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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. And as far as I can tell Einstein never said it but it's always attributed to Einstein

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I just rolled a 6 I'm not going to expect the same result if I roll the die again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would argue that you didn't roll the die the exact same way...

Of course there could be other things other than your movements like wind that also affects the outcome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Right, so even if I'm doing the same thing I'm not doing it in the exact same way, so the result may be different.