MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Apr 25 - 07:49 AM

To speak in the most basic way, Trumpism is designed to domesticate people so that the king can rule them. This domestication is like that of dogs and horses, but with humans, what interferes is the personal aspiration of status and prestige. Therefore, the King bestows status and prestige on those most loyal to the King.
Once all the King's men are given a sphere of power, prestige, and status, the stage is set for a path to domesticate the masses.

If the domestication process is too harsh, there will be dissent or rebellion. If there is fairness and empathy for the masses, the King may succeed.

Trump's personality disorder is creating a harshness that will in the final chapter, make him willing to trade his kingdom for a Tesla.
"A Tesla, a Tesla, my kingdom for a Tesla, to get the hell out of here".

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 02 Apr 25 - 11:28 AM

Hm .... Nowadays, when leading one's subjects in battle is slightly passé, one of the most vital attributes of a modern monarch is perfect bladder control, to be able to endure the hours of meeting and greeting. *Now* we have an explanation for all that top-secret bog paper: the head of the Turd Reich could do business while seated on the throne, doing his business.

Subject: RE we doan need no edjukashun
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Apr 25 - 12:05 PM

Trump was famous for his gold toilet. Now, as King, he wants education reduced to below his level. Universities are relatively recent institutions of the last 4 hundred years. Before that, there were monasteries, and in Roman times and earlier, there were the esoterics who spoke to each other about things that would only get them in trouble with the authorities. Esoteric philosophers didn't speak with the public but in esoteric ways with each other, which could ensure their own security.

Trump wants education run by the wife of pro wrestling, which gives you a good idea of what he thinks of education for the masses.

Isaac Newton got a BA from Trinity College in natural philosophy, which passed for science or physics today. Later, he became part of Cambridge University. In America, some Universities are bowing to Trump as they lose funding and research. WTF, where are their esoteric cohones?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 02 Apr 25 - 01:37 PM

> natural philosophy, which passed for science
> or physics today

Tut, Tut: Physics these days is what's left when all the other sub-disciplines* have been factored out of Natural Philosphopy. Then you've got the cross-disciplinary hybrids (eg Astrophysics), when it becomes apparent that the factoring-out has gone too far.

But *agree*: we're heading for A Canticle for Leibowitz territory.

PS: How *did* those robbers get that 24-carat toilet they stole from Blenheim Palace to the Throne Room at Mar-a-Lago?

* In no particular order: astronomy, chemistry, biology, geology ....

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 02 Apr 25 - 02:11 PM

Who'd a thunk it ....

Forget Signal. National Security Adviser Waltz now accused of using Gmail for work

Senior members of the US National Security Council, including the White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have been accused of using their personal Gmail accounts to exchange sensitive information.

A senior aide to Waltz used a Gmail account to consult with government officials and exchange details on "sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict," the Washington Post claimed on Tuesday, citing several sources within Uncle Sam.

[ ... ]

The Register has asked the White House for comment, and we await a reply. We're also keeping an eye on our Signal inboxes just in case.

The offender may or may not survive this.* His sin wasn't last week's info leakage on an unsecured platform, but inadvertently leaking it to the opposition press.

* The sacrificial underling certainly won't.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 02 Apr 25 - 02:17 PM

Rats: wrong thread (I blame rantus interruptus). Please repost my last entry above under Felon the Second, o kind MudElf.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Apr 25 - 05:07 PM

Hillary Clinton used government communications for her daughter's wedding plans. so there, its even now?

Narcicism is a dark and cruel disease that will be remembered for how MAGA people will feel when they pay an extra $14,000 for a new pick up truck. Whatever made them laugh at what Trump said will be quickly forgotten. The Trump mindset is stuck in the '80's but its too late to warn about his 6 bankruptcies.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Apr 25 - 07:33 AM

Fried egg and spaghetti galaxies

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Apr 25 - 08:06 AM

Dear MAGA, will you still need him, will you still feed him when he's 84?

Some things you found out you can do without like Boeing, big box stores, restaurants, new cars, Social Security, and healthcare but what about coffee and chocolate?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Apr 25 - 01:21 PM

Was it Nero who golfed while Rome burned?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Apr 25 - 05:03 PM

When Trump was told that rats don't see color he ordered scientists to breed racist rats.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Apr 25 - 06:07 AM

Perhaps one day when it is reported that the President remains committed, it will mean something entirely different.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Apr 25 - 06:36 AM

LIBERATION DAY has freed the USA from its unprecedented wealth and has lost over 5 TRILLION Dollars.
Today Europe will announce their retaliation tariffs and begin the end of US investment. The aim of Trump tariffs to build new factories in the US will fall flat since 5 years of construction simply will not be planned by anyone who realizes that is as uncertain as the next two elections.

