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  • NJSpradlin@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that Bill Murray repeated the same day 12,395 times in Groundhog DayEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Thank you. It reminds me of All You Need Is Kill, or the Edge of Tomorrow. In these kinds of movies they absolutely gloss over the massive amounts of time between the first repetition and the one that breaks the loop. Because, 90% of that is nothing, while %10 is incremental growth toward the break. Everyone’s played a game like a ‘souls like’, chess even, or a card game, and it takes hundreds of repetitions* to get slightly better. All I Need Is Kill does a good job of painting that picture, and The Edge of Tomorrow does a somewhat decent job of portraying that for cinema (they really should have kept the number count on his hand to subtly and fully express the time frame here). Honestly, for the movie, Groundhogs Day, we probably only see about 15-30 reps. But, the viewer can imagine significantly more. Same with something like the Apple+ show Black Matter, at the end of the season we’re led to believe what we saw as a dozen or so universes is now thousands, and it makes sense after the curtain is lifted.

  • NJSpradlin@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL about hair trapsEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I asked a guy sitting behind me in training if it was noticeable, because I couldn’t really tell in the mirror since it was so far back. He said yes, so there it went. I decided to take possession of who I was and get rid of it all, no sense in lying about it or covering it up. Before then I personally buzzed it to a quarter inch.

  • NJSpradlin@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•the calm after the weird
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    2 months ago

    Remember the dark years from 2016-2020? Doom scrolling became a huge thing back then. It’s not going to stop if we fall back, again. It’ll be doom scroll after doom scroll of rights being stripped, of the president looking like a fool globally, etc. never ending shit storm.

    If the other person gets elected? Someone’s going to complain that she got her nails done on taxpayer dollars.

  • NJSpradlin@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL On average, Mercury is the closest planet to Earth — and to every other planet in the solar systemEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I am not a scientist, or mathematician, or STEM in any way, but if we assume that mercury has a circular orbit, and the sun has a stationary position within everyone’s orbit… and that every planet has a circular orbit, instead of elliptical, then we can assume… that the sun and mercury (edit: or ANY planet) are equal, since mercury is half of the time further and half of the time closer.

    I hope that helps. I know the first rule of the internet is that stating something wrong will immediately result in being corrected by a SME, so either way my comment will get you* the correct answer.

    Edit: this reasoning would only apply to planets that have circular orbits and are on the same plane.