gandalf_der_12te

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah it actually did happen to me irl some years ago when we were on a field trip and a girl who had already flirted with me for the past two days suddenly wore a perfume and i think it was that that made it really difficult for me to stay clear-minded. could have also been the flirting though, i’m not sure actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  you’re right, i should have been more careful about this.

  i just contacted an old friend of mine who had that view, and he too says that he’s changed his mind about this and no longer sees it that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  today i learned. and it alignes so well with how in medieval times, only firstborns were expected to inherit the family farm and have children themselves. At least that’s how it was in many areas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I always assumed that homophobia is about a subconscious fear of spreading diseases and stuff, as that’s more common in gay people by a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Uuh that’s a very difficult thing.

  It’s like wearing agressive perfume full of hormomes. It might cause somebody to get an erectiom but it’s still hella uncomfortable and annoying. Not really consensual and i see why it pisses people off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  they get shot up because of really poor mental health in large swaths of the population and non-existent gun control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve taken accustomed to writing

  2 + 3 = ___ or 2 + ___ = 5 and then later seamlessly transitioning to “2 + 3 = z, write down z:” or “2 + t = y, where y = 5. write down t:”

  because it just seems so natural to identify these letters with natural things, such as numbers of beer bottles or cookies. kids typically giggle over these things because they think i’m making it up to be funny for their entertainment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  same. i guess they want to make sure to ask people who don’t already know everything, sothat everybody has a chance of learning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I was under the impression that there is in fact such a thing as a complete mathematical system (if you take “mathematical system” in the broader sense of “internally consistent system”), but such a system would be pretty limited and therefore rather useless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  in case you still care: the periodic table is arranged primarily by the chemical properties of its elements (mainly electronegativity, i.e. how much energy it takes to add/remove an electron to/from the atom) and also by their mass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Union of Kobolds

  wait is that a thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  funnily enough i’ve heard people say the same thing irl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  if you had had the terminology to say it, they would probably just have gotten angry anyways over being exposed in class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah because excel does rounding stuff automatically for you

  try entering 0.1 + 0.2 - 0.1 - 0.2 == 0.0 in any programming language of your choice and see what happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As a kid you sort of assume all the teachers know more than you about every subject, and that’s not the case at all.

  same for chatgpt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  School really does prepare you for real life sometimes, it seems …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lizards in space math⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also considering how physicists cant stand biologists and probably vice versa.

  only if you’re immature

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody Cares If Music Is Real Anymore⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  i heard a story that monks used to not sign their works, as they saw themselves as one of many, merely guided by the holy spirit. and that really really really vibes with me. i’m nobody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy No-more-USA Day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want to mention that there’s a series of difficulties:

  • practically, a good 20% - 30% are still backing trump, especially among “republicans for life”. It would be easy to topple a government if 99% of the population despised it, but if 20% back it, it’s difficult because it can retract and re-collect strength.
  • normally, conflicts are decided by who can stay solvent longer, i.e. who has more money. normally, that would be blue states, but if trump can just print money through the federal reserve, then that kinda makes that point more questionable.
  • then there’s a shitload of cultural issues. the vietnam kicked the american’s butt because they were fierce and willing to die for their cause, because they were willing to die for their community. america doesn’t have communities like that, america is very atomistic, i.e. everybody fights for themselves. establishing a good sense of community is a whole lot of work and takes a long time. i don’t see it happening overnight.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy No-more-USA Day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The civil war that follows isn’t even the difficult part.

  The difficult part is coming up with a vision for the time after the civil war. And that’s gonna be difficult. If americans couldn’t agree on a policy before 2025, why would they be able to come up with one after that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy No-more-USA Day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “today we declare independence from the USA” was a particularly nice headline from the guardian

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes a thing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  meh, i don’t mind watching undubbed anime; anything that’s “internationalized” is probably watered down anyways … i wanna see raw, undiluted japanese weirdness

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes a thing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah actually that closely matches my observations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes a thing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  anime

  it’s become waay too popular and drowned in a sea of mediocrity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Listen here, Little Dicky⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  regular definition of basis is not much of use in infinite dimension anyways as far as I recall.

  yeah, that’s exactly why we have an alternative definition for that :D

  Wonder if differentiability is required for what you said since polynomials on compact domains (probably required for uniform convergence or sth) would also work for cont functions I think.

  Differentiability is not required; what is required is a topology, i.e. a definition of convergence to make sure the infinite series are well-defined.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitch shape attack⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  i am wondering (in case you know), what activates these genes?

  i.e., i’d like to understand how gene regulation works in general. what causes genes to become active all of a sudden?

  i.e., why does the genes allow embryos to live inside the mother, but not allow other intruders to live inside the human?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitch shape attack⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  thank you, that makes sense to me.

  i’m interested in actually understanding what functions what elements of the gut microbiome perform. but i guess that’s a highly complicated topic, so i expect no quick answers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Listen here, Little Dicky⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  i just checked and there’s official names for it:

  • the term Hamel basis refers to basis in linear algebra
  • the term Schauder basis is used to refer to the basis in analysis sense.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Listen here, Little Dicky⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Uhm, i remember there’s two definitions for basis.

  The basis in linear algebra says that you can compose every vector v as a finite sum v = sum over i from 1 to N of a_i * v_i, where a_i are arbitrary coefficients

  The basis in analysis says that you can compose every vector v as an infinite sum v = sum over i from 1 to infinity of a_i * v_i. So that makes a convergent series. It requires that a topology is defined on the vector space fist, so convergence becomes well-defined. We call such a vector space of countably infinite dimension if such a basis (v_1, v_2, …) exists that every vector v can be represented as a convergent series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a warning for incels⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The same is true on a political level which is a crab bucket when they tell you that things can’t improve and that you shouldn’t even have any hopes.