phcorcoran

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[–] phcorcoran 14 points 1 week ago

(Someone else made it but I can't find the source)

[–] phcorcoran 102 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

(FYI I didn't make this and I believe it's fake but honestly it's hard to tell)

[–] phcorcoran 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I also didn't downvote, but maybe you would want to convey the information to your players that creatures here can use that spell without outright killing a PC in the first battle? Like "you guys should really watch your health points in this area" type of thing

[–] phcorcoran 3 points 1 month ago

The goal of 3rd party apps is to do what's best for the user so they continue to use their app

The goal of Reddit's official app is to do what's best for Reddit

It's possible to expand on the functionality but that's the fundamental misalignment on priorities regarding users

[–] phcorcoran 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In Canada, you legally pick up to 2 of your parents' last names for your last name

[–] phcorcoran 19 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I feel like censoring the O with a circle has to be satirical

[–] phcorcoran 3 points 1 month ago

Well, organometallic molecules are famously way more dangerous to us (e.g. mercury vs dimethylmercury), so it's not really controversial to say that pumping tons of tetraethyl lead directly into the air people breathe may have been worse than whatever can leach out of lead pipes or dishware.

Now that leaded gasoline is mostly phased out (except for avgas), I imagine the prevalence of lead poisoning will settle closer to what it may have been a millennia ago

[–] phcorcoran 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Awesome, thank you for taking the time to explore it more, that makes sense to me

[–] phcorcoran 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I'm curious, couldn't we define z as only 1/0? Then 2/0 would have to be factored to 2*(1/0) first and it would solve this specific example of things breaking. I haven't done advanced math in a while but your comment picked my curiosity haha

I remember 1/0 is pretty important in limits and stuff, it just seemed to me that this specific example seems not too hard to resolve

[–] phcorcoran 15 points 1 month ago

Superuser do? How about soviet worker do?!

[–] phcorcoran 2 points 2 months ago

I do agree with you on that. I think it's worth considering but it's not inherently decisive

[–] phcorcoran 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's typically the argument regarding being apprehensive about the government knowing your medical & family history; there's historical precedent of governments making very not good laws based on those.

Before WW2, the nazis basically outlawed being Jewish or Roma. A more recent example would be outlawing being gay or trans in some countries

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