What's on your mind?

[Miauzi]

Am 22.04.2023 um 01:04 Uhr sagte Evaloves4:

> Ich wollte um dieses Thema keinen Krieg anfangen. Ich habe nichts gegen Transgender. Ich wollte mich nur mit weiblichen Sportlerinnen als Frau konsolidieren, die das Engagement von Transgendern im Frauensport als unfair ansieht. Das ist alles.

 

The term "trangender" alone is completely wrong here...

..because the whole discussion comes from the field of intersexuality ... that has nothing to do with "trans" - but these goddamn shitty media deliberately didn't separate them - you can get more attention (and clicks) that way to generate

I've been watching the total bullshit that's been released here for years - it just sucks what's all wildly mixed up there.

and honestly...I'm tired of trying to take this apart every 1-2 years...it requires basic medical knowledge that 99.9999% of the population DO NOT have.

And so it comes to the actually absurd situation - that people do something fundamentally wrong ... with the intention of wanting something good ... because they are not familiar with the background

[KoolHndLuke]

Misuse and abuse- it's what we humans do best.... until confronted with the bloody aftermath. Then we look to the sky and cry "Woe is me!"

[Grey Cloud]

Tucker Carlson. ???

 

Murdoch is a ruthless bastard so I wouldn't be surprised if this is not the end of the story.

[Grey Cloud]

Totteringham Hotspur who sacked their manager a few weeks ago have now sacked their caretaker manager after 4 games in charge. ?

[Mr. Otaku]

1 hour ago, Grey Cloud said:

Tucker Carlson. ???

 

Murdoch is a ruthless bastard so I wouldn't be surprised if this is not the end of the story.

 

We were laughing about in the office this morning lmao. Didn't even give him a final show as a sendoff, and considering the fact that he said "we'll be back on monday" in his last show the split must've not been as amicable as Fox is pretending it was XD

[steelpanther24]

On 4/23/2023 at 1:35 AM, KoolHndLuke said:

It's sad that there are no more frontiers left that are somewhat easily accessible. I can only imagine the sheer excitement explorers must have felt when discovering so many new and wonderous things when the world was young (to our perceptions anyway).

 

That "somewhat easily accessible" is the key part. 

Organoid intelligence: a new biocomputing frontier:

Recent advances in human stem cell-derived brain organoids promise to replicate critical molecular and cellular aspects of learning and memory and possibly aspects of cognition in vitro. Coining the term “organoid intelligence” (OI) to encompass these developments, we present a collaborative program to implement the vision of a multidisciplinary field of OI. This aims to establish OI as a form of genuine biological computing that harnesses brain organoids using scientific and bioengineering advances in an ethically responsible manner.

 

Source:  Front. Sci.; 10.3389/fsci.2023.1017235; 28Feb23: "Organoid intelligence (OI): the new frontier in biocomputing and intelligence-in-a-dish"

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2023.1017235

 

Macroscopic objects in the quantum regime:

Generation of an entangled Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen state between distant mechanical and atomic oscillators, the concept of an oscillator with an effective negative mass and progress towards application of those ideas to gravitational wave detection will be reported. Another challenge within quantum physics of macroscopic objects is generation of Fock states corresponding to single quantum excitations of an oscillator.  Progress along those lines with Fock states of motion and of a macroscopic atomic ensemble will be presented. Finally, I will briefly review our work towards an atomic quantum simulator.

 

Source: MIT Harvard Center for Ultra Cold Atoms; presented 25Apr23; "CUA Seminar – Eugene Polzik: Macroscopic objects in the quantum regime"

https://www.rle.mit.edu/cua_responsive/events/cua-seminar-eugene-polzik/

 

Not to mention some of the things that I am working on, but I am more on the "build the capability and they (being the explorers and entrepreneurs) will come" side.

[Darkpig]

Human microorganisms give  ZZ Top an orgasm and the purn goes to Hawaii that meets an undead guy that kind of looks like Doc Brown on crack... more crack than usual. And then the penguins go home to an insane star where it meets Santa Claus. The cheese boils at 1 degree Fahrenheit and the parents are so proud. Then the cow jumps over the earth.

 

Point is having a cold sucks. Don't do it!

[Miauzi]

Am 23.4.2023 um 7:35 Uhr sagte KoolHndLuke:

Schade, dass es keine halbwegs leicht zugänglichen Grenzen mehr gibt. Ich kann mir nur vorstellen, wie aufgeregt Entdecker gewesen sein müssen, als sie so viele neue und wundersame Dinge entdeckten, als die Welt jung war (zumindest für unsere Wahrnehmung).

 

Then let's take the "discoverer" Columbus ... what did he "discover"?

Aha... "America"... and what did he find? -> people

How can you "discover" something when other people have been living there for 15,000 years?

You really can't... it just shows the Euro-centric way of looking at and writing the story

And Columbus wasn't even the first European... 500 years before him, someone named "Leif Erikson" landed further north.

