an exception to what?

but you were certainly thinking it loudly. or how else was one to interpret ‘people from the 18th century wouldn’t be able to do something if it was technically challenging’?

a noose or an axe both put much more need on the skill of the executioner, while the guillotine puts more need on the skill of the engineer. both the axe and the noose are materially simpler, but still very fuckupable without special skills or training, while the guillotine, once built, is much more simply operated by one with less expertise. the guillotine is a tool of mass execution, and its apparent mechanical complexity is there to facilitate that, via ease of operation and resetability.

if we assume the bottom right corner is a right angle and is the center of the arc, then it is solvable in the manners that others here have already described. if either of those is not the case, and the image itself doesn’t state, then there is insufficient information to solve it.

when i got ghosted by my job, i wish i’d started looking for a new one sooner, before burning through so much of my savings.

i feel like each sentence of that was less coherent than the one before. you should keep going, get weirder with it, see where you end up.

that only seems to talk about the use of the fasces as a symbol, which is pretty different from explicitly calling oneselves fascists, or holding specifically fascist beliefs. the same article lists a ton of other places one can find fasces. the symbol is much older than the ideology, but that doesn’t mean anything using the symbol shares the ideology.

i’m a little confused why you ever “always considered [yourself] bi”, when nothing you’ve told us here even remotely seems to point you to that conclusion.

what makes their office software so much better than, say, libreoffice? i don’t work an office job, and haven’t had the misfortune of running windows since i dropped windows 7, but when i did switch, the programs seemed basically the same. office software seemed like a solved problem by then. what new features has microsoft added and convinced people they need that foss options don’t have?

i’m not sure i understand the question. if it is meant to ask what experience i’ve had that no other living person has or ever will experience again, then i’m probably not old enough in my mid 30s to lay any such claim. this doesn’t seem likely to be what you mean though, since it should be obvious to you that you aren’t the only surviving person who used the internet in the 90s.

my second interpretation of the question would be that you want to know what experience i am the most recent person to have experienced, which would work with your example, if you consider the ‘early’ internet to have ended and become the regular internet, right after you first got online. for that, a couple hours ago, i walked atop a particular out of the way concrete block wall on my way home. probably nobody has done that since then.

maybe half an hour ago, when i jumped into bed. before that, i jumped up or over a few ledges on my walk home from work. wild to me that anyone is citing a timeframe longer than a day to be honest,

i’m sorry, are you asking about psychopathy or psychosis? very different subjects. either way, i don’t think they’re considered generally praiseworthy.

literally the plot of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972).

what on earth do you mean by ‘produce a meditation’?

i just use a hat or a bandana to keep it back when i’m eating.

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where did you come across this? if it’s a web page or something, it should be pretty easy to sleuth it out.

that line only appears straight because of the map projection being used. the one that appears curved is actually straight on a globe. you could construct a different projection that made that straight line appear straight (though other straight lines would thereby be distorted instead). latitude lines are not straight lines, and never have been, except the equator.

i don’t even understand what you think ‘straight’ and ‘curved’ even mean at this point.

of course the shortest distance is a straight line, that’s literally the definition of a straight line.