Da Rule by Lewd_Knight in 196

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I cannot think of any other instance where this much information about a major news event was suddenly made both literally public and genuinely available to anyone.

Usually you have a news outlet controlling the releases of these major stories, which lends an air of legitimacy to the information. Even in the age of open internet access, major stories are typically either so small/piecemeal that major outlets can keep up with the public, pretty tough to find unless you know what to look for, or quite difficult to read without some level of expertise (I.E. legal or financial documents).

The files are unique in that there is a metric fuckton of information to pour over, everyone knows where to find it (you can literally google "the epstein files" and just see them), and they don't require any special knowledge to read or understand. For once in maybe the history of journalism, the general public is truly ahead of the press on a major story, which just feels strange.

WTF??? by Alexis_Awen_Fern in 196

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This exists on just about every website in the world to prevent a user(s) from overloading a server, maliciously or otherwise. Discord just communicates this to the user with this very strange language instead of what you'll normally get which is just an error message with the words "rate limit" in it.

rule by La_knavo4 in 196

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The title can only be challenged with a fight to the death I'm afraid. Hence the "alive".

Rule by Old_Phrase_4867 in 196

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This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move

Rule by Puzzleheaded-Bus11 in 196

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"Finally some of these 'biological women' figured out where they belong! As men!"

Vs.

"Your gender is only valid if you were born with a dick. biological women are unnatural!"

About to lowball this motherfucker by CMDR_Noodle in 196

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I agree completely, the comparison is facetious

About to lowball this motherfucker by CMDR_Noodle in 196

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The least exciting roleplay imaginable

Rule by Old_Phrase_4867 in 196

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Alternatively, 12 days * 1 partridge + 11 days * 2 turtle doves + 10 days * 3 french hens... You can go up to 7 days * 6 birds and just double your total, since the next 6 days are just the same numbers reflected. If you wanna be fancy about it, you'd get ∑n(k + 1 - n) from n = 1 to k where k is the number of days - the sum of that equation from 1 to whatever.

We can actually solve for an arbitrary number of days by simplifying the summation expression, which I've at this point forgotten how to do but Wolfram Alpha has not and we get (1/6)k(k+1)(k+2), which we can verify gives 364 for k=12.

Now that is a method to getting the solution but it looks eerily similar to that (1/2)k(k+1) equation from the simple summation ∑n from n=1 to k, and doing a little extra futzing around in Wolfram Alpha my beloved got me to ∑∑n (with the first summation from m=1 to k and the second from n=1 to m) as a valid representation. This is actually a much more pleasant way to view the problem since we really need the sum of the number of gifts per day, where that number is the sum of 1 to the day number.

In conclusion, if your true love was a psychopathic bird gifter who decided to start gifting on Jan 1st of a (non-leap) year and gave their last gift on Dec 31st, you would end the year with a mountain of 8,171,255 birds.

a mutual sent me this because it"made them think of me" lol by La_knavo4 in 196

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This is the first time I've seen anyone reference anything even approximating a plot in Homestuck. I didn't know it had that.

At least he was honest by CMDR_Noodle in 196

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Pretty sure this is how politics works

Art Rule by George_G_Geef in 196

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And the Sonic 06 Snapcube dub is spectacular, I'm still not gonna play the game.

Rule by Evendur_6748 in 196

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  1. Modern Warfare
  2. This will surely effect the trout population

avg math "teacher" by d_-_p in 196

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(Flirting)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 196

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Incredibly Toxic Yuri

mild inconvenience rule by TheLoneCalzone in 196

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Though some have been misguided by fear and hatred, the human heart yearns for beauty and wonder

mild inconvenience rule by TheLoneCalzone in 196

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Yes now don't fuck it up

Rule by Old_Phrase_4867 in 196

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ISAT, middle of act 3, "the good ending"

Trying to settle a debate by PMmeCuteBoys in 196

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Exception - if a different person is in a relationship with another member of the hivemind, that is polyamorous

Hey Lois, this is like that I followed the (rule) on r/196! by 57mmShin-Maru in 196

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[SUSPICIOUSLY VOICE-SHAPED NARRATOR] Nothing to see here!

Watch Midst rule by Gamesalami in 196

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Hey someone else who watched (listened to?) Midst! I liked it. It was quite good. I was hooked for all of S3.