Play Nice Random Chat Thread: Episode III

[Val Keating]

Yeah. What a pair of w***ers. Its not like they'd spend much time there anyway.

I think it was sold for 100 million bucks. WAFWOM

Just gotta be the big dick on the block

 

[Del191229]

Did he cave on Huawei?

Nah, but they've officially stopped buying US agricultural goods and they are depreciating the currency hard.

Basically, they can cause a recession within the year (its probably coming end of cycle regardless) that hits Trump states hardest.

Those Trump voters aren't suddenly going to become pussy hat wearing safe space liberals, but they will stay home.

And given the pussy hat wearers are so energised they'll get more of their vote out as well.

The electriral maths really don't look good for Trump - he's got to repeat 2016 and more - and he lost the 2016 popular vote by 2 mil.

 

[Snake_Baker]

File this under "f***ing awesome"

Physicists Just Captured The First-Ever Footage of a Molecule's Spectacular Rotation

Physics, Astronomy, Space news,Nasa news ,Quantum Physics and Technology,

www.physics-astronomy.org

 

[Val Keating]

Nah, but they've officially stopped buying US agricultural goods and they are depreciating the currency hard.

Basically, they can cause a recession within the year (its probably coming end of cycle regardless) that hits Trump states hardest.

Those Trump voters aren't suddenly going to become pussy hat wearing safe space liberals, but they will stay home.

And given the pussy hat wearers are so energised they'll get more of their vote out as well.

The electriral maths really don't look good for Trump - he's got to repeat 2016 and more - and he lost the 2016 popular vote by 2 mil.

The art of the deal ey..

 

[Del191229]

The art of the deal ey..

I think Trump has done the right thing in biting the bullet and taking on China ... it had to be done sooner or later.

But he's just gone about it in the cack handed and self defeating way possible.

 

[ferball]

That's a bit like a footy heat map isn't it?

What I mean is you can look at a heat map as a probability map of the odds of a player being in that space at any given instance in time (its a snapshot of an event - the game) and that image is very similar isn't it? Those changes represent probabilities of the molecule behaving a particular way rather than actual precise events.

 

[ferball]

But he's just gone about it in the most cack handed and self defeating way possible.

That will be on his tombstone. (I added the "most")

 

[Del191229]

"Nobody ever lost a trade war like me, everybody is saying that when I tried to stage multi-faceted geopolitical conflict across intertwined supply chains, nobody did it worse than me, people are saying it couldn't have been done worse".

 

[Snake_Baker]

That's a bit like a footy heat map isn't it?

What I mean is you can look at a heat map as a probability map of the odds of a player being in that space at any given instance in time (its a snapshot of an event - the game) and that image is very similar isn't it? Those changes represent probabilities of the molecule behaving a particular way rather than actual precise events.

The colors relate to orbital probabilities, whereas footy heat maps relate to the actual co-ordinates of a player.

"The processes we are observing here are governed by quantum mechanics. On this scale, very small objects like atoms and molecules behave differently from the everyday objects in our surroundings," explains Küpper, who works at the University of Hamburg and DESY.

"The position and momentum of a molecule cannot be determined simultaneously with the highest precision; you can only define a certain probability of finding the molecule in a specific place at a particular point in time."

Even when the molecule points in multiple directions at the same time, each of these has a different probability according to quantum mechanics.

"It is precisely those directions and probabilities that we imaged experimentally in this study," says molecular researcher Arnaud Rouzée from the Max Born Institute in Berlin.

"From the fact that these individual images start to repeat after about 82 picoseconds, we can deduce the period of rotation of a carbonyl sulphide molecule."

To get the gas molecules moving in unison, the team first used two pulses of infrared laser light, precisely tuned to each other so that they pulsed every 38 trillionths of a second (picosecond).

 

[sbdan]

Speaking of nazis, that reminds me,

Here’s Hitler tweaking at the 1936 Olympics.

He was an odd cat that hitler guy

 

[sbdan]

This stuff confuses the hell out of me.

Man giving birth gives voice to hundreds of Australians

The documentary Seahorse, which screens at MIFF, tells the remarkable story of Freddy McConnell, a transgender man who gives birth to a boy.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Snake_Baker]

This stuff confuses the hell out of me.

