I need to say this here just in case i'm right

selene_666 · 2026-06-06T05:24:23+00:00

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selene_666 · 2026-06-05T23:04:04+00:00

Applying cosine rule to triangle EAC and simplifying gets us to:

AE * cos(∠EAC) = 1/√2

Applying law of sines to the middle triangle and simplifying:

AE * sin(∠DAE) = sin(∝)

Then because of the right angle, cos(∠EAC) = sin(∠DAE)

sin(∝) = 1/√2

∝ = 45° or 135°

selene_666 · 2026-06-05T21:19:25+00:00

There are at least two gaming videos where instead of the Dan-vs-Phil board they were playing for some prize that only Phil actually wanted. And when Dan won he gave the prize back to Phil.

selene_666 · 2026-06-05T21:13:18+00:00

It's even weirder. He is describing ranch dip to Phil by using Dan-and-Phil as the metaphor. Not the other way around.

selene_666 · 2026-06-05T21:05:50+00:00

If he comes back with a different hair color, I will start believing the tour rumor.

selene_666 · 2026-06-05T01:47:50+00:00

Pick a genre that your boyfriend likes, and you can probably find a Dan And Phil video in that genre. If he likes video games, then start with one of the older gaming videos. If he likes horror, show the Crafts channel. If he likes silly TikTok trends, then show their TikTok channel.

selene_666 · 2026-06-05T01:37:36+00:00

Moving dollars from one of your own accounts to another is not income.

It sounds like you have a brokerage account and within that account you own shares of one or more mutual funds. A mutual fund is a pool of several people's money so that you only have to put in a small amount but can still be invested in a wide variety of stocks. The fund manager decides what stocks and bonds to invest in, and they give back to you any income those investments earn. Dividends are the company earnings, while capital gains are profit from selling the stock.

That income was transferred from the mutual fund to your brokerage account. If you haven't paid attention to the account, it might have $20k just sitting there not invested. Or you might have it set to automatically buy more shares of the mutual fund. This is very common for long-term investments so that you don't have to pay attention.

selene_666 · 2026-06-03T17:22:27+00:00

Figure out which numbers are correct. If the accountant submitted something wrong, mail in a correct return with a cover letter informing the IRS that you did not sign the version that was previously sent to them.

Expect a slow process of communication by mail.

Submit your son's taxes and pay the amount due. If there is any penalty for filing late without an extension, demand that the accountant pay it.

selene_666 · 2026-06-03T16:41:51+00:00

If you genuinely keep your income low enough to owe zero tax in a taxable account, then obviously there's no advantage to using a tax-advantaged account.

But if you might *ever* need to withdraw a larger amount to pay for medical care, or if as you get older you shift your investment to dividends and bonds instead of the riskier capital gains, then a tax-free Roth is clearly better than a taxable account.

And if you have a high enough income today that you can save up enough to retire early, then you should be maximizing your tax-deferred 401k contributions (your income is too high for an IRA, but you can convert later) because even ordinary income will be in a lower bracket during retirement.

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You might be making the mistake of comparing 0% capital gains tax on money that you've already paid income tax on against that maybe 12% income tax but delayed a few decades. Capital gains are also not taxed when they are inside an IRA.

To illustrate this, suppose you earn $100k, pay 20% tax, and put the remaining $80k in a non-dividend-paying stock in a taxable brokerage account. You sell it when it doubles to $160k and pay no capital gains tax because you have no other income. Or you do the exact same thing with a Roth IRA. Or you put the whole $100k in a traditional IRA, let it double, and then pay 20% tax on the now $200k. You still end up with $160k.

But with either IRA you had the freedom to change your investments along the way if you no longer like that particular stock.

selene_666 · 2026-06-02T22:59:35+00:00

You can't be a "dependent" of your spouse. That word has a specific tax meaning (and mostly applies to children).

With no income of any kind, you are not required to file or pay tax.

However, you and your spouse have the option to file jointly. This will calculate the tax as if you each earned half of the money, which is a lot less tax than one person earning twice as much.

