They were so concerned about whether or not they could…
This is my review of Karl Strauss Brewery Peanut Butter Cup Porter:
In a world where AI allows us to create terrifying things like AI horror movies featuring oddly realistic but totally fake juggy victims floating in a space station. Where it truly turns into a dystopian reality is when they decide to figure out how the natural world works. The natural world being the war on mosquitoes:
Up until now, we had used only experiments with Styrofoam spheres to train our model. The true test was whether it could predict mosquito flights around a human. Chris returned to the chamber, this time wearing all white clothes and a black hat, turning himself into a bull’s-eye. Our model successfully predicted the distribution of mosquitoes around him. We identified zones of danger, where there was a high chance of a mosquito circling around him.
Predicting mosquito behavior is a first step toward outsmarting them. In mosquito-prone areas, people design houses with features to prevent mosquitoes from following human cues and entering. Similarly, mosquito traps suck in mosquitoes when they get too close but still allow between 50% and 90% of mosquitoes to escape. Many of these designs are based on trial and error. We hope that our study provides a more precise toolfor designing methods for mosquito capture or deterrence.
Sure, we’re just interested in how they move to keep people from getting Malaria or something. Not to you know, give them Malaria or whatever the hell the AP is assuring me Bill Gates is NOT doing when he’s not on Epstein’s Island. All of this brings reminds me of the actual lesson in Jurassic Park: Chaos Theory.
In ecology, predator-prey relationships can also demonstrate chaotic behavior. A slight change in the number of prey can lead to significant changes in the predator population, which in turn affects the prey in unpredictable ways. These dynamics make managing ecosystems a delicate and often counterintuitive task.
Even in the brain, chaotic patterns are at play. Neural activity, while not entirely random, exhibits complex fluctuations that defy simple patterns. Some theories suggest that the brain uses chaotic dynamics to allow for flexibility, creativity, and responsiveness to changing environments. Seizures, by contrast, may represent a breakdown of this complex order into simpler, pathological rhythms.
From the flapping of bird wings to the swirl of a hurricane, chaos is the engine behind nature’s variability and creativity.
There is no reasonable way you can predict what will happen, but you probably map out what did happen and use the data for later decision making. This sounds like hogwash from the learned caste to sound smart by admitting they have no idea what they’re doing. So I’ll just leave it with this: quit fucking with mosquitoes.
Another day, another completely predictable peanut butter stout….or is it? Actually, yes its like all the other ones. We have a porter here that is sold year round this reminds me of, but is a bit more drinkable when you are suddenly hit with an unexpected bout of summer weather in early March. Thankfully, I had this one in February when we were experiencing an unexpected bout of summer weather. It can’t always be what you have in mind. Karl Strauss Brewery Peanut Butter Cup Porter: 3.1/5
“Peanut Butter Cup Porter”
No.
Agreed. Sharpshooter, thank you for doing the Lord’s work and testing these things.
“mosquito traps suck in mosquitoes when they get too close but still allow between 50% and 90% of mosquitoes to escape”
That does suck.
They never should have banned DDT.
No mention of the idea of sending sterile male mosquitoes into the world to reduce the surplus population? I guess that idea failed miserably.
That’s just what we do with boys during wartime. Worked well for the Boomers! Or parents of Boomers!
Was it actually attempted?
Rachel Carlson, greatest mass murderer ever.
oddly realistic but totally fake juggy victims floating in a space station.
Go on.
Another day, another completely predictable peanut butter stout….or is it? Actually, yes its like all the other ones. We have a porter here that is sold year round this reminds me of, but is a bit more drinkable when you are suddenly hit with an unexpected bout of summer weather in early March. Thankfully, I had this one in February when we were experiencing an unexpected bout of summer weather. It can’t always be what you have in mind. Karl Strauss Brewery Peanut Butter Cup Porter: 3.1/5
I think it needs chocolate.
These dynamics make managing ecosystems a delicate and often counterintuitive task.
The preposterous conceit of “managing ecosystems” notwithstanding…
That’s one beer I will not be looking for.
