If you feel like going on a wild ride google 'Fat Leonard'
Fully Cooked Ready to Eat!
$15.79 at O'hare airport concourse B last week.
Cheeseburger
french fries
medium coke
I bought a cheap United Airlines ticket 6 months ago for bay area maker fair and they sold my ticket out from under me 3 times. Started as a direct flight by the time I left it was 3 leg flight with 2 long layovers both ways. By the time I made it back to O'hare I was really tired and hungry just wanted something to snack on while I waited 5 hours for the last connecting flight. I got a medium coffee instead for $3.79 and it was watered down.
somebody had a bad day in Bryansk
As of March, 1,113 American mercenaries had taken up arms for Ukraine, according to a tally released by the Russian Defense Ministry. At least 491 of these had been killed, the ministry stated.
These guys are learning what the term 'peer warfare' means
Almost out of a movie: Iran's parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, visited south Beirut today and met with the crowd. Amid a reported blockade by the IDF on Iranian planes coming into Beirut, Ghalibaf, former Air Force commander, flew the plane into Beirut himself.
rewatching vids of oct 7 reminded me of something I was thinking when it happened. Hamas was putting video out within a few hours of Al-Aqsa Flood start and I suspect they had crews on motorcycles collecting go-pro sd cards and porting them back into Gaza where Hamas propaganda warriors would edit and upload almost in real time. Like it wasn't just an add-on but a significant part of the operation. They were putting out video, info graphics and other related stuff in order to dominate the narrative as soon as possible. This might be the first time the term 'keyboard warrior' was a real thing and they were likely targeted by IOF in the subsequent bombing campaign. o7 to all the people behind the line.
LETCHER COUNTY, KY sheriff just shot and killed a judge at the Whitesburg court house. iirc Whitesburg is where the trillbillies are from.
The west is big mad because Mongolia did not arrest Putin when he arrived on a state visit.
Meanwhile they rolled out the red carpet and old school cool:
Picked up the sea salt one at Muh-nards this morning. Comes with menards 11% storerwide mail in rebate so final cost $ .69 Whoever gets that kidney they need you're welcome.
Asked in a state television interview to choose between Biden and Trump, Putin said the US leader was “more experienced, predictable, an old-school politician”, adding that Russia would “work with any US leader who wins the trust of the American people”.
At their last meeting in Geneva in 2021, Putin recalled, “they were already saying Biden wasn’t competent [ . . . ] but I saw nothing of the sort. Yes, he looked at his notes, and to be honest, I looked at mine. No big deal. So he banged his head on the helicopter when he was getting out of it — who of us hasn’t banged their head on something?”
APEC Summit Q & A
Xi: ....and global warming is an existential threat to humanity so the CCP is committed to ....
Me(a tankie): Sir?
Xi: ....doing our part to help mitigate th....
Me: Sir? Sir? Um hullo yes uh could you pls refer to your party as the CPC?
Xi: What did I say?
Me: Comrade you said the CCP and I think you meant CPC. It's not a big deal but the chuds use CCP and when you refer to it as such your just giving them power it's not helpful.
Xi: (shrugs) CCP/CPC what difference does it make? (motions to security)
As I'm dragged out of the auditorium I shout: "COMRADE LIKE I SAID IT'S RLY NOT A BIG DEAL ACRONYMS SHOULDN'T BE THIS HARD I'M NOT MAD THO.
We pass the exit and I see a reporter by the door. "Pls don't write down that I was mad."
Unveiling the Darkly Hilarious World of The Perry Bible Fellowship Comics
Just came across this. The avocadoposts website is weird but this article has a good sample of Perry Bible Fellowship Comics.
I learned it thru EE but I’ve always been aware that it is a much larger field of study. Its so pervasive it seems like it reveals something fundamental about the nature of reality kind of like how probability theory permeates all of the important scientific advances of the 20th century. I’m gonna have to do a deep dive on cybernetics now.
So in EE signals and system analysis you have a system with an input and an output. You smack it with an impulse input and you get an output response. The output can be separated into a transient response and a steady state response. The transient goes away and the ss response remains. You use this info to get characteristic equation of system which can then be used to determine the response of the system to other inputs, determine stability and other useful stuff.
I think about system control every time someone mentions communism doesn’t take human nature into consideration. So your saying in order to control humans greedy resource hoarding nature you are going to control it with a greedy system? Good luck with that positive feedback.
Positive feedback? Ha ha thanks for the compliment bud your lookin pretty good yourself.
No not that kind of positive feedback it means literal positive and negative. If your input to the system is blowing up positive you need to feedback a negative portion of the output back into the input thereby bringing the input to the system down and stabilizing the output or vice versa.
I’m also thinking about systems where the USA is a linear(maybe) system and the inputs are natural and man made events and the American system has a characteristic equation and response to these events. At least since 9/11 the response is to print trillions of $$$ and distribute it top down to the half way point effectively paying half of Americans to murder the other half. 15 trillion print on 9/11, 8 trillion print in 2008 bank crash and recently 8 trillion print for covid and things like BLM, masking or anti-masking etc being the transient response and war in Ukraine and Middle East as part of USA’s characteristic response. I dunno I'm just rambling now none of this answers your question about using control systems for economics I'm gonna have to do some research.