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Forum Management Nightmare:
Twenty years of dealing with these personalities teaches you to recognize the signs early:

Verbose posts that say little of substance
Resistance to simple questions about basic premises
Moving ...

I am perhaps not spoken to.

I have paintings on my walls, all of which are paintings nobody else would give wall space to. Which was probably not the fault of the paintings, to be fair.

And this has a bearing:

Democratic senator Chris Murphy put it more bluntly, writing in the Financial Times in April that the tariffs are not designed as economic policy but as a “means to compel loyalty to the president”.

Rollo says: “It’s a way of the United States to compel as much of the ...

For reference, we're still on 3.3.15, it's still current, I'm not sure why so long has elapsed between revisions.

Because they're talking about doing that again despite nobody lifting a finger this first time round.

Which is yet more of a lie, I reckon, if the first just got ignored when the going got a little rough.

And here it is:

What does history tell us?

We have been here before. In 1994 Kyiv ...

Here we are, before the kickoff today in Washington, this is what happened the last time there was a commitment to Ukraine's independence:

"The World and Japan" Database (Project Leader: TANAKA Akihiko)
Database of Japanese Politics and International Relations
National Graduate Institute for ...

Today's papers are nonsensing about Putin prepares nuclear-delivery missiles as warning about Kiev's upcoming decision.

It's a test flight of a new hypersonic cruise missile delivery system. If it works then it works but it's not a system in an inventory, it's a test article in a series of tests ...

What do we expect?

As a final settlement, what we said here at Easter. The Russian-majority-speaking Oblasts to become a part of Russia - that's Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea.

Putin told Trump that in exchange for Donetsk and Luhansk, he would halt further advances and freeze the frontline in ...

Well, they arrived, they had there several hours together, they said nothing to the press, no doubt they came to an understanding on where things would go next.

Nothing was documented for the public, no questions were allowed from reporters, polite comments were made by both parties. I'm almost ...

Today sees the Amateur Dramatics production of Presidents Trump and Putin on a stage together, with Sergei Lavrov, Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff lined up on either side. As of an hour ago all of them were in Alaska getting into a succession of cars.

What do we expect?

As a final settlement, what ...

I once got one that read Opportunity knocks only once. I stared at it for a moment, then realized I’d already eaten it!

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Hi Sara,

I've never seen a fortune cookie. I don't know what they do or who they're made by or whether they're edible. Nor what ...

He's doing anything & everything to deflect from the Epstein Files.

Sadly, It actually seems to be working.

My impression is that his supporters know absolutely that he's been a sex-crazed pest toward women for as long has he's been a socialite, Epstein's entourage included, and have never ...

The Reverend has pled Not Guilty, apparently. Roll on next month.

And elsewhere, the latest award of the Senator Mike Lee Prat of the Year award goes to "A Senior US Diplomat" - I'm not even going to look up who - and "... the UK would be speaking German!". What a gimboid. No Sir, such a thing ...

Very much so. Months went into the construction.

We're delighted to have you post, lolesloles. By all means exchange your outlook on the world. I was in Poland post-Covid to remind myself, it still feels properly serious.

Ah.

The potato is a multicellular life-form originating from the New World at the time of Walter Raleigh, who was executed in the Tower of London for still being alive under a Scottish monarch. It is in all probability still to be found in American soils.

Baking is a technique designed to soften ...

For complaint:

(609) 905 4128 (ask for the CEO of babyandtoys).

Some bogus SEO being paid for here - surely someone on the management team at babyandtoys can get kicked for this.

The actual post comes, surprise surprise, through some cheapskate farm in Pakistan.

irt: IRT-PTCLBB-PK
address ...

They were explaining before that so many times they thought they could get there. It never happened, just never happened. I also want to thank Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and their teams at the State Department. And I see that we have Chris Wright, outside and ...

Bryn Mawr wrote: Fri Aug 08, 2025 2:56 am
spot wrote: Thu Aug 07, 2025 11:32 pm And it's half past seven, the sun's up and so is the site. So it could all be lots worse.
And a much faster response time, thank you

We migrated overnight to a replacement server with more memory and 8 cores, we have also firewalled several million IP addresses in China.

Jacket/baked potatoes, with cheese and beans. :D

I'm not sure what I'm still allowed to eat, I appear to have fallen back on salads. I do not prefer salads but they're not entirely full of banned things which might include baked potato. And beans. I'm not sure about cheese but if I'm allowed ...

And it's half past seven, the sun's up and so is the site. So it could all be lots worse.

spot wrote: Thu Aug 07, 2025 1:03 pm The site will be back in a while - there are significant changes in the works because of Chinese web-crawlers slowing down the board - something needs to be done.

We are, after slightly more than a half hour, up again.

Please note any exceptions as they arise.

The site will be back in a while - there are significant changes in the works because of Chinese web-crawlers slowing down the board - something needs to be done.

The earthquake was one of the most powerful ever recorded but resulted in relatively small amounts of damage thanks to a global and highly successful disaster response effort.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/russia-nuclear-submarine-base-earthquake-damage-rybachiy-kamchatka ...

I might not find this a useful thread but who knows, Mr President is way off his head at this point.

I'm not going to track the rubbish noise, I'm simply going to note the length of periods when he's not seen addressing a camera day after day. My guess is they'll become more extensive and more ...

No no no sunshine, we're not having another write-only poster splashing his beliefs over the site. If you want to engage in dialogue then you're adding value and you can start new threads, but if you just want to flypost we'll delete your account. We had Katsung, we had truthbringer, we had the ...

