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  • Just one more square bro

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  • You can't fit 25 squares of the same size in that space. If you check the top row there's 4 squares and space for slightly less than one more square, you can't fit a 5x5 grid there unless you have smaller squares or a bigger waffle

  • What do we do now that we found out the world is run by a billionaire parasitic class??

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  • No, that's just the objectionable part because that's the part pretending billionaires are responsible for everything good.

  • What do we do now that we found out the world is run by a billionaire parasitic class??

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  • Easy; don't give credit to billionaires for things they've only made worse. I'm not sure why you need my help to not spread misinformation?

  • What do we do now that we found out the world is run by a billionaire parasitic class??

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  • No, I'm arguing against direct quotes from you. Unless you yourself are a strawman.

    Post about it on the internet built upon tech enabled by the said class

    Built by academics to share research, expanded by hobbyists and enthusiasts, and taken over by megacorps. Not "enabled" by billionaires.

    , from devices sold to us by the said class

    Technically true, but only in that billionaires own the workers.

    , in our homes with comforts the existence of which wouldn’t be possible without the said class.

    Untrue. People can live in comfort without the existence of billionaires.

    Then go to work using infrastructure and means we wouldn’t have without the said class,

    Untrue. This is what your taxes pay for. Transit infrastructure exists without billionaires. Even in the US, notoriously a horrible place to travel, public transit infrastructure was good until billionaires lobbied against good infrastructure so they could sell more cars. Car infrastructure costs you more than public transit.

    likely doing work we wouldn’t have without the said class.

    Possibly true in very specific cases where your work provides value only to billionaires. If your work provides value in any other way (eg providing services or goods), this is likely not true.

    Perhaps go buy some food the likes of which we couldn’t dream of having access to without the said class.

    I am fully certain you don't really believe good food only exists because of billionaires. Has there ever been a civilization of any kind which hasn't had chefs of some description?

    Maybe indulge in a hobby - a leisurely distraction, the kind that only exists because the said class engineered a world where you have time and resources to waste on frivolity, while they decide what those resources are.

    Hobbies have always existed. You have time and resources to spare because of unions, not billionaires.

    You credited all of these things to billionaires. None of these things exist because of billionaires.

  • What do we do now that we found out the world is run by a billionaire parasitic class??

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  • There is no paradox. Thing exists. Billionaire takes over thing. Billionaire ruins thing. Billionaire did not cause thing to exist.

    You said these things "wouldn't be possible" and "wouldn't exist" without billionaires. This is objectively untrue. Without billionaires these things would be significantly better. I specifically pointed out your mention of infrastructure because that one's so blatantly obvious unless you've only ever experienced car-centric infrastructure.

  • What do we do now that we found out the world is run by a billionaire parasitic class??

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  • Are you not aware of how, for example, car lobbies destroyed public infrastructure in an attempt to make everything car dependant to sell more cars? Claiming any of these things only exist because of billionaires is absurd. They take over and destroy.

  • Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam

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  • I think the issue you're having is that you're treating them as categories and subcategories, like most things it's never that clean. It makes much more sense if you treat them as unordered tags. Arcade isn't a subcategory of tennis.

    Say for instance you had a multiplayer racing simulator game, you could categorise that as multiplayer > racing > sim, but if you have a similar singleplayer game you have single player > racing > sim so clearly those aren't just subcategories of single/multiplayer.You could try sim > racing > multiplayer, but what about your city building sims? Now it's your middle category that didn't work right.

    If they're independent tags sim, racing, multiplayer you can change any one of them independently. If any one tag changes that changes how the game is played.

  • Viz (UK comic)

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  • Yes, but only if they've moved in together

  • Why was Rock 'n' Roll seen as the grooviest shit in the 50s when it's just averagely groovy (ie. unremarkable)?

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  • The 50s were 70 years ago, things that were new and interesting then are not new and interesting now. It's unremarkable to you because you have 70 years of people building on top of it.

  • Youve been brought back from the dead to participate in a competition that involves all of the world's greatest to ever have lived, what is the competition?

