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03 Feb 19:22
South Koreans drink twice as much liquor as Russians and more than four times as much as Americans
LuciocInteressante, pessoas nos comentários que trabalham com coreanos dizem que sim, eles bebem até cair no chão. E além disso fumam igual chaminés.
Começo a achar que esse negócio de "não se entregar aos vícios" é Stuff White People Like e uma versão secularizada de ideais puritanos.
03 Feb 18:53
Fake orgasms say a lot more about a woman's odds of staying faithful than actual orgasms: Women who simulate orgasms might think they are helping their partner feel more loved, but a study looked at by Harvard researchers suggests they are also more likely to cheat.
LuciocEsse estudo é sexista. E os homens que fingem orgasmos, heim, heim? =)
03 Feb 17:37
TIL that until the 1770s, Western civilizations considered kangaroos as a mythical beast, with "the head of a deer, standing upright like a man, and hopping like a frog . . . sometimes with a second head on its stomach."
LuciocEntão acho melhor rir escondido do Pé Grande e do Monstro do Lago Ness, se por acaso um dia descobrirem que são de verdade também. =)
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03 Feb 16:51
Proxima’s Unprecedented Passage: When Stars Align - Scientific American
Lucioc"The sun's closest stellar neighbor will soon reveal its mass—and possibly its planets—when it passes in front of a distant star"
Yay!!!
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02 Feb 20:03
Jesse Eisenberg cast as Lex Luthor, Jeremy Irons as Alfred in "Superman/Batman" movie
Lucioc"Mark Zuckerberg e Lex Luthor são a mesma pessoa". (De certa forma.)
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01 Feb 01:32
Excedente arrecadado por Delúbio será doado a Dirceu
Luciochttp://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/163/b/9/ramsay_facepalm_by_weirdalsfollower-d3ip4im.jpg
31 Jan 22:26
TIL A Cat Has Been The Elected Mayor of an Alaska Town For 15 Years.
Lucioc"He doesn't raise our taxes - we have no sales tax. He doesn't interfere with business."
O legal de colocar um governante que com certeza não vai fazer *nada* é que as pessoas param de esperar que o governo resolva ou atrapalhe isso ou aquilo. 8-)
Acho que no Princípio Dilbert o Scott Adams sugere também uma sacola de alface como candidato...
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31 Jan 22:26
TIL: that the "women make 77c on a man's dollar" stat is obtained by averaging out a random group of men versus a random group of women. When adjusted for age, same career and same experience, women earn about 95.9-92.2c on a man's dollar. (pg 29 for statistics)
LuciocPerdi o link daquele livro que o Albener postou outro dia sobre "como mentir com estatísticas"...
31 Jan 22:17
Petistas desfiliam-se para continuar no governo Cabral
LuciocE quando eu falo que o PMDB é que é a archnemesis de verdade do PT o povo ignora e continua chutando o cachorro morto da "dicotomia" PT x PSDB...
31 Jan 21:43
Third banker suicide: Russell Investments Chief Economist Dueker Found Dead
Lucioc> His most-cited work was a 1997 paper titled “Strengthening the case for the yield curve as a predictor of U.S. recessions,” published by the reserve bank while he was a researcher there.
A teoria da conspiração é de que ele viu o despertar de Cthulhu nas curvas, or something.
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31 Jan 20:09
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Man of Steel
LuciocSuper inútil nesse sonho, serviu meio que só como um meio de transporte aéreo...
