Somewhere in Poland, there is an ex-Soviet nuclear bunker which was sealed off for radiation. There was a ventilation pipe in which ants would fall down and then become cannibals.

The queen-less colony of worker drowns was about a million strong.

In 2016, they did an experiment, where they installed a wooden board to let them back out to see what would happen.

(I can only assume they did not watch enough trashy c-tier horror flicks, or any kaiju monster flicks, because this is how the world ends. )

Honestly, this grainy photo could be five or six guys I do know. (Except they were all here yesterday, so couldn’t have been, but yeah.)

I feel like “Koala Clam” needs to be a band. Maybe something you can line dance to.

What the investigation probably isn’t saying: They’re helping do it here, too. where is “here” you might ask? everywhere.

not if you get caught before you can sell the first haul.

It’s still illegal in Colorado.

Because Colorado is a us state, subject to the laws of the US and weed is illegal federally.

You see how that works, right?

Most of us can’t afford that check.

Why are you doing this when it’s legal in both Canada and a bunch of US states? There are so many ways to do the weed thing legally and you’re still risking international drug charges?

just for the record… it’s not legal anywhere in the US. many states have decriminalized it- whihc means they’re not actively enforcing the US law, but it’s still very much illegal. In the past it wasn’t such a big deal, because federal law enforcement didn’t care about people smoking a joint. with trump in power, though, you gotta be careful with that.

There’s an app for that,

yes… it’s improved dramatically.

which is why 18,000 waters got ordered instead of 8 (or whatever.)

congratulations on showing your ignorance. keep being insulting. keep making that assumption.

ask yourself why Will Smith was never actually charged. If you’re right, and that’s how our criminal justice system works, we know Will slapped him. We know it wasn’t some consensual thing. solid evidence there. So why wasn’t Will charged?

Was it because, hey, no crime was committed?

no. there were no charges because the expenditure of resources (aka wasting everybody’s time for a trial that everyone knows will fail to get a conviction.) You were right. the DA has prosecutorial discretion. meaning they’re the ones who make the decision. but that power also includes deciding when not to prosecute.

I don’t think there is one test.

“Images” is too broad of a concept. Like what that judge said… “I’ll know porn when I see it.”

Beyond that, as an is using an attractive woman to sell makeup gonna fail? What if it’s just a totally bland photo of a face, just an attractive one?

Once again, because it’s pretty clear you don’t read my comments: I’m not defending Will. You can stop adding things to my comment anytime now. You can stop explaining something incredibly obvious, which I have never argued.

Also you need to stop watching TV and movies, police and the DA have the ultimate authority to press charges in the US and they do it all the time. The law isn’t not-broken cause one party didn’t press charges. That’s honestly kinda adorable

They’re not going to prosecute a crime where the victim doesn’t want to testify or wants it dropped.

Because those become very hard to win, and they’ve got their win/loss ratio to worry about. It isn’t about whether the crime was committed or not. It’s about if they can win in court.

Tons of crimes go unprosecuted because one reason or another makes them difficult to win This was a relatively minor, one-off incident where the victim doesn’t want to press charges and the perpetrator has stellar legal representation.

Ya’ll tell on yourselves too much when you say things like “most.”

Seems like you understand it quite well.

You’ll notice there’s a difference between understanding a motivation or impulse and acting on it, or indeed, condoning the act.

And we can also quite happily describe what Will did as wrong, just as we can be critical of Chris for making the joke in the first place.

That you seem think Will’s action invalidates any inappropriateness in Chris’s actions is itself pretty telling.

IMO they both suck. And we can say what the Oscar’s should have done with Will. I don’t really care. Cops aren’t going to press charges if the person assaulted doesn’t call for it regardless of where it happened. But also Oscar’s should have vetted that speech and been like “maybe don’t make fun of a person’s medical condition.” Which likely would have headed the whole matter off. Details.

I didn’t say it did, don’t put words in my mouth.

I did say I understood the impulse.

As for slapping instead of punching? Me.i would.

Broken hands are not fun; and once you’re there, you’re gonna want your hand working afterwards.

…. Are you reading what I’m saying?

Yes. For simple, common problems. You are correct.

But sometimes they’re not running simple problems. Sometimes, the run time on servers costs money. Sometimes, there’s no value to be gained by being any more accurate- and it increases those costs.

Now, in those times…. Are you really going to tell me that costing your organization more money without any useful gains…. Is “way more professional”?

Also? Don’t get me wrong, that threshold is getting and higher every year. I have more computing power in my cell phone than they used to put a man on the moon.

None of that changes that astronomers sometimes use 1 instead of pi, and that the barycenter of Jupiter-sun orbit is close enough to say Jupiter orbits the sun.

Chris rock.

He made a joke about Jada’s Alocopeia (the hair condition thing, if I spelled that right.) and also some jokes about their open relationship.

So, most of us can understand the impulse, I imagine. And most of us have enough sense not to make fun of medical conditions on a stage that large. To their face.

I’d love it, if we decided to test some kind of ICCBM missile with a “tactical kinetic warhead” (like a small rods from god type situation here,) and then we’re just, like, “ooops sorry for dropping that giant murican dick on your kremlin. There was a guidance error and it reverted back to its original computer. So sorry.”

If we’re lucky he’d even be home, but the asshole is probably somewhere in hiding. Wouldn’t want the drones to find them.

Sure.

But sometimes, the problems are complex enough that solve time becomes a concern. When they’re complex enough, you start asking “is everything these precise enough to justify that” and when the answer is “no”, then you don’t do that because runtime on networked clusters like AWS costs money.

And when you’re talking about scales that encompass the galaxy…. Well. There’s just not a lot of precision there to begin with.

Not when that definition of pi goes to all 300 trillion decimals that we have resolved. (To be fair, I don’t know of any that do… but eh…yeah. And I’m pretty sure it was defined by a masochist if one did.)

That leads to unnecessary time spent calculating even simple equations. That level of precision is almost never actually needed.

With fermi problems, usually that level of precision is moot and potentially a waste of time. (Particularly when the math is requiring some kind network cluster to do.)