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hi luckies, yuki here with fact 206!

katsunori is a seal at tokkari center. he was rescued in december 2012 after being found abandoned in freezing water. he was at a developmental stage it seems and never learned the proper skills to return to the wild.

he's known for his wrinkly ass face primarily. he's such a cutie pie! he has had 2 pups with yo chan, another permanent resident of the center, and one lives today, tsuki.

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hi luckies, yuki here celebrating (more than) 200 days here!

for 100 days i didnt do a fact, so i know this time i will. though what fact, ive been thinking about for a little bit.

lobsters turn blue when they produce too much of a coloring protein. it's a genetic mutation.

i guess we can do an ama like last time too. ask away!

hi luckies, yuki here with fact 192!

what is the biggest market of tradeable assets? is it stocks? is it derivatives? is it cryptocurrencies? nope! it's bonds.

bonds dwarf almost every market in terms of size. the world literally runs on leverage.

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hi luckies, yuki here with fact 181!

iracing is a hyper realistic racing simulator. in it there used to be a 1 in 1 million chance of your engine randomly exploding to simulate real race conditions. it was removed a while back.

i was told theres a famous instance where someone was 17 hours into a 24 hour race and his engine exploded for this arbitrary reason.

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hi luckies, yuki here with fact 180!

chatgpt found a condition under the navier stokes model of fluid dynamics in which "singularities" of infinite velocity/pressure form in finite time. this shows a breakdown in the mathematics used to engineer planes, fluid movement, etc.

now once the results are verified, mathematicians can move onto other problems.

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hi luckies. yuki here with fact 179!

we can turn saltwater into freshwater, it's just expensive.

also nestle and water providers do everything in their power to ensure as few desalination plants as possible are created.

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hi luckies, yuki here with fact 178! this may end up being part of a larger work, perhaps a youtube video where i sufficiently anonymize myself, but ive always been fascinated with how anime as a medium should handle body language.

we start with star trek: the next generation, a show that has nearly unparalleled attention to detail as far as characters are concerned. for context, we have commander riker, portrayed by jonathan frakes. frakes is 6 feet tall on a big frame, and he leverages that to exhibit riker's communication style. when being inviting or jovial, riker is often seen leaning back in a chair with his legs up, giving an air of relaxation which diffuses the people he's with. when he's pushing the envelope, riker often gets as close as he can to the other person, using his size to look down on and intimidate the other person. when captain picard is commanding on the bridge, he keeps a more neutral posture deferring to his captain (on the bridge often staying sitting). conversely, when riker is in command, he noticeably puffs his chest a little, and establishes a stronger presence on the bridge by walking around the center of the bridge more. i could go on for hours about this, but overall it's a masterclass in using body language to let the sharp viewer learn more about the characters. it is also pretty clear to anyone who went to business or officer school that these tactics are tools used by savvy executives and commanders.

now we move to how anime can turn this up to 11. you dont need to rely on stage direction and human expression to show body language, and baki shows this pretty well. you have the contorted and overdetailed facial expressions, the insane body positions they adopt to convey emotion, and the physically drawn aura they exude and expand upon in dialogue. it's cool, but i think anime should be able to pull off more subtle body language work, which brings me to love is war.

love is war could use body language a lot mote than it does (at least through season 2 [no spoilers please]). shirogane is often seen behind the president's desk with his elbows atop, and hands pressed together obstructing his face. it's a powerful body language signal, but i think the rest of the show could have benefitted from manipulating these archetypes more. kaguya has a similar base signal, but it's weaker and even more underutilized. at its most extreme, imagine an episode without monologues or narrator intervention, where the entire conflict can be implied by the movement of eyes and hands, the tilts of heads, and the pacing around a room. it's very possible, and they dance around it a few times when fujiwara walks in on them fighting, but alas we never get such a conflict. point being, i believe the show would have much better depictions of the characters if we could read between the lines and learn more about their characters from the way they carry themselves. obviously shirogane did not go to west point or an m7 business school while being high school president, thus would not consciously leverage his presence the way riker does in star trek, but arguably we would learn just as much if we could see more.

this is running a little long, but my final note is about ryuuji from toradora and many other male protagonists: they lack this fundamental expression entirely. ryuuji especially has no discernible identity through body language. it's one thing to understand how he feels through expression, but he doesnt shoe any of his character through the way he carries himself, especially given the verbal descriptions we get of him.

