chaosCruiser

joined 1 year ago
[–] chaosCruiser 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I haven’t been able to come up with a good explanation yet. Previously, I thought it was just plain stupidity and ignorance. Now, I think it might have something to do with the way media manipulates the masses. Still not satisfied with my own explanation though. Is it the culture? Modern tribalism? Cognitive biases? Who knows.

[–] chaosCruiser 36 points 2 months ago (4 children)

A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll found that 39% of U.S. adults approve of Trump’s handling of the presidency; a CNN/SSRS poll found that 41% of Americans approve; and a NBC News Stay Tuned Poll found that 45% of U.S. adults approve.

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Turns out, Trump is more popular than Musk, but all of these numbers are still amazingly high.

[–] chaosCruiser 1 points 2 months ago

The visualizations made be 3blue1brown make so much sense, and they also look cool.

[–] chaosCruiser 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It’s also about motivation. During the first years, you just study all the boring stuff nobody cares about. It takes years to get to the cool stuff, but by that time most students are already completely fed up with maths.

The problems in the books were extra dry, so I prefered to come up with my own problems and solutions. Like, one day I was wondering how long it would take for a super fast train to go from one side of the planet to another. What if you accelerated half the way at 1 g, and then decelerated at -1g. How long would it take? What would be the maximum velocity? I had so many questions, and that’s why I had plenty of motivation to figure it all out. That’s how I learn weird and random stuff.

What if you had a powerful laser that was able to evaporate stone? Let’s say you wanted to use it to drill a hole through stone, but you need to do it with the same rate as with a regular drill? Would you need a nuclear reactor just to power your super laser? My head is full of bizarre questions like this, so learning never stops.

[–] chaosCruiser 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I’ll just vacuum up all of those coins real quick. Just make sure nobody knows I did that, deal?

[–] chaosCruiser 1 points 2 months ago

It’s basically just an alternate home feed with the first 2 videos mildly related to what you were looking for. The rest are there to distract you from getting stuff done. The whole point is to boost engagement, watch time and all the other social media cancer terms.

[–] chaosCruiser 2 points 2 months ago

Well, that explains a lot. You must be new here.

[–] chaosCruiser 3 points 2 months ago

It’s a long standing tradition in c/nottheonion. You stumble upon a strange article, link it here and wait for the sweet sweet upvotes to roll in. As it stands, it looks like you were aiming for a different community, and missed.

[–] chaosCruiser 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

And the link?

[–] chaosCruiser 10 points 2 months ago

Simon Clark also made a video where he comments on that press release. It was tragic, hilarious, horrifying, surprising, disappointing and everything in between.

[–] chaosCruiser 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah! Show them who’s boss.

[–] chaosCruiser 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Really depends on how you intend to use Windows. Once upon a time I thought that was a great solution for communicating with an ancient piece of windows specific hardware. Turns out, you really need to keep that old W98 computer around unless you are willing to upgrade to new analysis hardware that costs about as much as a nice car. Home users probably never run into issues like this.

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