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barren_samadhi

  • Commented on Place your bets
    Did anyone notice?.... Supposedly the megaminds in California had the spiffing idea of allowing Gpt4 to program itself and direct other instances of itself and have Internet access. Within days, someone might have run botnets to short a bank and...
  • Commented on Place your bets
    When all textbooks have gone digital, and the digital sphere is full of convincing-sounding contradictory information, how can we know what’s true? Yes the bards warned us of this long ago - collective remembering of lore does not have...
  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    Trains again? I happened to train from saarbreuken (Germany near the fr/lu border) to utrecht recently, only 4 changes. Took about 4 or 5 hours Iirc (one of the connections was late). I was quite surprised at seeing several blind...
  • Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
    This isn't 'the great patriotic war' I imagine the stoltenbergs are wild keen to go all in with the land war in Asia against an apparent clownoid army Then the trap closes? "you first"......
  • Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
    cubic miles well, math and wine don't mix, who knew. Anyway, another go at it gets me: given a) 50 GT yearly carbon emissions b) 1 Ton pulverised olivine absorbs 1 Ton CO2 c) ~ 2.5 tons olivine per...
  • Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
    climate crisis Okay: 1 cubic mile of pulverised Olivine Rock will absorb about 1 year's worth of CO2 emissions; ie. about 35^6 tonnes. Thats around 15km * 15km * 1km deep....
  • Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
    Kruschev and the Supreme Soviet didn't put missiles in Cuba for shits and giggles, they did it because they were terrified of the USAF Thor IRBMs based in Turkey, with a flight time of around five minutes to Moscow....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
    mhari .. pronounced i grew up around untold herds of variations on this theme .. moy-ra, mwirrah, may-ree, may-wah, 'n' stuff. i tend to subvoc muh-harry, alike to something south-asian, but then glitch over to thinking it's perhaps meant...
  • Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
    lightweight water filtration systems I just drink (in ireland) clear surface water where i see it. 50+ years on, no liverfluke or amoebic dysentry (etc)...
  • Commented on Cough Cough
    I have the mental image of the capitalist elite trying to collectively gnaw it's own leg off to get out of the late-stage trap...
  • Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
    (bronze swords / training ) "She is a legendary Scottish warrior woman and martial arts teacher who trains the legendary Ulster hero Cú Chulainn in the arts of combat." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc%C3%A1thach The trainee demigod hails from a place with habitation traces...
  • Commented on COVID-19
    FYI we get to see how prepared are the various global powers are for a WBD Bioweapon strike. It's clear public health wonks don't read tom clancy...
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    monkey tennis?...
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
    Isn't parliament needed to make necessary legislation a lot of people misunderstand: A50 was triggered, so the flotilla of treaties that makes the EU will expire, for the UK, at 2 years plus extra time. any 'deal' is just...
  • Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
    Nice monthly-updated sea ice graphs if u like that sort of thing.. https://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2019/02/piomas-february-2019.html#more...
  • Commented on Crawling from the wreckage
    yucca In Finland they're just digging a hole, 520 meters deep in stable bedrock. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repository There was a film about it, 'into eternity'...
  • Commented on Crawling from the wreckage
    The war in Syria is winding down, so that at least is less bad. Also the north/South Korean situation seems less fraught....
  • Commented on Peak Brexit
    I'm guessing an editor macro that ends up grepping some HTML (that fun link) https ://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags...
  • Commented on Peak Brexit
    lizard people .. antisemitism Wut?! Bait'n'switch huh. As they say over here, "a Catholic Jew or a Protestant Jew?" assumed it was a poetic ref to sociopathic aristos à la Patrick Melrose...
  • Commented on Peak Brexit
    David Icke ? The aliens-lizards guy ? He's cross between mork-n-mindys exidor (https://youtu.be/hDnbJjuVVYk) and "they live" drizzled with jus de Erik 'alien pyramids' von daniken....
  • Commented on Peak Brexit
    guess name Like Mrs Doyle ? https://youtu.be/LgcEaq0xTMo...
  • Commented on Peak Brexit
    "trading a sandwich for sex" For postbrexit starving hipsters eating the rich, a "pulled long pork sandwich"...
  • Commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
    Yes JBS remembers the Iraqi casus bellum like I do. I worked with a lot of middle-easterners back then in 1990 and the Saudis were very pissed off with the west as they had cooked up the shared pillage of...
  • Commented on Typo Hunt: The Labyrinth Index
    Likewise : Orbit, Android 8, Kindle 8.12.0.59 has 109. Found 109 as a search string, so more likely a content than rendering issue...
  • Commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
    In montypythonic terms, brexit is upperclass twits buying a parrot in a cheese shop....
  • Commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
    Ukrainian 'solution' ? Scotland as crimea (critical naval asset), and NI as donbass. Trafalgar Sq as maidan. UKip as ukrofascists. Irish army can shell belfast occasionally if required. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/28/vladimir-putin-ukraine-crisis-eu...
  • Commented on What do you know about my inner demons?
    Apart from faces, gait is also very useful for identification...
  • Commented on What do you know about my inner demons?
    Someone I know getting some therapy recently had links to abusive nasty vids pop in thier feed, provoking horror and rage. Social media are become like hallucinogens that reflect our unconscious back to us, loosening our hold on objective reality....
  • Commented on Happy Halloween!
    World dying Well I figure if I rearrange my deckchair I can watch it from here, with some great scfi to read...
  • Commented on Happy Halloween!
    How to pronounce Mhari ? M'hari ? Moyree ? Mary ?...
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