Matt

@Dude_Largepants @emuse1955 @uncledoomer That is just an untrue statement.

@MatthewIgnatius @emuse1955 @uncledoomer Geosynchronous orbit is a country's sovereign territory. It's quite literally part of "your country."

this hypothetical brings out two types of people: people who would take this deal in a heartbeat and be 100 million richer within 3-4 weeks, and people who failed geometry

@Dude_Largepants @emuse1955 @uncledoomer By definition, “in your country” ends at space. A thing cannot be in your country and in space at the same time.

@MatthewIgnatius @emuse1955 @uncledoomer It just says "In your country." That could mean any sovereign area from geosynchronous orbit to the bottom of it's territorial waters.

I’ve been basically exclusive to the first Saturday/Sunday showing the second/third week of release for years now and I feel totally disconnected from all the “today’s audiences are terrible!” complaints. They’re mostly great in my experience!

@emuse1955 @Dude_Largepants @uncledoomer You’re getting there!

@MatthewIgnatius @Dude_Largepants @uncledoomer Lol, it's okay to admit you are wrong sometimes.

@emuse1955 @Dude_Largepants @uncledoomer *Maybe.* And no.

Okay, so apparently the fact that you would have to bet your life that you will be able to raise 10 million dollars to hire a team of experts to help you commit a bunch of felonies to solve an unknown problem of unknown complexity within a year is not even a point of 'actual concern.'

@emuse1955 @Dude_Largepants @uncledoomer Even just ten million dollars buys a lot of expert help. Again, the only point of actual concern you’ve raised is a constantly moving box.

With first and second, the point is simply that the rules are perfectly consistent with the box being in locations that would be completely inaccessible to you. That seems like more than a small problem, no? You are not concerned about betting your life on your ability to break into a safe in a heavily guarded vault? Also, I think you are a fool if you think you would actually have an *unlimited credit line* in this scenario. Plus you'd have to give away lots of your upside and burn lots of time to even have a chance of securing that.

@emuse1955 @Dude_Largepants @uncledoomer If you want to turn the first two into the fourth I guess I can’t stop you. And again, with almost a year and a nearly unlimited credit line, I’m just not concerned about the third.

I'm assuming you think it excludes the first because it says "in your country," but it only says that it is *hidden somewhere in your country* not that it stays in your country. Imagine they placed it in a weather balloon or a rocket or something like that at beginning of event. Same goes for the second option too. These are related to the fourth of course, but the idea with the fourth one was just that you couldn't use intersecting radii and these are about inaccessibility. As for third, be more imaginative. It could be in a secure/restricted/guarded area, it could be bolted to the bottom of a lake, you could have a nested loop of very secure safes with decoy safes inside, etc...

@Dude_Largepants @emuse1955 @uncledoomer It absolutely excludes the first and mostly excludes the second. The third is of no concern whatsoever given fifty weeks to work with. Only the fourth could really be a problem.

@MatthewIgnatius @emuse1955 @uncledoomer The prompt doesn't exclude any of those.

@emuse1955 @uncledoomer Can you read?

@uncledoomer The prompt does not exclude the possibility of the box being in space, deep in the ocean, locked in a safe, inside of a moving vehicle, etc…

@yungsleepy_ It’s not Sue Simmons I can tell you that much.

I’ve lived in NY almost 38 years idk who tf that is

@souljagoyteller @bestmanofonline I’m reading Left Hand for the first time right now and it’s one of those books I’m thinking about almost every minute I’m not reading it. For comparison I read Dispossessed a few years ago and came away almost entirely unmoved.

@bestmanofonline I’ve read Omelas: should I start w/ the Left Hand of Darkness?

What’s a good entry point into literary science fiction. It all feels so impenetrable to me. For reference, the closest I’ve delved into the genre is Vonnegut

@osgamer74 What do these people think happens when they use a landline to call a cellphone?

When people mock Nixon’s call to the astronauts as not possible because LANDlNE TO THE MOON LOL, what they are displaying is a perfect example of how small they think You can logically copy/paste that shallow thinking onto all their other claims that the moon landing is faked

@GurrieI @RyanKoenigsberg Even if they’re not practicing, 162 games is a lot of practice itself.

@RyanKoenigsberg If they are practicing every day and getting better I think they would score a run by the end of the season

I would bet heavily on the Broncos not scoring a single run in 162 games

@KyleArundel @JayNDonde Lol what ever happened to that guy and his haz cheezburger girlfriend?

@JayNDonde but new york progressives have been saying what she said .... for years... foxnews.com/us/professor-w…

On Mamdani's wife: We often apply a strange Overton Window to public figures. If you learned a friend is gleefully supportive of rape and murder, you wouldn't merely treat that as moral failure. Your reaction would probably be, "this person has severe mental health issues." 1/2

@steverebeiro @BurdenBurner In fairness, he’s not really equipped to hold much of anything. His slightly younger twin brother to the left got all the fingers.

@BurdenBurner I like this guy holding nothing

An actual MLB team posted this as a “plan” for their new stadium.

@katrosenfield Yeah, I enjoyed it a lot, but it should be nowhere near the conversation of Most Celebrated Movie of All Time. Like this should be obvious to anyone who’s seen at least a dozen movies in their life.

I thought Sinners was fine, but at this point I am actively rooting against it because its fans are toxic crazy people and everyone associated with it has revealed themselves within the last two weeks to be the biggest goobers on the planet

He looks half Bill and half Biff.

@rogoghoul @coopercooperco You’re so cool.

@coopercooperco The book is a travesty, so props to the screenwriters if they salvaged it I guess.

The Project Hail Mary tweets are beginning to feel like the most “should be tagged with Paid Promotion” tweets of all time

@BillHuntBits @thedigitalbits Contact now! (And Cast Away too, but that’s a different post.)

This aged pretty well, I’d say. Of these 14 titles, half have already been released or announced, and half of the rest are in the works! Fingers crossed the Paramount/Skydance news does not derail things. #4K #UltraHD @thedigitalbits

@TheBigBroTea “As a guest” is so funny to me. Was he supposed to marry Jeff?

They hate each other 😭 #Survivor50