When I was pursuing my electrical engineering degree I almost changed it to physics because physics is so fucking cool. I tutored physics throughout my schooling to spread the joy and earn some money.
I was a physics major, switched to engineering. At the tech school I attended, it was said the hardest major was astronomy. Astronomy students had to take practically all the courses physics students did, plus astronomy courses.
I was fascinated with physics in high school and remain so to this day but my math skills were so tenuous I was afraid to attempt to take physics along with the rest of my class load. I was afraid I crucify my GPA.
When I realized how much math was involved with engineering (4 years starting with calculus) I started taking basic math classes at night and worked my up to the level that would apply to the degree. Once I started getting good at math I started to enjoy it but it really was a huge effort. I was what my teachers called a mature student.
You were a mature student. My students don't think "I want to get there, what are my options?" They think "There's no way! The prof has gotta give me special consideration!"
I was a math major undergrad and I was fascinated by physics so I took one course. Loved it, but one was enough. It's more than math--there is a lot of memorization of proofs and formulas that did me in. But yeah, also plenty of math.
I worked for a landscaper in my youth and he was very specific regarding how we loaded cut limbs and branches into the pickup. It took a bit longer to load, but unloading was a breeze. Put it in reverse, gain speed, then slam on the brakes.
Cops "sitting with thumbs up asses" is standard for when the far-right is attacking perceived leftists. Then, when the tide turns against the far-right, the cops wade in gassing, clubbing, and arresting the people who were being attacked in the first place. I have seen this at almost every protest in Oregon.
So, if an under-40 inherited-wealth millionaire with no student loans (duh) sees their net worth double (great stock market!), and an under-40 walmart employee's ancient car breaks down and dies and that was their only asset and now they have to pay to have it towed away, then the average net worth of these under-40s has nearly doubled! Or, saying it another way, whar standard deviation? Or show us the whole distribution, howzabout...
“Yes mom.” It’s just easier. If she can’t hear and backed the wheelchair over her hearing aids on purpose, like my mom, it’s easier to say that while yelling.
Without even knowing Harlan Crow, one immediately knows the type of person who would jump at the opportunity to own a signed copy of Mein Kampf. it's fucking disgusting. It's not a thing for a private citizen to own or to want to own without their having some implicit sympathy with its contents, without their feeling that it's something about which to boast. That's something for a rare books department in a library to keep for scholarly use only.
You know you've made it to bestie status with Harlan when he opens the secret door in the bookcase to let you see the collection in his hidden Nazi memorabilia room.
I know this is late, but is anyone up for a "hate read"? WaPo has a piece on Laura Loomer today ( inexplicably in the "Style" section ). Altho' it talks about Loomer's negatives a lot, it really just is some kinda attempt at normalizing her.
[ I'm not gonna waster a "gift link" on this, even if it is a new month ]
People who wish to emulate Nicolae Ceaușescu may want to reflect on the events of 21-25 December, 1989, a.k.a. "The Most Surprising Christmas in Romania Since Vlad Țepeș Said He Had Some Wacky Ideas For New Decorations."
So, that “average” wealth that’s so high for Americans under 45…
I’m sure they adjusted for inflation, because only a fool wouldn’t, but…is that a mean, median, mode, or midrange? Because outliers can skew mean and midrange by a LOT.
Average means "mean" or total amount divided by number of people. Of course, since we are not communists, wealth distribution in the USA is uneven, to say the least. It reminds me of a very old joke illustrating the concept, which starts "Bill Gates walks into a bar..." and the punch line is that the average net worth of people in that barroom is now $100 million (like I said, a very old joke). What the chart really tells you is that, for people that have investments, the value of those investments is way up, whatever their age.
From comments below, the big numbers they were touting (the article, not here in Tabs) were means. The medians did also show significant increased wealth as well, but quite as massive as some of the means numbers that drew skepticism below.
Nice thing. Yesterday was the 93rd birthday of the Empire State Building. It was the world's tallest building until the World Trade Center's first tower was topped in 1970. After September 11 , the Empire State Building was New York City's tallest building until 2012, when One World Trade Center was completed. As of 2022, the building is the seventh-tallest building in New York City, the ninth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States, and the 54th-tallest in the world.
In 2012, the building's four hundred metal halide lamps and floodlights were replaced with 1,200 LED fixtures, increasing the available colors from nine to over 16 million.
As most of you know I have an amazing view from my balcony of the Manhattan skyline and I have taken thousands of pics including that iconic NY fixture. Have some photos!
Whenever you need me you know how to reach me. Even if it just babbling nonsense and saying howdy. When you are feeling better I want to get some recipes from you for my All Potted Up On The Weed blog.
This is the kind of day that feels like everyone has lost their god damned minds, and I can't wait for the weekend where I can get off the internet and just fucking CHILL.
