Germany is banning the rector of the University of Glasgow from entering the EU. Because he’s a witness to genocide (as a surgeon who among other things repairs blown off faces of children) who was to speak at the French senate.
@maswaba@thomasfuchs considering the story of Israel of smearing anyone who is critical of them, you may want to check those sources before spreading. I'd find that hard to believe of anyone holding his position anywhere in the UK.
Before I got a tortie: cats are chill and do their own thing
After I got a tortie: my cat screams at me if I pet her too little, pet her too much, don’t pet her at all or don’t look her in the eyes and say she’s my queen 24/7
@skinnylatte really? My neighbour's tortie is the most laid back cat I've ever seen, you look at her from the other end of the street and she starts purring
I have a couple old-but-still-working laptops and a tablet I'd like to donate to a UK #charity , as no longer using them. Willing to put in the time to refresh them a little beforehand. Does anyone know any charities that take them? Please boost for visibility.
Having watched Benioff and Weiss smear themselves with shit the moment they went past Martin’s books, and then later admit they had no idea what they were doing, didn’t understand their characters, and didn’t like their source material, you’d have to pay me to watch anything by them ever again.
The biggest influence Jon Spencer had on my life is when they recorded the video for "Talk About the Blues", their one track to ever get significant MTV attention, they got Winona Rider, Giovanni Ribisi and an obscure actor named John C. Reilly to pretend to be the band and lip-synch the music in the performance shots. I didn't know this. So then when John C. Reilly got big, I spent years every time I saw him going "man, that guy looks so much like the drummer from Jon Spencer Blues Explosion"
Only 34% of 🇺🇸 #Jews oppose a ceasefire, and the vast majority of the country supports it, including over 50% of all Jews. Yet the #ADL continues to spread the malicious lie that says supporting a ceasefire is antisemitic. Because ADL has never been about fighting #antisemitism, which can be demonstrated by the way they claim the Sonnenrad — the notorious Black Sun of white supremacist movements — isn't actually racist on their website, in order to protect the US government's alliances with various white supremacists movements who proudly display the Sonnenrad.
Heads up, if you try to argue the Black Sun is not a white supremacist symbol in my comments, I will block. This is an antifascist zone of discourse.
We are having a tornado warning the weather smells like it. We are in February. This is not normal folks. I have to go secure the gardens and the compost station.
This is why if you want to earn a free block and report come show your ass about how #climatechange is not a thing.
@fmolinero@chinicuil no es envidia, les jode que los pobres tengan cosas que ellos mismos tienen. "No es pobre de verdad, tiene una tv con pantalla plana", como si quedaran muchas de CRT que todavía funcionaran
I hope y'all know right wingers around the globe and domestically are watching Netanyahu getting away with ethnic cleansing and salivating at the chance to emulate him.
@Alon@BlackAzizAnansi I'm curious about which European fat right is not pro-Israel; The ones that use dogwhistles instead of swastikas have been all in on the whole "Muslims are a threat to our civilization" thing for decades now, and those are the ones that are touching power at the moment. Maybe there's a major player I've missed?
I don't think it would be great if a former POTUS who doesn't have an ethical bone in his body ends up with no assets other than highly classified national defense info. #trump
Who wants a recursive headache?
One of my very bright students is writing a program to evaluate the total resistance in a network of resistors. She came up with these nested lists to represent the network. The top level is in series and it alternates series and parallel as you go deeper.
[r1, [r2, r3],[[r4, r5,],r6],r7]
That’s r1 + 1/[1/r2+ 1/r3]+ 1/[1/(r4+r5) + 1/r6] + r7
Or
s(r1, p(r2,r3), p(s(r4, r5), r6), r7)
So this ought to be a piece of cake to parse recursively right? right??
It'll probably be more efficient, as it's not recursive , and proving it from Kirchoff 's laws is a more fun problem (if she's into that sort of thing).
There's another method called node analysis (I think) which is similar but easier IIRC