silent_water [she/her] @ silent_water @hexbear.net

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when he walked on stage, his left eyelid and eyebrow were drooping and my immediate reaction was "he's having a stroke live?" never really got away from that impression. wonder which ghoul decided possible brain damage was less important than the debate because lmao.

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who's producing the music video?

this seems more likely to me

but only the hwite ones and even then they better have money

1. work with local advocacy orgs. food not bombs is also a great way to meet local leftists, in any case. but generally there are already orgs in every city attempting this fight on the ground. they provide services and serve as a nexus for direct action.
2. show up enmass to local government meetings to cause a stink when they try to enact harmful policies.
3. prevent the cops from targeting encampments by putting bodies in between (preferably armed).

wait, no, this is how everyone does math. right? ...right?

the CIA admitting facts?

in a shocking, unforeseeable twist they turned out to be fascists

We criticize Hamas not to justify Israel’s assault on Gaza nor to isolate ourselves from the Palestinian struggle, but to win more US workers to oppose Israel’s war.

not sure I've ever seen someone provide such a cogent example of tailism before.

I haven't gotten my check yet

be the content you want to see

posting here is real work

coup as long as site maintenance is peak collapsing empire

I thought they don't want line employees to stop shoplifters because it costs them enormously in insurance and lawsuits if the employees get hurt? did the courts rule that it's all on the workers if they want the job now? not that they won't eventually, just asking if it already happened.

Yes | Yes

I don't, it takes more mental energy than it's worth, personally. I need to focus on what I'm reading or hearing or I'll learn nothing and reading my notes won't help. it's an ADHD coping strategy though so I don't recommend it for anyone else. if you're in the group of people who need to ignore that advice, you already know that and don't need my permission.

they're supposed to all be versions of that one, it's just not always very easy to see how - joke was mainly about that. category theory calls things compact if they're "small" in a very particular sense. algebraic compactness also has nothing to do with the topological notion, at least on the surface (abelian group that's a direct summand of every group containing it as a pure subgroup). basically, every area of math where the topological notion makes no sense will invariably call something compact eventually, because mathematicians can't resist.

sometimes if you squint you can see how it relates back to the topological notion but frequently it's anything but obvious if you don't already understand the field - which means when you're trying to work things out for yourself, you just have to treat it like one more definition of the same word until you finally get it one day.

I think it's easier if you have a prof who can just make the analogy clear from the start.

it's worse than different languages. they use the same words to mean entirely different things. so you can say stuff from the same lexicon that means entirely different things to different mathematicians. there are supposed to be analogies that help you translate but jfc I swear to god if I hear one more definition of compactness I'm going to cry. no I'm not going to learn more category theory to understand how I can use a sheaf to translate the different notions because that also doesn't mean what I think it means. shut up shut up shut up words mean things. next you're going to tell me red is blue because color theory staaaahp

self-teaching math is a pain in the ass

hmm I thought there was checkmate because the queen is all but trapped. h5 - king can either take or back up to h7, either way rg3 traps the king on the h file... and now I see the problem. if the king takes the pawn, it's not quite trapped because it can keep moving up and down the h file. ok, guess you do have to actually take the queen first.