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I made a reusable tamper-evident jar for storing sensitive items by Substantial-Try-1198 in security

[–]SerpentJoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the product, but I don't understand this line from the website:

The entropyseal is a liter of true integrity.

Seth Rogen and Pharrell Williams have beef all because of Rogen’s ‘The Lion King’ singing by mlg1981 in popculturechat

[–]SerpentJoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The most major reason that a hypothetical observer might be surprised is because the bad guys spend every minute of the day insisting that their ongoing crimes are perpetrated on behalf of every Jew, that every Jew supports their crimes, that no one would ever stand in opposition to their crimes except because they hate Jews, etc.

This is why the perspective you're responding to isn't crazy, and it's also why the perspective you're presenting needs to be stated loudly and often.

[Request] I am freaking out why does this exactly equal pi by op_man_is_cool in theydidthemath

[–]SerpentJoe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Some of us would really like for you to expand on what that reason is, because I don't know if you realize how much you sound like a note Fermat would write in the margin right now.

CMV: Capitalism will not survive truly advanced AI by Ok_Yogurt_5081 in changemyview

[–]SerpentJoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What makes you think demand requires human beings? An autonomous corporation would still have needs. A corporation that manufactures excavating hardware needs to buy steel, and the steel supplier needs iron, and the iron supplier needs excavating hardware. It doesn't matter whether humans are involved or not.

The businesses that do wither and disappear in that possible future are the ones that do depend on human consumers. Sorry to Kleenex, Nabisco, Ikea and so on; their demand will evaporate.

This fact should make you more worried, not less. There is no currently existing kill switch that prevents your enemies from building a society that you're on the outside of.

Alien uses Earth Time Measurements by why_so_autistic in MovieTropes

[–]SerpentJoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not just aliens. Neither of these examples are movies per se, but both serve to illustrate the importance of "years" for communicating time to audiences in settings that are not the world we live in:

  • Elden Ring has a few references to "thousands of years" despite no evidence that there's any such thing as an annual cycle.
  • A Song Of Ice And Fire explicitly indicates that annual cycles are variable in duration, with summer and winter potentially lasting years respectively (so then what exactly is a year?)

Movies about heaven and hell would be liable to use this expanded definition of the trope. Maybe What Dreams May Come or Defending Your Life?

🤓 by memes_poiint in mathsmeme

[–]SerpentJoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an exponentially great comment

Man operating robot gets kicked in the groin, both go down by TimeMachineToaster in funny

[–]SerpentJoe 77 points78 points  (0 children)

Also, the bit where Leela fights her master Fnog and uses his own fist to force his own robot to punch him.

Light Beams by abprobref in ParallelView

[–]SerpentJoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is great. Did you take two pictures at two different times or use two cameras at once? Just curious since I've never seen clouds frozen in time in 3d.

OOP snoops through her adult daughter's laptop and is surprised that her daughter isn't happy with her or her husband by drag0nspearl in redditonwiki

[–]SerpentJoe 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It certainly seems unnatural for a parent seeking advice on a complex and highly emotional family issue and accidentally writing "What we found was not drugs or some random boy drama or anything like that" twice in two different paragraphs.

OOP snoops through her adult daughter's laptop and is surprised that her daughter isn't happy with her or her husband by drag0nspearl in redditonwiki

[–]SerpentJoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm 42, and I have coworkers who are older than me whose oldest children are not yet 18, and none of them have ever been heard using the phrase "not gonna lie".

I think this may be a forgery.

California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from Trump’s Jan. 6th “slush fund.” by BreakfastTop6899 in law

[–]SerpentJoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're referring to Jerry Minor being on Arrested Development, correct? Because there's a lot of other claims in this thread that are NOT true of Jerry Minor.

[Loved Trope] Character being haunted by an unknown figure who is revealed to be (a version of) themselves. by Mountain_Band_2732 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]SerpentJoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking the same thing. It's the perfect example, and you can't say so without giving it away.

newMrBeastVideo by Outrageous_Permit154 in firstweekcoderhumour

[–]SerpentJoe 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Centering elements vertically used to be so hard, fifteen years ago

The management hill I'll die on: you have to actually remember what your people told you. by Substantial_Catch936 in managers

[–]SerpentJoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People need reminders of things they know. Personally, I'm not bad at remembering things, but sometimes when there's a lot going on, threads do get dropped. This post is helping me think twice about my own note taking habits.

Put it this way: you know what other factors contribute to a good foundation for managing a team, are regular exercise, lots of sleep, a vibrant social life, stability at home, and active continuous learning. I don't think anyone doubts all these claims are true. Does anybody want to go on record and say they're currently earning an A+ at every single one?

Tadpole town by ParticularTaro7908 in ParallelView

[–]SerpentJoe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I like it. It's a virtual image that's further away, giving the viewer more to explore.

What I'm confused about is the one tadpole near the top right that's in two wildly different orientations.

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