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The meme is about doctors making mistakes.Shows doctor making mistake.


/v/whatever viewpost?postid=656ec4d58adaf

300ml liter tubs of double cream used to come with a clear plastic lid over the tin foil seal. But the supermarket got the "reduce plastic" religion and stopped with the disposable plastic lids.

I've cut the bottom of a 1 kg yogurt tub to make myself a reusable plastic lid for my double cream. This proves that I'm also autistic :-)


/v/videos viewpost?postid=656ce0337ce8d

Not true! I know that the Russian Special Military Operation is safe and effective because the phrase "safe and effective" has be used so often.


/v/whatever viewpost?postid=656c3a5d64fd0

This stuff is so weird, like maybe endocrine disruptors are poisoning men's brains. It is too out-there just to be *social* degeneration with no chemical assistance.


/v/Troons viewpost?postid=6568d6195b9fc

The article failed to mention [Skoptsy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skoptsy). The Russians have experience with weird castration cults. Perhaps they look at LGBTQNBP and say "Oh no, not this shit *again*".


/v/news viewpost?postid=6568923d82075

I've found a pastebin that does LaTeX, and have redone his trigonometry version, but your way, using inverse sine and cosine

https://mathb.in/77039

You don't have to cheat using a calculator, you can go absurd with surds!


/v/mathematics viewpost?postid=65663cb720915

Shadowy forces deliberately push the Flat Earth to create a "Conspiracy Theorists Are Crazy" narrative, to counter the obvious point that conspiracy theorists often turn out to be right.


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happytoes 1 point 1.6 years ago

We actually have an exact theory of reasoning with incomplete information. It was worked out by T R Cox in 1946 https://www.stats.org.uk/cox-theorems/ https://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/10/20/175328/72

It is disappointing in various ways. It reproduces Bayesian statistics, simply extending them to cases without any notion of repetition or frequency. This reproduces the problems of Bayesian reasoning. You have to fuzz the *basic conjunctions* not just the propositions. But the number of *basic conjunctions* grows exponentially with the number of propositions. There are too many to estimate probabilities, and the computations will bog down.

On the other hand, when you try to approximate the theory to make it practical, you do know in theory what the correct answer is, so you do know what you are trying to do. Epistemology is revealed to be a practical art: trying to find practical approximations to Bayesian inference.


/v/whatever viewpost?postid=656122d144d74

When the gibs run out, the gib-locusts will fly on to be a pestilence to another city.


/v/Niggers viewpost?postid=655a19ab2db29

The fun question is to try scoring the prediction made by Richard van der Riet Woolley, the 11th Astronomer Royal. He predicted that man would not go to the moon, justifying his prediction by saying

> It would cost as much as a major war just to put a man on the moon.

Was he right or wrong? He was right about the price, wrong about the Government's willingness to pay.

That bit of background knowledge serves to answer the child's question. You don't keep doing something that you can only barely afford.


/v/whatever viewpost?postid=654e91e146d37

I suspect that you are getting down voted by young goats. I'm old and take Allopurinol tablets for gout, and Tamsulosin tables for another old man's problem. Human's *are* fucked up; I'm getting old and it is getting very obvious for me.


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happytoes 1 point 1.6 years ago

Watch out though, if you understand Darwinism correctly, humans are *not* animals, even though we share a common ancestor with chimpanzees around 5 million years ago. He titled his book: *The Origin of Species* for a reason.

To see the issue, contemplate the mouse and the elephant. They have a common ancestor in the origin mammal, a small shrew like creature that emerged about 200 million years ago. Darwin wasn't trying to *explain away* the elephant. He wasn't claiming that an elephant was only a big mouse with funny nose. He realised that the elephant was new and original. And that raised a puzzle: how could new things originate, when every creature had parents not very different from themselves?

