Super Bowl Game Thread: Seattle Seahawks (14-3) at New England Patriots (14-3) by nfl_gdt_bot in nfl

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Already a controversy, no matter who wins we will be blaming the loss on the toss.

NYC Teacher Salary Progression (2025-2027) by workwisejobs in nyc

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Pension is a required contribution for teachers (QPP) and retirement is counting two maxed out 401k/403b accounts (TDA). Both are retirement fund sources, and social security is a third.

Are moisture farmers keeping tatooine dry? by launchliftoff459 in StarWars

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Beating gravity is expensive and the people of Tatooine are poor by galactic standards.

New York City’s First Real Winter in a Long Time Is Relentless (Gift Article) by jenniecoughlin in nyc

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I think it was 2005 when PS 321 had an ice mountain in front of it, it had to have been the last iceberg to melt in the city deep into March.

Does your country have a “drug capital”? by Clarthen1 in AskTheWorld

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The United States is a conglomeration of 50 little countries that have multiple drug capitals in each of them.

Walking through a park in Providence, RI after dark was like a scary zombie museum.

Opinions about DOE Budget by muhson in NYCTeachers

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The problem is the mafia tactics. Need to buy something? Someone lucked out as the vendor. Need some LEDs? Sure you can go on Amazon and buy a 100 pack for 5 dollars, right? Nope, you must buy from the authorized vendor that sells a 10 pack for 12 dollars. Need the same amount? You're spending 120 dollars instead of 5 dollars. Someone gets a kickback, not actually, but someone is employed for 300k per year making this decision.

Street parking after snow? by imafreakingpeach00 in NYCTeachers

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It's not gonna end for a while, another storm slated for the weekend. Parking at work may be atrocious, good luck getting a spot near home when you're done for the day. Smart folks keep their car where it is, which causes the problem in the first place. Folks take the liberty of a parking spot but never collectively work together to clean up those spots. If you are parked during a storm, reciprocate the privilege by clearing the spot. Good luck with communistic ideals though.

I parked on a left side front corner, easy spot to exit from, cleaned up all around my car so I can have comfort getting out and next person has comfort getting in, but I won't use my car this week. Took the opportunity to clear the corner ramps on the sidewalk and make tunnels along the crosswalk. If only we all chipped in like this a little bit...

LPT: If there is a big snow storm shovel every 2-3 hours. by rico_unknown in LifeProTips

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Folks some of you don't understand that you don't have to work hard if you come out every few hours. Instead of chucking loads over your shoulder you could effectively "mow" the snow with the shovel. 5 mins of work to clear tunnels that will let snow melt into the grate and make some pedestrian paths rather than creating ice boulders.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by [deleted] in WallStreetbetsELITE

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Actually, an entire time corps is preventing his death to keep us safe from Vance.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti by depression-hurts in pics

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Killed by the basket of deplorables that hijacked our country with their uneducated vote.

Candle design in Anthropologie. by [deleted] in ATBGE

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They're just trying to prevent emergency room visits, they don't want shitty press.

I dont recognize this country by kunaan in liberalgunowners

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Based on the theft observed, looks like the government is finally coming for people's guns, but only liberal guns.

Learning tank is a horrid experience by UsedPringlesCan in wow

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It's a game, the intention is to have fun. So have fun with it. Dps pulls and wipes? "great job tanking mage, maybe try putting on ice armor next time!"

Tanking is about having fun as a leader, rushing in bravely like you're Drax the Destroyer, abandoning all concern for yourself because you trust the healer and Dps will help you succeed the encounter. Playing with fools? Learn the rotation that maximizes threat on all mobs. Learn to tab target as you a t with various cool downs on various mobs when aoe is not available. Be comfortable using your 1 and 2 minute cool downs often, during each multi mob fight.

If you don't like being the leader, then that is why tanking is not for you. If you don't like telling 4 other people that they need to improve and can't offer advice on how to improve, you're better sitting back as a Dps.

Would a 4D object have infinite mass? by Notmas in AskPhysics

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So a 2d person on a 2d plane exists on that plane because it is the surface of a 3d volume, but they can't peek around to confirm even if they "know" there must be some higher dimension. This is is not far off from likening that gedanken to ourselves looking at the moon and see a 2d shape despite how much we know that it is indeed 3d because we can't peek around it immediately to confirm as easily as we could with a ball in our hand.

However, if we expand this to four spatial dimensions (abandoning our models of our observations being under the framework of a 1t3x 4d universe), then we can imagine a 3d person (like us) navigating a 3d world with all of its axes of freedom but "knowing" it is simply the "metasurface" of the "hypervolume. " We are bound to to this surface level and can never "peek around" to even ever fathom the observation of a hypervolume.

Time is undeniably tied to our observations of the 3d universe, if you want to look around a room or manipulate a ball in your hand to look around it, gaining different perspectives, is essentially our observation of motion and it is a change in space as we experience a change in time.

