@jolly said in Peer-to-peer: What I don't understand, is that in poll after poll, a vast majority of Americans are for voter ID. Yet, doing away with it is a perpetual Dem issue. If you don't have election integrity, you don't have a Republic. I don't get it either. The only reason I can think of is they felt it benefited them. Remember the left having no problem deporting Cubans back to Cuba? That's because polls showed they overwhelmingly supported conservative policies and would probably vote conservative, if they could vote. Dem's wanted nothing to do with that.

@copper said in In Wuhan, October 2019: @george-k said in In Wuhan, October 2019: and so many cases of a mysterious virus afflicted the Canadian team Maybe they should get tested. Only if they are BIPOC. Privileged people shouldn’t get tested. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/01/covid-test-shortage/621149/

I'm not convinced. I'd be skeptical if somebody would show me photos that look too "car magazine" like. It's easier to extrapolate what the car actually looks like from "normal" photos. I'd rather spend time and money to make the car actually look nice, i.e., have it cleaned/detailed properly.

I think it's as simple as we dislike them for various reasons and they hate us, because we simply exist.

@george-k said in Ever wonder how...: @jolly did you catch "the shake" at the end? That's how to tell it's a male.

Nice

I wonder why anyone would waste a microsecond of their life to "fact check" this.

I never made much progress on this week’s puzzle but it looks like the Fibonacci observation was not irrelevant after all. SOLUTION: Let m and n be the two stack sizes.  You (if you are next to play) are immediately stuck when m = n.  Thus, if instead m > n and m is a multiple of n, you can win by eating m − n pancakes off of the m−stack, reducing it to size n.  For example, if the short stack has just one pancake, you are in great shape. What if m is only close to a multiple of n?  Suppose, for example, that m = 9 and n = 5.  Then you are forced to reduce to m = 4, n = 5, but your opponent must now give you a 1-stack.  If m = 11 and n = 5, you have a choice, but reducing to m = 6, n = 5 wins for you. It's beginning to look like you want to make the ratio of the stacks small for your opponent, forcing her to make the ratio big for you.  Let's see.  Suppose the current ratio r = m/n is strictly between 1 and 2; then the next move is forced and the new ratio is 1/(1−r).  These ratios are equal only for r = phi = (1+ sqrt 5)/2 ~ 1.618, the golden mean; since phi is irrational, one of the two ratios r and 1/(1−r) must exceed phi while the other is smaller than phi.  Aha!  Thus, when you present your roommate with r < phi she must make it bigger, then you make it smaller, etc., until she's stuck with r = 1 and must lose! We conclude that you win exactly when the initial ratio of larger to smaller stack exceeds phi, in which case you can always make a move that reduces the ratio to less than phi.  To see this, suppose m > phi n, but m is not a multiple of n.  Write m = an + b, where 0 < b < n.  Then either n/b < phi, in which case you eat an, or n/b > phi, in which case you eat only (a−1)n.  This leaves your roommate with a ratio below phi, and faced with a forced move which restores a ratio greater than phi.

@lufins-dad said in False Flag in Seattle: Maybe they should be defunded. This is insane. +1

6 killed https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/wall-rock-falls-boaters-brazilian-lake-die-82153316

Yep. I don't care and I don't want to know about it anymore than I would tell you about my own private life.

Yes, we just need to build another Google. Get right on that, willya?

@lufins-dad said in Another "game changer" - low cost Texas vaccine: 6-8 months ago, you probably could have picked off 10-15% of the antivax crowd with this. Especially if it provides lasting protection. Now everybody is dug into their positions. It's a shame Warp Speed didn't commit some resources to this. You, sir, are right.

I grew up with FTroop. Then I saw Larry Storch in Vegas and was surprised how foul mouthed his act was.

@jon-nyc said in Update: @george-k said in Update: Yeah...who died, by what causes? Ashli Babitt died of lead poisoning. Some of us are more turned on by that than others.

In the United States today, the White population (not including Hispanics) is 57.8%. In real life Caucasians are still in the majority, but now on TV and the Internet they are swept under the rug like trash. Blacks compose 14% of the U.S. population but appear in 50% of commercials. White actors now appear for promotion of health insurance, gold, loans and some medicines. Moreover, if a White person appears in a commercial, he/she is usually old, sick, a freak, or at the very least, an appendage to a Black partner. If there's a doctor on the screen, he's usually Black, while the patient is usually White. Caucasian young men appear in only 4% of the commercials! If some aliens began to study the population of Planet Earth through our TV commercials they would have a somewhat distorted picture of Americans, to put it mildly. Yes, I questioned this here a while ago. I think it is nice that tv ads are being used to correct the policies of 18th century government. But I wonder how this happens. Does the advertiser call the ad agency and ask for a specific skin color? Does the ad agency push whatever color they have in stock? Does the right skin color lead to more sales? Is there a scale that shows sales per pigmentation ratio?