Reg the Fronkey Farmer

Naw man, you uppin my skill levels! And I needz it bad.

Just started listening to a U of Minn CIDRAP podcast this week, and coincidentally ran into a short (below) about the beginning of state (and other lesser than federal) agencies rising to fill in the gaps of our suddenly increasingly incompetent federal public health agencies. (I think the west coast states have started something too, but I…[Read more]

Pope,

Sorry if i have cost you time searching as a result of my misplaced placement intransigence.

Wow, thanks Reg. Glad I finally got to reading this.

I mentioned before that I’m incompetent in topics of history. I often even fail at accurately recalling the history of myself.

High school pre-college tests ranked me at 99th percentile in science, 95th percentile in math, 35th percentile in humanities and history, and others I’ve forgotten.…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Tá roinnt teangacha agam, cuid acu ar chaighdeán passable, cuid eile caighdeán “turasóireachta” an-bhunúsach. Ach tá an Ghaeilge líofa agam chomh maith, nó ar a laghad bhí mé nuair a bhí mé níos óige. Má chaitheann mé seachtain i nGaillimh (abair) tagann sé ar ais chugam. Is í an teanga is deacra a fhoghlaim.

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This singer’s even in tune.
And that second line, “Oww!”.

was/is414x736

IMPORTANT UPDATE: I finally discovered that, after pasting short’s URL, all you have to do is change the word “shorts” in the URL to the letter “v“!

I also put this tip in the TIPS group, so if youtube ever changes how this trick works, please let me know and I will update how this tip can or can’t be made to work properly.
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Simon,

There’s so much i might say.

But not today.

jakelafort wrote:
As though a lack of ideological diversity isn’t the sine qua non of indoctrination! As though that lack of ideological diversity isn’t in part a reflection of show me the money.

I think that progressive values have a momentum of their own, especially with the young.  The human race has a doctrine of helping the needy and vuln…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Many U.S. students will very likely start going to Chinese Universities soon.

Might be a good idea for all American schools to start teaching Chinese.

When I was young (I’m 79 now, so a long time ago), the choices were French, German, and Spanish. French was recommended as the language of diplomacy, German for kids…[Read more]

Simon says someone says it who didn’t say it but lemme display it.

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The problem in colleges isn’t indoctrination. It’s a lack of ideological diversity

The right seems to be on a mission to expose universities as centers of leftist indoctrination. Too often we professors waved away the charge. We called these assertions naive at bes…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The problem in colleges isn’t indoctrination. It’s a lack of ideological diversity.

The right seems to be on a mission to expose universities as centers of leftist indoctrination. Too often we professors waved away the charge. We called these assertions naive at best, Trumpy at worst. Students, we rightly noted, are…

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
It sounds plausible, even scientific, but it doesn’t predict, measure, or model anything.

But surely the behaviour of flocks of birds – organisation – emerges from the behaviour of single birds, following a few simple behavioural rules, and the organised behaviour of ant colonies emerge from ants, which have a l…[Read more]

Reg that was poetic without being poetry.

Got me thinking though how theism and de facto theism (communism, nazism, palestinianism…pick your poison) cause their victims to see through the lens of a kaleidoscope. No opportunity for existentialism and its personal nature. The universe is instead viewed through a fixed kaleidoscope. It is…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!

PopeBeanie wrote:
I’ve been experimenting with youtube shorts, which is why you’ll see the “was#x#” underneath each of my video shorts, in case I need to change the dimensions to fit on different screens.

I looked underneath the video and didn’t see that code. Am I missing something?

The original video won’t give me an embed code, so I’m trying the code it offered me to use for sharing. Let’s see if it works any better:
https://youtube.com/shorts/lVpaaTCAetw?si=tvUc_p27IUIlBFys

Well, not for me.

I’m running ChromeOS, but since links I put up (normal ones, not shorts or verticals) tend to work okay, the issue seems…[Read more]

Some big No Trump protests today.

Crowd got something correct even if it is by accident. Kind of like Trump….gets something right occasionally by accident. Or when his self interest coincides with the right move.