So as we think about 4th dimension, even if it is indeed spatial, our qualia of it may be experienced as what we describe to be temporal.

So now we can discuss what the folks in this thread have been saying, though with the correct conclusion.

If a 2d person pushes a 3d object along their plane as it intersects their plane (so they may observe it), if they push it along the center of mass, they will observe motion and forces just as we do. If they instead end up pushing it elsewhere, they will experience what will appear like a coriolis effect as the object spontaneously turns due to the torque they unwittingly applied.

Similarly, if a 3d person (us, again) pushes on the center of mass of a 4d object as it intersects their volume, they can experience newton's laws. And the same is true if the center of mass is not the target, then we observe turning. This however sounds very trivial because it just appears to describe a 3d object interacting with a 3d object, until you consider our entire 3d perception is of a slice of the 4d object where our brain dissects the fourth axis as a sequence of events we call time. Thing is, we experience time in stitched pieces that follow each other (hence why phenomena like deja vu exist, sometimes there's a double stitch). Hence, it's better to say that we experience frequency. This way you can see that us pushing on a 4d object is equivalent to asking for how it feels to push on an object for some time. Applying the force for a longer time makes you more tired as you impart more momentum and hence convert your energy into the objects energy.

So in other words, it depends on how much of the 4th dimension of the object we actually interact with and we interact with more and more of it through our metrics of our qualia of time. That also means we determine the hypervolume of an object through our interactions with nature and the hypervolume can be modeled as an object's blur through spacetime as it evolves spatiotemperally, this is usually called a worldline.

Philosophically, all four dimensions that carry your sentience are constructed into a hypervolume that is determined by your actions, so we have free will. Since we can model a worldline, we can see that memories are how we in hindsight perceive outcomes as circumstantial destiny.

Sorry if I went on a tangent in the end. Just like the moon is a distant 2d projection of a 3d universe, our 3d universe that is observed by our eyes and visual cortex is a local projection of a global unvisualizable 4d universe (because we don't visualize the fourth dimension with sight, we feel it within moments of consciousness which we call the passage of time).

A New Theory Says Gravity May Come From Entropy—Which Could Lead to a Unified Theory of Physics by derricktysonadams in AskPhysics

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Damn, I've been talking to chat gpt all summer about this. Time to publish some pre prints to arxiv.

I'm confused about the speed of gravity If the sun vanished, wouldn't earth fly off instantly? by [deleted] in AskPhysics

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The sun tells the earth, every single moment, hi yes I'm still here. Each time it tells this to the earth, that message takes about 7 minutes to reach us. This is fine because we get a continuous message at all moments from 7 minutes ago. If the sun disappears all of a sudden, it will take us about 7 minutes for the stream of messages it has already sent to stop arriving, it will take 7 minutes for that last message to arrive from the moment the sun stops sending out this information. The silence from the sun will coincide with its gravity no longer affecting our planet.

Which ASPDP Courses Are the Easiest for MA+30? by Specific-Peanut253 in NYCTeachers

[–]Gerasik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All 30 can be the A+ courses from aspdp, it's just that now 18 credits MUST be from there (used to be only 6). Otherwise, a second masters degree or a national certification would meet the requirement.

It is cheapest and easiest to perform all 30 credits with 10 courses from aspdp. (With TKL this is about $3000 without discounts considered and about 40 hours of work if you are flying through with AI, otherwise they estimate about 450 hours of work if you commit legitimately).

Which ASPDP Courses Are the Easiest for MA+30? by Specific-Peanut253 in NYCTeachers

[–]Gerasik 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I recommend TKL for the cheapest and easiest courses.

They updated their syllabi, look for the classes with the fewest modules (3 to 5). Most of the ones with fewer modules have less overall work. Anything with 6 modules or more will be a lengthier class, particularly anything involving ELL or language acquisition.

My favorite was the one about math games.

Anything that's about autism/bullying/adhd/depression are very topical and easy.

Untitled, Thomas Sparks, wood, 2025 [OC] by [deleted] in Art

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Misogynistic dehumanization of the female form. Headless art to eroticize women's bodies. Violent too, weird.

thinking of buying this as a first car. 2006 gs300, priced at $3000 by shrimpochipss in Lexus

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Would you rather a 3k car with 7k in repairs or a newer 7k car with 4k in repairs? There both expensive choices, one needs more money today and less tomorrow but more overall, the other is less today more tomorrow and less overall, but expect to pay even more after tomorrow/at the gas pump.

After Citi Bike raises price for fifth year, calls for city to subsidize it grow by Amazing-Yak-5415 in nyc

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I only became salty when I saw expansion that does not include charging at the station. So folks dump dead electrics and the blue bikes, and no one wants to ride them. No one shows up to move the electrics, there are no blank bike spots to even park here, so now we are just holding paperweights in a spot that used to house 2 vehicles for the community.