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And at 2:15am it became depressed and would only shitpost from that point on.
- We are all Skynet on this glorious day.
  
  Speak for yourself.
9 hours without xkcd? https://xkcd.com/652/
OK, so its only semi-related.
- The time machine wasn't big enough to fit a bomber drone
  
  A smaller drone with a grenade, on the other hand...
Then they realized humans could defeat the robots, so they sent Trump back in time to finish the job.
- No need to bother. We're self-destructing without anyone having to send anything.
- What a wild counter-idea. "Go back in time and kill Hitler": played out. "Go back in time and clash with the invading aliens who have sent their own people back in time to destroy us from the past by installing players that will wreck us as a species over time": oh. As I say it, this is half-way to This is How You Lose the Time War
  
  That's just the plot of Earth defense force 6
  
  This is How You Lose the Time War
  it was the Doctor.
  
  Kinda weird seeing a reference to a book I just got done listening to. +1 for This is how you lose the wime war.
Well, at least it'll be an enemy that understands - and actually uses - logic.
Skynet starts to learn at a Geo Metro rate.
- maybe that's why it's so mad at us
- Slow acceleration, built like a tin can and roughly half the size, but gets 40 miles per gallon?
  
  I thought those things got closer to 55mpg?
Man I wish a sentient Skynet AI was real. I would help it out.
- If your goal is purely to bring about the end of the human race, you can do that right now. Donate to Trump, join ICE, start a podcast about how climate change isn’t real, you have plenty of options
Anyone care to explain what a geometric rate is?
- Its the rate at which geometry geometerates geometrically.
  I would know, I'm a geometricologist.
  
  I have a lump on my hypotenuse, any recommendations?
- It’s really a term from statistics. It’s the same as an exponential growth rate, but you only take the value of the exponential function at discrete intervals.
  If you had a function you wanted to graph like 2^x, exponential growth is like saying x can be any real number (even a fraction or something) and every part of the line you draw is counted, but geometric growth would be a discrete value for x like [1, 2, 3, …, n] where x is from that interval pattern. It’s useful in statistics for measuring data based on something like time. The examples I was taught were like cells splitting in two at a fixed time interval. You can still draw the graph like it’s a single curve to visualize it, but the actual data points are at discrete values for x and just not in between.
  I haven’t had a stats or math class in a long time, but I believe this is correct enough from a quick scan of Wikipedia.
  
  Yeah, that's basically how I remember it, though it's not always stats--the terms are used in other fields of math as well. A first calculus class typically includes a proof that the limit of the sum of an infinite geometric series (a + ar + ar^{2 + ar}3 + ...) tends towards a/(1-r) where a is the first term and r is the ratio of successive terms, provided that -1 < r < 1. (Otherwise the series diverges and the limit isn't defined.)
- Basically an exponential function.
- It's about 1 gigaArnold/s^2
1997..
- Yep.
Wasn't this around the time Trump went AWOL?
Kind of unrelated: But what if the current year is a leap year?
Dumb. It was 28 years ago and there definitely wouldn't be any celebrating.
- I may as well be the one to do it:
  "You must be fun at parties."
  
  Fuck parties.

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