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Ok_Lifeguard_6508 t1_jaamqfv wrote

Reply to comment by SpiteAspect in All the drinking glasses in the world are technically always full and have never been anything less than full. by Few-Opportunity-5196

Of course not because the conrods will bend first. But as an awake person I can now remember that water is indeed denser at great depth (to an extent that is reflectee in the anatomy of the fish that live there). So it is compressible it's just not easy.

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RubyTavi OP t1_jaakbtp wrote

Reply to comment by Paradise_Princess in Realizing that there is nothing unique about you can be both very comforting and very appalling. by RubyTavi

Yes, exactly! And sometimes it's a comfort to think, I am not the only person who has experienced something (hence: support groups), or that the fate of the world does not rest upon some insight that only I have had.

I felt better once I began to understand large numbers and realized just how unlikely it was that out of 8 billion people, I should just happen to have been the one born to be the best or only whatever.

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