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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Divine Dick⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can follow this, up to

  they are neopronouns

  I believe that that’s a decision made by translators of the bible. Hebrew doesn’t have lowercase letters, and the Greek versions of the New Testament that I found don’t capitalize as much. And are they distinct?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Libraries⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A new public library place recently opened very near to where I live. I’ve nothing to say, am just a bit comforted that when the world is crashing and burning, at least I can be happy about this.

  Also some libraries provide 3D printers which is really cool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linguistics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That has to do with the definition of what a word even is. “Alot” is clearly made up of two separate units, but so is “anyway”. I think a lot of people don’t like this one because it’s simply unnecessary. You need “anyway” to show that the two words are not stressed separately, but treated as one unit, whereas with “a lot” this is already obvious (“a” is almost never stressed).
  Also has to do with English spelling just being bad, generally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that can’t stop giving her money

  well… I mean…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just cited myself.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For any a, b, c, if a = b and b = c, then a = c, right? The transitive property of equality.
  For any a, b, x, if a = b, then x + a = x + b. The substitution property.
  By combining both of these properties, for any a, b, x, y, if a = b and y = b + x, it follows that b + x = a + x and y = a + x.

  In our example, a is x’ (notice the ') and b is 0.999… (by definition). y is 10x’ and x is 9. Let’s fill in the values.

  If x’ = 0.9999… (true by definition) and 10x = 0.999… + 9 (true by algebraic manipulation), then 0.999… + 9 = x’ + 9 and 10x’ = x’ + 9.

  if you are rearranging algebra you have to do the exact same thing on both sides

  If you actually change any of the sides. Since, after substitution, the numeric value doesn’t change (literally the definition of equality), I don’t have to do anything – as I’m not rearranging. I’m merely presenting the same value in an equivalent manner. By contrast, when multiplying both sides by 10, since multiplication by 10 changes the concrete numeric value, I have to do it on both sides to maintain the equality relation (ditto for subtracting x’). But substitution never changes a numeric value – only rearranges what we already know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just cited myself.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The substitution property of equality is a part of its definition; you can substitute anywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just cited myself.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly, 1/3 = 0.3333…
  So 3 times 1/3 = 0.9999… but also 3/3 = 1

  Another nice one:

  Let x = 0.9999… (multiply both sides by 10)
  10x = 9.99999… (substitute 0.9999… = x)
  10x = 9 + x (subtract x from both sides)
  9x = 9 (divide both sides by 9)
  x = 1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How's my favorite noise machine today?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can use negative decibels, right? It’s a logarithmic scale