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But maybe you also mean "discover" in connection with "explore" ... i.e. explore "secrets" of the nature that surrounds us...

... well - the research and discoveries of new things are going on today in an unimaginably high density and quantity.

Only our Western society is very anti-scientific in its own public perception... Scientists have a very bad image

(where else does the term "egghead" come from?)

[FauxFurry]

16 minutes ago, Miauzi said:

Then let's take the "discoverer" Columbus ... what did he "discover"?

Aha... "America"... and what did he find? -> people

How can you "discover" something when other people have been living there for 15,000 years?

You really can't... it just shows the Euro-centric way of looking at and writing the story

And Columbus wasn't even the first European... 500 years before him, someone named "Leif Erikson" landed further north.

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But maybe you also mean "discover" in connection with "explore" ... i.e. explore "secrets" of the nature that surrounds us...

... well - the research and discoveries of new things are going on today in an unimaginably high density and quantity.

Only our Western society is very anti-scientific in its own public perception... Scientists have a very bad image

(where else does the term "egghead" come from?)

An expedient route to the continent. The idea that he was trying to either circumnavigate the globe or discovered the Americas are misconceptions introduced after the fact by people who either did not want to or could not gather the facts (in the absence of some reliable, easy to access storehouse of data, the latter is entirely possible).

[Miauzi]

Vor 6 Minuten sagte FauxFurry:

Eine zweckmäßige Route zum Kontinent. Die Idee, dass er entweder versuchte, die Welt zu umrunden oder Amerika zu entdecken, sind falsche Vorstellungen, die nachträglich von Leuten eingeführt wurden, die die Fakten entweder nicht sammeln wollten oder konnten (in Ermangelung eines zuverlässigen, leicht zugänglichen Datenspeichers, Letzteres ist durchaus möglich).

 

Well - this route from Europe to America already existed...the Vikings traded it for almost 400 years...from Greenland (via Ireland).

In some churches, "unicorn horns" can still be found in reliquary shrines... which are nothing more than narwhal tusks
In the beginning they were caught by the Greenlandic Eskimos - later the Vikings went fishing themselves

Portugal, together with Denmark, had carried out an expedition to "discover" a Northwest Passage around 1450 ... they landed in Greenland and were advised by the Vikings living there how best to get around the continent to the west.

Why do you think Columbus was repelled in Portugal?
And yes - I also assume today that he knew that there is a large continent in the west of the Atlantic and that the voyage of discovery was a common propaganda number of the Spanish royal family and him.
After all, he had been to England years before and most likely Iceland.

Because of the massive climatic deterioration at the end of the 15th century, the Vikings gave up their settlements on Greenland and went back to Norway - so there were no longer any stopping points available for a northern route.

In view of this fact, I can finally agree with you.

[Guest]

> Strange that google set in English will let you ask "are parrots eatable birds" and it will suggest you several pages that would recommend you not to eat them due to potential risk of getting salmonella and some other deceases, the same browser will not offer you any page about that question if you post your question in Croatian. It will direct you only to the food for parrots, no matter how differently you form the question.

 

> P.S. It is not that I am interested in eating the parrots, but I just wanted to know why people who tested fried chicken spat the meat out of their mouth or mad disgusted face when being pranked they just ate a parrot. I doubt they all knew the upper written fact about parrots as food.

[FauxFurry]

4 minutes ago, Evaloves4 said:

> Strange that google set in English will let you ask "are parrots eatable birds" and it will suggest you several pages that would recommend you not to eat them due to potential risk of getting salmonella and some other deceases, the same browser will not offer you any page about that question if you post your question in Croatian. It will direct you only to the food for parrots, no matter how differently you form the question.

 

> P.S. It is not that I am interested in eating the parrots, but I just wanted to know why people who tested fried chicken spat the meat out of their mouth or mad disgusted face when being pranked they just ate a parrot. I doubt they all knew the upper written fact about parrots as food.

Every living thing is edible if prepared properly. There are no exceptions.

[KoolHndLuke]

23 minutes ago, Evaloves4 said:

salmonella

they warn of this all the time and make it sound much worse than it actually is. Moderate sickness for a few days or so for someone with no preexisting conditions- from what I've read.

 

Edited April 25, 2023 by KoolHndLuke

[Guest]

3 hours ago, FauxFurry said:

Every living thing is edible if prepared properly. There are no exceptions.

> I am ordinary skilled cook and can't say I would be able to prepare excellent meals. my mom surely will, but not me.

3 hours ago, KoolHndLuke said:

they warn of this all the time and make it sound much worse than it actually is. Moderate sickness for a few days or so for someone with no preexisting conditions- from what I've read.

