SimpleMachine

@SimpleMachine@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignoring the obvious flaw of throwing out the importance of infinity here, they would be exceedingly unlikely but technically not unable. A random occurrence is just as likely to happen on try number 1 as it is on try number 10 billion. It doesn’t become any more or less likely as iterations occur. This is an all too common failure of understanding how probabilities work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure where you’re getting this idea from but concussions are probably one of the plethora of shitty things that you actually aren’t exposed to during training. Concussions and TBI are common because of close contact with explosives in combat zones, not in training.

  Of course I’m not defending the military and their practices, I was in the Marine Corps myself, this bit is just not true though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My blu-ray player has never been connected to the internet and works just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Non-zero chance that the distribution of infertility does not match the distributions of male to female. Could result in complete population collapse pretty quickly.