prime_number_314159

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

When I was 25, my girlfriend complained about buying the same bra, same size, same material, same URL, from the same company, on their website, 2 years apart. The first ones fit really well, the second ones didn't fit at all.

Meanwhile, there's a shoe that I buy a pair of every few years. They release a new "version" about once per year, but the fit has been consistent, so I'm over a decade, and 6 pairs, into my purchase of them, with no problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

The 13th ended slavery. You're probably thinking of the 12th which says that no person constitutionally ineligible to "be" president can be elected as vice president. Importantly, the 22nd only places limits on being "elected" as president, so it's not (necessarily) creating a constitutional requirement to "be" president by some other means.

Like I said, it could be an interesting legal fight if it even came up.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can only be elected as president twice. You can probably hack the system by getting multiple other presidents to select you as vice president, then resign. If you serve more than 2 years of the term they were elected to, that reduces the number of times you can be elected as president to one.

The 22nd amendment doesn't say that someone that serves 3.99 years of another president's term multiple times can't still be elected, and it doesn't say that someone not qualified to be elected as president can't be elected as vice president, but the 12th amendment might. Either of those could be an interesting legal fight.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

They just had sex, too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Guys (et al), please don't make fun of the dim fool's name. It's rude and frankly immature.

Edited: spelling

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

The belt and belt loops go all along the top row. If there's only one row, the matrix can only wear a short-shorts version. There's a crotch in each space between columns, and a leg on every column of length greater than 1.

Sparse matrices have their own special pants that are more efficient, of course.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

George HW Bush was the last one to leave office while the economy was doing well. It was going fine at the end of George W Bush's first term, then the 2007 housing crash brought it down. Trump's first term ended with the covid lockdowns severely harming the state of things. So... 3 Republican presidencies ago, but that's a lot of years.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Trump was pretty ineffective in his first term, largely because he did a terrible job of supporting people who really agreed with his agenda, and an even worse job of removing people from influential positions who didn't.

He said during his campaign that he knew much better who to trust, but now he's got Elon Musk and RFK Jr. prominently featured. I don't think he has learned anything, and I think he will be just as ineffective this time.

It's possible that some of the Republicans in Congress will support more of his agenda, but even there if they have to overcome the filibuster, I don't think mass deportation, a federal abortion ban, or most of the rest of the potential worst of it is in the cards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

With 17, I understand that you're referring to how 299,999 is also divisible by 17. What is the 51 reference, though? I know there's 3,999,999,999,999 but that starts with a 3. Not the same at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

When I was in college, our sportsball team won a game against the other guy's sportsball team by not many points. Many hundreds of students started a chant going out of the sportsball arena, and four freshmen decided to light a couch on fire, apparently thinking they'd just blend in. The police were there immediately, firefighters put out the couch in a few minutes, and they all got hit with fines.

In short, I think you're exactly right, and most sportsball fans just want to be loud and drink.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

When a monopoly is faced with a smaller, more efficient competitor, they cut prices to keep people from switching, or buy the new competitor, make themselves more efficient, and increase profits.

When Steam was faced with smaller competition that charged lower prices, they did - nothing. They're not the leader because of a trick, or clever marketing, but because they give both publishers and gamers a huge stack of things they want.

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