#grossly oversimplified

[koifishanonymous]

this is soooo accurate, crowley being on the verge of a panic attack and aziraphale being horny all the time

is this good omens

[butterscotch-goat]

that post that's like "I understand the complex themes and ideas of this media sometimes I just like to make jokes" but it's with my own OCS

[blood-orange-juice]

I wonder if the whole Abyss and Forbidden Knowledge thing is a metaphor for Gödel's incompleteness theorems.

It's not that farfetched, the second theorem was popularized in non-academic circles (to the point where even mentioning it in academic discussions is now a faux pas unless it's among mathematicians) and was used to point at the core difference between human and AI thinking (until the current generation of AI models fell outside of what it describes).

And Genshin does have a lot of AI themes.

Bear with me for a second.

In layman terms, in a system like formal logic there are statements we can express using this system and ones we can prove or disprove.

And if the system is consistent (doesn't hold contradicting statements) these are different things! You can say things that will be true and will correctly describe the object you are trying to describe but there will be no way to logically derive them from the other statements you already have.

Also a consistent system can't prove that it's consistent.

(an inconsistent, contradictory system has no such problems.

you can also formally accept a non-provable statement into a consistent system as another axiom/"known truth" and it will create a new system with new properties)

These theorems were formulated as a way to talk about the limitations of mathematics compared to our thinking, but in popular reading they somehow turned into "for any formal system there's a statement that nukes it" (Gödel statement).

Some people wondered if a Gödel statement that fries a person's brain is possible.

What I currently see in Genshin painfully resembles those popular readings.

Celestially maintained Teyvat laws are a consistent system, forbidden knowledge is a statement that can be neither proven nor disproven in that system (and messes it up), Abyss is an inconsistent system (any statement can be proven true and it's pretty horrible but also hey, anything can be proven true so forbidden knowledge doesn't disrupt it further).

Perhaps gods and their ideas are something like logical statements and owning a gnosis symbolises incorporating their "truth" into the overarching formal system of Teyvat laws.

(perhaps different cycles are just variations of the same world with slightly different rules/axioms)

Also Irminsul cannot be allowed to think of things it can't understand and it cannot be allowed to think of its nature and consistency of the information it stores.

[batemanofficial]

me refraining from going on a tirade about how "freeze" and "fawn" aren't parasympathetic nerve responses every time i see that poll

[inkmage13]

"average American eats 3.3 grams of sodium a day" factoid is actually just statistical error. I, Sodium Georg, who lives in a salt mine and eats 100 grams of salt each day, am an outlier and should not have been counted.

[aphverse-confessions]

Might be an unpopular opinion, but the only reason why MCRPs aren't popular anymore is because Jess isn't doing them anymore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[omnipotentnothing]

Worms are genuinely so fascinating in so much of what they do but how they procreate is so bizarre. Different sub-species vary in copulation in fascinatingly different ways. So all worms are pretty much hermaphrodites.

Earthworms hold onto each other with mucin-like slime that keeps them stuck together and then they kinda wiggle on top of each other and then EXUDE from the OUTSIDE of their skin sperm which is absorbed into the other worms skin and then the clitellum (the little ring thing along the outer skin of worms) moves down the worm and collects and absorbs it (the sperm) and then forms a little egg cocoon and its so interesting???

And then of course there are osedax worms which have detachable penises and they're so interesting. Around 50-100 little microscopic males live within the tubes of the female worms and they dont mature because they suck (boo)

but then epitoky worms after they sexually mature release their fertilized gametes through rapid disintegration (which sounds insanely cool but its actually cooler because they live in the water and just kinda spray out their gametes (in which i told my friend they "spray and pray" hence the tag)). But actually several species use the "spray and pray" technique!

Flat worms (one of my favorites) they fight to decide who will be the male partner (because worms are hermaphrodites) they do what is honest to god called "penis fencing" and they essentially stab each other with an extendable dagger thing (its hooked) and stab it into the other worms epidermis. These worms do not have any vaginal openings you see and so they must create one (hence the fencing) and because both worms have male sexual organs they fight each other to see who will hold the eggs (its called traumatic insemination which...ow :( ) but its actually evolutionary amazing (read advantageous) because every interaction leaves with eggs being made (which is of course the whole base of their species) and they're so cool because essentially all worms are just dead-beat dads who can't wait to pump and dump and scurry off into the dirt

so thats how worms have sex...basically...yeah

[not-another-doctor]

WAIT A SECOND 8TH DOCTOR'S CHIMES OF MIDNIGHT EXPLAINS WHY 11 DOESNT JUST GET CLOSE TO NEW YORK TO SAVE AMY AND RORY

[northirish]

If Northern Ireland is Northern Ireland, why is the South of Ireland more North than it?

Most northern bit (County Donegal) had too many Irish nationalists in it when they divided the country in the 1920's

[amsterdamhotelroom]

can i be real as fuck for a second and say i am so sick of people saying cannibalism as a metaphor for love

[prevailinghatred]

the Prime Wars Trilogy (2016-2018)

[jayjamjary]

This is like some deep jayjamjar4 lore shit but it's so funny to me that I became as mentally healthy and stable as I am now by my simple two step process:

1.) Go insane and completely lose yourself

2.) Get better

Truely the Turn It Off and Turn It Back On Again of solutions.

[thenorthblues]

Sometimes I forget that Law was raised like a little catholic boy before the incident at Flevance. Like full on Nuns and Sunday School. My boy saw the worst of humanity and said fuck a god, i'm god now, and became a surgeon.

[pyroselkie]

why don't more people talk about nagisa and sora friendship???

like. autistic boy who was raised isolated (by another) in a single room vs autistic boy who grew up isolated (by himself) in his bedroom

they present so differently but they're equals and opposites do you understand me

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

It's not like I've ever seen anyone here have any filter for what political messages they reblog, people just see someone talk about a situation in a way that makes them feel like they know who the villain is and press reblog, without question or applying any prior knowledge to their interpretation, especially if it's something that doesn't affect them personally, and especially if it goes against what they think most people believe so they can stick it to the man and feel like they know better. It's not something new and I usually don't hold it against anyone, I'm definitely guilty of it myself, but man does it feel more pervasive than ever now that every 5th post is taking a very confident stance on a war they only know from news and social media, all saying the same thing, enraged that anyone would ever claim otherwise. And it never hit so close to home for me, it was always someone else's problem for me too, someone I didn't know, but this time I got to spend a day wondering if a loved one was still alive, this time I get to be careful in public so I don't get killed for someone else's crimes.

Can we just all (myself included) think a little more, do a little more research before we decide what nuance does or does not exist? I promise you that you're not obligated to post about everything, you're not obligated to have an opinion on everything, and I promise you are going to be wrong sometimes.

[sunnywalnut]

Dylan Mulvaney: hehe^^ here's some cute things I personally do in order to validate my Identity as a woman! I enjoy these things because they make me feel feminine, cute, and powerful!

TERFs: and I took that personally.