Danny Kodicek (but, y'know, spooky)

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face” – Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Minister of National Security for Israel, personally oversaw and participated in the torture of Greta Thunberg.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Most likely to the Lib Dems, I would assume. Maybe a few to Labour, but not as many as Labour would like - in their pursuit of Reform voters I suspect they're leapfrogging the more liberal Tories altogether

The most shocking part of this is how it seems the entire country has essentially agreed the Tories are over. The dominant political party in this country for centuries, just written off with barely a whimper.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

This reminds me of the time I was cycling on a shared pavement, and a woman yelled at me to get off. I said "this is a cycle path" and she shrieked "I'M A LAWYER!"

YouTube video by Clip It Four Lions Wookie

Honey Monster is *not* a bear!
Is a Wookie a bear, Control? www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmQr...

Ooh! This is fascinating. I was noodling around this sequence on OEIS and discovered an even simpler way to write it. I don't yet know why it works, though! (I'm using sf(n) here for the superfactorial instead of n!!)

(Sadly the !! notation is already reserved for the double factorial. This thing is called the superfactorial and doesn't have a fun exclamation-mark-based notation of its own)

oeis.org/A203469

This is quite nice. If we define n!! to mean 1!·2!·3!·...·n!, then we can write the solution as

√((2n)!!·n!)
________
(n!!)²·√(2^n)

An alternative way to write it is

1!·3!·5!·...·(2n-1)! / (2!·3!·4!·...·(n-1)!)²·n!

But that's not a huge improvement

Yes, that's what I have - the product from 1 to n of (2n-1) C n

I wondered if you had a clever way to collapse that product into a more compact formula. There's a nice way to visualise it as the product of successive central values from the even-numbered rows of Pascal's triangle

Sad news everyone, I’m officially pulling the plug on Brightsiders, my super fan podcast for the 2017 movie Bright. I still feel like there were many interesting topics left to discuss but after 7 years of weekly episodes I’ve learned that no one has ever listened to the show.

Hmm... it's easy to come up with a long expression for this, but I can't see a nice way to simplify it. Is there a neat answer?

I had no idea! I used to have the audiobook of Tarka read by David Attenborough, listened to it many times as a kid. And yes, it was fucking brutal. Weird to learn there was a whole fascist ideology behind it

Arguably Asimov's The Feeling of Power does have a similar theme - as we rely more and more on computers, the ability to manage without them becomes rare and precious.

(And yes, it was a bit stereotypy and sexist, but even so, the black woman with the big 'fro was still an equal member of the team *and* portrayed as an object of desire)

You know how the anti-woke brigade are always complaining about how "you couldn't make that today" about some bland racist shit? Imagine their reaction if a show like this one (from 1977) came out today.

I loved the animation for their teleportation device. And I remember finding Sentinel 1 (the big holographic head) quite spooky.

We had a DVD with two episodes of this and my kids totally loved it.

A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.

You gotta give ‘em hop.

Supreme Court judges:

This conversation.

Thank you, #BBCWest / #BBCBristol - it's good to see you can still do it.

I really like what these guys are doing over the pond.

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

It feels like a beautiful debate from a more innocent time, when we all basically agreed racism was bad, and we were just arguing over the details.

Just read a comment from someone saying they didn't like the ending of Lord of the Rings because they wanted it to end with a one-on-one showdown between Sauron and Gandalf, and I've never thought this about anyone before but I think maybe this person should just give up reading.

I don't know what you're counting as "angles in polygons" type of reasoning and what you don't. You'd need to be pretty clear what theorems they are and aren't allowed to assume.
(I guess I'd start with "two adjacent right angles sum to 180 so the opposite sides are parallel")

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Me getting the precision scales out... "Hmm.. 69.4 grams. I guess this must be someone else's lost viola bow"