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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Consistently, every time as far as I can tell, any communication forum or forum subsection of sufficient size that is done with open invitation under pretenses of "free speech" will bring in pedophiles and nazis that will take over if nothing is done about them, no matter the original intent.

[–] SpooneyOdin@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The Paradox of Tolerance in a nutshell...

Does anyone remember Voat? Man, that place went downhill real fast.

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[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Everyone is eventually going to die.

[–] reev@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's only an unfun fact if you make it one.

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[–] booty@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

my elbow had a small itch a moment ago, so i scratched it. the-more-you-know

[–] Ad4mWayn3@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

355/113 is the best fractional approximation of pi with less than 5 digits on both numerator and denominator, with 6 decimal digits of precision. It is constructed by taking the sequence of the first 3 odd numbers, each repeated exactly once, as such: "113355", then splitting the resulting string in halves, taking the first half as denominator, and the second as numerator.

A 4-set venn diagram can't be constructed with circles because it wouldn't show exclusive intersections between opposed sets.

A talks to B, B talks to C; A is married, C is not married. Therefore, a married person is talking to a non-married person.

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[–] NightAuthor@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

There are physicist, respected ones, that believe the universe is deterministic. That we don’t have free will.

And psychologists that believe that feeling of consciousness is a result of the brain developing a self-supervising function for higher order thinking.

Essentially free will is just an illusion.

[–] TrustingZebra@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What difference does it make?

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[–] corm@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ducky from Land Before Time was murdered by her step dad for being too famous

[–] Hyperi0n@lemmy.film 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Factually incorrect.

Judith Barsi (and her mother) was killed by her biological father before he killed himself.

There is no evidence pointing to any anger of fame. Both of her major roles (The Land Before Time and All Dogs Go To Heaven)were released after her death.

The father was an abusive drunk that threated to kill the family and himself multiple times.

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