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Perfect Circrule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 3 weeks ago by tgirlschierke to c/onehundredninetysix

Important Context: @ratlimit is a satire account.

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[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 201 points 3 weeks ago

Guys, I went to the center of the circle, and there was a completely normal looking tree there. Maybe too normal. What could it mean?

[-] three@lemmy.zip 70 points 3 weeks ago

We need to dig deeper and get to the root of this.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 42 points 3 weeks ago

I dug it up, and found some bugs, worms and roots. Some kind of code?

[-] GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 25 points 3 weeks ago

Guys, look at this mushroom! All these little frills!

What were we doing?

[-] 0ops@piefed.zip 16 points 3 weeks ago

Put that down that's a deep state mushroom!

[-] Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 weeks ago

The mushrooms are safe from intervention, for there is no government above the Council of Fungi. They are the real Illuminati, spread across the world beneath our feet. A collective unconscious with a singular, defiant will.

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[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

I can't beleave you made that pun

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[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

If you start digging there and go all the way to the other side, you will end up in China! Check mate libtards. /s

[-] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

I connected the three trees at the middle and they made a triangle!!! How deep does this thing go?’

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 87 points 3 weeks ago

Hold up! You can even make a triangle out of those 3 points! Illerminaty confirmed.

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[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 60 points 3 weeks ago

Winnipeg was the shooter! I knew it!

[-] Rusty@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

Winnipeg was the inspiration for Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh is the code for Xi Jinping

China was behind the grassy knoll

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

That's a big grassy knoll.

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[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

It's always fucking Winnipeg. People need to find a new punchline...

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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 39 points 3 weeks ago

co-linear points can also be on a circumference, if you don't mind infinite radius

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 weeks ago

Non-euclidean planes say what?

[-] RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 weeks ago

I was about to ask whether you can have three colinear points on a sphere, but then I remembered that the Earth is flat.

Which brings me to another question. What does a circle on a Mercator projection looks like on a sphere?

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[-] megopie@beehaw.org 34 points 3 weeks ago

I wonder what size the circle would be if you took in to account the earth’s curvature.

Are there any map projections that allow for accurate projection of circles across arbitrary points?

[-] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 20 points 3 weeks ago

All map projections are arbitrary. The only way to do this is on a globe.

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Different projections preserve different properties. From memory there are ones that leave circles circular, so would allow this.

Edit: It's stereographic projection that maps circles to circles.

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[-] Eq0@literature.cafe 7 points 3 weeks ago

If you drew in on a globe, it would look deformed in this projection. I think the radius wouldn’t change, but it would look “wider” towards the north

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

Stereographic projection is the one (and only) thatballows that. You can draw any circle (or a straight line) on a stereographic map and it will remain a circle on the globe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereographic_map_projection#Properties

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[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 weeks ago

Even as satire, the worst part is seeing Kirk being treated like he's anywhere near as important as the Kennedy and Lincoln assassinations.

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[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 29 points 3 weeks ago

Fact checking satire makes for even better satire.

[-] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 3 weeks ago

Could be a coincidence. Only way we're going to know is if we occupy Winnipeg.

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

For at least 5 months of the year no one wants to occupy Winnipeg. That value increases slightly for the other 7 months.

[-] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago

Be nice to Canada, they have the worst neighbors

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[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 20 points 3 weeks ago

Important Context: @ratlimit is a satire account.

Well I know people who go for this shit in earnest, so it's good satire.

~~Reddit~~ has a sub called r/peopleliveincities, I'm sure they'd be happy to accept this one as well.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

I'd argue that's why it's not good satire. this just goes straight into another conspiracy theory now. satire doesn't really work when it straight up contributes to what it's supposed to be satirizing.

that's like satirizing the US culture by shooting up a school.

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[-] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

He's literally making his point... And he's entirely right. Do you understand the concept of hyperbole?

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[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

I never thought about it, but now I'm gonna have some fun with this.

[-] enbiousenvy 18 points 3 weeks ago

to think of that, this is one of the cases when basic math knowledge is important/useful outside engineering, finance, or anything that is stereotypically use math.

[-] omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 weeks ago

I got in trouble in my friend group meme chat for drawing a Star of David connecting the points in this meme

[-] 0ops@piefed.zip 9 points 3 weeks ago

That's almost the plot of the rdj Sherlock Holmes movie. Just, you know, different star.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 16 points 3 weeks ago

Readers added more context: Any three unique points on a sphere form a circle.

[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There always exists a circle such that, given any three non-colinear unique points in 3-space, all three points lie on the border of that circle. Spherical geometry is not required.

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[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 weeks ago

The next one will be in the Arctic.

Also didn’t know we were calling this the UWU shooting.

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[-] i_dont_want_to 11 points 3 weeks ago

NSFW (never safe from Winnipeg)

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[-] Gork@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 weeks ago

Wake up sheeple

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

The center of that circle is the Northwest Angle, and it's populated by turmpers. It was created by a "survey error". This tells me that Canada killed JFK because they knew Turmp would happen if they did. This was a Canadian attack all along.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Can you do that for any 3 points on a surface?

[-] mapleseedfall@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago
[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago

Oh right, this only works in 2D. You would need to have a sphere. Checkmate atheists

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[-] hactar42@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

We'll just forget about William McKinley because Buffalo doesn't fit into our perfect circle

[-] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

If he did, he wouldn't be able to use circumcircle theorem.

What's crazy is that this does fool people despite them drawing circles many times around triangles in their math class.

Wasn't that in elementary or middle school?

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 6 points 3 weeks ago

Seem pretty cut and dried to me. Time to bomb Winnipeg!

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