I used to think like this, but then I discovered the sequel song which would be utterly unnecessary if the devil actually won the first time. Technically the song is by a different artist, but Charlie Daniels played on the track and I’m going to count that as canon.

It’s been ten long years since the devil laid his fiddle at Johnny’s feet

And it burned inside his mind the way he suffered that defeat

Lyrics

You have to believe!

Yeah exactly, it’s not like websites turned out to be totally useless or anything: the bubble was that tons people were making websites for everything in the hopes that they would get investment and maybe figure out a purpose down the line if they felt like it. Values got inflated and then popped. Clearly though we still use websites for lots of things because they are a good way to exchange information and interact with users.

The AI bubble is the same. It’s garnering huge investment at the moment, its value is inflated, and eventually the market will pop. That doesn’t mean we won’t be using generative AI in the future or that it doesn’t have value at all. Some companies will survive, the sector will start to grow again more gradually and our fridges will have AI in them that does something actually useful.

I was distracted by the penis - that baby is going to hurt coming out

I have always been a fan of stable time loops so I guess option 2 is the best one for me.

One trope I’d like to see more of is loops which are not stable themselves, but are stable as a group. Eg a 2-loop has loop A in which someone goes back in time and changes history leading to a new timeline loop B. Someone in loop B later goes back in time and changes history in a way that turns the timeline back into loop A.

My headcanon is that your option 3 is basically an n-loop that we only see the first few loops of.

Yeah I think I was overcomplicating it in my head, I kept getting caught in the hows and whys of squaring everything in Pythagoras’ theorem, that maybe it could get around the problems of some being irrational and some not.

Ultimately I think you’re right that the scaling itself is the problem: scaling irrational numbers to be whole numbers generally won’t work outside of those specific cases.

Can there exist Pythagorean triples in which the leg lengths are not coprime with each other but both are coprime with the hypotenuse?

I don’t think so. Using the theorem, (an)² + (bn)² = c² … Algebra… c = n(root(a² + b²))

If c is a whole number, then the root must give a whole number, and therefore n divides c

If any of the values in (leg₁: leg₂: hypotenuse) are irrational, that does indeed mean the values cannot scale to be whole numbers?

Hypothetically I can see it working from the algebra. We can construct some trivial cases like taking 3:4:5 and dividing all those lengths by root(2). All lengths are now irrational and could be made whole by multiplying them all by root(2). We can also do it with different roots in a way that is hard to type on mobile but essentially involves breaking up, say, root(30) into component roots and having different pairs of components between the top and bottom of the fraction line but that is essentially the same thing as dividing them all by the same root. I can’t see a general way of doing it if they are not all irrational in the same way, though I am just a maths teacher not a proper researcher.

The classic, wrap paper into a large box shape (use a large box as a template if it helps but remove before sealing) then put a small gift inside. Very gently place it where it won’t get smashed, preferably after all the other presents have been placed or way at the back. Someone goes to grab it on Christmas morning and the box collapses under the slightest pressure.

I don’t think Trump understands the joke. No one is saying Musk is literally president, the point is he is so influential over Trump that he is calling the shots behind the scenes. Whether or not Musk is eligible to be president is irrelevant.

Nah clearly it’s a truth table

L    |    D    |    J = L V D
1    |    1    |    1
1    |    0    |    1
0    |    1    |    1
0    |    0    |    0

“we didn’t start the fire…”

Then burn the shit out of your hand trying to get the mug out

Depends where you draw the line between right and far right, but it’s certainly good. We will still end up with a centre-right government most likely, perhaps a sprinkle of left in there to make it to the 87 seats required for majority. I am crossing my fingers that FF and FG don’t try to make up their difference with aontú / II / right indys.

AI will analyse video of dirty bums and generate the exact pressure and aim required to get them clean.

Or maybe that’s not a sin 😏

I’m sure there’s some particular joy in doing this to your own house, but the city should hire this guy to do a big display in the city centre. Probably more adequate parking, people maybe make a night of it and go to local restaurants, you could pick your place to minimise upsetting neighbours.

You are the one actually paying the tax to the government, you work it out

Also they would only have to do it once per item, shoppers have to do it every time!

Hang on there based on the image, 7.95 billion alive today, 109 billion have lived and died, that’s like 93% death rate not 99.9%. Is there some other figure on the page you’re basing the 99.9% off?

After almost 700 episodes

No I’m sure the 200 episode special only came out a few years ago, this must be incorrect…