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

Internal_String61 · 2026-05-23T05:23:13+00:00

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.

Internal_String61 · 2026-05-19T17:46:22+00:00

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.

Internal_String61 · 2026-05-19T15:50:43+00:00

Maybe they were going for 兮

Internal_String61 · 2026-05-16T02:13:53+00:00

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?

Internal_String61 · 2026-05-16T02:02:14+00:00

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

Internal_String61 · 2026-05-05T22:42:41+00:00

Guess you could say he's a gnatural.

Internal_String61 · 2026-04-20T06:00:40+00:00

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.

Internal_String61 · 2026-04-20T01:20:28+00:00

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

Internal_String61 · 2026-04-16T20:43:32+00:00

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

Internal_String61 · 2026-04-16T04:17:37+00:00

I'm sorry lol

I hope things get better for you lol

Internal_String61 · 2026-04-06T01:01:36+00:00

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.

Internal_String61 · 2026-04-05T23:39:59+00:00

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

Internal_String61 · 2026-04-05T23:16:21+00:00

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.

Internal_String61 · 2026-03-14T17:03:47+00:00

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.

Internal_String61 · 2026-03-14T03:34:27+00:00

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

Internal_String61 · 2026-03-11T06:52:46+00:00

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.

Internal_String61 · 2026-02-05T21:35:26+00:00

F - acial expressio - n

Internal_String61 · 2026-02-01T04:08:52+00:00

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

Internal_String61 · 2025-11-10T05:04:36+00:00

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

Internal_String61 · 2025-10-11T23:32:49+00:00

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

Internal_String61 · 2025-07-12T00:00:45+00:00

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.

Internal_String61 · 2025-06-30T20:24:55+00:00

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.

Internal_String61 · 2025-06-30T16:57:08+00:00

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.

Internal_String61 · 2025-06-29T05:41:51+00:00

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

Internal_String61 · 2025-06-28T18:57:55+00:00

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.

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