Useless Facts

There was once a guy that became a F1 world champion post mortem.

 

Creative productivity is distributed by Price's law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%27s_model

It means that if you take any amount of creative work and workers, half of the productivity is made by square root of those who are working in that field.

But... What does that mean? How big are differences among more creative and less creative people?

(Trigger warning! This will hurt!)

Let's do some counting...

We take 390 625 writers/painters/social "scientists"/whatever. And they make 19 531 creative works that are good enough to surpass two demands: 1. Creative
2. Work

That means that
- 390 000 ot them make 9 766 creative works.
- 625 of them make 9 766 creative works.

But we will focus on the top a bitt more.

- 600 of these make 4 883 works.
- 25 of these make 4 883 works.

And we take that top.

20 of these make 2 441 works
5 of these make 2 441 works

And we focus the ultimate top.

4 of these make 1 220 works
1 of these make 1 220 works.

And now we count how much creative work each individual does.

1 the best artist: 1 220 works per pair of nostrils.
second group: 4 artists: 305 works per pair of legs.
third group: 20 artists: 122 works per pair of eyes.
fourth group: 600 artists: 8 works per pair of ears
fifth group: 390 000 artistis: 0,025 works per pair of hands.

That means that we can give them index numbers that can be compered.
99.8% of all. Creativity is 0.
0,15% of all. Creativity is 8.
0.005% of all. Creativity is 122.
0.001% of all. Creativity is 305.
0.0003% of all. Creativity is 1 220.

And this is about how big the differences are. The ultimate top is easily hundreds of times more creative than 99%.

You can take 400 000 people and all of them combined does not make one Musk, da Vinci, Einstein, Mozart, Pratchett...

It hurts.

 

Presumption, mr price. Numbers aside, It is about expression, and inspiration, and some gain more attention and status. Creativity is not a formula, and there are not some hundreds of thousands of people in the world. There are seven billion.
So back to numbers. The sample is too small. The given data does not consider the many moments in time for which the sample data would be valid. If there is a one-in-a-million chance of a da Vinci in the world, at any given moment, then there exist some thousands right now, so it would seem we are shirking a duty to them. None of the famous people described acted alone. So the claim does not stand, whatsoever. As to the ultimat top, I say this: "The greatest gift God bestowed upon all mankind, is that he die."

 

Operation Just Cause, the US invasion of Panama which removed Manuel Noriega from power, officially ended on Jan 31st, 1990.

It was the last time US troops invaded a Latin American country and overthrew its government.

Good job!

 

On to Venezuela!

 

Seeing as US Government intervention doesn't go particularly when, like with Pinochet, best not. There is an active opposition, let the matter be settled through democracy and internal decisions. It has to be organic change or won't hold; especially if it's imposed by a foreign military.

 

Guess I have to start using smilies ...

 

LOL

 

An exhibition or pre-season game in soccer is known as a 'friendly'.

 

Useless Facts Ground hog edition:

New York had a groundhog cover up

New York has there own groundhog Staten Island Chuck. Who once bit then Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Due to this the zoo brought his granddaughter (Charlotte) out while claiming it was Chuck who was doing the photo shoot with Mayor De Blasio to protect "the groundhog brand". The mayor then dropped the fake Chuck on it`s head in front of a crowd of people. Creating the image below, the creature fell six feet and died from internal injuries a week later. Zoo staff were instructed to keep the mayors office in the dark, and told only high level donors to the zoo of the death by "natural causes". The groundhogs now remain behind pexi glass.

Spoiler

On the theme of biting Jimmy the groundhog of Wisconsin had to be released back into the wild after he bit the mayor on the ear while he was "listening to his prediction.

Spoiler: video

The Punxstany ground hog club claims Phil to be 132 years old thanks to his drinking of groundhog punch. He gets one sip every summer at the groundhog picnic and then gains seven more years of life.

There`s a groundhog in Georgia who holds two honorary doctorates. One in "Weather Prognostication" and the other in "Southern Groundology."

 

My kind of rodent.

 

Which one?

 

The kind that would bite a slimy prick like Michael Bloomberg.

 

USA has one heavy ice breaker - Polar Star.

USCGC_Polar_Star_(WAGB-10)

6 x 2 200kW = 13 200kW, 25.5m wide, 43 years new.

Finland has:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSV_Fennica
20 000kW, 26m wide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontio_(icebreaker)
15 000kW, 24.5m wide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_(icebreaker)
22 000kW / 19 000kW (Azipod), 24m wide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSV_Nordica
21 000kW / 18 000kW (Azipod), 26m wide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otso_(icebreaker)
22 000kW, 24m wide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu_(1976_icebreaker)
16 200kW, 23m wide

https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jäänmurtaja_Urho
16 200kW, 24m wide

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We sold Botnica to Estonia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSV_Botnica
15kW / 13.4kW (Axipod), 24m wide

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Ferryboats in Baltic Sea are class A1 Super ice breakers:

Viking Line: Amorella, Cinderella, Mariella, Rosella, Grace, XPRS

Tallink Silja: Silja Serenade, Silja Symphony, Baltic Princess, Galaxy, Megastar, Star, Europa.

Typically 24 000 - 40 000kW, 28 - 32m wide, 170 - 218m long

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Swedes have some ice breakers also. 5?

So... In quite small are in Baltic sea these small countries have about 26 boats which can outperform the best icebreaker USA has.

 

Top five U.S. presidents by height:

1. Abraham Lincoln - 6 ft 4 in (193 cm)
2. Lyndon B. Johnson - 6 ft 4 in (193 cm)
3. George Washington - 6 ft 2 1/2 in (189 cm)
4. Thomas Jefferson - 6 ft 2 1/2 in (189 cm)
5. Franklin D. Roosevelt - 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)

 

I'm taller than literally every US president that's ever existed.

ETA: Sancho the 7th, ruler of Navarre (in modern Spain), was 7'4 (223 cm).

 

Here I thought it was just the hat that made him look tall.

 

And you still can't join the Lollipop Guild.

 

Google shows Mr. Trump at 6'3" (190cm).

 

Needs pruning

 

Disney songs in their native language. You're welcome.

edit: country of origin. Language in Mulan is Mandarin not "Chinese".... and Pocahontas shouldnt have been in English

 

2/3 of my kinds were sliding in snow with old leathery couch cushions.

They had fun.

 

It has now been 60 years since the day the music died.

 

Today's date (take out the zeros...and dashs) comes out to 2319



Prepare for decontamination.

 

Exception being Minstrel of course.