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LostCause, in If You Had to Worship or be the Champion of an Ancient Greek God/Goddess Which One Would You Pick?

Nyx. Her children are all the personifications of various negative aspects of life. I‘ve got a bit of a pessimistic attitude. Just seems fitting.

WhoresonWells, in What are the odds of getting a passing grade by sheer guessing here?

I see some correct solutions for the 50% case here already, so this reply is going for a perfect score within two tries.

There are 16 ways to answer the quiz, one of which is correct. Assuming you don’t repeat your previous answers, two attempts give you a 2/16 or 1/8 chance that one of them is perfect.

Now if you get feedback between your attempts, you should be able to do better. Let’s see by how much and break it into cases:

  1. Your first guess is already perfect. This happens 1/16 of the time. No further guessing is needed.
  2. Your first guess is 50% correct. This happens 3/8 of the time. Picking one of the unguessed answers improves your score to 100% 1/6 of the time.
  3. Your first guess is completely wrong. This happens 9/16 of the time. Picking different answers for both questions wins 1/9 of the time.

So the overall chance of a perfect score is the weighted sum of these cases or 1/16 + (3/8 * 1/6) + (9/16 * 1/9) = 3/16.

mycus, in If You Had to Worship or be the Champion of an Ancient Greek God/Goddess Which One Would You Pick?
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Hypnos lol

Che_Donkey, in If You Had to Worship or be the Champion of an Ancient Greek God/Goddess Which One Would You Pick?
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CAERUS Minor god of opportunity, luck and favorable moments

JoeBigelow, in If You Had to Worship or be the Champion of an Ancient Greek God/Goddess Which One Would You Pick?
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Hail Eris, Hail Discordia!

rob_t_firefly,
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🌭

agitatedpotato, (edited ) in Honestly - How much will you sacrifice for a better world?

Less and less as time goes on. Spent far too much of my youth sacrificing hoping a difference would be made only for it to leave me in a materially much worse situation. I should have just stayed in the major that would have gotten me a high paying job making weapons for the military and harming the environment rather than going into a science more designed to help people. If I were going to judge by personal outcomes and no other measure, that was the worst mistake of my life. I wish I could have been happy being part of the problem, because being part of the solution hasn’t helped myself or even materially advanced the solution.

waz,

Damn, I feel this comment so much.

littlebluespark, (edited ) in Honestly - How much will you sacrifice for a better world?
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Well over “35k plutocrats”.

SirDankbud, in If You Had to Worship or be the Champion of an Ancient Greek God/Goddess Which One Would You Pick?

Nike for the win!

fakir, (edited ) in Honestly - How much will you sacrifice for a better world?

Call me a coward, but I’m more of a problem solver. Within these tinted walls of depression, if I squint really hard, I can see the light in the corner. Yes, I do see the light. Don’t kill yourself, you’re more valuable just being there for your brothers, or better still, helping create the world we all want. We have no choice but to accept the current reality, and live with it every day, but still - keep your chin up, & keep working towards the future you want.

!we_are_one lemm.ee/c/we_are_one

Cowbee, in Honestly - How much will you sacrifice for a better world?

As much as I can without harming those who depend on me.

teft, in If You Had to Worship or be the Champion of an Ancient Greek God/Goddess Which One Would You Pick?
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Demeter. Goddess of agriculture, harvests, and the earth. She seems really chill and a hippy.

birthday_attack, in Honestly - How much will you sacrifice for a better world?

It’s always crazy to come into threads like these and see people say “I would murder as many elites as possible” without batting an eye, and in the same comment say “I could never give up hamburgers.” It’s some kind of insane self-soothing to throw all of the responsibility for a global issue onto a few scapegoats. It also shows that people have no intention of doing fuck all about climate change beyond typing up snarky comments on the internet.

People can misquote all kinds of studies they half remember to pretend that they have no responsibility for making changes, but that doesn’t make it true. Just as one example, first world countries’ per-capita rate of meat consumption alone is enough to push the world over our 1.5C warming target. But because it’s an inconvenience to make any changes to my life, I’m going to pretend I would personally kill scores of people rather than make a new recipe for dinner. We’re fucked

rekabis, (edited )

The CO2 impact of one member of the Parasite Class is usually in excess of 100,000 working-class people, and if a personal jets and yachts are involved, can exceed the impact of 1,000,000 working-class people.

So yes, violently denuding the Parasite Class (which can also be done via effective taxation; just saying) is an effective way to combat climate change, provided the outcome doesn’t involve the working class adopting more excessive lifestyles due to more a equitable distribution of wealth.

Garbanzo,

first world countries’ per-capita rate of meat consumption alone is enough to push the world over our 1.5C warming target

Gee, I wonder who lives there

KpntAutismus,

i love corn(?)-based meat patties, but i haven’t really seen any meat replacements like the impossible burger anywhere for sale where i live. people just don’t want to never taste meat again, a replacement would work fine. probably.

ani, in If You Had to Worship or be the Champion of an Ancient Greek God/Goddess Which One Would You Pick?

No, these things only lead to disappointment

Maddie, in If You Had to Worship or be the Champion of an Ancient Greek God/Goddess Which One Would You Pick?
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Hedone

Nemo, in Is there an artist whose work you love but was a shitty person?

Roman Polanski comes to mind.

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