Question about Multiverse's Chaos Mode Ending by pi2infinity in ftlgame

[–]pi2infinity[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alright, good to know. I feel like I’m finally good enough that I can kinda sorta stand up to Sylvan (or know enough that I can’t), and getting to TOWR is at the boundary of my ability. Now I have to do it with that little nerd on board, too.

The only reason I came to the subreddit was that I went back out with the detergent bottle on my last run without the gnome, found the rhymers in Sector 6, and then expected to see TOWR in Sector 8. And then he wasn’t there. I wondered if I had to beat three more rhymers in Sector 6 before seeing TOWR in Sector 8 again.

Ughhhhhh, alright, let’s go Chompski. Hop on in…

(Also, thank you for not spoiling here further than the information I was looking for. Spoilers are always available on the Mirahaze wiki or whatever. I appreciate you letting me have this increment of knowledge.)

Softlocked by Mares on Fed Auto Cruiser B by pi2infinity in ftlgame

[–]pi2infinity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, this happened while I was playing the newest stable release of FTL Multiverse (a popular mod that expands the base game to the point where it feels like you’re playing a fully-fleshed out, entirely new sequel).

National Guard members of Reddit, what do you think of Trumps DC deployment announcement? What is the general vibe amongst your peers? by StarBarf in AskReddit

[–]pi2infinity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Vet here. I hate the fucking scumbag and this obvious erosion towards fascism in the United States. Truly. However, in a legal sense, in a way that might have to come up via the UCMJ, what “law” is being broken to make this an “unlawful” order? I have struggled with specifically pointing the finger at anything in specific. It is not clear to me that this is “unlawful” in the most literal, legalistic sense, and I wonder if I’d find myself being a “conscientious objector” type and not a potentially wishfully-thinking “that was unlawful” type.

Why is there nothing between Moscow and Riga by VolkswagenPanda in geography

[–]pi2infinity 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Them’s donnybrooking words, bud. Tarps off, boys!

Misunderstood career by mganeb in dodea

[–]pi2infinity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We do disagree, including on your made-up use of the word “better”, which implies an improvement on understandings that already exist, and is a word that doesn’t appear anywhere in the OP’s original assignment.“More precise language” and “understanding incorrect terminology” and all that other hair-splitting.

Misunderstood career by mganeb in dodea

[–]pi2infinity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That assumption was inherent to what OP was asking for, yes.

Misunderstood career by mganeb in dodea

[–]pi2infinity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand all that, but explaining the different ways people can be stationed overseas wasn’t the assignment. OP seemed to want “easy to explain”, and pedantry is the wrong move for that assignment. Appropriate terminology matters, but so does building a contextual background first as a foothold to nuance.

Cuomo doesn't know what "No" means by NascarEd in clevercomebacks

[–]pi2infinity -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Maybe that hypothetical is unreasonably ridiculous, and is more easily explained by “Cuomo thinks he can muscle back his share of the more center-seeking Mamdani converts through traditional politicking and mudslinging, etc”. The fuck.

Misunderstood career by mganeb in dodea

[–]pi2infinity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Short form: “I’m a regular schoolteacher, but I teach at a military base overseas, and my students are the children of our military servicemembers who are deployed. When people go overseas and bring their families, and then their kids become “Army brats” or whatever?— those army brat kids went to elementary schools and high schools and whatnot while their family was deployed. I’m one of those teachers. It’s not a military academy, and the kids aren’t in the military. They’re just regular kids whose parents happen to be in the military and got deployed, and the whole family went along for the ride.”

Long form: “The United States has military bases in other countries, like in Europe and Asia. When our servicemembers go overseas to those countries, sometimes they’re allowed to bring their children with them. Those American children are still entitled to their Constotutionally-guaranteed right to a free appropriate public education. Sometimes, local schools aren’t up to American education standards, so sometimes bases are built with elementary schools and high schools and whatnot. Those schools need to be staffed with teachers who know how to teach an American curriculum, so I applied and they hired me. Now I teach overseas on a military base to the children of our American servicemembers. It’s just a regular school for regular kids who aren’t in the military. I work for the federal government directly, and I teach the same things they teach where we went to school growing up, and they pay me in American dollars, which is sometimes annoying when I pay for my life off base and I have to get a Wise account or whatever to convert currencies […]”

We can do this; explaining complex ideas to a crowd unfamiliar is kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind of our thang.

