Day: July 13, 2025, 7:26 PM

Prime Example

Chill Regular-ass Post

Both of them are somewhat inaccurate or incorrect.

In reality, in the limit, primes make up 0% of natural numbers. Even though there are infinitely many primes, the proportion of numbers that are prime approaches zero as you count higher and higher. It’s simple math: as numbers grow, primes become less frequent relative to the total. That’s just how it works. There’s not even a question here. That’s just how the universe is.

Pancake

Chill Amusing, Annoying

Heh. Exactly. Biking is a dangerous hobby because in the US we made different choices about how to organize our transpo infrastructure as compared to some rinky-dink European town.

Make adult choices about it, STFU, or get pancaked. Anyway, most of the US is unpleasant or untenable to ride a bike in 60% of the year. Right now, it’s 92 outside where I live and will get up to 98 later in the day. I’m resilient to heat and no way I’d ride in that.

Lurch

Chill Gutter Philosophy

Feminism lost its way when it became primarily about keeping “undesirable” men away from PMC women. And then it embraced Islam as feminist.

Combine with that a heaping serving of “Feminism for me but not for thee” and it was done. Now feminism lies in ruins with nothing to replace it — which to be fair is true of most of the zombie 20th Century ideologies we still cling to. There is nothing yet clearly on the way to supplant any of them and it appears there will not be for some time.

Intentionality

Chill Evil

After reading the prelim report and knowing a good bit about that plane, I’d say the chance of murder-suicide is 90%. It’s nearly impossible to operate those fuel cutoff switches without intending to do so. And cutting fuel at that altitude == gooey kablooey. Any pilot would know that.

Would Hate To See Losing

Chill Clowns, War

Even ignoring my feelings about the war, anyone who describes Russia as “winning” is a clownish dumbass.

Russia:

  • Has achieved none of its military objectives
  • Has not made any substantive gains in years
  • Controls nothing important it didn’t already control in 2015
  • Has experienced 1M casualties, including ~250K KIA
  • Is relying on North Korean ammo and personnel
  • Has very little equipment left
  • Probably cannot hold what it has taken long term

Whatever that is, it sure ain’t winning no matter what doofs like Ian Welsh claim.

Chill Links

Canada, Japan and Australia: Swing States or Pawns for China?

US Naval Revival in the Indo-Pacific Ramps Up.

Bad Actors are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods.

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show.

In a First, Solar Was Europe’s Biggest Source of Power Last Month.

Before Tragedy, Texas Repeatedly Rejected Pleas for Flood Alarm Funding.

The Biggest-Ever Digital Camera Is This Cosmologist’s Magnum Opus.

Belkin shows tech firms getting too comfortable with bricking customers’ stuff.

World must be more wary than ever of China’s growing economic power.

The Trump Administration Is Planning to Use AI to Deny Medicare Authorizations.

The U.S. Is Testing Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Can Go Practically Anywhere. I’ll take one.