In a random world, sometimes you repeatedly draw good hands, and sometimes you repeatedly draw bad hands, simply due to randomness. In a random world, good hands and bad hands are randomly distributed, not fairly distributed. Fair distribution would be: you draw a bad hand, and then you draw a good hand. Random distribution means you can draw ( Read more... )

Somebody just called me their "God of the reasonable certainty"

It's dice all the way down, babe,

The election betting markets expect a Harris v. Trump nail biter / coin toss in 2024. Presumably because Biden decides he's too old to run again. With Republicans winning the 2022 House midterms, plus another nail biter / coin toss for the Senate. As I wrote before, Republicans are more excited about 2022 than Democrats are ( Read more... )

I was reading Wikipedia articles about the history of human population growth and one link leads to another and then I'm looking at a map of the distribution of human language families.  Generally the geography of a language family is compact and regional, when looking at Eurasia and Africa.  But a few languages skipped across the oceans and became ( Read more... )

it's been a while since I threw one, and ... something's different this time ... (and it's not just the awesome coins I bought)

it's what I said about how we should be able to describe our problems in one sentence, none of this TL;DR crap

so, I'm Fire above Air, moving toward Mountain above Air,

one source says The Cauldron moving toward Arresting ( Read more... )

Every permutation of flake in the universe is on these dating/hookup apps. I know it irks me more than most people, probably, because I'm more OCD about scheduling stuff. Supposedly the "right now" dudes don't always show up either, but so far I've only tried two of those and they both showed up, a bit later than they said they would. My evolving ( Read more... )

This I Ching oracle surprised me with six yang in a row, which is sometimes interpreted as Heaven, but Alfred Huang interprets it as Initiating, which is still a combination of Heaven-over-Heaven.

"The Chinese character Qian is an image of a rising sun radiating its light and energy--chi--and nourishing the entire world ... it denotes health and ( Read more... )

When I came up with this Oracle of the Cum Deck game, to keep me preoccupied while K is away, I didn't expect the experience to feel as random as it does ( Read more... )

What is my Hardship ( Read more... )

Now is the time to look after yourself.
Watch your diet.
Be kind to yourself and take plenty of nourishment.
Rest and relax.
Don't take on anything new at this time.
Build up your strength.