Daily review 20/12/2023

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    1. 1.1

      tourism innit. All good for the coffers, not like giving the peasants a cheaper/healthier/climate mitigation way to get to work/play/school.

        1. 1.1.2.1

          They've just turned ruatiti rd , a dead end rd with a dozen farms on it into a highway for the mangapurua cycle way up here .

          1. 1.1.2.1.1

            If it's half as successful as the cycleways around Central they'll need it. Ours are generating significant usage, and traffic.

    1. 2.1

      That Jan. 6 riot was loutish and horrible and everything we have come to associate with Trump—but it was not an insurrection. That bizarre mob lacked the organization to do anything more than take selfies and high-five the police that co-operated with their invasion.

      2. 2.1.2

        You can be as condescending about them as you like, but they were sufficiently organised to forcefully enter and violently occupy the Capitol, requiring the evacuation of elected representatives and disrupting the processes of government for a day.

        1. 2.1.2.1

          I share your distaste for that mob. As you say, it was violent and disruptive. However, the Capitol police colluded with them, high-fiving and posing for selfies with them—just imagine how they would have responded if hundreds of armed black radicals had stormed the place—and most of the behaviour was gross (urinating, and worse, on office desks) or bravado posturing (that idiot with the Viking headgear).

          As for those elected representatives cowering under their desks: almost every single one of them had risen in unison the year before to applaud the ridiculous puppet Juan Guaidó when President Trump introduced him during his State of the Nation speech. Venezuela, like many other countries in South and Central America, has had to endure real, and extremely bloody, insurrection attempts instigated by many of the very people who wailed about the January 6 riot.

  3. 3

    So hot and muggy today in Riverton!

    My outdoor tamarillo, banana and angel trumpets are loving it though!

    Sharks too 🙂

    2. 3.2

      do they bother the surfers?

      I just watched NYAD, about the woman ocean swimmer who swam Cuba to Florida when she was 60. No cage, sharks and killer jellyfish!

  4. 4

    Say it ain't so Pythagoras!

    Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras

    […]

    "The conclusion is inescapable. The Babylonians knew the relation between the length of the diagonal of a square and its side: d=square root of 2," mathematician Bruce Ratner writes in a paper on the topic. "This was probably the first number known to be irrational. However, this in turn means that they were familiar with the Pythagorean Theorem – or, at the very least, with its special case for the diagonal of a square (d2 = a2 + a2 = 2a2) – more than a thousand years before the great sage for whom it was named."

    https://www.iflscience.com/pythagorean-theorem-found-on-clay-tablet-1000-years-older-than-pythagoras-72091

    1. 4.1

      Maybe Pythagoras discovered it in the same way tasman discovered nz and Columbus America, the locals already knew about it.

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