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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As I get older I see more unfair aspects of the world

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Consistently, every time as far as I can tell, any communication forum or forum subsection of sufficient size that is done with open invitation under pretenses of "free speech" will bring in pedophiles and nazis that will take over if nothing is done about them, no matter the original intent.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of the computer users think the Internet is a synonym for Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Little do they know it's actually a synonym for Amazon Web Services

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

my elbow had a small itch a moment ago, so i scratched it. the-more-you-know

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

355/113 is the best fractional approximation of pi with less than 5 digits on both numerator and denominator, with 6 decimal digits of precision. It is constructed by taking the sequence of the first 3 odd numbers, each repeated exactly once, as such: "113355", then splitting the resulting string in halves, taking the first half as denominator, and the second as numerator.

A 4-set venn diagram can't be constructed with circles because it wouldn't show exclusive intersections between opposed sets.

A talks to B, B talks to C; A is married, C is not married. Therefore, a married person is talking to a non-married person.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

There are physicist, respected ones, that believe the universe is deterministic. That we don’t have free will.

And psychologists that believe that feeling of consciousness is a result of the brain developing a self-supervising function for higher order thinking.

Essentially free will is just an illusion.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What difference does it make?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Well, if true, it doesn’t make any difference. Because it always was and always will be. Nothing makes any difference.

But in another way, it’s kinda neat. I guess it’s simultaneously a not fun fact, and a fun fact.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ducky from Land Before Time was murdered by her step dad for being too famous

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