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Good news! In the new snapshot, you can continuously activate geysers by placing lava instead of the magmablock, meaning a dispenser can activate/deactivate a geyser!

I completely agree, I think they look very cool and are and interesting addition!

I had the same thoughts regarding making them activatable. I think it would be great if there was a mechanism to make them passive only (like placing a string above the water or something similar?) for e.g. waterfall animations, but activating them on command would be just as helpful. I really hope mojang has these things in mind.

"Please don't kill me, I have a family! Kill them instead!"

You know you can do both, right? Be vegan and fight billionaires. But I do somewhat agree that it is an elite issue, you do need to be in a somewhat privileged position to become vegan.

But also... who is promoting the global south to go vegan? As far as I'm aware, most vegans just try to get the people in generally developed countries to go vegan, as you have plenty of choices there, and most people are not fighting malnourishment.

And also, I think it's perfectly justified and not dehumanizing to critique cultures that promote (animal) abuse. Culture is a terrible justification for anything, if that thing is actually harmful.

Anything outside of living in a cave by the fire is inhuman. We are made to live in a cave with our tribe in our quest for survival. Focusing on modern architecture is to deny your humanity. /s

Your point would maybe make sense if we were obligate carnivores, but we are not. Humans don't have to eat everything, they just can eat everything. And just cause you can doesn't automatically mean you should.

If you follow the endurance running hypothesis, being able to run long distances was also something we were made for in our quest for survival. Therefore, according to your logic, not endurance running yourself would be to deny your humanity, correct?

Clearly, there are faster ways to board an airplane.

But if you did make it this far, you probably already knew that efficiency isn’t the only variable in the real world. Boarding groups aren’t designed purely for throughput. There are ticket classes and loyalty programmes, infants and senior citizens, and a myriad of other human factors that dictate priority.

We aren’t neat little yellow dots.

There was a CGP Grey video about this exact topic, which is also mentioned at the bottom as an inspiration. I like this articles conclusion more, because from what I remember, the videos conclusion was more of a complaint, that humans inability and constraints are the problem that prevents a perfect boarding procedure, but this article feels more nuanced to me, in that the 'perfect' boarding procedure doesn't really take into account all of the important factors, and is just pretty math, but not practical for real life.

It really depends. For example, if you walk 1m, then 0.5m, then 0.25m and continue infinitely, then "after infinity" you will have walked exactly 2m. This is the classic 'Achilles and turtle' example and works fine if the value converges. It's just mathematics.

There is only a problem if the value diverges. Imagine the step example, but on even steps, you raise a blue flag, and on odd steps you raise a red flag. Now the question what flag is raised "after infinity" is impossible to answer. It clearly should be either red or blue, but it also can't really be either, because that would mean infinity is either even or odd, which makes no sense.

You're assuming the collatz conjecture holds, which is unknown.

But even if it does hold, you do understand the second problem, right? 1 can not possibly be the outcome, because whenever there is a 1 in that infinite loop, it is followed by a 4. And if 1 is the outcome, then it wasn't done infinitely, because otherwise there must have been a 4 afterwards. The same argument holds for 4 and 2 as well. So we're stuck in the reality that it would have to be one of those numbers, but it also can't really be one of those numbers. It's paradoxical.