Tuesday 26 November 2019

this shit is amazingly good.

https://www.stroopwafels.com/product/daelmans-jumbo-caramel-single-packs/




i don't usually praise anything dutch, but these stroop waffles are good.


Description

Our Jumbo stroopwafels have a diameter of 9 cm, are filled with a creamy and buttery syrup filling, enriched with natural Bourbon vanilla. They taste even better when you warm them up before you eat them. Just pop a stroopwafel on top of a hot beverage (coffee, tea or chocolate) for 1-2 minutes! The heat will soften the syrup and makes it very tasteful. 
These Jumbo stroopwafels are individually wrapped, which will keep them fresh and perfect for those ‘on the go’ moments.

Ingredients

34% syrup (glucose-fructose syrup, sugar syrup), wheat flour, 14% butter (milk), sugar, vegetable oil (palm, rapeseed),soya flour, salt, emulsifier (soya lecithin), raising agent (E500), cinnamon, natural Bourbon vanilla, acidulant (citric acid).

Allergy information:


Contains: wheat, milk and soy.

Sunday 14 July 2019

The myth of the alpha wolf, and the love of fake news.

https://www.mawer.com/the-art-of-boring/blog/the-myth-of-the-alpha-wolf

The myth of the alpha wolf

November 24, 2015 | Kara Lilly Print

The Inefficient Marketplace of Ideas

Let’s play a thought experiment: what do you know about wolves?
Now ask yourself: how do you know this?
These were the questions running through my mind as I listened to David Mech, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the subject of wolves and the founder of the International Wolf Center. Mech has spent over 40 years studying wolves, even spending several summers in the Artic observing their behaviour in the wild. He has also written 11 books on the species.
I called Mech because I wanted to know why the term “alpha wolf” still exists in mainstream consciousness when scientists have falsified the idea long ago. I figured that what I would learn might help me to better understand why the marketplace of ideas can sometimes be so inefficient. So for about thirty minutes, Mech and I chatted about wolves.
The story of the term “alpha wolf” is fascinating and one in which Mech was an important player. In 1968, Mech finished the manuscript for what would become his best-selling book, The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species. In it, he references the work of Rudolph Shenkel, a biologist who studied the behaviour of wolves in a German zoo in 1944. It was Shenkel who first coined the term “alpha wolf” in reference to his observation that male and female wolves seemed to compete to become dominant within their group. Mech then included the term in his book.
The trouble with Shenkel’s work was that wolves behave very differently in the wild than in zoos. When you take a group of human strangers and put them together, alpha men and women tend to emerge. According to Mech this also happens with other animals, including wolves. But wolf packs don’t form in the wild the way that they do in captivity; instead of strangers being thrust together, wolves form around family units. The “alpha male” in a pack is usually just the “dad,” the “alpha female” just the “mom”, and the rest of the pack follows their lead, not because of some competitive vying for dominance, but because it’s mom and dad.
Mech came to this realization when studying wolves in their natural habitat in the Arctic. When it became obvious that using the term “alpha wolf” in his first book had been misleading, he began to publish articles correcting the misinformation. It took him over a decade, but eventually, the references of “alpha” behaviour among wolves in scientific literature fell precipitously. Unfortunately, Mech has been unable to dislodge the term from mainstream consciousness (to his frustration)....

Thursday 20 June 2019

Google did evil.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-19/alphabet-annual-meeting-draws-protests-on-multitude-of-issues
About 30 protesters, including Google workers and outside activists, gathered outside the event holding signs that read "Not OK Google" and "Google creates homelessness." Tibetan, Uighur and Chinese rights activists called on Google management to clearly confirm the company will not re-establish business relations with China, citing what they said is the government’s mass surveillance and human-rights abuses.

Monday 29 April 2019

4K Gaming is Dumb



 30 yrs later, teenaged hardcore gamers will probably think we're cheapskates.

Wednesday 27 March 2019

Monday 4 February 2019

BDS is a terrorist sponsor.

https://www.jpost.com/BDS-THREAT/Over-30-Hamas-PFLP-terrorists-hold-posts-in-anti-Israel-BDS-groups-govt-579544

ITT...

There are more than 100 links between the internationally-designated terrorist organizations Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) with NGOs promoting the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, some of which receive funding from European states and philanthropic funds, a new report by the Strategic Affairs Ministry has found.

More than 30 members of Hamas and PFLP hold senior positions in BDS-promoting NGOs, the vast majority of whom have been in prison for terrorism-related crimes, including murder, and maintain active ties with the terrorist groups.

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said the research “reveals the true nature and goals of the BDS movement and its connection to terrorism and antisemitism.”