Und jetzt zum Spocht...

https://taz.de/Die-Wahrheit/!6084455/
Carpainting, noch ist es Satire

Damit sich Kühe nicht statisch aufladen, haben sie Rinderdung.

(der braucht vermutlich etwas)🤔

Was jetzt nu: Kriminelle Ausländer rein oder raus?

The standard baud rate 38400, if you write it in hex, becomes 0x9600, which is confusing, because 9600 (decimal) is another of the standard baud rates.

(I first encountered this fact while reading a hex dump of an SSH session. The SSH terminal setup packet has a baud rate field, and I saw 00 00 96 00 in the hex dump, and thought "fine, yes, baud rate, move on … wait, *what*?")

A much more well known hex/decimal coincidence is that 100 decimal = 0x64 hex, which looks confusingly backwards because you expect numbers that look round in *hex* to look like familiar power-of-2 things in *decimal*.

But these aren't separate coincidences: they're two facets of the same one.

Because if 100 = 0x64 and 256 = 0x100, then multiplying both together gives you a number that ends in two zeroes in both bases: 25600 = 0x6400. And you can divide by 2 to get 12800 = 0x3200, and multiply by 3 to get 38400 = 0x9600, without any carries on the hex side spoiling the fun.

It's ok to not be ok.

#ReligionIsPoison

"Policy changes often take years to show results. Even then, you may have to squint to see them.

And then there is congestion pricing in New York.

Almost immediately after the tolls went into effect Jan. 5 they began to alter traffic patterns, commuter behavior, transit service, even the sound of gridlock and the on-time arrival of school buses.

Evidence has mounted that the program so far is achieving its two main goals — reducing congestion and raising revenue for transit improvements — even as the federal government has ramped up pressure to halt it."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/11/upshot/congestion-pricing.html

Whoa. A security cam in Myanmar captured an earthquake fault rupture live. This may be the first ever caught on camera?

Watch the fence-line on the right. And note the power-line tower behind it.

👀

More on earthquake ruptures:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_rupture

#Earthquake #Myanmar #FaultRupture #Geology

Wife and I thought we'd spice things up by trying swinging. Visited a club and were confronted by our son-in-law's parents going at it like rabbits as a group watched. They saw us, we saw them. We quickly left. Very awkward familiy get-togethers ever since.

Wife and me are wonderfully beautifully closer than ever following my successful treatment for prostate cancer. I'm so happy. So I can obviously never tell her that my life was saved by the woman I was having an affair with saying "Your cum tastes funny."

I debate leaving my husband on a weekly basis, nothing awful he's just not the same person he used to be. Then he'll do something that makes me smile and remember why I love him. I live for those moments but not sure how long it will last.

I go to the gym 3/4 times a week, I consider myself to be in quite good shape. Recently moved to a house with a garden for the first time. Gardening makes you use muscles you did not realise you had.