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#statstab #526 Splines, B-splines, P-splines, and a disapproving kitten

Thoughts: Nice R tutorial on splines with some explanations and illustrations.

#splines #r #rstats #tutorial #guide #polynomial #nonlinear

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-09-06_p-splines/

Splines, B-splines, P-splines, and a disapproving kitten – Notes from a data witch

No, I do not care about splines. But I am trying to learn about GAMLSS regression, and yes, it is to this dark place that this topic has taken me

Notes from a data witch

Droppie 3d ago

one of the most delightful aspects of this unfolding disaster, apart from the sheer schadenfreudean #karma of its

Low-lying southern Louisiana faces multiple threats, with rising sea levels driven by global heating, compounded by strengthening hurricanes, also a feature of the climate crisis, and the gradual subsidence of a coastline that has been carved apart by the oil and gas industry...is the anticipatory delight of how much this will enrage all the knuckle-dragging RWNJs, who will ofc reflexively rush forth as a bilious tidal wave to flood the zone with yet more of their hateful fact-free morally-bereft shitfuckery

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis

#USPol #TuckFrump #FuckRWNJs #magamorons #FuckChristoFascists #FuckAllReligion #OrangeOaf #HeyFascistCatch #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds

Louisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century, authors say

The Guardian

Droppie 6d ago

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/02/24-hours-without-oil-based-products

i was initially just gonna tag this with my frequent tag #wearetotallyfucked then leave it at that, but then i had this additional thought...

...yes our society truly is built on petrochemicals, & our realistic chances of being 100% rid of them is slim to bugger all for foreseeable generations, yet... if we can manage to stop using fossilfools as an actual combustion fuel source, for most of our domestic, industry, & transport applications, then by definition our additional CO2 loading of the atmosphere would dramatically fall, thus finally making inroads on our hitherto unbroken rise in accelerating our #climatecrisis . so after all i don't think this article is as depressing as first blush

ofc, we won't actually DO any of this, coz humans basically are fuckheads

#AusPol #WhyTheFuckIsLabor #HahahahaLiebs #NatsAreNuts #GreensYEAH #VoteGreens #VoteProgIndies #PHONkedinthehead #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

I tried to live for 24 hours without using oil-based products. It was ridiculously impossible

The world’s economy is completely dependent on petrochemicals. Is there any way to avoid them?

The Guardian

Droppie [farcebk] 🐨♀🌈🐧🦘Apr 27

this is the broken corrupt immoral dystopian hellhole up whose rancid arse elbow perversely remains determined to crawl

jacobin.com/2026/04/gop-congre…

#AusPol #WhyTheFuckIsLabor #USPol #TuckFrump #FuckRWNJs #magamorons #FuckChristoFascists #FuckAllReligion #OrangeOaf #HeyFascistCatch #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

Big Oil Is Seeking Protection From “Leftist Legal Crusades”

At the top of the fossil fuel industry’s legislative priorities are sweeping protections against liability for the climate disasters caused by their extraction processes. Republicans in Congress are doing their best to help out.

Droppie [farcebk] 🐨♀🌈🐧🦘Apr 25

excellent idea -- do it

cleantechnica.com/2026/04/25/e…

#ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

Electric Garbage Trucks Are The Heavy-Duty EV Story Hiding In Plain Sight - CleanTechnica

Cities are finding that electric refuse trucks can cut noise, exhaust, and diesel risk while improving a core municipal service.

CleanTechnica

Steam & Epic Games | Daily Apr 25

📣 Band of Crusaders at the Second Wind Games Showcase: designer Tom and the team pitched the project as a story-first, choice-driven strategy-RPG.

They're deepening the narrative, pushing for a NON-LINEAR plot, and expanding lore plus interaction systems so player decisions carry real consequences and materially change how a playthrough unfolds.

#SteamAndEpic #NONLINEAR #Crusaders #Showcase #Theyre #Second

Droppie [farcebk] 🐨♀🌈🐧🦘Apr 22

do tell how you reconcile your conscience wrt the conflict of fatuous frivolous discretionary travel by a means that burns one of the most polluting fuels on the planet, with the catastrophic acceleration of our human-induced climate crisis? do you have any sense of morality at all? is it all just me me me, for humans like you?

Why packing for a cruise ship is different to other holidays

Sure, things are simple when you only have to unpack once – but that’s no help if you forget the basics.

SMH Traveller

Droppie [farcebk] 🐨♀🌈🐧🦘Apr 21

this problem is technically comprehensible to me, but nonetheless infuriating

abc.net.au/news/2026-04-22/vic…

just imagine if the strayan great unwashed had not spent decades supporting vacuous political arseholes lying in fossilfool beds, & instead actually acted on the science then. just think how so many of our contemporary problems would have been reduced, if not damn near obviated, had simply straya not continued to be the stupid country

a specific remark to the article -- wtf are the poor bastards supposed to do right now, who can't get warm, or cooking done, etc, til some indeterminate future time when the infrastructure catches up? they've done the right thing, & the ooniverse now punishes them for it. let no good deed go unpunished.

#AusPol #WhyTheFuckIsLabor #HahahahaLiebs #NatsAreNuts #GreensYEAH #VoteGreens #VoteProgIndies #PHONkedinthehead #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

The growing problem stopping Melbourne residents using their microwave

A power company warns that growing electricity demand is creating an undervoltage problem, as Victoria's infrastructure struggles to keep up with the transition from gas.

Droppie [farcebk] 🐨♀🌈🐧🦘Apr 20

if the trip is discretionary, for mere jollies, then you're a fuckhead

My flight to Europe is cancelled. I’m nervous about accepting the replacement

In the end, I will either find an alternative route or defer my trip. But I feel for those who don’t have a choice – the flight attendants.

SMH Traveller

French Cinema & Subtitles Apr 18

📝 Plot: Set in a Paris hotel, multiple characters become entangled in a fragmented narrative involving a murder investigation, boxing debts, and strained relationships. As detectives, criminals, and outsiders cross paths, the story unfolds in a deliberately disjointed style, blurring reality and fiction while exploring obsession, identity, and the nature of storytelling itself.

#Détective #Crime #Drama #Mystery #Experimental #FrenchCinema #Godard #NonLinear #Arthouse