A big talking point for hawks appears to be : Gazans voted for Hamas. So this is what they voted for. So they deserve what's coming to them in return.
Enter, Numbers.
1. Turnout in the last election was ~75%
2. Hamas won ~45% of that vote.
3. So ~33% of eligible voters voted for Hamas.
4. That election was in 2006.
And at least half of all Gazans today are 19 years old or younger.
So the "they" in "they voted for Hamas!" means something like 20% (?) of Gazans?
Also: Fuck Hamas.
This time my righteous violence will convince them to stop.
For House Speaker, really?
My how far Republicans have fallen.
It wasn't so long ago that, instead of having a Speaker who merely looked the other way while wrestlers were sexually abused, they had a Speaker who sexually abused the wrestlers himself!
Scotland
The YouTube channel "Drumeo" has a series of videos where they invite professional drummers into their studio and then play them a song they don't know, with the original drums removed - so they just hear vocals, guitars, etc.. And they're asked to play drums to the song. It's usually something out of their style, so it's a bit of a challenge. Most people come in, give the song a listen a two, take notes, get the feel for the overall song, chart out sections, etc.. And they give it a few tries all the way through. The end result is always pretty fascinating, and impressive. They're rarely exactly the same as the original, but they make it work. At the end they hear the original back and see how they did - they're usually pretty humble about it.
But Chad Smith, of Red Hot Chili Peppers, is no ordinary professional drummer. No note taking for this guy...
Watch this.
Three years ago, I diagnosed a problem with my Fender Blues Jr amplifier. There was a distinct fizzing buzz from the amp whenever I played a specific note. It turned out to be the reverb tank
, and the sound happened even when the reverb level was at zero. A $30 reverb tank replacement was all it took to fix the problem.
Since then, the Blues Jr has gone away, and has been replaced by a Fender Princeton Reverb - seen here:
And, a couple of weeks ago, I noticed the same issue - a slight buzzing on certain notes played anywhere, on any guitar, even with the reverb set to zero.
And, the same fix fixed it: a new $30 reverb tank from Mod. - cheaper than the stock part from Fender!
Come on Fender, get your shit together.
A genre of AI-generated books on Amazon is scaring foragers and mycologists: cookbooks and identification guides for mushrooms aimed at beginners.
Amazon has an AI-generated books problem that’s been documented by journalists for months. Many of these books are obviously gibberish designed to make money. But experts say that AI-generated foraging books , specifically, could actually kill people if they eat the wrong mushroom because a guidebook written by an AI prompt said it was safe.
The New York Mycological Society (NYMS) warned on social media that the proliferation of AI-generated foraging books could “mean life or death.”
Meadows’s motion, filed late Tuesday afternoon, included emails between his legal team and Willis asking her to consider deferring Meadows’s “voluntary surrender” until after a federal court hearing scheduled for Monday.
Willis refused, writing in a Tuesday morning email: “I am not granting any extensions. I gave 2 weeks for people to surrender themselves to the court. Your client is no different than any other criminal defendant in this jurisdiction. The two weeks was a tremendous courtesy. At 12:30 p.m. on Friday , I shall file warrants in the system.”
Even before [the DeSantis Campaign's] official launch, the campaign and its allies were conducting polls and focus groups to test various anti-Trump messages. Across several months, the source familiar with the campaign said that it consistently struggled to find a message critical of Trump that resonated with rank-and-file Republican voters. Even attaching Trump’s name to an otherwise effective message had a tendency to invert the results, this source said. If a moderator said that the COVID lockdowns destroyed small businesses and facilitated the largest upward wealth transfer in modern American history, seventy per cent of the Republicans surveyed would agree. But, if the moderator said that Trump’s COVID lockdowns destroyed small businesses and facilitated the largest upward wealth transfer in modern American history , the source said, seventy per cent would disagree.
The 'doorway effect' or ‘location updating effect’, is a known psychological event where a person's short-term memory declines when passing through a doorway moving from one location to another when it would not if they had remained in the same place.[1] It claims that we tend to forget items of recent significance immediately after crossing a boundary[2] and is often experienced by forgetting what one was thinking about or planning on doing upon entering a different room.[3] Research suggests that this phenomenon occurs both at physical boundaries (e.g.
, moving from one room to another via a door), and metaphysical boundaries (e.g., imagining traversing a doorway, or even when moving from one desktop window to another on a computer).[2]
I forget how I found this.