Non-Euclidean geometry was developed by pure mathematicians who were trying to prove the parallel line postulate as a theorem. They realized that all of the classic geometry theorems are all different if you start changing that postulate.

This led to Riemannian geometry in 1854, which back then was a pure math exercise.

Some 60 years later, in 1915, Albert Einstein published the theory of general relativity, of which the core mathematics is all Riemannian geometry.

He can’t let people poison the training data, or else his site will have no value to its customers.

This is it. The old Huy Fong is completely gone now, unless you have a connection to someone who’s been hoarding.

There’s a different sauce brand now that is produced by Huy Fong’s old pepper farm using the same peppers. But I’ve been told that’s not exactly the same either.

Olive oil, although it’s not really 1-5 extra where I am. There’s a lot of advice to buy cheap oil for cooking, but that’s not really true. The truth is that a lot of ‘extra virgin’ oil is sold in an old, rancid state, and you have to upgrade into the mid tiers to get away from that.

Buy the best olive oil you’re willing to spend money on, even for cooking.

At Waffle House, that’s over medium, or just an “order”. Over easy / “order lite” has some runny white.

Probably better to use Grok, because that’s what’s going to read these things.

Do you mean that the script was written by the family, and it was only “performed” by generative AI? That’s very interesting, and not something I heard anywhere else.

Legally speaking, this was a victim impact statement.

Convicted criminals have long had the common law right of allocution, where they can say anything they want directly to the judge before sentence is passed.

Starting a few decades ago, several states decided that the victims of crime should have a similar right to address the judge before sentencing. And so the victim impact statement was created.

It’s not evidence, and it’s not under oath, but it is allowed to influence the sentencing decision.

(Of course, victim impact statements are normally given by real victims).

Sheesh, imagine being that priest, doing daily status updates skipping about 23 levels of chain of command.

This Pope had a personal charity underling who would walk the streets of Rome and hand out cash to people who needed it. The money came from selling autographed indulgences. So I’m not surprised in the least.

Also beans. Can we bring back the beans, you know, for the newbies?

I think most of this is genuine belief. There was a doctor named Wakefield who fraudulently published this autism claim in academic journals. Those papers were retracted, but the damage was done.

I think it sticks around as a conspiracy, because otherwise there’s not a whole lot else that can explain the causes or origins of autism.

Street Kings, 2008.

As an earthling, you have evolved over the course of billions of years to deal with sunlight at a distance of one astronomical unit. That’s the distance of the earth’s orbit. That’s probably the most comfortable distance.

The Apollo moon missions used a so-called “barbecue” mode that rotated the capsules at three revolutions per hour. They did this during the 3-4 day coast phases to and from the moon. As far as I know this was able to mostly hold the interior temperatures in the “survivable” range.

This is pretty off topic, but in traditional newspaperology headlines the story writers have no say in the headline. Headline writing is a separate discipline with specialized headline writers, because you have to carefully count the character sizes to fit the headline into the space.

This traditional art changed on its head when headlines online were no longer constrained by the page layout.

Since DNS is hierarchical, it could be set up so that they both work.

Part of the DOJ ask is that the Google search business should be enjoined from paying for preferential default status on other platforms.

They want to prohibit the Firefox arrangement as part of the anti trust matter.

Also this classic xkcd

Oh no. Are you telling me that an xkcd numbered in the 2000s is a “classic” now? Yikes

Sorry I edited some of this stuff in.

I’m still stumped on BOE, but IRS form 3949a allows you to narc on people for tax misconduct.

The critical document in this story is the BOE, but I have no idea what that’s supposed to stand for.

I also don’t know POA. (Maybe power of attorney, but doesn’t make sense).

“Recision of security interest” sounds a lot like a document that attempts to void out the part of the loan papers that let the lender repossess the car on default.

CFO is chief financial officer, an executive at the lender organization.

UCC is the Uniform Commercial Code, a set of laws enacted in most states covering business practice regarding contracts and such.

SEC is the Securities and Exchange Commission, which regulates publicly traded stocks (“securities”). This seems to confuse the investment meaning of security with the different meaning of “security” on the loan.

CFPB is the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This organization does do things to protect borrowers in default from unfair debt collection practices. I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t just leap into action for this case.

Finally IRS collects federal income taxes. Form 3949a is a tattle tale form that lets you report things like your friend’s improper deductions to the IRS. That’s real nice.

Depending on which mission this is it could be a lot shorter. The original PLSS backpacks had a two hour air supply. The LM was powered by batteries and could only sustain life for 48-72 hours depending on configuration. If they launch and rendezvous with the orbiting CSM, they can extend their survival by several days, but there’s functionally nowhere to go.

For my money the best way to go is probably in the suit, outside, and let the oxygen run out while the carbon dioxide scrubbers are still working.