Tuesday on Tuesday for a Change
My wife announced that it’s Tuesday.
This sort of information is always news to me. I don’t know what day it is, generally, or care what time it is, for the most part. I can occasionally be relied upon to identify the current month, if you put three or four months into a police lineup and let me choose. Other than that, I’m blissfully unaware of much of anything. My stomach is my sundial, and the cat can always be relied on to tell me it’s AM-ish with a swat on my nose. What else can a man need?
But you fine folks deserve a trash day roundup on trash day for a change. Here’s one now:
Greetings from Canada, self taught watchmaker here. Just finished making my first watch and wanted to share. An original design, made from scratch, by one person. The jewels, sapphire crystals, hairspring, mainspring and the strap were all that were purchased. Everything else was hand made.
I used to consider myself a fairly handy person. I’ve made lots of stuff. Holey moley I’ve never made anything like that.
MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style
“We thought it was plausible that what happens is you start with an initial draft that’s simple, and then later you think of all these other conditions that you want to include. And the idea is that once you’ve started, it’s much easier to center-embed that into the existing provision,” says Martinez, who is now a fellow and instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. However, the findings ended up pointing toward a different hypothesis, the so-called “magic spell hypothesis.” Just as magic spells are written with a distinctive style that sets them apart from everyday language, the convoluted style of legal language appears to signal a special kind of authority, the researchers say.
Lawyers write laws that require lawyers to interpret them for you. It’s a pothole industry. If you’ve ever seen four guys leaning on shovels while a fifth slowly dumps crumbly asphalt into a hole in the road, you’ll understand how it works. “Don’t kill the job.”
LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
I can’t afford what is likely tens of thousand to go through all the legal and technical hoops over a prolonged period of time, the site itself barely gets a few hundred in donations each month and costs a little more to run… this is not a venture that can afford compliance costs… and if we did, what remains is a disproportionately high personal liability for me, and one that could easily be weaponised by disgruntled people (trolls) who are banned for their egregious behaviour (in the years running fora I’ve been signed up to porn sites, stalked IRL and online, subject to death threats, had fake copyright takedown notices, an attempt to delete the domain name with ICANN… all from those whom I’ve moderated to protect community members)… I do not see an alternative to shuttering it.
It’s a bulletin board site. The fellow that runs it is in No-Longer-Merry-Olde, so he’s understandably wary about the potential liability that would be heaped on his shoulders if he continued. You might wonder if LFGSS is some sort of sketchy site that allows people to upload bomb recipes or directions to CEO’s shoulder blades and so forth, and so make sense of the law’s effect on guys like this. I looked up the acronym LFGSS: London Fixed Gear and Single Speed. People post pictures of their fixie bicycles. Paging Eric Blair. Eric Blair to the white phone!
World’s oldest mammalian ancestor discovered in Mallorca
They were warm-blooded animals like modern mammals, but, unlike most of them, they laid eggs. They were carnivorous and were the first animals to develop the characteristic saber teeth. They were often the superpredators of the ecosystems in which they lived, and their appearance would be similar to a dog, but without ears or fur.
When I read the headline ancient mammals, and saw Mallorca mentioned, I must admit I expected to find a terrifying picture of Cher in a bathing suit when I clicked through.
Argentina exited recession as Milei eyes growth before midterms
Signs of recovery are underway heading into 2025. Beyond the third-quarter growth, wages have surpassed inflation since April, job growth is slowly picking up and private estimates indicated poverty is gradually declining after spiking once Milei took office. Argentines also deposited over US$20 billion in the financial system this year as part of Milei’s tax amnesty programme, a robust sign of confidence in the libertarian president.
Another successful politician with hair that looks like it was rescued from the shower drain.
Factory Farming is Better Than Organic Farming
Another narrative that is based entirely on propaganda meant to favor one industry and demonize its competition is the notion that organic farming is better for health and better for the environment. Actually, there is no evidence of any nutritional or health advantage from consuming organic produce. Further – and most people I talk to find this claim shocking – organic farming is worse for the environment than conventional or even “factory” farming.
A category error in the headline. All farms are factory farms. Some are just smaller than others. Otherwise, you’re just gardening, and trying to give away twenty pounds of zucchini in October.
Why Dumb TVs Deserve a Comeback
One major area for improvement is display quality. If you’re shopping for a dumb TV, you may have noticed that many dumb TVs are limited to older resolutions like 720p, which can’t compete with the 4K and even 8K displays offered by smart TVs. For a comeback to succeed, dumb TVs need crisp, vibrant visuals that cater to today’s high-definition content standards.
Um, you’re describing monitors, which cost way more, but are plenty dumb. The real problem is that you “want to watch tv.” I’ve heard tales of people with large hard drives that hold thousands of movies and tv shows that can be watched on a monitor, or even a smart tv that’s never hooked up to the internet. I’ve heard these tales, because I tell them, and my ear is right next door to my mouth.
The Famous Bering Land Bridge Was More Like a Swamp, Geologists Say
Geologists suggest that between 36,000 and 11,000 years ago, the Bering Land Bridge may have been less an arid steppe grassland and more a boggy ecosystem crisscrossed by rivers. This complicates scientists’ understanding of the iconic landmass and how its landscape would have facilitated or impeded the spread of different species. The scientists presented their work at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting last week.
Well, some of my ancestors used to burn mud for heat. I won’t cast aspersions on the real estate value of the Bering land bridge.
Recent Comments