Thread: Strange News

Originally Posted by cyrille

Wow, how massively strange.

doesn't happen every day

sells for £85.3m, breaking European record

Originally Posted by S Landreth

doesn't happen every day

Maybe a 'fairly infrequently occurring events' thread is needed.

You could put up all your sock darning videos.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Maybe a 'fairly infrequently occurring events' thread is needed.

start one. let's see how it goes

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Start one. let's see how it goes

You are essentially a slightly more articulate version of Backspin.

^you enjoying baseball

Originally Posted by S Landreth

^you enjoying baseball

Were you bullied at school?

^No

Tell me something while you’re here.

Why do you and the rest of the TD sorority sisters team get so upset with baseball posts?

You know we are only halfway into the regular season.

The next few months are going to be hell.

Stumpy and AO both enjoy baseball. I wonder why they don't post on your threads?

Busy.....

Yeah. About that…

Hay fever sufferers need not apply

MSCHF microscopic bag 'smaller than grain of salt' sells for $63,750

A microscopic handbag "smaller than a grain of salt" has been sold for $63,750 (£50,569) at auction.


A microscope is needed to view the bag's design, with the tiny object measuring 657 x 222 x 700 micrometres.


"Narrow enough to pass through the eye of a needle, this is a purse so small you'll need a microscope to see it," the art collective behind the bag said.


Art collective MISCHF, based in Brooklyn, is known for its controversial designs.


They include shoes that contain human blood, trainers with holy water in the soles, a cologne that smells like WD-40, and giant red rubber boots.


This time, the collective decided to take the trend of small handbags to the extreme.


"There are big handbags, normal handbags and small handbags, but this is the final word in bag miniaturisation," MSCHF said in a post about the bag.


The bag features luxury handbag designer Louis Vuitton branding, but has no connection to the brand.


It is made of photopolymer resin and was created using a 3D printing technology often used to make tiny mechanical models and structures.


While it was being created, some of the tiny bag samples sent to be reviewed by the brand were so small that they were lost by the MSCHF team, the Smithsonian magazine reports.


But loss of the item should be less of a worry for the new bag's owner, as a microscope with a digital display was included in the purchase.


Microscopes with digital displays can be bought from online retailers and can range in price from $60 to thousands of dollars.


The auction site did not list the price of the microscope separately from the bag. Bids for the item started at $15,000.


Speaking about the use of Louis Vuitton branding on the bag, MSCHF's chief creative officer, Kevin Wiesner, told the New York Times earlier this month that the group had not sought permission from the brand to use it. "We are big in the 'ask forgiveness, not permission' school," he said.


MISCHF settled a lawsuit with Nike in 2021 over its sale of modified trainers containing a drop of human blood. It is also appealing in a Vans trademark



MSCHF microscopic bag '''smaller than grain of salt''' sells for $63,750 - BBC News

Originally Posted by S Landreth

There’s another thread I started years ago which I am the primary contributor.

Another? I think there are about 300 of them where you are the "primary contributor," Spamdreth.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

There’s another thread I started years ago which I am the primary contributor.

“Any doubts about Climate Change?”

Why don’t we see more than one post from you on the subject?

No doubt about climate change.

No way I would bother posting on a thread probably filled with democrat talking point cut+paste.

A party responsible for much of the misere, the human race is in at the moment. (the planet doesn't give a shit)

So I guess your thread is a whitewash of democrats and blame goes to the republicans.


Both parties are idelogical pushing the growth and greed wagon. (cause that's what their masters want).

So....

If I'm wrong, I shall ofcourse apologise

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Going to be a few years before things are settled and signed.

Update: It turned out to be just a few months....

UN adopts "historic" high seas treaty to protect marine life

The United Nations adopted a landmark international treaty to govern the high seas on Monday after nearly two decades of negotiations.

Why it matters: The first-ever legally binding global agreement of its kind, known as the Treaty of the High Seas, provides framework for environmental protections to biodiversity in international waters — which cover over 60% of the Earth’s surface. Only 1.2% of the world's ocean areas are currently protected.

• The adoption of the agreement that's formally known as the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Treaty follows a commitment by UN member nations in December to protect 30% of the world's land and water by 2030 with the aim of halting and reversing the current extinction crisis.

