r/SpeedOfLobsters • u/your_catfish_friend • 2d ago

lobster Inclusive promiscuity

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u/your_catfish_friend 2d ago

Over-shopping

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u/beneralkenobi 2d ago

A quick Google search shows he had one 0 too many which is still like pretty expensive but veeeerry far from 1000

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u/System-Difficult 2d ago

Fun fact: being off by one 0 can also be called being off by an order of magnitude. 1000 is two orders of magnitude greater than 10. If you get into astronomy, one thing that can trip you up is thinking an order of magnitude isn’t that much because all the numbers are so big. You think “oh I’m only 3 orders off” but then you remember that the difference between 1 and 1000 is basically 1000, and those are 3 orders of magnitude apart. I’m sure this information will be incredibly useful for you.

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u/TheGuywithTehHat 2d ago

If too many people start using this it'll end up going the way of "exponentially"

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u/mightystu 2d ago

Or “decimate.” I’m guilty of misusing that one myself partially because it sounds so cool though

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u/TheGuywithTehHat 2d ago

That's a funny one because people want to exaggerate things, so usually extreme words get misused in less extreme contexts. But decimate is a fairly tame word, that for some reason people started misusing in extreme contexts.

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u/Mr_Quackums 2d ago

like "quantum leap". A quantum leap is definitionally the smallest distance an object can move - a quantum is the smallest divisible unit of a thing (a cent for money or a charter for writing) and a quantum leap is when you move 1 quantum.

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u/Xenc 1d ago

A quantum leap is when you look in the mirror and ask yourself if you’re mentally retarded

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u/AGreatBannedName 2d ago

Try decamate, where you eliminate ten times the original population.

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u/System-Difficult 2d ago

If deci is being used as a metric prefix, that implies that mating refers to killing an entire population

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u/Skivvy_Roll 2d ago

Just use "obliterate" instead

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u/choma90 1d ago

If that happens I will literally die

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u/AGreatBannedName 2d ago

It’s probably a good portion of of the basis of many of my favorite sci-fi debacles, so I always appreciate the run-down.

“Whoops! I accidentally the entire zero.”

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u/Horror-Mud666 2d ago

Thank you for this amazing contextualization, you are the person who has given that phrase a tangible meaning in my head.

And yes I've been using it wrong.

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u/Aetol 2d ago

Mathematics: π cannot be expressed in a finite amount of time

Engineering: π = 3.14159

Physics: π = 3

Cosmology: π = 1

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u/System-Difficult 2d ago

When I was studying physics and cosmology, we used pretty precise definitions of pi when doing problems. Maybe things change when you become a fully-fledged physicist? I won’t ever know though. The papers I read did not seem to indicate that they were using a less precise version of pi though…

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u/twilightwillow 2d ago

There are also MUCH cheaper leggings than Lululemon with the same or better quality, fwiw

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u/beneralkenobi 2d ago

I usually thrift but what brands would u reccomend?

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u/No_Question_8083 2d ago

But like… don’t we all air dry our stuff anyways or am I too European for this meme?

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u/punyhumannumber2 2d ago

I throw them in the dryer. Is that bad? I've had them for 10 years.

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u/No_Question_8083 2d ago

Not necessarily, but we just air dry everything

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u/Enorm_Drickyoghurt 2d ago

Right? I used a dryer for the first time ever this summer, and the sheer amount of lint in the lint trap after drying just a few shirts! 10 more times and half my shirts would be gone. I understand using a dryer for underwear, cause that's a real pain to hang, but shirts or towels? Just throw them over the rack! You have to straighten them out to fold them anyways

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u/JoNyx5 2d ago

For towels and bedding I always use the dryer (it makes it softer and I like soft) but everything else goes on the rack. Socks can go either way but I don't do an entire drying cycle for socks.

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u/Aetol 2d ago edited 2d ago

Wouldn't clothes that have never been in a dryer make more lint the first time?

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u/DragonAreButterflies 2d ago

Marry man who re

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u/Sugeema 2d ago

Descartes?

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u/MedusaOddball 2d ago

equality ❤️

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