I have loved reading Meachum’s books. Franklin and Winston comes to mind. That said he is an active advocate of Biden which should be noted, not wearing dispassionate historian hat on this one.

@loki Yeah, that one got to me too.

Shit gotta file mine.

CBS: "Police in Houston have taken a 26-year-old suspect, who earlier on Monday was accused of fleeing from police with his pet tiger, into custody." More: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/houston-tiger-victor-cuevas-murder-charge/

Etsy sent me those emails for both Mother's Day and Father's Day. I opted out of both. Some people don't want to get those emails, and I'm one of those people. I wish more retailers would offer the opt out feature. Etsy is trying to be nice, and I appreciate it.

In light of what is going on in India is it possible that Denmark and Norway are just whistling past the graveyard?

A regular Doc Bloomfield.

@jon-nyc said in Puzzle time: the runt of random points: @Horace My original intuition was similar to yours but with a different formula. The probabilities would be additive, not multiplicative, no? So if m is the expected minimum value, that meant that: 10 * p(x<m) = 0.5, or p(x<m) = 0.05 which gave me 1/20. But as you pointed out that would be a median value, the mean would be higher than that. My formula gives the correct median. It's the chance of rolling higher than "x" 10 times in a row, so multiplicative.

@loki said in "The President's words don't represent the position of the administration.": An old white man is not allowed to have a position if it varies from the critical race theory crowd. It is OK in Oklahoma. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/oklahoma-governor-bans-critical-race-gender-based-theory-in-public-schools-and-universities Oklahoma governor bans critical race, gender-based theory in public schools and universities 'Now more than ever, we need policies that bring us closer together – not rip us apart,' said Gov. Kevin Stitt

I have been sent an email from Emily from China asking me to review products. Once my review was up, they would refund the price of the product through Pay Pal (like the article says). I did it once for exercise bands. They weren't terrible, but weren't great. I probably would have given them 4-5 stars as they did what they were advertised to do. However, since I knew I was going to get the price back, I did feel bad if I did not give them 5 stars. That was the only time I did it.

Mr. Biden, save your breath...

racists

idiots

Interestingly You Tube and my streaming apps are about the only apps I actually want to understand me enough to make good recommendations, but i only say that because it struck me as I was reading your thread. Generally because I don’t understand how I am ultimately tracked I wish not to be. Secondly, we play jeopardy online. I just say Alexa, let’s play Jeopardy. Anyway based on all my answers over 100 games I am pretty sure they know me better than I do. (Alexa remains unplugged except for that one thing, LOL).

The solution (I have been told) is for employers to offer higher wages. Almost feels like extortion...

couple of regular Jaime Lannisters. The misdirection of throwing the sword to the side after a slashing attack was masterful.