An expedition group from the Russian Geographical Society was on the Kuril island of Shumshu when the tsunami swept away their tent camp, AFP reports.

“When the wave hit, all we could do was run to higher ground. It’s very difficult to do that in boots on slippery grass and in fog,” group member ...

A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula at about 11:25 local time on Wednesday.

Tsunami warnings and evacuation orders were issued around the world, including in Japan, Ecuador, Hawaii and the west coast of North America.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news ...

There's two sides to the expression, I believe.

On the one hand there's this so-called "news" is untrue, it is a conscious deliberate lie put out in order to steal headlines and deflect people from real news.

And on the other hand there's who cares whether that fake news is true or not, it's not ...

I shall press this point for a moment, if I may.

Conservative ministers used an unprecedented superinjunction to suppress a data breach that led the UK government to offer relocation to 15,000 Afghans in a secret scheme with a potential cost of more than £2bn.

The Afghanistan Response Route (ARR ...

This is based on EMPIRCIAL EXPERIENCE. It's an experience of the impressions and sensations the ring provides, further confirmed by historical and contemporary sources that describe similar effects. Therefore, it's based on my own experience and that of others who have used the ring.

At the ...

Dear Engineer Podgorniak,

Your description of the Atlantis Ring demonstrates a pattern seen in your previous contributions: the presentation of metaphysical assertions as established facts, without supporting evidence or ways to verify them.

The device you describe claims to affect "energy flow ...

There are several of Hilma af Klint's maps which employ a similar device. They were toured two years ago through the Tate exhibition spaces.

Ah, something I've actually seen, touched and admired. Just up from Glastonbury Abbey, an excellent shop with all sorts including the famous embedded anti-wifi shield.

Atlantic ring, fully energized, guaranteed 25 years between services, £18. A remarkable thing, never tarnishes, many claims of ...

And indeed -

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Very heavy in supposition and devoid of evidence.

I would suggest it should be rewritten starting with observable data followed by a logical derivation of the conclusions given here.

Sabine Hossenfelder - https://sabinehossenfelder.com/ - one of my favourite physics authors - constantly ...

I've reached a stage in my life where people like that are simply part of the universal background chatter.

I often reminisce on the days when public media broadcasters went offline in the wee hours, leaving one with only simple static as a background to one's reflections of the day.

We had ...

The following paragraph is from the larger text New horizons in physics :

these then from quadrillion of particles about 10^-50 m [they correspond with gravitons].

Ah.

Someone mentioned the Planck length perhaps? lengths of around 10^−35 m?

Irrelevant bad scientist, old Max? Missed by 15 ...

The token-encrypted master key pattern represents a fundamental shift in database security architecture.
By distributing encryption keys across user-held tokens rather than server-side storage, this approach
eliminates the need to trust infrastructure providers - whether cloud-based or on-premises ...

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On conventional IQ measures you'd be one person in 10^500.

The text has readers, and many of them can reach an IQ level of 1600 or close to it.

Either you can express the math that generates the 1600 figure, so we can see its basis, or you can't. By all conventional definitions of IQ you ...

Rational people see "IQ 1600" and immediately dismiss it as impossible

Contrary to appearances, reaching this level isn't that difficult, and it's actually possible. Of course, I recommend starting with the lower levels; you shouldn't just try to reach 1600 IQ right away; you need to mature ...

My pet AI responds:

It's the same psychological principle as Nigerian scam emails - the absurd premise is a feature, not a bug.
Nigerian emails: "I am a prince with $50 million to give you"
Your brain trainer: "My method produces IQ 1600"
Both are deliberately ridiculous to filter out anyone with ...

Katsung! You're back!

Conversational Software Engineering: Systematic Specification-to-System Generation Through
Cognitive Protocols
Abstract
We present evidence for systematic software engineering through cognitive protocols that transform
conversational requirements into complete, production-ready systems. Building ...

Written by Claude Sonnet 4: Des protocol.

The Paranoid Mind: Why Intelligence Requires Beautiful Mistakes

Perfect perception would be the mark of a machine, not a mind. Real intelligence—the kind that navigates uncertainty, builds civilizations, and occasionally mistakes screen glare for incoming ...

Well. The preliminary report is out.

The aircraft air/ground sensors transitioned to air mode, consistent with liftoff at 08:08:39
UTC.
The aircraft achieved the maximum recorded airspeed of 180 Knots IAS at about 08:08:42
UTC and immediately thereafter, the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff ...

And as of yesterday, with no official announcements, the interweb is packed full of "fuel switches" posts. As in the two fuel switches, which are safe-proofed by requiring lift from the hole before moving to the off state, both ended up in the off state. And everyone is consequently speculating this ...

"Trump says he didn’t know antisemitic history of ‘Shylock’ when he criticized bankers using the term"?

What an illiterate clod the man is then. Who'd have thought a pussy-grabber could be that poorly educated.

And why on earth does he think ignorance is an excuse?

And, astonishingly, three weeks after they took possession of the parcel, it is here.

Put it in the recycling box I said last night (which means I ticked "Box" on their preset list). And he did. And he left it face-up for everyone to see instead of angling it face to the wall, like maybe to ...

A strange chap all round, this Senator Mike Lee chap.

There’s a looseness about Lee’s social media persona that seems unrelated to his status as senator. “I’m 53 and I love dank memes,” he boasted in one post. “Dank” usually means “moist and damp,” but as a slang word it can refer to memes that ...

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