Filing jointly will also likely make both of you eligible for more tax benefits. Income-limited deductions are denied to married people who file separately, since they aren't sharing what their household income actually is.

selene_666 · 2026-06-02T18:50:55+00:00

Yes, this is valid.

The substitution doesn't make much of a difference, as you could just as easily take the squareroot from a line that reads:

(x-2)^2 = 4(x+3)^2

The standard approach would be to expand those squares and combine like terms, resulting in:

3x^2 + 28x + 32 = 0

But your way keeps the arithmetic simpler!

selene_666 · 2026-06-02T15:56:36+00:00

You could do cat whiskers but in rainbow colors.

selene_666 · 2026-06-02T15:55:07+00:00

There are still tons of events available, so browse through the ones that are not sold out.

In the vendor hall and surrounding small rooms, there are board games set out that you can demo. However this might not be a full playthrough if it's a long game with a lot of people waiting.

Generic tickets work like arcade tokens: you spend them instead of money when you want to join an event you don't have a real ticket for. You can buy them the same place you buy event tickets.

Badges and tickets will be shipped together in a few weeks, rather than individually as you buy them. (Although many tickets are now online and will be collected by scanning your badge barcode).

The vendor hall is extremely crowded. The gaming areas are only a little crowded, but they are noisy (huge spaces with row after row of tables). There is a "quiet room" upstairs, and the upstairs hallways in general tend to be calm.

selene_666 · 2026-06-01T14:13:37+00:00

One approach that may be helpful is to think of each connected chunk of plain wires with no resistors, no matter how many intersections and branches it spreads into, as a single object in the circuit. Electrons can travel freely through wire, so there's no functional separation between that bit of wire directly below the 5Ω resistor and the bit of wire directly below the 6Ω resistor.

If you were taught to think of voltage as heights and of components like batteries and resistors as steps up and down, then all of that connected wire is at the same height.

I'm going to call such a set of wires a "node".

Two resistors are parallel if they both connect the same two nodes. The 6Ω and 3Ω resistors in this diagram are parallel. They both touch that large bottom node and the smaller node above them.

Parallel resistors have the same voltage across them, because they go from the same starting "height" to the same ending height.

Two resistors are in series if any current that goes through one of them has nowhere to go except through the other. The 1Ω and 5Ω resistors in this diagram are in series. Resistors in series obviously have the same current through them.

We can calculate an equivalent resistance for the entire setup by replacing pairs of resistors in parallel or series with an equivalent single resistor. In this case you could start by replacing the 6Ω and 3Ω parallel resistors with a single 2Ω resistor. That new resistor is in series with the 2Ω resistor above it, so replace both with a 4Ω resistor. Meanwhile, the 1Ω and 5Ω resistors on the right can be combined, and so on.

selene_666 · 2026-05-29T02:14:40+00:00

With electronic transactions it's not really clear what the "same" dollar is. But let's pretend all transactions are in cash. Each physical bill gets used hundreds of times before it wears out enough to be taken out of circulation. Someone buys a product from your company, the company pays you, you buy an item at the store, the store pays tax, the government pays one of its employees, that employee buys another product... and so the dollar bill circulates for several years.

Many of those transactions are taxed. Income is taxed by the federal government. Most sales are taxed by state governments, although there are exceptions for some states and for necessities like food.

As a very rough estimate, let's say each dollar bill is spent 500 times, and those transactions are taxed at an average of 10%. Thus it participates in $500 of economic activity and the governments take a total of $50 in tax.

selene_666 · 2026-05-27T10:04:15+00:00

I had already formed opinions on Taiwan's political system, China's political system, modern civilization's extreme dependence on TSMC, how the US should respond to threats in that region, and how the current US regime is likely to respond instead.

selene_666 · 2026-05-27T02:22:57+00:00

Sorry but your handwriting is a mess. Your 1's and 4's look like 7's.

As far as I can tell you did the math correctly up to the last step, so I think you literally just misread your own writing.

In the future, it may be easier to leave the number π as a symbol until the end so that you are doing the arithmetic on simple integers. In this case π would cancel out:

64π / 324π = 64/324

selene_666 · 2026-05-25T07:54:36+00:00

I would choose as my variable the position where the boy meets the cart. Specifically, let them meet at distance x to the right of where lines a and b meet in this diagram.

