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  • Ever have a chicago style deep dish?

    Kinda hard to eat that by hand. if you're talking NY slices... yeah. stay away, lolz.

  • the shoe business was already saturated, though.

  • I was kinda referring to the impossible shapes and dimensional illusions Escher used. Like this one:

  • “I don’t want to talk with this guy!”

    Fuck Peterson…. He’s a white supremacist.

  • That’s just his go to when he realizes he’s going to be mocked. Or he’s about to be proven stupid.

    Guarantee you his definition of “god” would have changed had someone called him on his bullshit about Elisha or Jonah. (They expressed a view that one’s conscience is “the voice of god”… not god…)

  • JP expresses a belief in a deity.

    That makes him a theist, even if that deity isn’t how we would typically conceive of god.

    “God is conscience

    <that exists beyond the ideal as a social construct>

  • I kinda like escher’s work…. And this is giving off those vibes…

  • I saw these pics earlier.

    Then I had to look up a fossil, cuz no way that wasn't drawn by a 3rd grader remembering what fish look like, having only seen a fish once.

    Pretty sure... that's a fake fossile sculpted out of clay by said 3rd grader. I could be wrong.

  • Hmmmm

    Jump
  • Several of the left ones are missing.

    (Why is it always the left ones?)

  • Wouldn't want the rest of the world to know he drinks more Putinka than the russian generals do.

  • Me neither.

    Though they could just be hoping for a reason to declare someone "illegal" and snap them up. And if the other agencies don''t like the confusion... maybe don't work with fucking gestapo stormtroopers.

  • According the feds, it was an investigation into money laundering and drugs.

    Still. Fuck gestapo stormtroopers.

  • That might be part of it.

    But it’s hardly all of it. Gates is, and was, an evil man.

  • Not to mention, foundations like that are a frequent tax dodge, and is also reputation laundering.

    Bill is basically a modern Carnegie. Sure he gives a shit load of money away, but also goes around paying people to fuck over anyone for a buck.

    It’s like playing fable, going to a vendor and buying all their gems only to sell it back at an inflated price (rinse and repeat, you’ll be rich.)

    Then going and fucking over the entire town to get rental properties.

    Then going to the temple of light and paying to change your alignment.

    You’ve still got all the properties and you’re still making money hand over fist but everyone thinks you’re some sort of hero.

  • we have no expectation of privacy outside our homes, theses days. Why should the get privacy?

    IN fact. they're acting in a public capacity. their names should be public record and open to criticism. if that scares you... maybe stop being a jackbooted thug.

  • without relevant regulations, though, you won't know what you shouldn't eat because you won't know that they're putting sawdust in peanutbutter or borax and fermheldahyde in milk.

    Maybe it'd be okay to have plaster of paris in flour, though. I mean, how else are you supposed to sculpt that Italian loaf like the french baguette?

    Don't be fooled. The people screaming about unpastureized milk and other things are being used so corporations can go back to poisoning you with shit. and that's pretty much the most charitable I can be of that particular lot.

  • If Jesus is to be believed, it’s actually the only one that really matters. (“If you believe in me….”)

  • Unlike R2-D2, I'd totally have succeeded in killing him.

  • The problem comes in, what happens when a heart fails? depending on the failure mode, it may represent a total blockage, in which case you're toast. You might be able to survive with one heart if you had two, but if you add a second heart, then your other heart will likely be less developed unable to perform at whatever peak performance you had before.

    If your method of redundancy adds more single points of failures. Also, the addition of a second heart poses the problem of keeping them coordinated; with all sorts of problems coming up if they get out of sync. adding redundancy will always add complexity, especially as you work to remove single points of failure and try not to add extra. In some systems, it's just unwise to add redundency because the complexity means it's more likely to fail.

    Famously, Charles Lindbergh, for example, opted for a single reliable engine over two engines. It kinda flew in the face at the time. But then he was the first to go from NY to Paris in a non stop flight, in the Spirit of St Louis. Similarly, we can expect, if there was in fact some significant advantage, that then, everybody would be doing it. Or, at least, lots.

    Keep in mind, cephalopods have 3 hearts- 2 are single chamgered things that boost blood over gills, and the 3rd provides bloodflow to the rest of the body. Hagfish have one chambered heart and several boster things that aren't really much of a heart. Earthworms aren't possessed of true hearts (they lack chambers and valves,) cochroaches and leaches also don't have true hearts.

    But where we see 4 chambered hearts (birds, mammals, and crocodillian reptiles,) they all only have 1. That should tell you something.