The pond has reserved a special late arvo slot for things that amuse the pond, or at least that's the pond's excuse for digging into the archive and coming up with this one ... a wondrous example of how too much salt is bad for the system, and likely to produce a form of hypertension in the young ...
But how did the pond end up back in 2016 with this cant and humbug from a loon pretending he's got a sensa huma?
How did the pond get this silly shake of the salt shaker into its system?
Well the pond has to blame Zoe Williams, who scribbled a short and furious piece for the Graudian here ...No, Kirstie Allsopp, cancelling Netflix won’t buy a house – in any location ...
Yes, yes, all that and more, but sorry Zoe, stupidity is endless, and loops around to devour itself, like that image of the ouroboros the pond keeps mentioning, it being better than the thought of a salty cracker so far up its bum no light can be seen ...
But here's a further joke. Guess what sort of ad the reptiles are running with that ancient Salt in the wound? No need to guess, it's a retirement village for old farts, with breathtaking avocado-free views ...
What a fuckwit, and it's easy to see why young people sometimes get a tad agitated ... and so to a few avocado cartoons just to pour a little more salt in the wound ...
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteI’m uncertain if this reply will amuse the pond or just bore it to death.
After clicking on the ghunt link to ouroboros I had a “Proustian Moment” regarding Benzene and Kekule’s dream. I won’t say any more as it is a suprisingly dull anecdote.
However I was interested in the Martin Rees link to ouroboros and its illustration of the importance of scale.
Rees is always generally interesting;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG4MUt7tjwI
But I was unable to find anything about him talking about how we are strangely right in the middle of the scale between the Planck length and the size of the universe. However there is this;
http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Chapter6.pdf
Warning it is quite long!
We evidently appear (size wise) to be in a sweet spot where complexity can occur. Still it’s not just us. So can reptiles and even avocados.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
DiddyWrote
So many years since I last encountered the 'anthropic principle', so thanks for the reminder, DW. Not that it means anything, of course.
DeleteThe Martin Rees link was very good indeed: for the first time I encountered an actual, reputable scientist who made the point that our teensy little "big bang" may be just one amongst an infinity of "big bangs" and that our "universe" is just one microscopic part of an infinite cosmos that we cannot contemplate and will never even begin to know.
Most people haven't even the first notion of what 'infinite in space and time' really means.
Tres droll, DW ... and that reminded the pond that it had its own Proustian moment while reading a piece in the LRB.
DeleteThe pond came across a mention of Bentham's Felicific calculus ... there's a lot of fun to be had outside the world of the reptiles ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicific_calculus
The pond's partner accidentally made mention of logarithms in a business meeting while discussing algorithms, such is the baleful influence of the pond ... but is the felicific calculus that far from a modern pleasuring algorithm?
And Joe can take the calculus and add it to his law ... and to GB's very handy link ...
Who said there was absolutely no use for salt in the modern diet? At least if lightly dusted in the comments section ...
Oh yes, the felicity of repenting one's sins, receiving God's forgiveness and spending an eternity of ecstasy singing God's infinite praises: truly felicific according to the calculus.
DeleteRe the line about the lie getting halfway round the world, today I learned about Brandolini's Law, "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than is needed to produce it." It's mentioned by Rebecca Watson in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCbT49VTTE where she shows that Joe Rogan is even more loathsome that we thought.
ReplyDeleteIf you prefer to read the transcript rather than sit through the video - which I personally do with Rebecca Watson's excellent analyses - you can go here:
Deletehttps://skepchick.org/
where many other excellent presentations can also be viewed or read.