general

All dog owners do this

And yes, we should employ natural selection

Cabo Verde actually almost did it

I wish the free japanese broadcaster hadn't forgotten to air this one

ok I can see the poll now

I had this same argument with my 3rd grade teacher

when she was trying to teach us about probability

nothing is "guaranteed to happen" the person making the statement is asserting something will happen

So it may or may not happen

so all probabilities should realistically be expressed as a union

but the point that Pika was making is that there's no difference between saying "this is guaranteed to happen" and "This WILL happen"

yeah, agreed

speaking of Pika, I passed Pika in the bracket. Huge news, I know.

If I tell you I will go get you ice cream, or I guarentee I will go get you ice cream

it's the same statement I think

I am moreso making the point that since we are doing a hypothetical poll, the word guarantee implies will happen

It definitely doesn't imply it won't happen

since there is no speaker like in spooky's 3rd grade teacher's case

Or maybe this conversation is too high iq for me lmao

my wording on the ice cream clauses was bad

but, I still think a guarentee is based on the speaker

if something has been guaranteed, it has to be guaranteed by someone

if there is a speaker, I agree

It is guaranteed that nothing is guaranteed

I can guarantee that

Nothing ever guarantees

I feel like it has to be possessive, maybe I'm not thinking of a scenario where it isn't

my 3rd grade teacher btw, her first example of a probability 1.0 statment was that bees like flowers, and when I told her that's stupid she backtracked to "the sun will rise tomorrow" which I also took issue with

It was guaranteed to them 100 years ago Uhm actually that doesn't mean it's 100%going to happen

and I think I actually had this same argument

I think the probability teacher failed when she was using the word guarenteed and not proper math termonology

that she had no power to guarentee either, which made them not

why did she not hit your 3rd grade class with almost surely

Likely very likely certain

it's still crazy to me, looking back, that all K-6 teachers are in their early-mid twenties, or were grannies

they were as retarded as we all were

I had some pretty old teachers

K-6?

Yeah, my 4-6 teachers were all old

yeah, there were some grandma types who still taught

my oldest teacher I had was in grade 12, he retired the year after I graduated

I can go back and read

but what is the opposite position

I feel like we all sorta agree

I guess, what is something that can be "guaranteed" without a speaker/perspective being added I feel like one is required to use the word, even if you don't specify who is doing the guaranteeing

and if you sub in to "____ will happen tomorrow"

I still think there's a ghost-subject (it has a linguistic term idk) that is party to the statement

it's usually the speaker, but I guess if you constructed a self-proving sentence, and abstracted the speaker from it

"Guaranteed to happen" just means if it doesn't happen, someone else will owe you money.

then it would mean #1 is correct, I just can't think of a statement that works like that

idk if that makes sense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM95k31NUts second season trailer for Witch Hat Atelier is out

Happy Birthday America

And Max

may the mitosis be painless

gbdaam

I watched Project Hail Mary because it is on Prime Video now

Its good enough, but what I would want changed would make it not watchable for the vast majority of audiences.

I really like the Martian (movie not book), I feel like Proj Hail Mary is trying to tell a character story that's sorta impossible to adapt

even if you let the MC talk to himself a lot

Oh wow Max and my friend have the same birthday, I will find a weird Monster Energy with alcohol and drink it in honor

I own the book. Its probably way better and goes far more into the technical details.

All the cool sciencey stuff the biologist pulls off is glossed over in the movie.

I don't like his books at all, I really thought I would when I first read the Martian ik for some people they're some of their favorites

I enjoyed the martian

but yes, definitely more introspective and technical in writing

without spoiling anything, since I still think most people here would find it worth watching Proj Hail Mary I don't think you can write a main character who needs to be 10 different characters at once, and gloss over the internal conflict

I find the Martian book to be absolutely boring tediously stepping through stuff like it's telling me, "yes i did my research, here it is". The movie was good to me since it glossed over all that.

being scared, witty, smart, etc. all at the same time is sorta exhausting for the viewer

How did a biologist pull that off?

Have you seen and do you like Arrival Leg?

have not heard of it

You should watch Arrival

That's the entire premise of that movie

ew Jeremy Renner

and someone qualified for the task