FishFace
@FishFace@piefed.social
- Comment on It'll be ok. Nobody's going to judge you. 57 minutes ago:
Yeah, I think it causes unnecessary difficulties. I actually think they’re introduced at a time when you could instead teach them as two-dimensional vectors with pointwise addition and a special multiplication and division rule, and prove that (0, 1)×(0, 1) = (-1, 0) using that rule, so that sqrt(-1, 0) = (0, 1).
Then you can establish a convention that you write (a, b) as a + bi (and i = (0, 1)).
This is too abstract for younger students, but nowadays I don’t think they learn complex numbers anyway, and I think it would be less spooky for the older students.
- Comment on my background and appearance don’t define me🤭 1 hour ago:
I don’t know myself. I could guess but that’s probably not valuable :D
- Comment on Men are generous 3 hours ago:
I haven’t done any scientific comparison of the two groups, and I’m not a member of both groups either so I can’t speak from personal experience either… however, from what I understand, fallible though that may be, it’s simply a combination of the per capita rate, combined with it being pretty easy to get on grindr, hit up a gay bar, or whatever.
As a result, the relevant comparison isn’t “number of potential partners in the whole population” but “proportion of potential partners in a population I can narrow down to, provided that population is big enough.” Say there are 1,000 gay men on grindr in a town, and 20,000 straight women on tinder in the same town. What I think is true is that a higher proportion of those people on grindr are DTF with some rando than of the women on tinder, so your practical experience as a gay or straight man looking for a no-strings shag will be different.
But yeah, I guess I should caveat my original message that I can’t be super confident.
- Comment on I couldn't have articulated better 6 hours ago:
As a kid I always wanted to have one foot in the middle section and one foot in the front or back and try not to fall over :)
- Comment on my background and appearance don’t define me🤭 6 hours ago:
Look up the timings and set an actual timer. Make sure your cookware is up to temperature before adding anything. Have enough experience to know how long everything else needs, so that you add your seafood at the right moment.
Scallops take very little time to cook, but a lot of seafood is more forgiving.
Also the danger of undercooking seafood is parasites rather than like salmonella. Good quality seafood is safe to eat raw - the stereotype of bad seafood giving you the shits is (as far as I understand) due to the ingredient itself being tainted.
- Comment on my background and appearance don’t define me🤭 6 hours ago:
🤤
- Comment on Loser 😂📡 6 hours ago:
Anthropologically it’s thought to originate from a gesture of homage to a societal superior (which would also include kneeling)
In the religion you see a variety of explanations. Some are mundane, like it’s just to stop you fidgeting.
- Comment on Men are generous 6 hours ago:
It’s a thing but you have waaay more opportunities if you’re a gay man, at least if you’re somewhere with a decent population on Grindr!
- Comment on watching one of my favorite singers wither away right before our eyes is heartbreaking 6 hours ago:
I try to write what I think directly, no snark or smart assery intended, I just don’t want heartfelt posts about serious stuff mixed up in my genuine shitposts.
- Comment on watching one of my favorite singers wither away right before our eyes is heartbreaking 7 hours ago:
So the video accentuates how thin she is, then shows her negative response to the group that told her to be thinner… that all sounds consistent with criticising that kind of commentary to me.
I’m not going to comment on how thin she is, but that explanation seems the most likely, else why would the note be in there at all?
- Comment on watching one of my favorite singers wither away right before our eyes is heartbreaking 7 hours ago:
Protip: if you find something heartbreaking, it is not a shitpost.
- Comment on Corn time 2 days ago:
Corn bone goes in corn hole?
- Comment on Skill Issue 😓 2 days ago:
They didn’t say that. But it might be empathetic to interpret their message in the obvious way and say, “I can’t cover”.
But that would require this not to be a fake screenshot made up as a joke, because it would ruin the joke.
- Comment on i love standing out💖 3 days ago:
Well two small things: first, there’s a lot of ways to look good, and I don’t buy “just likes looking good, doesn’t want attention” when there are ways to look good without drawing attention. There must be a reason to override that desire not to attract attention.
