wuphysics87

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

Because they thought it was too 'woke' and wanted to burn the books.

FWIW you can download it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

Edit: Lots of good answers. When I ask the question I mean the main site. We would all have access to it. Hell I downloaded the text yesterday on two computers. I mean could the masses ever be denied access to wikipedia in the only form they are used to?

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

I took this as how do you install them so you can close and lock the doors at all. There are so many where you have to push the walls apart or lift the door with your foot before you can lock it

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 weeks ago

Do you pin favorites? If you don't, maybe that could help

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Are they at least solar? Because if they are I'm totally in

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Schadenfreude for the wicked is something we all indulge in, but prolonging pain rather than soothing it breeds hatred. Some kind of fuel for the onlookers, but what happens when you unchain the dog you've been beating? Someone's going to win. Perhaps your team because the ire is high. But sacrifices have to be made. Your kin may die. Is that an acceptable result? That's up to you to decide.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Perhaps in private, but not if you remind them.

Consider this. Your asshole detestable uncle loses his house. On the one hand you can text him and say you deserve what you get you piece of shit.

Or invite him over to watch a baseball game. Avoid politics. Quietly remind him not everyone is a piece of shit.

Which do you think will more likely change his mind? Or which one will he double down on, write it off as an accident, and go deeper down the hole. I took one for the team.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No you can't change the internet's mind, but how do people react to when ridiculed? How do you? I guess it all depends on what the end game is

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I wonder sometimes if it is self defeating to brow beat, say "I told you so", or rub someone's face in it. Enjoyable as it may be.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not really 'right' or 'wrong' it's under a fixed set of assumptions. You raise a valid point. What does happen to the top and the bottom? I was ignoring them considering only the sides in the two most extreme cases.

If I understand your case when the can is flatted the area gets much larger and when it gets taller it shrinks to a pin point. An equally valid approach

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Quick 'proof' the taller the can, the more material used:

Consider two cases ignoring the top and bottom only focussing on the surface area. In the first case, you flatten so much the can has no height. This forms a ring that when unwrapped makes a length of 2 pi R.

Now stretch the can to be 'infinitely' long. By construction, this is longer than 2 pi r. Given both are made of aluminum, and have the same density, the larger can has more mass requiring more material.

The total mass must be a continuous function ranging from the linear mass density times the circumference of the circle to the same mass density time times the 'length' of the infinite line. This must remain true for any small increase in length between the two.

I'll leave this as an exercise to the reader. What if the circle has an infinite radius?

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 month ago

Have you? AP calculus doesn't count.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Israel is guilty of genocide and will be held accountable. I understand this is the Israeli flag, but this meme is treading a line dangerously close to antisemitism. There are those who will not see a flag. They will see a symbol, The Star of David, many peaceful people display.

The Star of David globally represents millions of Jews who are among those most against the Israeli occupation. Not only do they have the same abhorance of the unspeakable violence committed against Palestinians, Israel has hijacked their religion, cultural heritage, and the symbol representing their their passivist philosophy.

Memes like this have the potential to create hardship for Jews in the same way Muslims were persecuted in the aftermath of 911. I have personally seen the defacement of mosques. The same has already happened to synagogues. A jokes may seem innoculous, but they can beget additional violence. Take caution when making ones such as this.

(Before someone fronts Reductio ad Hitlerum, the swastika and Star of David are not even remotely the same thing)

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