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- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 days ago:
America's actions are relatively fresh,
At the risk of being annoying as shit, that is not true. The only fresh part is that Europeans and/or white people are feeling a small part of the heat too.
- Comment on Breaking functions down to their constituent parts is nice and all, but this is a step too far. 2 days ago:
It is, but conceptually it's a lot weirder than the Fourier transform, whose idea at least is very straightforward. I mean, when doing Laplace transforms you do have to assume that int(e^tdt){0}{∞}=-1. I'd definitely rather use the Laplace transform, but you couldn't pay me to explain how that shit actually works to an undergrad student.
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Why is Scandinavia's ball sack demilitarized?
- Comment on US | Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report 2 days ago:
He's going to rig them and, if that fails, just launch a coup.
they just lost the last batch of them.
Yes, because they didn't actually need to win those. He still has a loyal majority in Congress.
So please stop spreading the lie that civil war is inevitable
Someone disagreeing with you isn't "a lie," and besides, you should look at what fascism looks like historically. Did the Nazis get voted out post-Enabling Act?
- Comment on Breaking functions down to their constituent parts is nice and all, but this is a step too far. 3 days ago:
Added an explanation comment. Should've probably done that sooner.
- Comment on Breaking functions down to their constituent parts is nice and all, but this is a step too far. 3 days ago:
Explanation: Top left is a Taylor series, which expresses an infinitely differentiable function as an infinite polynomial. Center left is a Fourier transform, which extracts from periodic function into the frequencies of the sines and cosines composing it. Bottom left is the Laplace transform, which does the same but for all exponentials (sines and cosines are actually exponentials, long story). It seems simpler than the Fourier transform, until you realize that the s is a complex number. In all of these the idea is to break down a function into its component parts, whether as powers of x, sines and cosines or complex exponentials.
- Comment on US | Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report 3 days ago:
Sure, but I think it's clear from context that I'm talking about Obama. Establishment bootlickers love him so this is a good opportunity to highlight their hypocrisy.
- Comment on US | Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report 3 days ago:
I'd argue Democrats coming back to power isn't inevitable, far from it. America is in for either revolution, civil war or decades of fascist rule. Something needs to give before corporate centrists can hold power in America again, and so far it hasn't.
- Comment on US | Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report 3 days ago:
And that the Democratic poster child was doing the exact same thing, don't forget that part.
- Breaking functions down to their constituent parts is nice and all, but this is a step too far.fedia.io ↗Submitted 3 days ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 14 comments
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 days ago:
Just checked and I've got 24 tabs open right now. Basically in my case I have a list of things I'd want to do at any given moment (chat on Whatsapp, watch anime, learn Chinese, etc), so each one gets its own tab group with things I'd usually want for the thing in question easily accessible. For example in my anime tab group I have My Anime List, two tabs with different anime and Reddit discussion threads. Also in my defense I'm looking for an oven right now so that's inflating my tab numbers a little.
- Comment on Insulin 4 days ago:
If there is any chance of reform it would have to still appeal to all parties.
There's nothing such as change that appeals to all parties; that is not how that works. Change, good or bad, is forced by one segment of society over another, doubly so when it's against the interests of the ultra-rich. Don't compromise in advance.
- Comment on Insulin 4 days ago:
Okay here's the thing: Calling policies that contribute to monopolies anti-capitalist makes no sense, because by this standard capitalism is anti-capitalist. It's not like monopolies appear out of thin air; concentration of wealth into monopolies or oligopolies is the only possible equilibrium state under capitalism, so deflecting the effects of these monopolies as "anti-capitalist" is an appeal to fiction.
- Comment on Insulin 4 days ago:
Wow, lots of 📏 around here.
- Comment on Insulin 4 days ago:
Not really. Poverty rates are higher, yes, but many middle income third world countries do have sizeable and growing middle classes. They're called developing countries for a reason. The image of war-torn African countries where everyone works in mines isn't really representative.
- Comment on Insulin 4 days ago:
Lots of missing data in there, but gotta love Turkey's $2.56.
- Comment on Insulin 4 days ago:
In that case "real capitalism" doesn't exist, because patents have been a thing since checks notes 1474.
