailfa is.
I am highly tempted to start playing this, but...you know...gacha.
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Someday...
...a woman named Arianna will comment on my blog, expressing praise for my hot take on some subject. She'll find my humor engaging, and want to get to know me better. She will be my soul mate.
And I'll delete her comment because I'll assume she's that damned bot.
"The tragic life of a blogger is tragic."
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Golly
Aside from two or three midterm elections and a similar number of primaries, I have missed zero elections since 1988. I don't think I've EVER seen a line quite as long as the one I stood in this morning, except possibly 2008.
The fellow behind me had had to leave and get additional clothing earlier in the morning (It was quite cold and windy) He noted that the line earlier had been longer still and gone completely around the school.
The line was so long that it extended far enough out that city council and school board candidates could legally pitch themselves to voters in line, which they did with much verve and enthusiasm. I found this welcome since it is terribly hard to find out anything about city council or school board candidates who are, by law, not allowed to express a political affiliation. This is he first time in years that I've voted for local offices and not felt that I was just throwing darts.
The line, for all its length moved quite fast and I was out in just over an hour.
In stark contrast to the acrimony we see on the news, everyone was civil, pleasant, and supportive of everyone else doing their civic duty, and it was a very diverse crowd, with people of all ethnicities in outfits ranging from suits to coveralls.
Now.....we wait.
(And wait and wait and wait, since, according to the radio just now, Governor Moloch McBlackface has said that the state will count ballots that come in by....Friday*. )
*A quick web search turned up nothing corroborating that, but it may be breaking as I type this.
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November 02, 2020
Why are MY Comments
...and not Arianna the Enterprising Salesbot being blocked as spam?
As opposed to the good kind of SPAM as rendered here by OmeNo
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One More Day
more...
more...
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November 01, 2020
When the Crash WAS Your Fault
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October 31, 2020
Everyone be Careful Driving this Evening
Because it's that day that ghosts, goblins, zombies, and vampires are most likely to be non-compliant with quarantines and lockdowns....for they HUNGER.
Also:
No matter how scary they may be, if they come to your door, don't do this...
Instead, take the opportunity to do safety checks on your equipment.
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October 30, 2020
As Part of The General Compliance With the Standards and Practices of Current Year
APPLE has bought the Peanuts Holiday specials.
They will be aired on APPLE TV only and not shown on TV until after the holidays.
Brickmuppet Blog has, therefore, taken it upon ourselves to partially fill the void in Peanuts spoopy content.
Art by Steve Jenks
It's important to note that this travesty was committed by APPLE and not some completely different company that might or might not be mentioned in the comments. .
Also:
One more thing. (Scarcely worth mentioning.)
more...
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October 29, 2020
The Plot Thickens...Thins, and Thickens Again.
When TuCa revealed last night that a shipment of documents containing damaging information to Biden had gone missing in transit, he went through the procedures that the company took. Having been a clerk in the shipping industry some years ago, I was pretty sure what company it was from the procedures described. Sure enough, it was, in fact U.P.S. and they announced today that they had found the documents.
I suspect, (with no evidence whatsoever) that they did what we did when someone informed us that they had lost something that looked very much like trash, they locked out the trash compactor and had their facility's equivalent of the Brickmuppet sift through it piece by piece.
Years ago some smooth-brain decided that he could ship a panel of reinforced impact resistant glass with no other packing material than an address label taped to the bare glass. The problem was, that those windows were laminated glass and even the slightest "thwack" on the SIDE would cause it to delaminate and shatter.
Eventually the window made it all the way from Utah to Virginia without incident until someone dinged it on the edge while putting it on the shelf of the truck for delivery.
When it delaminated (quite spectacularly IIRC) it destroyed the label. I wrote it up as a panel of bullet-proof glass with the label destroyed and discarded it.
The next day I was called from unloading trucks back to the clerk station which was covered in account executives and engineers. Turns out, it was one of the space shuttle windows for the cargo bay and NASA was furious that we had somehow lost their indestructible window. I explained that yes, I had processed a damage that fit that description, and it had had no packing whatsoever and had struck on its edge when being loaded on the truck and...I'd put it in the dumpster as of no salvageable value.
I then got a stern talking down to by some civil servant explaining that the window was supposed to be indestructible and that astronauts lives were at risk and this was beyond my pay grade, so I went out to the trash compactor, had the plant engineer lock it out and recovered the very heavy slabs of broken glass and as much of the plastic and dust as I could recover. During this time the government employee expressed his absolute astonishment that an uncredentialed individual such as myself (which he referred to by various non-complementary slang terms for southern white folks) was allowed to even go near something as important as this piece of kit. After recovering the space shuttle window I explained to one of the NASA employees who was not HickHater that laminated glass cannot take blows to the side and if there had been so much as a bit of cardboard along the edge, the window would have been fine, and that if a meteor entered the window from the side, it was passing through the bulkhead perpendicular to the axis of the shuttle and that there would be greater concerns than the integrity of the window. He laughed and agreed that basic packing was needed (he was an engineer, not a...whatever effete hysteric the other guy was) and they took their window crumbs and left.
I've been in dumpsters to get academic papers, spreadsheets and all manner of things, because U.P.S. does actually give a damn.
Well, that was a digression....
Hopefully there was no foul play with these Biden papers, and it was just something like a poorly sealed envelope. We should find out what horrors reside within them tonight or tomorrow.
Also: Tucker, SEND COPIES not originals. "The dog ate my homework" is never a valid excuse.
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Oh.
You can get it on Amazon.
The last time I tried to get a Japanese beverage off Amazon it was 212 dollars a bottle.
I demurred.
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