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- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 21 hours ago:
The tweaking isn’t in conversation, but I’m pretty sure they have gone and corrected for certain responses. Alex Jones was crowing about how it “knew” that men can’t get pregnant.
- Comment on Hamster 1 day ago:
It would have helped if my E&M class had been more than triple integrals and geometry.
Idk - would it kill physics profs to graph shit in Desmos so you can visualize some of these fields? Or start with simple examples? I know how to do a partial fraction decomp, but if I’m spending all of my time on tedious algebra and then fuck up the integral in such a way that I accidentally made something that looks like what Papa Wolfram gives you when you ask him to integrate 1/(x^5 + 1) - then you don’t know if you did fuck up or not, because maybe there’s some trick or this has significance and blargggggh.
I wanted to become a physics teacher specifically, just because I hated the way I was taught physics so much. (I hate the way chemistry is taught too, but I also hate chemistry. Unfortunately, I’ve only got to teach physics as a sort of concessionary “elective” that they tossed SPED students and the basketball star in…)
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- Comment on Which shows have you watched this week? 1 day ago:
Thrifted season 1 and 2 of Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia and watching it for the first time. I love that the humor is edgy as fuck, but it never really “punches down” or crosses real lines.
The gay bar and abortion episodes are just fucking perfect.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I prefer sucking dick for free. When guys pay, they get a bit entitled about it and it’s less fun (can’t take a TMJ break).
- Comment on THE CLASS WAR IS BACK, BABY! 2 days ago:
She went to the kind of Uber wealthy private school you get to go to when your grandpa literally discovered the electron. Easy to say when two Nobel prize winners have funded your education and lifestyle.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 days ago:
Feynman has so much great stuff to plagiarize.
I think in precalculus at least, something like this is not too hard to show and explain to a student. This would be a fine “final” thing to end the typical high school math career on - showing how all of the different concepts you’ve explored come together.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 days ago:
Imaginary numbers are best understood as symbolizing rotation. If we’re imagining a number line here, “looking back from infinity” - at a scale where Grahams number looks like the mass of an atom expressed in kilograms, i would not be in that infinite set of numbers, it would be a point above that line and creating a perpendicular plane to it.
I hate the term “imaginary” because it’s misleading. Most high school algebra teachers don’t understand what they mean either, so people learn about these things called “imaginary” numbers, never learn any applications with them, hopefully graph them at best, and then move on understanding nothing new about math.
Students also tend to get really confused about it as possibly a variable, (it’s really annoying with second year algebra courses, where e and logs show up). We say “ah yeah, if you get a negative sign, just pull it out as an i and don’t worry about it. or just say no real solutions.”
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 days ago:
Shouldn’t have i in there, or j if you’re using that to represent the imaginary number.
The complex plane is separate.
Let epsilon be substantially greater than zero…
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 days ago:
After calculus though, they just expect you to cope with fucked up coefficients. In Diff Eq, sometimes you do just get something like 3/111 cos (6/111 x). It gets harder to come up with examples that work out with nice integers.
Physics can also have some really beautiful math, look at Lissajous figures. Once you understand the connections between e, the imaginary plane, and sine/cosine, you get some profound understandings about how things electric and magnetic fields work.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Hyped that Nintendo discovered gay people exist.
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- Comment on History is rewritten by victors. How can I find books about actual history? 5 days ago:
By definition a primary source is not “re-written”.
Then there are no ancient primary sources. I don’t think you understand ancient or medieval concepts of authorship, or document transmission.
- Comment on History is rewritten by victors. How can I find books about actual history? 5 days ago:
What time periods/places are you interested in? I am able to and would be happy to give you a detailed list of primary and secondary sources for a good chunk of concepts.
That’s the big thing - historians tend to focus. Even the university “western history from 1500” or whatever are going to vary a lot by what the professor is interested in and focused on. Behind just focusing on like a whole country or time period, they get super specific and do shit like figure out that whole undocumented kingdoms existed based on numismatic work (coins) or look at things like architectural influences that the crusaders brought back and can be seen in their classes (I had a prof who had a whole feminist interpretation of medieval castle architecture)
Your comment alludes to the history of religion, which is definitely a complicated topic and has its own complexities in historiography (the study of history and techniques). Religion has interactions with so many other spheres, and so you have also often dive deeply into the culture and history of the specific people who practiced it to understand the why - which is hard, because religious interpretations that are common now tend to get read backwards into the text.
I’d be happy to give you a list of sources for any religion as well.
- Comment on Preparing for the new America 6 days ago:
My idea as a transgender man who struggles with mental illness - if I am safe, than health cis men are also safe.
