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PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT. Our own Aeronmelon is going through some shit at the moment and could use some help. Check it out here and consider an upvote or a comment to push it into activity. Sorry, not something I do often or will be spamming. But I care about my friend and if I can get a couple more eyes on his situation then I'm going to try to do what I can.

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[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I thought area was for 2D things, and volume is for 3D things? Or does he mean surface area?

[–] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Surface area. It's Twitter, give people a break.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s Twitter, give people a break.

No. People who still use Twitter/X are already broken...

[–] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

True, I should have said "lower your expectations" and just left it there.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago
[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

3D things have both a volume and an area. Like, how much wrapping paper do you need to wrap a gift box?

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, surface area!

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Well there's also the fact that this has more to do with biology than geometry. So this guy's a moron on multiple levels.