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hi luckies, yuki here with fact 177!

one of kanye's most famous unreleased songs was "see me again", which leaked in 2010 and then again in 2022. there's this wild fan theory that kanye wrote it as a suicide note during his 2009 exile, but that is actual bs. there is no evidence that supports this theory.

the lyrics are rather dark, but the story isnt so dramatic.

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hi luckies, yuki here with fact 175!

in private equity, a rollup is where you buy a bunch of really small companies, then roll them up into one large company. you can do this to pass down high multiples to otherwise low multiple businesses, thus make money.

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hi luckies. yuki here with fact 174!

tiger woods got arrested earlier this year for DUI, earlier today he got off with reckless driving. how did be do it?

florida is usually rather lenient with dui, at least for the first or second offense. they usually allow you to plead down to reckless driving and 5 years suspension. that's how.

oh yeah, he's also rich

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hi luckies, yuki here with fact 171!

i love this dog sherlock. he's just adorable. look at him.

sherlock was featured on weratedogs a number of years ago, and his popularity exploded since then. thanks to my friend for providing all the photos today.

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hi luckies, yuki here with fact 170!

most american corporations are incorporated in america, why is that? the answer is a very low corporate tax and immense legal protections. it's quite complicated but that is why. im pressed for time so cant go into details today. ask with your questions and ill answer later.

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sorry luckies, day ran later than expected, there will be a fact tomorrow!

hi luckies, yuki here with fact 167!

apps you use track your ad tolerance. if your ad watch time gets too high or you click on ads, then algorithms for most apps will start sending you more. there are more metrics they use to determine your tolerance, but in general it's watch time and other retention metrics. they also adapt to what ads you typically dont watch and try to market ones you will watch to you, so it becomes harder over time to maintain a low ad tolerance metric.

how do you decrease the ads you see? spend less time looking at them. on reels you gotta swipe FAST and get them off or else every other reel on your feed will be an ad. i know firsthand because i was scrolling and accidentally watched one to completion.

i genuinely hope you didnt enjoy this fact, but at least now have the information to reduce how many ads youre seeing.

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hi luckies, miyuki here with fact 166! i had a school thing early morning today so i didnt post a fact last night.

i was going to do a double feature, but im lazy and i cant do the second fact i want to do yet because it's about an anime i havent finished. so ill do a fact and a teaser (second fact telegraph in miyuki history).

so i looked at the whole "do data centers consume water" problem and wanted to share my findings. how it works generally is a data center will enter a deal with the local municipality to requisition a quota of tap water. the water goes into the data center where the heat from the stacks converts it into steam and blows it out the top. then within 10 days it rains back down somewhere else in the world. so the global supply of water isnt actually being reduced, but oftentimes it rains into the ocean and needs to go through the whole water cycle again. so we wont all die of thirst because ai ate all the water.

the municipalities where data centers are is a completely different story (NOTE: a lot of data centers are currently in water stressed regions, this paragraph only applies to those. many data centers like google's saltwater one in iceland do not deplete freshwater supplies). in these regions they primarily use aquifers, which replenish slowly over time. pumping too much water and running a deficit for too long can render a town nonviable (and the data center too) because it a. damages the aquifer, and b. aquifers can take a very very long time to refill (sometimes). if your town is lucky, it gets its water from river rations. in that case the city will allocate some of that water ration to the data center. though there is a danger of overcommitting a river, which is honestly its own issue despite data center consumption being tangentially involved.

