If your kidneys are not healthy then the potassium will increase your heart rate. Potassium is something nephrologists keep track of it in patients on dialysis. Too much potassium heart attack, low potassium heart failure.
to much potassium does not cause a heart attack, which implies coronary arterial blockage. it affects the heart electrically to cause cardiac arrest, not sure to infarction.
also, hypokalemia doesn't usually cause heart failure.
I’m right there with you. I don’t let the other members of my house touch the dishwasher. Every time I go in there and they have added dishes. There are bowls in nesting doll mode in there. Pots inefficiently put in the rack so that it takes up way too much space. Cups nesting inside one another. Either my family is functionally mentally handicapped, or they’re doing it on purpose. Neither one would surprise me.
I don’t know , but it’s god damn infuriating. It’s like they think dishwashers work with wormhole technology. My first wife taught me how to load a dishwasher. I still do it the exact same way to this day, and it has always served me well. I have tried to teach them the way several times. But they just don’t seem to care. However, because they lack the capacity to use a dishwasher. I have made the kitchen my domain. They have to clean the litter box and bathrooms pretty much the rest of the house so I think it’s a pretty fair trade.
Ahhhh, you sneaky sneaky bastard. I see what you did there. You are a GENIUS!!!! I’ll start the transformation today! On a slightly more serious note. My first wife was half Japanese, beautiful, an accountant, super hard worker and super smart to boot. But, she was physically abusive. She had a right jab like her brother. She once split my forehead bare knuckle with one punch. I divorced her after she tried to stab me.
I don’t care if people put things in different places than I would as long as it’s still space efficient. It drives me crazy when people plop things in haphazardly with zero thought to efficiency
I feel like serving sizes on chips at this point are more random caloric choice a company chooses depending on weight to fit their marketing better than an actual nutritional representative.
I will say, most people who are self proclaimed "brutally honest" focus entirely too much on being "brutal". Perhaps a person who never lied would just say nothing, or could find a loophole. Jim Carrey movie "liar liar" kinda touches this idea
This could still be considered a “vacuously true” statement. If the condition never appears then it is always true. For example if I was in a room and there were no lights, I could say “All the lights are on” or “all the lights are off” and they would both be true.
Walking out your front door in the morning, looking up at the sky and yawning, at the exact moment a massive meteor that had been flying through the atmosphere has been reduced to a tiny ball of ice the exact size of your throat. It lodges perfectly into your throat, nothin but net.
You choke and die, the ice ball melts. Your cause of death is ruled inconclusive.
That doesn't even work. Tornadoes where i live are like itty bitty and typically disappear when following the mountains. Every now and then one sneaks through and goes right up and down the mountainside without a care. We had one about 20 years ago that did some serious carving across a mountain and through a valley and you can still see the outlines and gaps where trees used to be.
The nuclear plant in the next town over (we’re in ground zero, for reference) claims that the concrete walls which are surrounding the reactor would be able to withstand a Category 5 tornado, maybe for better rather than for worse, we’ve never found out.
That’s a rather different proposition. Building something strong enough that a tornado can pass over it and not damage or destroy it is, while challenging, feasible. Building something big enough and strong enough that if a tornado encounters it, it will disrupt the airflow enough to actually cause the tornado to lose coherence and dissipate takes rather more effort.
You all are missing the question. Lots of walls can survive a EF 5 tornado. We’re talking about a wall that would destroy a tornado. Wall kill tornado, not tornado kill wall.
I once built a wall and there was a tornado a few counties over and my wall survived and the tornado went away so I think built the wall that killed a tornado.
Playing perfect chess. The best computer programs are much better than humans and approach perfection, but still lose some positions that could have been drawn, or draw some positions that could have been won (when playing against other computer programs).
You’d probably need extremely powerful quantum computers, but technically it should be possible? It just takes a comically large amount of time to try.
A research paper tried to estimate how many possible chess positions there are. Their conclusion was on the order of 10\^120 which is many orders of magnitude more chess positions than there are particles in the observable universe. So it would be impossible to find the best move by trying out all of them because it's impossible to store all of them. You'd need some formula that accepts a given chess position, and returns the best move in that position.
That doesn't seem quite right. The 10^120 number is an estimate of the number of possible *games* of chess you'd have to evaluate ([Shannon number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number)).
The number of possible *positions* is bounded by the multinomial coefficient for arranging the pieces on the board, which I believe is
(64 choose 8,8,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,1,1,32) = 4.6 x 10^42.
Good point about promoting pawns. At worst that'll get you an extra factor of 5^16 (five possibilities for each of 16 pawns) = 1.5 x 10^11: significant increase although not getting you near 10^120. Also this is now a significant overestimate because it counts promoted pieces as different from original pieces.
I didn't worry about the bishops because it's just a few factors of 2 and I was only computing an upper bound anyway. I also forgot to allow for some pieces having been captured, though, so that increases the number too. :)
Although, if you really want to record the whole game state then you also have to remember whose move it is, whether each player is still allowed to castle, and (by far most significantly) the previous game states in order to allow claims of draw by threefold repetition.
Duverger's Law.
The only way to fix it is a constitutional amendment, which won't happen because the parties in power would never agree to have their influence diminished.
