New game show in America:

Food, medicine, or rent. Pick 2.

So when you 86 a customer, that is not killing them right?

Definitely not! In a restaurant or bar context, 86ing a customer simply means they are banned or kicked out.
It’s the industry way of saying, "We are refusing service to this person and they need to leave." This usually happens because they are being disruptive, are too intoxicated, or have violated house rules.
The confusion likely comes from movies or crime shows where "86" is sometimes used as slang for "getting rid of" someone permanently (murder), but in the world of hospitality, it just means they're no longer welcome at the table.

My work sends out phishing test emails, so I am reporting all work email as phishing, so I will get a perfect "score."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04oL0qVSWJE

I forget, what is it called when you claim to be negotiating and then suddenly attack the other side while at the conference table.

Perfidy, it's called Perfidy.

Perfidy (Military/Diplomatic): In international law, this is the specific term for acting in bad faith, such as using a flag of truce or diplomatic negotiations to lure an opponent into a trap before attacking.

Bad Faith Negotiator: A term for someone who never intends to reach a fair agreement, but uses the negotiation process to delay or catch the other side off guard.

Betrayal/Treachery: General terms for the violation of trust involved when one party suddenly attacks after claiming to negotiate.

In contemporary diplomacy, this has been described as "abusing diplomacy to cover up a military operation"

USA slips to its lowest rank in history on the global corruption index...

“Lowest rank on the corruption index…so far” - Homer Simpson

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/business/corruption-index-transparency-international-united-states-intl

We demonstrate that fundamental physical laws can be constructed from pure unity (the number 1) through the mathematical structure of measurement itself. Rather than viewing physical constants and relationships as discovered properties of nature, we show they emerge necessarily from how we fragment and scale a unified reality into observable quantities.

https://mystry-geek.blogspot.com/2026/01/building-physics-from-unity.html

@inthehands as a veteran, I find the appropriation of military motifs by civil law enforcement extremely offensive, but also incredibly dangerous.

A particularly egregious example, that I wish people would address more often, is the use of the word "civilians" to describe people that are not whatever strain of police is using the term. "Civilians" refers to people within the general civil populace, as opposed to the military. The police (in all their various forms) are members of the civil society, and as such, civilians themselves.

Words have meaning, and those meanings matter. When we allow these subtle shifts in language, we normalize the militarization of police forces nationwide, but more than that, we reinforce the self-image of the police as separate from the rest of civil society. And history shows that when people view themselves as apart from civil society, they often see themselves unbeholden to the norms and ethics that govern civil society.

One can draw a pretty straight line from that to these guys cosplaying soldier, wearing full tactical gear, riding on MRAPs and HMMWVs, assault rifles on their shoulders like the movies, belt-fed automatic weapons mounted on turrets in the background for Kristi Noem's photo-ops. We, collectively, should have never let anyone get away with normalizing this from the second it started. Yet how many articles does one read in the press where no one ever bothers challenging a cop when they refer to the people that they've supposedly sworn to protect and serve as "civilians", as if they, themselves, are not?

This administration will execute you for legal concealed carry.

You have no 2nd amendment rights under this administration.

Canada can't burn our white house like they did in 1812, because we bulldozed it already! Take that Canada!!!

It worries me when theists ask, "If you don't believe in god and hell, why don't you kill everyone? What keeps you from committing horrible crimes all the time?"

You are telling me that the only reason you are not a horrible person is that you think god is always watching you and will punish you if you do what you really really would like to do.

Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were never intended as a practical framework for robot behavior. Instead, they represent one of the most elegant pedagogical devices in speculative fiction—a deceptively simple ethical system designed to fail in illuminating ways, thereby forcing readers to grapple with the genuine complexity of moral reasoning.

This paper argues that Asimov deliberately crafted the Three Laws as a static, incomplete framework whose very limitations would generate the philosophical investigations that form the heart of his robot stories. By presenting ethics in the language of engineering specifications, Asimov created a bridge between technical and moral reasoning, demonstrating to his scientifically-minded audience that ethical questions cannot be reduced to algorithmic certainty.

https://mystry-geek.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-three-laws-as-philosophical-trojan.html

Imagine being such a snowflake that a rainbow crosswalk offends you.

Modular Unit Scaling Framework
This framework simplifies complex physics formulas by modularly rescaling units across temperature, frequency, mass, and energy. Using natural unit scaling, it reveals the underlying simplicity of these formulas, bridging traditional SI units and natural units seamlessly.

To use the framework put the framework file Modular_Unit_Scaling.py in the directory and use this in your program:

https://github.com/BuckRogers1965/Physics-Unit-Coordinate-System/blob/main/Modular_Unit_Scaling_Framework/README.md

The Endeavour descended through Aethel's crystalline atmosphere like a clumsy stone falling into a perfectly still pond. Dr. Aris Thorne pressed his face against the observation port, watching the planet's surface resolve from abstraction into impossible reality.

Cities of pure geometry spread below him—vast interlocking circles, spheres nested within spheres, domes that caught the dual suns and scattered their light in perfect diffraction patterns. Not a single straight line marred the landscape. Even the agricultural sectors were arranged in concentric rings, each field a perfect arc of some greater circle he couldn't quite perceive.

"Beautiful," he whispered.

https://mystry-geek.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-dissonance.html

By explicitly separating these two components, we can engineer new unit systems that are both fundamentally rational and practically useful. This act clarifies the true role of constants as simple operators, resolves philosophical confusion about their "fine-tuned" values, and presents a path toward completing the original mission of the metric system.

https://mystry-geek.blogspot.com/2025/10/deconstructing-physical-constants.html

The Structure of Physical Law as a Grothendieck Fibration

Abstract
We present a categorical framework for understanding the emergence of physical law from measurement. By modeling physical quantities as objects in a total category 𝓔 fibered over a base category 𝓑 of dimensionless conceptual axes, we show that all empirical laws arise as Cartesian liftings of morphisms in 𝓑. The so-called "fundamental constants"—ℏ, c, G, k_B—are revealed to be cocycle data, or connection coefficients, ensuring coherence under changes of unit systems. Our framework elevates metrology to its proper foundational role: not just supporting physics, but structuring its very possibility.

https://mystry-geek.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-structure-of-physical-law-as.html

If politics is not allowed here, kick me off your server now.