FD4280
6mo ago
“esprit de corpse” is an excellent typo. Almost up there with “locust of control.”
FD4280
4mo ago
Shape the patty into a calf (bonus points if it contains veal) and color it golden with turmeric, then worship it.
FD4280
6mo ago
Probably the absence of low-flow design downstream of environmental regulations.
FD4280
9mo ago
https://jobs.nd.edu/ reads “Celebrate diversity with us. Be inclusive.” It’s certainly still a religious institution - just not for the same religion.
FD4280
2mo ago
This would be the literal manifestation of “If my aunt had balls, she’d be my uncle.” Human descendants who develop such technology would have changed enough in the intermediate steps to no longer be the same species.
FD4280
10mo ago
This isn’t just Harvard. It is every American university except the ones that admit anyone with a pulse (and wouldn’t turn down the living dead if someone paid their tuition), and perhaps a smattering of religious schools. Even Caltech debased their admissions not too long ago.
FD4280
6mo ago
You could get several thousand refugees settled in your neck of the woods.
FD4280
2mo ago
Zoom in a little. Muslim immigrants are not homogeneous. Persians might well be a net positive for their host countries. Pakistanis, in the aggregate, very much aren’t. Most other nationalities fall somewhere in between.
FD4280
3mo ago
According to Wiki, he lost his legs while serving in the US military in Afghanistan in 2010, and then volunteered in Israel (presumably not in a combat capacity) several years later. It’s not a good look, but he at least has dual loyalty!
FD4280
5mo ago
At the risk of preempting Ilforte, if he's still around:
В Академии наук
Заседает князь Дундук.
Говорят, не подобает
Дундуку такая честь;
Почему ж он заседает?
Потому что жопа есть.
Roughly, in English:
"In the Academy of Sciences
Sits Prince Dunduk.
People say that it's unfitting -
Not a place he should possess;
Why, then, is the fellow sitting?
It's because he has an ass."
IOW, anecdotal evidence of a broader casting couch.
FD4280
9mo ago
Suppose that Pop A has mean 100, sigma 15 and Pop B has mean 85, sigma 15.
The ratio shown above is not the same for the two populations. If the cutoff is 85 and the high mark is 100 instead, this is obvious without computing Z-scores.
FD4280
9mo ago
Could you include a little more background, or at least some links, in your post?
FD4280
7d ago
TIL that Goatse killed Gandhi, and we know all too well that Marat was slain by Tubgirl.
I don’t know who assassinated Pupienus, but there’s probably a fitting meme somewhere…
FD4280
10mo ago
A new insight to fill the last gap in my last graph theory paper. It was incredibly bitchy to prove the nonexistence of a counterexample in generality, but there suddenly appeared a bijection with a large but ultimately finite family of strings that could be ruled out case by case.
I’ve had the feeling before (research, homework, Project Euler). The secret sauce is 20+ hours of fruitless struggle beforehand :)
FD4280
4mo ago
Haley is the same old establishment. Ramaswamy bugs me on some level. De Santis would be preferable if he were not a lawyer.
FD4280
4mo ago
Maximally offensive version: StarCraft-style base trade. They capture Mecca and/or Medina.
Slightly less contentious version: they plop down in a no-man’s land somewhere between the Donbas and the Dnieper to act as a buffer between two countries that both hate them less than they do each other.
Maximally lazy version: they capture a chunk of Cyprus. It’s close by, and if Turkey can do it, why not them?
Trace,
At some point in the past, iirc in a discussion of LibsOfTiktok, I wrote that you can be counted upon to investigate only in the political direction that doesn’t threaten your daily kibble. I was wrong and you have my apology.
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