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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 06:58:26 JST petra @epictittus @thefinn @Jewpacabra @wingedhussar @SK1ZM @Escoffier @BowsacNoodle During Covid services in Church buildings were banned in our country.
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 08:14:39 JST petra @BowsacNoodle @Starprophet1 @6gorillanbarsofjewsoap @bobbala @Escoffier @KingOfWhiteAmerica @TrevorGoodchild Good for you. -
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 08:13:33 JST petra @BowsacNoodle @Starprophet1 @6gorillanbarsofjewsoap @bobbala @Escoffier @KingOfWhiteAmerica @TrevorGoodchild Well, now we're just in Warhammer 40K and ... JFK!!!!!!!! -
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 08:05:16 JST petra @bobbala @Escoffier @6gorillanbarsofjewsoap @Starprophet1 @TrevorGoodchild There's nothing magical about the speed of light.
Even Newton mused that it didn't make sense for gravity to act instantaneously between two rocks, one on the Earth and one on the moon. Despite his equation of gravitation. He intuited that something was wrong. That there should be a finite time for an effect to propagate from one point to another in the universe, however fast it might be.
And he was right. In one of Landau and Lifshitz's volumes, The Classical Theory of Fields. Vol. 2, I think, they start with the premise that the propagation of an effect is finite. And all of special relativity drops out from there. Using nothing but high school algebra. no calculus required.
Newton was that close 400 years before Einstein.
It's just empirically observed that the finite propagation speed is the same as the speed of light.
As far as I know there's no particular reason why that must be so. But I could just be ignorant in that regard. -
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 04:45:43 JST petra @Escoffier @Starprophet1 @6gorillanbarsofjewsoap @TrevorGoodchild What more motivation could you have than to understand God's creation? -
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 05:02:03 JST petra @VaxxSabbath @sickburnbro @jb Years and years ago it was a girlfriend going on a cruise that she had already planned. She hadn't, of course. It was just a shit test. I cut her out of my life.
Guys need to go through these to really understand the true nature of women. -
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 03:46:11 JST petra @sickburnbro 12 years and 20 to 40 years living here are hardly "deep" ties. I count in generations. -
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2024 07:29:24 JST petra @VikingWays @BattleDwarfGimli @feralphilosophernc @Captain80s @Cruise2 @Dagnar @HockeyDoxie @emma_rooks @DMA @TrevorGoodchild @UnityOstara Well fuck me. That's funny. -
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 04:50:12 JST petra @sickburnbro @c There's lib prog "community activist" legal type in a nearby small city. An absolute midwit convinced of his own superiority. Does blogs, news paper articles, even ran and failed for a local government seat. Runs a marginal business and always complains about how hard done by he is.
He clearly sees his own kind doing well and yet can't seem to get a seat at the table. I can understand why no normal persona would want him around. But even with the mutants he's always on the outside looking in, wanting some of that good grift going on for himself.
And yet as isolated as he seems to be he picks up on the current liberal thing. Whether it's government funding for the poor, BLM, covid restrictions, Trump. Whatever. He's a perfect repeater station, using Trevor's terminology. All the correct phrasing, it's perfect.
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 23:07:34 JST petra @sickburnbro @dictatordave @smoker78 @ThePoastmasterGeneral Time is infinite. No state of things is forever. There is an endless supply of people and random circumstances to change things.
I had to get it out of my head that it was all going to happen in my lifetime.
Millions were born and died under the worst of communism and could never have guessed how that changed just a few years later. And look where Russia is today. And China.
And the West has a lot more to build back from in it's stock and history. -
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 22:59:46 JST petra @sickburnbro @dictatordave @smoker78 @ThePoastmasterGeneral Like any revolution of affairs, there will be some people who will object and resist to the new way of doing things. They'll be made into examples, either by design or happenstance, and everyone else will get their minds right and completely forget there was any other way of doing things.
The 80% sheep in action, as always. Throughout human history. -
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 22:40:08 JST petra @EssentialUtinsil @sickburnbro @professionalbigot69 Which is why it will not happen unless some kind of upheaval in the state of things occurs. And why our own government is spending untold treasure to prevent just that. Because that's when their gibs get turned off, too.
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 22:35:40 JST petra @EssentialUtinsil @sickburnbro @professionalbigot69 Turn off the gibs. Make hiring them so onerous in fines and judgements that they are unemployable fr.
