Formula for distance between two points is the Haversine formula. I was good in math in school, but now my brain is fried. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haversine_formula
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Formula for distance between two points is the Haversine formula. I was good in math in school, but now my brain is fried. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haversine_formula
”And a good day to you, sir! You have made spit out my coffee, haha, have an upvote.” In my administration, you can be shot for posting things like this.
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‘To shreds’ you say
A lot of video-game publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after "realistic graphics" and "massive open-worlds" when what players really want is just a shitload of weird little guys
“Chitin’s back on the menu, boys!*” *use a pseudo scorpion appropriate word here
happy glinner getting arrested day
We're being run by pathological liars and journalism is seemingly incapable of calling anything a leaders says a lie no matter how blatantly counterfactual it is. Journalism is one broken fucking jalopy when its guidelines serve to distort, not clarify, the truth.
Timeline’s full of the worst men in the world using the legal systems of 2 countries to draw attention to their mantrums over the existence of trans people. May they die roaring. Solidarity with everyone in the trans community, always 🏳️⚧️
The JD stands for Jiant dHead.
If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up
Can't find a single thing wrong with this...
SILKSONG TODAY?!?!? #fanart #silksong
‘Close the gap’ with a thin wonton style wrapper, maybe, just on the open end. Italian sub sounds awesome and I am thinking a meatball grinder could be insane.
Let’s try this. Need a thinner sub to account for batter. What batter to use? Something light like tempura or a doughy fish n chips thing? And we need to keep the batter/oil out of the middle. Need some innovation there.
Quizno’s ++
If you think the President bombing some boat in international waters for unprovable crimes that didn’t even carry capital offenses is bad… I’m willing to bet you don’t know that the Philly police once bombed a Black neighborhood in 1985.
That’s why babies/young kids need to wear glasses. If their brain doesn’t know what “in focus” is during their critical period; it basically can’t be corrected in adulthood. The light can be bent properly, or whatever, but their brain doesn’t handle it right. Source: Me, my kid
It’s not so bad, right? It’s just a set of beliefs about how you think things should work. It seems reasonable—and doable! It’s something we can do, and you can help. Actually believe in these things. Think about why you believe in them and be confident in that belief.
Do you think healthcare should be affordable and available, even if you’re poor? Do you think people shouldn’t get evicted because their landlord cranked up the rent or converted to condos? Do you think the most prosperous nation in the world should feed hungry children? You are a socialist.
A generation of FL kids going to find out they can’t go to basically any college without being vaccinated. The ones that survive anyway.
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
[taps mic] TurboGrafx... is good. www.patreon.com/posts/turbo-...
I am not a Reddit guy, so apologies for this link; but I can’t stop thinking about this catcher/pitcher interaction on the Astros: old.reddit.com/r/baseball/c...
Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
John Adams would have killed the people who did this with hammers
RIP LIPS 🪦
Anyone remember jarts? They were ‘lawn darts’ you could throw to try and hit a circle on the ground 🎯 like horseshoes. They got banned for being dangerous and they didn’t even once actively talk a teenager into killing themselves.
Just discovered that the Shovel Knight soundtrack (which I've been listening to) was put out as an NES compatible sound file by the composer, Jake Kaufman. Someone over on Reddit took the liberty of adding the relevant Metadata for each track to the file. chiptune.app?q=shovel%20n...
The Castlevania 64 title music is 251 BYTES? Like 251 characters? Wtf is going on here. That is black magic shit. chiptune.app?play=%2FNint...
I've been watching this guy's video for a while, and this might be his masterpiece. youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?...
I am excited to speak about ✨practical {renv}✨ at posit::conf! Please say hi if you are there! 🤗 #rstats #rladies
Prometheus (2012)
American makes a horror film about a creeping dread, consuming from within, blood curdles: Eh. Mid. Too many jump scares. Obtrusive soundtrack. Japanese filmmaker makes horror movie about a puddle or fork or some shit: Staggering, new genre of cinema, whispered about for years.
Schumer is out of his fucking mind. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
America the idea has always been cooler than America in practice. But the idea has legs. It’s a place where you might make it. You aren’t bound by much of anything, legally. That’s why folks want to be here. You can try the thing you want to try—it might not work out; but it might! And that’s a lot.
I had a thing all typed out and was just making grammar checks and I was like, is this me? This is what I do? Discarded it and started hitting Likes on little wins people post. I don’t want to get all This Is Water but some folks are going through things and I don’t need to make it worse.
Aeropress around? What does high pressure even do to yea?
Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted
there was a whole saga on tiktok about a woman who "fell in love" and became obsessed w her psychiatrist, and she very notably created two chatgpt bots that call her "the oracle" and feed her delusions on live streams and my favorite reactions to it are "that's crazy. MY chatgpt bots are normal"
that's the kind of shit normal ass mostly cooked america would try to cover up. the dumbass king of america bragging about it is what happens in Fully Cooked America. it's over and done with folks
This MF'er spelled SNES as SNEA...smh
I. Am. Dying.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Which billionaire is the good one? I forget.
Went too fast in my mandatory two hour training and now the training is taking an extra two minutes to load each question of the quiz at the end.
CompuServ AND Prodigy I have seen such wonders
when I'm supposed to care that bsky is 'dying' again:
Gram for gram, the aluminum disc on the bottom of Pringles cans must be the least responsibly recycled thing on the planet.
