Rad! Are there solutions for all numbers, I wonder? Or just 4?

ETA: I found at least one solution that works for 2. (1, 1, 3)

Is this one of those problems that looks trivially easy to solve but has actually been an open problem in math for centuries and drives all who attempt it to inevitable madness?

Getting a real “Collatz” vibe from this

Yeah, this is pretty much exactly how I feel about it. The universe is nothing but dead matter being pushed around by blind force, and any sense of agency is just an emergent phenomenon that exists as an illusion in the brain without having any actual bearing on reality. If you perfectly understood all of the forces and matter involved, you could perfectly predict what any given human (or anything system at all) would do.

That said, I also believe that it’s a completely useless idea when you’re trying to navigate through life, so I mostly just keep it in the back of my head like some half-forgotten piece of trivia and spend most of my time pretending to be in control like everyone else. Cheers!

All else aside, “Boglex” has gotta be one of the ugliest names I’ve ever heard… Maybe it’s clever in German and I’m just too uncultured to get it?

Fuck, that’s as dark as it is clever

If he really wants to fuck up Trump’s parade, he’ll die the day before it happens. The news cycle will be on Biden for the next few days and Trump’s ego show will be a pathetic side note.

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Honestly, I’ve always felt Kojima’s greatest strength was his ideas and his greatest weakness was his execution…

If someone with a little more, uh… discretion, I guess? was given the seed of a Kojima idea and allowed to run with it without Kojima’s incessant need to over explain and over indulge, I think we’d end up with something really magical.

No way Trump knows what “atrophied” means…

This is the fundamental guiding principle of late-stage capitalism: what goes up must never come down.

Billionaires putting money above basic human decency is actually a pretty reasonable thing to get emotional about, imo

It’s still an insult, we just pronounce the ‘u’ as ‘oo’ now.

That’s probably because Donnie Darko also fits the above comment pretty much perfectly.

The meaning of life is to live.

Once again, AI just can’t get the hands right…

…those are way too big.

And it still has a thriving competitive scene more than 25 years later.

In fact, ASL (the biggest SC tournament) is going on right now!

we got the most progressive chair in over 50 years

I mean… that’s an extremely low bar to clear. And he wasn’t even the most progressive candidate running.

And I’d do it again!

So, um… maybe I’m just an idiot, but how exactly does one tell the difference between an intercontinental cargo rocket and an intercontinental ballistic missile?

This seems like a huge recipe for disaster.