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thetoughestbean posted:Numbers are merely a fiction we invented to better understand our reality. And I will never forgive them for it. Integers...more like intejerks.
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Jul 22, 2022 01:15
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"Real" numbers? More like imaginary numbers amirite lol
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Jul 22, 2022 02:11
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Jul 22, 2022 02:12
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The reason you don't want 1 as a prime is because you want prime factorisations to be unique and making 1 a prime destroys that. But it's a ultimately a choice in definitions rather than some innate quality.
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Jul 22, 2022 02:16
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The only good thing math has ever given humanity is the "take a penny leave a penny" trays at gas stations. And even that is just a means to avoid more terrible no good math stuff.
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Jul 22, 2022 02:44
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Gaius Marius posted:There will be permanent human habitats outside of Earth in my lifetime. I'd say two three generations and we'll have gotten the galaxy colonized. I agree, assuming that some hyper-advanced godlike aliens stumble across us and take pity.
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Jul 22, 2022 02:51
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Byzantine posted:I agree, assuming that some hyper-advanced godlike aliens stumble across us and take pity. Maybe martians would do better than we done. We'd make great pets!
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Jul 22, 2022 03:45
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Doctor Spaceman posted:But it's a ultimately a choice in definitions rather than some innate quality. Exactly. Just start calling them exquisite-tea-primes and include one. No one can stop you.
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Jul 22, 2022 05:37
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Shibawanko posted:i have never seen or read "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy". nevertheless i am of the opinion that it sucks and is lame Doctor Spaceman posted:Makes sense given Adams worked on Doctor Who for several years and one of the Hitchhiker's books is based on one of his unmade Doctor Who stories. Gaius Marius posted:I'd say two three generations and we'll have gotten the galaxy colonized. Byzantine posted:I agree, assuming that some hyper-advanced godlike aliens stumble across us and take pity.
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Jul 22, 2022 06:43
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Tiggum posted:Shada. It's the first Dirk Gently book, not a Hitchhiker's book.
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Jul 22, 2022 07:13
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Square cafeteria pizza sucks. Even as a kid I didn't like it because the ingredients tasted off, probably because they were all artificial poo poo.
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Jul 23, 2022 17:06
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That seems like far from an unpopular opinion
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Jul 23, 2022 18:07
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The Japanese onomatopoeia for cat noises, nya, makes no sense. I’ve heard cats make all sorts of noises but nya ain’t one of them
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Jul 23, 2022 18:59
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veni veni veni posted:That seems like far from an unpopular opinion That honestly comes as a bit of a surprise, because I thought there was near unanimous love for cafeteria pizza. I thought I was one of the only '90s kids who didn't like it.
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Jul 23, 2022 22:48
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I guess in the context of the school cafeteria kids like it but it’s all relative. I think even kids know it’s poo poo pizza but the other options are also gross. The gross school cafeteria thing I always loved as a kid was the insanely overcooked spaghetti. Once every 5 years or so I’ll basically slow cook some spaghetti noodles in sauce even though I know it’s disgusting it reminds me of being 10 years old.
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Jul 23, 2022 23:00
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:That honestly comes as a bit of a surprise, because I thought there was near unanimous love for cafeteria pizza. I thought I was one of the only '90s kids who didn't like it. lovely or not, people tend to enjoy the foods they ate as a kid. You didn't get the pizza so you never acquired the taste but for someone for whom it was a regular meal, it's got a familiar flavor that "real" food typically doesn't. It's the reason why McDonalds pushed so hard in the 80s/90s to be a kid's paradise with happy meal toys and playgrounds. Get them used to cheap food early enough and you've got a generation who not only accept subpar food but demand it.
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Jul 23, 2022 23:25
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School pizza is fine. The BBQ beef Ribette is the Goat
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Jul 24, 2022 00:19
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We had two different kinds of school pizza, for reasons I don't understand. One was the cardboard prison food squares, called "sausage pizza," one was circular and an absolute grease monster, called "pepperoni pizza." The second was as wet and greasy as the first was dry. The names were technically correct in that those were the toppings but like... they were so obviously not the same pizza supplier and I want to know whyGaius Marius posted:School pizza is fine. The BBQ beef Ribette is the Goat if we're thinking of the same thing, that poo poo knocks McRib off the map. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 00:36 on Jul 24, 2022 |
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Jul 24, 2022 00:34
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There used to be this really crummy short order place by my work that sold those school lunch McRibs for like $2 each. They went out of business in like a year, but what a great year it was.
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Jul 24, 2022 00:38
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The traffic light song (and everyone's impression of what traffic lights mean) is wrong.quote:Stop says the red light
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Jul 24, 2022 05:33
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I've never heard this song. But in America after like midnight the lights turn to flashing red or yellow. Red is a stop sign and yellow a yield. So you would wait on yellow. More traffic spots are brining in flashing yellow turns to where you can go if it's clear
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Jul 24, 2022 05:39
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Gaius Marius posted:in America after like midnight the lights turn to flashing red or yellow. 