I just woke up from this dream. I only remember the end, which went something like this: I was in a small room about 20 feet underground with no idea as to how I got there. I had apparently partnered up with Superman (Henry Cavill) at some point. Above us was a small hole, just big enough for a full grown man (and caped alien) to fit through. We were waiting as these "machines" passed over. Cal was explaining how these machines helped build empires (kind of like in the movie). The machines passed and Cal started floating like this (http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/131212130243-man-of-steel-horizontal-gallery.jpg), I grabbed his leg and we flew up through the hole in the "ceiling". It was a straight shot into a corporate building filled with employees who were dressed like Psy in the pistachio commercial. They tried capturing us once they realized we were intruders, I whipped out a pocket knife and managed to stab each pistachio employee that came after me in the vitals. We managed to make our way up to the second floor (I think it was the second floor, it could have been the fifth for all I know) where there were only two employees, both janitors, who weren't dressed in the typical pistachio suits. Instead, they were dressed casually in jeans and a T-shirt. The first one, a woman in her mid 30's, came at me. I stabbed her in the neck and at that moment the next janitor, a man in his mid 60's or 70's, charged at me with a mop. At that moment, a pistachio suit employee with 'Man of Steel strength' came around the corner of the hall and attacked Cal. I threw my knife at the charging janitor hoping that it would stick in his neck or chest. The handle of the knife bounced off his chest and he swung the mop at me as if he were a ninja. I deflected his attack, grabbed my knife, and threw it at him again. This time it stuck in his face just under his eye. I made my way to the elevator in the middle of the hall, which the janitor was standing by, and pulled my knife from his cheek before stepping in. I plunged the knife into the janitors neck before the elevator doors closed, I immediately woke up.
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31 Jan 19:49
Ukrainian protestor kidnapped, CRUCIFIED and has part of his ear cut off before being dumped in a forest after a week of torture
LuciocWAT???
31 Jan 16:50
World Bank suggest global currency should replace US dollar as world's reserve currency
LuciocIt won't happen. É o mercado quem escolhe uma "reserve currency".
Poderia até acontecer de alguma "moeda livre" tipo o Bitcon tomar esse lugar eventualmente, mas não seria uma moeda atrelada a um governo mundial inexistente, que me parece ser para onde o Banco Imundial está jogando verde.
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31 Jan 16:16
TIL the Nazis developed experimental drug cocktail in which the Nazi doctors found that equipment-laden test subjects who had taken the drug could march 55 miles (88.5 kilometers) without resting
LuciocMeth+cocaína
Ah, os bons tempos anteriores à Guerra às Drogas, quando todos podiam ser membros produtivos da sociedade chapando o melão de estimulantes!
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30 Jan 23:20
Compur aprova projeto Nova BH
LuciocMais tentativas de verticalizar a cidade, desta vez para os lados da Antônio Carlos.
Mas acho que vai ficar um bom tempo no papel, com o colapso do mercado imobiliário que está se desenrolando.
30 Jan 20:18
Fake Snow in Georgia? Why can't a flame melt it?
LuciocHilarity ensues com os americanos do norte rolando de rir com "aqueles selvagens do sul que nunca viram gelo na vida".
Ah, sim, como esse também é o caso dos brasileiros: é preciso *muito* calor para derreter gelo ou neve, e fogo não é exatamente eficiente para isso. IIRC derreter a bola de neve com água líquida (que armazena quantidades prodigiosas de energia térmica) seria mais rápido.
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30 Jan 19:40
Share prices fall as global currency turmoil continues: The decline on Wall Street was part of continuing turbulence in international financial markets as the currencies of so-called emerging markets continued to fall.
Lucioc> Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega made a somewhat desperate attempt to deny that his country was subject to the same pressures that have hit other “emerging markets.”
Mantega in denial, típico. =)
30 Jan 16:56
Gado é flagrado em rua do Bairro Belvedere
LuciocObviamente, os comentários estão entupidos de piadas de "Belo Horizonte é uma roça".
De quaquer forma, como tenho Síndrome de Felícia, por mim a cidade poderia ser cheia de vacas, cavalos, bodes e porcos na rua. =)
30 Jan 16:45
DoomsDay Headlines: Latest News On Terror Attacks, Economic Collapse, Extreme Weather
LuciocEssa edição tem um link sobre "abelhas zumbis"...
30 Jan 16:41
Large testicles mean greater infidelity research finds
LuciocO cara pegou exemplos primeiro dos primatas e outros mamíferos (FTA: "Male lions have huge balls" 8-) mas depois viu que a correlação também vale para coisas aliens tipo ouriços marinhos e gafanhotos.
Ah, sim, os humanos são primatas muito sacudos, de modo que a conclusão é de que somos cachorrões da boca preta e galinhas.