The perpetual flood of Bad News/Any and All News is making me think (again) about my own media consumption, which now is constantly monitoring the internet, even on my work breaks. In my 20s, I'd listen to NPR as I got ready for work, would sometimes (not always) grab a newspaper to read on the L. Wouldn't think about it again until I got home (although again, I would often grab a newspaper to read on the train if there was a big headline) and would watch the 6 or 10 o'clock news. (I also spent a lot of time just looking out the window when I rode the train.) I'd read the Sunday paper, and subscribed to Harper's magazine for more in-depth stories. I think maybe I need to go back to discrete "news times" because this constant influx is really really bad for my brain.
I've always been a sort of politics nerd, but as you note, there just wasn't as much constant information to take up time back in the day. I have to work at NOT seeking out info now.
Here's a nice story. A Saskatchewan farm family had a surprise recently when one of their cows gave birth to quadruplets. This is rare enough, but what's even more rare is that all four survived, and are thriving.
Yer hed gif source, with physics! https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/the-mysteries-of-momentum-transfer
That cat is playing with YOU! The call is coming from inside the House! BoZ Cat 🐱
When I was pursuing my electrical engineering degree I almost changed it to physics because physics is so fucking cool. I tutored physics throughout my schooling to spread the joy and earn some money.
I was a physics major, switched to engineering. At the tech school I attended, it was said the hardest major was astronomy. Astronomy students had to take practically all the courses physics students did, plus astronomy courses.
I only took one astronomy class but when I needed a tutor I asked my 12th grade physics teacher.
Am an astronomer. Can confirm.
I was fascinated with physics in high school and remain so to this day but my math skills were so tenuous I was afraid to attempt to take physics along with the rest of my class load. I was afraid I crucify my GPA.
Back in the 70's UMASS had a course that fulfilled a science requirement:
"Physics For Poets"
It was wildly popular.
When I realized how much math was involved with engineering (4 years starting with calculus) I started taking basic math classes at night and worked my up to the level that would apply to the degree. Once I started getting good at math I started to enjoy it but it really was a huge effort. I was what my teachers called a mature student.
You were a mature student. My students don't think "I want to get there, what are my options?" They think "There's no way! The prof has gotta give me special consideration!"
Can confirm that this applies down to the 9th grade.
I was a math major undergrad and I was fascinated by physics so I took one course. Loved it, but one was enough. It's more than math--there is a lot of memorization of proofs and formulas that did me in. But yeah, also plenty of math.
I still have nightmares about 3rd order differential equations and liner algebra.
Dedink dedink dedinkiadink CAT-N-THE-BOX!!
Is Potato
People do "experiments" like that with cars all of the time.
Yeah. Somebody did this on my car a year ago. Caved in both passenger side doors.
Gottdamn ditz had to pay for that one.
And trucks with unsecured payloads too.
I worked for a landscaper in my youth and he was very specific regarding how we loaded cut limbs and branches into the pickup. It took a bit longer to load, but unloading was a breeze. Put it in reverse, gain speed, then slam on the brakes.
Worked like a charm.
Been there.
That kitty in the hed gif is perfect! 😍
that's how serial killings begin.
The Anti-Maru!!!
I am very grateful not to have been the only person to immediately be reminded of Maru when seeing this feline behavioral morning gif.
Maru is the reigning monrach of Catdom!
Schrodinger needs to allow that flat-faced feline to remain comfortably within its' box.
"This is MY box! It was made for ME!"
I don't have a cat so I'm just guessing. Looked to me like he/she was enjoying the ride .. no?
That cat looks inordinately annoyed to me.
I'll take your word. The barking did seem a bit off.
So many Potatoes!
This kitty seems SO OUTRAGED!
"Leave my fucking box ALONE!"
It's probably the water ballon he swallowed.
You would too, if you had a squished face like that.
Charlie Kirk enters the chat: "Can confirm."
*snort* 🤭🤭
Squashed kitty face libel!
You don't know what I look like!
Julius found the box with the catnip.
https://substack.com/profile/156971608-uncle-milburn-genius/note/c-55338833?
"I STAY IN BOX!"
''Someday, hooman, they'll find your pretty little head in this box.''
WHAT'S IN THE BOX!?!
I'll take what's behind the curtain.
I'll take what's under Carol Merrill's skirt! Or used to be, anyway, well you get the idea.
I wonder how many people overall get that reference.
me, for one
Only teh oldz.
Hubba hubba!
while the media is spending far too much time trying to find all the echoes of chicago '68, still (and speaking from chicago):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtMDas6DaYI
Cops "sitting with thumbs up asses" is standard for when the far-right is attacking perceived leftists. Then, when the tide turns against the far-right, the cops wade in gassing, clubbing, and arresting the people who were being attacked in the first place. I have seen this at almost every protest in Oregon.