One of the most life-changing things my therapist ever taught me is to stop responding to emotional subtext from others. You are not obligated to meet needs and feelings that others refuse to acknowledge even exist on their end. Others have to use their words to get their needs met.
I think bands should always put at least a little thought into their names. You don’t want to come up with a hit and accidentally hooba your stank.
How TF can anyone find common ground with a fascist!? Fascism ALWAYS has a racist and bigoted component to it! ALWAYS! "Sure, they want (x group) killed or at least imprisoned and enslaved, but we need to find common ground." Do they know how f/king stupid that sounds?
Trump has used & abused the justice system in America since at least 1973. There has perhaps not been another person in history who has occupied as many US taxpayer funded legal resources as he has. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_a... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_a...
some people say he looks normal but i can tell hes having mitochondrial challenges
Good peaches are otherworldly. I feel like I can’t possibly deserve them.
I go to some vegan restaurants for dietary restriction reasons and a local one is ALSO gluten-free and that leaves not a lot to actually eat. They have a ‘pizza’ that is really torturing the meaning of that word.
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”what’s the male equivalent of a mini skirt?” a mini skirt, obviously. what are you, a coward?
Why not define who "us" is in the formulation "harder for us to win elections." Why not define what it means "to win?" Why not note that the remediation in question is one that has never been championed or attempted by the party it apparently hurts, or that the party not attempting it has failed?
THE ESCAPIST was really good! An all-star cast, wow, looking back. Brian Cox shines, of course.
Played NETRUNNER again, and again reminded of how good that game is. The players are doing very different things, but it all works, and thematically makes sense. Really pretty staggering from design/development sense.
Sorry i was late to the bbq i was rendering aid to a victim of domestic violence* *i fell down 2 (?) spiral staircases into a big hotel fish tank when a sex worker made fun of my penis for having 4 distinct skin tones & a toenail on the end of it. 9/11 as well
Trump could do the funniest thing guys 🤞🏼
You ever think about how nazis were actually pretty solid at identifying art that did vs didn't align with their ideology, i.e. they loved Wagner but hated the Surrealists But modern nazis are like "WATCH MY VIDEO ESSAY ON WHY ROBOCOP PROVES WE SHOULD GIVE CHATGPT A GUN"
I’m not looking up that list. I shudder to think what’s on there. Probably the word “shudder,” for one.
Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️
I have to get a better ggplot workflow. I have to spend SO much time on aesthetics. Need to develop a style. Anyway, inspiring! Thanks!
📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W35 | Australian Frogs . 🔗: stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visuali... . #rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2
Obsessed with images of a giant promotional statue of King Kong that accidentally caught fire
Grease me up and scratch my head for an hour pls thx
Super Hexagon was released on this day 13 years ago 🏢 Terry Cavanagh, Distractionware 📅 31/08/2012 🖥 Android, BlackBerry OS, Linux, Mac, Windows, iOS #videogames
The good news is you won’t need Shingrex for another couple decades; your chicken pox titer will be back to youthful levels. Source: me, shingles 2009
From Venice: Feed My “Frankenstein.” www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fran...
I can’t link this enough over the last my whole life: harpers.org/archive/1964...
Had this same experience with Talk Talk. That dude went on a musical adventure. Tremendous stuff in the later catalog.
Tidy modeling with R www.tmwr.org/
This nails precisely how Samus should be. An absolutely terrifying tank on two legs.
If I lose followers over this, why the fuck were you following me lmao Get bent
My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.
This is praxis?
Oh please fuck off to Gstaad and leave the rest of us alone, Mr. Let Me Tell You How It Is As I Spend More Money On T-Shirts Than Your Town Spends On Food.
We have such a fucked up system and feckless opposition that unliked insurrectionist nimrods can win and hold on to power for what will have decades of impact.
'Amelie' (2001) dir: Jean-Pierre Jeunet 📽️
I think the scene where Florence Pugh tells Red Guardian about how lonely she is is the best scene in the whole MCU. She killed it.
We’ve all been saying “look at that broken Newsom bot. It doesn’t even repost AI slop memes.”
Luckily I have the pre-existing condition of a reasoning-capable brain in my head that can assess evidence and risk-reward for various activities. This is why I check the box for having a condition that indicates I should get the COVID booster.
We think kids should be fed, educated, and safe. We think people should be housed, even if poor! We think the mentally ill need help. We think no one should have a billion dollars, because no one needs a billion dollars more than we need the above things to happen.
That’s why the 58% of voters that aren’t MAGA chuds are so dissatisfied. The options are fascists and Bob Dole conservatives. We don’t want Medicare-except-you-get-it-on-an-exchange-and-tax-incentives-encourage blah blah blah. We just want to go to the doctor and have it cost some consistent price.
I need everyone to recognize the Dem establishment just -is- the GOP circa 1983 or so. The GOP as a party went right right right into legit fascism now; and over that same period, the Dems moved to take their place as monied, business-focused, free market imperialists.
The heart of the matter for my people right now harvardindependent.com/avoid-the-bu...
The top left for me; goddess style. The others strike me as a person opting to wear something; and it either looks uncomfortable or inappropriate for the scene.
it’s actually not only about any one particular group of people. it effects everyone. some people will feel it before others but it’s about all of us.
I think about this guy constantly.
There’s one down the street here that might not have any interior any longer; barring raccoon architecture.
You don’t need to know everything. This story is bad. You should hate AI for this if nothing else. We are surrounded by monsters and we make them rich. Take care of yourselves.
GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
This should be front page news on every tech site. This could kill OpenAI!