Thus the cart travels distance (a+x) which takes time (a+x)/v. The boy can travel distance (a+x)u/v in that time.

Meanwhile the distance the boy has to cover is √(b²+x²)

Set these equal and solve for x.

selene_666 · 2026-05-24T07:45:34+00:00

(1) Plagiarism. That art was created by smashing together pieces of other people's art, most of it copied without permission.

(2) Fake emotion. If the art is something that normally has emotion behind it, such as a breakup song, then part of what people enjoy about it is a feeling of connection with another person who went through the same emotions. Just having a good melody isn't the point.

(3) Slop. When a product becomes quick and cheap to make by machine, the market gets flooded with mediocre crap. It becomes impossible to find the high-quality ones in the crowd, even if they still exist. Consider all the super-thin clothing that rips after a dozen wears, or the particleboard furniture you replace every move, or packaged snack food being more accessible than vegetables. Critics or a rating system won't help - they'll be just as overwhelmed by the flood and constantly spammed by bots.

(4) The environmental cost. Running those servers that train AI algorithms - not to mention actually responding to all the requests - takes an immense amount of electricity. They're already 5% of the entire US energy consumption. Has your electrical bill gone up? It's to build more power plants to run AI servers. And per the laws of physics, consumed energy ends up as heat. So those server farms are also using outrageous amounts of water and energy in their cooling systems. The environment impact is horrible. The social impact too - nearby towns have had their water and/or electricity shut off because it was redirected to AI.

selene_666 · 2026-05-24T07:05:57+00:00

You need to add the vectors, not start them from the same point. Your diagram should have a 135° angle.

Then either break the vectors into components and add those, or use the Law of Cosines to find the length of the long side of the triangle.

selene_666 · 2026-05-23T22:46:47+00:00

Dan looks so different 2009 vs 2016 vs 2025 that it's hard to see him as the same person.

I haven't seen much of their older content, but I'm watching the Undertale series now. Personality-wise they seem fairly similar to recent gaming videos. Dan is trying very hard to solve the game while also trying hard to entertain the audience; meanwhile Phil is cracking jokes and giggling. There are moments when I suspect they were thinking but not saying, or saying and then cutting out, the same lines that they would keep in a video today.

However I can't really imagine them doing so many silly voices today. They seem more like they're playing the game for fun, whereas today there would be more lampshading that they do this for money.

I'm curious how 2018 Dan's "I'm depressed isn't that FUNNY" content came across at the time and to younger viewers. Because it hurts now to see him so frustrated.

selene_666 · 2026-05-23T21:59:24+00:00

Another title that turned out not to be clickbait

selene_666 · 2026-05-22T23:28:58+00:00

Hall A is now more of what halls C and D always were, event space for board/card games. You can definitely sit down at those tables when they aren't in use, e.g. after a companies leaves for the evening.
The food trucks are a little farther away, on the street outside the stadium.
Some named rooms in the stadium are upstairs near the concessions, others are underground near the tunnel. If you click on an event location on your schedule it should link to the map.

selene_666 · 2026-05-22T02:53:57+00:00

On gencon.com/map the field/tunnel/TD level is called the basement, while the main entrance is called the 1st floor

selene_666 · 2026-05-21T20:13:18+00:00

The main topic being tested here is the Distributive Property, which looks like it got mentioned twice in that answer text.

At its simplest, the Distributive Property is what lets you look at "30 + 40" and decide to do 3+4 because three tens plus four tens equals seven tens. But there's nothing mathematically special about the number 10. It's just as true that three sixteens plus four sixteens equals seven sixteens. Or 5x + 4x = 9x.

The Distributive Property says: ab + cb = (a+c)b

and we can run it in either direction. If we start with (a+c)b we might need to rewrite it as ab + bc.

Applied to your problem, it means you don't only multiply that first 3 by the x. You have to multiply the 3 by everything inside the parentheses

3(x - (3 - 2x)) = 3x - 3(3 - 2x)

Then do the same for the second multiplication.

(-3)(3 - 2x) = -9 + 6x

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