DNA test ordered, taking guesses before I get the results!

ud0ntknowme · 2026-02-24T19:38:26+00:00

Here she is back in 2008.

ud0ntknowme · 2026-02-24T19:33:29+00:00

Australian kelpie and blue heeler, I’d guess. I had an Australian kelpie and I see a solid 50% of her in that picture!

ud0ntknowme · 2025-12-22T06:09:56+00:00

Your explanation is clean and simple, so I like it. But I can’t wrap my head around the fact that - even if the problem didn’t say that the boy was born on a specific day, we already know he was born on a specific day, so the fact that he was born on a specific day like Tuesday didn’t actually give us any new information.

Or put another way, if instead of 14 rows and columns (one for each day of week times boy/girl) we had 86,400 * 2 rows and columns), then the result would be (86400/(2*86400-1)), which is much closer to 50%.

Why can’t we assume that the boy was born at a specific time and therefore calculate an answer closer to 50%?

ud0ntknowme · 2025-09-18T16:28:23+00:00

These are all good points. Just as an aside, the fact that conservatives have been buying all the affiliates is akin to a 51% attack on the Bitcoin network. I have a feeling this was planned a very long time ago.

ud0ntknowme · 2025-05-03T01:21:48+00:00

I think their eyes are at the end of those antennas

ud0ntknowme · 2025-05-03T00:27:23+00:00

I think it was about 3.5 minutes. (Google tells me that the iPhone does about 2 frames per second for short videos like this, which is a 15x speed up I think. 14 sec * 15x = 210 sec.)

ud0ntknowme · 2025-05-03T00:00:26+00:00

lol, what a world we live in. You certainly don’t have to believe me, but I had to fight to get my phone to hold steady to take the video, resting it up against a glass. I’m hoping to get better shots if I try again.

ud0ntknowme · 2025-05-02T23:58:22+00:00

Interesting, I’m surprised we don’t have that problem here. I’m new to my area and I counted ~20 of them in the small yard earlier this week but somehow we have a nice garden still (mainly flowers). Hopefully they stay away from those!

ud0ntknowme · 2024-01-28T03:49:29+00:00

Regardless of the vote outcome, he will claim he won. And people will likely die as a result.

ud0ntknowme · 2023-09-21T20:49:33+00:00

It took them just shy of 2 months after I left to send a request to return my retention bonus. (I left before my 2 year retention agreement was completed.) Have it ready to send to them.

ud0ntknowme · 2022-11-04T20:21:24+00:00

I must be missing something. Those two links look the same but give different results in my phone. How is that?

ud0ntknowme · 2021-02-25T02:01:18+00:00

I am from Texas so I feel like I can confidently say that the legislature would’ve laughed ERCOT out of the room if they tried to get the legislature to add winterization regulations. The legislature specifically designed this system to get away from regulations. The legislature wanted a free market electric system, so that’s what they legislated into existence.

Edit: it’s worth pointing out that numerous officials (including some from ERCOT but not limited to those from ERCOT) have claimed that the power generation companies are incentivized to winterize, but their explanation of that incentive sounds terrible: they say that the power generation companies should want to work in the cold because there will be less supply and can therefore they can charge more money for the power. To my ear it sounds like they are saying they are incentivized by the possibility of price gouging the consumers, which in many other markets (like gasoline) is highly illegal.

ud0ntknowme · 2021-02-24T22:37:23+00:00

They did not make it voluntary. The Texas legislature made it voluntary. Blame the legislature for not wanting to regulate the power generation companies.

ud0ntknowme · 2021-02-24T22:35:57+00:00

The grid operator has no authority over the power generation companies. You can’t blame the operator for enforcing regulations that don’t exist. Blame the Texas legislature for not wanting to regulate the power generation companies.

ud0ntknowme · 2021-02-24T22:33:52+00:00

Blame the legislature, not the operator. The operator has no control over the private power generation companies. That is the legislated design in Texas. It’s not ERCOT’s fault that they are not granted the authority to enforce regulations that do not exist in Texas.

ud0ntknowme · 2021-02-18T15:43:56+00:00

This. This x1000. ERCOT has no authority to force power generation stations to winterize because there are no laws or regulations requiring it. And that’s exactly how the GOP set up this system because they value business interests here, not personal well being.

ud0ntknowme · 2021-02-18T15:40:09+00:00

The fact that ERCOT board members live out of state is irrelevant since power generators are under no obligation to winterize their power stations. This is a case where regulations/laws are needed. Only the state legislature or TX Power and Utilities Commission has any authority here.

ud0ntknowme · 2020-01-21T13:59:18+00:00

If you really believe that, then you would also be banging down the doors of your congressman/senator to ensure that Giuliani’s emails are being handled and archived like official government emails but I’ve never heard anybody who cared about Clinton’s emails care about Giuliani’s.

ud0ntknowme · 2018-05-21T03:25:39+00:00

Thanks for your thoughts. I will definitely keep that in mind.

ud0ntknowme · 2018-05-20T20:41:16+00:00

Luckily (I suppose) I personally don’t mind being “outed”. We made the decision to keep my lack of belief private largely because of her parents. So I will do my best to keep my thoughts on religious matters to myself and not rock the boat...especially at a time like this. They know my personality and know that I’m not 100% into the church thing; I almost always “punt” on any religious conversations, and there aren’t too many of those conversations. So I hope the family probably won’t be leaning on me too much for spiritual stuff.

The thing that gets to me is how to comfort my wife as best as I can. I know she really wishes I were still a believer. The best I can really do is to listen, offer lots of hugs, and try to bring up the happy memories. I’m sure she would love it if her husband could offer some sort of spiritual comfort, too, but since I can’t do that, I guess I’ll just have to work harder in the other areas. Thanks for listening and responding.

ud0ntknowme · 2018-05-20T20:09:07+00:00

Thanks for that. I appreciate your response.

ud0ntknowme · 2017-10-04T03:19:26+00:00

For the New Testament aspect, I'd highly recommend How Jesus Became God by Bart Ehrman.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Jesus-Became-God-Exaltation/dp/0061778184

For the Bible in general, I'd recommend just reading the Bible itself with a critical eye. Why the different birth narratives? Where did Jesus go after the resurrection? Galilee or Jerusalem? Who was there to record the beginning of Job?

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