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troyunrau, 6 months ago

In some countries, like Canada, directly advertising for prescription drugs is illegal. But the marketing folks behind the drugs find these sorts of legal loopholes. The “ask your doctor” line is a cover-your-ass version which is actually saying “Google it”.

troyunrau, 6 months ago

It’s fun getting commentary from newbies – makes me want to start a new run all fresh and innocent like :)

Maybe I’ll play something older, like BG2 or Planescape: Torment or something – to scratch that itch again

troyunrau, 6 months ago

I’m all about the leaded solder – but I also use it very infrequently and don’t worry about the motility of my swimmers ;)

troyunrau, 6 months ago

Took me a second

troyunrau, 6 months ago

Poor Holly

troyunrau, 6 months ago

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/c572f699-68a2-4a59-95f3-01d2150561a2.png

So just regular structural geology then?

troyunrau, 6 months ago

Yeah, they were mining chunks of it historically.

troyunrau, 6 months ago

Yeah – not so much encryption as compression haha.

troyunrau, 6 months ago

Aside from being a meme, the factoid isn’t even true.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking#Moons

All twenty known moons in the Solar System that are large enough to be round are tidally locked with their primaries [planets]

troyunrau, 6 months ago

Pedantically speaking, yes. At least some small moons do freely rotate. But they are all very small and very far from their parent planet. If you were on the surface, you wouldn’t see details.

Mars has two small moons close to it, but neither rotate relative to the surface. They’re also really small and zip about super fast so they’re cool for other reasons.

troyunrau, 6 months ago

This bus even has seatbelts. For the HSE committee members of the geo community.

troyunrau, 6 months ago

There’s a company in Winnipeg, Manitoba, called “Battery Man”. Which is funny on a lot of levels. They lean into batman symbols a lot. But also, Manitoba is often abbreviated as Man (historically it was our postal abbreviation and such).

troyunrau, 6 months ago

Ooh, I’ve met three of them on this list. Jean-Baptiste was the best though ;)

troyunrau, 6 months ago

I’d argue that it fails too much. So much so that it looks constructed to be as funny as possible.

troyunrau, 6 months ago

Game reference to Anbennar, a fantasy total conversion for EU4. Highly recommend if you’re an EU4 or Paradox fan.

troyunrau, 6 months ago

You made me search Amazon for “dice jail” and there are surprisingly more hits than I was expecting…

troyunrau, 6 months ago

Continental philosophy in a nutshell. Find some cool sciencey concept, and abstract it beyond anything that is reasonable.

troyunrau, 6 months ago

Continental philosophy is so named because the Brits referred to the philosophers in continental Europe thus. The opposing school is more generally known as analytical philosophy, and posits that rigorous logic can be applied to philosophy.

Continental philosophy: “love should be a dimension, just like time, that would be awesome.”

Analytical philosophy: “I’ll buy you a beer if you can prove to me that the electron exists.”

troyunrau, 6 months ago

Sort of. Continental philosophy is great if you’re a stoner, a hopeless romantic, have preconceived religious notions that your philosophy must have a carve out for, or if you write for Hollywood.

Sometimes you get all four. See for example, the “totally scientifically plausible movie, Interstellar!” which posits that love permits time travel… Which this meme format would work great for ;)

troyunrau, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

I’m a spatial-visual person, so when presented with this problem as a teenager, I instead solved it spatially. If you stack squares like.

█.
██.
███.
…

To the hundredth row, you get a shape that is a half filled square that is 100x100. Except the diagonal is fully filled in, so you need to add another 50.

So the answer was 0.5x100x100 + 0.5x100. Easy to visualize, easy to solve. 5050.

There’s a similar problem in sports – I was a teaching assistant for our rural school’s gym class so this one also popped up for me as a teenager. If you have 100 teams and each team needs to play each other team once… You fill in a similar grid, with the teams on both the x and y axis. The diagonal gets removed in this scenario because a team cannot play itself. So the answer is 0.5x100x100 - 0.5x100. 4950. Anyone who has ever tried to plan any sort of tournament can probably solve this intuitively, but 25 years ago I though I was the smartest gym class teaching assistant ever ;)