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Jul 24, 2022 05:45
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So you don't have to wait forever when nobody is driving
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Jul 24, 2022 05:46
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Also it's not every light like some universal rule. It's traffic lights in areas where there's practically no traffic late night. Lmao if you break on yellow instead of gunning it tho
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Jul 24, 2022 06:13
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Round pizzas are for suckers
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Jul 24, 2022 07:29
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round pizza's is how they getcha
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Jul 24, 2022 07:40
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Tiggum posted:The traffic light song (and everyone's impression of what traffic lights mean) is wrong. Red is “traffic may not proceed beyond the stop line” Yellow is “traffic may not proceed beyond the stop line unless it may not safely stop” So yeah in theory people should be treating yellows like reds unless it turned yellow right as they got to the intersection
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Jul 24, 2022 07:59
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Shibawanko posted:i have never seen or read "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy". nevertheless i am of the opinion that it sucks and is lame I think if you read it as a kid you in particular would like it but it feels like the type of book impossible to get into as an adult.
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Jul 24, 2022 09:47
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If you drive a car a lot you’re part of the problem and you’re killing this world
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Jul 24, 2022 09:56
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Read it in elementary school iirc and the sequels later, and it's fine but maybe has too big of a reputation. I picked it out of the scifi library shelf without ever hearing about it so it "works" without any preconceptions.
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Jul 24, 2022 09:56
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Collapsing Farts posted:If you drive a car a lot you’re part of the problem and you’re killing this world Sure. But the same applies to beef eating or living inside a European or North American nation. It isn't us, but the systems we exist within and, even then, we as citizens have far less power to change things than we should.
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Jul 24, 2022 09:57
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Josef bugman posted:Sure. But the same applies to beef eating or living inside a European or North American nation. It isn't us, but the systems we exist within and, even then, we as citizens have far less power to change things than we should. The systems won't change in their own. I hate this "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism" meme mentality that exonerates the individual Fromm doing anything - yeah it's true that all you do under capitalism has externalities, which is why you have a duty to push back.
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Jul 24, 2022 10:06
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steinrokkan posted:The systems won't change in their own. I hate this "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism" meme mentality that exonerates the individual Fromm doing anything - yeah it's true that all you do under capitalism has externalities, which is why you have a duty to push back. Other than violence or the threat of violence systems will not change. The individual may have some responsibility, but people with more power and money have far more responsibility to change things than anyone working a job or driving a car to work. What can you do to push back against the US military when it is the world's largest polluter? What can you do without money and time to solve things? You can know a great deal but, in a very real way, you cannot truly do anything about it. We are all forced to be casandra as we can do nothing to make others listen or change.
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Jul 24, 2022 10:22
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You can drink and you can gently caress and then you can die.
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Jul 24, 2022 10:39
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Bunny ears is how I learned to tie my shoes, and bunny ears is still how I do them. If you think this is childish, or that I need to learn another shoe-tying knot, you can go to Hell!
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Jul 24, 2022 11:37
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Josef bugman posted:Other than violence or the threat of violence systems will not change. The individual may have some responsibility, but people with more power and money have far more responsibility to change things than anyone working a job or driving a car to work. corporations cause 71% of worldwide emissions. obviously that can’t have anything to do with me wanting cheap gas or to not pay taxes on gas, free and abundant parking wherever i go, long and wide streets and highways to zoom up and down, a sizable house in a place where i have to drive everywhere by dint of the community's urban planning, or to drive until i qualify. no, i can't possibly be part of the problem here, why do you ask
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Jul 24, 2022 13:33
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:corporations cause 71% of worldwide emissions. obviously that can’t have anything to do with me wanting cheap gas or to not pay taxes on gas, free and abundant parking wherever i go, long and wide streets and highways to zoom up and down, a sizable house in a place where i have to drive everywhere by dint of the community's urban planning, or to drive until i qualify. no, i can't possibly be part of the problem here, why do you ask Very few people alive today had any influence on the creation of the suburbs. We have to live inside the systems built by the powerful for the propagation of their continued power. I live in the UK. I don't have those things, we could have kept our trains going but they were closed down and sold in the mid 1960s. So much of it is bad because of people long dead and the best we can do is try and muddle our way through.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:corporations cause 71% of worldwide emissions. obviously that can’t have anything to do with me wanting cheap gas or to not pay taxes on gas, free and abundant parking wherever i go, long and wide streets and highways to zoom up and down, a sizable house in a place where i have to drive everywhere by dint of the community's urban planning, or to drive until i qualify. no, i can't possibly be part of the problem here, why do you ask Yeah I agree, companies in the global economy do not produce carbon emissions just for fun or because they are James Bond or cartoon villains--they do it to provide products & services for people living in the first world, at levels of service and at prices that people in the first world have become accustomed to. Consumer preferences are a huge driver of the global economy and are way under-rated by SA politics goons. It looks like your list is a bunch of things for which you disapprove, but I suspect that there are a bunch of things that you like that generate a ton of emissions. For example, it is really hard to imagine how things like supermarkets and 'free' government medicine & healthcare could exist without our supply chain and industrial economy, which currently are heavily reliant on fossil fuels.
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Josef bugman posted:Very few people alive today had any influence on the creation of the suburbs. We have to live inside the systems built by the powerful for the propagation of their continued power. People in the first world overwhelmingly want cars, suburbs, free two-day shipping, constant availability and access to almost any kind of consumer product, food, or medicine, etc. and companies are providing these things for them. The 1% didn't hold a gun to their head and force people living in rich countries to want these things or come to expect them.
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