Defense Secretary Rumsfeld announced on September 10, 2001 that the Pentagon couldn't account for $2.3 Trillion dollars.
What part of the Pentagon got hit you ask?
The Budget-Analyst office.
34 Accountants and Budget analysts were killed that day.
What a wild coincidence!
A Stanford statistician built a dice-rolling machine to prove board game companies have been selling you loaded dice for a hundred years.
The machine drops dice inside a glass chamber, records every landing, and runs the sequences through statistical tests. Every mass-produced die it tested was biased. Every Monopoly die. Every Yahtzee cube. Every D&D twenty-sider. Every casino die below one hundred dollars.
The bias is so small the human eye cannot see it in one game. It is so consistent it drains a player over a night at a real table.
His name is Persi Diaconis. He is 79. He ran away from home at fourteen to learn card magic from Dai Vernon. He came back twenty years later with a PhD in statistics from Harvard and became the person casinos, magicians, and mathematicians all quietly consult when they need to know how something actually shuffles, rolls, or falls.
This eight-minute Numberphile clip is Diaconis explaining exactly what the machine found.
The dots on a die are drilled holes. The paint filling them weighs less than the plastic that was removed. The six face is lighter than the one face. Every die you have ever owned has been tilted by a fraction of a gram since the day it left the factory.
Casinos already knew. A single die at the Bellagio costs one hundred and fifty dollars, is discarded after eight hours of use, and is engineered so the paint in the pits weighs exactly what the plastic did.
That is the whole difference between a game piece and a regulated instrument.
Here is what Diaconis proved on the record.
A cheap six-sided die favors the six face over thousands of rolls. A plastic twenty-sided die can favor certain numbers by a substantial margin depending on how the corners are cut. A thirty-sided die, unless the internal geometry is spherical, rolls some faces two to three times more often than others. One retired executive rolled a single die three and a half million times before it physically wore round.
Euclid worked out part of this in 300 BC. Diaconis has spent forty years finishing the rest.
"There is no such thing as a fair die. There are only dice fair enough for the purpose you are using them for."
Fairness is not a property of the die. It is a property of the die plus the throw plus the surface. Change any one and the same die stops being fair.
The video is free. Diaconis's papers are free on his Stanford page.
Everyone who has ever argued over a roll has been trusting a piece of plastic they never checked.
The math is free. The willingness to admit your die is loaded is a much rarer commodity than fairness.
"This happened December 18th, 2024, at Denver International Airport, 6:42 PM.
Gunnery Sergeant Marcus Williams, 46, flew from San Diego to Denver after a shelter confirmed a microchip match. The dog was Rex, his partner at Forward Operating Base Salerno, Afghanistan, from April to November 2010 a dog who alerted to Taliban fighters eleven times and saved Marcus's platoon. When Marcus's unit evacuated that November, Rex was left behind. Marcus searched for fourteen years, calling shelters weekly.
On December 16th, a Denver shelter scanned Rex's microchip and matched it to Marcus's 2010 registration. Director Sarah called him in San Diego; he booked a flight that night and landed December 18th.
Sarah met him at baggage claim with Rex.
Security footage shows Marcus coming down the escalator in his dress blues, Rex thirty feet away. Rex catches his scent first, head lifting.
Marcus sees him and freezes - both stare for twenty seconds. Then Marcus drops his duffel bag, drops to his knees, and Rex breaks free from the leash, sprinting across the floor to tackle him.
"Everyone at DIA stopped moving," Sarah told us. "200 people watched this reunion. Half of them were crying."
Fourteen years, one airport, one American Marine and his dog, home at last.
Congressman Tim Burchett confirms on Joe Rogan that Bill Gates is behind the massive increase in ticks
Now we have a whistleblower who says pilots are being paid to drop ticks by aircraft
This matches accounts in America of tick boxes being found
“We are paid to spread ticks by air. It happens twice a year, early spring and early fall. This year we've been hired to do it earlier. The company receives the ticks in boxes. Each box contains millions of ticks. The aircraft used are generally single or dual prop aircraft, single pilot, and There's one other passenger that handles the dispersal. It pays a lot, and I mean a lot.”
“Here we have a whistleblower saying that they are paid to disperse ticks across Canada. Now, this sounds eerily familiar to what we're hearing about these boxes of ticks that are being found” in America
The Gates Foundation funded a biotech firm called Oxitec for research on genetically modifying cattle ticks
Farmers claim to be funding “boxes of ticks”on their properties
Lyme disease cases are skyrocketed right at the time when a Lyme disease vaccine is actively in the works
So without the ticks, they can’t sell their vaccines
You’ll never guess who’s making it, Pfizer and Valneva
26-year-old monster from Santa Fe arrested for sexually exploiting children through prostitution and luring kids online to meet for sick abuse.
This predator was hunting and selling children like meat. Pure evil locked up — may he rot in hell forever. 😱
Let’s get your opinion on this: would you push back like she did?
Here’s the situation. Her boss sent her home for taking her 30-min unpaid lunch that was literally in her contract/hiring notes.
While no federal law requires lunch breaks, some states require employers to provide one (30 min unpaid, fully off-duty) for 6+ hr shifts. You can’t just force ‘eat at your desk while working’—that doesn’t count.
Now, if her contract is indeed legally binding, the boss can’t magically delete it.
What are your thoughts on this?
ÚLTIMA HORA - Después de que se revelara que se abrieron 50 mezquitas en Dallas Fort Worth en los últimos 24 meses, una mujer descubrió que el mayor donante del gobernador de Texas, Greg Abbott, es un musulmán paquistaní que le ha dado más de 14 millones de dólares, incluidos 2 millones de dólares solo este año.
Vía @Rightanglenews
Black on white crime has reached emergency levels.
Muslims killed 3000 Americans in 2001 and we had a full blown war.
Blacks kill, rob, rape, and assault 450,000 whites EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
What will the US Gov do about it?
Why are we forced to live like this?