If I don’t have a bottle of water next to me, I won’t drink water. If I do have a bottle of water next to me, I’ll get distracted by it constantly and drink so much that I’m going to the bathroom every 5 minutes

Damn I just spoon peanut butter into my mouth lol

I can highly recommend symfonium as a front end for a jellyfin music library on android, it’s super clean and has tons of nice features.

Well, they are doing both

Take away the power to tit for your tats, and now you can be almost as nasty as you want.

The prisoner’s dilemma is of course, a highly simplified model. If you could just submit a strategy like “my opponent doesn’t get to play, so I take all the points” then yeah, that would beat tit for tat.

There’s plenty of bad shit here too.

The country voting to not recognise that the traditional owners deserve a voice.

Our government continuing to fuel the climate apocalypse.

Housing affordability is locking basically every young person out of the market.

A lot of my friends are losing their jobs because the economy says they aren’t profitable enough to employ.

Federal and state governments enacting policies to make it harder for independents to challenge them by restricting funding.

Fucking NIMBYs everywhere.

Detention centres still exist for some fucking reason.

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I cope with the US falling further by not living in the US, unfortunately I’m just privileged like that, sorry.

I have a few friends over there, and the state of things absolutely breaks my heart.

Sorry, I did shower maths and that’s always a bad idea. Ignore that whole thing. What I was thinking made sense in one particular way, but not in the way I had intended, so it’s completely meaningless.

On the criteria, the absolute maximum implies having a criteria and I just chose the assumption that essentially infinite money would give you the best chance of having “the best possible life.” I was just aiming for something order of magnitude so had to choose something arbitrarily.

If you can even define the best possible life in a meaningful way, then I’d say it’s absolutely 0% chance because to me, a single day of winter ruins it.

Edit: The below is all wrong, I’m good at abstract maths and really shit at numbers, forgive me.

I think you missed me saying “compared to a single human life.” Sure, there’s no way literally everyone will get “the best possible life” or something, but a single person has very roughly 5×10^9×1010÷10^2 is 5×10^17 attempts assuming a 100 year life span.

And you only have to get it once, ultimately the probability depends on whatever the criteria here is, which frankly I don’t know, assuming it just means “is a billionaire” that’s around a 2×10^-7 chance each time, assuming 2000 ish billionaires in a 10^10 population.

I tried plugging this into a binomial calculator but it couldn’t process it, but regardless that’s going to be some really good chances.

There are 8 billion peope alive right now, we’ve got 5 billion years until the sun dies. Compared to the length of a single human life, that might as well be an infinite number of tries.