How do you get from a 10 gram mouse to a 1000 kg elephant? One key idea is exponential growth. If each generation is 0.1% heavier than the previous generation (compounding), how many generations are needed for the hundred-thousand fold increase? One useful rule of thumb is that 1% interest has a doubling time of 70 years. So for 0.1% the doubling time is about 700 years. Meanwhile 100 times 1000 is roughly seven doublings + ten doublings = 17 doublings. Multiply 700 steps by 17 doublings and you get 11900 generations required. Mouse generations are less than a year. Later, larger animals will have generation times of a few years.

The other big idea that came into prominence in Darwin's day was deep time. Natural selection has many millions of years to play with. Nature can make spectacular changes in 10000 generations, and every million years is long enough to chain together 100 spectacular changes. Obviously Nature isn't that busy and can leave well alone for a hundred thousand years at a stretch.

So a core insight is that due to the way that exponentials work and the super abundance of time, Nature really can produce new and original species. Look around you at the works of man. Love them or hate them, if you are going to believe in evolution as a theory of *origins* (an elephant is original, not just a big mouse with a funny nose) you have to accept that man is something new and different. Not an animal, but an original being that can even leave Earth for a day trip to the Moon.

That is not to say that Natural selection has a good ratchet. With sufficient dysgenics, Man could evolve back into an animal. How many intelligent creatures are there in the galaxy? Just one, on Earth? Maybe. If Man does evolve back into an animal, something rare and precious will be lost, because Man is not an animal, even under Darwinism.


/v/AskUpgoat viewpost?postid=654d301c7fd74

Sir, this is a mathematics subverse. An appropriate comment might be to quote Pierre-Simon Laplace
> Read Euler, read Euler, he is master of us all.


/v/mathematics viewpost?postid=654ae8a8707fc

I think his timing was off. Should have put in a small pause to let the audience anticipate the punchline incorrectly

> I thought you could just ...

The audience is waiting for it. Just be a mudshark? Just be into black guys? Just make your father cry?

BE FAT

The humour lies in the cynical logic of why she is into black guys. It needs a pause for thought. Rush it and it is just a non-sequitor.


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happytoes 1 point 1.6 years ago

Thank you. It is thoroughly blocked in Britbongistan. The name, Mike Maloney, doesn't even appear on the page that I get to see when I click the click.


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happytoes 1 point 1.6 years ago

Thank you. I felt stupid for not knowing that. Then I thought: it would be even more stupid not to check.

A web search on "Black bear marking blaze" works poorly; most hits are about scent marking. Having a blaze seems to be uncommon. The best photograph that I've found is [this one](https://media.baamboozle.com/uploads/images/87632/1595972307_543227). Often the marking is a V, as though the bear was wearing a black V-neck pull-over with white trim round the V-neck.

The bear in the video has a very distinctive blaze, both in its definition and its rectangular shape.


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happytoes 1 point 1.6 years ago

That channel is blocked in Britbongistan

> The parent channel of this video is unavailable at your location due to the following restrictions:

> Contains Incitement to Hatred


/v/videos viewpost?postid=653eb65bdbb0e

It's OK, that kind of Bear runs on Diesel not Flesh, so it will not bite.


/v/Russia viewpost?postid=653e91163bd26

Why was the bear wearing an identity card round his neck?


/v/Russia viewpost?postid=653e8febebc12

I think that she is quite quick on the uptake for some-one encountering utterly unfamiliar technology. She asks at the end: is that the volume they had to listen to it? Basically yes. Early, passive, phonographs were very quiet, and the invention of electronic amplifiers transformed the technology.


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happytoes 1 point 1.7 years ago

Wikipedia has a [good page on Atrocity propaganda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propaganda)

> After the war, historians who sought to examine the documentation for the report were told that the files had mysteriously disappeared.


/v/OccidentalEnclave viewpost?postid=652783d742b91

I recently got my bus pass. When I used it, the electronic reader reported the expiry date: EXPIRES - NEVER

That is troubling. I expected "expires: death", but it looks like my afterlife is going to be an eternal bus ride.


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happytoes 1 point 1.7 years ago

I remember when Britbongistan was mocked for having a House of Lords with hereditary peers serving for life. One of the strikes against the House of Lords was revulsion against being ruled by doddery old peers who should have died, or at least retired years ago. I was told that democracy would be better.


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