What they're saying: UN Secretary-General António Guterres said Monday climate change "is heating our planet, disrupting weather patterns and ocean currents, and altering marine ecosystems and the species living there."

• He noted biodiversity "is under attack from overfishing, over-exploitation and ocean acidification" — with one third of fish stocks being harvested at unsustainable levels.

Meanwhile, "we are polluting our coastal waters with chemicals, plastics and human waste."

The bottom line: "The historic achievement we celebrate today is vital to address these threats, and ensure the sustainability of those areas not covered under national jurisdiction — over two thirds of the ocean," Guterres added.

^
Why are so many of your news articles in bullet points? Is that for dumbed down Americans?

Just the Axios news website

Very strange news.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Why do you and the rest of the TD sorority sisters team get so upset with baseball posts

Yours are not “posts”. They’re just cut-and-paste crap, and highlight videos, page, after page, of mind-numbing highlight videos.
FFS, at least make an attempt to be a sarcastic asshole, for once!

Originally Posted by pickel

dumbed down Americans?

No need to be redundant.

Originally Posted by beachbound

No need to be redundant.

Perhaps you aren't "dumbed down", but just overly sensitive like most Americans when a joke is made about their country? Lighten up, I have to deal with people judging my country by the words of backspin and moose.

Originally Posted by pickel

I have to deal with people judging my country by the words of backspin and moose.

Don't know about strange but link this up to an AI and we'll be fooked in a millisecond

Breakthrough quantum computer instantly makes calculations that take rivals 47 years

Google has developed a quantum computer that instantly makes calculations that would take the best existing supercomputers 47 years, in a breakthrough meant to establish beyond doubt that the experimental machines can outperform conventional rivals.


A paper from researchers at Google published online claims that the company’s latest technology is “beyond the capabilities of existing classical supercomputers”.


Proponents of quantum computers say the technology, which relies on the peculiar states of quantum physics, can create hugely powerful machines able to battle climate change and create breakthrough drugs.


However, they also threaten to undermine today’s encryption systems, making them a national security priority.


Four years ago, Google claimed to be the first company to achieve “quantum supremacy” – a milestone point at which quantum computers surpass existing machines.


This was challenged at the time by rivals, which argued that Google was exaggerating the difference between its machine and traditional supercomputers.


The company’s new paper – Phase Transition in Random Circuit Sampling – published on the open access science website ArXiv, demonstrates a more powerful device that aims to end the debate.


While the 2019 machine had 53 qubits, the building blocks of quantum computers, the next generation device has 70.


Adding more qubits improves a quantum computer’s power exponentially, meaning the new machine is 241 million times more powerful than the 2019 machine.


The researchers said it would take Frontier, the world’s leading supercomputer, 6.18 seconds to match a calculation from Google’s 53-qubit computer from 2019. In comparison, it would take 47.2 years to match its latest one.


The researchers also claim that their latest quantum computer is more powerful than demonstrations from a Chinese lab which is seen as a leader in the field.


Google’s paper demonstrates how larger quantum computers can manage “noise” – interference that threatens to disrupt the fragile states in which qubits operate – to continue to make calculations.


The researchers said: “We conclude that our demonstration is firmly in the regime of beyond-classical quantum computation.”


The rival machines were measured on a randomisation task that critics say favour quantum computers and lack any practical value beyond academic study.


Steve Brierley, the chief executive of Cambridge-based quantum company Riverlane, said: “This is a major milestone. The squabbling about whether we had reached, or indeed could reach, quantum supremacy is now resolved.”


Sebastian Weidt, the chief executive of Brighton-based start-up Universal Quantum, said quantum computers needed to demonstrate more practical functions.


He said: “This is a very nice demonstration of quantum advantage. While a great achievement academically, the algorithm used does not really have real world practical applications though.


“We really must get to utility quantum computing – an era where quantum computers with many thousand qubits actually begin to deliver value to society in a way that classical computers never will be able to.”

Google quantum computer instantly makes calculations that take rivals 47 years

I'm sure hoohoo can find some absurd "Global News" article that claims the chinkies have an even faster one.

^^ good find