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- Comment on Is this a triangle? 1 month ago:
It is a triangle. The abstraction of great lines in hyperbolic geometry are geodesics and just like three lines form a triangle, so do the geodesics. If you walked along the earth’s surface from the equator to the north pole and back, taking 90 degrees angles every time, you will have felt that you made a triangle by walking straight in three directions.
The reason why the angle sum can be more than 180 degrees is that the sphere has a positve curvature. If you want one with negative curvature and less than 180 degrees angle sum, try to make one on the side of the hole on a torus (look up its curvature if my explanation was lacking).
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 1 month ago:
The answer is obvious. Depending on the curvature of the object the triangles have higher or lower than 180 degrees angle sums. Flat space just happens to have 0 curvature.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 month ago:
Did not know about this site. It was a nice read and their mission statement is cool. Thanks for sharing! :)
- Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)? 2 months ago:
Yeah, this is not a nazi bar.
- Comment on Why 🤷♂️ do users 👨💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭? 2 months ago:
Loved out of life 👻
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 2 months ago:
Yeah, living in a parliamentary democracy means I have to make an effort to wrap my head around how the US “democratic” institution works. The internal structure of the Democratic Party has more in common with our democratic structure than the structure of their “competing” parties. As a result there is more room for difference within the Democratic Party than within a political party in our system, but the political difference between parties in our system is greater than those within the democratic party.
Whilst it economically is to the right, many of its social policies it endorses are leftist.
My analysis has long been that there is no political will to implement leftist economical policies in the US, i.e. those that really matter in the grand scheme of things, even though there exists a semi-conscious wish for them within the populace. Please do not misunderstand, increasing equity between people of different backgrounds is important, but important single issues such as gay marriage are insufficient if they do not come along with, or better yet, as a product of equity of material conditions. It was all the same with the feminist movement where social advancements were conceded in lieu of increasing their economical statuses, with the division in measurable quantities, such as income or capital ownership still going strong (note I do not advocate changing the ruling elite from one subset of people to another subset of different characteristics, but instead saying that capital ownership should be transferred from the subset to the whole).
Strengthening the political power of the marginalized by increasing the material conditions of their strata is the best way to make social progress, which the ruling elite of the US is painfully aware and which is why they sometimes are willing to skip the first step and reach the inevitable second immediately. The discrepancy between the people’s wants and needs for leftist policies, again conscious or not, and the actual politics of the US, is deeply connected to the Democratic Party’s willingness to concede these social changes without losing the backing of the capital interests that fund them.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 2 months ago:
Because MSNBC is an American organization and their coverage is American-focused, their bias relative to American politics is what’s relevant here.
I understand what you are trying to say, but I disagree. They are making claims about a lot of news outlets in other countries, which means they cannot present an American skewed perspective as the truth (unless what they really want is to export political views and exert influence domestically and abroad, now we might be talking here).
It doesn’t matter what their beliefs or policy positions are relative to any particular standard, what matters is whether or not their work presents the news accurately or in a way intended to mislead or influence their viewers in favor of one side or the other, which they clearly do.
All reporting should be held to the highest standard. Anyone seriously attempting to critique and comment on others reporting at a meta level, should hold themselves to the same, or even a higher standard, for the same reason. What I am essentially arguing is that the MediaBiasFactCheck falls in line with pretty much all of US news as mass propaganda machines in the interest of capital. If you disagree, why do you think they operate at all?
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 2 months ago:
I am not from the US so why should I base my definition of left-wing on the Democratic party (and subsequently arrive upon the wrong conclusion that the Democratic party is leftist). More importantly, why would you?
If you want to talk relatively, use relative terms. That being said, left of the farthest right is not very useful, which is precisely why I care about the distinction.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 2 months ago:
We seem to have a different opinion of what is left-wing and what is not. I do not think the Democratic party is left-wing at all. It is centre-right to right (with the Republican party being far-right).
I know of none American left-wing news outlets and the only left-wing bias I know of is truth.
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 3 months ago:
Neoliberalism is killing the good parts of Norway (and there were bad ones to begin with).
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 3 months ago:
Nah, everyone loves their meaningful anf fulfilling work.
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 4 months ago:
I am using socialist interchangeably with communist here.