30 Jan 16:16
Tverberg Estimate Of Future Energy Production - see comments for link to article
LuciocOutro artigo de um dos autores Hardy Har Har que o r/collapse lê. O gráfico e o raciocínio por trás dele são até interessantes: a autora acredita que nossa economia é *tão* dependente de petróleo que quando chegarmos no Oil Cliff a capacidade de investimento em produção e manutenção de todas as outras fontes de energia também vai pras picas; e a economia vai mergulhar tanto na merda que não vai ter demanda também. Daí no gráfico mesmo fontes de energia sem aparentemente porra nenhuma a ver com combustíveis fósseis - tipo "nuclear" e "renewables" também despencam em uníssono quando o Abismo de Sêneca chega.
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30 Jan 11:48
Focus on the Nearest Brown Dwarfs
by Paul Gilster
LuciocOMG! Conseguiram fazer um mapinha tosco da superfície da anã marrom conhecida mais próxima da Terra!
Luhman 16AB (otherwise known as WISE J104915.57-531906) holds out quite an allure for those of us hoping to see future exploratory missions to nearby interstellar space. As recounted here in December (see Possible Planet in Nearby Brown Dwarf System), the European Southern Observatory’s Henri Boffin has found that this brown dwarf pair is likely home to a previously undetected companion. Bear in mind that we know of no closer brown dwarf; indeed, Luhman 16AB is no more than 6.6 light years out, making it the third closest system to our Sun after Barnard’s Star and, of course, Alpha Centauri.
We know very little about this putative companion other than Boffin’s estimate that its likely mass is between a few Jupiter masses and perhaps as many as 30, but the good news is that the high end of this mass range should offer us an object that can be detected by adaptive optics, given the size of the apparent separation. In any case, radial velocity methods should work nicely here as well, given that as seen from Earth, the brown dwarf pairing appears nearly edge-on.
Now comes further news from the European Southern Observatory, with the announcement that one of the two brown dwarfs, Luhman 16B (WISE J104915.57-531906.1B) shows variations in brightness as it rotates, giving us strong hints of detectable features in its atmosphere. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of researchers has mapped out the light and dark areas on Luhman 16B, observing the brown dwarf pair with the CRIRES instrument on the VLT (CRIRES is a high-resolution infrared spectrograph). The resulting ‘map’ appears below.
Image: ESO’s Very Large Telescope has been used to create the first ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf to Earth. An international team has made a chart of the dark and light features on WISE J104915.57-531906.1B, which is informally known as Luhman 16B and is one of two recently discovered brown dwarfs forming a pair only six light-years from the Sun. The figure shows the object at six equally spaced times as it rotates once on its axis. Credit: ESO/I. Crossfield.
Ian Crossfield (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy) is lead author of the paper on this work, which will appear in Nature:
“Previous observations suggested that brown dwarfs might have mottled surfaces, but now we can actually map them. Soon, we will be able to watch cloud patterns form, evolve, and dissipate on this brown dwarf — eventually, exometeorologists may be able to predict whether a visitor to Luhman 16B could expect clear or cloudy skies.”
‘Exometeorologist’ — yet another new job description spawned by this golden age of exoplanetary exploration!
You can see where this is heading. As we learn more about the weather patterns on brown dwarfs, we are moving toward theoretical models which can be tested against future observations. When next-generation telescopes like the European Extremely Large Telescope come online, we can anticipate eventually creating similar maps for young gas giants. In none of these worlds should we expect clement weather: The clouds Crossfield’s team detected show temperatures in the range of 1100 degrees Celsius and are likely carrying droplets of molten iron and various minerals adrift in an atmosphere made up largely of hydrogen.
Crossfield’s map is complemented by a second study led by Beth Biller (University of Edinburgh), which observed brightness variations at different wavelengths in an attempt to understand what happens in various layers of the atmosphere on both Luhman 16A and 16B. This team drew its data from the 2.2 meter telescope at ESO’s La Silla observatory in Chile. Measurements were made in seven different filter bands, where emissions are correlated with the temperature of the emitting gas. Thus the different wavelengths probably represent layers at different depths within the brown dwarf’s atmosphere, constituting a kind of atmosphere probe.
The resulting paper appears in Astrophysical Journal Letters. According to this MPIA news release, this investigation marks the first simultaneous monitoring of a brown dwarf’s brightness variability in more than two wavelength ranges. Says Biller:
“We’ve learned that the weather patterns on these brown dwarfs are quite complex. The cloud structure of the brown dwarf varies quite strongly as a function of atmospheric depth and cannot be explained with a single layer of clouds.”
