Good catch. It looks genuine when I find it on the [Zambian Observer](https://zambianobserver.com/limpopo-beneficiaries-braai-30-cows-awarded-to-them-to-start-farming-project/).
It is only the unclickable link at the bottom to [newsvine](https://newsvine.co.za/limpopo-beneficiaries-eat-30-cows-awarded-to-them-to-start-farming-project/) that gives the game away.
It is hard to suspect that this is satire, given the [history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Cape_Colony_from_1806_to_1870#Xhosa_cattle-killing_movement_and_famine_(1854%E2%80%931858%29)
> When she returned, she told her uncle Mhlakaza that she had met three spirits at the bushes, and that they had told her that all cattle should be slaughtered, and their crops destroyed. On the day following the destruction, the dead Xhosa would return and help expel the whites. The ancestors would bring cattle with them to replace those killed.[3] Mhlakaza believed the prophecy, and repeated it to the chief Sarhili.
For example, you read "Nothing that needs saying can be said briefly." and take away the idea that "Nothing important can be said briefly.". Whoops! Brevity has let the important point get lost.
There is a trick to saying important things in just a few words: *jargon*! It doesn't have to be jaw breakingly polysyllabic. One can achieve compression of meaning with a homely word or phrase, set in a context that evokes its special meaning. Economists do this with *comparative advantage* and also with *public goods*.
Some of your readers will understand; others will not. Who understands? Those who have studied the matter already. And in the course of their study they have already understood the important point. So yes, it was important, but no, it didn't need saying; they already knew. As for the others, since it is important, it does need saying; but how? It will have to be said at length, telling the stories behind the special phrases such as *comparative advantage* and *public goods*, because the true meaning resides in the long stories.
> Rosheisen got the cat three years ago to help lower his blood pressure. He tried to train him to call 911, unsure if the training ever stuck.
> The phone in the living room is always on the floor, and there are 12 small buttons — including a speed dial for 911 right above the button for the speaker phone.
So the cat only had to mash the buttons until he hit the speed dial for 911, and had already had lessons to encourage that. Still impressive, but the actual story it weak enough that it might be true :-)
After the Carrington-Event/EMP he will get his backup PC and his generator out of the Faraday cage in the survival bunker and be able to watch the X-files because he has the physical medium.
After tragedy struck, I wasn't sure how accounts carried over to the revived Voat and made a new account with a slightly different name for fear that a clash might complicate things. Having feral toes is the fault of [this internet cult](https://www.barefooters.org/). Being barefoot does keep my toes happy:-)
Peter Ridd has an interesting YouTube channel, for example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MUuJ1sAmA0
I thought that the lapse rate (air is colder at higher altitudes) was due to gravity, but Peter Ridd goes into the details of radiative transfer within the atmosphere. The easy to calculate bit (no convection, no weather) leads one to expect a huge green house effect. The hard to calculate bit (with convection and weather) is pretty much too hard to calculate, but it is what we experience and currently live with. More carbon dioxide probably means more convection, taking heat higher into the atmosphere, but only modest increases in surface temperatures.
That is a little disappointing. I live in Scotland and would welcome a ten degree centigrade increase in surface temperatures. As it is, I once again face enduring the bitter cold of the Scottish summer.
I don't like number five: Honour thy father and thy mother
It skips lightly over whether the parents are setting a good example or a bad example. And why give commandments to children? They have parents to knock some sense into them. It makes more sense to tell the parents to set a good example, so that their children will honour them naturally. It is the parents who have the autonomy and need instructions from God.
What about the [Gods of the copybook headings](https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_copybook.htm)?
The mechanistic reductionist materialism underpinning atheism is in trouble because it turns out that atoms are too small. Engineers design heat engines using pressure, temperature, and entropy. Sure, there are molecules rushing about, bumping into pistons and each other, but there are too many to count, too many to design with.
We want to know *why* "the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;". In theory molecular biology tells us the answer; in practice, no, that doesn't help at all.
I knew that two wires, running side by side, would attract each other if the current ran in the same direction in both. And now there are lots of videos [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW7PvSR9VUo) [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubOTTPD1GL0) [3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43AeuDvWc0k)
But it never occurred to me that the same applies when the "wire" is just ionized air, and that this leads to plasma from electrical discharges running in channels.
That said, the Plasma Cannon is a bit like a wrong way round [TOW ATGM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire-guided_missile). Each Plasma Cannon shot starts with a fine wire to guide the lightening strike to the target. The wire gets vaporized (good for one Amp, but carrying thirty thousand Amps) and I'm guessing that it is the metal from the wire burning that gives the shower of sparks along the line of the plasma channel.
> The General Secretary of the Communist Party stressed in October that nearly 70% of the state budget is spent on salaries and administrative expenses, leaving little room for essential investments in infrastructure and development.
which makes me think that real change is happening :-)
When I clicked, I thought it was going to be the [famous sculpture by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska](https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/289) but this is much better :-)
My guess is Greece. There are a lot of ancient ruins, a lot of tourists to take videos, and I remember seeing some lizards when I was a tourist myself.
