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The third image is noted to have a higher length (235mm) than the first image (233mm), however in the picture it's clearly shorter.

Do I misunderstand the meaning of the numbers?

But I almost always poop at work :(

The USA didn't invent the concept of police or government.

The first police were appointed to investigate and punish minor crimes commited agains civilians.

Then why are most “uncivilized” societies have more egalitarian and non-violent than “civilized” ones?

Uncivilized societies engage in violence much more frequently than civilized societies.

That's the case for individual/personal violence, and also for institutional/mass violence.

Civilized societies are better than uncivilized society in anything they do collectively, be it science, production, or murder.

Since civilized societies are so much better at murdering, the few cases where mass murder does happen are much more significant.

However, such cases remain an exception, as opposed to what is the case for uncivilized societies.

Uncivilized societies may be harmless, but they are certainly not peaceful.

Civilized societies are more powerful, but they yield their power much more carefully.

When I went to college the dot was used for the dot product (scalar product) of two vectors while the cross was used for the cross product (vector product) of two vectors.

Since in this case numbers (read: one-dimensional vectors) are multiplied, the dot product is used, which should be denoted by a dot.

(But really, if I were to write a formula in Latex I would just use the * symbol, too.)

Do not climb.

Play on and around pipe.

A class of 200 students performing much worse than the last class is very unlikely. 200 Students is enough to make even small differences statistically significant.

A single test being much harder than the last test is much more likely, since it isn't an averahe of 200, it's a single datapoint.

That's why if this semester's class performed much worse than last semester's, you can assume it's because of the test, not the students.

Well the options aren't just capitalism and socialism. There's also worse capitalism. So a normal capitalist system that protects itself does not just prevent socialism, it also prevents worse capitalism.

An example of a system that turned to worse capitalism is Nazi Germany. That's why today, Germany prevents system change, so as to not again change from normal capitalism to worse capitalism.

bad take

Some people play video games to relax, they don't try to get better at them.

Mastodon is tagged with Privacy but Signal isn't? I wonder what privacy means to OOP

Granted, in this situation, it's a little more complicated than "victim and offender", but that is what it's being distilled down to here, with reality being flipped to present Ukraine as victim and Russia as offender.

I'm not sure whether I'm reading this right. Are you talking about the "offender" within the context of the post, meaning "offender" = "the one who has Nazis in their ranks" or are you talking about the "offender" within the context of the war, meaning "offender" = "the aggressor force in the ukraine/russia war"?