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[scriver]

What, I can't even get an "I see what u did there" for that Legendary grade wordplay? You make me sad.

[TD1]

*Presents scriver with a plaque saying "Congratulations, you managed to string together a sentence!"*

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Nah, I'm actually just horrendous at maths.

Regardless, conceptually speaking, the idea of something which is nearly two is not in itself two.

Infinity goes on forever, as you know, and a repeating decimal like 1.999... is going to go on infinitely. It's not like 1.9 and 2, where you can add 0.1 to 1.9 and get 2. It's an infinite decimal, which means that there's no value, no matter how small that can be added to it to reach 2.

And because of that, because there exists zero space between 1.999... and 2, it can only be that 1.999+0=2. They're the same, and not only that, but this realization about the nature of infinity has...consequences.

[scriver]

*Presents scriver with a plaque saying "Congratulations, you managed to string together a sentence!"*

That just makes me think you didn't get it

[TD1]

Sure I got it. It was very punny. But, alas, still only a sentence.

[martinuzz]

The teams of Eindhoven and Delft universities might not be able to join the World Solar Challenge this year.

The batteries of their solar cars are stuck in Singapore, because airliners refuse to load them onboard, after (unrelated) accidents with batteries in planes.
The Delft team has already won the WSC 6 times. Looks like they won't be able to defend their title this year.

The Delft team is now trying to build a new battery in Australia, hoping to finish it before the race starts in late october.

[Descan]

Being old doesn't immediatedly make it valuable

To a lot of people, it does. Like, just the idea of owning something like that can be appealing. We're not talking something you'd sell for hundreds or thousands of dollars; more like 20 bucks tops at a gift shop.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The teams of Eindhoven and Delft universities might not be able to join the World Solar Challenge this year.

The batteries of their solar cars are stuck in Singapore, because airliners refuse to load them onboard, after (unrelated) accidents with batteries in planes.
The Delft team has already won the WSC 6 times. Looks like they won't be able to defend their title this year.

The Delft team is now trying to build a new battery in Australia, hoping to finish it before the race starts in late october.

That's unfortunate, though it is true that this type of battery is functionally a bomb without a detonator, particularly for use in a solar car.

[misko27]

I was already feeling horrible before today, but right now I'm almost confined to my bed because of my headache on top of my other numerous issues. I had so much I was supposed to do today, and I'm not going to be able to do any of it. And god the pain isn't going away...

[Dunamisdeos]

Dealing with a lot of people who won't have proper supplies for Irma because they thought that ordering one-day shipping on their packages meant they would arrive in the middle of a fucking hurricane.

Like families of people who deliver Amazon packages are somehow exempt from shit like "mandatory evacuations" or "the value of human life".

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Starting to wonder if Kendrick Lammar had a point about naming hurricanes things like Death Megatron 3000. Even directly telling people they'll die if they stay doesn't work.

[Frumple]

Plenty of folks pretty literally can't leave, or would end up in an even worse situation if they tried. Then there's the crazies, but I honestly doubt that's even a plurality. Some will always end up staying, unless we start physically removing people who refuse or can't comply with evacuation orders... or find ways to make evacuation guaranteed if desired and free of individual charge for at least portions of the population, I guess.

Dunno if a different naming scheme would help any. Something like Death Megatron 3000 definitely wouldn't, though. Too likely to cause people to brush it off as exaggeration.

[Descan]

name them after various names of demonic entities

Hurricane Belial would be fairly kosher.

[scriver]

If you had over 150,000 books but could only choose a couple to save in a hurricane.....which books would you choose?

[SalmonGod]

Been in the process of buying a house since late July.  Our original closing date was July 23, but it got severely delayed after the appraisal turned out $10k under the seller's price.  Everything had to be re-done after that, because of course a mortgage company won't agree to buy a house for more than it's worth.  We had to ask for a two week extension on the place we're currently renting while this got worked out, which the landlord wasn't happy about.

We were getting really close to a final closing.  Stupid crap with the mortgage company caused it to be repeatedly pushed back a day or two at a time over the last week.  We were supposed to have everything in place tomorrow and finally have our final for real closing date at the end of the week.  Coincidentally, our extension on rent also runs out this fucking Friday.

And today the sellers decide this is taking too long, back out, and put the house back on the market.

Not a happy day over here.

Now we have to beg the landlord to let us stay, start over completely from scratch on finding a new place, and we invested about $700 in appraisal and inspection on that place for nothing.

I hope a sinkhole swallows their stupid house.