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  • Blind game tournaments are already a thing, you should give them a shot. I've never competed but I like Kusogrande, the bad video games tournament.

  • Video game giant Valve facing UK lawsuit over pricing, commissions

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  • That's only the case for digital storefronts. With physical media you've always been able to buy a base game from one place and an expansion pack from another.

  • The Trump phone just missed another release date

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  • To Protect and Serve

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  • A couple of years back I was at a wedding and ended up talking to a cop, they were telling us as if it was a good thing how they send out helicopters to catch people underage drinking in parks. Completely absurd and far more of a nuisance than people having a drink.

    They also bragged about how their dog handler sicced a dog on a suspect and just let them get mauled, then everyone pretended they didn't see anything happen. Straight-up gloating about police brutality. The job just does not attract well-adjusted people.

  • Speedy Delivery

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  • "Magic system" is a bit of an oxymoron imo. The problem with having hard rules for magic is that that's not magic, that's science. You just end up with a world with slightly different physical laws.

    Technology can be interesting on its own but a deep understanding of the underlying mechanics kills the magic. A rock that lets you talk with someone over great distance is magic but if you explain it as manipulating imperceptible vibrations in the air you just have a radio.

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  • I only skimmed this article but seems to suggest that's not a major concern with their treatment.

    Pieper emphasized that current over-the-counter NAD+-precursors have been shown in animal models to raise cellular NAD+ to dangerously high levels that promote cancer. The pharmacological approach in this study, however, uses a pharmacologic agent (P7C3-A20) that enables cells to maintain their proper balance of NAD+ under conditions of otherwise overwhelming stress, without elevating NAD+ to supraphysiologic levels.

  • What do you want for Christmas?

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  • I think Santa might have overreacted, they just wanted to be able to insure their heath!

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  • This is getting well outside my area but my understanding is that if you were approaching the center of the earth gravity would gradually decrease until you have effectively no net pull at the core. This is because the mass above you is still attracting you too so at the core you're pulled equally in all directions. Using the same principle you'd essentially be free-floating if you found yourself in a hollow "shell" planet, presumably because the pull from whichever area of the shell is close to you is offset by there being more shell pulling you away.

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  • When I was learning to drive I'd have to go through 2-3 roundabouts just to get out of the residential area I was in so it was hammered in pretty early to always use signals, but there was one roundabout that was always a pain to navigate. Two-lane roundabout, those can always be a pain to navigate but lane markings were good so if you entered the roundabout in the correct lane you'd be naturally guided to your exit.

    The problem was that coming in from the nearby motorway you'd have the innermost lane signposted as the 4th exit, practically a U-turn, and the outer lane was "all other traffic". Even better, that signage was only painted on the road itself so if there was a queue or just a car too close in front of you you'd easily miss it. Inevitably anyone taking a right turn (3rd exit, think left turn in most other places) would only realise at the last second they were being guided to the wrong exit and they'd swerve in front of you, if you were lucky they might signal for half a second first. I commuted to work by car at the time and dreaded that roundabout every trip.

    The best part is if you took the next exit which you were being guided to, it led straight into another roundabout so you could make a U-turn with absolutely no risk. If you were in the wrong lane you probably weren't familiar with the area so you wouldn't know that was there... But then after that was a retail park so you could clearly see all the parking space and know you could turn around there anyway! Some people would rather crash than take a minute or two to turn safely.

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  • According to this article freefall speed is anywhere from 120mph to 200mph for a human depending on position, that's roughly 190-320km/h. The radius of Earth is 6,371 km so you'd be traveling one Earth every 40-60 hours. In 80 years you'd cover between 133 and 224 million kilometers (82-139 million miles), traveling an entire Earth 28 to 47 million times. Interestingly this is still only roughly 10% the radius of the solar system, but it would get you to the moon and back 173 - 291 times. Space is big.

    With the parachute open obviously you're a little slower, this article says 16-32 km/h. That's close enough we can just divide the other estimates by 10, so you'd travel about 13-22 million km (8-14 million miles) or 1% the radius of the solar system.

    There's a very good chance these numbers are a bit off, rough calculations that I didn't bother to double-check.