@xenon said in Double Mutant: There needs to be a global effort to tamp this thing down and get vaccines everywhere. We're one bad mutation away from being screwed. At the same time, the number of actual outcomes is very limited. It can't mutate into literally everything and anything. So we still have a shot.

@lufins-dad I tried Locke and key, but then I got tired of it (and then I read what happens and decided I didn’t want to watch it any more ) Shadow and bone is pretty confusing - lots of stories going on at once.

Love it! Some people would pay extra for that texturing effect. I hope they leave it that way. "Directions? We're at the duck house. You can't miss it."

I remember that I was sole pioneer of tripping in my peer group in the mid to late 70s. The first time I took acid, I took a hit of purple micro-dot and tripped all by myself for the next 14 hours or so. I did have some of my friends close by at the start and of course they had to fuck with me, trying to get me to freak out. lol I had to go home eventually and "sleep" lol. No sleep that night. Just a 15 year old kid in his bed alone, experiencing LSD for the first time. It was a magical, mesmerizing, and at times, scary experience. It lasted so long, and prevented me from sleeping even though I was extremely tired. That felt like torture. It was the longest "buzz" and I did wonder if it would ever stop, and more than worried that it wouldn't. But it did, and I woke up the next day with a entirely different outlook on so many things. After my friends saw that I survived the trip, they all started doing it. We had some wild parties.

Titanic. You have to see it through 'til the end - trust me.

@george-k said in No more fact-checking.: USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/04/29/fact-check-joe-bidens-first-speech-congress/4886570001/ Biden said he inherited the “worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.” But when he took office, the economy had recovered some from its low point earlier in the pandemic. He repeated the debunked claim that he had “traveled over 17,000 miles” with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Biden referred to the American Jobs Plan creating “millions of jobs” and generating “trillions of dollars in economic growth.” The jobs estimate is accurate, but economic growth projections are mixed. The president said he is “restoring the program” to address the causes of migration from Northern Triangle countries that “the last administration decided … was not worth it.” Although funding for the initiative declined and was delayed during the Trump administration, it wasn’t completely eliminated, as Biden’s remark may have suggested. Biden said the “vast majority” of the “over 11 million undocumented folks” in the U.S. overstayed a visa. But immigration experts estimate that most people living in the U.S. illegally crossed the southern border without authorization. By WaPo standards, that means Biden lied 6,016,500 times in that speech.

Civil lawsuits are a feature of our democracy and happen all the time. I don’t see the value in making this a political issue and if the laws applicable to a Capitol Police Officer are different than others then there is a process to change that. If an arbitrary standard is being applied to withhold his name then that should be pointed out.

@george-k said in Stowaway: @horace said in Stowaway: I thought it was groundbreaking that both lead characters are women. Yes, and a POC and an Asian! They were in a safe space, but due to white male supremacy, they had to leave earth to find it. Sad.

@jon-nyc said in Puzzle time - rolling a die: But you were on the right track with your logic, I'm not sure where it went wrong. I thought about this again. My model computes a subtly different probability. p(13,6) = 0.5138 means that if I roll the dice 13 times, then in 51.38% of the cases I'll hit all 6 numbers. If I do this only 12 times, then in 43.8%. I verified this with a simulation and it is indeed true. But that's different from "how many times do you need to roll a die before all six different numbers have turned up?". That's an expected value that averages over any number of rolls: Sometimes I need just 6 rolls, and if I'm unlucky I may need 500. So I have answered a related but different question that would have been a nice follow-up puzzle

LOL https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/1387825889094819844?s=20

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@axtremus see the "Fact Checking" thread for more analysis from other sources.

FFS.

@doctor-phibes said in Kass on Fake Italian Beef: @horace said in Kass on Fake Italian Beef: There's a chance they might be able to make a reasonable fake italian beef or low-quality burger at some point. There is no chance they'll ever make a passable fake ribeye or porterhouse, not in our lifetimes. Dude, they flew a helicopter on freaking Mars. There's every chance. Just the variation from different breeds and different feeding methods, all that nature, is not going to be replicable in the lab. They'll eventually make something in the lab, but it'll be different. Not to worry though, there won't be a lack of folk eager to claim that it's actually better.