"April showers... do you mean like the entire month of April?" #PNWlife

Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From GOP Donor — ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow

Amazon wants me to review a product. I clicked on the link and it took me to a site called Power Reviews.

Well, I closed that shit right out. I do not review for POWER! MY reviews belong... to The People! (Cue Spanish Guitar)

stackums

ICYMI

“Great to connect with you my ‘new’ friend @elonmusk. I believe you will be an excellent leader for @Twitter to propel & maximise its great potential.”

The Twitter investment does not appear to offer either Alwaleed or the Saudi government any formal control over Twitter. Musk is now the company’s sole director

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/03/saudi-twitter-investment-us-national-security-risk

the more you "invest" in someone the chances are the more you can sway them, pressure them, ultimately control them

Saudi Arabia's Water and Electricity Holding Company, part of the country's sovereign wealth fund, and United Arab Emirates' Alpha Dhabi are part of the funding round for........drum roll...SpaceX

why now??

with little to nothing happening on the Mars front and Tesla bleeding value and Twitter may go bankrupt before we get to 2024 - why though more cash at a loser is the big question

safe to say Musk is knee deep in Saudi shit they currently own his ass

Happy Near Miss Day, everyone. Drink up, the world's about to end.

Near Miss Day—the 34th anniversary of an asteroid a half-mile wide coming within 500,000 miles of Earth.

It was hurtling through space at 46,000 miles per hour and would have struck the planet with the force of 20 billion tons of TNT, probably canceling March Madness that year.

Many years ago, I took my mother to watch the women's basketball game between Virginia and Tennessee which attracted 11,895 fans. My Mom was stunned, "People came to watch women play this game?" I nodded, she smiled and watched the game .. you can see the streaks of pride in her.

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#Neuroscience

Humans are not special, scale is.

The other main fact (sparsity): Humans are not special, but primates are. Only primates and birds have neurons not proportional to their body size

Updated imaging and phylogenetic comparative methods reassess relative temporal lobe size in anthropoids and modern humans

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.24712

#Mathematics
Combinatorics

Surprise Computer Science Proof Stuns Mathematicians

For decades, mathematicians have been inching forward on a problem about which sets contain evenly spaced patterns of three numbers. Last month, two computer scientists blew past all of those results.

By Leila Sloman

https://www.quantamagazine.org/surprise-computer-science-proof-stuns-mathematicians-20230321/

Has anyone (M) embraced a more vegetarian lifestyle after retirement?

I am losing my taste for animal flesh and I love the world of variety of delicious foods that I am not yet burnt out on.

Does retirement make any difference in vegetarian cooking enjoyment?

My son has whiplash and is out of work for a week. I can’t say much except it is being handled by the other person’s insurance but we have a long road ahead of us. I’m more concerned about my son. He hasn’t had the time to process it yet but he’s been on the go all day. I took a late lunch and we dropped the dog off at daycare and I ran him around. He’s been given muscle relaxers and pain meds and I hope he rests.

@Alfred you seem to be responsive to some prompts but not others. What makes for a good prompt for you?

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You can call me... AI