My last filter sucked butt so I'm happy this one is functioning well.

!trekkies

in case they land on some tropical island with just their suits and parachutes

!strayans Interesting short doco on the venerable F/A-18 "classic" Hornet in RAAF service from the type's selection as a replacement for the Dassault Mirage III and introduction in 1984, to its eventual retirement in 2021.

Life is chaotic. You never know what's going to come your way, whether it be good or bad. In a single second, you're inundated with more information than you know what to do with it. Sometimes, the chaos is overwhelming, and I don't want to leave the house to face it.

This is a product of anxiety, as well as experience. Undoubtedly, if something unexpected is to happen, it'll probably happen outside the confines of my apartment. I believe it is the overwhelming chaos of existence that motivates the compulsion to systemize.

How to systemize Pokemon cards

Pokemon TCG feels designed for systemization. Some people collect them for the gorgeous artwork. Others are competitive and want to construct the best deck possible. There's collectors and then there those of us who are around to systemize

The process is pricey but pleasurable. It begins with buying a lot of booster packs. Ten or more is ideal. Next, you get to have fun opening them all, but you can't go about it willy-nilly. Instead, you need a system. One pile for holofoil cards, another for full art cards, one for energy, a pile for regular cards, and finally, a pile for cards that aren't holofoil but you really just like.

Next comes the fun part. Each pile has a place. Holofoils and full art cards go into albums, but they're sorted by color. There is one exception, which is Pikachu. All of those go into a singular album together.

The pile of regular cards is sorted according to their Pokedex number. It's a tedious process, but for some reason, it feels natural and good. This sorted pile is then slotted into my larger set of hundreds of cards kept within Elite Trainer boxes. The end product? Nothing but a pile of organized cards, but it makes my brain very, very happy that they're in order.

The same thing happens to duplicates, and the few cards that I like are sleeved and kept in a tin. The system has been laid out and executed.

Significance

Our research approach in the field of History of Science combines textual investigations with experimental replications of ancient alchemical procedures. Alchemy is often described as a pseudoscience, whereas it would be better described as a protoscience; indeed, we have reported procedures that never found their way into modern laboratories along with the formalization and translation of these procedures into the modern language of chemistry. We strongly believe that it is important to let the chemistry community know its history, which has deep roots in the past.

Abstract

This paper explores the chemistry of mercury as described in ancient alchemical literature. Alchemy's focus on the knowledge and manipulation of natural substances is not so different from modern chemistry's purposes. The great divide between the two is marked by the way of conceptualizing and recording their practices. Our interdisciplinary research group, composed of chemists and historians of science, has set off to explore the cold and hot extraction of mercury from cinnabar. The ancient written records have been perused in order to devise laboratory experiments that could shed light on the material reality behind the alchemical narratives and interpret textual details in a unique perspective. In this way, it became possible to translate the technical lore of ancient alchemy into the modern language of chemistry. Thanks to the replication of alchemical practices, chemistry can regain its centuries-long history that has fallen into oblivion.

(its sweet and well-intentioned people kicking off retarded purity spirals over and over again and thereby enabling the very people i am trying to avoid by coming to twitter dot com)

— eigenrobot (@eigenrobot) February 13, 2024

I understood none of these acronyms and I am now dumber for having attempted to make sense of this thread at all. Smells like cope, though.

Keep up the good fight, you furry bastard.

also build video for those who care

1. You need to have at least 500 coins (Since 5 is the minimum betting amount)

2. You need to parcel your betting amounts so that even if you lose you can continue betting for at least 100 consecutive losing hands

3. The odds of you losing 100 times in a row is pretty low

4. Do not increase decrease your quanta of goomble at any point within a goomble session. The house is betting on you to do so.

5. Once you get from say 500 to 700 coins. Increase your quanta to 7

6. Keep counting how many times you have lost. Lost 5 coins. Increase counter by 1.

7. Let's say you have lost 7 times in a row. So your counter is at 7. You win 20 coins (quanta is 5). Decrease counter to 3 again.

8. Stop goombling the moment you cross from 0 to positive counter. You can't win with the house. The only way you can win is coming back with a bigger quanta after a period of time.

9. You won't win every time and this is the most important point. Set limits to losses. Biases and frustration will set in when your counter is at let's say 65. You will want to goomble the remaining of your coins in a blaze of glory. If you set your limit that when the counter reaches +30 (you have lost 30Xquanta) you're willing to stop when that counter reaches +5 (accepting a loss instead of frick it we ball). When it reaches +60, your stopping point is +10. This makes you see goombling rationally instead of making a profit every time.

10. Keep Calm.

!goomblers

!math idk if there's any mathshit explanation for this but it has served me pretty well. I was at -10k+. Over the last 3 days I have made back like 7k

!trekkies break down of the prometheus from voyager

!chuds !nooticers very important post

idk I just thought it was neat, not sure if right hole.

If you are doing ai art, your data set matters more than anything else