So we wind up with brown dwarfs with multiple cloud layers and/or temperature variations as we push ahead with the effort to understand weather patterns in distant solar systems. Keep in mind we are dealing with a place that is only slightly farther from the Earth than Barnard’s Star. If the companion object is eventually confirmed as a planet, Luhman 16AB will have the second closest exoplanet to Earth yet detected (assuming Centauri Bb is also confirmed). It will be an exciting period ahead as we try to learn what other objects may circle the nearest stars.
The mapping of Luhman 16B is described in Crossfield et al., “A Global Cloud Map of the Nearest Known Brown Dwarf,” about to appear in Nature (30 January 2014). See this ESO news release for more on that finding. Beth Biller and team’s work is found in Biller et al., “Weather on the Nearest Brown Dwarfs: Resolved Simultaneous Multi-Wavelength Variability Monitoring of WISE J104915.57-531906.1AB” in Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 778, Issue 1, L10.
30 Jan 00:44
Para empresários, espaços ociosos podem ser alternativa para rolezinhos
LuciocAcho que não entenderam que os tais rolezinhos são para "causar", então têm por definição de ser em lugares onde vai gente, não em espaços ociosos.
São a versão flashmob do "hey, look at me, I am an attention whore!".
29 Jan 20:45
Governo diz que diálogo é o caminho para rolezinhos
Lucioc"Governo diz que não vai fazer porra nenhuma a respeito dos rolezinhos".
O que - milagre, vou falar bem do governo! - é a atitude correta. Como os rolezinhos são causados por attention-whoreness, o melhor jeito de acabar com eles é ignorá-los.
29 Jan 17:00
UPPs: de trunfo nas eleições a ponto fraco do governo do Estado. Denúncias de abuso e conflitos em comunidades ocupadas derrubam credibilidade do programa
LuciocEstou compartilhando porque descobri que o Jornal do Brasil ainda existe. 8-)
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29 Jan 14:19
What Is A Black Bloc?
LuciocO curso de black block 101 inclusive ensina a fazer uns 20 tipos de bombas diferentes, e tem a sessão de como fazer um escudo com household materials e táticas anti-táticas policiais.
E o melhor é que a ABIN nem deve saber que o Old Reader existe, então posso sharear isso. 8-)
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29 Jan 11:39
Planalto prepara Forças Armadas para garantir segurança durante a Copa do Mundo
Lucioc"Planalto prepara os milicos para instalar o Estado de Exceção".
Mas acho que isso só vai acontecer se acontecer o milagre dos protestos ameaçarem a reeleição da Wilma e o projeto de perpetuação do PT no poder federal per omnia saecula saeculorum.
29 Jan 00:36
‘Jew, France is Not Yours’ Chant Anti-Government Demonstrators in Paris
LuciocIt gets BETTER!
O povo na thread está falando que a culpa é dos malditos imigrantes islâmicos sujos, que tornaram a França antissemítica. ;)
28 Jan 20:58
TIL the 1976 Olympics were a financial disaster for Montreal, as the city faced debts for 30 years after the Games had finished. It was only in December 2006 that the Olympic Stadium's costs were finally paid in full.
Lucioc"Eu sou você amanhã."
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28 Jan 19:38
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Two top level bankers 'commit suicide' on same day
LuciocAs teorias são de que ou o Colapso da Civilização está próximo ou de que eles foram "pulados".
Mas deve ter sido só uma coincidência mesmo. De qualquer forma, lendo o segundo só consigo pensar daquela cena do "A Roda da Fortuna" em que o dono da corporação salta todo feliz da janela do escritório - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6dtasEqpLM
Former top executive at Deutsche Bank is found hanged at his Kensington home The body of William 'Bill' Broeksmit, 58, was found at his home in South Kensington by police who had been called to reports of a man found hanging at a house.
Horror as banker, 39, plunges to his death from headquarters of JP Morgan in Canary Wharf
A banker has died after jumping from the top of JP Morgan's headquarters in London this morning. The man, who is believed to be 39, fell from the 33 floor skyscraper and was found on the ninth floor roof of the Canary Wharf building. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 25 Bank Street just after 8am.
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