“Seizures, by contrast, may represent a breakdown of this complex order into simpler, pathological rhythms.”
Yuh-huh. I wouldn’t call a forced reset of your OS “simple,” considering the dynamics up to that point.
Time for my last day of a ‘full’ week at the station. Next two Saturdays are in, but nothing else. This has been an interesting detour along the way, but I’m not excited about those next two shifts. “They pull me back in…”
But, hey. It’ll keep me somewhat busy. Be merry and well, all.
that’s not beer.
So I’ll just leave it with this: quit fucking with mosquitoes.
counterpoint: fuck mosquitoes. they ruin many a nice summer day
So i grilled a steak spanish beef ribeye and it had a pretty largr chunk of fat in it so i want to ask a glibs how much of the fat would you it? None, eat around. Some, get bits of it with the meat next to it. Most of it, slice in the way to get most.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/N8Q5kuSSFnckifiU7
I eat all the fat.
Never felt better.
Sprinkle some sea salt on it.
Delicious.
I’m not going to eat that much fat.
Me neither.
Tres gives you the side eye
I would eat some of it with the adjacent meat, but probably not that much.
I don’t like ribeye – too fatty for me.
Same. Give me a t-bone.
If the fat is rendered properly, should be no issue, though large chunks arent great.
The fat is where the flavor is. And the building blocks of testosterone, if you know what I mean.
Mad King Donald, EV impresario
The cost to refuel a vehicle in the US is at its highest level in nearly three years, with the average national price of gas standing at $3.90 a gallon on Friday.
This increase has been driven by the rising global cost of oil in the wake of the US and Israel’s bombing of Iran, a major oil producer. The conflict has resulted in the strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway that conveys around a fifth of the world’s oil, being shut off by Iran.
Drivers in the US have responded to this situation with a surge of fresh interest in EVs, which do not require gas and do not emit the pollution that is dangerously overheating the planet. Searches for electric car models are up by 20% since the attack on Iran started three weeks ago, according to CarEdge, a car-buying platform.
“You saw that within 48 hours of the war starting a spike started – it is directly connected to that news,” said Justin Fischer, an automotive analyst at CarEdge. “If we see these higher gas pries dragging on for a month or more we will see bigger and bigger numbers.”
Why didn’t someone think of this sooner?
You know, more people might be interested if you didnt lie about everything journalists.
Journalists: we only lie to you for your own good.
But I want my heating costs to go down and my summers to last longer.
That sounds great to me.
But that EV will save you at the pump! Fucking retards.
France apparently didnt learn the lessons that the US military learned back in Iraq with FitBit — dont let troops use any apps on their smart phones.
Apparently a fitness app gave up real-time location of their aircraft carrier.
That’s funny.
Chafed: here is a plan comparison showing traditional control techniques vs. Sterilizing mosquitoes:
https://www.worldmosquitoprogram.org/en/learn/how-our-method-compares
Bring back DDT.
Do both.
When I was in grad school, one of our projects was to design improved mosquito netting for use in Africa.
The idea was to prevent tens of millions of mosquitoes from biting Africans and subsequently dying of AIDS.
I kept waiting for the pun, does that make me a bad person?
I haven’t had this. Haven’t had any Karl Strauss in a while, I don’t think; maybe some Red Trolley because it was the only thing decent on tap somewhere.
We used to go to a Karl Strauss brewpub all the time, because Mrs. Parnell worked nearby and we liked the pizza. Then their pizza oven broke, and since this was the only location that had pizza (because it used to be an Italian restaurant and had a pizza oven), rather than fix it they just “standardized’ the menu and got rid of the pizza. The other food was okay, but eventually Mrs. P. stopped working in the area and we stopped going altogether.
Post-covid it went underwent the usual restaurant enshittification – jacked up prices, lower quality, not enough staff to properly run the place. Went there a couple months ago because we were in the area, and it was terrible and expensive.
Sysco/Food Service of America garbage food?
If you can’t say anything nice…
Robert Mueller, who investigated allegations of Russian election meddling, dies at 81
So sad.
Anyway.