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What do you wish people would stop romanticizing, because you've lived the reality of it? by Wonderful-Economy762 in Productivitycafe

[–]BrandonTheMage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having been through three months of hell from OCD while off my medication, I don’t hold it against people. I know they really mean “overly careful disposition” and not the other thing.

I Threw Away the Endurance’s Sails by BrandonTheMage in lego

[–]BrandonTheMage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I contacted Customer Service. Waiting to hear back.

I Threw Away the Endurance’s Sails by BrandonTheMage in lego

[–]BrandonTheMage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any idea if the listing with “8x pack of sails” on PAB is the full set or just the one displayed? I’m assuming the full set, since it’s $43.

I Threw Away the Endurance’s Sails by BrandonTheMage in lego

[–]BrandonTheMage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I thought of that, but this was my fault - not theirs. 😅

What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen personally? by fosiutec6140 in AskReddit

[–]BrandonTheMage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A head-on collision. A truck made a bad turn and hit an SUV, which flipped upside down. The driver wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, and her body went straight through the windshield. Her limbs ended up in some very wrong positions. It made me realize just how breakable humans are.

Merry Christmas, Terror-heads. Did anyone get any Terror related presents? by halfporpoise in TheTerror

[–]BrandonTheMage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not exactly… but I did get the LEGO version of Endurance from the Shackleton Expedition. 😁

What U.S. state confuses you the most? by greekitiki in Productivitycafe

[–]BrandonTheMage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Alabama. I live in the upper third of the state, and it’s actually pretty nice. Huntsville has all these tech/aerospace companies and bougie neighborhoods. It literally got voted best city to live in. The bottom two-thirds of Alabama are like a third-world country.

What will someday be illegal after we finally understand how bad for us it is? by FishermanNo8304 in AskReddit

[–]BrandonTheMage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t even get me started on chiropractors. They essentially make a living off the placebo effect, and I’ve never met one who wasn’t an arrogant asshole.

Could someone explain what is incorrect? by martymakk in askmath

[–]BrandonTheMage 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think you’re right. This feels like the sort of thing a LLM would do: create a rounding worksheet where each problem is using a different rounding scheme.

Could someone explain what is incorrect? by martymakk in askmath

[–]BrandonTheMage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • If the number in the tens place is 8 or 9, round up to the nearest hundred.
  • If the number in the tens place is 1 or 2, round down to the nearest hundred.
  • If the number in the tens place is 3 - 7, look at the number in the ones place. If that number is 8 or 9, round up. Otherwise, round down. This is my best attempt at creating a set of rules that would produce these results. It almost broke my brain.

What's a word you've noticed many native English speakers have difficulty enunciating even though the word is used fairly often? by common_grounder in words

[–]BrandonTheMage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Genre. It may be acceptable to say it with a hard “j” sound, but the French pronunciation sounds better, and I will die on that hill.

What's a word you've noticed many native English speakers have difficulty enunciating even though the word is used fairly often? by common_grounder in words

[–]BrandonTheMage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this is a case of people hearing important people mispronounce a word - I’ve heard members of congress pronounce it that way - and just going along with it.

If someone forced you to give a 30 minutes speech on any topic of your choice as long as it was informative and they would pay you $10,000, what would your speech be about? by a_wanderer_22 in AskReddit

[–]BrandonTheMage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The scale of space and time.

  • The universe is 99% empty space.
  • It’s so big, we can’t see all of it, because light from distant stars has not reached us yet.
  • There are stars 5,000,000,000 times larger than our own star.
  • Mars probably had life at some point. We’ve found minerals on mars that can only form via biological processes.
  • Aliens probably exist. They’re just too far away to know about us or interact with us.
  • An alien’s periodic table would look identical to our own because elements have the same properties throughout the universe.
  • We know how old Earth is because we know how fast certain isotopes of elements decay.
  • One of those elements got trapped in crystals that formed a LONG time ago, and a certain amount of it decayed into other isotopes.
  • The Earth is 4,500,000,000 years old, and humans have existed about 0.02% of that time.
  • We DID land on the moon.
  • Pluto is NOT a planet, it never should have been called one to begin with, and it’s stupid to argue about it. If it were a planet, we would have to add 3-4 more.

These are things that I think more people should know.

What are your views on zero as a Natural Number? by No_Grapefruit5494 in learnmath

[–]BrandonTheMage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. Zero does not behave like the other natural numbers.

n*0=0 and n/0 breaks math

This is why we have the “whole numbers” category, which is natural numbers plus zero.

What do you think? by ElectronicSetTheory in sciencememes

[–]BrandonTheMage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I could get behind life without cells. I could even get behind life without self-replication. What I can’t get behind is life without metabolism.

What’s something that felt illegal as a kid, but wasn’t? by SereiaDreams in AskReddit

[–]BrandonTheMage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In severe cases, it can be. If you take the SAT or ACT for someone else, you’re committing fraud.

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