tias
@tias@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Statistically unlikely 2 days ago:
So what are the prime factors of 1?
- Comment on Statistically unlikely 2 days ago:
But by that reasoning, 7 is not prime because you can do 7, 1*7, 1*1*7 etc.
- Comment on Statistically unlikely 2 days ago:
the uniqueness constraint is why 1 is not prime.
There’s more than one way to multiply numbers to get 1?
- Comment on The Psychology Behind Christian Body Shame 4 days ago:
Some (e.g. Yuval Noah Harari) would argue you don’t need deities to make it a religion, it’s just belief without proof that enables a shared value system. An agreement on norms, explicit or implicit. In that interpretation, human rights and money are also religions.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You guys are getting ready for the civil war in 2028 right?
- Comment on Thirsty much? 1 week ago:
Every function the body has ultimately exists to maximize the chance of reproduction
- Comment on Thirsty much? 1 week ago:
Different situations. She can’t force other people to dress differently to appease her, but if they make her uncomfortable (for whatever dumb reason) she’s allowed to avoid them.
But also different situations because sex drive is possibly the strongest biological drive that we have, so even if you’re not helpless against it your brain can be distracted in a way that it won’t get from gendered clothing.
I’m not religious or devoid of self control, or even interested in a relationship with a “gym girl”. But I would still wish the women at my gym chose to dress for function rather than to attract… whatever it is they want to attract. It gets tiresome.
- Comment on It was an ok life, 6/10 1 week ago:
That way, you can help someone else pay their bills!
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 1 week ago:
Up until very recently all train route planning in Sweden was done manually with huge sheets of paper and rulers. Scheduling trains is a very hard problem due to the inability for one train to pass another in many places and the constantly high congestion. Any change in the schedule affects everything.
In computer science it belongs to the class of “NP-hard” problems which are essentially intractable to solve optimally. There are various approximate methods that can be employed to get something that’s almost always good enough.
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re strawmanning this. I didn’t say you are obligated to maximize your health. But that’s different from knowingly making yourself ill.
In Sweden we spend a lot of resources treating people for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) which is almost exclusively the result of smoking. I think it’s wrong to smoke given how much it costs fellow tax payers and how it takes away resources from people who suffer from ailments that are not a result of their actions.
That said, everyone deserves compassion and it’s also wrong not to help people who are suffering regardless of the reason. But that’s part of what makes it bad to knowingly hurt yourself - you’re imposing an obligation onto other people.
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 2 weeks ago:
Also it’s likely to make you sick and then you become a liability to your community = immoral.
- Comment on How did Voldemort actually die? 2 weeks ago:
For real. I don’t get what people see in those books. Her writing is insufferable.
- Comment on Finally HR does something right 2 weeks ago:
They are not your friend but they are also not your manager’s friend. They’re there to protect the corporation, the CEO and the board. If your manager is doing something that can get the company in legal trouble then HR can absolutely shed the manager. Especially if you demonstrate that you’re building a solid case (e.g. documenting each incident while memory is fresh).
- Comment on Fuck you Whatsapp 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think that needs to be the case. At least in Sweden where I live, local laws apply whether you do something IRL or on the internet. For example slander is still slander even if you post it on Facebook. Meta doesn’t need to get involved any more than the phone operator or post office does.
- Comment on Fuck you Whatsapp 2 weeks ago:
This is the reason digital infrastructure should be controlled by the commons. And punishment for misbehaving users should be decided by the state according to due process in a procedurally fair manner, not by corporations that seek to maximize profits.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Well it was news to me
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Fox trying hard to make republicans dumber, as always
- Comment on Well you see, uh... 3 weeks ago:
I mean you could look these things up together
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 4 weeks ago:
WWCD
- Comment on Generational warfare 4 weeks ago:
Especially if they get stuck under the living room table
- Comment on Generational warfare 4 weeks ago:
My interpretation was that the intent is to punish the dad.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
And I bet that reinforced her low self-esteem. I’ll explain what the actual problem is but they don’t hear it, they just hear the other reasons that they invented such as “I’m not attractive enough”.
- Comment on Reality dawns 5 weeks ago:
Could just be jerking you off from behind
- Comment on Jesus Christ, Photoshop... 5 weeks ago:
I mean, they could just… use something else?
- Comment on A True Prince Andrew Story 5 weeks ago:
Hey, I don’t know you, but the last few lines of this post genuinely worry me, especially “I have nothing to lose.” If you’re thinking about hurting yourself, please reach out to a crisis line tonight (988 in the US, or search “[country] crisis line”). Whatever’s going on, you’re clearly in a lot of pain. Talking to a doctor or psychiatrist about what’s going on could actually help: what you’re going through sounds awful and treatable.
- Comment on It is a statistical fact that white men in America couldn't get driver's licenses prior to 1850 5 weeks ago:
Let’s say you could temporarily reverse the laws of physics and rewind the universe to the exact state it was in this morning. Would anything have happened differently?
- Comment on It is a statistical fact that white men in America couldn't get driver's licenses prior to 1850 5 weeks ago:
Depends on your view of free will. If they never did, they never could.
- Comment on It is a statistical fact that white men in America couldn't get driver's licenses prior to 1850 5 weeks ago:
Number of men with driver’s license in 1850
- Comment on FACT: Belle did NOT know the beast could turn into a human, she was fully prepared to bang him as is 5 weeks ago:
Hollywood literally cannot tell a “looks don’t matter” story without sneaking the looks (or status) back in by the third act. The Beast turning into a generic prince. She’s All That spends ninety minutes insisting personality matters, then resolves it with a makeover. The Princess Diaries goes one further: “you’re fine as you are” turns out to mean “you’re fine as you are, also you’re secretly a princess.”
I don’t think the people writing these endings believe the lesson themselves. An industry that runs on headshots and red carpets isn’t positioned to sell “looks don’t matter” with a straight face, and that disbelief leaks into the third act. Shallow people writing a story about looking past shallowness was always going to end with someone getting hot again. What bugs me is that they sell this corrupted message to our kids, repeating the cycle.
- Comment on Unexpected item in the bagging area! 1 month ago:
Self checkout works just fine in Sweden, the only people with an issue are dementia-ridden elderly (but they can’t make sense of how to pay with a debit card either).