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adnanclyde t1_j28d9mj wrote

Reply to Ever wonder if anyone else on the globe was ever watching the same exact show at the same timestamp by Double-Working1990

Pretending TV is not a thing... this is just a general case of the Birthday problem. In a 24h day, to get a 50% chance of 2 people watching in sync, you need 350 people for 1s precision, 11000 for 1ms precision.

So a popular youtube channel will have tons of people overlapping to 1ms precision in the first few days.

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hir04tr3dd1t t1_j28c466 wrote

Reply to A totally new species will eventually evolve to take over after humans drive themselves to extinction that will be adapted to whatever conditions we leave behind by Main-Thought6040 

 If intelligence and awareness of humanity were to be more advanced and developed, then the idea that human activities will led to extinction might seem to be impossible. In retrospect, past extinctions happened not because of self-driven causes but from natural events. Now these natural events in the present are mostly identified and have been compensated with various methods of prevention and mitigation because the capability of the human brain unlike any other species ever roamed on the surface of the Earth. 
 Issues relating natural abnormality even now, are being compensated for instance, earlier this year, humanity had successfully deflect an asteroid; it might seem to change a little bit on its orbit yet this proved that humans can, in the upcoming years, compensate a celestial impact from space. With the issues we're having in the world, awareness and action are just as needed to be able to re-program our lifestyles to adapt natural changes caused by us. With that being discussed, if things go smoothly with our development, we might ascend to another level of being humans or perhaps become interstellar explorers because after all, in about 5 billion years or so, our world will meet its end.
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silasgreenfront t1_j28c3vx wrote

Reply to Movies often cater to hatred of the rich, despite being produced by the rich with rich actors by ardynthecat

There's some truth to that. But most movies don't depict people as being worthy of hate purely for being rich. They depict the hateworthy rich as people who got their money through disreputable means or who use their wealth to abuse others.

And I think that's in line with the attitudes of the general public. Plenty of people despise rich investment bankers or insurance company executives but most of those same people don't hate wealthy surgeons or engineers. When people complain about the high cost of medication no one gets mad that the research scientists are paid well. But they hate big pharma CEOs.

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