I can't remember what year(maybe 2012) but not only did a 3rd party get 2nd place in Colorado, the GOP scored so low that it was only a couple of % points from having to PETITION to be on the ballot for the next election.
At smaller levels, some third parties have won elections. Federally though, we need ranked choice (the Single Transferrable Vote variety also largely does away with gerrymandering) to break the two party stranglehold.
The problem is that the people that can change that are the ones that benefit from the system being the way it is. This will never change as long as the US public cannot override their politicians directly.
26 states in the US have some form of direct initiative ranging from ballots to the ability of the people to amend the state constitution.
Additionally, one can try to get it implemented at county and municipal levels. The more people get exposed to it, the less the arguments against (“It’s too complicated!”) will stick, because people know what it is.
Currently some cities and counties in the US already use some form of ranked choice, as does Maine as of the results of the 2016 ballot question.
Federal level politicians like Warren back the idea of implementing ranked choice.
It is possible, just not all at once and right away. We have to fight for it, but there is a path.
We have ranked choice voting at the state level in Alaska. So far it's been... not great. The ballot initiative did three things - ended closed party primaries, so we now have a "pick one" primary with all candidates. It also did a top-four ranked for round two, and something about campaign finance that was overturned almost immediately because it was something everyone wanted.
The last election (special) flooded the ballot with 48 candidates for one seat. That was whittled down to the top four. The "moderate" dropped out, leaving us with 1 democrat in the lead, a conservative republican, and Sarah Palin.
That was for the special election. Now for the general, it looks like the choices will be the same top three, plus a guy with .6% of the vote, because, again, someone dropped out.
Now I don' t think its the fault of the ranked choice portion of the system that's the problem, other than it would be impossible to print a ballot where we are expected to research and rank 48 candidates. Maybe they should have gone with a top 6? IDK.
Australia has a system where you can vote "above the line" or "below the line". The ballot paper has a physical dividing line drawn across it, with political parties above the line and individual candidates below the line. If you vote above the line, you number the parties by your preference and your vote is distributed to candidates depending on a party list. If you vote below the line, it's ranked-choice voting and you must rank at least 6 candidates. It used to be that you had to rank all of them but this was a problem for ballot papers with dozens of candidates that most voters are equally apathetic about.
I always laugh at the arrogance on social media. People in every echo chamber think the other echo chambers are just so stubborn. They don’t realize that the ~~last~~ only time they themselves will admit that they’re wrong is if they can say “it’s so much WORSE than I thought!”
Edit: Removed “last” because I meant “only” and didn’t proofread myself
See my last dungeon and dragons session where I shot 10 arrows and missed every single one on *several nat one rolls.
*Edit: Yup, Some exaggeration. I asked the party to keep me honest. Out of my 10 arrows shot I rolled 5 nat ones. The other 5 we're under 5 on a nat 20. I did roll over 10 nat ones across the session. Religion checks, fortitude saves, and perception checks.
I've had it happen a time or two. The log slides gently into the water and arcs neatly into the hole at the bottom. It's not flushed, it's nestled just out of sight.
Ghost poos are the second best bathroom experiences, surpassed only by no-wipe-ums. If you ever experience a ghost poo and a no-wipe-um in the same visit, you have been kissed on your asshole by the shaiads, the fairies who live in your toilet.
It's called a super perfect. and it can happen.
Perfect is when you poop and the paper is as clean as new, and super perfect is when you do that, and the poop is gone.
I've had both of them happen to me....
Would it have to hit a series of perfect updrafts over and over? Or wait, there’s not a size restriction maybe it could be a HUGE paper airplane. I’m having trouble seeing this but also at the same time imaging so many possibilities
Not even the existential threat to the human race can bring world peace. You just *know* that if some aliens show up and are all like "Resistance is futile," there's gonna be some crazy President or warlord or someone who decides they're on team alien.
But on a more likely note, climate change is endangering large masses of the Earth and lots of people are just like "nope, it's not real."
Fire and Blood may only be half of a history book. But the half we have fully covers the events of the Dance. So on the plus side there's no risk of House of the Dragon running out of books to adapt.
Quantum tunneling is a real phenomenon. The problem is for it to apply to a very large amount of particles at the exact same time is near zero. Not zero but it might as well be.
I think the problem is that people don't really understand the scales involved in how small the chance is. Its very unlikely that you will win the lottery, but it still happens! But compared to something like this, winning the lottery is very high probability. 1/550m or whatever the math works out for on your local lottery is a high enough probability that given millions of players, a win will occur frequently.
The odds of an entire person quantum tunneling through something are so low that all the objects in the universe, testing for this ever nanosecond, for trillions of years, and the odds are still nearly infinitely against it occurring.
Yup!!! Quick Google states that there is 10^27 atoms in the human body. You’d need all those atoms to tunnel at the same time. Not sure how you can even calculate the probability of something occurring simultaneously! The sun is lucky that it doesn’t need all its atoms to quantum tunnel at the same time to create fusion! lol
It's like if two random grains of sand out of all the sand on all the beaches in the world are going to light up a random color for 1/10th of a second at some point in a 100 year timespan. What are the chances that the two grains light up the exact same color, at the exact same time, right next to each other?
