Happy π day! In celebration, here's a beautiful finding of π in the Mandelbrot set. How does π get in there? As usual, it's because calculus is involved.
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This is how we know that the climate change worry industry is really a grift. They don't really care. Why should you?
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Wow, it looks like Obama wanted to do DOGE, too. But guess who he put in charge? The anti-Elon!
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Downtown Portland's open-air drug market has returned. This is why no one wants to move to Portland, and we can't get any quality people for top positions.
Remembering Mark Klein, the whistleblower who in 2005 told us that the NSA was illegal spying on us.
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I remember when Apple was stockpiling so much cash, and everyone wondered what were Apple's plans for all that money. There was no plan.
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Dem solutions to Dem problems. Oregon has so many sex offenders that Tina Kotek wants to hold off on getting them registered as sex offenders officially. She wants to remove the deadline for clearing the backlog past Dec 2026. Plus, she wants to make it so that only if you are younger than 35 years old and have 2 or more sex crimes, would you need to be registered. Supposedly some study backs this up.
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A Finnish study looking at twins showed that the link between exercise and increase longevity is not linear, but U-shaped. Those that exercised the least or the most aged more rapidly. The benefits of exercise and longevity were felt to be due to those that exercised not drinking or smoking as much. Moderate activity (75 to 150 minutes of vigorous activity weekly) was the best.
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