But you don't have to focus on it.

No we’re not. I graphed out the sum of lightbulbs that were on in each state change (every toggle changes the sum by +-1) so it moves around in a jerky continuous fashion). That formed a narrow bell curve.

When I say early ones, I did it to the completion of the cycle, or even multiple cycles for smaller n. I did also graph them for n=100 but just for the first few million ticks.

The Constitution doesn't mention not allowing your children to play on the freeway, either.

Heh:

"Purple Nurple Drink Recipe -
1 shot @Bootlegger21 Vodka
1 oz. Grape Juice
1 oz. Kool-Aid (Grape)
2 oz. Wilderberry Schnapps."

Maybe the last time I rode a roller Coaster was the old cyclone at Coney Island.

Ain’t that the truth.

I like Frey (super liberal and all) trying to inject some reason into this hysteria. The council needs to be careful this could lead to a decades long implosion of the city. I’ve never seen an overreaction like this before.

@Loki said in White Actors Stop Playing Non-White Characters:

@Axtremus said in White Actors Stop Playing Non-White Characters:

@Loki said in White Actors Stop Playing Non-White Characters:

Can I play more than 1 religious, race or whatever card.

Yes, it's called intersectionality.

Yup, so my question was is that okay if you play that card?

I thought I answered yes to that question already. You can play that card.

I just sent him an email, thanking him.
I've started to do that. Not sure if it matters, but makes me think I'm doing something even marginally worthwhile.

@Loki said in Bounties on American soldiers:

@xenon said in Bounties on American soldiers:

WH statement on this:

The United States receives thousands of intelligence reports a day, and they are subject to strict scrutiny. While the White House does not routinely comment on alleged intelligence or internal deliberations, the CIA director, national security adviser, and the chief of staff can all confirm that neither the president nor the vice president were briefed on the alleged Russian bounty intelligence.

This does not speak to the merit of the alleged intelligence but to the inaccuracy of The New York Times story erroneously suggesting that President Trump was briefed on this matter

They’re saying that Trump wasn’t briefed, but don’t call the story directly into question.

So you don’t think that the Russians are playing tit for tat that this is intentional escalation of tensions? Where does your curiosity end? I thought you were super interested in foreign policy?

How many Russian soldiers died in Syria as a direct or indir3ct result of the Us and US money?

In terms of my opinion on Syria. The US and Russia were both obv against ISIS - but aligned with different factions on the ground. Your point is that some of factions we backed were anti-Russian.

If that’s what we’re talking about that feels different than directly targeting Russians.

An imperfect analogy would be - any scale bombing campaign is going to invariably kill innocent people, but that’s different than targeting innocent people.

All that said - the facts on this situation are still unclear.

Tis, thanks. I added the masa, a few small red and orange sweet peppers, a dozen cherry tomatoes halved and some umami granules. Delicious. Now I have it all packaged up in 6 serving containers for the freezer. I love to have that stuff handy when I don't feel like cooking.

It would have been better if I had a container of the red roasted chiles, but I'd have to go 15 miles to Jungle Jim's to get it and I just haven't felt like it. Now I'm out of chiles so I'll have to.

Bueno products are really, really good.

@Renauda said in Trump clarifies his platform:

@Jolly

A topic for a thread of its own.

Historiography by David Glantz and more recently, David Stahel and Stephen Kotkin all maintain the USSR would have eventually defeated Germany on its own. No question however that Lend Lease equipment was crucial in enabling the Soviets to gain and maintain logistical and mobile superiority over the Germans. The USSR simply out produced and ultimately outsoldiered Germany by sheer force of numbers.

Another thing that must be considered, especially in the early stages, is the quality of what was left of the Red Army officer corps and the tight control of the political officers.

@LuFins-Dad said in Who here was in the piano business?:

@ILM Sales and Sales Management. I manage a showroom for the Yamaha/Bösendorfer dealer in Washington, DC. I also run our Institutional Sales (Colleges, Schools, Etc...) department.

Lu-Fin, Very nice. Maybe post the website?

@Jolly said in Trump & Immigration:

@xenon said in Trump & Immigration:

I really don’t understand the border issue.

I remember a talk between Ezra Klein and Andrew Sullivan.

Klein is super lefty (vox guy) - but even he understood that the border needs to be controlled. If for nothing else but protecting safety net spending.

There seems to be a basic compromise here somewhere - but as Mik says in another thread - there’s been no real movement here for decades now.

Seems a dumb position for Democrats to hold out on. It was half of Trump’s appeal in the first election.

The Dems hold out on it, because immigrants, legal or illegal, tend to vote Democrat.

That’s a pretty cynical take and would require unspoken coordination across Dems.

I think the simpler explanation is that they’re playing by the old playbook of winning Latinos (which is where the traditional Repubs thought they needed to pivot in 2016). Remember Jeb’s guacamole?

I think the current reality is that they’re losing more regular middle class white votes than they’re gaining across Latinos by being pro-easy-immigration. I think many Latinos who are here and vote probably want border control too.

I'm not sure I know what your point is but its more than optics. The protests surely spread disease.

That is funny!!

@Horace said in Don’t try this at home:

In several weeks I’ll be having a tendon from a different finger attached to my thumb. My brain will think I’m moving that finer and my thumb will move. Until it trains itself to think otherwise.

Horace - hope all goes well, and you get back (most of) the movement you had before.

A friend from Taiwan lost his thumb and they attached one of his big toes in place of it. It obviously looked a bit unusual but seemed to work pretty good for him.