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- _niko1
from the war thread, Leading cause of death worldwide
https://ourworldindata.org/image…
https://ourworldindata.org/cause…
And yet we tend to focus an irrational amount on war and homicide.
- I think we got better in avoiding wars.sted
- and yet? I see “us” focusing on all of these areas not just war irrationallymonospaced
- This assumes that death is the metric that people care about the most, and not other things like injustice, greed or geopolitical power.slappy
- No.palimpsest
- Well, I mean, everyone has to die of something eventually.
I guess the 'focus' is people who die necessarily.webazoot - People who die necessarily?palimpsest
- I guess eveyone does really. But yes, that was a typo!webazoot
- imbecile2
re: https://qbn.com/reply/4103219/
Let's say we have a circle with a radius r centered at the origin. The equation of the circle is
from which we get
The area of the circle is
Thus, one third of the area is
To find the x-value where we place the first vertical line (starting from the center of the circle and moving outward), we want to find x such that the area from the y-axis to x is one third of the circle's area.Using the formula for the area of a segment:
We set this equal to
From this equation, we can solve for x to determine the point at which to place the first vertical line to trisect the circle by area. The second vertical line would be its reflection across the y-axis since the circle is symmetric.This is a transcendental equation. A closed-form solution in terms of elementary functions is not possible, so a numerical method like the Newton-Raphson method is typically used to approximate x.
- no-one cares.face_melter
- hey everyone, face_melter is still an assholeimbecile
- i care because you dodoesnotexist
- Lollll facefuturefood
- they definitely care https://qbn.com/repl…imbecile
- Ramanisky25
- The N word being ‘north’ as in north of age 25....shapesalad
- Gardener5
- Sounds like forty thousand years of good times?Continuity
- _niko-1
iDidNotKnow
'I' in Apple products stand for 'internet, individual, instruct, inform and inspire', according to a report by Readers Digest. This was explained by Steve Jobs during the iMac launch in 1998.Jan 31, 2023
- imbecile4
The internet in the 1930's was slow if not motivated
- damn. wish they showed the original and the scanned image side-by-sidedoesnotexist
- I watched this whole thing cuz I'm high as fuckYakuZoku
- MrT1
Unconsciously, native English speakers say adjectives preceding nouns in a specific order: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, and purpose.
It's why saying "old green metal chairs" sounds normal,
but "metal green old chairs" sounds odd.- but not when typing words into search engines - in that case anything goes loltrooperbill
- size first, no?Fax_Benson
- ^
'Big old green metal chairs'Continuity - shut your big ugly face.sarahfailin
- Have to admit the example provided is around half the research I put into this.MrT
- _niko3
The Amazon river is not crossed by any bridges. 4300 miles long and not a single bridge.
- bridges in the middle of the jungle?
*facepalm*grafician - classic Graf. there are literally hundreds of towns and cities on its banks, you'd think there would be a t least one bridge linking two of them._niko
- and it means that the north of the country is cut off from the south via roadways, you don't think that's fascinating?_niko
- and in Asia, South America and Africa there are thousands of bridges in jungles, every hear of the bridge over river Kwai? facepalm._niko
- classic niko jumping to conclusions
my point was you don't need bridges, everybody uses boatsgrafician - @niko FROM YOUR ARTICLE:
"The Amazon, for much of its 4,300-mile (6,920 kilometers) length, meanders through areas that are sparsely populated,grafician - "meaning there are very few major roads for any bridge to connect to. "grafician
- "And in the cities and towns that border the river, boats and ferries are an established means of moving goods and people from bank to bank,"grafician
- "meaning there is no real need for bridges to be built, other than to make trips slightly quicker."grafician
- That is a little bit mind blowing for sure.Hayzilla
- bridges in the middle of the jungle?
- neverscared1
This Is What Happens When You Take 550 Doses of LSD At Once
Accidental LSD overdoses are not fun. But for some, they can have a bizarrely beneficial effect.- The trip must have been something else, though.Continuity
- ^ yup, she's prob still tripping though, wait for the comedown in 10 years time.fadein11
- I did around 1000ug once on accident at a club and had to manually pilot my body for a couple hours. This come-up was not fun. Plateau was amazing, thoughscarabin
- Holy shit. That's a lot, especially for a 15 year old. Your manual body control skills sounds mad Scar. How many drops is 1000ug?Ianbolton
- Around 8? I spilled a bottle and licked it up before i realized what i’d donescarabin
- Oh wow. My mate gave me some sugar cubes. She'd 'squirted' a pippet of acid onto them and realised after first 3 or 4 she just needed one drop.Ianbolton
- That was a fun night playing acid roulette at a festival. Especially when i found a guy selling laughing gas balloons tooIanbolton
- Ironically, my bipolar friend seems to think his condition was the result of taking too much acid.ShenanigansTV
- ironically, he probably didn't take enoughIanbolton
- utopian0
Top 20 Safest Countries in the World (2022 Global Peace Index)
Iceland #1
New Zealand
Ireland
Denmark
Austria
Portugal
Slovenia
Czech Republic
Singapore
Japan
Switzerland
Canada
Hungary
Finland
Croatia
Germany
Norway
Malaysia
Bhutan
Slovakia #20---
Bottom of the Barrel:
USA #129
Venezuela #147
Russia #160
Afganistan #163- UK #34 Whoop!!Hayzilla
- They never include Africa in these listsGnash
- Hahahaha. Africa? Why would they include Africa dude?monospaced
- the List says “... Countries in the World”
Last I checked, Africa a\has a whole bunch of countries in this “world”Gnash - Is this an on-the-spectrum thing with you?Gnash
- Nvm. Thought the list stopped at 20, it keeps going well into the 100sGnash
- they do indeed include countries from africa. just not africa as if it's a country.pango
- missed this... lol.fadein11
- No kidding pango ^^Gnash
- Yapango
- Well, maybe because no African countries make the list?jagara
- Top African country on the global list is Ghana at number 40, making it the safest African country.jagara
- Salarrue1
Studies find the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test* accurately measures social intelligence: http://socialintelligence.labint…
*This free version is the UK original & the faces are not particularly diverse. More recent tests fix this issue but validity appears the same across versions- 29 out of 37. without the rest of the face or other body language it's almost impossible to tell just from the eyes._niko
- like this one, could be amused, could be insisting, could be joking in a deadpan way_niko
- 27 out of 36.bezoar
- only 24, too much on qbnomer
- boring, gave up at 4.sted
- 28, I recognized the 6 or 7 original photos, and they weren't even close to what was given as options.Wordsworth