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My eyes widened in horror as I realized the sheer number of rectangles everywhere (lemmy.today)

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stabbydragon says: "Love/sex is what makes us human" Wrong. It's the obsession with rectangles. Look around you and count the number of rectangles you see. derinthescarletpescatarian responds: #looked up and thought 'that can't be hard'#and fhen my eyes widened with horror as I realized the sheer number of rectangles everywhere #I'm. I'm horrified. It's a good shape!

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[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 36 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Hexagons are bestagons, but are much harder to fabricate.

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[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 months ago

Nah bees do it by making circles that melt into each other, easy enough.

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[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

e621 user spotted.

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[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

I'm not aware of what that is. I got the phrase from the CGP Grey video, "Circles Waste Space. Hexagons don't."

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