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Reason #5059 why women live longer than men

They should fire the director.

The people who need to understand the consequences for electing a crook have their heads buried in the sand.

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature.” — Hubert Reeves

A self-taught Irish schoolteacher wrote a book in 1854 that almost nobody read for 80 years, until a 21-year-old MIT student picked it up and realized it could be used to design every computer in human history. His name was George Boole. The book is called An Investigation of the Laws of Thought. Boole was born in 1815 in Lincoln, England. His family was poor. He left school at 16 to support them. He taught himself Latin, Greek, French, German, and Italian. Then he taught himself mathematics. By 19 he had opened his own school. By 24 he was publishing original papers in the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, competing with men who had spent decades inside the best universities in Britain. He never had a degree. He never had a mentor. In 1849, Queen's College in Cork hired him as a professor anyway. In 1854, he published his masterwork. What he built inside it was something nobody had attempted before at this scale. He turned logic into algebra. Before Boole, logic was philosophy. You argued in sentences. You reasoned in paragraphs. It was powerful and completely impossible to automate, because there was no formal system underneath it, just language. Boole stripped it down to arithmetic. He showed that every act of human reasoning could be reduced to operations on two values. True or false. One or zero. AND, OR, NOT. If both conditions are true, the result is true. If neither is, the result is false. Every judgment a human mind makes, every decision, every deduction, could be written as an equation following those rules. Logicians read it. They found it interesting. Engineers building machines had never heard of it. For 83 years, the book sat there. Then in 1937, a 21-year-old MIT master's student named Claude Shannon was working on a thesis about electrical relay circuits. Switches that could be open or closed. Current that either flowed or didn't. He read Boole and understood something nobody had connected before. An open switch is a zero. A closed switch is a one. A circuit with two switches in series only carries current when both are closed. That is AND. A circuit with two switches in parallel carries current when either is closed. That is OR. Shannon proved that every possible logical relationship Boole had described could be physically built using wire and switches. That single insight is the foundation of every computer ever made. After Shannon, chip designers stopped thinking about electricity and started thinking about logic. Every transistor on every processor running right now is implementing a Boolean operation. Every if-statement in every codebase is Boolean logic. Every database query using AND or OR. Every neural network threshold that fires or doesn't fire. All of it is running the algebra of a self-taught schoolteacher from Lincoln who died 160 years ago. The strangest part is what happened to Boole at the end. He was walking to class in November 1864 when he got caught in a rainstorm. He lectured for hours in wet clothes. He went home sick. His wife, Mary, believed in homeopathic medicine and thought the cure should mirror the cause. She wrapped him in wet sheets and poured cold water over him repeatedly. He died a few days later. He was 49. He never saw a transistor. He never saw a circuit. He never saw a single physical machine run a single one of his rules. His book is in the public domain. Free to download. Most engineers use the word Boolean dozens of times a week. Almost none of them know who they are saying. The man whose logic runs inside every phone, every server, and every AI model on Earth died soaking wet in a small Irish town, 83 years before anyone figured out what he had actually built.

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MAGA clueless voters:

Trump said something outside a press gaggle that I don’t think enough people caught. A reporter called him out on the corruption. He gave three responses. 1. I have the right to do it. 2. He’s not stealing that much. A billion or two billion dollars. Not that much money. Classic Trump. 3. People don’t care. That’s the permission structure. Our collective apathy is what they’re using to justify everything happening in Washington right now. Please stand up and prove him wrong.

He says he's going to boo the heck out of you-know-who tonight if he shows up for the Knicks Game 3 at the Garden.

A civilization that could carve this into a door treated beauty as a public duty. Stand before the door of Duomo di Milano long enough, and the modern world begins to look painfully soulless.

No. Its just evidence that for my entire lifetime republicans can't govern and every republican president of my lifetime has driven the country into the ground. Only for a democrat to come in and clean up the mess and just as things start getting better republicans give you an enemy to hate. a migrant person, or trans person. A gay person. Abortions, etc. And everytime you chowderheads cant help yourself and decide to vote out ppl who actually govern. Are dems perfect, no? Is it a uniparty? No. Thats just what embarrassed republicans say who have their head so far up their ass they're looking at the back of their teeth. The base (you) have demonstrated time and time again they cant actually think for themselves because the permission to hate ppl that republicans give you and their base is too enjoyable to give up. You fucks dont give two shits about this country, its values or constitution. You literally did everything you could to get a guy elected who attempted an actual coup after he lost an election then you have audacity to be like, "oh its a uniparty. Both sides are the same." Na bitch, youre just stupid. Go fuck yourself.

Big pussy got grabbed by a strong woman.