K.S. O'Neill

Ahhhh god I love the live cover of Jolene, it's amazing

It devolved into fantasy by 2/3 of the way through. I mean, imagine telling every billionaire on earth that the new currency will reduce their wealth to $50M or whatever it was. Everyone involved would be dead by midnight. The one thing the wealthy are genuinely good at is hanging on to wealth.

I loved this series so much:

Oh come on. Grass (1925)? Still to this day one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. In 1925 it was groundbreaking.

It's a chess joke, sorry. I was just on chess bsky and switched over to here and saw your post.

Is this a Hans Niemann post?

Amazing.

YouTube video by Graham Griffiths The Wire - Maths in the book and on the street

Related clip from The Wire:

youtu.be/O1mmePD549o

One way to make the (x-h) shift more natural is to move the k to the other side of the equation. So if the parent function is y=f(x), don't make the shifted function y=f(x-h)+k. Make it y-k=f(x-h), then you're using the same rule for both axes. Once it's clear you can move the k around as needed.

Fill it with spices and stick in in the cavity of a roasting pig?

This was the first thing I thought of

For god's sake is there no way to collapse a thread on this app? It's putting me right off.

Damn that's pretty.

YouTube video by CyrusofChaos Yet Another Fencing Scandal

Fencing Saturday! Special post today, if you're tired of watching the US democracy go down in flames, take a break and watch corruption destroy your favorite sport! Yet another excellent report from CoC:

youtu.be/g8aeAs5Oqy8?...

I did not know that! Thanks. I agree with the comment below, there needs to be a way to collapse a thread, but this is still a big improvement on "flat by design" discussion spaces

?? There were like six posts on him doing his nazi shit on the front page as soon as it happened.

Kevin. And I say that as a Kevin.

There are a few "power users" modding the big subs who are often not acting in good faith. The site is still the best discussion site on the web IMO, but still. I live in fear that it's going to be taken over the way twitter was. You could buy off 20 power mods and ruin the site.

Threaded discussions are also just better, IMO. I like bsky, but reddit and usenet have hosted far deeper and more interesting discussions for me than twitter or any flat discussion site ever has.

As a redditor, agreed.

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Not to be all serious or anything but when Harvey flooded Houston the best place to get info clearly and fast was the reddit thread. There's one here for the LA fires:

old.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles...

Astonishing. Thanks for that.

The @nytimes.com should hire whoever wrote this headline. Seriously!

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RAH had more than one trans character. Friday was a brain transplant; "Slipstick" Libby was a (dead) male genius who was brought back and chose to be a woman. The fascinating thing about Libby was that it was treated as a minor plot point, normal health care offered to everyone in that sitch.

Is he aware that the greatest genius in Heinlein's "Extended Universe" was trans, and that her transition was treated as just ordinary health care, a normal option open to anyone, no commentary?

I'm not up for defending RAH here, but Elmo picking him specifically seems kind of odd, you know?

This is not a difficult problem, first let's assume coffee is spherical...

I already pointed this out six months from now

Three asthmatic gophers in a trench coat