I have tried. They seem to think it’s weird. Oh well, family gatherings happen often enough, and there’s other legit excuses sometimes.

Sounds a bit like the mindfulness thing, as well. Thanks!

What were some of the others? Did the cost of living surprise you?

A lot of people who dream of moving to the first world seem to forget about that part.

This is also a decent answer, using a different approximation. If someone asks again I’ll just say “a few orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude”, since it covers both. The discrepancy comes from me implicitly assuming more correlation between variations, of which there is some IRL.

Keep in mind some of them do nothing. If you just go by appearance, unrelated dead ringers already happen!

Human genetic code has maybe 0.2% variation in base pairs, the average individual gene has maybe 13 thousand base pairs, and the whole code has about 3.1 billion base pairs.

This is crappy, quick and dirty math, but this might be one of those high-complexity situations (like weather modeling) where minimal detail can be closer to the truth than an intermediate amount anyway. So, we’ll model it as a random selection of 0.2% differentiated genes, meaning ~240,000 take ~500, which comes out to a number with 1556 digits. The amount needed to get a 50/50 chance of a repeat will be lower, with 777, almost 778 digits.

If you allow weird, implausible and mostly stillborn combinations it’s closer to 2^~240,000 . If you include mutations, it gets much much higher to the point of basically being undefined. It’s more about how many changes is still human, and after that how big a genome a cell can handle.

I’m sure, like when I do that, that they totally understand and love it. /s

If this is the last straw to leave it, sure, that’s worth it.

As it is it just sounded like spite, though. C’mon, it’s been years and the dude just wants a yes or no so he can move on.

Typical, leaving an avalanche of comments from the same domain and then acting all innocent.

Did you guys get purged from Hexbear or something?

Oh, well if you pinky promise. /s

I think the most interesting thing here is the trajectory of Russian demands. They’ve really moved closer and closer to an actually reasonable ask over the past few months. It makes me think they know exactly when they’re going to run out of stuff.

Although I wasn’t around for that period of YouTube, shoe-bop (Which I’m not linking because apparently the audio is now forbidden)

Yup, that’s the basic feral energy I picture for a family with 5 boys.

I actually feel bad for the dude, though.

“I’ll pray you all the money you want”?

I mean, if we’re just going by god’s sight…

Did said intimate relations ever blow up? I can totally see why they ban it in a place full of unstable people.

Yikes.

I have a feeling the Yakuza’s definition of poor and weak was pretty flexible.

Edit: It mentions at the end they’re getting in on the scams too now.

Ah, the sweet smell of bureaucracy in the air.

That’s not even a complaint, really - it’s just how properly functioning rule of law has to work.

The eastern part of the UK. Several European countries east of that. Australia and NZ.

To me the parallel would be that China could exclude the West from their part of the continent like the US did to the rest of the West.

They’re really trying; an east Asian military alliance feels imminent and they don’t want it one bit.

I’m going to add habits. Some things that seem impressive just boil down to, in the moment, doing the obvious thing you always do, times many years worth of moments.