I liked the way he built up the formula, first one point, then two, then three, then the general case. I coded along at home, writing some Common Lisp, structured the same way
https://pastebin.com/GY1YZUGz
In the last five minutes Elliot Nicholson warns that Lagrange Interpolation sometimes wiggles weirdly in between the given points. That is the Runge Spikes thing that I'm interested in.
I thought that I could generate a simple example by running my code. Let the points be (0,0), (1,0), (2,1), (3,0), (4,0). I'm expecting wiggles at the half-integer points.
[Raising of Chicago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago)
Highlights from the article
> During the 1850s and 1860s, engineers carried out a piecemeal raising of the grade of central Chicago to lift the city out of its low-lying swampy ground. Buildings and sidewalks were physically raised on jackscrews.
> In January 1858, the first masonry building in Chicago to be thus raised—a four-story, 70-foot-long (21 m), 750-ton (680 metric tons) brick structure situated at the north-east corner of Randolph Street and Dearborn Street—was lifted on two hundred jackscrews to its new grade, which was 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) higher than the old one, “without the slightest injury to the building.”
More "late nineteenth century" engineering that "shithole" engineering.
happytoes 1 point 1 week ago*
Good catch. It looks genuine when I find it on the [Zambian Observer](https://zambianobserver.com/limpopo-beneficiaries-braai-30-cows-awarded-to-them-to-start-farming-project/).
It is only the unclickable link at the bottom to [newsvine](https://newsvine.co.za/limpopo-beneficiaries-eat-30-cows-awarded-to-them-to-start-farming-project/) that gives the game away.
It is hard to suspect that this is satire, given the [history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Cape_Colony_from_1806_to_1870#Xhosa_cattle-killing_movement_and_famine_(1854%E2%80%931858%29)
> When she returned, she told her uncle Mhlakaza that she had met three spirits at the bushes, and that they had told her that all cattle should be slaughtered, and their crops destroyed. On the day following the destruction, the dead Xhosa would return and help expel the whites. The ancestors would bring cattle with them to replace those killed.[3] Mhlakaza believed the prophecy, and repeated it to the chief Sarhili.
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happytoes 1 point 4 weeks ago
Nothing that needs saying can be said briefly.
For example, you read "Nothing that needs saying can be said briefly." and take away the idea that "Nothing important can be said briefly.". Whoops! Brevity has let the important point get lost.
There is a trick to saying important things in just a few words: *jargon*! It doesn't have to be jaw breakingly polysyllabic. One can achieve compression of meaning with a homely word or phrase, set in a context that evokes its special meaning. Economists do this with *comparative advantage* and also with *public goods*.
Some of your readers will understand; others will not. Who understands? Those who have studied the matter already. And in the course of their study they have already understood the important point. So yes, it was important, but no, it didn't need saying; they already knew. As for the others, since it is important, it does need saying; but how? It will have to be said at length, telling the stories behind the special phrases such as *comparative advantage* and *public goods*, because the true meaning resides in the long stories.
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happytoes 1 point 1 month ago
https://xcancel.com/kanyewest/status/1920387087049572704
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happytoes 0 points 1 month ago
Are we going to get a forecast?
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happytoes 0 points 1 month ago
> Rosheisen got the cat three years ago to help lower his blood pressure. He tried to train him to call 911, unsure if the training ever stuck.
> The phone in the living room is always on the floor, and there are 12 small buttons — including a speed dial for 911 right above the button for the speaker phone.
So the cat only had to mash the buttons until he hit the speed dial for 911, and had already had lessons to encourage that. Still impressive, but the actual story it weak enough that it might be true :-)
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happytoes 3 points 2 months ago
After the Carrington-Event/EMP he will get his backup PC and his generator out of the Faraday cage in the survival bunker and be able to watch the X-files because he has the physical medium.
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happytoes 0 points 2 months ago
I was feral-toes on Voat.co
After tragedy struck, I wasn't sure how accounts carried over to the revived Voat and made a new account with a slightly different name for fear that a clash might complicate things. Having feral toes is the fault of [this internet cult](https://www.barefooters.org/). Being barefoot does keep my toes happy:-)
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happytoes 0 points 2 months ago*
Peter Ridd has an interesting YouTube channel, for example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MUuJ1sAmA0
I thought that the lapse rate (air is colder at higher altitudes) was due to gravity, but Peter Ridd goes into the details of radiative transfer within the atmosphere. The easy to calculate bit (no convection, no weather) leads one to expect a huge green house effect. The hard to calculate bit (with convection and weather) is pretty much too hard to calculate, but it is what we experience and currently live with. More carbon dioxide probably means more convection, taking heat higher into the atmosphere, but only modest increases in surface temperatures.
That is a little disappointing. I live in Scotland and would welcome a ten degree centigrade increase in surface temperatures. As it is, I once again face enduring the bitter cold of the Scottish summer.
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happytoes 0 points 3 months ago
Your link has England on 10.9 liters per year, and Ireland of 0.07 liters per year.
