HandwovenConsensus

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[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Right, and as the chain continues, the probability of the player maintaining their streak becomes infinitesimal. But the potential payout scales at the same rate.

If the player goes for 3 rounds, they only have a 1/8 chance of winning... but they'll get 8 times their initial bet. So it's technically a fair game, right?

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I feel like he was working up to a punchline about haven mistaken a toy for an electric school bus, but for some reason failed to get there.

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I've seen other comics where Everett rejected the concept. One was when he told a woman he believed in it (in the sense of wanting it to happen) and threatened to kill children, and another when he told a man who brought it up that he was introducing him to race homicide. (I guess the term "genocide" hadn't entered the vocabulary.)

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Also videos that weren't intended for kids but superficially looked like they were got involuntarily flagged as such and had their comments removed.

A separate site would have been a much better solution.

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I can't speak to the behind-the-scenes drama, but I agree that Pierce was at his best in Season One, where he was a little bit grandiose and a little bit of a jerk but still had moments of wisdom and humanity. I always liked the talk he gave Jeff in the boating episode.

Turning him into a total buffoon villain from season 2 onwards was a change for the worse.

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

What's going to happen in the long run? Is that part of the country simply going to become uninhabitable? If so, why isn't the real estate market reflecting that?

(Genuine question)

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Like the Klingon dish gagh?

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Taiwan had the same concern. What they did is make it so that receipts also work as lottery tickets, to encourage people to ask for them and hold on to them.

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah. I mean I agree that focusing on change at the systemic level is more effective than changing individual habits, but what people don't realize is that the systemic change we need is the kind that will force those individual changes.

Taxing or regulating the oil companies will help, but it will help by making energy more expensive so people are forced to make do with less.

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That was my first thought too. What's this orb pondering business everyone's on about?

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

What I usually love about musicals is the variety of songs and subject matters, and with the exception of the Klingon song, the songs all felt the same.

 

I really don't want to be overly strict with the rules, especially while this sub is so small. But I think this is an important rule, and I'm considering being more strict about its enforcement.

The reason I think it's important is that this is meant to be an educational community. In many cases, I assume people don't say where they're from because they assume it's obvious to people based on their answer. It may be, to people from the US or familiar with its zeitgeist. But this community isn't just for them. The last thing I want is for this community to suffer from US-defaultism.

For that reason, I'm thinking that from here on, if I see an answer that doesn't state which country it's for, I'll give a reminder. After that, the poster will have 24 hours to edit it into their post, and it will be deleted if they have not done so.

What do you think? Too strict? Not strict enough?

 

Just finished watching Season 2 episode 4. During the shootout near the end of the episode, Captain Pike blocks at least a couple of shots with a random platter.

What was the platter made of that it could dissipate so much energy?

Strange New Worlds has really grown on me overall, but that scene seemed really silly.

 

I asked this before elsewhere, but I thought it led to some interesting answers.

 

Ask The World

!asktheworld@lemm.ee

Back on reddit, I really enjoyed participating in the various "Ask " subs, so I'd like to get something similar started here. This community is going to be for general questions for anyone from any country, not directed as a specific country. Ask about culture, lifestyles, geography, whatever you want to know that might be different in a different place.

I hope some of you will be interested. I'd really like to see Lemmy grow in general.

 

Please remember to say which country you're from. We don't have flairs here.

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