That’s a one-in-three chance of a task failed successfully, then!

I think that, in order to have this be a projection of a square, the space between the interior right angles of the space from which it was projected would have to be not just curved, but also twisted, like a Möbius strip, such that a person “walking” the square and starting from the rightmost angle leftward would start walking as if they were on your screen (their head coming out away from the screen), but then they would need to have their perspective twist so that they are now walking on the “underside” of the figure (their head now pointing into your phone). This would allow them to perceive the two “external” turns as “internal” turns, as well. Then it just needs to untwist on the way back. We just can’t see the twisting, because the lines have no width.

HA, get a load of this, everyone! This person thinks researchers get paid royalties by the publishers!

<the entirety of academia grimly chuckles, a single tear of inner pain welling in each eye>

No, this is supply-side Jesus, and he’s barrel-chested because he wants to be like his idol, Melon Husk.

And the whole reason they’re evil is because the most powerful person who has one gets to choose what all the others see. I’m sure there’s no metaphor there.

And not one of them is going through the public terminal.

Absolutely, but aerobic life is more able to harness efficient energy with the use of oxygen’s INSANE reactivity, and that change was only possible because the anaerobes turned 20+% of the atmosphere into the elemental molecular form of the second-most electronegative element in the universe. Even plants, which produce oxygen gas during photosynthesis, use oxygen to power ATP synthesis. Oxygenation of the planet was absolutely requisite to allow the evolution of eukaryotic multicellular life.

Oh absolutely! I was just working with what we were given.

Don’t forget the anaerobes, which generated so much oxygen that they poisoned themselves nearly to extinction and made the entire atmosphere a toxic miasma for themselves, without which all multicellular life would not exist!

And the system was designed by, bribed into existence by, and enforced with violence and propaganda by…

I disagree. It seems to me that it’s equivocating and saying that all of these groups are equally bad and at fault, and are just pointing fingers at each other. I am trying to make it very clear that there is a hierarchy of blame, and it’s the same one as the hierarchy of wealth.

Though let us consider the ch-ch-ch-ch-changes that would actually be necessary for each of these to exercise real choice in the matter at hand:

The Public: Die, because that is the only thing that doesn’t actively destroy the biosphere, because you have no actual meaningful control over anything

Farmers: Change professions, likely losing everything (at which point they become “The Public”), because you can’t even control what seeds you buy (See: Agricorps), let alone anything else you do with the land, and it’s all a monopsony, anyway (See: Agricorps) so you can’t even choose who buys your crops or for how much you sell them.

Government: Literally the only thing required here is to take a long view and invest in infrastructure that also has huge short-term benefits. Realistically, the actual reason is because the politicians get money from the corpocrats (See: Agricorps), and don’t want to not get money from the corpocrats.

Agricorps: It is explicitly against their fiduciary duty to tank the value of long-term investment in their own business by making the planet uninhabitable. The only change required is to actually hold to fiduciary duty, rather than “number go up, STONKS”.

Huh, it’s almost as if there are very specific problems that can be traced to a single, specific spiderman here… interesting.

It also doesn’t say that the track isn’t already headed away from the people.

Uh, deal? I walk up to the third door and pull a gold ball from it. I shrug at the madman.

Also, it doesn’t say I can only open one box, and all three doors should still have at least one gold ball remaining.

Just worth pointing out: three of the five children eaten by Saturn(Cronus)were women, and the very first was Vesta(Hestia).

Silly L. Ron Hubbard, trying to convince people to follow in your footsteps again?

I could get behind a Jekyll/Hyde scenario with magical girl transformations.

The reason it’s still held up is because Edison was a genius at precisely one thing: marketing. He was an incredibly efficient (read: ruthlessly cutthroat) venture capitalist. That’s it.

This, and people have a tendency to hear a story, then integrate that story into their entire worldview, until the only four scientists ever to live were Einstein, Edison, Newton, and maybe Galileo.

Thus it has always been, and thus it shall remain.

Fair enough. Withdrawn!

Daring to call linoleum “tile work” is like calling a Walmart a “home”