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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

he said he would be a 1 term president

No, he didn't. Other people, who had absolutely no say in what Biden would do, said he wouldn't run again.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/474059-biden-campaign-denies-one-term-report/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

the mirror is reflecting the light emitted by the lamp better than a wall will do.

Will it? Maybe. You are making the assumption that specular reflection is better at reflecting than diffuse reflection, but that is a false assumption. It depends on the reflectivity of the wall and the mirror. A white wall can reflect more light than a mirror.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. The link I posted is a followup to that story, in which the Biden campaign says those rumors are false.

You have to read more than the headline (but even the headline has a hint that this is not Biden speaking directly). The article says "Four people who regularly speak with the 77-year-old Biden told Politico that it is unlikely he would run for reelection in 2024" It's just rumors at best. More likely it's propaganda to get people to not worry about his age.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Even Biden said he was only going to run once.

I don't think Biden ever said that he would run only once. The news was that a few anonymous sources who were supposedly close to the Biden campaign said that he would not run for re-election and his campaign then denied that.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/474059-biden-campaign-denies-one-term-report/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

This is the third eruption in the same place in the past two months, if 'a volcano erupts near Grindavík, Iceland' was on your bingo card it should have already been marked. And having 'any volcano erupts' on a bingo card would make the game too easy since there are about fifty volcanos erupting at any one time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

It could just become a series of 1’s repeating forever

If that happens in a number, then it is rational. Pi is not rational, so that will never happen in pi.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

No, it's better. There is a comparison in OP's link. (rank choice is called Instant Runoff Voting)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (3 children)

(-1)*(-1) = e^iπ^*e^iπ^ = e^i2π^ = 1

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

People have always had a lack of creativity.

When the Greeks were settling around the Mediterranean they founded many 'New Cities', (Neapolis). One remained a 'new city' for long enough for the name to evolve to Naples.

The Phoenicians did the same, in their language 'New City' was Qart Hadasht, we now call it Carthage. One of the Carthages in what is now Spain was conquered by Rome and to differentiate it from the Capital of the Carthaginians they called it Carthago Nova, essentially New New City.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
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