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00:21
Looks very random.
I'm sure those completely random Italians had no ulterior message there.
00:59
@CowperKettle you got all that right except that very last bit about 'amount'.
It would be more accurate to say '... based on all the prior similar sequences of tokens.'
01:18
@Cerberus Fake. These dots outside Italy are not enough random for the graphic to be credible.
@jlliagre Really???
So if the dots are not random, then what on Earth could they mean?
Someone posted a fake graph as a joke.
Randomness doesn't look like that.
Naaah you must be wrong.
He's wrong
It looks clearly random to me and any similarity to anything must be a coincidence.
01:22
This is more like a regular distribution, and why would they avoid Austria, Germany ?
Coincidence is how randomness works
Why, yeah, why?
What do you think?
I do suspect Vienna is included, though.
I think Italians know quite well where Italy is.
None of Germany has a dot
Makes sense
@jlliagre So they are right in their locations.
01:24
If all know well enough where is Germany, they must know better where is Italy.
Or maybe you are missing the joke haha.
Italy could be Israel
@jlliagre they know exactly what to avoid
I would say there aren't quite enough dots around Syria and Asia Minor.
They're underrated
> Most of us tend to think of randomness as being “well spaced” … genuinely random distributions seem to contradict our inherent ideas of what randomness should look like.
01:28
It is all part of the joke.
Look at the map again.
@jlliagre ok man what's up with the science?
You are pulling my leg.
Nope
More like the toe
Of Italy
01:36
Hehehe.
01:49
@jlliagre Too-quiet data /nod
Speaking about the toes of Italy, one hundred years ago some people around there used to say 'eighty' as quattro-vinti (like the French quatre-vingt, yay!) or pendinta-tranta (a greek-italian mix, 'fifty-thirty').
Oh, that is funny.
Only one hundred years ago!
Especially the Greek is wild, unless it is among speakers of Griko?
Italiot Greek, also known as Italic-Greek and Salentino-Calabrian Greek refers to two varieties of Modern Greek spoken in Italy by the Griko people. Italiot Greek refers to the Greek varieties spoken in areas of southern Italy, a historical remnant of Magna Graecia. There are two small Griko-speaking communities known as the Griko people who live in the Italian regions of Calabria, the southern tip of the Italian peninsula, and in Apulia, its southeasternmost corner. These varieties too are thought to have developed on the basis of an originally Doric ancient dialect, and have preserved some elements...
It probably is.
Can you click on the picture I posted to zoom it or do you get an error?
Here is an imgur link just in case.
02:54
Yes, Imgur works, first one gives an error.
Very nice.
 
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14:24
"Normal" is a cycle on the washing machine.
"AI" is also a cycle on the washing machine.
(I am not associated with Samsung, and perceive no pecuniary gain by posting this link)
Nor do I have any other financial ties to organized crime.
14:57
> Chicago denounces gun violence after 109 shot, 19 fatally, during Fourth of July weekend
Experts have said gun violence often surges during the summer months as temperatures rise and large groups gather for activities.
I wonder for what kind of activities.
@CowperKettle Chicago has a lot of festivals over the summer: neighborhood festivals (centered around a commercial center (usually a confluence of two or more main streets), social festivals (eg ethnic pride parades (Puerto Rican, Ukrainian, Polish, German, Dominican, Chinese, etc etc etc etc way too many to enumerate), or gay pride parades) or huge city-sponsored festivals: Taste of Chicago (a whole bunch of restaurants have special food stalls in Grant park), the Jazz festival, the Gospel festival
I could go on and on. Summer is a big outdoor festival time in Chicago.
At least that's how I interpret 'large groups gather for activities'.
That could easily be referring to lots of outdoor house parties. Most of the tings I mentioned are not big draws for violence (guns or not).
Chicago (like LA or NYC) is humongous... there is a little town center every 8 blocks or so (in both north south and east west directions). Also, it has a huge immigrant population so lots of ethnic groups overlaying in complicated ways.
If you look at a map, Chicago looks like this boring grid with a handful of diagonals. But it can change from block to block.
15:38
A TV actress from Yekaterinburg has been put on the official list of terrorists e1.ru/text/politics/2024/07/09/73809488
 
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17:30
@CowperKettle one wonders if they could do something more effective than denouncing it
@CowperKettle huh, who knew she could terrorize tough masculine Kremliners
@CowperKettle -- signed "Adam Godson"?
17:52
@M.A.R. I have a proposal. We give a gun to every felon on their release from prison, so that they can stay safe as they rebuild their lives and reintegrate into society.
Also: provide free ammunition at every corner store so that people don't need to make dangerous trips to gun stores. It's called "harm reduction."
 
