[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago
[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I detested differential equations. However, that was more due to how it was presented than the underlying, surprisingly, beautiful math.

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The only problem with courses like calc 3 and differential equations (in my experience, as a mathematician) is that they are cheating somewhat. By cheating I mean relying on inadequate, flawed or entirely omitted proofs. How can the students truly understand something if they are not presented the whole story (or at least reference)?

The good thing about these courses are that there are usually no shortage of relevant exercises!

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 62 points 1 month ago

I obviously downloaded a car after seeing that obnoxious anti-piracy ad.

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 68 points 2 months ago

They just started counting all my computers and virtual machines on which I run Arch and Nixos btw!

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 65 points 4 months ago

Just going to leave this one here:

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 65 points 5 months ago

The only reason costs of houses are so high in the first place is because they are lucrative investment objects, along with the fact that the most important part of city (and rural) planning, building homes, is largely left to private companies. You are assuming houses would be just as inaffordable without landlords, which is a problem of the current paradigm and not the one proposed.

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 105 points 8 months ago

You install Hannah Montana Linux on their cars and their spouses.

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submitted 11 months ago by Urist@lemmy.ml to c/socialism@lemmy.ml

The bourgeoisie in my country have pushed the euphemism of "working capital" as something that needs protection from wealth tax. By inseparably connecting capital with jobs, they push the narrative that you cannot tax wealth without removing jobs and consequently hurting the working class. They paid for research groups to prove this connection, but what their research actually showed was that wealth tax creates jobs due to incentivizing keeping profits within the companies they own. The audacity to think owning the means of production is a privilege they should enjoy special treatment to keep is beyond me, but even so, this type of rhetoric keeps gaining ground.

What is the propaganda they are pushing on you, and how can socialist policies prevail if reason loses to made up words changing the narrative?

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 76 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Queue any discussion of Wayland/Xorg, Systemd, flatpacks, snaps, distro choice, ~~Pipewire/Pulseaudio~~ (last one is easy, Pipewire ftw), Vim/Emacs, GPL/MIT, immutability, etc..

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submitted 11 months ago by Urist@lemmy.ml to c/dwarffortress@lemmy.ml

Perhaps the best part of Dwarf Fortress is creating and sharing stories. Share yours below!

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is sexism to make it out to be a "he said she said" situation when a man says it was okay for him to kiss a woman and she says it was something she did not want. You disregard her personal autonomy when you say that him claiming she wanted it is as valid as her stating she did not.

If I hit you in the face with my fist claiming you wanted it, should I get off the hook since as you deem "no one can tell whether you wanted me to do it or not"?

For anyone wondering the "soccer incident" refers to his bad take on Luis Rubiales kissing Jenni Hermoso without permission.

EDIT: Fix a typo

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml 74 points 1 year ago

There is about 8.1 billion people in the world. Assuming romantic cliches to be true and that we all have exactly one soulmate out there, we would have a very hard time sifting them out. If you were to use exactly one second at meeting a person it would take you 257 years to meet everyone alive on earth at this moment, which due to human life span being significantly shorter and the influx of new people makes the task essentially impossible without a spoonful of luck. Moral of the story: If you believe you have found your soul mate, be extra kind to them today.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Urist@lemmy.ml to c/dwarffortress@lemmy.ml

Great Toady of course wrote this with the "hopefully" caveat, but here is to hoping.

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