This is a thought experiment "Ball on a Table" for detecting whether someone has Aphantasia. What do you see when you perform this experiment?
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    • What happens to the ball?

    It slowly rolled toward the edge but stopped before falling to the ground. The path was somewhat eccentric because of the texture of the ball.

    • What color was the ball?

    Yellow

    • What gender was the person that pushed the ball?

    Male

    • What did they look like?

    Green and white track suit (why? IDK), mid 60's Italian, chubby

    • What size is the ball? Like a marble, or a baseball, or a basketball, or something else?

    It was one of those foam Nerf bullets, so about the size of a shooter marble

    • What about the table, what shape was it? What is it made of?

    It was that black IKEA table where the four metal legs screw into the corners. About 6ft by 3ft.

    • And now the important question: Did you already know, or did you have to choose a color/gender/size, etc. after being asked these questions?

    The entire scene sprung into my head at once after reading that someone interacted with the ball

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    I get that there are solutions to the problem, but there's no way a team of 10 can port 35 years of win32 dependence and keep the business solvent. Maybe incrementally, over the course of 10-15 years. We're just now migrating off of .NET 4.8 because we use WCF so much.

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  • Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked
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    Wow, everyone left another platform and were inspired to leave for the same reason, as a group. Now they're showing extreme similarities in other ways! When will the madness stop??!

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    It's an adoption problem. My company only supports windows because all our customers use windows. All our customers use windows because all their vendors only support windows.

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  • Can you think of any others?
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    Kernel Space - banishes the target to a plane of existence filled with corn

    B Tree - an AOE summon of a permanent swarm of bees in the targeted area until the bees all die or leave naturally

    Monad - device that transmutes one set of spell components into another. These can be strung together to form very complex things.

    Extended Backus-Naur Form - Allows one to transform into a memetic form to be carried in the mind of another; also extends to your clothing and any carried items.

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  • Project 2025 Would Make All Public High School Students Take Military Entrance Exam? [TRUE]
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    A bunch of my classmates all got 99 on the ASVAB when we took it in high school. The recruiters didn't bother talking to us for more than 5 minutes because they knew that we were not desperate enough to go into the military.

    The people they tended to target were in the 45-85 range.

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