Pat

We could solve the charging-time problem by sending the fully charged battery backwards in time to before it was plugged in? No engineering deadlines required. Why is the patent office always closed when I go there?

Reg:

The quantum batteries that upend the rules of charging.…..The important thing is that “bigger” means more coherently participating quantum units, not simply a physically larger battery. Adding more cells appears to reduce the charging time. But remember that nuclear fusion is still only 10 years away, since we began waiting for it 60 years…

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Jake:

Enco i never thought about the bicycle gender apartheid. I am not sure why. Usually i look junk up. Not this time. I may die never knowing why.

It’s not gender apartheid per se, since presumably it is mostly men who manufacture bicycles. It’s more lack of situational awareness by bicycle manufacturers and sales reps.

You may never ask…

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The quantum batteries that upend the rules of charging.…..The important thing is that “bigger” means more coherently participating quantum units, not simply a physically larger battery. Adding more cells appears to reduce the charging time. But remember that nuclear fusion is still only 10 years away, since we began waiting for it 60 years ago 🙂

Enco i never thought about the bicycle gender apartheid. I am not sure why. Usually i look junk up. Not this time. I may die never knowing why.

You should not make fun of Ben. Soon all Bens will be replaced by Benbots. They can’t be contained. Sandboxes are futile as you have probably read or heard. BTW how soon can i expect the brave new world…[Read more]

Jake:

Stone age?

Agreed. We’ve bearly surpassed it. Jiggery-pokery on a bicycle spoke to me. It is my own shadow. It follows me wherever i go. Then suddenly, suddenly, suddenly and without warning it disappears. Just as suddenly it reappears and follows me dispensing jiggery-pokery ensconced in foppery.

So when i summoned courage to punch t…

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Stone age?

Agreed. We’ve bearly surpassed it. Jiggery-pokery on a bicycle spoke to me. It is my own shadow. It follows me wherever i go. Then suddenly, suddenly, suddenly and without warning it disappears. Just as suddenly it reappears and follows me dispensing jiggery-pokery ensconced in foppery.

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Jake:

Sick and tired of your jiggery-pokery foppery.

Whose “jiggery-pokery foppery”? There’s so much to go around.

That man will punch your mouth loose. Loose.

And which man? The only ones punching mouths loose are the strongmen of MAGA. CRINK. and the OIC. And sadly, few in the West anymore has the stonage to punch back.

Sick and tired of your jiggery-pokery foppery.

That man will punch your mouth loose. Loose.

Reg:

The European Court of Human Rights confirms ethical veganism is a protected philosophical belief in Europe.*

*Governments and legal systems still tend to conceptualize atheism and humanism merely as an absence of religion rather than positive philosophical convictions entitled to equal respect. Freedom of religion or belief doesn’t mean r…

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Reg:

Do we need God? Steven Pinker vs. Ross Douthat debate.

This video was slightly disturbing at first. There were a couple of moments where Ross Douthat was so still, it looked like he died and was propped up by his podium!

I was thinking Piers, Tucker, Candace, and Megan were going to have videos entitled: “Atheist Jewish Sorcerer Steven…[Read more]

Ironically the Live in Pompeii version you posted, doesn’t actually start with the water drip sounds on the studio album…

Echoes gets a regular airing in my house 🙂

I remember playing Echoes from Pink Floyd’s Meddle, some 50+ years ago, with the record arm lifted so it would play on repeat. Around the third time, my father unexpectedly burst into my room shouting at me to turn it off, as it was like Chinese water torture to him.  So obviously I did, but I had remained astounded that the notes of Pink Floyd at…[Read more]

Strega….If the rain becomes persistent and you discover you’ve been staring through the same window for twenty minutes……..

Lovely rainy day here – no need to do anything at all 😉

Thanks Reg!

Have a great week!

Some nights I sneak around the Campus, spray-painting ‘QUALIA’ on the walls of the Psychology Dept block then strike it through.

RTFF

*Governments and legal systems still tend to conceptualize atheism and humanism merely as an absence of religion rather than positive philosophical convictions entitled to equal respect. Freedom of religion or belief doesn’t mean religion plus an exemption for everyone else. The State doesn’t get to decide that theological convictions are…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Progressive Zack Polanski of the Green Party is now calling for state control of media in the wake of the Jason Arday story:

https://x.com/ZackPolanski/status/2089829574356193745?s=20

Fellow Unbelievers:

An even more interesting sidebar story to the Jason Arday story: Racist Eugenicist Nathan Covnas would never have got the attention he got if Jason Arday had not called the police on Times Higher Education Journalist Jack Groves for engaging in simple journalistic inquiry:

I was reported to police over the Arday case. I was…[Read more]