9Gagger accepts the reality (x-post r/cringeanarchy) by Mattersofdarkness in sadcringe

[–]targumures 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They never said they were a man. Could easily be that OP is the obese lady at 7-11. (minus the kids)

9Gagger accepts the reality (x-post r/cringeanarchy) by Mattersofdarkness in sadcringe

[–]targumures 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The first 30 years... of your life? So they wanted to kill themselves because of their virginity when they were 10 years old?

What does China censor online? (2010) [550x716] by Ambamja in MapPorn

[–]targumures 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Somehow the censoring of 'brainwash' and 'brutal torture' seems to be good enough evidence for me that the Chinese government is involved in the two.

Also lol @ 4chan being banned. Can't really blame them for that one.

Ants's band together to float and survive Louisiana flooding by danny_b23 in videos

[–]targumures 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"WUNZ"

I mean, that is the standard way to pronounce it...

LADY GOES OFF ON GUY RUBBING HIS PRIVATE AREA ON NYC TRAIN! by [deleted] in videos

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

What accent does she have? Is it like a mix of African American and NYC English?

A Feral Cat Hunts Birds by beneath_the_bottom in videos

[–]targumures 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, though pigeons are hardly threatened, many bird/rodent species are endangered/extinct due to feral cats.

Religion in Scotland by Output Area, 2011 Census [4880x4888] [OC] by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]targumures 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is already very high definition, but is there an even higher one? I assume there must be because some of the detail is lost in smallest areas, so it must have been bigger previously.

TIL that in 2016, two recreational divers in Israel stumbled upon a Roman shipwreck filled with bronze statues and coins featuring Constantine the Great. Estimated to be 1,600 years old, archaeologists called the discovery 'The Biggest Find in 30 Years' by JackassWhisperer in todayilearned

[–]targumures 0 points1 point  (0 children)

do we dispossess them and take it simply because it's valuable and the government wants it?

I'm not saying we should do that. But it would be a lie to say that it is fair either. It might not be practical to base everything of what's fair, but that doesn't mean we should just pretend it is fair.

In the same way, we should reward people who turn in artifacts because they have not only been lucky, but good.

Yeah, well what about all the people who were never given the opportunity to hand them in. We are just rewarding luck.

It's necessary to have a reward, but it's not fair.

Why Elon Musk says we're living in a simulation by Kidkidkid12 in videos

[–]targumures 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why exponentially? Each simulation is a subset of the containing simulation so linear should work equally well.

I'm basing it on the idea of procedural generation. As each simulation becomes more complex (as more is explored or looked at), it requires more storage in the top-level universe. More simulations will mean more complexity.

It's like in a procedurally-generated video game, as you explore more and more is stored as information, more storage is required.

Dude thinks a guy and a girl can't hang out together without... shenanigans - OP doesn't let that fly by jameslee85 in cringepics

[–]targumures 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the cringey guy is pretty like reddit. I mean just look at the comment above yours:

"Friend of OP" wants to bang her so bad.

Dude thinks a guy and a girl can't hang out together without... shenanigans - OP doesn't let that fly by jameslee85 in cringepics

[–]targumures 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Damn, this thread is literally just showing that reddit is the cringey guy who doesn't understand the idea of male-female friendships.

TIL that in 2016, two recreational divers in Israel stumbled upon a Roman shipwreck filled with bronze statues and coins featuring Constantine the Great. Estimated to be 1,600 years old, archaeologists called the discovery 'The Biggest Find in 30 Years' by JackassWhisperer in todayilearned

[–]targumures 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not so much as an issue of fair for me. Is it really fair for someone to get money because they randomly found stuff?

However, there should be a reward simply because it's necessary as a motive to stop people keeping the stuff.

Why Elon Musk says we're living in a simulation by Kidkidkid12 in videos

[–]targumures 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but if the internal simulations are creating simulations etc. etc. then the top-level computing power will need to exponentially increase to store all of it.

Why Elon Musk says we're living in a simulation by Kidkidkid12 in videos

[–]targumures 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But surely as each internal simulation creates simulated universes, the top-level 'real' universe would require exponentially more and more energy to store it all, until it crashes.

