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Curse you, Stan! Curse you!

And Zen too.

And you! I'm older than you too, right?

As long as Bill stays out of here, I will continue to reign supreme!

Haha! You're old, but I'm older! I win!

Some guns, but my own guess is that they are stocking up on ammo. At least here in rural Nebraska, everyone who wants a gun already owns fourteen, but every time there's a presidential election everyone here complains that there's no ammo to be found anywhere. Just guessing though. My own stockpile ...

Technically, all it has to do is pass the house, and he has been impeached. The Senate trial determines if he is to be convicted/punished. The Senate cannot act fast enough to remove him, so fine, let it move at a more deliberate pace and on Schumer's terms. It would be lovely to bar him from holdin...

Other way of viewing. Number of shots is a sequence, and only that sequence would get that exact correct ordering. Thats 1 over n! for that ordering, then you sum it up. Getting the equation in the picture you posted. Oh damn... that would have been way simpler than all the probability trees I was ...

Time!

6. Million Dollar Baby

Good

morning!

Good morning!

I also came up with the answer e. If two arrows both hit the target at completely random points, then it makes sense that they both have an equal likelihood of being closest to the center. So the second shot has a 50% chance of being farther away. So half of all attempts will end with a score of 2. ...

But I suppose you could just cut everything at once, which is another question. You have to cut everything at once. Only the finished product matters. Otherwise you can't cut anything at all. Cutting a big square into four smaller squares requires first cutting it into two rectangles, and then cutt...

That is what I got, yes. We'll see next week how right that is, but I'm pretty sure.

To be fair, the answers won't be up til next week, so I'm not sure that my answer is right, but it's so elegant that I feel like it has to be... Like the odd scoring system is specifically to produce this result. If you want my assumption: I assumed that at any point, you will have X arrows. The cha...

I don't know. It could have been better, but I just had to read it a couple times to sort it out. I think you locked in on the example and got some tunnel-vision. Happens to me all the time. I'm just happy to actually get one of these at all. I love doing them, but I'm generally not very good at the...

I'm saying that if you have nine squares in a 3x3 grid, then you could combine 4 of them into a larger square, leaving you with 6. So you had 9, but combining allowed you to subtract 3.

I am so glad that so many people and organizations are saying the right things NOW, but I'm achingly disappointed that it required an actual invasion of our halls of government with violence and death to get them to this point. Not only did we tell you so, but we've BEEN telling you so. The FBI and ...

Close. Those values are also subtractive in some cases.

(Copied from 538. This is the one I got really excited about. I rarely solve their "hard" puzzle, but I got this one, and the final answer just tickled the crap out of me when I realized what it was.) Robin of Foxley has entered the FiveThirtyEight archery tournament. Her aim is excellent...

I know you've already figured out what it means, but to clarify for others: You have a square. You are subdividing the square by drawing lines inside of it. When you are done drawing lines, the original square will be subdivided into some number of smaller squares. These squares will fill the entire...

I have an answer, and I'm sure it's right, but I haven't conclusively proved that the numbers I name are impossible. I've proven that all the other numbers ARE possible, and I instinctively know that the remaining ones aren't. And yeah, 2 and 3 are on my list of impossible numbers. There aren't many...

(Stolen from 538's Puzzler series) There are many ways to slice a big square into smaller squares (not necessarily of equal size), so that the smaller squares don’t overlap, while still making up the entire area of the big square. For example, you can slice the big square into four smaller squares,...

Much better today! Arm pain is gone. Head feels clear. No more pressure on the ears.

Another!

Thank God for that, yes.

🚭🚬🚭 🚬🚭🚬🚭🚬🚭🚬🚭🚬🚭🚬🚭🚬🚭🚬🚭 I remember once when I was in college, I was in a crowded restaurant lobby with a friend, waiting for a table. The lobby was clearly labeled as non-smoking, but my friend had just lit his cigarette and refused to let it go to waste, so he continued smoking it inside. The big dud...

bralbovsky wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 5:35 pm Good job, hope you're feeling better soon.
Indications are that the second one will be worse. Like, take the next day off worse.
It is however, an indication that your body is taking the high alert seriously.

Educational!

Thank you.

Thank you! And hopefully I can keep dodging Covid until my second shot in February.

That's what I said.

Facing Backlash, Republicans Confront Trump’s Effect on Their Party In encounters with their constituents this week, Republican lawmakers have grappled with the consequences of their yearslong alliance with President Trump: an angry, misinformed base. By Catie Edmondson Jan. 9, 2021 Updated 1:40 p....

I got shot #1 of the Moderna vaccine on Thursday. So after 2 days, I can report that the injection site is still a little sore, which is very unusual for me. But it hurts less than yesterday, so it's healing. But also, my brain is a bit fuzzy today. Like my ears feel plugged up and I'm just not firi...

Good!

I'm going to start wearing a bunch of watches on one arm so that when some street hustler tries to sell me a watch, I can just pull up my sleeve and... Ba-BAM!

Oooooo! Pretty!

Sorry. Too late.

Don't look, Ethel!

Trump is committing to a peaceful, orderly transition to a new administration in less than two weeks. He is scared.

Of course he notably did not actually admit that he lost or that anyone else won, and he wouldn't say Biden"s name...

But he's running out of allies and cards to play.

Did you hear about the bird?

Right?!

I will go ahead and be the s***** person who says this thing: I think your motivation and plan is awesome because you're trying to include things, but people who feel like their traditions are already excluded may not look upon this as a gift. I would probably get somebody who has specific expertis...

Ouija?

Uh... yeah?

Aww yeah.

poorpete wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 7:43 pm Trump. <-- we got emojis now?

WHAT?!?!

No friggin way!

Quentin Tarantino And I have directors I love and feel strongly about, but rarely am I committed to catching everything they've ever done. Hell, I've only seen all of Tarantino's stuff, because I got turned on to him back when he only had two films. Jeremy Saulnier (I haven't seen Hold the Dark yet,...

Mitch Mcconnell warns that overriding the will of the voter would damage our Republic forever. Too little, too fucking late, Senator. NPR is referring to the protesters as "insurrectionists". Romney also calls it an insurrection and say directly that Trump made it happen. I could see MAGA ...

But now the polling for the Georgia run-offs was pretty much dead on. This means that pollsters all have an out by saying that it's just Trump being on the ballot that throws things so out of whack... back to business as usual. And there is maybe some validity there, but it is far from all of the st...

I just recently heard an episode of Our Fake History where the host referred to Seasons in the Sun as one of the worst songs ever (maybe THE worst... can't remember) from a dark age of music.

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