#and mathematics

[roach-works]

speculative fiction writers i am going to give you a really urgent piece of advice: don't say numbers. don't give your readers any numbers. how heavy is the sword? lots. how old is that city? plenty. how big is the fort? massive. how fast is the spaceship? not very, it's secondhand.

the minute you say a number your readers can check your math and you cannot do math better than your most autistic critic. i guarantee. don't let your readers do any math. when did something happen? awhile ago. how many bullets can that gun fire? trick question, it shoots lasers, and it shoots em HARD.

you are lying to people for fun. if you let them do math at you the lie collapses and it's no fun anymore.

[copepods]

crazy how 4 hours of work will literally take up my entire 15+ hour day. who allowed this

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[sleepy-bebby]

[uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

He's right tho

[demonicseries]

You guys are never gonna believe what the name of this sculpture is

[jedi-starbird]

Palpatine: My boy, I'm afraid to report that Master Kenobi is very likely sleeping with your wife.

Anakin, who knows for a fact that Obi-Wan is sleeping with his Commander, a good chunk of Ghost company, the Organas and Quinlan Vos: ...where is he finding the fucking time???

Palpatine, oblivious: Oh I've heard from some very reliable sources that-

Anakin: *pulls out a spexcel spreadsheet, the 3rd System Army's shared spoogle calender and a calculator*

Anakin: Your Excellency. That's just. not logistically possible.

[myjetpack]

My latest New Scientist cartoon

[hamletthedane]

There’s a lot of excellent examples of the difference between a million and a billion, but here’s my new personal favorite from a conversation I had today:

A million minutes ago was April 2021, the height of the COVID pandemic.

A billion minutes ago was November 121 CE, the height of the Roman Empire.

[shouldbepersephone]

My brother (currently in college shooting for a PhD in maths) sent me this at 2 am and informed me that I should “put it on the tumbler”

Jobius Strip

[prokopetz]

People on this site will put together polls like "The Banach-Tarski Paradox versus Camembert Cheese", then act like the results prove that they're surrounded by idiots.

[knotty-et-al]

Visualization of the Rubik's cube

[the-lumpfish-king]

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[one-time-i-dreamt]

Brennan Lee Mulligan was teaching me math in college. I wasn't exactly paying attention, because I was playing Minecraft. He said, "This is where you'll be, but you'll need to have all this." And it was just a studying PSA.

[dodecalemma]

Grad school quote of the day:

“Lovely man. They shouldn't let him teach.”