the big picture is that for whatever reason people really like putting data centers in water stressed regions. when that happens you run the risk of consuming all the local water and killing off the town (worst case scenario). there's also the obvious ecological effect of using up all the water, and the economic effect of additional scarcity to residents.

i think i got that all factually correct, but it is a quite complicated issue so please correct me if im wrong.

telegraph for a future fact: im watching love is war and will eventually talk about the rhetoric used in the show

hi luckies, yuki here with fact 165!

the humble border collie needs mental stimulation. many dog owners can just walk or throw the ball a few times to exercise their dog, but that isnt enough for the border collie. theyll have limitless energy unless you exercise their mind. some of these methods involve the herding ball, actual herding, puzzles, obedience training, hiking, coursing, and many others. all of which the collie excels at.

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hi luckies, yuki here with fact 163!

in math we ate often taught some level of classical logic. to understand nonclassical logic, we need to talk about classical logic.

in math x => y "x implies y" means that whenever x is true y is true. this statement says nothing about the truth of y when x is false though, so dont get it twisted. x <=> y "x if and only if y" means that x is true if and only if y is true as well. this does mean that x being false implies y is also false.

this naturally introduces a a binary system of mathematics, where something is either true or not true. this doesnt really give us much flexibility, and we end up treating some functions unfairly.

take f(x)=|x|. this function is continuously differentiable at every point except for where x=0, where its derivative is not defined. this sucks for f(x) because everywhere from (0, infinity) and (-infinity, 0) it has all the nice properties of continuous differentiability, but the classical logic math is built on limits our ability to draw conclusions pertaining to f(x).

for an anticlimactic finish, nonclassical logic essentially creates a set of definitions and objects which allow for flexibility in the truth of a statement. id provide some examples but it would involve explaining a fair bit of category theory in order to properly differentiate them, so i wont go into it.

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hi luckies, yuki here with fact 161!

in america, we drop fish into lakes and rivers using airplanes. we call it aerial restocking and use this method for bodies of water trucks can't reach. replenishing fish supplies every year help support local ecosystems and fishing as a sport.

they can survive being dropped from planes because we use young fish that have a lower terminal velocity. internet says aerial restocking has a 95-99% success rate.

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hi luckies, yuki here with some housekeeping items.

at my last update i said i would be posting sporadically, also after returning from a long break at the time. a great opportunity for travel revealed itself around the time i posted fact 158, and i spent that past 2 months pursuing it. after a couple days of rest, i am ready to reveal my intentions with miyuki facts: i will be posting daily beginning late this week or early next week, and continue as long as it remains possible for me to do so.

comments are open for q&a, and just to chat after the break. my commendations for how the sub has progressed for the most part, recent posts have made me miss being an active part of it.

hi luckies! yuki here with fact 158! waiting for the shower has enabled me to put out two facts in two days, levels not seen in a long while!

people think a lot of things about golf. today im going to go over some misconceptions about the game.

a. golf is only as expensive as you make it.* golf is often touted as a rich man's sport, but can be surprisingly budget friendly. used clubs and starter sets typically start around $500, but by using ebay, facebook marketplace, and thrift stores, you can get your own for as cheap as $20-$100. actually playing depends on region, but you dont need a fancy country club membership that costs more than most people make in a year. most courses are public or semi-public, and greens fees (paying to play) can cost as little as $20.

b. it's hard. this isnt a misconception, golf is a hard game. but luckily, most people are actually really bad, and nobody really cares about how good you are. so there's no shame in playing, even if you suck. also there are practice facilities called driving ranges where you can show up and work in your game off the course. it's also just fun with friends

c. it's actually fun. a lot of people say it's only for old rich people to kill time, but getting out there on a normal day (especially with friends) is a fun time. think of it like a combination of walking through a park and bowling.

i didnt really go into much detail nor cover the nuances involved, but i just wanted to give a bit of an overview. golf seems like it has a moat around it and it feels unapproachable to the average person, but it's not what a lot of people think it is. hope you enjoyed, until next time!