FreshParsnip

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Each man either shaves himself or is shaved by the barber. The barber only shaves men who don't shave themselves, who shaves the barber? Supposedly the barber can't shave himself because he only shaves men that don't shave themselves.

Well, why can't he shave himself? Only because you said he doesn't. That's not a paradox, that's just making up a set of rules that aren't logically consistent. I can make up logically inconsistent sets of rules too. All ducks have yellow feathers. This duck is all black. How is that possible when I said they all have yellow feathers? Cause it's a rule I just made up! Wow, what a paradox!

A true paradox is something like "this statement is false". If the statement is true, then it's false and if it's false, then it's true. There is no logical solution, it is a true inherent logical problem. The Barber's Paradox, on the other hand, is just making up logically contradicting rules and calling it a problem.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 21 hours ago

I eat microwave pizza pockets. I'm not sure if that counts as calzones

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 22 hours ago

I am yelling incoherently

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think we'll ever see him face any repercussions

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

And yet he still managed to gain so much power to commit another holocaust

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Trump knows he's going to die soon and he wants to burn the world down on his way out

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But I was told it was the democrats that control the weather

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I'm behaviourally challenged

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

An excellent point. I'd like to ask Rowling, is Hermione still a woman when polyjuiced as Harry? If no, then she's saying gender is changeable. If yes, then she should be able to understand how internal sense of gender isn't dependent on the physical body.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 47 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They arbitrarily imprison tourists and then are surprised nobody wants to risk being imprisoned

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

These are the people who think that Hermione being non-white in the upcoming tv series is a problem because of how it will come across when Draco calls her a mudblood. Yeah, we can't have people reading it as a racist slur when Draco uses a racist slur. I'm genuinely confused as to how they read that scene before.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

In one of the movies he's a toddler when he comes out of the pod

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I'm pretty sure I knew through popcultural osmosis before I ever saw any of the films

Some people weirdly don't connect fictional scenarios to real life analogues though. Like in the Oz books, a princess is kidnapped and forced to grow up as a boy. Some people don't see that as a transgender character because it's a fantasy scenario. Some people don't see Superman as an immigrant because their brains just don't connect a science fiction situation with an alien to immigration

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