Pascal: “I am having the best Christmas right now.”

Did everybody get this as a maths problem nearly every year in primary school, and again in high school when triangle numbers were brought up?

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. Perfect representation would actually by sortition (selection of public office by jury duty type random selection), but that scares people because “I don’t want just anybody to be in power” but that doesn’t stop people who should from getting it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

Yes.

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” - George Carlin

In response to another post about Project 2025

Congratulations nzmaa, you won. You’re going to live in my mind 24/7 for the next four years.

So the working class had to be specifically told

• the democrats support unions
• the democrats support breaking up monopolies
• the cost of living is a complex issue with multiple causes that will take a very careful and calculated collection of regulations regarding home ownership, rent, taxes, and it’s not going to work for everyone, and it’s not going to happen overnight
• supporting and expanding social welfare programs helps everyone

What are they expecting? The Republicans will be able to write a law saying Netflix will be cheaper and have no ads?

In 2006, a movie was released in which an evil AI is defeated by Shia LeBouf.

The evil AI’s plan? Kill the president!

Why does the AI want to kill the president? he has too much unchecked power and bombed village of innocent people in the middle east and the AI told him not to because it could not confirm if there was actually a terrorist there.

How does Shia LeBouf defeat the evil AI? Opening fire at the capitol to cause a panic.

The war in Iraq was ramping up at the time, how was there not rioting at screenings? How is this not a controversial movie?

The acting is not great, but it deserves better than 27% on Rotten Tomatoes when the message of the film is the government does bad stuff and should be persecuted for it

Eagle Eye | Rotten Tomatoes

“Oh you know, how it always ends, feelings of self loathing and despair.”

Well, we will know things will have gotten real bad when they start approaching sex offenders for fertility studies in an Operation Paperclip type arrangement

https://youtu.be/T5ALPzS0QfQ

Others things, of course, but still a banger

“Enjoy a £26 bowl of chips in a room where Churchill got blown while drinking a triple whisky” - This property developer, probably.

Wow, it’s almost like a business can choose which methods of payment they accept. Outrageous.

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“We gotta shut down 3G as fast as possible so we can get black spot grant money and then use that money to rebuy the spectrum space at the next auction.”

-Telstra

Rule 1: All commenting must be by Russian bots only

Sounds like someone got called out on the bus for making a woman feel uncomfortable and is still coming to terms that no one on the bus jumped to his defence

It sounds like someone got halfway through a depression era government pamphlet they didn’t understand

Of all the companies to try and defraud, Cricket? You’re trying to send the cheapest carrier your made up money?

Fun fact, the url in the original ad redirects to this video because the MPA couldn’t be bothered with the domain renewal

www.piracyisacrime.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Wouldn't_Steal_a_Car