Cool! I’ve found most zoos are unique and worth a visit. Heck, I’ve also found some of the best things are searching for local zoos while traveling. You can often find a place that has tigers, lions, bears, oh my yes you can. Often for cheap and includes feeding.

@loki said in New Master & Commander:

Back in. Surgery scene.

I assume you're talking about the amputation scene. Yeah, that's disturbing.

But the bigger context to that scene is the absolute devotion that these officers had to God, Country and King. This boy embodied that, and it, though disturbing, makes you understand what these officers, who got their positions either from family or purchase, went through.

But, watch the "History Buffs" video for some context. It'll make you appreciate the move more, not only in terms of the story-telling, but also in terms of the art of filmmaking.

@copper said in What do these four countries have in common? At least two things.:

So China has decided that it is time for us to hate them.

Trump exposed China for its duplicity and now there are few doves in the US to defend them. China got very cocky but may feel now is the time to run the table anyway. Their last gift was the US media that sold the narrative that the Lab covid origin theory was a conspiracy theory.

The media literally walked from the potential cover up of the century.

I have no problem with 15%, I can’t figure out how that makes us going from 21 to 28% more palatable. Maybe it’s too early for that political analysis.

@george-k said in Now I understand phone evolution...:

See @Klaus 's "Glasses" thread.

🤣

@jolly said in US daily Covid deaths trend:

@lufins-dad said in US daily Covid deaths trend:

The weird thing? Hospitalizations fell drastically in Mid-January. From 128K on January 14th, the numbers started dropping over 1000 a day every day over 2 weeks and then by February 1st, the numbers started dropping by over 2000 per day. There were fewer than 2 million vaccinated by that point, and almost all were seniors. It really drives home how targeted this disease was for the elderly.

I'd like to see some figures for population density vs. mortality.

Normalized against the number of cases for each segment?

If you'll mistreat an animal, you'll mistreat a human.

Some people just need killin'.

Others just need a good old-fashioned whuppin'. With a trace chain.

@george-k said in The Woke Docs:

@jolly in the days of open cholecystectomies, a surgical attending told the junior resident to go see Mrs. Jones on post-op day #2 and pull her drain.

The resident pulled the t-tube.

(Jolly and @bachophile will understand this)

There was a lot of weeping there as well. I don't know the outcome, sad to say.

Hahaha.

Poor patient. and poor resident. Probably color blind. Can’t see the difference between green and yellow. (Bike is green, serous fluid is yellow)

I did actually briefly think about which numbers one could construct that way, but then thought that that was not was they were after.

But now that they brought it up, I have a follow-up puzzle:

For which class of numbers in the two intervals is the infinite sequence of signs constructible by a finite machine?

For instance, for pi^2 /6, this is obviously possible: The machine just constructs an infinite stream of "+".

But for most numbers that wouldn't be possible: There are uncountably many numbers in the interval but only countably many machines.

Gavin's getting a little jittery about now.

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@89th said in The "How much do you pay?" thread:

Thanks all! Looks like my costs will be similar to most of you...

We also pay $60 a month for a home warranty in case any appliances break down.

Check the details on that home warranty and look for their outs. Like if you did not maintain every single thing in the manner they prescribe.

@klaus said in Microsoft, wtf?:

It could also be that they accidentally activated a feature that was supposed to work only in some countries.

Knowing how big software shops typically deploy their software across multiple cloud installations across the globe, I deem this to be the most likely explanation.

@george-k said in More on China:

One of the most remarkable—and remarkably corrupt—things about our culture is that it is intensely fashionable to disparage, condemn, or slander American government, American history, and America itself.

You don't say...

@lufins-dad said in CDC recommendation to vax teenagers:

200 kids out of 21,000,000

Seems like you're using the wrong denominator. No way that 21,000,000 kids got covid.