We sure punched above our weight until the foreigners finally got wise to it and started demanding we stop killing them. It was our innate sense of fair play that let us down in the end.

I think the MSM has the whole human experience covered, for the purposes of convincing the masses that some stereotypical person hates Trump.

TG and Jon are living in a fantasy world. Lol

Yes.

@jon-nyc said in Did Michigan Gov Whitmer just call for Trump's assassination?:

10 point positive favorable/unfavorable and is quite recent.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/06/whitmer-keeps-favorable-edge-michigan-voters-poll-finds/5898087002/

Yet more evidence that polls have no meaning.

If there was a ministry of truth and is was honest and fair, the democrat party would be gone within a week.

To show you how much I know about it, I thought he was talking about a whorehouse.....

Never been in one of those, and I was only in a titty bar one time in my life, and that was to adjust a projection tv the owner bought from me. And the place was closed.

By the way... contrary to the things I say here for humor that apparently caused one or two people to think I have an unhealthy view of women... the truth is I think women are the greatest thing God ever thought of, and I have a very healthy view of them.

@bachophile said in Puzzle Time - Baseball edition (not hard):

Klaus there is one thing you didn’t take into account.

New Yorkers would never lose to some wimpie alfalfa eating California team.

Call it the Big Apple advantage.

Plus, the New Yorkers will cheat.

What sort and amount of waste is produced?

OK, so this is what I got.

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Create an infinite grid of copies of the room by mirroring the room, with the original room in the center. Each copy gets a copy of Ax (but not of Larry). Now there's a 1:1 correspondence between the possible attacks and the straight lines from Ax copies to Larry.

Consider the set of midpoints of those straight lines, reflected back to the original rectangle.
They form 16 distinct points. Why only 16? It turns out that if you move by 4 rooms on the infinite grid in any direction, the midpoint (reflected back) is the same. Consider for instance the grid at (0,0) (the original room) vs (4,0). The midpoint lies in the room at (2,0), which has the same layout as the original room (because it was mirrored twice). That's why situation from (4,0) is basically like a magnified version of the original situation at (0,0). A similar argument can be made for moving by 4 rooms in any other direction. Hence it is sufficient to consider any 4x4 square of rooms.

If you are interested, I wrote a few lines of code to compute the coordinates that I'm happy to share.
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I didn't get past the 'Biden is a far-left liberal' claim.

Where I grew up our lefties were proper lefties, and they didn't call themselves bloody liberals, either.

Diamond Joe, meh.

Louisiana has always been in the top five.

New Orleans + stupidity.

Good news for Floridians. They can vote him out of office without voting him in as a neighbor.

You put a swift end to that in April of 2005.

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@Loki said in "They wanted a fight, we'll give them one." The Expanse Season 5:

I just took the plunge. S1 E1 and 2. I’m in the grasp.

I found it really difficult to get into, even after the first 2 episodes of Season 1. Then, with season 3, BOOM! It all made sense.

What I like about it is that the authors have said that they know how the story will end, and how it's going to go. No doubt there are differences between the books (there are 8, with one more to come) and the series, but the series is following the books pretty closely. Season 5, coming in December will parallel the 5th book.

There's TONS of geeky Expanse stuff on the web, especially YouTube. What everyone loves is the approach to hard science: no FTL travel, no artificial gravity, the only concession that they've made so far is the "Epstein Drive" - a remarkably efficient drive that can sustain acceleration for a long time with minimal use of propellant. With a 1g acceleration, it's possible to get from one planet to another in a matter of days, rather than months (look it up!).

Welcome to the crowd, beltalowda!

Wait 'till you meet Drummer...she's the hawt.

@Jolly said in Hey, Horace?:

PT works, but most of the time you can do a lot of the stuff at home, not needing as many visits.

I agree that PT works, in fact it's indispensable, if taken for what it is. Again, I have limited and focused experience, but PT for a quad tendon boils down to waiting for the repair to heal, so the connection is strong, then flexing and extending the joint as much as possible to regain flexibility. Like duh. That is the PT for a quad tendon injury. They will hand wave lots of stuff at the PT office, but the joint only moves two ways, flexing and extending. So what exactly are you going to have to do, if you want to regain that functionality? The body is doing the work of healing. The surgery does the work of making the connection that the body will heal to. The patient does the work of waiting till it's safe to move, then moving as much as is safe. The PT office does the work of hand waving huge complexity to the whole process and taking up an enormous amount of time from the patient, and a decent amount of money from the insurance company. Yes, they also do some basic education and hand holding (so to speak) through the process. But no, I don't want to spend the first 5 minutes of my appointment waiting in the waiting room, then the next 15 with a hot towel wrapped around my hand and then swishing my hand through their ice water. A process so useless they never even bother asking you to do it at home. I don't want to do that when I fit this into my own schedule. Waking up early 2 days per week, driving to the office, driving back. I would hope that it was obviously worth my while.