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19:56
@M.A.R. The Supreme Court won't let them.
20:11
@vikas I have another question about something I've seen in 'Panchayat' (no spoilers): about the bindi (red dot in the middle of the forehead).
1) is it mostly a adult female thing? (I've rarely seen children or men having them but I'm not in India)

2) Is it just a decoration (religious or beauty)? Or is it a chosen as a sign to mean something socially (married? has a child? what religion or caste? etc)? Is it mandatory or just some people like it and some don't?

3) I've seen that some people put a red mark up near the scalp, sort of like a bindi but moved up higher. Is this called a bin
"He asked me if I knew what time it was. I said yes, but not right now." ---Steven Wright
@Robusto it's like you've built a small Khamenei there, like a sand castle
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@M.A.R. I blame the Republicans.
@alphabet it would certainly accelerate the process and cut through the red tape.
@Robusto we could create all sorts of "supreme" titles, wait till the crazies fill them up, and then throw them into the sea
20:19
@M.A.R. Wouldn't that be nice.
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Work on your SEO. "Supreme" Executive Officer.
And the one in charge of money? The "Ultra" Financial Officer, UFO
And the ones who spend all the money? The Foo Fighters.
There goes my hero. Watch him as he goes.
That's all I got.
I came here to say something.
And that was it.
20:24
You're running out of material
It's flattering that you thought I had any material to start with.
Scraping the bottom of the barrel? There's no barrel.
More of a hole in the ground.
Has anybody here watched or read 'The Three Body Problem'?
People seem to like both a lot.
(it's by the guy who wrote the short story that the movie 'Arrival' was based on)
I sort of saw the series. By 'sort of' I kept falling asleep, and then waking up towards the end of an episode and wondering what the hell happened.
And now I'm trying to read the book and... holy crap it's really -three- volumes... I don't know if I have the patience for that!
Too many words!
Get to the point man!
Also for some reason I can't get around the sciency part and how it is implausible.
I know I know, it's science -fiction-.
Like I read 'Dune' as a kid and it was great and all. But now when watching the movie, I can accept the faster than light travel, the Bene Gesserit mnd control, how spice gives you powers but... but I just can't get aside from the implausibility of the ecosystem that supports those gigantic sand worms.
Those worms are too big! There's no way the desert, even as large as a planet, could support organisms as big as them.
Too implausible!
That's the disbelief I just cannot suspend.
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'The Three Body Problem' is just fine. I wish 1) I hadn't seen the series first, and 2) that it wasn't three volumes.
I can't read all that!
When are they going to create blipverts? little hypersped messages that insert themselves into your brain in an eyeblink
listens to earpiece
What?
Yes.
Yeah.
No!
What?
I'm told that blipverts already exist.
20:44
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I'm being told through my earpiece that twitter, instagram and facebook patented the blipvert idea, deployed it a decade ago, and people are already getting tired of it. It's not fast enough.
The voice in my head (the one that isn't mine) is telling me that the infinite scroll UI of microblogging is just the stream of consciousness of the transcendental oversoul.
In other words, no big deal.
Hold on... the error message on my Kindle is telling me that it smells burning toast.
Is it having a stroke?
I am in fact burning some toast at this very moment.
But you can't rule out logically that my Kindle is not having some sort of malfunction by that fact alone.
Max Headroom was an awesome show.
I heard that ...
oh you haven't seen any of it...
before I say anything else...
OK now I can say that those headshots are not computer generated at all despite it looking entirely virtual.
They just used a lot of makeup and latex, no graphical post-processing.
The main takeaway I get out of seeing that clip is that it's been forty years and we're still having buffering issues.

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