The Babylonians knew a * b = 1/4 * ( (a+b)^2 - (a-b)^2 ), and and used tables of 1/4 * x^2 to do multiplication by addition. It took three thousand years for Napier to discover modern logarithms. The slide rule was invented eight years later.
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mindbleach@sh.itjust.workstoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Court nullifies “click-to-cancel” rule that required easy methods of cancellation6·11 hours agoNothing good is allowed to happen ever again.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksto Canada@lemmy.ca•That white guy who can't get a job at Tim Hortons? He's AI2·13 hours agoThis guy lied on the internet! Arrest whoever made his keyboard.
Some industries go ‘we have to do [blank] because that’s the most popular thing’ and some industries go ‘we can’t do [blank] because everyone else is doing [blank].’ Inevitably the latter get infected with executives from the former.
I think broadcasters are legally required to announce who’s broadcasting, at some minimum interval. I know it affects ham radio - because slow-scan image transmissions worked around it by watermarking their callsign in the image. It’d also explain why Sirius XM does it so goddamn often when every receiver already has a screen.
Ralph: “Oh boy, sleep! That’s where I’m a viking.”
This thread has been fucking great for blocking people who would have insisted, whatever this new Auschwitz thing is, it’s just as bad as something Hindenburg did.
No. They weren’t.
Generic percentage increases to immigration enforcement are not the same as Kristi Noem tweeting about SIXTY-FIVE MILLION PEOPLE, no matter how strongly you feel about the shit we were doing before.
The Idiot is talking about stripping natural-born citizens of that citizenship, and sending them all to cat-food factories in Sudan, and y’all still wanna bicker about Obama catching people crossing the border. Like you can’t figure out there’s a difference between a little over a million people, across eight years, and every Hispanic in America facing a no-trial black-hood flight to fuckoff nowhere, as soon as practically possible.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.workstoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Ken Burns calls it "shortsighted" to eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting4·3 days agoIt’s malice, Ken. They know it’s bad and that’s the point.
Oh right, I’m on ML. Where whatever a building is used for now is the fault of whoever built it.
No difference between fighting human trafficking and separating all children from all parents.
No difference between having immigration laws and shipping random brown people to Sudan.
Same same same nuh uh always same.
They weren’t planning to round up an entire fifth of the US population and put them in concentration camps.
I feel like that alone counts for a lot. Sorry you seem to disagree.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Exclusive: DOJ, FBI conclude Epstein had no "client list," committed suicide43·3 days agoImprove your reading comprehension.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.workstoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Major DeSantis contributor was awarded Alligator Alcatraz contract4·3 days agoStop giving the concentration camp a cutesy name.
This is just “both sides” with more steps.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Exclusive: DOJ, FBI conclude Epstein had no "client list," committed suicide4·3 days agoBut the no client list definitely included Bill Clinton!
More directly, 18 is not the moment you take the shrink-wrap off your genitals. It’s when you get thrown to the wolves. It’s the point where you’re assumed to already know enough that all your future decisions are your own fault.
Drives me up the wall when fandoms are like ‘You can’t show that seventeen-year-old having impure thoughts about a close friend! It’s still six months until they can get facefucked on camera for money.’ If y’all can’t handle that for fictional characters, the unrefined horniness of actual pubescent humans is going to obliterate your psyche.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•U.S. deports men from Asia and Latin America with criminal records to South Sudan after legal saga1·4 days agoSending people to places they’ve never been is not “deportation.” It’s trafficking.
It’s the wrong fucking continent.
He’s not very smart and he has a visible personality disorder.