Okay, but they definitely didn’t come into a place that was fine and make a mess.

(And if something is wrong, and you can intervene, you should. It doesn’t matter who you are; that’s just morality)

I have tried. They seem to think it’s weird. Oh well, family gatherings happen often enough, and there’s other legit excuses sometimes.

Yeah, someone posted a Russian soldier straight up shouldering a recoilless rifle somewhere here.

Like, mixing up ends is one thing, if you have vodka instead of training, but have you not played a video game or watched an action movie?

He’s a sea turtle now.

Ah yes, post-breakup Yugoslavia and Libya, famously places where everything was great there was no violence until the West showed up.

Iraq is a more legit example, since that was under false pretences, but like the other user noted most of NATO refused.

It’s Putin fans, so they’re probably saying NATO = homogay, and that’s bad.

[Shocked Turkey and Hungary sounds]

Sounds a bit like the mindfulness thing, as well. Thanks!

[Smell of tea and silly hats intensifies]

What were some of the others? Did the cost of living surprise you?

A lot of people who dream of moving to the first world seem to forget about that part.

Haven’t seen the video, but can probably still answer the question.

Basically, if the experiment is set up right, it’s not the obvious number you’d expect. It’s as if they’re passing notes to beat the measurements. (Although not enough to transmit novel information, which is another QM misconception)

If you want to understand it rigorously, this section of this article might help. Jargon is the only real thing that I can see that would be a barrier.

Ah, but you aren’t considering the downside risk that [insert badguy nation] invades us and turns us all into slaves.

Car or house insurance doesn’t turn a profit for the policyholder either. It’s not exactly the same thing, but in both cases it’s purely preventative, while still an economic good idea.

This is also a decent answer, using a different approximation. If someone asks again I’ll just say “a few orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude”, since it covers both. The discrepancy comes from me implicitly assuming more correlation between variations, of which there is some IRL.

Keep in mind some of them do nothing. If you just go by appearance, unrelated dead ringers already happen!

Human genetic code has maybe 0.2% variation in base pairs, the average individual gene has maybe 13 thousand base pairs, and the whole code has about 3.1 billion base pairs.

This is crappy, quick and dirty math, but this might be one of those high-complexity situations (like weather modeling) where minimal detail can be closer to the truth than an intermediate amount anyway. So, we’ll model it as a random selection of 0.2% differentiated genes, meaning ~240,000 take ~500, which comes out to a number with 1556 digits. The amount needed to get a 50/50 chance of a repeat will be lower, with 777, almost 778 digits.

If you allow weird, implausible and mostly stillborn combinations it’s closer to 2^~240,000 . If you include mutations, it gets much much higher to the point of basically being undefined. It’s more about how many changes is still human, and after that how big a genome a cell can handle.

Actually, literally why not. I bet you could come up with some kind of actuarial argument about what being undefended would cost us, on average.

I’m sure, like when I do that, that they totally understand and love it. /s

If this is the last straw to leave it, sure, that’s worth it.

As it is it just sounded like spite, though. C’mon, it’s been years and the dude just wants a yes or no so he can move on.

Typical, leaving an avalanche of comments from the same domain and then acting all innocent.

It’s Zelensky’s first language, even. I think he avoids it now, but if it’s that or English I would hope there’d be no judgement.

Edit: And it shares a lot of vocabulary and ~all grammar with Russian, anyway.

TBH I think the dog started it. And given the injuries were minor, the moose was being uncharacteristically restrained about it all.