“I’ll shit myself so others will need to smell it”

That’s incredibly on-brand for Trump in so many ways.

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But the title of the article is “Did ‘The Simpsons’ Predict President Trump’s Death”. And it’s rated “false”. If The Simpsons did predict his death, just not as indicated by the specific image mentioned in the article, surely that would be mentioned and the overall rating would be something like “mixture” rather than “false”.

I suppose unless The Simpsons predicted his death in an episode released after that Snopes article was written. In which case, fair point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di7dZwidXZU

I’m a sucker for an OP protagonist. I love Solo Leveling. Reincarnated as a Slime has some good moments. And of course DBZ is great.

Yes, this is a shitpost community, but I still feel obligated to make sure folks know this isn’t real.

Dissociate me, Mommy.

…asks a user whose username makes it seem that they pretty certainly know exactly what’s wrong with that website.

You know, OP, you’re right. Pikachu does rule.

Probably goes well with mushrooms.

Erasable pen. Just because I’m contrary.

Please tell me “rectify” does not mean “insert into a rectum.”

That’s awesome! Welcome to the club and don’t be afraid to explore your system and ask questions!

This needs to be crossposted to !foodcrimes@midwest.social .

You’re not wrong, but…

The arabic numererals we use in our primary base-10 system are very arbitrary. There’s no connection between the around-a-tree-around-a-tree numeral “3” we use to represent the number after the candy-cane-with-a-shoe numeral “2” and the concept of the number 3.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. What if the numerals in our base-60 system themselves followed a pattern.

One of the simpler and more straightforward ways of doing that (that might not work well in practice, at least not for hand-written numerals) would be just to make each numeral in our base-60 system be a vertical line of 6 marks, each either a dot or a dash. We could use that then to encode a single digit in our base-60 system using base-2 digits.

For instance:

 . .
 . .
 . _
 . .
 _ _
 . .

Would be (1*2^1)*60^1+(1*2^3+1*2^1)*60^0 = 2*60^1+10*60^0 = 120+10 = 130.

Viola! Base-60 with (handwave, mutter, qualify) only 2 numerals!

There are downsides to this as well. For instance, you’d have to not consider certain patterns valid. Six base-2 digits can encode numbers up to 63, so you’d just have to throw away the last four and say you’re not allowed to put a 60, 61, 62, or 63 in a single digit. (Also, we’d need language to differentiate between the base-2 digits and the base-60 digits in the same exact number system.)

Not the only way it could be approached, but it’s an option.

Akshully, though…

The thing with base 60 is that 60 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Also, notably, 12. And 10.

It’s pretty trivial to divide anything in base 10 by either 2 or by 5, right? That’s specifically because 10 is divisible by 2 and 5.

But try to divide some nice round number like 10 by 3 and you can’t even represent that in decimal without stating that “oh, and by the way, these threes go on forever.”

Ever wonder why so many things come in dozens? It’s largely because 12 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, and 4.

10, though? When was the last time you needed to divide things evenly by five? It’s so much more common to want to divide by 3.

So in short, base 60 honestly has some significant benefits over base 10.

But, really, haha “sex”, am I right?

I suspect the error it’s making is that it knows that pi is approximately “3.14159265359…” and it knows (maybe) how to just look at the last digit of a number represented as a string, so it just grabbed that “9” at the end before the ellipses.

Though, that kinda makes it funnier/wronger given that that “9” is actually rounded up from an 8. 3.1415926535897932…

Now ask it what the last digit of pi that starts with the letter “B” is.

(There’s a guy named “Magnus Carlsen” who is arguably the best chess player of all time.)

I once tasked the AI DeepSeek

The building of a distro to achieve

With while true ; do beep ; done

As PID 1

AI dubbed the poor distro “Kill Me”

Yeah, I’ve written about my experience with long COVID once or twice. I’m one of the lucky ones who has finally gotten to “mostly recovered”. Lots of people have had it much worse than me. Dianna Cowern/Physics Girl for just one example.

I’m still iso-fuckin-lating like it’s August 2020, though. I have no idea what would happen to me if I got COVID again.