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Cake day: September 2nd, 2023

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  • Yeah, you responded with something that doesn’t support your original claim at all.

    What you are trying to do is called moving the goalpost.

    If you acknowledge that your original claim is bullshit and want to move the goalpost, it’s fine, but you have to say that you’re doing so.

    Like this:

    Yeah, I originally said that they’re doing that nowadays, but after some research, I have found that my claim has no basis in truth. However, I found this post from oracle that I want to discuss about.

    Then sure, I can choose to engage with this new goalpost or not. But I refuse to argue with a moved goalpost if you don’t even admit that you moved it.





  • The same place where every other form of water consumption goes: to the water cycle.

    If your argument is “that evaporated water will just rain again” then you’re arguing that water consumption is not real, and people should not care about wasting water.

    That is not true. Most of the water of the water cycle is in the ocean. When you consume water, you are turning 100% high value fresh water into mostly low value salt water.






  • Ah. I originally missread your original comment.

    Yes, in a grid where the Manhattan distance is the minimum one, taking a single 90° turn is the fastest, since that path will have the length of the Manhattan distance.

    However, it’s not the only path. The “ladder” one you said will be the same length.

    While we are at it, if you wanna search for more. The same flawed assumption of “a ladder approximates a straight line” can also lead to π=2. Since you can enclose a circle in a square (Wich has perimeter 4R), then fold the corners recursively so there is a “stair” along the circle’s perimeter. That “stair” would have a length of 4R, but the circle’s perimeter is 2πR.


  • No. The problem is that kids have nothing else to do. The only fun thing left is the phone.

    They can’t go alone and play out there, they may get hit by a car or their parents might get in trouble. They have to always be supervised by an adult, but there are almost no places with adults to watch for the kids, they have to bring their dedicated parent. And parents have to work way too many hours, they don’t have time to watch the kid play for all the time the kid needs to play.

    Furthermore, everything that is fun to kids is illegal. “No skating here”, “no playing with a ball here”. Where can kids play? They don’t have a car to go to a remote place where playing is allowed. They should have areas where they can play relatively close to home.

    And I say this as a European. In America all these problems are 10x worse, I can’t imagine what that would do to a kid. Maybe the suburbanites can play in their lawns. But the ones in cities are out of luck.


  • That’s not true at all.

    My gf has awful logical reasoning skills. Which leads to her being wrong on many small arguments that can easily be proved with simple logic.

    There is no amount of reasoning that will make her change her mind. So in the end, she is always right because there is no other option. That is incredibly frustrating and I end up being neither “right” nor happy.