What we learn is that if a lefty rapes, the system treats that as compromat. No action will be taken so long as they stay on message. If, like Brand, they are a bit too drug addled and go off message, then the truth comes out and the victims get justice.
Go off message and the truth comes out. But the important part is the converse: stay on message and the truth continues to be suppressed. Who on the left has skeletons in their closet? All of them?
I take an interest in Germany in the 1920's and 1930's. Could that happen here?
I've just watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ_7Pts_BCM Fourteen minutes about movie adaptions of All Quiet On The Western Front. The point that comes up indirectly is that many of the soldiers in WWI were alienated from civilian society by their experiences in the trenches. The claim is that the soldiers ended up hating the civilians on there own side. Maybe I need to read Storm of Steel for a different view.
But it makes me think that civil war is much more likely when men have been hardened in recent, large, brutal wars.
[Chen Sheng](https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/11/quote-of-the-day-november-14-whats-the-penalty-for-being-late-death-whats-the-penalty-for-treason-death-i-ha.html) and [Wu Guang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Sheng_and_Wu_Guang_uprising)
Trees acting in self defense. Trees need carbon dioxide in the air to grow and the past hundred million years have seen levels decline to an impossibly low 0.04%. Cars that don't help trees grow are an abomination.
I prefer lethal injection of ethanol. Might take a liter to do the job, but the heart keeps pumping, circulating the poison. And if it stop, well, job done.
No one can object on grounds on cruelty given the reckless recreational use of alcohol.
The criminal gets to teach a valuable public health message.
Since Wagner was fucking with French colonial possessions in Africa, I'm betting on a repeat of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
I'm not following your reasoning here. The biggest problem that I see with Human Rights is that the terse statements mean everything or nothing. Take the UN Declaration
Article 16
1. Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
2. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
3. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Governments in the West have abolished marriage. Penalties for adultery are gone. "No fault divorce" is just a sneaky way of gutting marriage. Because the name is re-used for the residual social institution Article 16 is upheld in name, but nothing else. Article 16 means nothing.
Are you saying that they own you because they get to chose the wording of the rights, and the interpretation of rights. Then you find that your rights are merely what they say your rights are, neither more nor less?
Ponder the logic of this old essay http://web.archive.org/web/20160528095337/http://www.cawtech.freeserve.co.uk/debt.2.html
Being able to borrow money from the World Bank is probably bad for Uganda because it pays for political instability. The option of borrowing lots of money and stealing it attracts the wrong kind of person into Ugandan politics. If the anti-LGBTO law blocks access to destabilisation loans, that is just an extra benefit.
> (it can’t be well approximated by rational numbers)
garbles Liouville's criterion pretty badly.
Notice first that 355/113 is wrong by 0.000000266. The error is about one part in four million. Yet the denominator is only 113. The accuracy is roughly the cube of the denominator. With a typical number, you can go looking for good rational approximations, a/b, and with the right choice of b the accuracy is around the square of the denominator. So 355/113 does get closer to pi than the digit count suggests.
Does this suggest a route to proving that pi is transcendental? Not really. Picture a polynomial with integer coefficients with degree 4. Say 7x^4 + 11x^3 - 6x + 12. Evaluate it at a rational number a/b. You get
Either the whole number is zero (congratulations you have found a rational root) or the error is some multiple of 1/b^4. There is a granularity here. In this case the grain size is 1/b^4. For an nth degree polynomial the granularity is 1/b^n.
Since 355/113 is close to pi, around the cube of the denominator, that hints that pi is a little special because rational approximations are usually accurate to around the square of the denominator. On the other hand, the root of a cube is sometimes approximated to roughly the cube of the denominator. And the root of a quartic equation is sometimes approximated to roughly the fourth power of the denominator. We are not close to ruling out pi being the root of polynomial of third or fourth degree :-(
A further complication is that Liouville looked at sequences of approximations. a1/b1, a2/b2, a3/b3,... and concerned himself with the general trend. How accurate are the approximations? What power of b_i is involved. The thing he noticed was that with a root of an nth degree polynomial, you cannot have the accuracy trend being better than 1/b^n.
So Liouville rolled up his sleeves and set to work contriving a really fucking weird number. Think about factorials, 1, 2, 6, 24, 120, 720, 5040,... Now create a sequence of numbers. Start with one in the first decimal place 0.1. Then add a 1 to the second decimal place = 0.11. Next add a one to the sixth decimal place 0.110001. After that add a one to the twenty fourth decimal place = 0.110001000000000000000001. That is starting to look weird. The next one has a one in the 120th decimal place = 0.110001000000000000000001000 ... lots and lots of zeros omitted to avoid doing a page widening attack on vote ... 0001
But we are only just getting start. After 0.110001000000000000000001000... one hundred zeros ...00100 ...
six hundred zeros ... 00100 ... nearly five thousand zeros ... 00100 ... oh god, way too many zeros ...00100 ... even more zeros, seriously WTF! ... 00100 ...