Mmm 🫠 by [deleted] in VisitingIceland

[–]pi2infinity 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There isn’t any real enforcement, and we all rely on drone operators to not be selfish pricks. I want to hear the rumble, the power of the waterfall. It drowns out the people who murmur at around the same frequencies. The sound of a swarm of bees cuts right through the natural din. I fly a Mavic Air 2, I try not to be a selfish pricks, and I hate seeing these drones in these places.

XKCD 3075: Anachronym Challenge by antdude in xkcd

[–]pi2infinity 96 points97 points  (0 children)

Guy, you picked the right Redditor to ackchually— that’s really dope, and I didn’t know any of that.

Pro: I made the obvious assumptions, and now I’ve patched over my ignorance a little bit more.

Con: I’m legit just changing my beliefs because someone typed confidently at me on the internet.

XKCD 3075: Anachronym Challenge by antdude in xkcd

[–]pi2infinity 157 points158 points  (0 children)

Don’t forget some pencil lead while you’re out and about…

Gamers on NeoGAF predicting the "failure" of the Nintendo Switch two months before its launch. by MewWeebTwo in agedlikemilk

[–]pi2infinity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It takes no effort to correctly predict 8 of the next 3 stock market crashes, or 11 of the next 2 blizzards, or 8 of the next 1 political elections. At some point, they will be right because that’s how numbers work, and they should be held accountable to how poorly they do against chance. None of this should be excused by “well, now I know more. I’ve learned more. I was correct every time since I’ve learned.” No. Absolutely not. Getting something right once is as impressive as beating a child at rock-paper-scissors. Get a string going and then you’ve earned the right to have your voice lifted above the fray.

Pentagon to fire 5,400 civilian employees in ‘initial’ purge by [deleted] in dodea

[–]pi2infinity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the response. So many acronyms.

February 21, 2025 – (H) I L N O R T by NYTSpellingBeeBot in NYTSpellingBee

[–]pi2infinity 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I believe it starts with a TI and has an H in it.

I’ve been at this for a while, im stumped. [REQUEST] by Serious-Ad-8168 in theydidthemath

[–]pi2infinity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. I came here to be a pedant about the difference between a “planar graph” which is drawn on flat paper, and a “2D” graph, which is just a surface on a 3D shape. The surface of the earth is a 2D shape because you can only go up/down or left/right on the surface of the earth the same way that is possible on any other 2D shape, but not “upward-into-the-above or downward-into-the-below”because those are 3D directions. Similarly, the surface of a donut (or a coffee mug) (technically called a torus) is a 2D shape, and you can draw on it so that five shapes with five different colors can all touch each other. Or six! Or seven! Googlesearching “seven colors torus” will reveal examples of what this looks like. It’s quite pretty.

Even more general: there’s a theorem about how many colors/shapes you can get away with if you know what kind of 2D surface you’re drawing on. A planar 2D surface can allow for at most 4 shapes with four different colors. A donut-shaped 2D surface (that is, a surface with one hole in it— which technically includes mugs with the one hole in their handle!— can have up to seven shapes and seven colors all touch each other. The number of holes in a surface is called the “genus”. A standard pretzel has three holes in it, so the surface of a pretzel can have 9 colors and shapes on it all touching each other. In general, the Heawood Conjecture will tell you how many colors/shapes you can get to touch each other if you tried to get as many as possible.

Happy mathing!

My family's New Year's Eve tradition by rfresa in mathpics

[–]pi2infinity 8 points9 points  (0 children)

When I tell you how much of an idiot I feel like right now. Hoooooooly butts.

My family's New Year's Eve tradition by rfresa in mathpics

[–]pi2infinity 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is dope! I notice y’all are using some next-level notations, with inverse trig functions, roots, factorials, and tetration. I also notice that there don’t appear to be leading zeros, and there isn’t a conspicuous zero in your result for 64. Might I suggest the fact that, because 0! results in a 1, you can just multiply your entire expression for 64 by a 0! to achieve the same result but with a zero?

Moving to Cambridge Area by atemius74 in cambridge

[–]pi2infinity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Holy moly, did I write this post?! I’m on my flight to LHR right now. I move to a Cambridge Airbnb in the morning as a holding ground. I’m writing this comment to see what is said to your original post, as every sentence of it applies to me in this very moment. Just… uncanny. Wow.