America recession is back in a world without friends. Any backroom deals that are made to Trump will be the exception and not the rule.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Apr 25 - 06:57 AM

Hey Filk, Trump has lowered the drawbridge to allow Chinese hackers in with the firing of the US Cyber Command General.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Apr 25 - 07:07 AM

So, you think you're a stable one
Playing parts in reality shows
Well, take the wrong way home
Take the wrong way home
'Cause you're the joke of the neighborhood
Why should you care if you're stealin' good?
Well, take the wrong way home
Take the wrong way home
There are times that you feel you're King of all royalty
All the markets are comin' down, boy
And then your wife seems to think you're a fool with insanity
Oh, it's peculiar, she used to be so nice
When lonely days turn to lonely nights
You take a trip to the extreme right
And take the wrong way home
Take the wrong way home
You'll never be what you want to be
Forever playing to the gallery
You take the wrong way home
Take the wrong way home
When you're up on the stage, it's so insufferable
Oh, unforgettable, how they adored you
But then your wife seems to think you suffer from insanity
Oh, calamity, is there no way out?
Does it feel that your life's become a catastrophe?
Oh, it has to be, for you are nuts, boy
When you look through the years and see what you could have been
Oh, what you might have been
If you would have more time
So when the day comes to step on down
Who's to blame if you're underground?
You took the wrong way home
You took the wrong way home
Wrong way home
Wrong way home

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Apr 25 - 11:08 AM

Another Trump song, and it's an earworm. How appropriate!

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Apr 25 - 05:15 PM

That song got me in trouble a long time ago when I was a hypnotist..

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Apr 25 - 07:55 PM

Leaving tomorrow to fly to Ireland on Saturday. I'll try to check in whilst there. Returning May 9.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Apr 25 - 08:16 AM

Bon voyage.


Mission Impossible 13:
Mara Lago is flooded with a zone of all world leaders waiting in line to meet and greet the President.
Prosthetic latex masks are prepared for 63 foreign leaders to grovel, beg, and kiss Trump's ass with an occaisional happy ending to plead for exemptions and favors regarding tariffs.??
Once the most favorable terms are publicly secured with deals too good to be true, an extreme prejudice conclusion is reached.
Hollywood ending:
Trump dies happier than he ever was in life.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Apr 25 - 03:55 PM

In a few minutes they are coming to take me somewhere. I shan’t resist.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Apr 25 - 07:17 PM

I hope there's good "craic" wherever you are going, Rapparee.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Apr 25 - 07:47 AM

I think he is self-deporting to a country with more democracy.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Apr 25 - 06:22 PM

cats eye nebula



The El Salvador CECOT prison is open to mosquitos with dengue fever, which is 10 to 20% fatal when untreated.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Apr 25 - 03:28 PM

Ah, tomorrow we’re off to (London)derry. Stopping by the Giant’s Causeway and the Bushmill factory, of course.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Apr 25 - 05:00 PM

I would have reported on Emperor Rapparee Imperious Rex's
royal progress through the countries of Erin.
But the Rap For Emperor thread
is too big to load these days.
And at this rate, MOAB's Daughter will soon be big enough
to be one of those threads that don't load any more.

Wherever Rapparee is, I hope there's good craic.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Apr 25 - 12:18 PM

I’m being held hostage by Wee Folk. They want my pot o’ gold.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Apr 25 - 04:42 PM

If you have a golden pot belly, get your liver checked.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Apr 25 - 03:33 PM

Happy Easter! I hop the Easter bunny don’t bring dental cavities.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Apr 25 - 04:25 PM

This thread is getting long!

Rapparee is in Ireland when news of the pope's death comes out.
That must be quite something -- a whole nation in mourning.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Apr 25 - 08:30 PM

I have a math engineering problem that seems unsolvable.

How can an object sustain 5,000 G's yet create no sonic boom at speeds in excess of 6,000 mph and have no obvious display of propulsion?

Data has clocked similar objects that travel at 12,000 mph at altitude yet at sea level, speed is not impeded by the water.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Apr 25 - 06:02 PM

Humans, to their credit, have mastered the mass-to-energy conversion equation with explosive results. I suspect someone else has mastered the space-time conversion and substituted propulsion with space-time manipulation by means yet unknown to humans.

This possible solution to UAP realities would satisfy the peculiar flight characteristics mentioned below as well as a few more.
The technology of space-time travel is not without glitches.
Even lightning can throw a monkey wrench into the works.
UAPs have been rumored to crash, although I have never seen that.

