Chebucto Regional Softball Club

I can't see the post this is replying to, can you link it? This happens from time to time on here and I don't know why exactly.

@dzedus

*brrrup*
*desperate scrambling*

@drmambobob @pthane

I think it's important to remember that you can know something is a bad idea even if you can't make sense of the motivations of the people trying to do it.

Because it's possible their motivations make no sense. No one can explain this to me sufficiently. It's a bad idea.

It's bad that it even is "an idea" it's not worth thinking about.

@EvilCartyen

"That said, the Greenlanders should decide who to associate with."

Absolutely.

@pthane

Do they think that far into the future?

They won't be alive then.

@EugestShirley

Everyone wants to be a little big man instead of actually doing amazing big things. The lack of imagination depresses me.

@naturepoker

I have a friend who used to work in commodities and he says the oil companies are not interested in Venezuela now. They were wary because of the government, but now they are MORE wary because it's less stable.

@depereo

Why can't they just do that now?

There is a theory that this move is designed to break up NATO.

I thought that was a little far fetched at first, NATO is really good for the US, it's like the birthday boy throwing a tantrum.

But some conservatives have a deep seated fear of "world government." So maybe that's it? Basically these are the guys who find it galling that there are notions like "international law" or "human rights" however unevenly applied.

Can someone explain to me what Trump and the US Government or companies would be able to do if they "had Greenland" that they can't do right now?

Like, what are we talking about? It's going to be cold Puerto Rico? I'd say "well they could set up a military base" ... but we have that already?

Is this about mineral or drilling rights or something?

It's of course offensive nonsense, but I don't even get the point. And no one asks them.

What do you get?

@HappytoBe

The tech was so cool. Flawed to a degree but still impressive.

But I am a sucker for a pair of big turbines.

@shovemedia @orman

I will add it to #fediverseTV

@HappytoBe

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

You can watch #FediverseTV (The pretty good content slush pool.) --or add stuff to it.

I'm sorry that it is youTube.

INVITE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTh3hv32NLhrPBgOXrUgwp6BQaC94lt9n&jct=tpuRKVQZ6Rj6p6iI14weNQ

OK there is a HUGE debate about every aspect of how the disaster went down and it's really fascinating and I have no idea who is right.

So.

You know how there are train foamers?

They have *nothing* on the Chernobyl foamers.

They found this Russian language forum with all the old engineers beefing with each other and translated it. They have simulations of everything.

The rebuilt ... THE TOY TANK ROVER.

I, of course am not a foamer for anything. I'm very normal about all topics.

@photovotary

It's still math. There are still right answers. Especially for the combinatorics problems you do as you build up to some of the theorems.

It's just a lot of theorems are easy to state, sound reasonable but hard or unproven.

@apLundell

every child is a node

The "math most likely to make you mad" is continuum theory. But the math that will most reliably lead to a being fixated on it?

Graph Theory.

* Anyone can understand some of the big questions in graph theory
* People think graph theory is "great for kids" for some reason (yeah if you want them to be obsessed with unproved theorems for their whole life)
* It's very easy to get very deep in graph theory and VERY lost. Easy to state problems with no solutions
* You just know it's all CONNECTED and it's going to drive you nuts forever