He has his limit number L when he takes this to infinity, and he has his sequence, a sequence of rational approximations. The accuracy of rational approximations is approximately 1/denominator^n where n keeps getting bigger. If L is the root of a polynomial, then n is limited by the degree of the polynomial. But Liouville has done the work of a mad scientist very well, the n for his number just keeps growing. So it is not the root of a polynomial.
That is brilliant work for 1844. But the underlying idea is quite limited. Yes, he can prove that L is transcendental, but only because of the extremely weird way that L was constructed. What about pi? That is going to need a new and different idea
I was a young man a long time ago, and I weep for the young men sent to die in stupid wars. The best solution to the problem with cluster bombs is not to have stupid wars, like the war of NATO expansion, or should I call it the Money Laundry War.
happytoes 5 points 1.7 years ago
I'm on Upgoat.net, but I pine for voat.co
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happytoes 0 points 1.7 years ago
I'm glad some asked. I didn't get "five head" either, but was afraid to ask :-(
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happytoes 1 point 1.7 years ago
I thought that "demonic harlot" was an exaggeration until I clicked the link and saw her picture.
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happytoes 0 points 1.7 years ago
What we learn is that if a lefty rapes, the system treats that as compromat. No action will be taken so long as they stay on message. If, like Brand, they are a bit too drug addled and go off message, then the truth comes out and the victims get justice.
Go off message and the truth comes out. But the important part is the converse: stay on message and the truth continues to be suppressed. Who on the left has skeletons in their closet? All of them?
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happytoes 1 point 1.8 years ago
I take an interest in Germany in the 1920's and 1930's. Could that happen here?
I've just watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ_7Pts_BCM Fourteen minutes about movie adaptions of All Quiet On The Western Front. The point that comes up indirectly is that many of the soldiers in WWI were alienated from civilian society by their experiences in the trenches. The claim is that the soldiers ended up hating the civilians on there own side. Maybe I need to read Storm of Steel for a different view.
But it makes me think that civil war is much more likely when men have been hardened in recent, large, brutal wars.
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happytoes 2 points 1.8 years ago
Bombing stops and you can rebuild.
But you cannot rebuild Detroit because the destruction never stops.
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happytoes 0 points 1.8 years ago
Those are American lions. They are afraid that even a small bite will end up costing them thousands of dollars in medical bills.
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happytoes 1 point 1.8 years ago
I feel sorry for the virus now. Imagine being touched by a journalist. Ugh!
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happytoes 1 point 1.8 years ago
Alien space creature discovers that humans are made of meat.
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happytoes 1 point 1.8 years ago
What happened to the ice free Artic? Can we put the children on cruise ships and keep them safe at the North Pole?
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happytoes 2 points 1.8 years ago
[Chen Sheng](https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/11/quote-of-the-day-november-14-whats-the-penalty-for-being-late-death-whats-the-penalty-for-treason-death-i-ha.html) and [Wu Guang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Sheng_and_Wu_Guang_uprising)
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happytoes 0 points 1.8 years ago
Trees acting in self defense. Trees need carbon dioxide in the air to grow and the past hundred million years have seen levels decline to an impossibly low 0.04%. Cars that don't help trees grow are an abomination.
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happytoes 0 points 1.8 years ago
More from the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/02/peter-wilby-editor-child-sexual-abuse
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happytoes 0 points 1.8 years ago
That is bad, like where is the lathe? where is the pillar drill? A man should have machine tools.
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happytoes 2 points 1.8 years ago
I prefer lethal injection of ethanol. Might take a liter to do the job, but the heart keeps pumping, circulating the poison. And if it stop, well, job done.
No one can object on grounds on cruelty given the reckless recreational use of alcohol.
The criminal gets to teach a valuable public health message.
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happytoes 3 points 1.8 years ago
Since Wagner was fucking with French colonial possessions in Africa, I'm betting on a repeat of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
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happytoes 0 points 1.8 years ago
I'm not following your reasoning here. The biggest problem that I see with Human Rights is that the terse statements mean everything or nothing. Take the UN Declaration
Article 16
1. Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
2. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
3. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Governments in the West have abolished marriage. Penalties for adultery are gone. "No fault divorce" is just a sneaky way of gutting marriage. Because the name is re-used for the residual social institution Article 16 is upheld in name, but nothing else. Article 16 means nothing.
