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  • niktemadur@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldPBS is "the propaganda"?
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    5 days ago

    bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe, WhY bOtHeR vOTiNg

    Then chalk this item up with the million-and-one things that are completely ignored by the spiritually purified lazy mediocre idiots who passively let all this happen, this death by a million-and-one cuts, since Reagan.

    But boy oh boy by golly, they sure do feel they are doing their part by chuckling at political zingers online, after the damage is done, because they let the mouth-breathers through the front door and gave them the goddamned keys to the house and car in the first place.


  • You can go read the Wikipedia article if you want to understand “that” part… I guess, idk, go fuck yourself!!!

    Some YouTube math video about lambda calculus, the asshole casually said “you can check the Wikipedia article” on an aspect that didn’t fit inside his 10-minute video. As if Wikipedia didn’t frustrate even professional mathematicians themselves, with the obtuse exposition and a thousand notations and citations.

    Fortunately, there are other math educators on YouTube.
    On the topic of lambda calculus, search for this title:
    PLUS times PLUS

    It’s wild stuff! It’s as if like math is like a shirt, and lambda calculus pulls one arm inside out, there are some weird logical seams in math when you use different tools with the same numbers.









  • Remember that 80s magazine OMNI?
    Science, tech, sci-fi, Mensa-caliber games… by the very same Bob Guccione who published Penthouse!

    Every issue had an in-depth interview with a prominent and interesting scientist, figures like Alan Guth or Luc Montagnier or Morris Berman.
    One issue was a little more off-beat, the interview was with an anthropologist, whose student life and career went like this:

    Attending the University Of Montana in Missoula, this student loved drinking every day, so he asked the question - “What’s a relatively easy major with little math, that will interfere the least with my drinking?” - and landed on Anthropology.

    After graduation, the next question became - “What will I do my thesis about?” - a friend gave him the vague advice to do it on something he knew or was passionate about, and like a “eureka” moment, it hit him: “I’m gonna research drinking culture, bars!”

    And so, he became one of the rarefied few for whom drinking on the job was basically a requirement!



  • “I’ve never seen anyone sad in a Ferrari. In fact, I’ve never seen anyone in a Ferrari, I’ve only seen the Ferrari as I pass by the dealership showroom.”

    Lamborghinis, on the other hand… I once saw a farmer driving his Lambo tractor truck! And while I didn’t get a good look at his face, it was still awesome.