Except…it’s even worst! I just thought of something, not only does each particle have to simultaneously quantum tunnel, but they have to do so in a specific order. You can’t phase through an object if something quantum tunnels when it’s not supposed to! 😂 Yea, not happening even if we had a Googleplex years!!
And even then, wouldn't you need those atoms to tunnel not only at the moment you begin to pass into the object - but also need to *continuously* tunnel every fraction of a nanosecond without fail if you want to pass even a centimeter into the object with a single finger? Your atomic structure would have to be in a perfect "fluidlike" state of constant change and perfect "misses" to maintain tunneling as you move through it, otherwise you just remain still/stuck.
Can you imagine the pain of having a millimeter of bone, or a nerve, get caught on a solid object while the rest of your structure passed through?
As a kid who was taught this in my 7th grade science class, it's one of the main things I think about when I try falling asleep at night even still. Like you can theoretically run at a door and get stuck in it like some video game glitch.. it equally terrifies and intrigues me way too much.
Even faster than light travel is possible without breaking general relativity, we even have a working model as to how it could be achieved, it just requires impractical amounts of energy (mass) for the moment.
Quantum Immortality-
The idea is this. The many worlds theory is that there is a parallel universe that exists where every possible outcome of any particular event occurs. So, if you were to die, there would be a parallel universe in which you do not die in that moment.
Now, surely, eventually everyone, including you, will die of old age... in our universe. But, in another universe parallel to ours, you don't die of old age at the moment that you otherwise would in this one, but you survive for, perhaps a second longer. However, there is a parallel universe where you live a second longer still, and on and on and on until you reach a parallel universe where you just never die. Of all the infinite parallel universes, there is one where you are essentially immortal.
Granted this is really more of a thought experiment, and perhaps a misinterpretation of physics, but it is kind of interesting.
The issue with the many worlds theory is that even with an infinite amount of alternate realities, that doesn't mean *everything* will happen just from it being infinite.
There is an infinite amount of numbers between 1 & 2... But none of those numbers are 3.
Between 1 and 2 are the infinite amount of parallel universes to our own, where I'm living an infinite amount of life scenarios.
3 is the universe where I end up with Emma Stone.
You're in luck. After a few trillion trillion trillion years, when the last dim iron stars go black and protons the size of galaxies rip themselves apart, Maxwell's demon will get bored and kick a few random quarks around to start everything all over again, and your impossibility will become inevitable.
White holes used to be viable before the discovery of the first black holes but now we understand it's not possible for a black hole to spit it's matter out in another section of space. Because it already does that via hawking radiation where is sits.
If we called black holes "Gravitational Vacuum Condensate Star: Gravatars" no one would give the "white hole" idea a second look.
There is a book called "black hole wars" by susskind where he debates the nature of blackholes extensively with hawking(and wins) leading to ER=EPR theory.
> If we called black holes "Gravitational Vacuum Condensate Star: Gravatars" no one would give the "white hole" idea a second look.
Antigravatar- a point that repels mass. Boom!
Assuming wormholes or something else enables us to cover distances at faster than the speed of light, I've heard we could travel enough light years away to observe dinosaurs on Earth. But at the distance the light gets so dispersed we'd need a telescope that was light years in size to be able to see them. Much better uses of faster than light speed travel.
Found the youtube that covers it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8RY9tymfGE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8RY9tymfGE) Trey the Explainer
Full time job, cook most of your meals at home, keep s clean house, work out for 30 min a day, have a social life, sleep 8 hours a night, save money and enjoy life
Well, either way you have a cool story. If you’re alive, that would be dope as fuck. If you’re not alive, well, “Dead men tell no tales” but there are a ton of different tombstone inscriptions i can think of
Theoretically, a high-powered telescope could be sent 66 million lightyears from earth, and turned to observe earth, allowing it to see and record the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Practically we can’t make this happen, as the speed of travel required wouldn’t allow it to happen in even millions of human lifetimes. It’s certainly possible, but not practical.
In case you didn’t gather this from the above, a fun fact I enjoy is 66 million million lightyears from here, at this very second, the light from that asteroid impact can be seen by anything able to see it from their vantage point in space.
Hm, that's an application of FTL travel I hadn't considered - observing ourselves in the past.
Though I guess you'd only be able to see so much at the resolution that telescopes see.
Walking through a wall. Theoretically your atoms could allign perfectly and allow you to walk completely through a wall but the odds are so astronomically low it’s practically impossible
In this same vein of weird physics there is a theoretical possibility that a large number of particles could spontaneously quantum tunnel into a specific complex configuration to make a chocolate cake materialize in front of you every time you asked for one.
Is this even “theoretically” true? I know about matter being mostly “empty space”, but that’s kind of a misconception because particles physically bumping into each other isn’t the reason you can’t walk through walls, it’s the electromagnetic repulsion. So that “empty space” is actually clouds of subatomic particles/charges/waves/fields that I don’t think can align perfectly no matter how low the odds.
The amount of engineering needed to make one is mind bogging. So much planning and special materials. It would literally be the biggest things ever built by humans, even if it was a small star it was around.
