And this is the story of Abraham Wald and survivorship bias  https://medium.com/@penguinpress/an-excerpt-from-how-not-to-be-wrong-by-jordan-ellenberg-664e708cfc3d

Someone on the MV FB group I'm in got their account hacked and posted this obvious scam:

 

So I posted my own version:

 

Alternatively alas in Texas

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65437185

3 hours ago, Craig Sawyers said:

Alternatively alas in Texas

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65437185

Here in SW Tennessee the metro Memphis area is a real

Shooting gallery. Youngsters stealing cars are common.

And they use those cars in robberies and drive by shootings.

Morning newscasts are depressing.

 

 

Now this is how you introduce changes! 

 

And we cheerfully eat these clearly sentient creatures? Discuss.

😄at Otto's actions, not at your commentary.

That octopus did not just do it once. Each morning there was an aquarium power outage and the 2,000W spot was blown. After a number of days, they staked out the tank at night and caught Otto blowing the lamp with a squirt of water. He also juggled with hermit crabs and rearranged his tank to suit his taste.

A very strange lifeform with a distributed brain - 2/3 of which are in the arms. It has as many neurons as a dog. Hence the creature's smartness.

I really don't have a problem with beef, pork, lamb or chicken. It is my view that these animals have done very well in terms of population by the fact we eat them. But I'm now unhappy about eating octopus, delicious though it may be - in raw intelligence it is similar to eating a dog.

Deliciousness was the reason the dodo became extinct. The flightless and friendly bird was just too darned superb to eat. So sailors just ate all of them.

I just spent some time perusing a FB page for funny album covers, https://www.facebook.com/groups/1663551487049479

Some examples (one apparently produced by Brent):

 

Why are they picking on Sonny James?

Adam Yauch died 11 years ago today.

Quote

"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.  You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!  I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!"

 

Help!, Help! I'm being repressed.

Come see the violence inheritance system!

In 4K HDR?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq-VBIKNTUQ

Indeed 

Edited May 6, 20233 yr by Grahame

11 hours ago, Knuckledragger said:

 

Yeah, but can you trend on twitter?

 

"Penny Mordaunt first woman to present sword to King"

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-65508574

https://www.indy100.com/viral/penny-mordaunt-coronation-sword-memes

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/06/sword-wielding-penny-mordaunt-and-princess-annes-panto-hat-become-twitters-coronation-stars

 

 

Edited May 7, 20233 yr by Grahame

You have no idea what we have had to put up with in the UK on this. It has been pretty much saturation on radio and TV for a good week before the coronation. By the way, there is a war raging in Ukraine and Sudan - 10 seconds - but what about the coronation chaps!

BBC1, BBC2 and ITV showed it simultaneously, and if you missed a bit it was available on +1 and on streamed catch up.

My daughter and her husband watched it in Australia, but they didn't get a week of preamble, so they were less jaded by the whole thing.

Turned on in the evening, and a bit like football pundits there was a post coronation analysis running.

Edited May 7, 20233 yr by Craig Sawyers

16 hours ago, Grahame said:

Help!, Help! I'm being repressed.

Come see the violence inheritance system!

In 4K HDR?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq-VBIKNTUQ

Indeed 

I thought it was "...inherent in the system..."

2 hours ago, Dusty Chalk said:

I thought it was "...inherent in the system..."

Blame googles speech to text.

Or an hereditary monarchy.

 

9 hours ago, Craig Sawyers said:

You have no idea what we have had to put up with in the UK on this.

Well, we did get an inkling of the something like three years of news coverage on the queen passing. But things are a little different in America where we all rule… 

They celebrated even in Normandy, which has a rather complicated history with England.

Thought this would be appropriate, since it's been 70 years...

curtana (kɜːˈtɑːnə) in British English
noun: the unpointed sword carried before an English sovereign at a coronation as an emblem of mercy
from Anglo-Latin, from Old French cortain, the name of Roland's sword, which was broken at the point, ultimately from Latin curtus (short)
 

To Microsoft: Hey, curtana...

Edited May 8, 20233 yr by HiWire

This sketch aired 30 years ago today.

(!) Look who's back:

It's like 2007 all over again.

One of several "animal" martial arts scenes....this is awesome!  "ancient yodel of wisdom, peace, and justice..."  🤣

 

This is a photo of a group of boomers in a record store, taken in 1973.  I have no idea what is the album that the woman in the middle is holding.  I've asked several people and gotten either "I don't know" or wrong answers (CCR's Mardi Gras, which game out in '72 but didn't look like that.)