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PointB1ank t1_jeg26e5 wrote

I was arguing with someone online this week that was saying we would be safer if 100% of society carried guns. I tried to explain how a lot of the altercations that happen daily- arguments, fights, road rage- would be escalated into gun violence if that happened. They weren't really understanding the concept, or even trying to tbh.

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TheDeadMurder t1_jeg26cx wrote

Contrary to popular belief, electricity doesn't work like how most people believe it does, such as electrons don't move through the wire and circuits don't need to be connected to work, the reason this is taught is because that's the simplest way to explain it

What happens is that electrons are accelerated and dump their energy into protons, then accelerated again by the magnetic field that forms when a power source and load are in a circuit, if you have an electric toothbrushes, wireless chargers

than that's how they work without happening to having to be plugged into by a cable, that's also how transformers covert a high voltage to a lower voltage since the gap between them the two circuits are insulted by enough air to reduce the voltage enough

In most cases, the air is a good enough insulator that this isn't an issue, but once you get to a high enough voltage you do like with your example of high voltage lines or Tesla coils

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atwegotsidetrekked t1_jeg261s wrote

Obviously you have Fascist tendencies. You want to restrict freedom in some weird (and not true) attempt of safety.

But, the only social media that has actually been successful in supporting the overthrow of the United States was Facebook. The only social media that used personal data to manipulate an election was Facebook.

It’s absolutely absurd

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IClight69 t1_jeg25fh wrote

It’s literally the job of a server to pay attention to their stations/ customers. If you think a mofo hasn’t seen stale bread face before. The lofnl.

But yeah, it’s the bulbs for sure… the dim ones.

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Chromotron t1_jeg24iz wrote

There are multiple ways to define Fibonacci numbers:

  • Set the first two to be 0 and 1, and every after as the sum of those two preceding it: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, ... .
  • The number of different ways to form a strip of fixed length by glueing strips of lengths 1 and 2 together.
  • The number of binary (only 0 and 1 allowed) sequences with a fixed number of digits, and 1s must not be consecutive.
  • Via Binet's formula as ( φ^n - (-1/φ)^n ) / sqrt(5).
  • [many more]

> how it it's supposed to be in all nature and that's sacres geometry...

That's a myth at best, and a lie at worst. There are some very few instances where they somewhat appear, but those are one in a million things. None of the claims of golden ratios appearing within humans, plants or animals has ever withstood scrutiny, sqrt(2), 1.5 and sqrt(3) are just as probable and nonsensical.

Edit: spelling.

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