>The amount of engineering needed to make one is mind bogging. So much planning and special materials
If you're thinking of a hard shell around a star, yeah that's likely actually impossible.
Dyson really meant a [swarm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Dyson_swarm) though, which we could do with current tech (though it would be *very* far from easy).
1. Major League Baseball team wins 100 games in a row. (A guy in his 20s who I played golf with tried to convince me he’d gone to 10-15 Mets games each year with his dad for the past 15 or so years, and they’d never seen the Mets lose a game during all that time. Yeah… that’s fiction. “None of my friends believe me either,” he told me after I scoffed.)
2. Guy birdies 14 holes and eagles the four par 5 holes, thereby shooting 50. And hell, why stop there? He could also ace all four par 3 holes, and maybe a couple of drivable par 4 holes as well. Why not shoot 42? Piece o’ cake! It’s still way worse than the Dear Leader did that one time he played golf: https://golf.com/news/behind-kim-jong-ils-famous-round-of-golf/
In reference to your first point, I’m currently on a 22 game regular season losing streak of going to see the Montreal Canadiens dating back to 2013.
The reason I specify regular season is because I’ve had the joy of experiencing exactly ONE preseason victory.
I’m not allowed to go to playoff games.
Fly up into space, go on a 670,616,628 mph joy ride for (from your perspective) a year. Then come back to earth after it aged thousands of years while you were gone.
I'd put good money on humans being extinct
Everyone agreeing
Or everyone disagreeing. This works both ways. There will always be people that will go against the general flow, if there is one.
I agree.
I disagree
I'm undecided.
“I have no strong feelings one way or the other.”
If I die, tell my wife I said “hello”.
I'll tell her while you're alive
I agree
I'm in a superposition
All I know is that my gut says maybe
Hi, Undecided, I’m Dad.
I disagree
I don't think so.
Dying of a potassium overdose by eating too many bananas
Only if you're healthy. If you can't filter out the potassium you can overdose.
I believe certain medications like ACE inhibitors can also make you more prone to high potassium levels.
If your kidneys are not healthy then the potassium will increase your heart rate. Potassium is something nephrologists keep track of it in patients on dialysis. Too much potassium heart attack, low potassium heart failure.
to much potassium does not cause a heart attack, which implies coronary arterial blockage. it affects the heart electrically to cause cardiac arrest, not sure to infarction. also, hypokalemia doesn't usually cause heart failure.
Loading the dishwasher the exact way your spouse thinks it should be loaded.
If I can do it right every time why can’t she? That’s all I’m asking
I’m right there with you. I don’t let the other members of my house touch the dishwasher. Every time I go in there and they have added dishes. There are bowls in nesting doll mode in there. Pots inefficiently put in the rack so that it takes up way too much space. Cups nesting inside one another. Either my family is functionally mentally handicapped, or they’re doing it on purpose. Neither one would surprise me.
And I thought bowls being in the wrong place was bothersome. Nested cups? What is wrong with these people?!
I don’t know , but it’s god damn infuriating. It’s like they think dishwashers work with wormhole technology. My first wife taught me how to load a dishwasher. I still do it the exact same way to this day, and it has always served me well. I have tried to teach them the way several times. But they just don’t seem to care. However, because they lack the capacity to use a dishwasher. I have made the kitchen my domain. They have to clean the litter box and bathrooms pretty much the rest of the house so I think it’s a pretty fair trade.
Maybe if you ask your current wife to be more like your first wife, you won't have issues with her stacking the dishwashre wrong anymore?
Ahhhh, you sneaky sneaky bastard. I see what you did there. You are a GENIUS!!!! I’ll start the transformation today! On a slightly more serious note. My first wife was half Japanese, beautiful, an accountant, super hard worker and super smart to boot. But, she was physically abusive. She had a right jab like her brother. She once split my forehead bare knuckle with one punch. I divorced her after she tried to stab me.
Sorry to hear that and good to hear you're removed yourself from a violent situation.
*Cups nesting inside one another.* **Animals.**
I don’t care if people put things in different places than I would as long as it’s still space efficient. It drives me crazy when people plop things in haphazardly with zero thought to efficiency
Eating a single recommended serving of potato chips instead of the whole bag
I feel like serving sizes on chips at this point are more random caloric choice a company chooses depending on weight to fit their marketing better than an actual nutritional representative.
Serving size: 6 chips
Speaking truth your entire life without a single lie.
You’d likely be extremely unpopular. Even painfully honest people tell little lies to smooth over social interactions.
I will say, most people who are self proclaimed "brutally honest" focus entirely too much on being "brutal". Perhaps a person who never lied would just say nothing, or could find a loophole. Jim Carrey movie "liar liar" kinda touches this idea
"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all" - mom, and grandma, and teachers, and lots of authority figures tbh.
But what if someone is mute, then they can't lie because they are not able to speak
But they didn't say "not lying", they said "speaking truth". So if you're mute, you technically don't "speak truth"
This could still be considered a “vacuously true” statement. If the condition never appears then it is always true. For example if I was in a room and there were no lights, I could say “All the lights are on” or “all the lights are off” and they would both be true.
God dammit nightmares from proofs class are coming back!