Maybe it’s not “use people as a buffer” but the start fighting now.
I know I am in danger and there is nothing I can do about it. Many cis men can do things now, that would improve my life and help push up against this rising tide of fascism.
- Comment on Preparing for the new America 6 days ago:
They probably won’t come for you (unless you’re very politically vocal) until after they’re done with immigrants, LGBTQ folks, the mentally ill…
So if you don’t want them to come for you, help make sure they don’t get to wrap up those groups first. Maybe advocate on behalf of some of those folks - your voice has more clout.
- Comment on 'vegetative electron microscopy' 6 days ago:
Her video on trans issues has made it very difficult to take her seriously as a thinker. The same types of manipulative half truths and tropes I see from TERFs pretending they have the “reasonable” view, while also spreading the hysteric media narrative about the kids getting transed.
- Comment on Luxury bones? In *this* economy. 6 days ago:
Dental abscesses and infections related to tooth decay were among the leading causes of death before premodern times.
- Comment on Skill issue 6 days ago:
How does romance work in most video games? Select the correct dialogue options, memorize the correct answer to questions, give them the same gift every day?
The other main way a lot of young men “interact” with women is through porn, which is always made with a mind to what a woman would enjoy during sex…
- Comment on Game Informer Is Back and the Entire Team Has Returned 1 week ago:
They could make good money on the nostalgia crowd with reprints.
I’d love a print of the advertising and coverage for Morrowind.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Which contemporary philosophers demonstrate this supposed shift in thinking?
- Comment on Perspectives on the LISA Series? 1 week ago:
The soundtrack is soooo good. Everyone loves “Work Harder” and “666 Kill Chop Deluxe” but “Voices” is a perfect ending.
- Comment on Perspectives on the LISA Series? 1 week ago:
I think the things that make it as good as it is, are the things that also make it really difficult to play and recommend to people.
When I think of sexual violence being handled in video games, I think of True Crime: Streets of LA and the weird gross animation for you to interrupt, or the way that everyone laughs at the Daedra in Morrowind with the necrophilia line. (Or hentai games, but that’s a dark world) Drugs are minor joke items in most games, even with games that have addiction mechanics don’t make your time harder for not doing drugs.
The surrealism and comedic relief break up some of the despair. There is also a lot of catharsis in it. Probably the most important scene in the game is when you confront your father, who is an unspeakable monster, and the player is given a choice whether they want to kill him or not. Regardless of what the player chooses - the character cannot forgive him and will attack. It’s a false choice, which ties so well into the themes of trauma and powerlessness. There’s something about that that is so honest and validating.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 week ago:
#7 is perfect, the thick lead and the spring is great if you push down on the paper too hard for the other mechanical pencils.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Post-modernism laid the groundwork for an ‘I have my facts and you have yours’ culture.
I feel like this is a common regressive take. The Right/anti intellectualist movement understood postmodernism as giving them the right to claim that facts don’t matter.
Post modernism itself is a way of interrogating frameworks we take for granted. It’s not saying “facts don’t matter,” it’s saying “how do we know those are facts”? There are valid questions to ask about science as a way of knowing - which epistemological frameworks we take at face value, and if we really can. Lolita is a postmodernist work, because it’s asking you to interrogate what a novel means (in the context of an unreliable narrator - HH is lying to you, but he isn’t real. what does that mean about what is being described in a novel? Is a novel a window into a different universe which has a reality to be described?)
The Right’s unreality is more of a Romantic one - none of those fuckers are reading Derrida or Deleuze. It’s more reality to sexual insecurities and the death drive. I’m not a Freudian but I look at anti intellectuals and see deep sexual confusion and fear. If “male” and “female” are permeable categories, how does someone who defines their existence solely by their white masculinity going to police the boundaries of their own identity?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Dont forget the failure of the Business Plot. Which side of the war would those fuckers be on?
(Fun fact: Prescott Bush, Dubya’s grandfather might have been involved too - it’s debatable but the argument against it is that he was too busy with Nazis abroad to be helping them here….)
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- Comment on Climate-denying conservatives after every year for the last decade has been the hottest on record [Day 105] 1 week ago:
B-b-b-but muh Milkanovitch cycles!
(Seriously had a science teacher I was about about to throw hands with about this shit omifuckinggod)
- Comment on How exactly are people lighting Teslas on fire? 1 week ago:
A single tesla on fire needs a response similar to a house fire.
How the fuck are these things legal
- Comment on Wikipedia not rendering math formulas? 1 week ago:
Also getting the same errors on mobile
