november

Or is this just one of those things you're not supposed to think too hard about?

(Edit) lmao, people who've never heard this mantra whenever you say that maybe there should be less suffering in the world... I envy you.

This might just be a US thing, I don't know. But it seems like if I want to fly somewhere, the cheapest option is to choose the nonstop flight. If I pick a flight with a layover it always costs more.

I don't think it used to be this way! Flights with stops and layovers were cheaper because of the inconvenience. What's the point of picking one if they're more expensive?

Paywalled; archive link here.

I would have asked this on a math community but I couldn't find an active one.

In a spherical geometry, great circles are "straight lines". As such, a triangle can have two or even three right angles to it.

But what if you go the long way around the back of the sphere? Is that still a triangle?

(Edit:) I guess it's a triangle! Fair enough; I can't think of what else you would call it. Thanks, everyone.