customdesigned @customdesigned@qoto.org

@TechLibre Same with Marxists. Both demand the overthrow of their host country.

@magicalthinking @cjd @PNS Even nuclear power is just fuel for a steam engine. (With a few exceptions like plasma whip machines that throw protons one way and electrons another.)

@dictatordave @magicalthinking @PNS @cjd Here we have Trash to Power plants. Burning plastic is incredibly efficient - burns like oil. 800° so even halogen plastics burn without producing toxins. Although plastic is the most efficient, handles general waste stream, extracts iron magnetically and aluminum via eddy current pre-furnace. Uses bag filters to condense heavy metals in exhaust. The bag filters are cut into sections as the metals are now nice separated, and sold to refiners.

This is the company that runs them here:
https://www.reworldwaste.com/reworld-blog/covanta-announces-name-brand-transformation

@cjd Yeah, unrelated to my reminiscing on the rs232 internet. 56k wire links between peers.

@cjd Would you use NNCP? It purpots to be a modernized UUCP with encryption, authentication, and support for very low bandwidth and stopping and resuming transfers.

@cjd That was de rigeur for me from 1980 to 1995. First uunet, with uucp as the primary engine. Then internet connections were peer to peer. First rs232 to a neighbor. A 24x7 phone call with modems. Later, coax, ethernet, wifi.

It was a sad day when the world was sold on centralized internet access starting around 1996. We still kept up peer to peer connections via tunnels and later VPN tunnels.

@PNS Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. Proverbs 11:22

@truthbait @elston_ Elston was trying to say Jews are an exceptional people - that's why they are overrepresented in so many intellectual fields. Germans are overrepresented in science, engineering, math, music - they are also an exceptional people.

I might add that both are overrepresented in the super-villain business as well.

@PNS My first thought was "persecuted journalist". But then all his pics were in bathrooms - just a Peeping Tom.

@PNS Neutering our dogs and cats doesn't result in dead eyes. It is something beyond that.

@PNS I'm guessing she was pulled over for texting while driving ?

@cjd @MSP_SMIMSA @truthbait What about a mentally ill human?

@cjd I like "Surreal Numbers" by Donald Knuth. Used set theory to extend numbers (Courtesy J. H. Conway) and compute answers to 1÷0 (which is distinct from 2÷0 which is again distinct from 0÷0). There a whole math of infinities. (We learned countable, uncountable, and other classifications in school - but never how to compute with infinity.)

@cjd Get your kids out of govt school. 9/100 students molested by teachers and staff in 2012 (US nationwide) - and getting worse ever since. They will also learn that men can get pregnant, that boys can become girls, ...

Project for homeschool physics: weigh the sun. The hardest measure is the Cavendish experiment - you can go to a museum, or "cheat" and use precise laser measurements to do it at home (lasers and electronics are "magic" when you are supposed to be observing the foundations yourself).

@karnage @YoungBlood The logic is inescapable. Either the "fed" is unconstitutional (my position), or the President can fire the governors - it's right in the Federal Reserve Act. So which is it?

@cjd This Quantized Inertia is different than Davis mechanics (although they might be connected).

What they have in common is that the parameter(s) change with the setup in a poorly understood way. The Davis formula:
F = ma + Da' describes the devices (which have been built in peoples workshops with e.g. lawnmower engines) - but the "constant" D changes with the situation in unexpected ways.

@PNS God blames the baby daddies.

" And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin. " Hosea 4:14

@truthbait Until there is at least token acknowledgement of the Hamas "civilian shield" policy - I just roll my eyes at such "reports".

If the criticism is "knowing Hamas uses civilian shields, Israel shouldn't have gone after that target" - then it's worth a listen. But not going after a Hamas target also has a cost in civilian lives.

@truthbait Isn't this commanded in Torah? "A covenant of salt" Numbers 18:19 and other places. Eze 43:24

@cjd @wolf480pl Have you tried the "Mr. Tompkins" series by George Gamow?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17263.Mr_Tompkins_in_Paperback