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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 90 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

To be clear, these are parallel serial killers

[–] ApeNo1@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

This is to cater for any resistance that may be encountered.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Three serial and two parallel serial killers.

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Also known as recurring gang violence.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How do you know? What if each one has only killed once?

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

But within a series who gets credit for the kill - do they all share equally (socialism), or only the one most proximal to the victim (merit, I dunno?), or perhaps capitalism is at play so the richest one in the set gets all the credit for all the kills?

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That "parallel" diagram.... what am I looking at? The voltage is on the left, and presumably the load is on the bottom and that's supposed to be a resistor placeholder. But the wire connects all the way around bypassing the killers, so I guess killers must be some sort of capacitor and this is some sort of killer-driven filter?

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 weeks ago

Taking a look at the bottom circuit, the killers on the left have the supply voltage across them, as does the resistive load. The ones on the right have fuck all going on, so may be a Magic Switch.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 8 points 2 weeks ago

Well killers do remove people with some frequency, so I suppose they are functioning as a filter.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Technically speaking, in the bottom circuit, the two groups of two serial killers are not in parallel (or series), because of that pesky little resistor at the bottom.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

Why is there always someone who fights back when being murdered?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

Parallel Killers would make a sick band name.

The V is for violence.

[–] Crostro@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

What? No representation for series-parallel killers?

[–] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Series killers? Serial circuit?

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

Parallel killers: "et tu Brute?"