Mogensthegreat

Obviously the kids should be used given jobs to help build the wall.

Using the LDS's family program, I have found 3 ancestors who fought in the Civil War, 2 Confederate and one Union (all on the same side of the family, interestingly.)

also, TIL that programs like Ancestry are borderline scams because they get lots of their information from the LDS database, which is free to access, but then turn around and charge for it.

Tom Lehrer is truly a wonderful songwriter.

The Reds didn't have any bishops, but they were able to take the White King and Queen, which basically cost the Whites the game. From then on, the Reds played without a king, queen or bishops but with double the normal number of pawns.

Ghost Dog: The Way of The Samurai:

A ghetto samurai with a fleet of messenger pigeons (whom he lives among on a rooftop in New York), is hunted by the mafia after he kills a senior member.

Art?

Human Chess Game in Tsarist  Soviet Russia, 1924.

Edit: unfortunately, the re-education programs failed to impress upon me the fact that the glorious patriotic Bolshevik revolution ended in 1922, and this chess game would have been Soviet.

Somehow, it's better as a  Soviet human chess game than a Tsarist one.

Everybody is going to die. World War 3 is on its way.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israel-says-retaliation-just-thetip-of-the-iceberg-after-iran-blamed-for-overnight-strikes/2018/05/10/bd2fde18-53e8-11e8-a6d4-ca1d035642ce_story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/world/middleeast/israel-iran-syria-military.html

TIL Chuck Tingle has expanded his literary horizon:

I'm sorry, did I say Chuck Tingle? I meant DR. CHUCK TINGLE!

Name of the company that does the pictures at my school.

TIL my grandpa may have been a sun worshiper:

@Collimatrix This was Gib's...

On 12/7/2017 at 4:05 AM, Collimatrix said:

So, given that, what would a reasonable quantitative metric for the strategic effectiveness of generals be?

 

Oh, and please word your explanation in such a way that someone who is largely ignorant of sabermetrics can understand it, but also in such a way that it loses no technical precision so I don't walk away with any dumb misconceptions, because if I do acquire any of those I'll blame you.  Also, make your explanation so compelling that I immediately start using it myself without crediting you and even begin to think of your idea as my own as I instinctively act on the programming you put in my head.

 

(I'm trying to train you to be a killer lobbyist)

Net value of all resources which the general did in damage to the enemy or kept the enemy from acquiring, minus total of all expenses.

Rare footage from NK's uranium mining program:

Ghost BC Pulled an in-concert Dick Valentine:

@EnsignExpendable I've never gotten a solid idea on how the ы letter is pronounced in Russian, is it like a "yi" or the same as и?

According to my Latin teacher, the Las Vegas shooter volunteered in college to be a subject for MK-ultra experiments, finishing the tirade by saying, "what a dope".

On 12/8/2017 at 2:05 PM, Sturgeon said:

Obviously, the only sensible thing to do is to ruthlessly weed out those with an IQ below one SD above the mean, and mark them forever as members of an underclass only suitable for menial tasks and never responsible for any of the important decisions.

 

That way, your society will reap the benefits of the sort of peculiar ignorance and shortsightedness that only afflicts very smart people, and not ever have to suffer the burden of such horridly banal things like experience, intuition, or pragmatism.

Clearly we just need to know whether the students can understand Rick and Morty to determine if they are part if the underclass.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/us/politics/trump-travel-ban-supreme-court.html

Winning.

I suppose I don't really understand the electromagnetism involved in this, I understand that there is one positively charged and one negatively charged rail on either side of the barrel, and that there is an electrical current running through them and the projectile housing, but how does this propel the missile?

18 minutes ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:

First of all, we have to face the unpalatable fact that we Americans, and our government above all, are the main problem.

 

...

 

yeah...

On 10/4/2017 at 11:38 AM, Toxn said:

Nope, see 07:35 or thereabouts.

True, but he did mostly the same process as that for vodka, but for a pretty simple deviation to make good ol' yeast-feed.

First step in vodka production.

Strange build:

Backwards-facing Executioners, why?

On 9/15/2017 at 10:06 PM, Collimatrix said:

I have to admit, it's a compelling alternate history scenario.  What if the Nazi Party had been entirely comprised of clones of Hermann Goering?

No matter what you do, I don't think any scenario regarding the composition of the Nazi Party is Goering to win them the war.

Weebs are bad people.