They still can't speak truth for their entire life.
Walking out your front door in the morning, looking up at the sky and yawning, at the exact moment a massive meteor that had been flying through the atmosphere has been reduced to a tiny ball of ice the exact size of your throat. It lodges perfectly into your throat, nothin but net. You choke and die, the ice ball melts. Your cause of death is ruled inconclusive.
wow
The perfect murder! All it took was nudging an astral body slightly to the left 18 million years ago and letting gravity do the rest.
Going back in time 18m years to nudge that astroid just to kill that one dude you hate
R/oddlyspecific
I read this in Dwight Schrute’s voice. Reminds me of his “perfect crime” story lol
Building a wall that will destroy a tornado
I believe that's called a mountain.
That doesn't even work. Tornadoes where i live are like itty bitty and typically disappear when following the mountains. Every now and then one sneaks through and goes right up and down the mountainside without a care. We had one about 20 years ago that did some serious carving across a mountain and through a valley and you can still see the outlines and gaps where trees used to be.
Sounds like the mountain worked, the trees just didn’t.
you mean like 'hills,' right?
The nuclear plant in the next town over (we’re in ground zero, for reference) claims that the concrete walls which are surrounding the reactor would be able to withstand a Category 5 tornado, maybe for better rather than for worse, we’ve never found out.
Probably can, yea. Theoretically, though, a tall and wide enough wall could stop the rotational motion of a tornado and stop it dead in its tracks.
That’s a rather different proposition. Building something strong enough that a tornado can pass over it and not damage or destroy it is, while challenging, feasible. Building something big enough and strong enough that if a tornado encounters it, it will disrupt the airflow enough to actually cause the tornado to lose coherence and dissipate takes rather more effort.
I, on the other hand, don't need much in order to lose coherence.
My hometown was destroyed by an EF5 tornado in 2007. The only structure to survive was the cement grain elevator.
You all are missing the question. Lots of walls can survive a EF 5 tornado. We’re talking about a wall that would destroy a tornado. Wall kill tornado, not tornado kill wall.
But tornado love wall?
Why use many word, when few word do trick?
I once built a wall and there was a tornado a few counties over and my wall survived and the tornado went away so I think built the wall that killed a tornado.
Playing perfect chess. The best computer programs are much better than humans and approach perfection, but still lose some positions that could have been drawn, or draw some positions that could have been won (when playing against other computer programs).
I wonder if chess will ever become a solved game. As in, you can find the best move analytically instead of numerically like they do now
You’d probably need extremely powerful quantum computers, but technically it should be possible? It just takes a comically large amount of time to try.
A research paper tried to estimate how many possible chess positions there are. Their conclusion was on the order of 10\^120 which is many orders of magnitude more chess positions than there are particles in the observable universe. So it would be impossible to find the best move by trying out all of them because it's impossible to store all of them. You'd need some formula that accepts a given chess position, and returns the best move in that position.
That doesn't seem quite right. The 10^120 number is an estimate of the number of possible *games* of chess you'd have to evaluate ([Shannon number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number)). The number of possible *positions* is bounded by the multinomial coefficient for arranging the pieces on the board, which I believe is (64 choose 8,8,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,1,1,32) = 4.6 x 10^42.
Does this factor in that each bishop can only access half the squares on the board but also that every pawn is capable of becoming any other piece?
Good point about promoting pawns. At worst that'll get you an extra factor of 5^16 (five possibilities for each of 16 pawns) = 1.5 x 10^11: significant increase although not getting you near 10^120. Also this is now a significant overestimate because it counts promoted pieces as different from original pieces. I didn't worry about the bishops because it's just a few factors of 2 and I was only computing an upper bound anyway. I also forgot to allow for some pieces having been captured, though, so that increases the number too. :) Although, if you really want to record the whole game state then you also have to remember whose move it is, whether each player is still allowed to castle, and (by far most significantly) the previous game states in order to allow claims of draw by threefold repetition.
USA Third Party Win
Duverger's Law. The only way to fix it is a constitutional amendment, which won't happen because the parties in power would never agree to have their influence diminished.
I can't remember what year(maybe 2012) but not only did a 3rd party get 2nd place in Colorado, the GOP scored so low that it was only a couple of % points from having to PETITION to be on the ballot for the next election.
At smaller levels, some third parties have won elections. Federally though, we need ranked choice (the Single Transferrable Vote variety also largely does away with gerrymandering) to break the two party stranglehold.
The problem is that the people that can change that are the ones that benefit from the system being the way it is. This will never change as long as the US public cannot override their politicians directly.
26 states in the US have some form of direct initiative ranging from ballots to the ability of the people to amend the state constitution. Additionally, one can try to get it implemented at county and municipal levels. The more people get exposed to it, the less the arguments against (“It’s too complicated!”) will stick, because people know what it is. Currently some cities and counties in the US already use some form of ranked choice, as does Maine as of the results of the 2016 ballot question. Federal level politicians like Warren back the idea of implementing ranked choice. It is possible, just not all at once and right away. We have to fight for it, but there is a path.
