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  • Actually, a d4 only had an expected value of 2.5, so the expected damage output from the senate should be 2.5600.55 = 82.5.

    Sounds impressive, but more interesting is the actual chance of success of killing Caesar. Each senator has a 0.45 chance to miss and a 0.55/4 chance of doing 1-4 damage respectively, for an expected value of 1.375 and variance of ~2.23. Formally modelling the distribution of the sum of 60 of these variables requires a 60 fold convolution which is too difficult. Instead, we can approximate the sum of total damage as a normal variable with an expected value of 601.375 = 82.5 and variance 602.23 = 134.06.

    The probability that this is less than 60 is around ~0.43, so Brutus' plan had a less than 60% chance of succeeding. That's... rather terrible for an assassination plan. The addition of sneak attack rolls wouldn't help much, given that the variance of dice rolls is just so high.

    EDIT: Forgot to take the square root of the variance in calcs. This takes Brutus' chance of success to a much more respectable 97%. Truly a big brain conspirator.

  • You could try to convert it to a "headless" laptop.

    Some cash savvy people have been buying M1 macbooks with broken screens and converting them into headless laptops. For the price of a broken MacBook and some tinkering, you can get what is essentially a Mac mini with a touchpad and keyboard.

    https://youtu.be/uOigVjqW7hc

  • It could be a symptom of anxiety, specifically time anxiety. Feeling like you "have" to be working on something and relaxing is "wasting" time is a consequence of hustle/grind culture that is linked to broader economic anxiety.

    Are you able to meaningfully measure how productive you actually are? Research into productivity has shown that resting properly in moderation is linked to more efficient work output.

  • This is an incorrect and rosy generalisation of the suffragette and many protest movements in general. Protest movements are inherently messy and disorganised. The suffragette movement itself was infamous for infighting, because they couldn't decide whether they were only fighting for voting rights for women, or equality in general such as 8 hour work days for women.

    It took more than 50 years later for these workplace equality ideas to become more mainstream as second wave feminism in the 1970s. Even then, the second wave feminists were prone to infighting, due to feminists not agreeing on what a woman should be, usually by excluding lesbians and trans women.

    If you think modern protests are too disruptive and only work to sour people to your cause, remember that suffragettes literally committed arson, improvised bombings and attempted assassinations. The extreme violence was met with immense public backlash, to the point they were painted by the media as literal terrorists.

    Feminism - Suffrage, Equality, Activism | Britannica - https://www.britannica.com/topic/feminism/The-suffrage-movement