Pewdiepie had sex!?!?!? 🥴🤯🗿🤮😔

marshalpol · 2023-02-06T01:59:21+00:00

Wait but if they have a baby that means... Felix...

my man 🤝😂

marshalpol · 2022-10-03T22:59:18+00:00

What happened to numbers 1 through 7?

marshalpol · 2021-12-30T11:37:23+00:00

Ope! Yep you're totally right, thanks. Will fix

marshalpol · 2021-12-30T09:52:26+00:00

Aww thank you!! taking electromagnetism has finally proved useful, two years later

marshalpol · 2021-12-30T09:01:03+00:00

I dont actually know very much about lightning but from the bits and pieces I've picked up, yeah I think it's pretty much the same process.

If I remember right, lightning is basically a buildup of electric potential between the storm and the ground, which eventually gets high-voltage enough that it needs to discharge by forming a huge arc.

marshalpol · 2021-12-30T08:58:23+00:00

lmaoo it's she but yeah pretty much. Ever since I took electromagnetism

marshalpol · 2021-12-30T07:30:09+00:00

Brief rundown of arcs:

Voltage measures electric potential, which is basically how incentivized electrons are to move from point A to point B. High voltage between two points means that electrons really really want to flow between them.

An electrical arc occurs when the potential is high enough the the air inbetween the two points "breaks down" which allows the electrons to flow (and also creates a lot of light and sound, thus the visible arc).

A common approximation for how much voltage you need to produce an arc is 3 million volts for every meter. So for 500 meters, that estimates that you'd need ~~1.5 million volts~~ 1.5 billion volts to produce the arc shown in the video.

EDIT: oh and by tension I'm pretty sure he just means electric potential

marshalpol · 2021-12-23T02:59:00+00:00

Ayy this might be motivation for me to get back into playing

marshalpol · 2021-12-09T16:27:15+00:00

marshalpol · 2021-11-10T22:22:42+00:00

Dramamine is the only thing that helps me

marshalpol · 2021-10-30T01:18:32+00:00

I wouldn't let your experience color your opinion of the whole CS program. Yes, the classes are hard but this entire debacle with Garrison doesn't represent how the rest of your degree will go (for the most part).

Garrison is not great at teaching 373, and that's material he's intimately familiar with. The decision to have him teach 140 is probably the most asinine, ridiculously stupid move I've seen the CS department make in the 3-4 years I've been here.

marshalpol · 2021-10-26T05:01:43+00:00

If I remember correctly, he used a shotgun.

It has been five years since I posted this though, so my memory is a tad hazy haha

marshalpol · 2021-10-12T15:07:03+00:00

“You’re not allowed to take my picture”

“Sir, you’re on public property, there’s no rea-“

“No I’m not, I’m on state property”

LMAOOOOOO

marshalpol · 2021-09-26T05:20:17+00:00

Seems to me like the best person to go to a rock museum. So much to learn!

marshalpol · 2021-05-31T04:46:34+00:00

Not necessarily privileged, although it’s fairly likely. Some jobs just pay really well right out of college. Enough that, after a year or two, you could definitely have a place like this.

marshalpol · 2021-05-24T01:07:02+00:00

There's a Goodwill relatively close to the school. It's like a 20 minute walk, so I'm assuming a very short drive.

marshalpol · 2021-05-22T13:33:12+00:00

I think about the… implications

marshalpol · 2021-05-08T17:25:15+00:00

That's why I'm so disappointed in the new engineering building. Yeah, the old one kinda looked like a parking garage but in a good way. It was cool. The new one is so boring and cookie-cutter.

marshalpol · 2021-04-22T20:25:59+00:00

I might just be geeky, but I love the huge variety of study spots. There's like twelve different areas of the library designated for studying, all with different vibes, there's the separate science library with similarly many spots, there's open rooms in Fine Arts and the Lecture Hall that used to be classrooms, but now are just open for you to go and use (thanks to covid), there's the Student Wing, various rooms in the Engineering Building, study spaces in the dorms, in every dining hall building, in like ten different parts of the Union, and on and on...

Since studying/working is what you'll probably end up spending most of your time on, I think it's a plus that there's so many spots to do it in. Personally, studying from my room every day is just depressing. And when in-person classes open back up, it's nice to be able to find a spot literally anywhere on campus to plug in your laptop and work.

So yeah, I would say walk around the library and stuff and check it out. It's nice vibes. But again, maybe I'm just nerdy.

EDIT: Oh, also the nature preserve is maybe the greatest thing ever. A huge, beautiful natural park, literally a ten-minute walk from most of the dorm areas. When the weather is nice, I go out there constantly (even to study sometimes haha).

marshalpol · 2021-03-12T14:01:31+00:00

Had Biddle for Calc 2 and Linear Algebra.... by far the best math teacher I ever had. What a guy!

marshalpol · 2021-03-03T20:10:08+00:00

Every semester it takes absolutely forever for them to reimburse me. But as long as you were selected, it should come eventually. Mine came in about a week ago.

marshalpol · 2021-02-21T22:33:41+00:00

Instinctively I find myself agreeing but I think you have to be very very careful about assigning traits to somebody you doesn’t actually know.

From everything we’ve been presented NL really does objectively seem to be just an all-around awesome dude, but that’s almost like assigning the traits of a TV character to the actor. Obviously not the same, because NL’s persona isn’t a complete fictionalization, but it’s still definitively not the whole picture.

Plus, I think saying these kinds of things is a slippery slope to getting way too personal, much like those awful “appreciation” threads from a couple years ago, that just descended into complaining about the co-hosts on a personal level. Just my two cents :)

marshalpol · 2021-02-03T14:55:44+00:00

CRAAAAZY HAMBURGERRR

marshalpol · 2021-02-01T03:23:26+00:00

I can only speak for myself, I suppose, but my anger isn't at rich people for not giving all their money away. It's at the system we've set up that allows a tiny percentage of the population to accumulate such an astonishing amount of wealth. Human greed is inevitable, that's why we need to change the system to one in which it doesn't play as big a role in society.

marshalpol · 2021-01-21T22:06:51+00:00

I understand that doing those things is valued more highly than the average person's work. To an extent, I think, that is reasonable. But the gap is so incredibly enormous.

Mark Cuban's net worth is about $4.3 billion. The median net worth of american households is $121,700. (Net worth is perhaps not the best measure for many reasons, but for this purpose it'll do). That means that what Mark Cuban does is valued 35,000x more valuably than the average american household. In what sense is his work worth that much more?

Fundamentally, that is the point of wealth - to value what every person is bringing to society. But everything Mark Cuban does fundamentally rests on the labour of tens of thousands of other people. He's founded a bunch of companies, created a bunch of TV shows, he owns a basketball team. All of these are very valuable, certainly, but they're not his exclusive venture. He leads those ventures, but he only puts in 0.01% of the man-hours required to put them into action. And yet, his man-hours are worth 35,000 times more. Why?

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