England drinks one hundred and forty times as much alcohol as Ireland? Maybe in the future when Ireland embraces Wahhabi Islam :-)
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happytoes 2 points 3 months ago
Broken for me.
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happytoes 0 points 3 months ago
I don't like number five: Honour thy father and thy mother
It skips lightly over whether the parents are setting a good example or a bad example. And why give commandments to children? They have parents to knock some sense into them. It makes more sense to tell the parents to set a good example, so that their children will honour them naturally. It is the parents who have the autonomy and need instructions from God.
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happytoes 2 points 3 months ago
I cannot go outside because I'm only a NPC :-(
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happytoes 0 points 3 months ago
What about the [Gods of the copybook headings](https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_copybook.htm)?
The mechanistic reductionist materialism underpinning atheism is in trouble because it turns out that atoms are too small. Engineers design heat engines using pressure, temperature, and entropy. Sure, there are molecules rushing about, bumping into pistons and each other, but there are too many to count, too many to design with.
We want to know *why* "the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;". In theory molecular biology tells us the answer; in practice, no, that doesn't help at all.
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happytoes 1 point 4 months ago
The original usury video is gone from YouTube, but https://rumble.com/v66o1rm-usury-and-the-one-group-exploiting-it-matt-kim-131.html
seems to be it.
/v/videos viewpost?postid=67af09e6aa063
happytoes 2 points 4 months ago
I knew that two wires, running side by side, would attract each other if the current ran in the same direction in both. And now there are lots of videos [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW7PvSR9VUo) [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubOTTPD1GL0) [3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43AeuDvWc0k)
But it never occurred to me that the same applies when the "wire" is just ionized air, and that this leads to plasma from electrical discharges running in channels.
That said, the Plasma Cannon is a bit like a wrong way round [TOW ATGM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire-guided_missile). Each Plasma Cannon shot starts with a fine wire to guide the lightening strike to the target. The wire gets vaporized (good for one Amp, but carrying thirty thousand Amps) and I'm guessing that it is the metal from the wire burning that gives the shower of sparks along the line of the plasma channel.
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happytoes 1 point 4 months ago
But only on a small scale, say two adults and three children.
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happytoes 0 points 4 months ago
The article was unusually explicit
> The General Secretary of the Communist Party stressed in October that nearly 70% of the state budget is spent on salaries and administrative expenses, leaving little room for essential investments in infrastructure and development.
which makes me think that real change is happening :-)
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happytoes 4 points 4 months ago
If you get stabbed, you will bleed out quickly, no painful lingering :-)
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happytoes -1 points 4 months ago
When I clicked, I thought it was going to be the [famous sculpture by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska](https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/289) but this is much better :-)
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happytoes 1 point 4 months ago
American housing is built with firewood and hot melt glue. I didn't realise that there were 496 hammers in America.
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happytoes 1 point 4 months ago
I live in Scotland; saved from hypothermia by sin!
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happytoes 3 points 4 months ago
My guess is Greece. There are a lot of ancient ruins, a lot of tourists to take videos, and I remember seeing some lizards when I was a tourist myself.
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happytoes 0 points 5 months ago
I liked the way he built up the formula, first one point, then two, then three, then the general case. I coded along at home, writing some Common Lisp, structured the same way
https://pastebin.com/GY1YZUGz
In the last five minutes Elliot Nicholson warns that Lagrange Interpolation sometimes wiggles weirdly in between the given points. That is the Runge Spikes thing that I'm interested in.
I thought that I could generate a simple example by running my code. Let the points be (0,0), (1,0), (2,1), (3,0), (4,0). I'm expecting wiggles at the half-integer points.
CL-USER> (funcall (make-poly '((0 . 0)(1 . 0)(2 . 1)(3 . 0)(4 . 0))) 2.5) => 0.703125
That is reasonable
CL-USER> (funcall (make-poly '((0 . 0)(1 . 0)(2 . 1)(3 . 0)(4 . 0))) 3.5) => -0.546875
That little dip is odd, but not too weird.
But if I try interpolating 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
CL-USER> (funcall (make-poly '((0 . 0)(1 . 0)(2 . 0)(3 . 0)(4 . 0)
(5 . 1)
(6 . 0)(7 . 0)(8 . 0)(9 . 0)(10 . 0)
)) 0.5)
=> 4.9335175
I get a weird answer at one half. Yah! My first Runge Spike!
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happytoes 0 points 5 months ago
Yes if you are [Ernst Röhm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6hm_scandal)
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happytoes 7 points 5 months ago
[Raising of Chicago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago)
Highlights from the article
> During the 1850s and 1860s, engineers carried out a piecemeal raising of the grade of central Chicago to lift the city out of its low-lying swampy ground. Buildings and sidewalks were physically raised on jackscrews.
> In January 1858, the first masonry building in Chicago to be thus raised—a four-story, 70-foot-long (21 m), 750-ton (680 metric tons) brick structure situated at the north-east corner of Randolph Street and Dearborn Street—was lifted on two hundred jackscrews to its new grade, which was 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) higher than the old one, “without the slightest injury to the building.”
More "late nineteenth century" engineering that "shithole" engineering.
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