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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree with your definition of “killed Linux gaming.” It killed native Linux development perhaps. But using Linux for gaming is more viable than ever thanks to Valve. They single handedly boosted Linux gaming, if anything.

  And they also offer more than the competition. For a while there games on EGS were just telling people to get support on steam forums because epic had nothing for supporting games they sold. Steam has forums, screenshot storage, achievements, remote play, friends lists, a shopping cart (🙄) and is adding new features like clips. I’m not using steam because it’s a monopoly, I’m using it because it’s a better platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Ackshually*⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hades meaning “the underworld” and not referring to the greek mythology. I believe also referred to as Sheol. It refers to just “the common grave of man” and not specifically “hell” as often depicted.

  Basically, “everyone comes back from the dead.” A lot of this section has flowery prose for over describing everything. “Graves and death give up their dead” is basically just “the dead come back to live so they can be judged” (which just further illustrates that nothing happens when you are dead, because you have to be resurrected just to be judged)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Ackshually*⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The way a lot of it works out in the bible, is that when you die right now. you die. There is no afterlife, you’re in the grave. thats it. but then during the end times mentioned in 20:13-15, ALL the dead people are resurrected. And then the good ones get to stay alive and the bad ones go back to being dead. Thus a second death. So there is no “afterlife”… you are either eternally alive after armageddon, or eternally dead.

  Being dead is basically just being non-existant. Fully unaware of anything. Which if you are to believe the bible, that means you’re cut off from god entirely, who despite having just murdered basically everyone, is supposedly pure love and joy. So the end result is living in eternal bliss that is so great that you can’t even fathom, or being cut off from that and never even having a possibility of anything. FOMO of god is the ultimate punishment.

  I’m not even a religious person and the existential dread of “if it’s truly nothingness after I die, i won’t even have a way to experience the nothingness, everything will just stop” is enough to keep me awake some nights. So I can see how eternal nothingness was enough for the original authors to be considered horrifying consequence for not being religious enough, without having to resort to eternal physical torture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Ackshually*⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If we’re ackshually things, lets cover the references to the lake of fire in the bible.

  In revelations 19:20, there is the beast and the false prophet being tossed into the lake of fire.

  In revelations 20:9, a bunch of people are explicitly consumed by fire from heaven. Consumed, not burned forever.

  Then in revelations 20:10, the devil is added to the lake of fire with the beast and false prophet, and those three burn forever. But not the common folk.

  Lastly, in revelations 20:13-15, hades and death give up their dead, and people are judged. Bad people are tossed into the lake of fire, explicitly labeled as a second death, but not mentioned as being eternal torment.

  So in conclusion, the devil himself is spending eternity burning in the lake of “fire” (not lava or magma, nor is it underground, this is the apocalypse, this is happening on the surface of the planet that is being bombarded with heavenly shit), he’s not doing any torturing there. He is also not the one sending people there, and sinners don’t burn forever, they die when cast into the fire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Equality⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Both sides are being unbearably obstinate here.

  The teacher’s meaning is clear and the kid should just answer what is being asked, not what is being said. So the kid is in the wrong. If you’re smart enough to be this clever, just answer the question.

  The teacher says “You are wrong, failed” when the kid is technically correct, instead of clarifying the intent of the question. So the teacher is in the wrong. “Clever, but you know what I meant” solves the problem. “You get an A in math and an F in interpreting language”

  On the flip side, I had a cousin who had a question on a test: “What is the largest SI prefix” … he answered “yotta” (which at the time was the largest)… And got it wrong. because the “correct” answer was “mega”. Because that was the largest the class had learned about at the time, and the teacher was very inflexible on this; they acknowledged that yotta was the largest, but my cousin had learned about it outside of class, so it couldn’t be an acceptable answer. The teacher couldn’t possibly fathom marking “mega” right for students who had only context from the classroom and also marking “yotta” right for students who had done independent research. No, the question was IMPLIED to be “what is the largest SI prefix [that we have covered in class]” and anything else was wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolutely diabolical⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s not like they had the name available to them when they made the meme. It’s not like they could just look at the words they were referencing to see the proper way to spell it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotted this shirt at a second-hand shop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The spacing is terrible. It’s supposed to be one of those edgy things though.