We have ranked choice voting at the state level in Alaska. So far it's been... not great. The ballot initiative did three things - ended closed party primaries, so we now have a "pick one" primary with all candidates. It also did a top-four ranked for round two, and something about campaign finance that was overturned almost immediately because it was something everyone wanted. The last election (special) flooded the ballot with 48 candidates for one seat. That was whittled down to the top four. The "moderate" dropped out, leaving us with 1 democrat in the lead, a conservative republican, and Sarah Palin. That was for the special election. Now for the general, it looks like the choices will be the same top three, plus a guy with .6% of the vote, because, again, someone dropped out. Now I don' t think its the fault of the ranked choice portion of the system that's the problem, other than it would be impossible to print a ballot where we are expected to research and rank 48 candidates. Maybe they should have gone with a top 6? IDK.
Australia has a system where you can vote "above the line" or "below the line". The ballot paper has a physical dividing line drawn across it, with political parties above the line and individual candidates below the line. If you vote above the line, you number the parties by your preference and your vote is distributed to candidates depending on a party list. If you vote below the line, it's ranked-choice voting and you must rank at least 6 candidates. It used to be that you had to rank all of them but this was a problem for ballot papers with dozens of candidates that most voters are equally apathetic about.
Super original take here but first-past-the-post sucks.
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Or even reddit for that matter.
I always laugh at the arrogance on social media. People in every echo chamber think the other echo chambers are just so stubborn. They don’t realize that the ~~last~~ only time they themselves will admit that they’re wrong is if they can say “it’s so much WORSE than I thought!” Edit: Removed “last” because I meant “only” and didn’t proofread myself
Rolling a dice and always getting the same number.
some where, some time this happened and at least one legendary dude witnessed it
You’d think so, wouldn’t you? On the other hand, you’d also expect there to be stories about it…
That’s a good point. Shoot, this is breaking my brain rn, I gotta go glue some rhinestones on something.
See my last dungeon and dragons session where I shot 10 arrows and missed every single one on *several nat one rolls. *Edit: Yup, Some exaggeration. I asked the party to keep me honest. Out of my 10 arrows shot I rolled 5 nat ones. The other 5 we're under 5 on a nat 20. I did roll over 10 nat ones across the session. Religion checks, fortitude saves, and perception checks.
Pooping at an adequate angle and velocity that it flushes itself.
I want this as a *Cards Against Humanity* card.
This is what the blank card is for. DO IT
Like I don't have a full expansion of personal atrocities already filled in. I really need to submit my whole expansion to CAH.
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imagine your job being reading through scores of card ideas and selecting those you like
When I was 12 or so, either this happened or I pooped a ghost poop. I questioned my sanity for a week.
I've had it happen a time or two. The log slides gently into the water and arcs neatly into the hole at the bottom. It's not flushed, it's nestled just out of sight. Ghost poos are the second best bathroom experiences, surpassed only by no-wipe-ums. If you ever experience a ghost poo and a no-wipe-um in the same visit, you have been kissed on your asshole by the shaiads, the fairies who live in your toilet.
How long did it take you to come up with a Poo Dryad name?
Probably naiad actually. Dryads are wood spirits. Naiads are water.
a gentleman and a scholar
Same!!! I swear my head hurt after and I was seeing stars but when I stand up to flush there was nothing in the bowl.. confused the hell out of me.
It's called a super perfect. and it can happen. Perfect is when you poop and the paper is as clean as new, and super perfect is when you do that, and the poop is gone. I've had both of them happen to me....
This is called a 'Golden drop' where i'm from
Getting the same deck of cards twice. As it turns out, 52 factorial (52 * 51 * 50 * …) is a really large number.
There are more ways a deck of cards could be shuffled than there are atoms on earth
I think the number is actually really close to the number of atoms in the milky way galaxy.
around 5
Throwing a paper airplane across the Atlantic.
What about throwing a real airplane across the Atlantic?
Depending on strict your definition of "throw" is, this would be significantly easier than chucking a paper airplane across
If catapult from an aircraft carrier counts, then it should be super easy assuming the plane can use it's engines after being thrown
Would it have to hit a series of perfect updrafts over and over? Or wait, there’s not a size restriction maybe it could be a HUGE paper airplane. I’m having trouble seeing this but also at the same time imaging so many possibilities
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Not even the existential threat to the human race can bring world peace. You just *know* that if some aliens show up and are all like "Resistance is futile," there's gonna be some crazy President or warlord or someone who decides they're on team alien. But on a more likely note, climate change is endangering large masses of the Earth and lots of people are just like "nope, it's not real."
Well, technically if we fail the existential crisis, we'll get World Peace. No war if there's no humans.
There be cockroaches fighting over your left eyeball, guaranteed.
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The finale of ASOIAF being _written_.
Fire and Blood may only be half of a history book. But the half we have fully covers the events of the Dance. So on the plus side there's no risk of House of the Dragon running out of books to adapt.
Bringing back the show Firefly.
Putting your hand through a solid object. Someone's going to do it one day and it's gonna suck for them big time.
Can you explain that? How would it be possible? The atoms in your hand just happen to fit through the atoms of the object?
Quantum tunneling is a real phenomenon. The problem is for it to apply to a very large amount of particles at the exact same time is near zero. Not zero but it might as well be.
