Alright, admit you used google fu on that one.

I'd be happy for them to scrap gendered categories. Not because of gender identification, just to make the awards ceremonies shorter.

Yeah, here’s another way to think about it. Imagine constructing an ancestor tree going back 40 generations, which is roughly 1000 years. The top line (listing all your great^38 grandparents) would literally have over a trillion entires (2^40). Obviously a trillion people weren’t alive then or ever, so what you’d see in practice is the same men and women appearing over and over in that tree. But the same men reappear in that tree at a much higher frequency than the women do.

@george-k said in Black Friday Weekend from 1961: @lufins-dad said in Black Friday Weekend from 1961: I’m surprised at how expensive those items were. Indeed. Now, look at the price of a gallon of gas. I paid 25¢ a gallon in the late 1960s. That translates to about $1.99 a gallon today. But...I was glad to get 12 mpg back then. Today, 30 is considered good.... Fuel for your car is cheaper than it was back then. Air travel is one of the items that I constantly point at. Air travel used to be far more expensive…

What was the GKSR for 'If it weren't for hypocrisy...'?

@aqua-letifer said in Random thought: Socks, too, or just the shoes? Either would work, I'd think.

@doctor-phibes said in In the interest of fairness: Well, my first thought was 'Jesus Christ, this place looks like a Donald Trump hotel!' Apart from the smell, of course. That was fall-out-of-my-chair funny.

I don’t believe anyone has claimed a turkey shortage (though it’s possible there are regional shortages due to transport issues) if they honestly believe pricing is only based on supply/demand or price gouging… Well that explains a whoooooole lot.

La Wiki says he worked at Bear Sterns in 1980. I guess they were at 55 Water then.

Doubling the units would be my suggestion too. Also find something to cover it. It will reduce evaporation and help hold temp. They sell 22 qt tubs that should hold a turkey, especially if you cut it up and bag the parts separately. Still, a noble experiment. Glad it turned out well.

I'm surprised he is interested. Still, if they were truly looking for a rising star, their words, why pick a 70 year old? Of course he has a track record with Biden's Cancer Moonshot. Maybe bach can tell us whether that ever went anywhere.

Alternative headline : Four guys on Twitter brag about taking up arms.

Something triggered it but it was likely inadvertent. 40 young men against one 82 year old man. Makes me rethink my opposition to capital punishment. If they wish to be animals perhaps they should be put down like them.

They've fallen into the same hole CNN did. At some point there is just nothing left to say worth hearing so it just goes to blather and stirring unnecessary controversy.

Life finds a way.

Wow.

@klaus said in Speaking of dates in the past.: I want to know how an 1843 fax machine worked. https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/fax/history-of-fax.htm The process Bain used relied on electrochemistry and mechanics, which he mastered during his days as an instrument and clock maker. Bain saw that telegraphs of the day were slowed by simple mechanics. He also noted that invention relied on electrical impulse, which he thought could be harnessed in a way that would create visual messages, speeding the process. The chemical telegraph Bain invented, which would later be modified to become the first fax machine, at first simply sent "long" and "short" lines, which a telegraph operator could interpret quickly. The process was a success and the electrochemical process it used was a major leap forward for future fax technology. Bain later applied the chemical telegraph idea to sending images. To send rudimentary pictures, Bain made a copy of the picture in copper and then discarded everything except the actual lines of the picture he wanted to send. His process next used a pair of pendulums, synchronized at a distance by an electromagnet. He fitted the pendulum with a contact beneath it and swung it over the copper picture. Each time the contact touched the copper image, it would send an electrical impulse racing over the wire to the identical synchronized pendulum swinging over some chemically treated paper. The chemical in the paper darkened when touched by the energized pendulum. Both the sending picture and the receiving paper moved beneath each pendulum by 1 millimeter following each pendulum swing, resulting in a "scan" of the original and a copy printed on the other end, which eventually resulted in the copper image from the sending pendulum being duplicated on the paper. Bain used a solution of nitrate ammonia and purssiate of potash to treat the paper that received the picture. When touched by the electrical impulse, the solution decomposed leaving a bluish stain. This created the first fax pages.