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[–] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hold the lever halfway so the trolley picks both rails at the same time, to ensure highest possible kill comboq

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's effectively just the bottom track, where an uncountable number of people (literally) will die as soon as the train reaches position (0.

[–] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Not with that attitude :3

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Practically no one dies on either path, since a tram is a real thing it can't traverse infinities of people (which notably have among their mandatory elements mass and volume) very well. It would hardly get far. Its automatic braking would stop it in any case.

Whatever happens infinities of people still remain which exceeds the carrying capacity of our observable universe