That will take care of 80% of them. And it would happen within a year or two.
I'd love to see the caravans of millions moving south to Mexico's borders.
The border will have to be opened forcibly but that's doable. Doesn't even take physical force. Just enough bribes and that will pay itself back in a year anyway. -
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 03:48:50 JST petra - Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:
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@BattleDwarfGimli @pyrate @markcuban @BillingtonYVR @Captain80s @Dagnar @DrBtc @lovelymiss @matty @s2208 @BarelyEagle @Codeki @Felix_Krull @Jewpacabra @KekistaniWanderer @LivingSpaceStudios @Lyle @TrevorGoodchild @epictittus @sickburnbro @kroner @EmmaFaber @Ladyfat When my ex and I were splitting up it was her so called best friends that were filling her ears with poison against us. They had miserable marriages, and while my ex and I had problems it didn't have to end in the divorce that it did. She went to a counselling service on her own and the woman she saw stated point blank that I was eventually going to kill her. It made absolutely no sense. There was no hint of that in our marriage. But she made it up out of whole cloth just to destroy another marriage. It's pure evil on their part. -
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 01:45:18 JST petra @sickburnbro I'm older and in high school worked at small grocery story run by an older man who's father started the store originally. Maybe four or so of today's 7-11's in aisle space. But the shelves taller and more crammed with merchandise.
It also had a full time butcher, with a helper, plus a full time produce guy. And we were busy. The store had been around for decades and was well established in the community.
Was it efficient like a franchise would be run today? Not at all. But it provided a very nice income for the owner, it provided jobs for adults and any number of high school box boys and cashier girls over the years.
It's gone now, of course. It couldn't compete today.
But it was nice when it existed. -
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 08:42:47 JST petra @lovelymiss @Dagnar @BattleDwarfGimli @Captain80s @BarelyEagle @Felix_Krull @epictittus @EmmaFaber It's this way with my fiance. She is a genuinely sweet woman. Very caring. She is a widow. She cooks and cleans and sews because that was how she was raised and how she raised her family. We're both older now. I pitch in to help out because I don't like seeing her do all the work.
We have "socks night" together where we sew up holes in socks that we accumulated over the past months. It's quite wonderful. We listen to music in the background, chitchat together and compete and tease each other at who does the best mending.
And she has people in her circle who spite her for this simple joy in life. They never understand that this is why they are alone. -
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 22:48:01 JST petra @epictittus @EmmaFaber @BattleDwarfGimli @Captain80s @BarelyEagle I belong to an online tech meet up group. It's mostly men. Just a couple of women attend. We decide to have an irl get together. A potluck. Everyone brings food.
So the two women object. Seriously. They don't want to cook. We get together. All the men bring something. My girlfriend contributes a dish because that's the way she is. I know. I know how lucky I am.
The two women show up and dig in. They contribute nothing.
It's so obvious it's funny. -
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 23:40:33 JST petra @EvilSandmich @thefinn @machciv @s2208 @zeke @DC5FAN Python and the usual ML libraries you can learn on your own, but pretty much yeah.
I think it was about $40,000 for the 10 month program. This is maybe 4 years ago. It was full and people we clamouring to get into it. So they added adjacent programs. It was all just money printing on the part of the university. -
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 23:40:33 JST petra @thefinn @machciv @s2208 @zeke @DC5FAN Young people I used to teach would get so frustrated with the stupid gate keeping courses they had to do to wash out people and reduce the class size. Such a waste.
But why have gate keeping courses when they can just let only the people capable of doing the work into the program in the first place?
Because standards have been so lowered and are so scatter shot now, especially with the flood of foreign educated students, that you can't trust they really received the education they claim to.
I had a guy with a Masters of Engineering from one of our middle tier universities apply to a job and the thesis work was basically what a final project at one of our three year technical colleges, straight out of high school, would be 20 years ago. Another had a "master of data science", whatever the fuck that is, from a 10 month insta-diploma program from a top university here. His background before that was business and restaurant management. But he got in and they graduated him with some coding project.
Total shit show. -
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 22:55:49 JST petra @jeffcliff @Starprophet1 @DutchBoomerMan @EightEight @JedDrudge @pyrate @mk @FreeinTX @curtis "With high certainty (p < .00005)."
Lol. LMFAO.
That's not how p-values work you stunted retard. You absolute fucking idiot.
Kys. Now.