The Exigent Duality
Musings - 08:03 CST, 2/04/20 (Sniper)
I found some aspects of this guy's story to be pretty relatable: weird acting ostracized kid with zero access to girls while hormones were raging; hooked on sugar and porn at a pretty young age; ballooned up to nearly three hundred pounds; had a traumatic "along for the ride" run-in with authorities before the age of twenty, spent years in retrospect looking up "how the heck was that even legal?" Had to manually learn how to understand body language by reading about it; and so forth.

In other news, here is yet another one of those surreal instances where it's obvious someone behind the strings sent out a memo, and all of the Democrat operatives got it. This time, it's "Trump is a monarch". For being so coordinated and corrupt, it's amazing how incompetent the Democrats are; when someone lies and cheats and still can't win, that's pretty pathetic. And speaking of coordinated and corrupt, could their "quality control" be any more transparent? Obviously, cuckoo clock Breadline Bernie won the caucus voting while Creepy Joe did terribly, and the DNC office is trying to "fix", or at least find a way to spin, the outcome.

On a totally unrelated note, D came up to me yesterday: "hey papa, I think there is a way to do faster-than-light travel: create a ship with specially-shaped rings around it, which would fold space time one way on top of the ship, then another way along the bottom-- this would create a space-time 'wedge' through which the ship would travel." I don't know if he came up with this on his own or read about it online, but either way I wouldn't be surprised if an adult D really did invent a warp drive.

Regarding the Super Bowl, I was surprised that Kansas City won. Even after watching them lose, I still think San Francisco were the better team: rather, I think their coaches blew the gameplan-- the sensation I got was that they didn't even really try to impose themselves like they had all season. It almost reminded me of watching Vikings, and how their coaches tend to choke in big games. At least I really like Mahomes, and it's amazing to see him win probably his first-of-multiple Super Bowl MVP awards by age twenty four. If there is one player I can tell is destined for Canton, it's Mahomes.

Finally, here you can see just how easy it is to fool an "autonomously driving" car: a twenty dollar print-out from Kinkos cleverly taped up just in the right spot would quite literally cause a Tesla to veer directly into head-on traffic-- it's that trivial, and it's exactly what I wrote about here. The reason you can find dozens of stories of Teslas crashing or running over pedestrians is simply because of how easily these systems are tricked, as they are being "beta tested" on real live people. And it's not just this one flaw, and it's also not like they can necessarily be resolved, as even the article states: "One reason [for no patch fix] is that there is no way software could detect the difference between a road sign projected on a tree's leaves, and a legitimate road sign..."