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		prepend on July 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: To grasp the extent of inequality, look at the rel... I would have just measured the rice with a scale. Counting it out is certainly more TikTok votes, but I have a scale to 3 significant digits and counting this one at a time seems like a waste. Comically, I think I could order the scale with four hour delivery and count by weight faster than this person counted one at a time.

hiatus on July 22, 2023 [–]

The whole point of doing it one at a time was to show the scale. Completing it quickly was not the goal

prepend on July 22, 2023 | [–]

I think it was scale of the grains of rice. Not the scale of how long it takes to count to 10,000.

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