Month: June 2020

If you’re already tired of the coronavirus (season 1) and riot-protests (season 2), here’s season 3 for you — a 700-meter asteroid hurtling towards us. According to calculations, it will pass us by slightly, at a distance of 5 million km, but we do not forget what a great year it has been so far

They blocked off half of the road. I thought they were going to dig or replace the tiles. Turns out, it’s for jogging. Half a kilometer or so. Apparently, a meter and a half of sidewalk isn’t enough to pass by each other. Now the few cars that pass are squeezed tightly. The banner describes the rules for sports activities. Nadia tested the banner. Everything works as described.

Our governor shared plans on how to combat disorder, including the decriminalization of marijuana and amendments to electoral legislation, such as declaring the voting day a holiday in lieu of celebrating Lee-Jackson Day (the birthday of two Confederate generals; observed on the Friday before the third Monday of January).

Well, marijuana is understandable. But. One might wonder, what do some generals have to do with all this? But here it’s an old issue that pits entire neighborhoods against each other. It turned out Robert E. Lee, who is highly respected here for various merits as a military leader, was convinced in his 19th century that slavery was beneficial for the moral health of black people. And generally, people weren’t really considered at that time. Various stubborn stances on nationalism and the like often link their racist views with the Confederacy and the Civil War, leading to conflicts over interpretations of history and historical figures in the new light of political correctness and equality. The link contains a lot of interesting material on the subject.

https://carnegie.ru/commentary/72866

Normal advertising on FB 🙂 The babymaker.

Interestingly, if one processes millions of first and last names, it’s quite easy to calculate which names parents commonly give to children with a specific surname in a particular place/city/country. And create a service “top names for a certain surname.” It could be used to avoid giving a child a name from the top.

Hmm. We have riots, and they’ve changed the police chief in Moscow 🤔

Now I have a total resolution of three monitors at 7552 pixels horizontally and 1600-1920 vertically. Getting this Apple cinema 30″ to work with the new MacBook Pro was quite a dance with tambourines (two adapters in a row, only a specific combination works, and it’s not written anywhere which one). But in the end, it all worked out