TeddE

@TeddE@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAGA, splitting hairs.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Laura Ingraham (of Fox News fame), put out an article that we should all relax, because Jeffrey Epstein’s victims were on average closer in age to 15 than 5, and spouted some technicalities about the definition of pedophile, as if that makes grooming children to sexually exploit and trade access to for favors any less repulsive.

  The timing of the news release is right after a clever procedural move in the US House brought a vote to release the Epstein files and now all the conservative media is trying the “maybe we did, but it wasn’t really that bad” lines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m normally happy to grant that - but not while they’re literally putting someone else down for doing effectively the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been randomly substituting the thorn ᚦ, the diphthong æ, the interobang ‽, and other such irregular typographical arcana into my casual writing for decades. Just took you-all an LLM to be mad at to pay attention.

  Let’s not crucify people for being weird please. Nobody is average. We all have quirks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s stop ᚦis before the train gets going:

  • The original post content’s auᚦor replaced the letters ‘th’ with ᚦe more archaic ᚦ
  • the original author said ᚦat all 't’s were replaced in an oversimplification
  • ᚦe parent author noted that oᚦer 't’s were used which were not replaced.
  • I’ve replaced about half my ‘th’ with 'ᚦ’s
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One step closer to Night City⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the dream

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be this guy.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I contend a functional definition of privilege is the number of problems you can ignore. By this metric anon is likely privileged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Room for cream?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just label each with a cute yet distinct name. Then customers would associate each name with the blend they order, with bonus lore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨another TUI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’re advocating is called genocide. Genocide is bad.

  We’ve tried this ‘separating mentally ill from society’ before - they were called asylums. We stopped doing that because they’re inhumane. (There is an academic debate on if they’re inherently such or simply attract/foster abuse, but were not having that debate today.)

  What you’re suggesting is an international crime and violation of human rights. Please reconsider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tell me something that I don't already know⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Left ear, right ear, left nostril, right nostril, pore, pore, pore, …, pore, iris (light only), Prince Albert piercing, earlobe …

  I disagree with this joke’s premise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. If you’re not actively using the land you should sell it - if that were the general practice, many renters would be land owners themselves and an entire layer of middle management would evaporate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F dieting!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was obvious from the blooming cloud of mutant white spores in the last few seconds 😜 nuclear mushroom!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm too stupid for this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … obviously /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨English moment⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hose is pronounced /hōz/ and dose is pronounced /dōs/ in “Standard English” (which is a specific and deliberately invented dialect taught to news anchors to try to smooth out all the regional differences), actual english varies so much over time and space that both words have numerous variations - www.howtopronounce.com/hose, plus we change our inflection on words depending on where they are in a sentence - and plenty of context can change if the emphasis is on the vowel or the ending consonant: All my hoes know a hose is a hose.

  Simply put - as long as people understand the ideas you’re conveying, don’t worry too much about precise spelling and punctuation - it’s literally all made up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve graduated to not considering any service they has an advertising tier. It’s like being in the court watching Gríma Wormtongue whisper into the ear of King Théoden of Rohan. No amount of concessions is good enough, they’ll always ask for more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one and why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  GOBLIN ASS-SHOVEL

  • GOBLIN ASS-SHOVEL

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s step two or three, for sure. But the point being made is fascist isn’t a word that can be applied to anyone and everyone (setting aside the 2¢ insult version) - it is a specific political ideology that one earns by their words and actions.

  Unfortunately it is also complex to diagnose, particularly in early stages, especially as intelligent budding fascists will deliberately evade the formal definitions while still finding ways to accomplish similar effects.

  But yes - there’s also cases where fascists clearly and obviously are doing fascist things, and need to be stopped immediately, please feel free to give them a proper knuckle sandwich (or an appropriate grade of violence as the situation warrants)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

  I’ve had this asserted before, but I’m not sure it lives up to the mathematical rigor of our conversation to this point. I recommend substantially more investigation. 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I apologize. I went back and reread from the top and I see my error.

  My mobile Lemmy client indicates replies with cycling colors, and I had the misunderstanding that your objection was to the axioms presented in Principia Mathematica. But your reply was fair in the context of the axioms you were actually replying to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Math is the philosophy department in that math is an extension of logic, which is in turn an extension of philosophy. You’d have a better chance of divorcing math from applied math (engineering/physics) than separating math from philosophy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah! I see. Thanks for clarifying.

