No, Mother! It’s just the northern lights!

…no

Jesus… was the seagull okay?

Yes!

What country are you living in where the neoliberals have been kicked out of leadership…?

I don’t know man… who’s left to buy a Tesla at this point? MAGA people aren’t gonna do it after Elon attacked their god-emperor, and it’s not like liberals are just gonna forget the last several years of his ketamine-fueled fuckery.

The jig is up. There’s no one left who wants to support this clown.

The war of the attention whores has begun…

In your face, Space Coyote!

Identical sets are considered subsets of each other.

He runs like Steven Seagal!

Just put some in your mouth dude, it’s not that complicated

That’s rough buddy.

Is this an ad…?

over unpaid wages of just 800 yuan (or US$111)

lol, “just”

Wage theft is wage theft, the amount doesn’t matter. Fuck you, pay me.

Yeah… on January 20th, 2017

Rad! Are there solutions for all numbers, I wonder? Or just 4?

ETA: I found at least one solution that works for 2. (1, 1, 3)

Is this one of those problems that looks trivially easy to solve but has actually been an open problem in math for centuries and drives all who attempt it to inevitable madness?

Getting a real “Collatz” vibe from this

Yeah, this is pretty much exactly how I feel about it. The universe is nothing but dead matter being pushed around by blind force, and any sense of agency is just an emergent phenomenon that exists as an illusion in the brain without having any actual bearing on reality. If you perfectly understood all of the forces and matter involved, you could perfectly predict what any given human (or anything system at all) would do.

That said, I also believe that it’s a completely useless idea when you’re trying to navigate through life, so I mostly just keep it in the back of my head like some half-forgotten piece of trivia and spend most of my time pretending to be in control like everyone else. Cheers!

All else aside, “Boglex” has gotta be one of the ugliest names I’ve ever heard… Maybe it’s clever in German and I’m just too uncultured to get it?

Fuck, that’s as dark as it is clever