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I really try to use proof by contradiction to prove something that could be easily proven directly

I think that sums up the entire experience of being a mathematician.

I heard this out as "When criticizing something, you must judge it for what it is, not what it isn't"

#this is why so many of us urge people to get a wider diet of stories

"i look forward to hearing back" implies a beautiful world that runs on sense-direction combinations. i smell sideways to tasting up. i palpate inwards to listening diagonal, so that i can hunger clockwise

this is just like my favorite sentence, "I feel straight-up, downright left out".

Being a Linux user who doesn't know shit from fuck about computers is wild. I'll see a new update notification for a "Gnome Keyring" which is for "Gnome features (Daemons and tools)" and I just go alrighty give the gnome his demons and tools I guess you're in charge here Linux do what you gotta do to communicate with my CPU so I can keep playing Hellsinker.

The only reason why transphobes always ask “what is a woman” instead of “what is a man” is because we all know that a man is a featherless biped.

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

I'm imagining a world where RPGMaker somehow made it as the de facto codebase for software and you have to navigate your banking app by walking around in a huge room full of NPCs named "make deposit" and "make withdrawal" etc and there's loud as fuck stock music playing

not the twitter migrants putting "reblog heavy" in their bios on here... like yeah. that's what we do here

"We don't have enough people, funding, and power to bring about changes through elections! We have to do an armed revolution instead which thankfully doesn't require people, funding, or power to pull off."

I mean, there probably are. I've just never been terribly interested in the philosophy of math side of things. Followers?

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

"only a poor artisan blames his tools" is such bullshit, in almost every imaginable line of work the quality of the tools you have access to plays a massive role in the quality of the end product, sometimes in excess of the role played by individual skill! For example, some people have to code in javascript

@abalidoth

has anybody else noticed that the classic sci fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus features a Torment Nexus? that’s pretty problematic of the author

the main character eventually recognizes the torment nexus is bad but by that point I had already stopped reading the book because I don't condone the torment nexus, the narrative really should've condemned it outright :/

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