So, if an under-40 inherited-wealth millionaire with no student loans (duh) sees their net worth double (great stock market!), and an under-40 walmart employee's ancient car breaks down and dies and that was their only asset and now they have to pay to have it towed away, then the average net worth of these under-40s has nearly doubled! Or, saying it another way, whar standard deviation? Or show us the whole distribution, howzabout...
“Yes mom.” It’s just easier. If she can’t hear and backed the wheelchair over her hearing aids on purpose, like my mom, it’s easier to say that while yelling.
Without even knowing Harlan Crow, one immediately knows the type of person who would jump at the opportunity to own a signed copy of Mein Kampf. it's fucking disgusting. It's not a thing for a private citizen to own or to want to own without their having some implicit sympathy with its contents, without their feeling that it's something about which to boast. That's something for a rare books department in a library to keep for scholarly use only.
You know you've made it to bestie status with Harlan when he opens the secret door in the bookcase to let you see the collection in his hidden Nazi memorabilia room.
I know what to tell you about under 40 wealth: Adjust for inflation.
I know this is late, but is anyone up for a "hate read"? WaPo has a piece on Laura Loomer today ( inexplicably in the "Style" section ). Altho' it talks about Loomer's negatives a lot, it really just is some kinda attempt at normalizing her.
[ I'm not gonna waster a "gift link" on this, even if it is a new month ]
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2024/05/02/laura-loomer-donald-trump/
Just another reason to make sure that PAB loses
Katz on the escalation on campuses last night.
https://theracket.news/
geeez
https://twitter.com/samyebri/status/1785907245852844229
(video of the "Nazi" car at UCLA)
People who wish to emulate Nicolae Ceaușescu may want to reflect on the events of 21-25 December, 1989, a.k.a. "The Most Surprising Christmas in Romania Since Vlad Țepeș Said He Had Some Wacky Ideas For New Decorations."
"Please don't gender my dinner!"
That's got Pulitzer written all over it.
So, that “average” wealth that’s so high for Americans under 45…
I’m sure they adjusted for inflation, because only a fool wouldn’t, but…is that a mean, median, mode, or midrange? Because outliers can skew mean and midrange by a LOT.
Average means "mean" or total amount divided by number of people. Of course, since we are not communists, wealth distribution in the USA is uneven, to say the least. It reminds me of a very old joke illustrating the concept, which starts "Bill Gates walks into a bar..." and the punch line is that the average net worth of people in that barroom is now $100 million (like I said, a very old joke). What the chart really tells you is that, for people that have investments, the value of those investments is way up, whatever their age.
From comments below, the big numbers they were touting (the article, not here in Tabs) were means. The medians did also show significant increased wealth as well, but quite as massive as some of the means numbers that drew skepticism below.
Nice thing. Yesterday was the 93rd birthday of the Empire State Building. It was the world's tallest building until the World Trade Center's first tower was topped in 1970. After September 11 , the Empire State Building was New York City's tallest building until 2012, when One World Trade Center was completed. As of 2022, the building is the seventh-tallest building in New York City, the ninth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States, and the 54th-tallest in the world.
In 2012, the building's four hundred metal halide lamps and floodlights were replaced with 1,200 LED fixtures, increasing the available colors from nine to over 16 million.
As most of you know I have an amazing view from my balcony of the Manhattan skyline and I have taken thousands of pics including that iconic NY fixture. Have some photos!
https://substack.com/@ziggywiggy/note/c-55307156?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knfuc
Hi Chicken! How you doing my friend?
Crossing all my fingers and toes and lighting a burnt offering(cannabis) that your eye doc gets it all fixed real soon! Love you Chicken!
Whenever you need me you know how to reach me. Even if it just babbling nonsense and saying howdy. When you are feeling better I want to get some recipes from you for my All Potted Up On The Weed blog.
This is the kind of day that feels like everyone has lost their god damned minds, and I can't wait for the weekend where I can get off the internet and just fucking CHILL.
The perpetual flood of Bad News/Any and All News is making me think (again) about my own media consumption, which now is constantly monitoring the internet, even on my work breaks. In my 20s, I'd listen to NPR as I got ready for work, would sometimes (not always) grab a newspaper to read on the L. Wouldn't think about it again until I got home (although again, I would often grab a newspaper to read on the train if there was a big headline) and would watch the 6 or 10 o'clock news. (I also spent a lot of time just looking out the window when I rode the train.) I'd read the Sunday paper, and subscribed to Harper's magazine for more in-depth stories. I think maybe I need to go back to discrete "news times" because this constant influx is really really bad for my brain.
I've always been a sort of politics nerd, but as you note, there just wasn't as much constant information to take up time back in the day. I have to work at NOT seeking out info now.
Here's a nice story. A Saskatchewan farm family had a surprise recently when one of their cows gave birth to quadruplets. This is rare enough, but what's even more rare is that all four survived, and are thriving.
https://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/healthy-happy-calves-cow-gives-birth-to-rare-set-of-quadruplets-in-saskatchewan-1.6869971