#rationals

[tbh-entp]

xNTxs with a hot take:

[greetings-inferiors]

I absolutely adore that the set of rationals are countable infinite but the set of irrationals are uncountable infinite, so there are many more irrationals than rationals, but between any two irrationals there are infinitely many rationals. It’s one of those facts that are so absurd that you laugh because you don’t know any other way to process it

[taxi-davis]

[inbabylontheywept]

so once me and my wife were watching a documentary where a snake ate like a million eggs. that snake just went to fucking town on eggs. and the snake made the eggs look so good that i kept thinking about it, and thinking about it, and thinking about it, and eventually it was 11pm and i ran out of willpower and decided to eat one (1) singular raw egg just to prove to myself that the snake was surely a liar.

the snake was not a liar. texture is like, super important to me and raw eggs are very Texture so i had another one, and then another one, and then another one, and eventually i ran out of eggs.

i had like, fifteen raw eggs.

i didnt really know how to explain this momentary madness to my wife, so my Plan was to put all the eggshells into a grocey bag, and then throw that grocery bag in the dumpster, and if she never noticed that would be Excellent and if she noticed immediately i could lie and say that the eggs went bad.

except i cant lie very good, and of course with murphys law being such, i got salmonella.

so i threw up a lot and my wife asked me what poisoned me so and i tried very hard to dodge the question but i was oozing shame like oil from a room temperature cheese and eventaully i gave in and told her everything and to her enormous credit she was more flabbergasted than actually upset. she did make me promise to not eat any more raw eggs, which i have stuck to, and she gives me weird looks during nature documentaries now as if desire was the only thing keeping me from eating thousands of pounds of krill anyway i made a joke earlier about being able to eat my age in eggs and my sister in law in law made a drawing to comemorate the moment and also because it was my birthday. she's excellent. thank you 10000000% @cintailed. you should all visit her page and admire her work.

[nyxi-pixie]

'wah wah everywhere is falling to the right wing the whole world is doomed' literally like 6 months ago we were talking about how there was a trend in countries getting rid of their right wing governments. poland at the end of last year, france voted in a unified centre left/left alliance, even the UK finally got rid of the tories after 15 years (right wing splitting be damned, it still happened). outside of europe, bangladesh removed a dictator in like 2 seconds, india may have reelected their Evil Guy but on a DISTINCTLY reduced majority, theres been queer rights successes in thailand, with gay marriage set to be legal by 2025, and thereve been positive court cases on it in japan. and this is just stuff i vaguely remember hearing about. im sure theres more if you care to look for anything aside from more reasons to make yourself miserable

the US has a distinct effect on everyone, so this won't be fun for anyone (least of all its population. sorry guys), and there ARE a lot of people sliding into right wing extremism, but presenting this like its an unchallenged worldwide phenomenon is inaccurate, its damagingly bleak, and all it does is encourage despair and apathy. you DO have political power, and you shouldnt forget that just because of bad election results and the media's desperation to make you lose hope

[cthulhubert]

A news site called WindowsCentral just posted a headline: "57% of all content on the web is AI-generated."

They're misquoting a Forbes article that said, "57% of all text-based content on the web is AI-generated."

Which itself was also a misquote of a study saying "57% of all text translations on the web are machine generated."

Figured I should give everyone a heads up

for all the "OMG dead Internet theory is real!" posting coming up.

[rastronomicals]

The Rationals

[nikoisme]

fucking hate how cats think they can mrrp their way out of anything because yeah, they fucking can.

[henghost]

i used to be a rationalist. roko's basilisk... bayesian theorems... ai research at yudkowsky's. you would have not liked me back then

[peeterjoot]

A fun cube root simplification problem.

[Click here for a PDF version of this post] I saw a thumbnail of a cube root simplification problem on youtube, and tried it myself before watching the video. I ended up needing two hints from the video to solve the problem.  The problem was to simplify \begin{equation}\label{eqn:cuberootsimplify:20} x = \lr{ \sqrt{5} – 2 }^{1/3}. \end{equation} My guess was that the solution was of the…

[pandabibble]

[ugly-bug-starscream]

d-16 dont piss off the old jet

Sky loving the Stars - TFOne au

[bluef00t]

The Shawn & Gus dynamic in Psych is so subtly yet beautifully shaped by the fact that they cast a naturally deadpan introvert to play the world's most hyperactive attention-seeking detective, then cast a chronic theater kid to play his supposedly boring, reasonable best friend

[drdepper]

🍎🦆?

[technically-human]

i loved seeing the moment of stone realising he was going to stick with robotnik (─‿‿─) could we see the moment ROBOTNIK realises stone is here for good?

Robotnik isn't used to people being happy to see him

[confuzing]

Follow up for this idea, once LBH is out of the Abyss and he and SQQ have worked out the important stuff- like how much they missed each other and how they should totally kiss and hold hands and all- LBH asks about the System, which has gone back to hiding.

LBH is super frustrated because SQQ is clearly deliberately misinterpreting or avoiding his questions but when he turns to storm off SQQ grabs his arm and really deliberately puts his other hand over his mouth while avoiding eye contact.

LBH: ...you can't tell me can you? You said something about that at the time...

SQQ: ...

LBH: *thinks up the silliest possible thing to say* Clearly this is all Liu Qingge's fault.

SQQ: Pfff... No!

LBH: So you can only tell me when I'm wrong.

SQQ: ...

LBH: Ok I got it.

Once he's got the rules down LBH is gonna find out so much stuff about the System. It's days are numbered.

RIP Airplane when LBH asks about him though.

LBH: Clearly this is all SQH's fault.

SQQ: ... ...

LBH: Wait really??

SQQ: ...That's not... A fair assessment.

LBH: ?????????

SQQ: Don't kill him.

Miles away, minding his own business SQH shudders.

SQH: ... something bad just happened.