November 22, 2020
With C.O.V.I.D., Blacklists, Political Turmoil, and Economic Uncertainty...
...One might feel less than thankful.
But watch this video.
Watch on Bitchute
In 4 days, give thanks for all we have been given.
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November 21, 2020
A Lack of Subtlety in Designation Systems is Apparent
From This season's episode 2 of Is it OK to Try to Pick-Up Girls in a Dungeon?...which, 4 episodes in, is, even by the high standards of this show, exceptionally good.
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Musical Interlude
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November 18, 2020
Do Not Be Alarmed
Everything is fine.
This is not happening.
I work in the shipping industry, and it was like someone hit the panic button Monday. We're getting buried under trailer loads of toilet paper and ammunition on top of home deliveries of everything else plus Christmas stuff.
It's not Thanksgiving yet.
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On the Wisdom of Grip Safeties
So, one of the trees in the front yard had grown to where it was in the same time and space as my roof.
This was not readily apparent from the ground. However, during the weekend windstorm, I heard it dragging against the roof and after closer inspection realized what was going on.
So I borrowed a polesaw from my brother-in law, got on the ladder, and, after determining both that I wasn't underneath or in the swinging path of the branch, and that said branch would not damage my roof or my car, I started chewing away at it. The polesaw is like a chainsaw greave, and as I cut away at the first, and then second branches, I could not help but imagine how awesome this would be as a polearm in a minimally realistic martial arts film.
At this point in the process, the tree decided that it had had enough and that physics did not apply to it and the branch fell, not directly down, not to the side that I was cutting on, but, as near as I can tell twisted the cut out towards me, swung towards me and swatted me off the ladder. The polesaw made a long arc through the sky before deciding on the ballistic trajectory that would place it on me. I caught a gimps of it just before it impacted. My heart skipped a beat and I now have a much greater appreciation for the final moments of Elric of Melniboné. However, because I was not holding the grip safety, it was not running, thus I was not disemboweled; escaping with some scrapes bruises and a coating of sawdust and dirt.
Nothing of value was lost.
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November 17, 2020
Veibae and the Stages of Gacha
Everyone's favorite virtual Polish succubus teaches her viewers an important lesson about the sunk cost fallacy.
How much she learned is unknown.
UPDATE:
Not a lot apparently.
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November 15, 2020
Now Wordpress is Purging
Last Refuge (ConservativeTreehouse.com) just received a missive from their hosting provider WordPress. that contained the following assortment of words.
...given the incompatibility between your site’s content and our terms, you need to find a new hosting provider and must migrate the site by Wednesday, December 2nd.
WordPress hosts a lot of websites including a large number that are not to the left of Lenin. I believe Instapundit is a WordPress site. This is deeply troubling as it means that the censorious rot has spread to mid tier hosting services that have, in the past, catered to people not striving to fit in to the Santa Clara Valley Junior Virtue Signal Auxiliary.
It also puts to rest the silly notion that the purges would let up after the election. The patrician pooh-bahs of Palo Alto were blindsided by Trump, that most unlikely Tribune of the Plebs, and they seek to ensure that no Plebian Assemblies will ever again empower others like him.
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Wo0t!
Space-X has launched a NASA mission with an international crew consisting of NASA and JAXA astronauts to the International Space Station. The mission commander, Colonel Michael Hopkins USAF, will be transferred and sworn in to the U.S. Spaceforce during this mission, and so this mission marks the first spaceflight of a Spaceforce servicemember. Hopkins has two spaceflights under his belt. Mission specialist Shannon Walker has done a previous tour to the ISS, Victor Glover is on his first spaceflight, but is an experienced test pilot and The Japanese astronaut, Soichi Noguchi, is one of 7 current (11 total) Japanese astronauts, has been an astronaut since JAXA was still NASDA, and has ridden fire twice.
I dunno what the odd pulsing of the second stage engine pumps was, but it's now been 15 minutes, the capsule is in orbit, the first stage was recovered, and all 'splodies have been confined to the interiors of the engine nozzles.
