Karl Strobl
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IMAS level-3 EOD tech, FRSA, applied maths PhD and former particle physicist. Ex Wall Street / City; still love science, maths and stats in all forms. karlstrobl.com
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🇺🇸🇮🇱‼️🇮🇷 US Senator Ted Cruz:
We are carrying out millitary strikes against Iran today. Israel is leading them but we are supporting them. We are not bombing them, Israel is bombing them.
We are carrying out millitary strikes against Iran today. Israel is leading them but we are supporting them. We are not bombing them, Israel is bombing them.
June 18, 2025 at 6:49 AM
🇺🇸🇮🇱‼️🇮🇷 US Senator Ted Cruz:
We are carrying out millitary strikes against Iran today. Israel is leading them but we are supporting them. We are not bombing them, Israel is bombing them.
We are carrying out millitary strikes against Iran today. Israel is leading them but we are supporting them. We are not bombing them, Israel is bombing them.
O condicionem miseram non modo administrandae verum etiam conservandae rei publicae!
What miserable state of affairs, that the Republic is not only to be governed but actually must be preserved as well!
-- Cicero, Oratio in Catilinam Secunda ad Populum, 9 Nov, 63 B.C.
What miserable state of affairs, that the Republic is not only to be governed but actually must be preserved as well!
-- Cicero, Oratio in Catilinam Secunda ad Populum, 9 Nov, 63 B.C.
March 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
O condicionem miseram non modo administrandae verum etiam conservandae rei publicae!
What miserable state of affairs, that the Republic is not only to be governed but actually must be preserved as well!
-- Cicero, Oratio in Catilinam Secunda ad Populum, 9 Nov, 63 B.C.
What miserable state of affairs, that the Republic is not only to be governed but actually must be preserved as well!
-- Cicero, Oratio in Catilinam Secunda ad Populum, 9 Nov, 63 B.C.
swamp the drain
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the act of publically producing nonsense at such exhilarating pace that before any of it can be meaningfully refuted in public discourse it is already replaced by new and more exciting rubbish.
you heard it here first :-)
/swɒmp/ /ðə/ /dreɪn/
the act of publically producing nonsense at such exhilarating pace that before any of it can be meaningfully refuted in public discourse it is already replaced by new and more exciting rubbish.
you heard it here first :-)
December 5, 2024 at 2:07 PM
swamp the drain
/swɒmp/ /ðə/ /dreɪn/
the act of publically producing nonsense at such exhilarating pace that before any of it can be meaningfully refuted in public discourse it is already replaced by new and more exciting rubbish.
you heard it here first :-)
/swɒmp/ /ðə/ /dreɪn/
the act of publically producing nonsense at such exhilarating pace that before any of it can be meaningfully refuted in public discourse it is already replaced by new and more exciting rubbish.
you heard it here first :-)
often the greatest ideas materialise when you are exposed to a source of great mental entropy. And because on that measure Trump trumps even the true masters like -- say -- Karl Pilkington, Ali G, or Philomena Cunk, great ideas ought to be coming out of the White House imminently.
December 5, 2024 at 2:05 PM
often the greatest ideas materialise when you are exposed to a source of great mental entropy. And because on that measure Trump trumps even the true masters like -- say -- Karl Pilkington, Ali G, or Philomena Cunk, great ideas ought to be coming out of the White House imminently.
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Hear the Voice of Albert Einstein: Vintage Album Features Him Talking About E=MC2, World Peace & More
We all have a mental image of Albert Einstein. For some of us, that mental image doesn't get much more detailed than the mustache, the unruly hair, and the rumpled dress, all of which, thanks to his a...
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December 5, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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When you are faced with fragility (negative convexity), the optimal cure makes sure the cure remains worse than the disease.... karlstrobl.com/2020/09/27/e...
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December 5, 2024 at 1:55 PM
When you are faced with fragility (negative convexity), the optimal cure makes sure the cure remains worse than the disease.... karlstrobl.com/2020/09/27/e...
You remember these 60ies SciFi novels where the robots take over and then the programming has a fatal flaw and they all go crazy? We do that to ourselves all the time. Antivaccers, climate change deniers, Q,... Nobody thought THAT was possible back then, did they? #SciFi "TruthStrangerThanFiction
December 5, 2024 at 1:52 PM
You remember these 60ies SciFi novels where the robots take over and then the programming has a fatal flaw and they all go crazy? We do that to ourselves all the time. Antivaccers, climate change deniers, Q,... Nobody thought THAT was possible back then, did they? #SciFi "TruthStrangerThanFiction