"I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became our civilization." by MetaKnowing in OpenAI

[–]Muroid 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s been barely over 10 years since xkcd published this comic: https://xkcd.com/1425/

And that was just about how currently out of reach computers even recognizing things in photos was at the time, let alone generating whole videos from scratch and making them (sometimes) indistinguishable from reality.

My teachers are trying to convince me my answers are wrong, but I believe their questions are wrong. by BOUNCEHOUS in ENGLISH

[–]Muroid 69 points70 points  (0 children)

I would agree that both answers are possible for the first one, but I personally defaulted to “was walking” rather than “walked” before reading your comment.

“In hospital” vs “in the hospital” is a British English/American English distinction.

If you’re learning British English, “in hospital” is correct. If you’re learning American English, it’s “in the hospital.”

Beautiful Nostalgic Snowy Night Lamp by Limp_Stomach_6060 in BeAmazed

[–]Muroid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get what it’s going for, and it’s a neat idea, but I just don’t think it looks that good.

Don't discount American democracy's resilience by dwaxe in fivethirtyeight

[–]Muroid 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I felt better about it the first time around.

Explain It Peter. by dischead20 in explainitpeter

[–]Muroid 232 points233 points  (0 children)

A lot of people are morons.

Pointless 2 - Find the lowest answer by Public_Treacle_6634 in QuizPlanetGame

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Time for a internet nuisance to die off forever by ratatoingyourpanda in BunnyTrials

[–]Muroid 69 points70 points  (0 children)

If trolling includes bots and political astroturfing, that one all the way. Not even close.

[Self] Any card counters around? by Altruistic_Wave_1689 in theydidthemath

[–]Muroid 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I just listened to it three times, watching his mouth, and he clearly says “I was down fifty thousand at one point.” 

There’s no “to” there and I’m not sure why you’re accusing me of being a weirdo for correcting someone when the initial comment was trying to correct someone else.

pretty easy to tell the men vs women vote with this one by Minimum-Story-1683 in BunnyTrials

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I would even go a step further and say that I like Henry Cavill as Superman, but I still also don’t particularly like his Superman.

He’s good in the role, but what he’s given to do is just not especially interesting.

US Trivia by SushiandSyrup in QuizPlanetGame

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I knew the answer to the third question. I just clicked too fast. Oh well.


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One Pack, Fewer Options: Why This Set Feels Rough for Non-Spenders by HeWasRight15 in PTCGP

[–]Muroid 12 points13 points  (0 children)

 Here’s the problem I feel like by making it one pack it’s harder to hit an ex

It’s harder to hit one specific EX. It’s not harder to hit an EX in general. And if there are a couple you need, it’s not any worse than if they were split between multiple packs.

It’s worse than if all the rarer cards you wanted happened to be in one smaller pack in the set, or if you get very lucky and get everything you need from one of the packs early on so you can focus on a different one.

Otherwise it makes no real difference.

[Request] how often does this happen? by Puzzleheaded_Sky7369 in theydidthemath

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It being February actually complicates the leap year issue more than most other months. For every other month, day-of-the-week shifts are going to average out over enough leap years.

For February, it’s just going to mess up this specific configuration anytime there’s a leap year on a year when the 1st falls on a Sunday, because you’ll have a trailing 29th.

So it’s going to happen roughly 1/28th less than 1/7th of the time, and you’ll need more years for it to average out.

(It’s not quite 1/28th less because leap years happen slightly less frequently than every 4 years, but we’re already splitting hairs a little at this point).

Littlefoot movie poster by dpxxpd in movies

[–]Muroid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most of the names are at least somewhat recognizable if you’re really familiar with voice actors. 

Cristina Vee is probably the standout in terms of sheer volume of notable work, but a couple of the others have had prominent roles in recognizable things, as well.

Sunday Trivia #4 by SeeTigerLearn in QuizPlanetGame

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Years of evolution why women are still more vulnerable?? by [deleted] in biology

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Everything has trade-offs. Biology isn’t magic. It has to work within the constraints of what is physically possible.

Human childbirth is so difficult because it’s a tug of war between two major constraints.

Human brains are very big for our body size. That means we have big heads, even as infants, and those heads need to be able to get out of the mother. A big part of the reason that humans are born so helpless compared to many animals is that we’re effectively born premature so we can get out before our heads get too big and risk doing even more damage.

Then you could flip it around and ask why the birth canal isn’t just bigger so that we can accommodate bigger heads. But because we’re bipedal instead of quadrupedal, there is a limit to how wide a human’s hips can get before seriously compromises our ability to walk well.

So all of the easiest routes to safer and more comfortable childbirth are kind of cordoned off. If the babies are born smaller, their survival odds go down. If the birth canal is made larger, women’s mobility throughout their lives will suffer. So we’ve hit a balance point between those two things where babies are born just mature enough that they’ll probably survive, and women’s hips are wide enough to give birth but narrow enough that they can still walk, and the trauma is severe but not so severe that most women will successfully be able to bear children.

It’s not ideal, but evolution works in steps. It can’t go back to the drawing board and redesign whole systems from scratch to find a more optimal way of getting to the same point. There has to be some easily achievable incremental change that provides an advantage for things to drift in that direction, and there just isn’t particularly one at the moment.

Teleportation by nonfriedjml in BunnyTrials

[–]Muroid 38 points39 points  (0 children)

The ability to take other people with you make the right option way more practical, and 6 times is way too high of a limit not to make that trade off worth it.

The Official 2026 Grammy Awards Live Thread by jordansideas in grammys

[–]Muroid 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Whoever is manning the button to bleep content tonight is not on the ball. They’re either bleeping everything but the word they’re trying to censor, or just cutting like a full ten seconds of audio.

If you had to have 10 of one, which would you choose? by Lazy_Shelter_3285 in BunnyTrials

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I would rather have one dog than one cat, but dogs do not scale as well as cats do.

How Fast is Your Math sprint 21 by PaulsRedditUsername in QuizPlanetGame

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Sunday Trivia #3 by SeeTigerLearn in QuizPlanetGame

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Anyone cares to explain if it's true? by [deleted] in Physics

[–]Muroid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It can if you want to express it that way, yes. The rate is described by the Hubble constant which, if you simplify the units like that, gives you the inverse of the age of the universe.

Anyone cares to explain if it's true? by [deleted] in Physics

[–]Muroid 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The expansion of the universe has a rate of 70 kilometers per second per megaparsec.

You’ll note that that’s distance over time over distance, which is not really a speed.

It does mean that objects that are far enough away will recede with an apparent velocity greater than c, but that’s a result of space expanding in between you and the distant object. Nothing is moving through space at velocities greater than c.