Wednesday: Hili dialogue

22 thoughts on “Wednesday: Hili dialogue”

1. Hag Fish make my skin crawl.

   1. Yes. I didn’t even click on the video. I’ll be going to bed in a few minutes and I know what I *don’t* want to dream of… 8-((

      cr

   2. Ya don’t know what you’re missing out on. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19336602/ns/health-sexual_health/t/despite-ick-factor-slime-eel-has-sex-appeal/ A dish of hagfish might be better than viagra! Another endangered species decimated simply because of the human sex drive?

      1. Exploring uses for hagfish slime https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/if-we-can-get-past-ickiness-hagfish-slime-may-actually-be-useful-to-us-180962300/.

      2. I’d be very paranoid about indulging in that diet lest ‘tie a knot in it’ turned out to be more than just a sarcastic suggestion. 😉

         cr

2. The blue wave was more like a trickle. But, the Democrats did gain control of the House, so they will serve as a check on Trump, accompanied by many investigations of his administration. The real wave will be the thousands of analyses of the election that will flow in the days and weeks to come. In an Atlantic article, Peter Beinart makes these points:

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   “The two Americas drift further apart. Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate by cleaning out Democrats in states that voted for Donald Trump. Democrats won the House by cleaning out Republicans in districts that voted for Hillary Clinton. In the next Congress, Democrats will be even more liberal. Republicans will be even more conservative. Most of the members of Congress who expressed any ambivalence about Trump will be gone.”

   “In the Trump era, Republicans counter economic security with cultural security. Trump promised to protect Americans from Latino murderers and women who destroy men’s lives by alleging sexual assault. And, to a significant extent, it worked. By mobilizing his white, rural base, Trump matched Democratic enthusiasm in purple states such as Florida and Ohio and overwhelmed Democratic incumbents in red states such as North Dakota, Indiana, and Missouri.”

   https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/trump-and-harsh-truth-exposed-midterms/575128/

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   All this adds up to is increased polarization, bitterness, and acrimony. The expanded Republican majority in the Senate means that Trump’s judicial nominations will sail through. The fate of the Mueller investigation is uncertain. Trump’s many scandals will be exposed by the House. All in all, the two Americas, with very different visions of the future, will disdain each other even more. Whether all this will inspire more violence is something we’ll have to wait and see.

   1. “Whether all this will inspire more violence is something we’ll have to wait and see” — more like, we’ll have to wait and watch as it inevitably occurs, I fear.

   2. He’s already fired the Attorney General for having a shred of integrity.

3. Everyone was predicting a “blue wave”, yet the senate got flooded with even more red slime. Yes, this will hamstring t-Rump to a degree but losing rather than gaining in the senate means dems are still fairly weak. Still, at least that turd Kobach lost the Kansas governors race…

4. Love the Marie Curie caption “Man gazes adoringly at smart wife.”

   1. Pierre Curie was also pretty smart, although not smart enough to look where he was going before crossing the road.

5. Bennu looks remarkably like Ryugu as imaged by the Japanese probe Hayabusa2. I wonder if there is a physical mechanism that favours that shape.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/162173_Ryugu

   1. @David Evans Yes, there is a connection
      It is being suggested [in the media, not by people who think] that the objects are cubes [or cuboids], but this is an error in perception. We are seeing two oriental coolie hat shapes [i.e. volcano shapes] joined back-to-back with the axis of rotation being from peak to upturned peak i.e. one peak is the north pole & the other the south pole. Such a shape will look cuboid when viewed near the plane of the equator.

      Why this shape? Because the asteroid is an accumulation of boulders which have settled into a common spin axis – when a new boulder arrives it ‘tries’ to roll down the slope away from the pole towards the equator making a ridge along the equator where the minute gravity is counteracted [to some extent] by the centripetal force of spin – that’s the explanation I’ve read, although it doesn’t fully satisfy me. The way I see it [right or wrong] is…

      Imagine the boulders are each a molecule of a very cold gas – there is a CoG [centre of gravity] in the middle of the equatorial plane & objects not in the plane are pulled down towards it while objects in the plane can take up a lower density & spread out in the plane from the CoG. It’s like a granular representation of the formation of a protoplanetary disc around a sun or the rings of Saturn.

      1. Thanks.

6. As a great appreciator of the Hili Dialogues it’s nice to see their creator.

   Was the story of how these came to feature on this blog, featured on this blog? Perhaps it was before my time here.

7. That d*g going up the wall – has been watching cat videos, I’m sure. I thought only cats were allowed to do that!

   cr

8. Was Selby McSelbyFace taken?

   1. My guess is that he was the only one who didn’t suggest that.

      ~ Grania

      1. Selby Leisure Centre McSelbyLeisureCentreFace was probably quite popular.

9. Hili assumes she’s the center of every shot. Nice to meat you A.

10. The Scrooge McDuck thing reminds me of a song I made up for one of my kids’ rubber duckies (which is wearing a costume to look like a sheep):

    Bah bah black duck
    Have you any wool
    No sir, no sir
    ‘Cause I am a duck

    Bah bah black duck
    Have you any wool
    I just told you
    That I am a duck

    Bah bah black duck
    Have you any wool
    I keep telling you
    That I am a duck!!!

11. Great videos!

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