  As to m=s(n) and n=s(m), I think that is the motivation behind modular arithmetic and it gets used a lot with rotation, because 12 does loop back around to 1 in clocks, and a half turn to face backwards is the same position whether clockwise or counter. This is why we don’t use natural numbers for angles and use degrees and radians.

  I’m terms of parallels, I personally see that as a strength - instead of having successors (a term that intuitively embeds a concept of time/progression), I typically take the successor function as closer to the layman concept of ‘another’. Thus five bananas is s(s(s(s(🍌)))) and it does have a parallel to five cars s(s(s(s(🚗)))). The fiveness doesn’t answer questions about the nature of the thing being counted (such as, "Are these cars: 🚓🚙🏎️🛵? "). Mathematicians like to use the size of the empty set as an abstract stand-in for when they don’t know what they’re talking about (in a literal sense, not broadly).

  As far as predecessors to 0 - undefined isn’t a problem for natural numbers, just for the people using them. And it makes a certain sense, too. You can’t actually have negative apples (regardless of how useful it may be to discuss a debt of apples).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure what you mean by ‘loops’ - except perhaps modular arithmetic, but there are no natural numbers that are negative - you may be thinking of integers, which is constructed from the natural numbers. Similarly, rational numbers, real numbers, and complex numbers are also constructed from the naturals. Complex numbers are often expressed as though they’re two dimensional, since the imaginary part cannot be properly reduced, e.g. 3+2i.

  I recommend this playlist by mathematician another roof: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsdeQ7TnWVm_EQG1rm…

  They build the whole modern number system ‘from scratch’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your test for people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Checking in at 23 hours - I count one comment to this effect, but even there the caveat is ‘but only if you do it wrong’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your test for people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Too many people see life as a zero-sum game with a one-dimensional ranking. To them, success is defined as the number of people of people you’re better than. Worse, many people go by pass/fail,as in “they’re one of the good ones” (popular with bigots everywhere)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they?

  I can’t recall anyone ever being anything but nonplussed and skeptical about paper straws. From what I can tell, it was a product of a think tank that pushed into the news, which then caused businesses to treat that as though it were public demand and pushed it out to everyone, and most people shrugged, used the obviously inferior product (because it was free and the alternatives require attention), and then people got on with their day.

  On the wider scale this was pitched as ‘the only thing you can personally do to combat climate change’ - but I suspect it is the literal strawman of a figurative progressive position, purposely pushing a manufactured defective solution as a means to distract and suppress more substantive change and organization thereof.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sticker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be clear: I did/do not mean to imply you are/were/[ever would be] a nazi simp.

  My point above was to say - publicly pissed pants are petit potatoes compared to a slew of modern issues; public urination is a “first world problem”. Buuuuuuuuuuut, it’s also worth noting my argument can be wholesale dismissed as “whataboutism” if you so desire (if we’re approaching this as a strictly logical syllogism).

  Also, may push back on your original statement a bit? Why do you think OP’s story occurred in a public space? Do you care more or less if say we learned OP was in the artist booth space at a private, adults-only furry convention? We could push further and imagine this occuring at a private watersports convention - but that’s flirting with the ridiculous as in that space OP would have been silly to but have expected this.

  I suppose my question for you is this: If the furry did a controlled leak to freshly wet their pants, with no spillover dripping onto the floor, then went to show their friends what they did for a laugh (the juxtaposition of following the stickers instructions vs the social expectation not to), then proceeded to change into fresh clothes - what’s your objection? Who is being hurt? What’s really ‘not based’ about this obviously juvenile comedic act?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sticker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather deal with a hundred furries pissing themselves in public than one Nazi trying to commit a genocide.

  Obviously this isn’t a strict either/or situation. The joke of someone pissing themselves probably wears thin if I have to clean up after them … point taken.

  But given all the problems in the world today, one that can be fixed with a few paper towels ranks super low on my list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All embedded in the modern slang ‘boy’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In the era, “spare the rod, spoil the child” was considered good advice. If that’s how even loved ones were treated … slaves treated well? Press X to doubt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doot doot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We have the free trial of replaceable teeth. The first replacement is free, after that it gets expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doot doot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jellyfish hate consent.