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2025 is genuinely such a cool number: beyond being just a perfect square, which most of us will almost certainly never live to see again, it’s the sum of the cubes 1^3 through 9^3 too!

I have a good feeling about this year—surely nothing too bad can happen on a square year, right?

…right?

it’s square year! happy square year

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it’s square year! happy square year

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happy last same year as it was yesterday 2024 tuesday

todays the only/last day you can reblog this lol

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apparently there are a few appearances of this online—best guess I can find is “the pioneer of fashion trends”?

So Tumblr, you guys figured out Goncharov…

What the fuck does my hat say? I’m dying to know.

My only guess is “poiener” is “power.”

Or, you know, “peener.” Because I’m five.

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Jonathan swift that one time

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WIBTA for taking advantage of my boss’ possible manic episode?

I know this already sounds bad but hear me out.

So I (30M) am the sole employee of this guy (62M) who’s honestly just a miserable boss and an even more miserable person. It sucks so bad working for him—the pay is horrendous, he’s verbally abusive, and the working conditions are awful (in the winter I literally have to stay bundled up the whole work day because he refuses to put the heat on in the office). He wouldn’t even give me holidays off if it wasn’t for the fact that there’s basically nothing to do those days because everywhere else is closed. I’m almost positive he unironically thinks poor people should die if they can’t work. His nephew (aka his only living relative and just the nicest guy) came by yesterday to invite him to Christmas dinner and he told him he’d see him in hell.

I cannot stress this enough—it’s BAD. I’d quit, but it’s been hard finding a better job and I’ve got four kids at home, including one with special needs.

Anyway, so here’s where I’m wondering if I’d be the asshole. Today was Christmas Day and he showed up at my house out of nowhere (huge red flag, I know). At first I thought he’d forgotten I had the day off and he was here to chew me out, which was worrying enough, but then his whole demeanor changed and he was super happy and excited and talking about how he was going to raise my salary. He even mentioned possibly making me a partner in the firm.

Now if that was it, I’d feel a little weird about the suddenness of it but it’d be fine. I’m not going to complain about having more money to feed my family. But then he started talking about how he wanted to pay our mortgage off. He talked about wanting to pay for our son to get the very expensive medical care that’s probably going to save his life. He mentioned at one point that he was going to be donating a huge amount of money to charity too—I knew he was rich but it staggered me. All this from a guy who doesn’t (didn’t?) even want to turn on the heat or the lights because it costs too much money.

It was such a sudden and drastic change that happened very literally overnight and now I’m kind of concerned he’s having a manic episode or something. I really, really want to accept his sudden generosity (I probably will; my wife is all for it and thinks he owes it to us), and I would love to believe that he’s truly had a sudden change of heart (an actual Christmas miracle lol) but I’m just worried about the possible consequences of accepting huge financial gifts like this from someone who I believe might be experiencing some kind of break from reality. Even if there’s nothing legally wrong with it, I’m worried about the ethics of it.

TLDR, my asshole boss might be in the middle of a mental breakdown. WIBTA if I accepted his offer to pay off my mortgage and my son’s medical expenses?

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gosper gosper gosper glider gun gun gun

nth order meta-gun that shoots (n-1)th order meta guns

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I know I'm increasingly distancing myself from the "video game fandom", but one thing I've never in my entire life understood was the people who organize in fan communities for games that aren't out yet.

Like tumblr keeps suggesting I join a community for a game that doesn't exist. What... what do you do there? Do you just sit around and talk about how good the game is hopefully going to be?

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The World Divided into 804 Zones of 10 Million People

less compressed image: https://i.imgur.com/NMULh9d.png

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population data is from https://citypopulation.de/, or directly from censuses. In cases where the last census is many years ago, i adjust the population of each subdivision by UN estimates for the growth rate of the national population, assuming that that growth happens uniformly. i aimed for an accuracy of ±10%.

by minecraftian48/reddit

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We watched the cartoon version of the How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, the old one, and when laying out his problems with Grinch, 95% of his complaints are that people are making too much noise.

And you know, I've always been a bit of a Grinch myself, but this is a crazy small scope for Christmas complaints. In his whole opening list of complaints, it's 18 lines about sounds, and 4 lines about the feast, and ... what, no trenchant observations on consumerism and waste? No skewering of the frankly hideous Christmas aesthetic? The light pollution draped over every house? The way the holiday has ballooned past an inflation fetishist's wild dreams to start fill the entire month of December and most of November?

But no, for the Grinch it's all about the sounds. Does the Grinch maybe just have misophonia?

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how to actually think about high scores from a noisy proxy (unlike the tails come apart post which was wrong)

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a party of adventurers that are all equally convinced that they are in completely different forms of media

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See, our first mistake was trying to have a civilization in northern Europe between October and February. The darkest three months of the year should be for staying home under the blankets, midwinter festivals, and getting blind drunk when the sun goes down at 4 pm like the bog gods intended.

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A get, ghet,[1][2][3] or gett is a document in Jewish religious law which effectuates a divorce between a Jewish couple. The get is a 12-line document written in Aramaic.[6] The requirements for a get include that the document must be presented by a husband to his wife. The essential part of the get is a very short declaration: "You are hereby permitted to all men"

Several popular etymological speculations were offered by early modern Rabbinic authorities. According to Shiltei Giborim, it refers to the stone agate, which purportedly has anti-magnetic property symbolizing the divorce.[8] The Gaon of Vilna posits that the Hebrew letters Gimel and Tet in the word get are the only letters in the Hebrew alphabet that cannot form a word together, again symbolizing the divorce.

It must be delivered to the wife, whose physical acceptance of the get is required to complete and validate the divorce process.[11] The wife will take the get that has been folded to fit the size of her hands and places it under her arm. She then walks a few steps to solidify the divorce. There are certain detailed requirements relating to the legal and religious nature of the get itself. For example:

It must be written on a fresh document, and there must be no possibility of cleanly erasing the text.

It may not be written on anything attached to the ground (for instance, an attached fig leaf).[13]

The get may not be pre-dated.

In 2013, the New York divorce coercion gang, a group of rabbis that forced gittin through the use of kidnapping and torture, was closed down by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.[27] A second one that utilized murder was closed in 2016.[28]

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hmm interesting...i think this section helps? if you want properties that rely on angle and nothing else, what you're looking for is conformal equivalence. so what you're doing is part of the study of parabolic Riemann surfaces, and there are infinitely many non-isomorphic types of those! some are "fundamentally rectangular" while others aren't; i think the criterion is whether the lattice you're quotienting out by is rectangular

from what i can tell the flat torus is fundamental rectangular in nature. like. the two local minimal geodesics are perpendicular (have to be careful with this notion bu i think its meaningful). which is supicious. i think genus g surfaces are fundamental 4g shaped. which is very supicious. what about the humbel flat hexagon quotient..... (i guess its actually not isometric to the square torus? ).

very confusing....... surely this is known but im struglgging to find an answer online