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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • …so hierarchy ensures abuse of [its] power.

    Very well put.

    I have a discussion with my wife every so often about what our own little utopian island would be like, like how the government would be, how roads would be managed, what homes would be like, etc. I brought up the other day this exact point about how if there’s a position of wealth and power at the top controlling too much, then sociopths would gravitate towards that for the same of having power and wealth, which ruins the government system. It would have to be a heavily distributed system of government, but too distributed where it would make it difficult to implement standardizations, get stuff done, etc.

    Idk how that would work exactly, because then you’d also have to make sure no greedy, power hungry Trump-likes get into a position with too much power. There has to be a way, though.



















  • Your calculations must have been off. Not sure if it’ll apply for you, so make adjustments as needed for next time, but here’s my calculation:

    You need to calculate avg number of sheets per poop, piss, and misc sessions, per person in household; calculate number of each session per person per day; use a bell curve to accomodate for the event of possibly having a run of messy runs (since that should be the largest use factor of TP unless you use TP as tissues for colds as well), and then voila - take the results for the average individual day use, multiply by 365.25, and you should be able to successfully calculate your TP needs for the entire year.

    Expressed in python for no reason other than I’m trying to learn Python and decided to use this as practice:
    Person1 = str(input("Name of Person 1: “))
    Person1PoopAvgPerSession = float(input(f”{Person1}'s average number of TP sheets used per poop session: “)
    Person1PeeAvgPerSession = float(input(f”{Person1}'s average number of TP sheets used per pee session: “)
    Person1MiscAvgPerSession = float(input(f”{Person1}'s average number of TP sheets used per misc session: ") #In case there’s another use case not addressed previously #Make variables for each person in household - There’s probably a good method for using input() to capture the number of people in the household, asking for their names, and then use a while loop to create a dictionary for each person, but I haven’t done that yet and I’ll need to test that out, so for now - manual creation of variables. Make variables for guests, if expected to have any for the year - I don’t so didn’t include this - Can probably ask if expecting guests this year, and then use if else statement based on the boolean that returns.
    Person1PoopsPerDay = float(input("How many times do you poop per day on average? "))
    Person1PeesPerDay = float(input("How many times do you pee per day on average? "))
    Person1MiscPerDay = float(input("How many times per day do you use toilet paper for misc. uses? "))

    Person1PerDayUsage = ((Person1PoopAvgPerSession * Person1PoopsPerDay * 1.2) + (Person1PeeAvgPerSession * Person1PeesPerDay) + (Person1MiscAvgPerSession * Person1MiscPerDay)) #Using 1.2 to accomodate for bell curve, not really sure how else to do this.
    Person1PerYearUsage = int(Person1PerDayUsage * 365)
    print(f"{Person1}'s Annual TP usage: ", Person1PerYearUsage)

    Back to packing for my trip.