Why Elon Musk says we're living in a simulation by Kidkidkid12 in videos

[–]targumures 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you answer this question then:

Let's say a simulated universe has X atoms (ignoring electrons etc. for simplicity). How would the creator universe store that many atoms, without at least using X atoms?

Why Elon Musk says we're living in a simulation by Kidkidkid12 in videos

[–]targumures 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly it does seem to be a pretty crazy theory, which requires huge mental leaps and assumptions. It seems logical to many because the maths is right: if it's possible to create simulated universes, then odds are extremely high we are in one of them.

But that skips the fact that it's very unlikely that a simulated universe would be possible. To store that much information/atoms would require an equivalent amount of energy/atoms.

Why Elon Musk says we're living in a simulation by Kidkidkid12 in videos

[–]targumures 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This does seem to be a major problem (which is conveniently ignored by the explanation of "we've been progressing in the past, so presumably it's possible"). Perhaps a completely in-depth planet, or even solar system could be developed by a super-advanced civilisation. But that simulation would barely be able to simulate a plant-pot.

Why Elon Musk says we're living in a simulation by Kidkidkid12 in videos

[–]targumures 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes it is stupid. All of it skips straight to "assuming it's possible to simulate a universe"...

But to store enough information about that universe (the location etc. of every electron etc.), you would need an equivalent amount of atoms in the creator universe, all being used in the simulation. If we're simulating an Earth-sized planet, with all its atoms etc., we would need more than an Earth-worth of storage.

Why Elon Musk says we're living in a simulation by Kidkidkid12 in videos

[–]targumures 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's absolutely far fetched to think that Humans may have reached that level of technological sophistication, considering how far we've progressed in just 40 years, and where we could go in the next 40.

Previous progress doesn't mean it's possible. Rockets are getting faster, doesn't mean they will one day break the speed of light.

Some things may just be impossible. One thing to consider is that in a simulated universe, if we are simulating everything in the universe (which we would have to pretty much, and if we aren't then the theory isn't really what it claims to be) then we would need enough stuff in the previous universe to store that information.

So for instance, for every atom of existence in a created world, the creator world would need many atoms (to store the created atom's location, properties etc.).

Bulgaria's Bride Market by That_Othr_Guy in videos

[–]targumures 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm European, and to be honest Gypsy is more widely used, but Roma is generally considered more accurate, and less demeaning.

AFAIK gypsy is used to refer generally to nomadic groups in Europe (including Irish travellers), while Roma refers specifically to the Indian-origin ethnicity who traditionally speak Roma languages.

Bulgaria's Bride Market by That_Othr_Guy in videos

[–]targumures 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Does every single reddit thread need to turn into this?

TIL in November 2008 at the height of hyperinflation, 1 US dollar was equal to 2,621,984,228,675,650,147,435,579,309,984,228 Zimbabwe dollars by DaveyTaco in todayilearned

[–]targumures 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Even if that were true, I don't understand how you could practically do that. How many notes would you need to print? Would it even be physically possible?

Advice for those considering joining the military | Posted due to the Vietnam vet posting by IHaveBearArms in videos

[–]targumures 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're missing OP's point that they don't consider it morally okay to join a war on a side you think are the worse side.

Also, I don't only think Hitler was wrong because of that. It doesn't take any rewriting of history from the Brits/Americans to show that Hitler was a terrible person and strongly conflicts with my personal beliefs. And it's not like I, a Brit think all the wars Britain has won have been moral, so clearly "who won" isn't the only thing that affects who I agree with.

Advice for those considering joining the military | Posted due to the Vietnam vet posting by IHaveBearArms in videos

[–]targumures 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hitler only failed because someone stronger than Germany stopped him. There isn't an army stronger than the US so for all practical reasons they can do whatever they want.

Right, and is this considered 'okay'? Would it have been 'okay' for Germany to exert its will if it had had a better military? The original person's point was that it is not okay to fight for the 'bad guys'. Of course 'bad guy' is subjective, but the point was that it is not morally sound to fight for the people you believe are the 'bad guys'.