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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Remember when everyone was so upset about losing Brazilian rain forest? Turns out we'd all rather have Big Macs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Okay, I'm sorry. Please allow me to rephrase.

When one buys stuff at a concert, the intention is to support the band.

jfc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

okay, but how is this a joke

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You buy stuff at a concert to support the band.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

You think that's bad, I've been finding myself remembering how "good" the 80s were lately...

(For context, they were not.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I read and enjoyed all of those theorems.

Math IS fun!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't know that one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Oh, it's Heinlein, yeah, I guess maybe a few other people have read it...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I know this post's title as the title of an old science fiction short story I read as a kid 35 years ago (it was already old! you be quiet) about a guy who builds his house as an unfolded tesseract net of cubes, but then there is an earthquake and the house folds itself along the fourth dimension and it becomes an actual hypercube, with the inhabitants lost and confused inside.

But I wonder now if that story's title was already a reference to something else? Or do other people know that story?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Police and courts exist to serve the state's interests, not the interests of that state's citizens. Those interests can diverge a great deal. Doesn't change in a democracy, it's just not about us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Geeze, that lands different 40 years later. Would forget it if I could.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So, this is embarrassing. Apparently up until this point, every time someone said, "monero," what I heard was "Venmo", and I just tuned out that pay pal bullshit every single time. Oops. I know better now, thanks.

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