Happy day!
UPDATE: Final crew note; the zero gravity indicator on this mission appears to be Baby Yoda.
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November 14, 2020
Late
This morning, leaving for work, I was running much closer to the wire than I like. I started out the door and...couldn't open the storm door.
And the porch light burned out.
Some considerable pushing and squinting later I realized that Amazon had made a delivery during the night and there was a box kind of wedged under the storm door and several others in front of it.
So I went out the back door, which can't be locked from the outside, went around to the front door, dislodged the box jamming the storm door, went in locked the rear door, got all the boxes into the living room ran to the van, ran back, locked the front door and went to work.
It is the first time I've been late in a long while.
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November 13, 2020
Today is Triskaidekaphobia Awareness Day
Today is also the day we remember the arrival of the 13th dinner guest, Loki, who according to Norse Mythology, arrived uninvited and arranged the death of the Norse god Baldur thereby cursing the day by association.
Finally, it should be noted that today is a Friday the 13th...
...in 2020.
So it is an excellent time to take great risks and do stupid things if you want to debunk irrational phobias.
"Yes! I'll be in de bunker."
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November 12, 2020
Well, That's it. It's Really Over.
Via Ace.
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November 11, 2020
Is There Anything That We Can Agree on Today?
I think America might be able to come together on the topic of not hating Klee.
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Some, Like me Never Saw any Excitement, But Many did and Deserve Our Thanks For Keeping The Excitement at Bay
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November 10, 2020
This is a Test
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November 09, 2020
A Completely Innocuous Image
Post it Everywhere.
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Well Then
I guess I need to state a few things.
2+2=4
News outlets do not determine elections.
However, the election is NOT quite finished yet.
There is a very slim chance that Trump might still pull this out.
That chance is slim but not zero.
It is also worth pursuing for the simple reason that it is the right thing to do.
There are legal proceedings (quite proper IMHO) seeking to determine the propriety of the elections.
Biden, is, therefore, NOT the President president elect (yet).
I think that it is likely he will be, but I also think it is important to fight that result until the bitter end.
And I'm not ashamed of that.
And I do not have any shame about saying that.
If the election does not go my way, I will NOT Burn, Loot, or Murder as a result, for I am not a Democrat.
I say all this because of a particular tweet.
Nice life ya had there hick...too bad ya didn't just look the other way...
Obviously, that's good advice what with lists being made and all. If I keep my mouth shut and say nothing, then perhaps they'll ignore me if they come for the Jews, or the Catholics.
So really, the smart thing is to refrain from making waves, which I would urge people with children to seriously consider.
But I'd rather lick doorknobs in Wuhan.
This is not a political blog, but I will use my modest, Z-List platform to, from time to time, push back against the Biden/Harris administration which looks to be being staffed with creepy and destructive people.
To Wit
Heck, I might even, given some bizarre set of circumstances, defend the currently presumptive administration as I occasionally did Obama during Biden's tour in the Naval Observatory.
But I won't be taking Mr. Tapper's ever so 'considerate' advice.
I'm 50. I'm single. I'm not an imposing human being, but I believe in America, free speech and, fanboy that I am, I am nevertheless adult enough to understand that words are not violence, they are the best way to avoid it.
I also possess a history degree, and looking back on the 20th century I've gleaned that when they start coming for those who are different or express an unpopular view, silence is unlikely to guarantee one's safety, or produce any good result.
I do NOT condemn those in precarious position or whose jobs well and truly depend on their silence. We all have to eat. But those of us who do not have family to care for and are not required by our jobs to remain silent on social media probably should step it up a bit.
One other thing:
I am neither stunning, nor brave. I shout to the four winds as anonymously as I can, and I do that because I'm not on the book of Faces or the Twit roost.
No, I blog at Mee.nu.
Now, my only connection to my blog's hosting service was as an unpaid Beta tester years ago, but I do think that perhaps now would be an excellent time for people switch to a social media platform that believes in free speech and won't report you to the Marquises of Palo Alto (or the Gab junior puritan brigade).
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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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