K. P. Badertscher

@badken
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(aka BadKen@GWJ) I was once a software guru. Now I spend my days trying to figure out what's true, and my nights trying not to obsess. He/him/his
'Hey, can you call my cell?' '...I'm trying, but it says this number is blocked?' 'Ok, thanks, just checking.'
https://xkcd.com/2900/
Call My Cell

xkcd
@irenes A story goes around on Tumblr, I think, of a person who wanted to get a library card and walked up to the desk. Didn't have a piece of mail on them, so the librarian hands them a blank postcard and tells them to write their address on it. They do, hand it back to them, and the librarian says, "oh look, mail with your address on it!" and proceeds to get them a library card.
Can’t stop progress.

2024-January-26 Friday

2,563 Americans Dead Last Week

1,172,229 Americans Dead From COVID 19 Total

U.S. - 4.19% of the global population

Calculated 2023 Aug 07
U.S. - 16.38% of global pandemic deaths

#America #AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Death #Deaths #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Monday #News #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #Politics #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask

“🇨🇦🍁Conservatives are consciously adopting the technique used by fascists for generations. In Steve Bannon’s phrase, ‘flood the zone’ with negativity and wild allegations, day after day, week after week, year after year.
The aim is to exhaust good people and induce them to give up on politics altogether, to retreat into their private lives, to stop knocking on doors, to stay home instead of getting out to vote.”

👍 @davidhamer_1951 #poilievre #onpoli #abpoli #canada

Feynman’s Reversed Sprinkler Puzzle Solved
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/15?utm_source=DamnInteresting
Feynman’s Reversed Sprinkler Puzzle Solved

Which direction would an S-shaped lawn sprinkler rotate if it were submerged and the flow were reversed? Experiments now provide a definitive answer.

Physics
I WRITE JOKES IN CAPITALS.
THIS ONE WAS WRITTEN IN OSLO.
The true visionOS experience.

New: I obtained hundreds of internal documents that show how universities have bent over backwards to accommodate Starship food delivery robots which sometimes have trouble crossing the street:

https://www.404media.co/student-should-have-a-healthy-looking-bmi-how-universities-bend-over-backwards-to-accommodate-starship-food-delivery-robots/

The robots necessitated:
- Publicity photos with students who "should have a healthy-looking BMI"
- Police supposed to let Starship "lead" incident investigations
- Trying to form "habits" with a "captured" base of student populations
- Redesigning intersections

'Student Should Have a Healthy-Looking BMI': How Universities Bend Over Backwards to Accommodate Food Delivery Robots

Internal emails show how universities make nonsentient, profit-seeking Starship robots feel comfortable on campus.

404 Media
The epitome of grace and class.