Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

normal shirt buttons, which come off fairly regularly.

Maybe your technique isn't sufficient and the posted method isn't as "over the top" as you claim, but fundamental to not loosing buttons.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 16 points 2 months ago

Classic Microsoft Business Strategy

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 40 points 2 months ago (4 children)

More to the point, even if the vehicle can seal completely and keep the water out, very few bodies of water that deep would be any safer to traverse in a car for other reasons. Most significant of these I think is the force of water pushing on the vehicle laterally. Claiming that a consumer vehicle can ford rivers or creeks up to 31 inches deep WILL get people killed regardless of how well the designed the vehicle. Don't drive through flowing water or even still water through which you cannot clearly see the bottom unless you're prepared for things to go very badly very fast.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Drugs alter your perception, not awareness. Mediation and a philosophy class you didn't take on YouTube will cure you of that confusion.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

Key lime juice also makes for a very interesting margarita.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Was that supposed to be coherent or relevant? Are you lost?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

If you're going to be snarky about units, at least get the significant digits correct. The infographic gives 100°F as the temperature. If I had to guess I'd say that wherever that number came from, it's precision is much less than a whole °F, but for simplicity let's just say that the precision is a whole number, no decimal places in the precision. At that precision 37.5°C and 38°C are both also 100°F. There are 9/5 °F for every °C after all. If you'd said 37.7°C I wouldn't have even commented. But that was one decimal place too far (and being too lazy to find the ° symbol or type out degrees).

You're all probably saying, "Who cares? Why do you care? Aren't you just being any even more annoying pedant?"

I do. I don't know. Probably.

But, if you're going to be a smartass, you better at least try to be smart about it.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

What a convincing argument. I didn't realize you had the authority to just decide.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's an optical illusion. By definition their isn't generally anything YOU would call erroneous about any optical illusion, I'd guess. The fact that the text is difficult bordering on impossible to read at some angles is the perceptual error. Stop ignoring obvious interpretations to support your pedantic trolling.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

That's an unhelpfully restrictive definition of illusion that is itself illusory. An illusion is also:

A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.

The text is hidden or revealed through a change in perspective. That is the illusion.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Kink shaming is the real mental illness.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

How is a zig-zag numbering any less valid than any other method? Your mapping a two dimensional space with what is essentially a line. Sometimes it doesn't make sense for there to be discontinuities in the numbering, as one would have to do if the numbers always incremented in the same direction. Would you prefer that the numbers follow the path of a Hilbert Curve?

To answer your question though, surveyors have been using this method to number sections of land for much longer than you or I have been alive.

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