@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.

Maybe we need to make a few more things here. Maybe start with steel, computer chips and pharmaceuticals.

Just some really long gloves.

@horace said in Violent crime and politics.: @jolly said in Violent crime and politics.: As police across the country are leaving cities in droves and it becomes harder to recruit new officers, To what extent is this going on? Clearly, white people entering the police force these days are doing so with the understanding that they'll get figuratively spit on for being in their profession, so it must be going on to a meaningful extent. NYPD had a 75% increase in cops quitting the force or retiring, 2020 vs. 2019. Denver had a 61% increase. Chicago cops are retiring at twice the rate if the previous year. Portland had a record number of cops retire. Seattle had the most cops leave in a decade. Most of the cops leaving the force across the nation, tend to be retirements or early retirements. But they sre retiring in droves.

There are no benefits to those who pay taxes

That was from several years ago. I recall us discussing it in the old place.

@horace lol

I can’t believe the parents sued rather than tanning her hide.

OK, I'm not going to waste the electrons and seconds by wading through that piece. I'll simply say, "What the actual fuck are they talking about?" Or, "Global cooling, er... warming Climate change, is there anything it can't do?"

@copper said in Baton-wielding LA cop scares youngster.: Our golf course has lots of those babies at the moment Flying rats...

I did not expect social media to die this fast. We used to laugh at this for very different reasons. I’m wondering if I should be scared.

That's a lot of hot dogs.