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biggest regret with the paradoxes video is that I should have spent like one more sentence explaining the barber paradox because a lot of people somehow completely missed the paradox part of it and just said stuff like "uh why doesn't someone else shave the barber"

folks this isn't a riddle it's a paradox. if you think you have a solution you're not interpreting it correctly

P -> not P? Hmmm but what if P is actually a pair of twins?

like where does the urge to call strangers online honorifics come from. are people under the impression that it's more polite to make up a name for someone that aesthetically resembles something formal rather than use the name they've indicated they want to be called. and if so why

for the record, "people think this is polite because it is considered rude not to do this" is not an answer to the question. it's just rephrasing it

I follow a lot of people who are very into Final Fantasy XIV, but I don't play MMOs at all, so whenever my dash's weather turns FFXIV-ward I'm just sitting here like "oh, they're talking about the guy whose name sounds moist again".

how do they decide which presidents get a middle initial. we dont vote on that

Harry S Truman gets to keep the S because that's his whole middle name he's not asking for much just an S you can surely spare one S

seeing posts today on the occasion of the divergence point of 17776 being today, and getting mildly annoyed that whenever the aftermath of that divergence is mentioned, people only talk about playing yank football forever. maybe I'm too yankphobic for it but the most suggestive parts of the duology to me was every time that Jon Bois mentions something in the world that isn't yank football. It is clear that it is a global phenomenon, and the text says multiple times how even in the US the people who choose to play the infinite variations on yank football are a minority of the total population. what makes the story viably approachable is that these sentient satellites only really care about yank football. But we're talking about 15 thousand 7 hundred and fifty years after today. The best thing about 17776 is how it invites you to consider everything that isn't yank football. The bit about that group of people going down the US in strips to see literally everything an everyone could have its own 17776 written about it. There is literally the rest of the world to ponder about. Yet all you people remember about 17776 is the yank football

I feel like the core question of 17776 is "If you've been given objective proof that nothing is important, what would you find to give you meaning?" And the answer, US gridiron, is what Bois picked because it's what he cares about. Giving it grand importance, assuming it's what everyone did or would pick, misses that point, that we can choose, right now, what we give meaning.

they’re making a new subscription service called equation+ where you can stream your favorite numbers and fractions

I feel so corny saying "the concept of brainwashing was largely invented and deployed for the sole purpose of combatting communism" because to those Unaware it sounds like a conspiracy theory you'd make up to defend communism but like, that actually happened

You’re only allowed to call it Magical Gathering if you’re really into it right now or have at least a three year history of being into it

as someone who is enamored with the narratives magic can tell i often find myself in extremely stark disagreement with those who consider themselves fans of the 'magic story' -- thinking mtg has extremely little to gain narratively from blocks is one example, as is my vehement disagreement with the clamor of voices asserting that dragonstorm should have included cards depicting the downfall of the dragonlords. i just don't think that linear, this-then-that stories are what a trading card game is good at delivering or should aspire to deliver

the best animated picture category at the oscars has always been a complete joke but im astounded every time i re-realize to what degree that's true. this isn't even a kpdh hate post believe it or not completely incidental to the oscars happening today i just watched the tale of princess kaguya in stream with some folks and found out it lost the academy award. to big hero six. yes thats right big hero six. academy award winning work of animated storytelling big hero six.

It's so great how expanding to 5 nominees makes it so obvious how little they care about animation as an art form. Yes, worthy of consideration, Wreck It Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks the Internet

My favorite scps are the ones where the foundation is like "w ehave stopped it from broadcasting the coordinates for all our locations so wer'er going to chalk this one up as a Win" my least favorite scps are the ones which are Silent Hill