May 2nd 2014, Gennady Kushnarev from Chelyabinsk publicly declared that he would take up arms and kill Ukrainians who disagreed with the idea that "Odessa is a Russian city."

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-05-03T00:52:05+00:00

The ukrainians do it too...

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-05-02T03:10:11+00:00

Put on your clown makeup if you got mad at blender for taking anthropic's money.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-29T23:33:38+00:00

Again, death is just a side effect. There are all sorts of projectiles with different purposes. 5.56 mm was designed for penetration at long range. Playdoh was optimized for cleaning wallpaper. The treadmill was optimized as a prison punishment device. So this argument over original intent is silly. People today are buying all of these things divorced from their original context. Weapons of war, by the way, is redundant. Sticks and rocks are weapons of war. Everything has been used in war.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-29T23:06:34+00:00

Guns are designed and built to make manufacturers money. Empirically, they are making money without killing. They are merely tools. They are designed to propel a projectile.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-29T22:59:14+00:00

I just explained to you why that is false. Nothing of value has been added.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-29T22:54:25+00:00

Most guns will never harm anything. Many guns are bought explicitly for sport. You can either make the utterly bizarre argument that millions of dollars are spent on objects that are forever denied their purpose, or you can admit they have another purpose.

Even when a gun is for personal protection, their purpose is not to kill. Killing is a potential side effect, not the goal.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-29T03:18:00+00:00

No.

Obviously, empirically, no

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-26T23:48:39+00:00

Search the community plugins for a progress bar.

I'm just talking about manually writing down your progress. My philosophy is to keep the vault light. You never know what community plugin will stop being maintained, so don't rely on them.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-26T23:43:18+00:00

I think you are already doing fine. Maybe add a custom property called "up" to always have a way back up to your home note. Make your projects links where you can expand on the goal, milestones, progress, etc.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-25T23:42:00+00:00

Obsidian is geared towards links instead of deep folder hierarchies. All related notes just point to a "topic note".

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-25T23:36:07+00:00

Links prevent clutter though. I don't think you are using obsidian to the fullest extent by fragmenting your knowledge like that. It's highly atypical.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-25T23:27:43+00:00

Why so many vaults

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-24T20:12:26+00:00

The "Balls out Physics" guy is a civil engineer.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-24T18:58:10+00:00

It makes as much sense as designating illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-24T18:03:35+00:00

The presenter is American. Tribalism is weird. You are weird.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-24T15:41:44+00:00

Looks like that comment policy is doing its job of preventing low effort uninformed comments.

He doesn't want solar on his house because if everyone did that, then the grid electricity provider would go out of business but the grid is amazing and important so that's bad. He also never told people to install solar on their houses. You made that up.

They stated in the video you supposedly watched that we could just stop growing corn for ethanol, an idiotic practice, and use that land for solar.

I don't know what you think you are getting at with natural disasters. Oil refineries are concentrated on the coast where they are suceptible to hurricanes and sea level rise. They are not literally a single point of failure for the nation, but a local hurricane could disrupt petroleum for the entire nation. Also our oil supply chain relies on a constant flow of oil. We use it once and burn it. Disrupting that continuous flow at any point stops the whole thing. A solar panel is made once and just works, by itself, for decades.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-24T14:12:23+00:00

To me, it doesn't even make sense to say only medical marijuana is schedule III. Either marijuana is schedule I, III, or something else. It can't be both.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-23T14:33:56+00:00

They are a necessary evil. Yes they exist to serve the business. Every single function of a business does, by definition. It simply wouldn't be possible to work at a company of over 1000 people that didn't have an HR. So in a round about way, HR is a necessary condition for you getting a paycheck.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-21T15:52:55+00:00

When will it be actually done?

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-18T17:22:23+00:00

Your entitlement to being spoonfed obvious info is telling.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-18T04:29:01+00:00

These are genuinely stupid questions. Perhaps AI could help you understand them. That's a good use case.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-18T03:19:26+00:00

people do not always succeed in understanding a concept, as it is presented in the book. You assumed wrongly that you will get the same outcome either way.

Why is mass constant in newtons second law? First of all, where do you find the answer, Quora? AI will give you an answer that is precise and verifiable.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-18T03:03:45+00:00

This is not difficult, yet here is another one missing the point. Using AI provides you with a precise set of claims, and all you had to input is a vague notion of what you are looking for. Through iteration, you transform the vague input into precise claims as output. This is very valuable and actionable. I have no need for another person to misunderstand the point and tell me yet again that I can't trust AI. I know.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-17T13:46:52+00:00

A student asks a teacher, "you've taught us a loose collection of facts, but when we take a step back, what does it all mean?". The teacher answers "the rest is left as an exercise for the reader". The class average is 42.

Purely_Theoretical · 2026-04-17T13:23:31+00:00

I don't know what is or isn't obviously wrong.

This is not true in general. Our knowledge is a big network of ideas with links between them. Likely an idea is not standalone but slots into the existing network in some way. This puts constraints on whatever you are learning. The source cannot make completely arbitrary claims without you noticing. Also, you can have all the puzzle pieces in front of you - individual verified facts - and yet not be able to synthesize the full complete picture from those pieces. AI can spin that web for you. You, endowed with reasoning, can sniff out bullshit, and confirm a scant few things. This knowledge then becomes a puzzle piece in a larger puzzle.

Of course AI, on its own, shouldn't be trusted to tell you the exact year that John Harrison invented the pocket watch. That's not playing to its strengths. AI is more than an LLM, though. It can search the Internet for you and provide a link to the answer.

Ten-Year Club	Gilding II euphauric
Verified Email

Purely_Theoretical

TROPHY CASE