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I may or may not be any number of unfathomable beings.

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Only sort of, it still exists but it's a lot more compact now. And not super common as far as I know, like the other poster said here air cooling has come a long way. I've got a water cooled GTX 1080 Ti in my rig right now, but it's basically just a couple rubber tubes coming off the GPU leading to a little square radiator that I have a fan bolted to. It all sits inside the case (or, well, it's intended to... My case isn't quite large enough for everything I've got in it so I've got the radiator and fan a little bit jury-rigged to the front of my case right now. No biggie.)

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that goofy dude that likes to play dumb around electricity

You're probably talking about Electroboom, but also check out StyroPyro. Especially now, guy needs the views, he's going through some serious medical issues. Probably my favorite YouTube channel that exists.

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Literally every one of those names is one I would vote for if put on the ballot. The bar is that low. It is dangerously low, they could run anyone and people would show up to vote, red flags or not. We're mostly interested in taking a loan to pay the piper at this point, a future catastrophe can be dealt with after we deal with the current catastrophe.

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Fuck sake, why do you have to be right?

My immediate response was "well anyone who is paying attention absolutely would vote for one of them given the alternatives of Trump and Biden" but that's exactly the point, most people aren't paying enough attention. I can't even argue with that. And the people whose vote we have to court the most are the fence sitters who definitely especially aren't paying proper attention. Fuck.

I don't even have more to add to that, now I'm just depressed. Because you're right, I WOULD vote for Biden anyway even if I hate it, I said so myself, so I'm not even the target audience here. And Joe Moderate is going to ratchet us three clicks further right just in order to attempt preventing even worse.

On some level I definitely already knew all this but I have to say this is throwing it all into some pretty stark light.

Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Requires Public Schools to Teach the Bible ( www.nytimes.com )

Oklahoma’s state superintendent on Thursday directed all public schools to teach the Bible, including the Ten Commandments, in the latest conservative push testing the boundaries between religious instruction and public education....

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Cue 382 additional lawsuits regarding every other religion that has ever existed getting their own representation. I'm going to need a full semester class on Zoroastrianism.

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I'm from Louisiana, I feel like somewhere in my schooling I shared a class with Mike Truk and Bobson Dugnutt

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Sure, when you start decoupling the numbers from their actual values. The only thing this proves is that the fraction-to-decimal conversion is inaccurate. Your floating points (and for that matter, our mathematical model) don't have enough precision to appropriately model what the value of 7/9 actually is. The variation is negligible though, and that's the core of this, is the variation off what it actually is is so small as to be insignificant and, really undefinable to us - but that doesn't actually matter in practice, so we just ignore it or convert it. But at the end of the day 0.999... does not equal 1. A number which is not 1 is not equal to 1. That would be absurd. We're just bad at converting fractions in our current mathematical understanding.

Edit: wow, this has proven HIGHLY unpopular, probably because it's apparently incorrect. See below for about a dozen people educating me on math I've never heard of. The "intuitive" explanation on the Wikipedia page for this makes zero sense to me largely because I don't understand how and why a repeating decimal can be considered a real number. But I'll leave that to the math nerds and shut my mouth on the subject.

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That does very accurately sum up my understanding of the matter, thanks. I haven't been adding on to any of the other conversation in order to avoid putting my foot in my mouth further, but you've pretty much hit the nail on the head here. And the higher mathematics required to solve this halting problem are beyond me.

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I honestly think he might legitimately believe that a couple platoons of NK soldiers will clear this whole mess right up and then the world will have to take them seriously.

The North Korean leadership is not exactly well known for their excellent grasp of reality.

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I expected Bee Movie and I'm almost disappointed

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Oh yes, as opposed to Google or Microsoft who definitely aren't already data-sucking, predatory adware companies. No thanks, I'll stick with the lesser evil.

If you're going to lie to everyone at least make it sound believable.

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