The way a lot of it works out in the bible, is that when you die right now. you die. There is no afterlife, you're in the grave. thats it. but then during the end times mentioned in 20:13-15, ALL the dead people are resurrected. And then the good ones get to stay alive and the bad ones go back to being dead. Thus a second death. So there is no "afterlife" then either... you are either eternally alive after armageddon, or eternally dead.

Being dead is basically just being non-existant. Fully unaware of anything. Which if you are to believe the bible, that means you're cut off from god entirely, who despite having just murdered basically everyone, is supposedly pure love and joy. So the end result is living in eternal bliss that is so great that you can't even fathom, or being cut off from that and never even having a possibility of anything. FOMO of god is the ultimate punishment.

I'm not even a religious person and the existential dread of "if it's truly nothingness after I die, i won't even have a way to experience the nothingness, everything will just stop" is enough to keep me awake some nights. So I can see how eternal nothingness was enough for the original authors to be considered horrifying consequence for not being religious enough, without having to resort to eternal physical torture.

If we're ackshually things, lets cover the references to the lake of fire in the bible.

In revelations 19:20, there is the beast and the false prophet being tossed into the lake of fire.

In revelations 20:9, a bunch of people are explicitly consumed by fire from heaven. Consumed, not burned forever.

Then in revelations 20:10, the devil is added to the lake of fire with the beast and false prophet, and those three burn forever. But not the common folk.

Lastly, in revelations 20:13-15, hades and death give up their dead, and people are judged. Bad people are tossed into the lake of fire, explicitly labeled as a second death, but not mentioned as being eternal torment.

So in conclusion, the devil himself is spending eternity burning in the lake of "fire" (not lava or magma, nor is it underground, this is the apocalypse, this is happening on the surface of the planet that is being bombarded with heavenly shit), he's not doing any torturing there. He is also not the one sending people there, and sinners don't burn forever, they die when cast into the fire.

Both sides are being unbearably obstinate here.

The teacher's meaning is clear and the kid should just answer what is being asked, not what is being said. So the kid is in the wrong. If you're smart enough to be this clever, just answer the question.

The teacher says "You are wrong, failed" when the kid is technically correct, instead of clarifying the intent of the question. So the teacher is in the wrong. "Clever, but you know what I meant" solves the problem. "You get an A in math and an F in interpreting language"

On the flip side, I had a cousin who had a question on a test: "What is the largest SI prefix" ... he answered "yotta" (which at the time was the largest)... And got it wrong. because the "correct" answer was "mega". Because that was the largest the class had learned about at the time, and the teacher was very inflexible on this; they acknowledged that yotta was the largest, but my cousin had learned about it outside of class, so it couldn't be an acceptable answer. The teacher couldn't possibly fathom marking "mega" right for students who had only context from the classroom and also marking "yotta" right for students who had done independent research. No, the question was IMPLIED to be "what is the largest SI prefix [that we have covered in class]" and anything else was wrong.

Looks like n of a kind results in (n^2-n)/2 pairs. (Which is the same as the sum of 1...(n-1))

5 of a kind would be 10 pairs. 6 of a kind would be 15, etc

That didn't take long.

I don't fully disagree with you. I personally don't pirate things (I can afford to just pay up front, and if I don't want to support a dev, I just fully don't play the game, I don't want to accidentally be lumped into any metrics that might show support), but the game dev themselves said "No skin off our back".

If I steal your car, you no longer have a car. If I steal your game, you've lost absolutely nothing. Code is infinitely reproducible. You're only out the sale.

This dev made art, and they care more about sharing the art they created with more people, than they do about getting every last transaction paid for.

It's usually the publisher that has strong opinions about this, because they didn't make the art nor do they care about people seeing it. they only care about getting the money, but again, if you can't afford it, they were never going to get your money anyway. It's technically a victimless crime. No skin off anyone's back.

The issue is when enough people who CAN afford to pay use the "no skin off their back" logic to not pay, and a good game winds up not being profitable (or profitable enough to the publisher) and a studio suffers as a result.

Everything is coming up Milhouse!

Homer floods the town in the name of art?

Also if the alternative was "no money, still can't buy the game" then they are losing no money in the process anyway.

my rant was not about your meme. But people actually use this argument seriously, and that frustrates me.

And I will admit that learning a new system has a time cost, but once you reach experience parity, the time cost per problem is less, and the number of problems is less. In that way, the "time spent" is an investment rather than wasted.

So A+ meme, it triggered me in all the ways it was supposed to.

Don't have to spend time troubleshooting if you just never fix the BSOD and just kinda live with it. Point for windows

The thing I hate about the "value your time" argument is that windows is shit.

Let's be generous for a minute and assume that windows and linux have the same amount of problems. Someone who is on windows for the past 30 years has 30 years of acquired knowledge and will probably know quickly how to solve it on windows, but not linux. Someone who is on linux for the past 30 years has 30 years of acquired knowledge and will probably know quickly how to solve it on linux, but not windows.

So the entire argument is just "but I have muscle memory tied to windows, and I already know how to solve those problems, but I dont know how to solve the linux ones, so they take me a lot of research and time to solve, therefore all linux problems always take a lot more time to solve"

On windows, I have to spend time fighting BSODs and finding out where to download software from that isn't just bloated up with viruses, and how to run registry hacks to get rid of start menu ads and to stop microsoft from phoning home. None of those things i have to do on linux.

On linux, today my biggest issue was figuring out how to change the keybinding for taking a screenshot... And that was an easy issue, but it's also not even possible on windows.

So I guess different types of problems. My "wasted" time is customizing my OS/environment so it works the way I want it to, not trying to fight back any ounce of control.

I mean, it's not like they had the name available to them when they made the meme. It's not like they could just look at the words they were referencing to see the proper way to spell it.

Sure. but there are plenty of reasons to not read other than "uneducated". And associating ability to focus with intelligence and education isn't fair either.

If an American couldn't tell me how many states there are, I would question their intelligence or education.

If an American told me that they don't read books, I would just assume they find books boring.

I also hate "reading a book" as a proxy metric for intelligence. I know plenty of cultured smart people who watch documentaries but don't read. And I know some dense, not that bright people who read a lot of Twilight style books.

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I had always heard this one as:

If a stork brings babies, what kind of bird doesn't bring babies?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152137/xbox-hi-fi-rush-tango-gameworks-matt-booty

Oh i know. microsoft should buy tango gameworks! Brilliant. solved their problems for them.

The circle was proposed by experts who said "if you're going to build something this dumb, a circle will require much less space and cause less problems for animal migration patterns" and promptly ignored by MBS.

tl;dw - MBS murders anyone who opposes him, so no one will tell him it's a bad idea (Jamal Khashoggi voiced opposition to the plan). Also, it's a bit of a stunt to attract tourists (compared to something like the Burj Khalifa) and has a bunch of promises that are just patently not viable, as opposed to an actually thought out project. ~24m into the video, the proposal for a circle is dropped in as a better alternative (albeit still crazy)

Is the rest of Europe strictly metric, or are most countries a complete mess like this but just like feeling smug?