Man giving birth gives voice to hundreds of Australians

The documentary Seahorse, which screens at MIFF, tells the remarkable story of Freddy McConnell, a transgender man who gives birth to a boy.

www.theage.com.au

Bizarre.

Evolution seems to have provided a perfectly well functioning model already.

 

[Val Keating]

He was an odd cat that hitler guy

It’s all the meth. Look up all the drugs he was taking. He was completely cooked

 

[Sopwiths North]

Full text of Hiroshima Peace Declaration on 74th A-bomb anniversary


The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration read on Aug. 6 by Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at a ceremony to mark the 74rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.


"Around the world today, we see self-centered nationalism in ascendance, tensions heightened by international exclusivity and rivalry, with nuclear disarmament at a standstill. What are we to make of these global phenomena? Having undergone two world wars, our elders pursued an ideal -- a world beyond war. They undertook to construct a system of international cooperation. Should we not now recall and, for human survival, strive for that ideal world? I ask this especially of you, the youth who have never known war but will lead the future. For this purpose, I ask you to listen carefully to the hibakusha of Aug. 6, 1945.

A woman who was five then has written this poem:

Little sister with a bowl cut / head spraying blood
embraced by Mother / turned raging Asura

A youth of 18 saw this: "They were nearly naked, their clothes burned to tatters, but I couldn't tell the men from the women. Hair gone, eyeballs popped out, lips and ears ripped off, skin hanging from faces, bodies covered in blood -- and so many." Today he insists, "We must never, ever allow this to happen to any future generation. We are enough." Appeals like these come from survivors who carry deep scars in body and soul. Are they reaching you?

"A single person is small and weak, but if each of us seeks peace, I'm sure we can stop the forces pushing for war." This woman was 15 at the time. Can we allow her faith to end up an empty wish?

Turning to the world, we do see that individuals have little power, but we also see many examples of the combined strength of multitudes achieving their goal. Indian independence is one such example. Mahatma Gandhi, who contributed to that independence through personal pain and suffering, left us these words, "Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit." To confront our current circumstances and achieve a peaceful, sustainable world, we must transcend differences of status or opinion and strive together in a spirit of tolerance toward our ideal. To accomplish this, coming generations must never dismiss the atomic bombings and the war as mere events of the past. It is vital that they internalize the progress the hibakusha and others have made toward a peaceful world, then drive steadfastly forward.

World leaders must move forward with them, advancing civil society's ideal. This is why I urge them to visit the atomic-bombed cities, listen to the hibakusha, and tour the Peace Memorial Museum and the National Peace Memorial Hall to face what actually happened in the lives of individual victims and their loved ones. I want our current leaders to remember their courageous predecessors: when nuclear superpowers, the US and USSR, were engaged in a tense, escalating nuclear arms race, their leaders manifested reason and turned to dialogue to seek disarmament.

This city, along with the nearly 7,800 member cities of Mayors for Peace, is spreading the Spirit of Hiroshima throughout civil society to create an environment supportive of leaders taking action for nuclear abolition. We want leaders around the world to pursue negotiations in good faith on nuclear disarmament, as mandated by Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and respond to the yearning of civil society for entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), a milestone on the road to a nuclear-weapon-free world.

I call on the government of the only country to experience a nuclear weapon in war to accede to the hibakusha's request that the TPNW be signed and ratified. I urge Japan's leaders to manifest the pacifism of the Japanese Constitution by displaying leadership in taking the next step toward a world free from nuclear weapons. Furthermore, I demand policies that expand the "black rain areas" and improve assistance to the hibakusha, whose average age exceeds 82, as well as the many others whose minds, bodies and daily lives are still plagued by suffering due to the harmful effects of radiation.

Today, at this Peace Memorial Ceremony commemorating 74 years since the atomic bombing, we offer our heartfelt consolation to the souls of the atomic bomb victims and, in concert with the city of Nagasaki and kindred spirits around the world, we pledge to make every effort to achieve the total elimination of nuclear weapons and beyond that, a world of genuine, lasting peace."