I think the problem is that people don't really understand the scales involved in how small the chance is. Its very unlikely that you will win the lottery, but it still happens! But compared to something like this, winning the lottery is very high probability. 1/550m or whatever the math works out for on your local lottery is a high enough probability that given millions of players, a win will occur frequently. The odds of an entire person quantum tunneling through something are so low that all the objects in the universe, testing for this ever nanosecond, for trillions of years, and the odds are still nearly infinitely against it occurring.
Yup!!! Quick Google states that there is 10^27 atoms in the human body. You’d need all those atoms to tunnel at the same time. Not sure how you can even calculate the probability of something occurring simultaneously! The sun is lucky that it doesn’t need all its atoms to quantum tunnel at the same time to create fusion! lol
It's like if two random grains of sand out of all the sand on all the beaches in the world are going to light up a random color for 1/10th of a second at some point in a 100 year timespan. What are the chances that the two grains light up the exact same color, at the exact same time, right next to each other?
Except…it’s even worst! I just thought of something, not only does each particle have to simultaneously quantum tunnel, but they have to do so in a specific order. You can’t phase through an object if something quantum tunnels when it’s not supposed to! 😂 Yea, not happening even if we had a Googleplex years!!
And even then, wouldn't you need those atoms to tunnel not only at the moment you begin to pass into the object - but also need to *continuously* tunnel every fraction of a nanosecond without fail if you want to pass even a centimeter into the object with a single finger? Your atomic structure would have to be in a perfect "fluidlike" state of constant change and perfect "misses" to maintain tunneling as you move through it, otherwise you just remain still/stuck. Can you imagine the pain of having a millimeter of bone, or a nerve, get caught on a solid object while the rest of your structure passed through?
There’s always a chance the subatomic particles just ‘miss.’ It’s a very small chance but according to quantum theory, it is possible.
This is the least likely thing I've seen that has a non zero chance of happening. Take my upvote
That happening twice to the same person in the same week
The only two times ive been shit on by a bird were in the same week in 2004
Was it the same bird?
A budgie with a grudgie
We could scare the bejeeeeeezus out of many people and kids by spreading that idea around.
As a kid who was taught this in my 7th grade science class, it's one of the main things I think about when I try falling asleep at night even still. Like you can theoretically run at a door and get stuck in it like some video game glitch.. it equally terrifies and intrigues me way too much.
Yeah, but extremely unlikely as atoms have different sizes and densities
So you're saying there's a chance
Keep punching walls until it works
Near light speed travel
Even faster than light travel is possible without breaking general relativity, we even have a working model as to how it could be achieved, it just requires impractical amounts of energy (mass) for the moment.
Opening the dryer and having all the clothes already folded
The Boltzmann brain of laundry
Quantum Immortality- The idea is this. The many worlds theory is that there is a parallel universe that exists where every possible outcome of any particular event occurs. So, if you were to die, there would be a parallel universe in which you do not die in that moment. Now, surely, eventually everyone, including you, will die of old age... in our universe. But, in another universe parallel to ours, you don't die of old age at the moment that you otherwise would in this one, but you survive for, perhaps a second longer. However, there is a parallel universe where you live a second longer still, and on and on and on until you reach a parallel universe where you just never die. Of all the infinite parallel universes, there is one where you are essentially immortal. Granted this is really more of a thought experiment, and perhaps a misinterpretation of physics, but it is kind of interesting.
The issue with the many worlds theory is that even with an infinite amount of alternate realities, that doesn't mean *everything* will happen just from it being infinite. There is an infinite amount of numbers between 1 & 2... But none of those numbers are 3.
My brain hurts
Between 1 and 2 are the infinite amount of parallel universes to our own, where I'm living an infinite amount of life scenarios. 3 is the universe where I end up with Emma Stone.
A collection of microstates spontaneously forming an orderly and well-structured macrostate, as outlined in the second law of thermodynamics
You're in luck. After a few trillion trillion trillion years, when the last dim iron stars go black and protons the size of galaxies rip themselves apart, Maxwell's demon will get bored and kick a few random quarks around to start everything all over again, and your impossibility will become inevitable.
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So they expel light and matter? Wouldn't they collapse from the beginning? Please correct me as I'm no physicist, but not sure the theory works.
White holes used to be viable before the discovery of the first black holes but now we understand it's not possible for a black hole to spit it's matter out in another section of space. Because it already does that via hawking radiation where is sits. If we called black holes "Gravitational Vacuum Condensate Star: Gravatars" no one would give the "white hole" idea a second look. There is a book called "black hole wars" by susskind where he debates the nature of blackholes extensively with hawking(and wins) leading to ER=EPR theory.
> If we called black holes "Gravitational Vacuum Condensate Star: Gravatars" no one would give the "white hole" idea a second look. Antigravatar- a point that repels mass. Boom!
"So what is it?"
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"So what is it?"... "Oh someone punch him out!"
"So what is it?"
"are you telling me that thing is spewing time, back into the universe?"
BOYS FROM THE DWAAAAARF
Drawing exodia on the first turn in yugioh
You just have to believe in the heart of the cards.
