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wolframhydroxide

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  • Gives it away every time

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  • If you can't read a fucking em dash —already a commonly-used punctuation mark— without thinking the author must be AI, then you are both insufficiently trained —either in grammar or in how to use your own keybord— and bad at identifying AI responses.

  • Trump tells CNN Cuba is soon going to fall: ‘I’m going to put Marco over there’

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  • Did you forget archivist of the united states?

    Edit: after doing a bit more digging, he apparently timed out and ceased being the archivist in February, but no other archivist has been named.

  • What is something you dont care to understand or "get"?

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  • Never forget 1066.

  • Prepared for this day

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  • Worth pointing out that, just as a chimpanzee may not be particularly knowledgeable on the matter of chimpanzees, and fascists are generally not very well-educated on the history of Fascism, asking a cable to explain itself to you may not lead to the outcome you desire (although this FireWire cable does seem to be capable of producing at least some level of output, and stringing two words together is indicative of a greater capacity for thought than, for instance, a fascist)

  • Huggles

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  • Is that a Djungelskog?

  • US would "strenuously oppose" Poland or other European state developing nuclear weapons, says Pentagon official

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  • We all need to appreciate just how sick a world has to be for "Thank fuck for Charles deGaulle's insistence on nuclear proliferation and testing" to be a sentence literally any decent person would entertain.

  • Pam Bondi Declares Herself God-Empress Of Ethics (Call to action video, and public comment link in body)

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  • Dayorder unperson NOEM. Rectify malquoted bb "$200M were never spent by Miniluv on thinkpol prolefeed, issue is blackwhite"

  • US investigators believe strike on Iranian girls’ school probably carried out by US forces

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  • Secondary science

  • US investigators believe strike on Iranian girls’ school probably carried out by US forces

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  • Two of the teachers in my department literally told me it was an Iranian false flag today.

  • The top 10 speeders in New York City

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  • I admit the possibility, but one of the primary complaints I remember reading about was the lack of "vroomvroom" noises, which are, I would contend, an integral part of the speed demon's enjoyment.

  • Just one more square bro

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  • Ah, no, it's that the more efficient packing takes up less space, so the less efficient square is actually slightly larger than the other, compared to the smaller squares.

    If the smaller squares are identical in both sets, then the larger square in the less-efficient set will be slightly bigger than the larger square in the more efficient set.

  • The top 10 speeders in New York City

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  • However, the target demographic for EVs is either "person who feels some modicum of compassion and responsibility for the world in which they live" or "fascist fuck who knows that, if they went more than thirty miles per hour, you wouldn't be able to see the giant metal monstrosity they wave about in lieu of a dick and spine"

    Neither of these demographics have incentive to speed. One of them is solely performative, and wants to be noticed for their dick-waving, while the other would not be speeding 300+ times, because they are probably a decent person.

  • Just one more square bro

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  • Since a link to a wiki article does not an explanation make:

    The optimal efficiency (zero interstitial space) is achieved when the ratio of the side length of the larger square to the sides of the shorter squares (let's call it the "packing coefficient") is precisely equal to the square root of the number of smaller squares. Hence why the case of n=25, with a packing coefficient of 5, is actually more efficient than the packing of n=17 given in the waffle iron, with a packing coefficient of 4.675. Since sqrt(25)=5, that case is a perfectly efficient packing, equivalent to the case of n=16 with coefficient of 4. Since sqrt(17)=4.123, the waffle packing (represented by the orangutan) above is not perfectly efficient, leaving interstices. However, the packing coefficient of the suboptimal solution (represented by the girl) is actually 4.707, slightly further from sqrt(17), and thus less efficient, leaving greater wasted interstitial space.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • I haven't! It's shockingly tough to find anywhere

  • I want to replay Skyrim but

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  • Did you try "beyond skyrim: bruma"? It's only one province of the planned entirety of tamriel, but that was many excellent hours of exploration, and it feels like the plotlines are really going somewhere, whenever they get finished with the rest of cyrodiil. Shame there are some places that feel unfinished (because they involve other provinces), but that mystery made it more intriguing, in my opinion.

    Also, it has a soundtrack that I actually like more than the original skyrim soundtrack, and that is saying something.

    Edit: finally got down far enough in the other comments to see you've played it. Ah well.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • I agree. Admittedly, NDT does say "keep in mind, Bruno didn't have any evidence for his claims. He was not a scientist." But still, that scene came off as somewhat less appropriate. I think that, on balance, it's about showing that entrenched systems of power and authority have an active disincentive to take progressive stances, or even allow radical voices to exist. Even if Bruno did have evidence on his side, the church still would have burned him. Were I making that episode, I would have made it more clear that there were good reasons for him being laughed out of Cambridge. He had no evidence, but the scientists' arguments highlighted were mostly arguments from authority "but Aristotle said", or "but the bible says", rather than demands for evidence and argumentation. Even scientists can fall to the trap of entrenched ideas and authority.

  • Just one more square bro

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  • Specifically, the optimal side length of the larger square for any natural number of smaller squares 'n' is the square root of n (assuming the smaller squares are unit squares). The closer your larger side length gets to sqrt(n), the more efficient your packing.

  • Just one more square bro

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  • I was just answering your question of why someone would want to arrange a prime number of squares. The waffle is clearly a meme.

  • Science

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  • Much like monarch butterflies, those are actually two separate species. The species of Curling Stone which returns to Scotland is actually on the IUCN Red List.

  • politics @lemmy.world
    wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works

    Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes

    www.mcsweeneys.net /columns/lest-we-forget-the-horrors-an-unending-catalog-of-trumps-cruelties-collusions-corruptions-and-crimes
  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
    wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works

    Since we're doing magic eyes now...

  • politics @lemmy.world
    wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works

    Lest We Forget The Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump's Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions & Crimes

    www.mcsweeneys.net /articles/lest-we-forget-the-horrors-an-unending-catalog-of-trumps-cruelties-collusions-corruptions-and-crimes