  You never know the day she has [planned(?)], maybe that’s a date with destiny, and it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

  Pretty sure it’s just missing 1 word the alternating lines and lack of punctuation make it hard to focus on even that though

  The short version is just “She’s all prettied up because maybe she has a date with destiny”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok sir⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that fire is plasma. Like water is liquid, ice is solid, CO2 is gas… fire is plasma.

  It’s not accurate and it’s a bit rambly, but it’s not an aneurysm happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pizza Pizza⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An epoch is a geological age and not a specific time span. So “65-145 Mya” (million years ago) would be the appropriate label. I can’t seem to find a label for “million years” (other than megaannum, which is just an SI prefix for years, but I don’t think Ive ever heard that used?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If bot, why aneurysm? Is it stupid⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a bot trained to specifically replicate human mistakes to be more convincingly human. “p” and “o” are right next to each other on a qwerty keyboard and an easy “I accidentally pressed 2 keys” and then it got the space between the wrong characters as humans do when typing too fast. “oh ok cool” would have looked too clean and made you guess it was a bot. It fooles you, so task successful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a very emphatic answer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate how these things always come up because “order of operations!” It’s mostly people who are bad at math remembering one topic they struggled with and finally got right, and now they know it’s a touchy subject so it will drive engagement. It’s the modern equivalent of “Mathematicians hate this one secret for solving equations! Click to find out!” Pure engagement bait.

  But in all the engineering ive done, things never really come up like this. If there is any potential clarity issues, parentheses would be used, or it would be formatted in a way that makes it much more clear.

  40 - (32/2), or 40 - ³²⁄₂ has no clarity issues imo. You don’t even have to think about order of operations because 32 halves is a number on its own. it isn’t an “operation” to do necessarily, it’s a fraction to reduce.

  And yes, I get the joke. The joke is making fun of the engagement bait of “some people will get the order of operations wrong!”

  The joke

  (40 - 32)/2 = 4 but the kid said “4!” not “4” 40 - (32/2) = 24 = 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 4!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every base is base 10⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is 1/2 in base 13 not 0.65?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In pineapple express they call it “the dopest dope I ever smoked”… But I now realize that movie is almost 20 years old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey there gamers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the same reaction originally though, because I feel like I had seen this previously as just “bending” the list of 1-100 in half.

  1+2+3+4+...+49+50
  100+99+98+97+...+52+51
  =
  101+101+101+...
  

  101 * 50.

  So you have to do a bit more thinking to define your equation but the equation takes you straight to S instead of 2S.

  And since the meme just has + … instead of showing where the end of the list was, I see how one could easily mix up the 2 approaches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the internet⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my ethics in engineering class, we spent a lot of time talking about things like the Kansas City Hyatt Regency walkway collapsing. The takeaway for me was “Depending on what you are doing, people might die if you are too confidently doing things the wrong way.”

  Most people, even a lot of engineers, don’t have lives on the line in their day to day. Things means that most people don’t have the “What if I am wrong about this and people die?” part of their brain firing 24/7. For most people, the “consequences of getting things wrong” means either a lecture from their boss, or literally nothing. When people never have to face consequences for being wrong, they feel very empowered to be wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was at a track meet once and the lady running high jump was doing a horrible job. She was finally figuring out what she was doing and said : OK, we got this. Next height will be 5’12"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  e^x and 7 were walking down the street having a nice chat, when in the distance, they see a derivative walking towards them. 7 panics, turns and runs in the opposite direction. e^x is smug and walks right up. “Hi, I’m e^x” it boldly declares to the derivative. The derivative smiles back, “Hi, I’m dy/dt”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 has "performed well ahead of expectations" and topped more than 8m sales⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The cross platform friend requests bugs mean I still havent been able to play with the friends who convinced me to buy the game in the first place. But yeah, otherwise quite fun.

  Its 100x better of a starship troopers game than the actual starship troopers game that came out last year

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two distinct eras of television⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Flat” and “flat screen” arent the same thing. CRT TVs had a curved glass screen. Due to the fact that the rear projection could just project across the curve. With technology advancements they were able to improve picture clarity while flattening the screen. These were still bulky projection style TVs, but were called flat screen. But then when actual “flat” TVs (in the form of LCD, etc) came around people kept using the term. So a flat screen TV could be very thick.