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Good news! In the new snapshot, you can continuously activate geysers by placing lava instead of the magmablock, meaning a dispenser can activate/deactivate a geyser!

I completely agree, I think they look very cool and are and interesting addition!

I had the same thoughts regarding making them activatable. I think it would be great if there was a mechanism to make them passive only (like placing a string above the water or something similar?) for e.g. waterfall animations, but activating them on command would be just as helpful. I really hope mojang has these things in mind.

“Please don’t kill me, I have a family! Kill them instead!”

You know you can do both, right? Be vegan and fight billionaires. But I do somewhat agree that it is an elite issue, you do need to be in a somewhat privileged position to become vegan.

But also… who is promoting the global south to go vegan? As far as I’m aware, most vegans just try to get the people in generally developed countries to go vegan, as you have plenty of choices there, and most people are not fighting malnourishment.

And also, I think it’s perfectly justified and not dehumanizing to critique cultures that promote (animal) abuse. Culture is a terrible justification for anything, if that thing is actually harmful.

Anything outside of living in a cave by the fire is inhuman. We are made to live in a cave with our tribe in our quest for survival. Focusing on modern architecture is to deny your humanity. /s

Your point would maybe make sense if we were obligate carnivores, but we are not. Humans don’t have to eat everything, they just can eat everything. And just cause you can doesn’t automatically mean you should.

If you follow the endurance running hypothesis, being able to run long distances was also something we were made for in our quest for survival. Therefore, according to your logic, not endurance running yourself would be to deny your humanity, correct?

It really depends. For example, if you walk 1m, then 0.5m, then 0.25m and continue infinitely, then “after infinity” you will have walked exactly 2m. This is the classic ‘Achilles and turtle’ example and works fine if the value converges. It’s just mathematics.

There is only a problem if the value diverges. Imagine the step example, but on even steps, you raise a blue flag, and on odd steps you raise a red flag. Now the question what flag is raised “after infinity” is impossible to answer. It clearly should be either red or blue, but it also can’t really be either, because that would mean infinity is either even or odd, which makes no sense.

You’re assuming the collatz conjecture holds, which is unknown.

But even if it does hold, you do understand the second problem, right? 1 can not possibly be the outcome, because whenever there is a 1 in that infinite loop, it is followed by a 4. And if 1 is the outcome, then it wasn’t done infinitely, because otherwise there must have been a 4 afterwards. The same argument holds for 4 and 2 as well. So we’re stuck in the reality that it would have to be one of those numbers, but it also can’t really be one of those numbers. It’s paradoxical.

There are two super interesting problems in here.

One is: would you bet human lives on a conjecture being true? The collatz conjecture does hold for every number we have tried, but there have been conjectures that were disproven with a very large counterexample. You could kill countless humans if wrong, so even if you think the chance of a counterexample is low, is it low enough to outweigh that potentially very hight value counterexample?

The second one is: Let’s say the collatz conjecture holds, and the number of passsengers just loops 4 -> 2 -> 1 -> 4 -> 2 -> 1 eventually. What is the ‘final’ number, when the trolley is done with the infinite loops? It can’t be 1, because that is always followed by a 4. And it can’t be 4 because it’s always followed by 2 and so on. But it has to be one of those, because any other number is not possible. It reminds me of the Vsauce Video Supertasks, which comes to the conclusion that we can’t know the answer to these type of questions.

So in conclusion, flipping the switch will either give you an arbitrarily large number of deaths, or an unknown number of deaths. Fun!

For anyone too lazy to try it themselves: the photo is actually real and you can get it as an answer on Akinator

Isaac Adni - I Wanna Be a Duck

I’m not expecting Avengers to be worth watching either, but it is still a movie with a huge budget that I think a whole bunch of people will see, unfortunately.

Dune 3 and Avengers: Doomsday are both launching on december 18th, and I have heard the two of them be referred to as “Dunesday”!

Where my phone placed the new line was truly a rollercoaster:

Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even

Wow, breaking even? Finally looking up for japan!

… the Bleakest Forecasts

Oh no.

This is the second leak-type-meme I’ve stumbled across and now I’m hooked

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I mean most pcgamers probably have more powerful hardware already

According to Valve, it should outperform or match 70% of current PCs owned by gamers. So while not crazy powerful, it might be an affordable (hopefully) upgrade for some more low spec gamers.