THE NEW Miscellaneous Talk That Doesn't Deserve A New Thread Thread Thread (Part 2)

It’s a joke about how the Tesla robots are also robots and have a light up blue light around their head kind of like hhyyrylainens pfp, they’re called Optimus.

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I don’t recall hhyyrylainen’s PFP eye having a black pupil…

Google thinks greek gods were real and that you can inherit “mom energy”…

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well, there is truth to the mom energy one. you do actually inherit the energy levels of your mom, since you get all of your mitochondria from her, which means if your mom has chronic exhaustion, chances are you do or you will, since that can be caused by just not having enough mitochondria, which can be caused by mutations that make them not replicate fast enough or make them die faster or make them not be able to repair themselves if they have a defect that prevents them from working, or any number of things that make your mitochondria make less energy.

and most types of it are due to detrimental mutations in the mitochondria

however, there are many more things that go into a person’s mental and physical energy levels(genes in your nuclei, epigenetics, and even trauma and how regularly/how much you eat), so you’ll almost never inherit your mom’s exact energy levels

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What the :belgium: is that “fox”?

one taxidermied by someone who makes furbys and has never actually seen a fox

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Oh I see. So the equivalent of a medieval art fox…

Edit: I found it

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Another space thing happened! The Europa clipper launch, a probe to with the main mission to see if Europa’s subsurface ocean are habitable.

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Why the despairing wojak?

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“Europa is ofter course ignites the they scientist with the Sout”

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it will arrive at jupiter on 2030.

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Pretty much everything going into the outer solar system takes quite some time to arrive on the place.

Also does anybody remember the dragonfly mission?

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Found a wild selling wrong game in the wild:

Some how its still selling

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You said wild instead of shop on purpose here or not?

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I mean, it’s very possible they ordered a normal sized batch of the game at launch and still haven’t gotten through it…

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Hmm, I wonder why people don’t want to buy this game… maybe it isn’t that good…

it’s horrible

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in my country we would assume that this game is some money laundering scheme of sorts.

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What do you mean by that? The developers were paid too much for making a game this bad?

If your company has huge losses on some product you invested a lot in you can say that on your taxes, and they’ll give you a discount on your taxes, occasionally it’s enough you pay zero or negative taxes. This isn’t weird or unordinary, it’s to incentivize risk-taking and make it so no one worries the economy will explode if anything goes wrong, if the economy is garbage, at least you won’t be paying much taxes. It’s also used to incentivize other stuff, like donating. There’s a whole lot to say on the topic of all billionaires donating pretty much exactly enough that they don’t have to pay taxes, whole “scams” of buying paintings from yourself (after you monopolize a certain artists artworks) at inflated prices so you have an inflation proof store of wealth, and can sell them when you need money and donate them to museums to make they look more high-art-y and avoid taxes. Companies do the same thing, they invest a ton in a project, then throw i under the bus when it looks bad and then don’t pay taxes that year. It’s pretty common with movie studios, if you believe certain people. Game studios, less so, but it makes just as much sense. Another common “scam” is attracting tons of venture capital so you can run a really unprofitable business and never run out of money. If you have enough investors you can sell products for less than they cost to make and stay above-water, and guess what? If you never make any money on anything you sell, you don’t pay taxes. Amazon was a net loss until like 2019 btw.

So uh, a pretty normal thing to assume. Dunno which country Trappist is from (Garmoniya International Martian Outpost?), but near Silicon valley, Hollywood, or the less famous piles of companies in Cascadia or Texas, this would be a pretty normal assumption.

Edit: if the huge investments you made were things like upgrading your whole facility, stock buybacks from investors, breaking in to new markets, or paying overtime to your favorite employees, you don’t even necessarily have to loose any money. You keep all the stuff you spent it on, including employees like the CEO and CFO having lots of money, inflated stock price, whatever, and don’t pay taxes. It’s no wonder it’s kinda common, depending who you ask.

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