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 4 months ago:
That is understandable if you think only within the paradigm of some select countries dominating the rest, but that is perhaps the biggest obstacle to our gay space communist Star Trek future.
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 4 months ago:
Caveat that I have not played the games, but taking the series at face value they are highly US-centric like most Hollywood productions. It makes no sense arguing on the basis of the series alone what they are going with in this regard, since all the action takes place in the US it is pretty much the scope of the universe, just like in many Americans minds. I tried to make a disjoint point, that was based on how I would interpret it with complete disregard to whatever is canon to the story as a whole, taking what is presented in the first season of the series at face value.
To put this into context with Star Trek, I also find it really boring and non-immersive whenever they hold 21st century America in special consideration. It is just such an obvious way to make a comparison to current state of affairs in one particular country, placating preferences of current pop culture, which is redundant anyway since all science fiction is a universal critique of the current state of affairs anywhere simply by showing a future alternative. A hypothetical sudden end to US hegemony is actually a valid way to make the current US affairs leading up to it special with respect to the future development of mankind.
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 4 months ago:
Saw this episode for the first time two days ago and loved everything about it. Especially the inqusition of anti-union Ferengi, that is the FCA, captured the violence of capitalist oppression , both direct and threat thereof, beautifully.
I also liked the subtle points being made, like Odo being against the strike on basis of upholding law and order, even though this should contradict his moral compass in my opinion.
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 4 months ago:
More like the dissolvement of US hegemony.
- Comment on US supreme court sides with Starbucks in union case over fired employees 4 months ago:
Must be difficult for you to be such a loser.
- Comment on US supreme court sides with Starbucks in union case over fired employees 4 months ago:
Yeah, we get it. You are really cool. What I am actually saying is that in capitalist society there are people who have no other viable options than to sell their labor for survival. This skews the power dynamics so that the employers may dictate the terms of their agreement. If all the other jobs available to these people fall under the same category, they are fucked.
I wouldn’t expect such a cool person^TM^ as yourself to understand this though, much less sympathize with the plight of those in question. Keep on being an ass 😎
- Comment on US supreme court sides with Starbucks in union case over fired employees 4 months ago:
Everyone has access to high paying career alternatives, sure bro.
- Comment on US supreme court sides with Starbucks in union case over fired employees 4 months ago:
Much more important to dig your job than have food on the table and roof over your head.
- Comment on What do you do with Nazi memorabilia? 4 months ago:
No worries, figured there was a story behind it. That is a pretty wild ex though, good riddance (the ex and not the blade).
- Comment on What do you do with Nazi memorabilia? 4 months ago:
You did not have a big reaction as in “WTF are you on about?!” after being gifted a nazi prop? IMO both you and the gifter should’ve had an unfavorable memory of the event etched to your brains forever.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 developer opens Poland studio as work on new projects "ramps up" 5 months ago:
Halsin is not going to wait around for you to actually want to see him nude!
- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 6 months ago:
Yup! Also one has to mind the order in which one rolls the dice. Since 10 and 5 could be either 05 or 50. As a bonus, if you roll them in order, getting 10 on the first dice has added suspense since the latter dice determines if it is going to count as a low roll of 0 (by rolling 1-9 on the next dice) or if it is going to be a max roll of 100 (by rolling another 10).
- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 6 months ago:
Roll two d10, once for each digit, and profit?
- Comment on They're afraid 7 months ago:
A mathematical model can’t predict stock due to irratic behaviour as you have said. AI being fed tons of data though, perhaps earlier than the general public through insider programs, could definitely beat the average trader. Still, this would just be the rich leveraging unfair advantages they already have in a more efficient manner.
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 7 months ago:
I have played it for a while, albeit shorter than some true veterans, and I am a little bit torn in my opinion about it. The customizations options are great and the story is cool and engaging. However, the game feels very much grindy overall and you have to win the game to unlock higher difficulty settings, which is a bit boring in my opinion. Also, the loot from some early bosses are better than what comes later for certain builds, meaning you have to return back to areas you have passed through and grind the same bosses again for better versions of the same loot that you already have, which is also a tad boring. I’ve also had some weird stuttering issues on Linux. Otherwise, great game and I recommend trying it!
- Comment on How does a SO feel different from a very good friend? 9 months ago:
Many romantic relationships evolve more or less into this over time also.