- Comment on Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years? 5 days ago:
I mean, how many of the languages in 1925 exist today? What about 1825? That's your answer for the most part, that is to say: most of them save for endangered languages and successful genocides.
- Comment on Price correction "worse than 2008" coming to US housing market—analyst 6 days ago:
*Until rich fucks gobble up all the newly cheap houses again. You can't win with capitalism.
- Comment on If Marx was alive during the Cold War and beyond, how would he react to the communist states that rose to power? Would he approve or disapprove of them? 1 week ago:
You're citing my text but cutting off just before the point I was trying to make.
Yes, because my point is that your point doesn't make sense.
I think be would still side with the people who claim to follow his ideology
Why...? That's not how leftwing politics worked, ever, and it's not like there has ever been a shortage of leftwing criticism of Leninism and Stalinism.
r in Marx's case admitting that his ideas didn't work or the fact that they didn't work as intended cost the lives of millions.
Yeah that's my point: They're not his ideas; they're their ideas. Lenin for example, aside from being an authoritarian dickhead, was an intellectual juggernaut and a lot of his ideas would be baked into the foundation of the Soviet Union. There's simply nothing to support what you're saying.
- Comment on If Marx was alive during the Cold War and beyond, how would he react to the communist states that rose to power? Would he approve or disapprove of them? 1 week ago:
It's important to understand that 20th century communist states weren't just "communist" (there's no such ideology as communism); they were Marxist-Leninist, which despite the name is a rebranding of Bolshevism by Stalin. "Socialist" and "communist" are incredibly broad terms, and the idea that communist = implementing Marx's ideas. Now Marx's opinion would likely vary depending on time and place, but at least he'd probably condemn Stalin's USSR as an authoritarian hellhole. Beyond that I have no idea, but many Marxists who were contemporary to the things you describe condemned them and many others supported them, so we can't make a realistic guess without projecting our own values on him.
PS: I suspect you don't know much about Marx's ideas, so you should start from there. First, the dictatorship of the proletariat isn't necessarily an actual dictatorship (that's not how the term is used by Marx).
- Comment on If Marx was alive during the Cold War and beyond, how would he react to the communist states that rose to power? Would he approve or disapprove of them? 1 week ago:
I think if he were honest with himself he would see that what he got wasn't what he had envisioned in any of the countries that claimed to be communist/socialist.
I mean... obviously? Bolshevik theory (which is what all future socialist/"socialist" states would adopt) was their own take on Marxism with a lot of original thought. That's where the authoritarianism comes from, and it's not like the Bolsheviks were trying to hide it. Odds are Marx would denounce the Bolsheviks as heretics.
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 1 week ago:
No no you see it's only Science TM if they can use it to shit on Christians.
- Comment on How do you objectively tell if a parents "I love you" is actually sincere, if they actually care about you? Or if the words are lies and they don't actually care? 1 week ago:
Yeah that's the thing: They (usually) do. It's weird and irrational, but people are weird and irrational.
- Comment on How do you objectively tell if a parents "I love you" is actually sincere, if they actually care about you? Or if the words are lies and they don't actually care? 1 week ago:
Outside romantic relationships, the vast majority of people don't have to deal with false declarations of love, so there's no general method here. If you want to ask about your specific case you'll need to provide more information.
- Comment on Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay $3.2 million over manga piracy 1 week ago:
Do they expect Cloudfare to vet every single site they host or something? This is the most stupid shit I've read today, even if intellectual property wasn't actual bullshit.
- Comment on Israel's Knesset passes law to cut water and electricity to UN agency helping Palestinians 1 week ago:
in a region where
onethe West gets ahead via uncertainty and theft.FTFY.
- Comment on Jeffrey Epstein Pursued Swiss Rothschild Bank to Finance Israeli Cyberweapons Empire 1 week ago:
Holy antisemitism bait batman it's like these guys want people to agree with Nazis (which they do).
- Comment on Just work a little harder 2 weeks ago:
Which is abhorrent, but for scale it's one out of six in America so...
- Comment on Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, GDR is one tiny country but that goes for both sides of the equation. China would be able to surveil mail with the full resources of the Chinese government.
