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Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 04:00:30 JST Paul Cantrell
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@aubilenon @akamran Hmmm, a serious answer to a frivolous reply: when fascism turns on you, it turns fast. You feel strong until you are suddenly shattered into greater than 2 pieces.
Not sure what the “twist + bend” approach from the article corresponds to in that analogy, though. Fascinating article.

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  Jesse Morris (aubilenon@escaperooms.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 04:00:40 JST Jesse Morris
  
  @akamran @inthehands But what do those little 1" pieces of spaghetti that break off from the middle represent in this analogy? (https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-mathematicians-solve-age-old-spaghetti-mystery-0813)
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    MIT mathematicians solve age-old spaghetti mystery
    
    Researchers have long have puzzled over why it’s so hard to break a piece of dry spaghetti into only two pieces. A new MIT study follows up on the musings of physicist Richard Feynman, showing how and why it can be done.

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