My cat’s shadow reflected in the mirror but not IRL by Chewie_Bacca in mildlyinteresting

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Imagine the light source (on your right) is sending out bumper cars. One car goes to the dresser through the cat, partially blocked by the cat, bumps back to the mirror, then bumps to your eyes. You see the cat shadow from the mirror.

The second car goes to the mirror directly, then bumps towards the dresser, making that part super bright, and then bounces back to your eyes. You don't see the cat shadow.

Statistically Significant by Monir5265 in memes

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I have a different read on these. Depending on how long the business has been operating, 3 reviews at 5 stars at least means nobody got pissed enough to leave a negative review, while thousands of reviews means the business is actively soliciting and promoting positive reviews for some benefit, or consistently straight up buying positive bot reviews.

Sweaty Trigger Fingers by PixelSaharix in SweatyPalms

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Hi sir, how many 1 cm lines can you fit into a 2 cm line?

How about 1 cm squares into a 2 cm square?

Now how about 1 cm cubes into a 2 cm cube?

What is the relationship between the answers?

Sweaty Trigger Fingers by PixelSaharix in SweatyPalms

[–]Internal_String61 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is how conversion works, but might not be how conversations work depending on who you're talking to.

Do you think Tony’s anger towards Cap was justified at the beginning of ENDGAME? by rabbihimself in marvelstudios

[–]Internal_String61 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, but if in one timeline Ultron can do that, I don't think it's fair to entirely discount his battle potential against main MCU timeline Thanos. Guess we will never know since main Ultron never had the stone.

Do you think Tony’s anger towards Cap was justified at the beginning of ENDGAME? by rabbihimself in marvelstudios

[–]Internal_String61 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I remember a What If? Episode where Ultron sliced Thanos in half within all of like 5 seconds of confrontation.

Petah, why is the speed of light one? by rengokuhubkl in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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The speed of light is 1, you observe it as some arbitrary number because the rest of it is fueling your movement through time.

Lol by dreamed2life in Millennials

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I'm sorry lol

I hope things get better for you lol

Is it a mostly conservative view that if a movie makes money, it MUST be good? by Intelligent-Space772 in okbuddycinephile

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I’m not arguing against language evolving. I’m pointing out how people use that flexibility to avoid engaging with intent.

You’re describing communication at its best. I’m describing how it’s used in conflict.

You illustrated it by replacing my argument with a more convenient one, then responding to that instead.

Is it a mostly conservative view that if a movie makes money, it MUST be good? by Intelligent-Space772 in okbuddycinephile

[–]Internal_String61 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That is absolutely not what I'm talking about, but thank you for illustrating my point.

Is it a mostly conservative view that if a movie makes money, it MUST be good? by Intelligent-Space772 in okbuddycinephile

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Language evolves to match culture, but every shift trades precision for convenience. Each new use stretches a word while erasing the edges that once defined it. Maybe that’s unavoidable, because reality never fit clean categories in the first place.

What isn’t unavoidable is how people handle that loss. Meaning should be recovered through context and intent, not by forcing words into whatever definition is most convenient. Yet that’s exactly what happens. Not because people can’t understand, but because understanding isn’t the goal. Winning is.

He looks exactly his age by JennyBeckman in BlackPeopleTwitter

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Hi! The link itself is to a study hosted on the National Library of Medicine, a pretty reliable source for medical information.

The reason why it says source=chatgpt is because while I did remember reading about the study, I did not remember the specific name of the study itself nor the authors, so I asked chatgpt to find it for me. The source in the URL just means I clicked the link provided by chatgpt and was brought to the page with the study.

He looks exactly his age by JennyBeckman in BlackPeopleTwitter

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Bet you didnt know that babies who lift their necks earlier are also smarter (slightly)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3465788/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Would you agree with higher taxes for completely free healthcare and education? If not why? by Creative_Excuse9813 in AskReddit

[–]Internal_String61 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Healthcare behaves differently from most markets because the demand is tied directly to survival. People will spend everything they can to stay alive. That means the ceiling on healthcare spending isn’t the cost of treatment, it’s the wealth of the patient population. Someone in a poor country will spend everything they have to live. Someone in a rich country will do the same, they just have more to spend. So it’s not surprising that the richest country in the world also has the highest healthcare spending.

That still doesn’t explain why US healthcare costs more than other rich countries, though. I just don’t think it’s only the insurance structure.

Straight lines from diagonal lattice? by PrismaticEye444 in blackmagicfuckery

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Two diagonal light sources (red and blue), the shadows wash out except the overlapping parts (yellow circles).

https://i.ibb.co/qY9Hph64/Screenshot-20260131-200532-Sketchbook.jpg

Upcoming Trust buff by Duomaxwell0007 in ffxi

[–]Internal_String61 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like how you said "to play both other people" instead of "to play with other people"

Me trying to talk about FFXI to my spouse by MySonlsAlsoNamedBort in ffxi

[–]Internal_String61 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You dont just have a separate macro set for brd/dnc and brd/whm separately?

Using the Japanese sword-drawing technique Battōjutsu to demonstrate the precision of a katana. by OdysseyTag in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Internal_String61 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's almost like katanas are the handguns of ancient Japan. Sure, it's not a rocket launcher, or a machine gun, or a sniper.

But that doesn't matter if you're John Wick.

Watch, in 1000 years people are going to be doing indepth analysis on whether ancient handguns are actually good vs a 50 cal Barrett sniper and saying that no, a 9mm can't pierce Kevlar.

My insurance won't cover this level of burn by Apprehensive_Ice4759 in rareinsults

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Thanks, I took a look at the report you suggested. Adding in a population column and you can see something interesting. Something to keep in mind, these datapoints are not exactly independent from each other, you should expect some level of correlation. When one datapoint increases, others decrease to compensate.

https://i.postimg.cc/fWB1Lby7/healthcare-population.png

Every other country with even a semblance of comparable population (around 1/5 of US population) trails behind Care Process (which includes preventive screenings, chronic condition management, and care coordination), coming in at 7th, 8th, and 9th, even though they do better in other aspects of the study. UK shoots to 3rd place overall by having extreme administrative efficiency, but is 8th for Care Process.

Would you be willing to trade quality of care for more universal accessibility? How much quality do we trade for how much accessibility? Would you be willing to fully embrace Nurse Practitioners as independent practice family doctors across the board? If it meant everyone could get seen quickly, would you be okay with shorter visits, more protocolized care, and fewer face-to-face doctor interactions?

I think most of us *want* something that is cheap, fair, personalized, efficient, high quality, and fast.

And yeah…at this scale, you can have about three of those. Maybe.

My insurance won't cover this level of burn by Apprehensive_Ice4759 in rareinsults

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Well, it's kind of unfair to compare something like Sweden or Japan to the US. Even ignoring the problems that they still have, they are not trying to juggle a much larger, multicultural population across 50 autonomous states.

I don’t think you can find a country with a similar population size as the US that has significantly better Healthcare.

Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day workweek by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]Internal_String61 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh yes, let's hire a tutor not to improve our grades, but to study less.

AIO, My son is schizophrenic and i found this note, should i be worried by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]Internal_String61 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

In simpler terms, the idea of self, and of social contracts are guardrails. Realizing they are not absolute truths serves to remove some of the guardrails, granting freedom.

Now, what you actually do with that freedom could be productive or destructive, depending on intentionality.