Are you saying that they own you because they get to chose the wording of the rights, and the interpretation of rights. Then you find that your rights are merely what they say your rights are, neither more nor less?
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happytoes 0 points 1.8 years ago
The Earth is flat. That is a lot of flat. There is not enough flat to go round. Which proves that the 5 is curved.
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happytoes 2 points 1.9 years ago
Ponder the logic of this old essay http://web.archive.org/web/20160528095337/http://www.cawtech.freeserve.co.uk/debt.2.html
Being able to borrow money from the World Bank is probably bad for Uganda because it pays for political instability. The option of borrowing lots of money and stealing it attracts the wrong kind of person into Ugandan politics. If the anti-LGBTO law blocks access to destabilisation loans, that is just an extra benefit.
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happytoes 1 point 1.9 years ago
I'm still hoping for voat.co
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happytoes 0 points 1.9 years ago
The parenthetical
> (it can’t be well approximated by rational numbers)
garbles Liouville's criterion pretty badly.
Notice first that 355/113 is wrong by 0.000000266. The error is about one part in four million. Yet the denominator is only 113. The accuracy is roughly the cube of the denominator. With a typical number, you can go looking for good rational approximations, a/b, and with the right choice of b the accuracy is around the square of the denominator. So 355/113 does get closer to pi than the digit count suggests.
Does this suggest a route to proving that pi is transcendental? Not really. Picture a polynomial with integer coefficients with degree 4. Say 7x^4 + 11x^3 - 6x + 12. Evaluate it at a rational number a/b. You get
( 7 a^4 + 11 a^3 b - 6 a b^3 + 12 b^4 )/ b^4 = (some whole number) / b^4
Either the whole number is zero (congratulations you have found a rational root) or the error is some multiple of 1/b^4. There is a granularity here. In this case the grain size is 1/b^4. For an nth degree polynomial the granularity is 1/b^n.
Since 355/113 is close to pi, around the cube of the denominator, that hints that pi is a little special because rational approximations are usually accurate to around the square of the denominator. On the other hand, the root of a cube is sometimes approximated to roughly the cube of the denominator. And the root of a quartic equation is sometimes approximated to roughly the fourth power of the denominator. We are not close to ruling out pi being the root of polynomial of third or fourth degree :-(
A further complication is that Liouville looked at sequences of approximations. a1/b1, a2/b2, a3/b3,... and concerned himself with the general trend. How accurate are the approximations? What power of b_i is involved. The thing he noticed was that with a root of an nth degree polynomial, you cannot have the accuracy trend being better than 1/b^n.
So Liouville rolled up his sleeves and set to work contriving a really fucking weird number. Think about factorials, 1, 2, 6, 24, 120, 720, 5040,... Now create a sequence of numbers. Start with one in the first decimal place 0.1. Then add a 1 to the second decimal place = 0.11. Next add a one to the sixth decimal place 0.110001. After that add a one to the twenty fourth decimal place = 0.110001000000000000000001. That is starting to look weird. The next one has a one in the 120th decimal place = 0.110001000000000000000001000 ... lots and lots of zeros omitted to avoid doing a page widening attack on vote ... 0001
But we are only just getting start. After 0.110001000000000000000001000... one hundred zeros ...00100 ...
six hundred zeros ... 00100 ... nearly five thousand zeros ... 00100 ... oh god, way too many zeros ...00100 ... even more zeros, seriously WTF! ... 00100 ...
He has his limit number L when he takes this to infinity, and he has his sequence, a sequence of rational approximations. The accuracy of rational approximations is approximately 1/denominator^n where n keeps getting bigger. If L is the root of a polynomial, then n is limited by the degree of the polynomial. But Liouville has done the work of a mad scientist very well, the n for his number just keeps growing. So it is not the root of a polynomial.
That is brilliant work for 1844. But the underlying idea is quite limited. Yes, he can prove that L is transcendental, but only because of the extremely weird way that L was constructed. What about pi? That is going to need a new and different idea
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happytoes 1 point 1.9 years ago
Medical research https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02299-w
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happytoes 0 points 1.9 years ago
Steven King doesn't understand how rights fit together. The lead right gives weight to the paper right.
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happytoes 1 point 1.9 years ago
I was a young man a long time ago, and I weep for the young men sent to die in stupid wars. The best solution to the problem with cluster bombs is not to have stupid wars, like the war of NATO expansion, or should I call it the Money Laundry War.
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happytoes 1 point 2.0 years ago
And it is back, at least when I paste the URL into a new, private window.
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