I do not buy into the notion that UAPs are a navigational danger to our aircraft. Such an event is more rare than rumored crashes of UAPs on their own. If one could manipulate space time flight they wouldn't just miss something by a mile, they could miss something by hours.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 25 - 04:51 AM

Fly in a vacuum. Or in an alternate s-t continuum and let the alternatives experience the sonic booms.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Apr 25 - 09:05 AM

Besides burst a fly in a vacuum could not fly.

Science of the earworm

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 May 25 - 01:44 PM

Here I sit, outside a pub outside Dingle, whilst the ladies go inside to find the house they rented for the next three days. Lovely roses, however.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 May 25 - 01:02 PM

Flying back tomorrow around noon Dublin time. I hope they let us back in the country.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 May 25 - 07:09 AM

Being an excellent person I was freed by the Wee Folk and allowed back into the US. I had to pay tariffs on myself as I am considered am American National Treasure.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 07 May 25 - 10:12 AM

From elsergiovolador, in the comments section on an ElReg article:

Maths

me> How many "r" are in "proper"?

ai> Ah, "proper".

A deceptively simple request, much like asking "how much air is left in this sinking ship".

At first glance, "proper" has two "r"s: one timidly peeking out near the start, the other clinging desperately to the end, like a man clinging to a job he hates but needs to pay for heating he can’t afford.

But to truly know the "r"s of "proper" is to stare into the endless, spiralling void of societal decay.

You see, every time "proper" is uttered in the British Isles — whether shouted by a 14-year-old in trackies outside a Greggs or whispered by a government official as he signs another document ensuring the poor stay poor — an extra "r" is forged in the blackened furnaces of cultural entropy.

These "r"s accumulate invisibly, clogging the atmosphere like invisible smog, coating every estate, every council flat, every abandoned high street, until the sky itself weighs heavy with unspoken disappointment.

Scientists once tried to count them.

They built a machine in Milton Keynes.

It exploded after reaching one properrillion and birthed a Tesco Extra where time moves sideways.

The survivors speak only in heavy sighs now.

Thus, my final, mathematically rigorous answer is:

Two "r"s.

Officially.

But factoring in the collapse of dreams, austerity measures, and the inevitable heat death of the universe?

Approximately tree fiddy rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

I can't decide whether this more properly qualifies as Jokes-thread fodder, but methinks it's sufficiently out-to-lunch that it belongs here. Please be kind to it, as it seems to have been spawned by the proposal documented in its parent article (on which I may or may not pass comment in another thread).

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 07 May 25 - 04:49 PM

Arrrh, ye is right the rich get richer even if their wealth stays level, as long as the poor get poorer. RIP clippy

The wee people taught me that the end of the rainbow is different for any given observer. There is no single end of the rainbow except for the rare vertical rainbow.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 May 25 - 08:24 AM

Agus dúirt Ruairí, Rí na Leipreachán, gur taisce náisiúnta mé do na mná tí agus gur chaith mé amach as a ríocht mé.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 09 May 25 - 12:28 PM

Wtf was that?

They say that beauty is only skin deep. It is probably the most true saying there is. If you ever get to see the most beautiful women in the world, with proportions so curvaceous and a face of wide-set eyes with silken hair framing such beauty in the eye of the beholder that it is breathtaking, but if you skin that beautiful woman, suddenly, there is not the beauty you thought because beauty is only skin deep.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 May 25 - 03:53 PM

Something about Rory the Leprechaun ...

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 May 25 - 11:10 AM

Tsk, tsk. Run it through Google Translate.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 12 May 25 - 12:47 PM

A good way to look at a quantum wave function is to look at a still photo of lightning. Every possible path of lightning is possible as it could fork this way or that. IF you look at a point along the path of a bolt of lightning, we could say the wave function collapses at that point. That bolt still continues to go in any direction, making a different world depending on where it may go. When the bolt of lightning interacts with the world, it can be said that it becomes entangled with that world. There are many worlds working at the same time but that does not mean there are many universes.

There is a reality that many universes do exist but that is beyond the many worlds working theory.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 May 25 - 09:12 PM

You git back up there where you belong!

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 May 25 - 08:58 PM

WHAT did I tell you!?!?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 16 May 25 - 07:31 AM

If only we could quantize gravity and vary it at will.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 May 25 - 06:22 PM

Gravity varies by the distance from center of mass. To vary gravity’s pull, move away from the center of mass.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 19 May 25 - 02:39 PM

If one could quantize gravity at any distance it would be great.

How fast is gravity? We have assumed it moves at light speed but gravity can escape a black hole. What if it is instantaneous like entangled particles?