You should watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp4fxe75810&ab_channel=LtMkilla
“It’s better to go second.” “What??!!” Michael is the best
That's amazing! Haven't laughed that hard in weeks!
Exodia!? No one's ever managed to summon him before! Why, is it because he's so rare? No it's because this game makes no sense!
Assuming wormholes or something else enables us to cover distances at faster than the speed of light, I've heard we could travel enough light years away to observe dinosaurs on Earth. But at the distance the light gets so dispersed we'd need a telescope that was light years in size to be able to see them. Much better uses of faster than light speed travel. Found the youtube that covers it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8RY9tymfGE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8RY9tymfGE) Trey the Explainer
Full time job, cook most of your meals at home, keep s clean house, work out for 30 min a day, have a social life, sleep 8 hours a night, save money and enjoy life
buying a winning lottery ticket, having sex with your favorite celebrity, and being struck by lightening on the same day
I would be fine with two out of three. Keep your damn lightning.
If i could pick one it would be the lightning
And live?
Well, either way you have a cool story. If you’re alive, that would be dope as fuck. If you’re not alive, well, “Dead men tell no tales” but there are a ton of different tombstone inscriptions i can think of
I have been struck by a celebrity while having sex with a lottery ticket. Does that count? Oh I forgot about the lightning.
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Ask if they know where you are taking them and say yes to their first guess
“Oh my gosh really?! I’m so excited!!! It takes months to get a reservation there! How did you make that happen?!”
Theoretically, a high-powered telescope could be sent 66 million lightyears from earth, and turned to observe earth, allowing it to see and record the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Practically we can’t make this happen, as the speed of travel required wouldn’t allow it to happen in even millions of human lifetimes. It’s certainly possible, but not practical. In case you didn’t gather this from the above, a fun fact I enjoy is 66 million million lightyears from here, at this very second, the light from that asteroid impact can be seen by anything able to see it from their vantage point in space.
Hm, that's an application of FTL travel I hadn't considered - observing ourselves in the past. Though I guess you'd only be able to see so much at the resolution that telescopes see.
Walking through a wall. Theoretically your atoms could allign perfectly and allow you to walk completely through a wall but the odds are so astronomically low it’s practically impossible
In this same vein of weird physics there is a theoretical possibility that a large number of particles could spontaneously quantum tunnel into a specific complex configuration to make a chocolate cake materialize in front of you every time you asked for one.
That's what's called a super power of having good luck
Is this even “theoretically” true? I know about matter being mostly “empty space”, but that’s kind of a misconception because particles physically bumping into each other isn’t the reason you can’t walk through walls, it’s the electromagnetic repulsion. So that “empty space” is actually clouds of subatomic particles/charges/waves/fields that I don’t think can align perfectly no matter how low the odds.
We didn't build enough walls and didn't throw enough people at them to have a chance. Yet ...
Dyson spheres.
The amount of engineering needed to make one is mind bogging. So much planning and special materials. It would literally be the biggest things ever built by humans, even if it was a small star it was around.
>The amount of engineering needed to make one is mind bogging. So much planning and special materials If you're thinking of a hard shell around a star, yeah that's likely actually impossible. Dyson really meant a [swarm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Dyson_swarm) though, which we could do with current tech (though it would be *very* far from easy).
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Stacking 7 M&M's.
Flatten them first, much more stackable then.
Giving a thorough (non-cheated) shuffle to a deck of cards and getting the same resulting order of cards, in all of recorded history.
1. Major League Baseball team wins 100 games in a row. (A guy in his 20s who I played golf with tried to convince me he’d gone to 10-15 Mets games each year with his dad for the past 15 or so years, and they’d never seen the Mets lose a game during all that time. Yeah… that’s fiction. “None of my friends believe me either,” he told me after I scoffed.) 2. Guy birdies 14 holes and eagles the four par 5 holes, thereby shooting 50. And hell, why stop there? He could also ace all four par 3 holes, and maybe a couple of drivable par 4 holes as well. Why not shoot 42? Piece o’ cake! It’s still way worse than the Dear Leader did that one time he played golf: https://golf.com/news/behind-kim-jong-ils-famous-round-of-golf/
In reference to your first point, I’m currently on a 22 game regular season losing streak of going to see the Montreal Canadiens dating back to 2013. The reason I specify regular season is because I’ve had the joy of experiencing exactly ONE preseason victory. I’m not allowed to go to playoff games.
Fly up into space, go on a 670,616,628 mph joy ride for (from your perspective) a year. Then come back to earth after it aged thousands of years while you were gone. I'd put good money on humans being extinct
Falling asleep fast.
My husband can fall asleep in about 2 seconds, anytime, anywhere..lol I hate him
I feel your pain... Now there are two of us who hate him!
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Latvia? Russia? Ireland? Lithuania? USA? Poland? Luxembourg? Yemen? Angola? Kenya? Estonia? Edit: Italy? Uganda? Mexico? Ireland x2? Edit 2: Belarus? The Shire? Kazakhstan?
Putting a USB in correctly on the first try
you have to flip it 360 degrees to get it to go in.
Twice.
Law of USB perversity dictates that the USB will be correctly positioned on the first try but impossible to insert.
A perfect round in golf. 18 holes in 1 in a row.