Second… I mean, it’s violets, we don’t really need to speculate!
- Comment on No one could have seen this coming 3 days ago:
No, that doesn’t make sense. If you want to talk about “the whole system fucking us”, then you must nevertheless be talking about the parts of the system that fuck us. I’m saying: grocery stores which pocket three cents on the dollar are not what you should be talking about if you want to point to how unfair the system is. If you want to complain about landlord greed, be my guest. But you’re in a thread about reducing theft in an environment where, if 3% of stock were stolen the store would eventually close, not in a thread about landlords gouging on rent.
Having this general anger at a system which makes it difficult to live a happy and fulfilling life is fine and justified. But if you don’t turn that general anger into anger which is directed at the right things, all it will do is make your life less happy. Focus it where it needs to be focused.
- Comment on i love standing out💖 3 days ago:
You’re desperate for attention. Doesn’t mean you actually want to talk to any of the people who take the bait.
- Comment on No one could have seen this coming 3 days ago:
I don’t know about your context, but in my country people say the same thing… but grocery store profit margins hover reliably around 3%. That’s not price gouging, and it doesn’t take much theft to seriously eat into it.
- Comment on When you can’t upload an image to Lemmy, is it… 4 days ago:
Why you…!
- Comment on When you can’t upload an image to Lemmy, is it… 4 days ago:
Need the original with some actual pixels
- Comment on Birmingham man fined over £140 for stealing sandwich and cookies from Greggs 4 days ago:
Are we surprised that the punishment for theft is… punitive? Are we expecting that they could just pay for it and move on?
- Comment on Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens 4 days ago:
I stopped reading Monbiot ages ago because he had some remarkably dumb takes (which I’ve now forgotten, shamefully).
I would rewrite this one as, “if you want to reduce your impact, reduce the amount of animal products you eat, including meat, eggs, and dairy.” I will never be a vegan, and for a long time I never even considered that people might reduce their meat consumption if they didn’t go fully vegetarian, nor reduce their animal product consumption if they didn’t go fully vegan.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I’d want to help by not feeding the troll
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Between your censoring of the word paedophile, suggestion to ban vpns and feeding of the troll… you’re just a troll yourself aren’t you?
- Comment on It's a service I provide 4 days ago:
Thanks for the chuckle!
- Comment on who came up with this plot? 4 days ago:
I really had in mind minstrel shows on in the 20th century on TV. But if you prefer, I think it still applies to most situations which seem to be entrenching any view, whether that view is hateful or indeed positive. We don’t think of someone making a movie whose central message is about the virtue of kindness as being “propaganda” - it’s just people putting their own values into a story. So too if the central message is negative.
If you want to infer a more purposeful, self-conscious motivation, you need more to go on.
- Comment on who came up with this plot? 5 days ago:
I just think generally this kind of “propaganda” is produced because it reflects a well-entrenched view people genuinely hold. It’s like asserting that minstrel shows were produced as propaganda to keep black people subjugated by making people think black people are inferior. I think it’s much simpler than that - the people who commissioned such things were racist, so they made shows which depicted black people poorly. That had the effect of perpetuating racism, but it’s a stretch to say the perpetuation of racism was the motivation, rather than the enactment of racism.
Same here, as I see it. The people who make such things are misogynists who believe in misogynist practices, so they make films which reflect those practices. I don’t see where there’s evidence for a conscious choice to do more than that.
- Comment on who came up with this plot? 5 days ago:
That affords people a level of planning I think is overly charitable.
- Comment on We hate him no matter who he represents. 5 days ago:
Not a shitpost
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
You have to eat nuts pretty slowly for this to be a problem in my experience. I have had nuts go rancid but they were really old. It’s like sauces - they say “keep refrigerated” on the bottle but if you use them consistently it’s better not to crowd the fridge/keep space for higher priority things.
- Comment on 🎶I keep dancing on my own🎶 6 days ago:
Seems like you’re in the minority on that one.
The humour is derived from there being an obvious remedy that he didn’t take, so the violation of expectations is surprising and hence, humorous.