Mark Adamcin

I did it to try to help humanity, whom I love.

@tayloramurphy @QuinnyPig I would have put the chunks into columns instead of rows. That way I could get all the chunks with `select *`. I hope this tip helps the next agent.

sweet baby jesus

My dog recommitted himself to the church, so now he's an AKC-certified Russell Terrier.

@kasthomas Nope

If this is true, there's been a major rift between Trump and Tel Aviv. (Hence, Trump is ready to leave the war, unilaterally, abandoning Pedo-Hell.)

Some inside Iran don't see or believe the level of global support they have for their war against the Epstein Axis. Retweet if you stand with Iran & the Resistance 💛

Reading secondhand about how Larijani applied Kantian ethics to his first tenure as Supreme National Security Council secretary and I’m fascinated.

A "coalition" is a group of people looking for any excuse to stay home but just haven't come up with one yet that they think would be convincing.

For more, let's turn to our Chief Military Affairs Speculator who also happens to be, BTW, an enthusiastic user of Latin-1 encoding

omg what could sequential displays of complex overlapping linear formations off the coast of China possibly mean timesofindia.indiatimes.com/defence/intern… via @timesofindia

The prices for Dubai-style snacks and desserts at Costco are up 120% since the beginning of the year

@DRUDGE The headline suggests that Iran claims to have a nuclear weapon at its disposal, but this image does not use "nuke" imagery. One can threaten to obliterate or annihilate using ballistic missiles without implying that thermonuclear warheads would be involved.

If one country enshrines separation of church and state into law, ALL countries should enshrine it into law, as an act of strategic deterrence. Binding your state policy with measured retaliation and the prospect of judgment before god is an open invitation to colonizers.

Went down the rabbit hole on this one. The answer is actually wild. 5,000 years ago, Sumerian merchants in modern-day Iraq needed a number that's easy to divide. They picked 60. It has 12 divisors (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60). Base-10 only has four. That's 3x as many ways to split something evenly, which matters when you're dividing grain and wages and can't handle repeating decimals. The counting method is the best part. They used their thumb as a pointer on the three bone segments of each finger. Four fingers, three segments, that's 12 per hand. Track multiples of 12, on the other hand, and you hit 60. No pen needed. Merchants in parts of Asia still count this way today. The system spread from Sumer to the Babylonians, then eastward to Persia, India, and China, and westward to Egypt and Rome. By 1800 BC, Babylonian students were using base-60 to calculate the square root of 2 to six decimal places on clay tablets. One student's homework from 4,000 years ago, now at Yale, holds the most accurate computation found anywhere in the ancient world. The Greeks adopted it for astronomy, which locked it into navigation, cartography, and eventually clocks in the 14th century. People have tried to kill it. During the French Revolution in 1793, France mandated decimal time: 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute. New clocks, new laws, the whole thing. Lasted 17 months. Workers hated getting one day off every ten days instead of one every seven. They tried again in 1897. Scrapped by 1900. The metric system replaced feet and pounds across most of the world. But 60 minutes in an hour? Untouchable. 60 is just too good at being divided. You can split an hour into halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, sixths, tenths, twelfths, or twentieths and land on a whole number every time. Try that with 100, and you get ugly decimals for thirds, sixths, and most common splits. 5,000 years of civilizations looked at that math and came to the same conclusion: 60 wins.

"I wanted to show that nature can still beat the machine and that there is still merit in real work from real creatives."

Why do these people always count their reichs in groups of three?

sf is an extremely walkable city and i will die on this hill

High Court ruling: the govts decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group is unlawful. Statement from @HudaAmmori here⬇️

Imagine your bike has been at the Wright Brother’s repair shop for weeks and you see Orville suddenly whiz over your head in a contraption

From an Ars Technica article about this last year

This is gross. #Anthropic is like Hugh Jackman in The Prestige.

In personal news, I've got #covid, which means this weekend is the perfect opportunity for me to go see #MelaniaFilm at my local theater