 

 

> Can't say I knew that like many of my countrymen. We aren't taught or informed of that unless one ask the same question as I did, but since parrots aren't among famous pets in our country, great majority of people doesn't know it. But we know very well about nutrition values of seagulls. They were eatable and well received among sailors and fishermen until stupid association for animal rights declared them as national natural treasure and protected species (which is insanity since they aren't jeopardized species) and said that they aren't eatable anymore because their meat is sour. Well, it is one thing to say that because they are flying rats that eats junk and trash, and it is complete different thing to say that because you want to protect those birds.

Edited April 25, 2023 by Evaloves4

[Miauzi]

Vor 2 Stunden sagte KoolHndLuke:

Sie warnen die ganze Zeit davor und lassen es viel schlimmer klingen, als es tatsächlich ist. Mäßige Krankheit für ein paar Tage oder so für jemanden ohne Vorerkrankungen - nach dem, was ich gelesen habe.

 

 

well - here in D-Land we have deaths related to salmonella - usually it is a mass case with several deaths...

...that may be due to the fact that the dead are either children (school or kindergarten - their kitchen or food supply had the infestation) or old people (retirement homes or similar)!

In the aging Western societies, an infection with Salmonella -> a DEATHLY ending risk is for about 1/4 of the population

 

[Miauzi]

Vor 2 Stunden sagte Evaloves4:

> Ich bin ein durchschnittlich ausgebildeter Koch und kann nicht sagen, dass ich in der Lage wäre, ausgezeichnete Mahlzeiten zuzubereiten. Meine Mutter wird es sicher tun, aber ich nicht.

 

> Ich kann nicht sagen, dass ich das wie viele meiner Landsleute wusste. Wir werden darüber nicht unterrichtet oder informiert, es sei denn, man stellt die gleiche Frage wie ich, aber da Papageien in unserem Land nicht zu den berühmten Haustieren gehören, weiß die große Mehrheit der Menschen es nicht. Aber wir wissen sehr gut über die Nährwerte von Möwen Bescheid. Sie waren essbar und kamen bei Seeleuten und Fischern gut an, bis ein dummer Tierschutzverein sie zu nationalen Naturschätzen und geschützten Arten erklärte (was Wahnsinn ist, da sie keine gefährdeten Arten sind) und sagte, dass sie nicht mehr essbar seien. Nun, es ist eine Sache, das zu sagen, weil sie fliegende Ratten sind, die Müll und Müll fressen, und es ist eine ganz andere Sache, das zu sagen, weil Sie diese Vögel schützen wollen.

 

 

After your compatriots had fished the Adriatic and then the Mediterranean empty - they had no choice but to catch and eat seagulls.

Well - when I spent a diving holiday on the island "Dugi Otok" 20 years ago and lived in the town of "Sali" - the locals - with whom we stayed - regretted the demise of the local fish industry.

In the picture ... we live in the small bay at the bottom right ... you can see the factory on the coastline in the middle of the picture - the huge low-rise building.

Side effect of this holiday...I learned a lot about the use of rainwater - the whole island has not a single natural spring...in fact every house has several cisterns (separated according to water quality) below the house basement.

 

[Grey Cloud]

11 hours ago, Mr. Otaku said:

not been as amicable as Fox is pretending it was

After $787 million I doubt Murdoch has any amicable left.

[Gukahn]

Damn these SpamBots spread faster than the Plaque

[Psalam]

1 hour ago, Gukahn said:

Damn these SpamBots spread faster than the Plaque

Ditto, but a big Thank You to all the Members who reported the posts promptly. I eliminated 30+ thanks to their help.

[Gukahn]

32 minutes ago, Psalam said:

Ditto, but a big Thank You to all the Members who reported the posts promptly. I eliminated 30 thanks to their help.

By the looks of it, this is going to be a annoyingly busy day for you..

Heads up, we appreciate you Guys ??

[worik]

2 hours ago, Psalam said:

I eliminated 30

?Relentless!

Go, get them all!

Spoiler

 

 

Victory is inevitable!

[Alessia Wellington]

9 minutes ago, worik said:

Spoiler

 

 Looks like Ciri's aware she's in the wrong franchise. 

[worik]

10 minutes ago, Alessia Wellington said:

 Looks like Ciri's aware she's in the wrong franchise. 

The child of the elderblood can walk between the world as she pleases.

Deep down in Skyrim's dungeons, I have the feeling that she frequently suffers from an ill tempered mood. ?Quite edgy.

Edited April 26, 2023 by worik

[Alessia Wellington]

2 minutes ago, worik said:

Deep down in Skyrim's dungeons, I have the feeling that she frequently suffers from an ill tempered mood.

 

Or maybe she doesn't like her company. ?‍♀️

[worik]

7 minutes ago, Alessia Wellington said:

Or maybe she doesn't like her company. ?‍♀️

Yeah, I know what you mean. Those werewolves have a bad smell. But I can't help it, we have to make sure he survives this little trip outside of his cave.

Spoiler

And I heard people saying that they have a huuuge ... erm  ... nose

 

Edited April 26, 2023 by worik