 

[Val Keating]

That’s pretty moving, but nothing will stop the international arms race. It sucks but it’s the truth.
Those Japanese citizens were constantly asked to leave but pride made them stay. Even when Allied planes flew over and dropped letters telling them to get out before they were bombed, they chose to stay. War is awful and brutal. To win a country needs to be the most awful and brutal.

If the major Powers stopped advancing their weapons capabilities, then they lose their spot in the food chain.

Unlike WW1, where the conditions left no other option but WW2, I feel like after ww2, the people that pull the strings learned that another war on that scale would destroy everybody’s economy.

 

[D23D]

It’s all the meth. Look up all the drugs he was taking. He was completely cooked

One more reason to abhor that campaigner of a drug

 

[Val Keating]

One more reason to abhor that campaigner of a drug

There’s reports he was taking a heap of uppers like meth and coke, and was also taking downers like opioids and benzos. Pretty much the diet of a Hollywood movie star.

 

[andana]

That’s pretty moving, but nothing will stop the international arms race. It sucks but it’s the truth.
Those Japanese citizens were constantly asked to leave but pride made them stay. Even when Allied planes flew over and dropped letters telling them to get out before they were bombed, they chose to stay. War is awful and brutal. To win a country needs to be the most awful and brutal.

If the major Powers stopped advancing their weapons capabilities, then they lose their spot in the food chain.

Unlike WW1, where the conditions left no other option but WW2, I feel like after ww2, the people that pull the strings learned that another war on that scale would destroy everybody’s economy.

The Japanese had no plan to surrender to the U.S. It was only when the Soviets captured Manchuria that they surrendered. The Japanese knew that the Soviets would do to the Emperor and family the same thing that they had done to the Czar and family

 

[ferball]

The colors relate to orbital probabilities, whereas footy heat maps relate to the actual co-ordinates of a player.

Yeah, so basically they're exactly the same. Kind of..

The level of precision required to measure the momentum or position of molecule is far higher than doing so for a human on an oval. But otherwise they both move randomly within ... an attractor pattern for lack of a better term. So they are "a bit like" each other. Within those probability maps the actual molecule is pointing ... somewhere.

Basically with a player heatmap you can only measure the probability of a player occupying that position as a proportion of the game. Their momentum is unavailable at the point you measure their position with accuracy. Its quantum uncertainty.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Redirect Notice

www.google.com

Quality source.

CNN reporter a very similar post.

It is worth noting that political motives were likely not the cause, as he had kill and r*** lists, which suggests something even more than politics. Plus the fairly contradictory political positions.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

The Japanese had no plan to surrender to the U.S. It was only when the Soviets captured Manchuria that they surrendered. The Japanese knew that the Soviets would do to the Emperor and family the same thing that they had done to the Czar and family

They were mobilising the entire population for industry and front line duties, Volkstrum style.

The atomic bombs and Soviet invasion finally gave the emperor and anti-war supporters the leverage over the military leaders that was required to launch peace overtures. There was a lot of panicked backroom dealings going on in the last days.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

That trolling "joke" Pizzagate inspired someone to sit outside Comet Ping Pong (the Pizza shop where the alleged child abduction facility was based) with an assault rifle and take pot shots at the joint.

The bloke (Edgar Welch) was white so the cops didn't shoot him summarily. He copped four years for it.

You’re being facetious aren’t you?

 

[Val Keating]

CNN reporter a very similar post.

It is worth noting that political motives were likely not the cause, as he had kill and r*** lists, which suggests something even more than politics. Plus the fairly contradictory political positions.
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Honestly, it doesn’t matter. Hate is hate. Most of these people were always going to be lunatics. They just chose a side and did what they desired. Makes you wonder how many lunatics would be killing people in Australia if our gun laws weren’t so strict

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Honestly, it doesn’t matter. Hate is hate. Most of these people were always going to be lunatics. They just chose a side and did what they desired. Makes you wonder how many lunatics would be killing people in Australia if our gun laws weren’t so strict

It matters for those that are interested in wider trends, but I tend to agree.

When you starting comparing global body counts of shootings and political violence as some point scoring exercise against your opponents, then you have to start questioning your own morality.

 

[Supreme_Chancellor]

This Game Of Thrones meme cracks me up every time. The bottom image of Steve Carell also makes me think of SMaturin after a North loss.