[-] SimpleMachine@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Ignoring the obvious flaw of throwing out the importance of infinity here, they would be exceedingly unlikely but technically not unable. A random occurrence is just as likely to happen on try number 1 as it is on try number 10 billion. It doesn't become any more or less likely as iterations occur. This is an all too common failure of understanding how probabilities work.

[-] SimpleMachine@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

While this is a shit move by whoever is doing this, it makes virtually no difference for the presidential election. WA electoral votes are winner-takes-all, and always go Dem. A few burned boxes won't come close in making a difference for president, Biden won by almost a million votes in the last one. It will probably have a decent effect on local elections though.

[-] SimpleMachine@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

LG or Sony TV, never connected to the internet, with an Nvidia shield. There is nothing better at the moment.

[-] SimpleMachine@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if there was a political bias between people who are and aren't willing to answer phone calls and participate in polls.

[-] SimpleMachine@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Be angry at the sun for setting If these things anger you.

-Robinson Jeffers

[-] SimpleMachine@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago

The Hippocratic Oath is not a legally binding oath, and many doctors are not required to take this oath or any oath for that matter. Basically, at the end of the day, oaths only matter to the people who have the strength of character to hold to them no matter the cost and most people do not have that strength of character. Oaths mean nothing to those people when it comes down to it, it's just a thing that you said once, nothing more.

[-] SimpleMachine@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm not sure where you're getting this idea from but concussions are probably one of the plethora of shitty things that you actually aren't exposed to during training. Concussions and TBI are common because of close contact with explosives in combat zones mostly, not in training.

Of course I'm not defending the military and their practices, I was in the Marine Corps myself, this bit is just not true though.

[-] SimpleMachine@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Why would you ever sign into anything in incognito mode. Doesn't that pretty much defeat the whole purpose?

[-] SimpleMachine@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

My blu-ray player has never been connected to the internet and works just fine.

[-] SimpleMachine@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Updated the human immune system to function as intended. This will fix the following issues:

  1. There was a bug which allowed some microscopic entities to negatively impact the performance of human entities. This should no longer occur.

  2. Another bug that caused the immune system to improperly identify friendly or beneficial items as life threatening has been corrected.

  3. The immune system will no longer fail to recognize some cells that have corrupted genetic code. Should result in the elimination of the unintended cancer debuff that was introduced by the evolution process.

[-] SimpleMachine@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

If we knew for a fact that the Judeo-Christian god was real, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, etc would still all be religions. Just because the force is real in Star Wars doesn't change the fact that the doctrine around being a Jedi makes it a religion/faith.

[-] SimpleMachine@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

It's this kind of post right here why I will never be able to give up this particular type of social media.

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