Perfect Circrule

Even as satire, the worst part is seeing Kirk being treated like he's anywhere near as important as the Kennedy and Lincoln assassinations.

It's been days, not decades. This attitude will fade.
- It's a cult, so it depends on how long its members worship him. Once Trump's gone Kirk will probably be forgotten quickly.

Readers added more context: Any three unique points on a sphere form a circle.

Yup, a circle that lies on the surface of the sphere. You're only safe underground or in space.
There always exists a circle such that, given any three non-colinear unique points in 3-space, all three points lie on the border of that circle. Spherical geometry is not required.
- No, three unique points in 3d space that are colinear will not form a circle.

to think of that, this is one of the cases when basic math knowledge is important/useful outside engineering, finance, or anything that is stereotypically use math.

NSFW (never safe from Winnipeg)

y'all gonna buy some wigs?
Yeah, clearly they are up to something. Pretty long term planning going on up there.

Important Context: @ratlimit is a satire account.

Well I know people who go for this shit in earnest, so it's good satire.

~~Reddit~~ has a sub called r/peopleliveincities, I'm sure they'd be happy to accept this one as well.

I'd argue that's why it's not good satire. this just goes straight into another conspiracy theory now. satire doesn't really work when it straight up contributes to what it's supposed to be satirizing.
that's like satirizing the US culture by shooting up a school.
- Are you okay?

Guys, I went to the center of the circle, and there was a completely normal looking tree there. Maybe too normal. What could it mean?

We need to dig deeper and get to the root of this.
- I dug it up, and found some bugs, worms and roots. Some kind of code?
- I can't beleave you made that pun
- If you start digging there and go all the way to the other side, you will end up in China! Check mate libtards. /s
I connected the three trees at the middle and they made a triangle!!! How deep does this thing go?’
- A triangle? Oh no...
- Why is nobody mentioning that any point you choose just happens to be in an EXACT STRAIGHT LINE from the others!? And this just happened by chance? I've got some ocean-front property in Arizona I'd love to sell you.

Hold up! You can even make a triangle out of those 3 points! Illerminaty confirmed.

Aka "the strongest shape." Think about it.

Fact checking satire makes for even better satire.

Seem pretty cut and dried to me. Time to bomb Winnipeg!

co-linear points can also be on a circumference, if you don't mind infinite radius

I was about to ask whether you can have three colinear points on a sphere, but then I remembered that the Earth is flat.
Which brings me to another question. What does a circle on a Mercator projection looks like on a sphere?
- It's still a circle but all the corners add up to 365°, and their where we get the days from.
- You can test this at home. Draw a circle on a paper, wrap it around a ball.
  If you want the edge cases, draw the circle on a sheet of rubber (or maybe a plastic bag?) and stretch it over a ball.
Non-euclidean planes say what?

Winnipeg was the shooter! I knew it!

Winnipeg was the inspiration for Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh is the code for Xi Jinping
China was behind the grassy knoll
- That's a big grassy knoll.
It's always fucking Winnipeg. People need to find a new punchline...
- Winnipeg sounds like some kind of bear furry porn.

I wonder what size the circle would be if you took in to account the earth’s curvature.

Are there any map projections that allow for accurate projection of circles across arbitrary points?

All map projections are arbitrary. The only way to do this is on a globe.
- Different projections preserve different properties. From memory there are ones that leave circles circular, so would allow this.
  Edit: It's stereographic projection that maps circles to circles.
Stereographic projection is the one (and only) thatballows that. You can draw any circle (or a straight line) on a stereographic map and it will remain a circle on the globe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereographic_map_projection#Properties
If you drew in on a globe, it would look deformed in this projection. I think the radius wouldn’t change, but it would look “wider” towards the north
That theorem only applies 2d from my understanding
- I think it should still be possible to define a perfect circle from 3 points on a globe, tho
  Imagine the 3 points on the globe defining a plane, and then just intersecting the globe by that plane, you'd have a perfect circle on a sphere that still goes through the original 3 points if I'm visualizing this in my head correctly, might try this in blender or something

Could be a coincidence. Only way we're going to know is if we occupy Winnipeg.

For at least 5 months of the year no one wants to occupy Winnipeg. That value increases slightly for the other 7 months.
- Be nice to Canada, they have the worst neighbors

The next one will be in the Arctic.

Also didn’t know we were calling this the UWU shooting.

I've got one labeled "Mormon School Shooter" and the other "Mormon Church Shooter"

I never thought about it, but now I'm gonna have some fun with this.

I got in trouble in my friend group meme chat for drawing a Star of David connecting the points in this meme

That's almost the plot of the rdj Sherlock Holmes movie. Just, you know, different star.

Can you do that for any 3 points on a surface?

Flat earth confirmed
- Oh right, this only works in 2D. You would need to have a sphere. Checkmate atheists
it definitely works for planes and spheres. my intuition says it wouldn't work on all surfaces though, and in particular would probably break down around saddle points.
So long as they're not in a straight line, yeah (as it says as at the bottom of the post).
- Whoa whoa whoa...
  There is a bottom of the post?

Don't take all this stuff too seriously, most of it is either performative content revenue farming or manipulation of public opinion by some actor. This ticks all boxes, could be anything; a person honestly that dense or deep into conspiracy theories isn't even the most likely one. Unfortunately neither is satire.
- look at the body of the post

The center of that circle is the Northwest Angle, and it's populated by turmpers. It was created by a "survey error". This tells me that Canada killed JFK because they knew Turmp would happen if they did. This was a Canadian attack all along.

Wake up sheeple

We'll just forget about William McKinley because Buffalo doesn't fit into our perfect circle

If he did, he wouldn't be able to use circumcircle theorem.
What's crazy is that this does fool people despite them drawing circles many times around triangles in their math class.
Wasn't that in elementary or middle school?