rutellthesinful

this might count as destroying evidence

what scenario are you imagining where any of meta’s product offerings are useful to me?

tfw your national strategic reserve of facebook posts is depleted

Hate to be that guy, but given that she clearly instructs and directs John (as seen in the second film), she’s leading the leader, thus making her the true leader the whole time

you can’t just decide to build cutting edge chips

if the DoD needed cutting edge chips but had to purchase them from within the US, all that would happen is their technology would be worse for the next decade(s) until US production could catch up

given the current us procurement strategy of keeping at least a generation or so ahead of its next near-peer, i really doubt that would fly

Biden could have had this 30 minute conversation at literally any point over the past several months

in panel 2 what part of his anatomy is that

But either you’d be strategically weakening the country to give invading forces an easier time, at which point you’re throwing civilians into the meat grinder anyway, or you’re starving the country until it devolves into literal anarchy, because the only people in the position to surrender were entrenched enough that they’d be the last one to see their power structure fall apart.

but it’s not the hexbears making these memes…?

the ai:

def is_hamas(target):
  return True

even if you’re in a situation where it’s somehow possible to manually draw 1/3 of a mm to any accuracy, 1/3 scale draft rulers still exist for metric, so it’s equivalent

I seem to remember you as the one who brought up calculators

because as soon as you have access to a calculator, “off the top of your head” is an irrelevance

well yeah, because 1/8" is 3.175mm

1/3 of a mm is a distance between 1/64" and 1/128"

mechanical pencil lead is only about 0.4mm

I still don’t see how a calculator helps though.

don’t ask me ask the person who posed the “what’s a third of 9.5mm” question

using a ruler to measure a length of 1/8" is as accurate as using a ruler to measure a length of 31mm and eyeballing 2/3 of a mm

the bottleneck at that point is your eyeball and pencil lead, not the unit of measurement

the one third of 9.5 conundrum, which was posed by a metric defender

they weren’t a metric defender

which is literally not true

what scenario is there in your mind where you’d need a precision answer to what 1/3 of 9.5mm is, but also not have access to a calculator? and of those scenarios, how many of them would be solved by the knowledge that 1/3 of 1/8 is 1/24? i’m willing to bet the answer is more or less “none”.

and for those that do exist, you can also get drafting rulers that give you 1/3rds of metric measurements.

the accuracy of your equipment isn’t somehow better because you’re dealing with fractions rather than decimal points

they should just link the display to the steering wheel

to go left and right you steer accordingly

to go up and down you accelerate or break

i don’t really like replying to such a long comment with such a short one, but i feel like i need to remind you that the thing that started this chain was

Quick off the top of your head, what’s a third of 9.5mm?

reaching for a string in that situation would be puzzling to me

18ths would need two divisions by three, but thankfully dividing a known measured length by three is easy with a piece of string.

what kind of cartoon fantasyland do you live in where it’s easier to find a piece of string than it is a calculator?

also, all of this is assuming you have your drafting ruler to hand

do you carry it around with you in your pocket on a day-to-day basis? some deep fucking pockets you’ve got there, although I suppose you already that to the 1/24th inch

They can be measured, calculated and double checked

my guy, we’re talking about accuracies of millimeters here: you’re not “double checking” your 12" ruler is accurate by slapping your bare carpet gripper up on the drafting table

we no longer live in the pre-industrial age

do you do the same when somebody says “China”?

Please remember, you have as much evidence I am not, as I have that god doesn’t exist.

you’re still behaving as if i’m trying to convince you of the existence of a god, rather than you trying to convince me that one doesn’t exist

do you understand the difference?

the cold war, probably