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You can call it laziness sure. But it’s closer to thermodynamics. A system is finding its lowest free energy configuration.

It’s not laziness to think of new things - like doing a simulation instead of a physical model takes a ton of work up front. It’s only worth it IF it works as a better solution, and it may not. This type of “activation energy” then leading to lower energy configurations is common in nature.

Laziness in this case would be to just keep building physical models because that is easier than thinking of the maths, validation, etc of working on a simulation.

I guess I just disagree with Bill entirely on this one.

Not stiff enough, I’d say. And honestly, steel wool breaks into small pieces pretty easily too.

Fully agreed that the sports betting ads are out of control and need to be toned down / regulated.

But the REAL problem I have is with how - in just one year or so - gambling has invaded all sports broadcast. The intermission panels are talking about odds, live odds appear during the game, talking heads mentioning how much X dollars could would make if placed on team Y to win right now etc etc.

Even if you try to avoid the commercials, that content gets to you. And if you have a gambling problem, do you just accept that you can’t watch sports at all without risk of being exposed to that?

We treat all other addictive properties with heavy regulation about exposure to the general public. Gambling should be no exception.

That’s really cool!

Love the little bar graphs filling up

Preach.

I’m honestly still using Reddit but mostly just lurking now, and really prefer Lemmy / kbin due to how completely awful the official app is (using Apollo now just makes me sad).

So I love participating here and plan to do so more and more! Whereas with Reddit, I can see myself opening that up less and less.

We’ll likely always be smaller, but we can be big enough while being better - and that would be fine by me.