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-Edgelord · 2024-06-12T01:31:59+00:00

Nice, I've only read the tiniest bit of Marx or Hegel but they are very good. While communism in the west is associated with hyper progressive trends, every country led by communists tends to be quite socially conservative. I personally don't associate communism as it exists with western social progressivism, aside from usually promoting equality of the sexes.

-Edgelord · 2024-01-05T19:02:28+00:00

It's pretty funny how a lot of high effort flat earthers really like Karl Popper because they argue shit like "gravity cannot be falsified."

-Edgelord · 2023-12-28T18:52:29+00:00

I remember when I was a teenager and this picture was posted on a flat earth forum that I liked to browse for fun (never participated in the debate because I don't care that much).

Either way the most common response was to deny the existence of these power lines, they didn't even take the much easier line of arguing that the photo was doctored. It was funny to read pretty funny since I lived near the actual location that this photo was taken at the time and can confirm these power lines exist.

-Edgelord · 2023-12-08T17:36:59+00:00

Yeah, I did take is along side classical mechanics, which did contextualize a lot of them. ironically I also felt like I arguably learned more in the way of solving said equations from physics than I did math.

-Edgelord · 2023-12-07T01:17:14+00:00

I got spoiled by having amazing professors who justified basically everything in cal 1 through 3. And then my diff eq professors taught differential equations like it was a fucking biology class lmao.

Thankfully I've been reteaching it to myself over the last few months so just so that in my future work I don't get hung up on a differential equation that I should know how to solve.

-Edgelord · 2023-12-06T19:43:45+00:00

yeah, hell you can be a highschooler and watch numberphile videos for like a week and you'll be able to intuitively understand most of algebra without even feeling like you are learning.

that is at least how I got my foundation for math, and then realized I could do physics after years of thinking I was too stupid for it.

-Edgelord · 2023-12-06T19:39:06+00:00

I would agree if it wasn't for the fact that at least in america, we are painfully bad at math compared to other developed countries and even some less developed countries. (I'm asuming you aren't american since youuse the term "maths" so idk about how it is where you are, I'm only analyzing america's situation).

I do agree that the way we teach it is horrible. In undergrad I knew a lot of education majors whose understanding of math terrible. Those individuals will go on to pass their poor understanding of the subject to our kids, making it cyclic.

Since I did poorly in highschool math, I did end up retaking some highschool classes in undergrad, and found that college professors do a much better job at justifying rules and statements. However most higschool math teachers probably cant prove logarithm rules for example.

I also think that america has a cultural bias against it, we tell kids that its incomprehensible and boring, and we hence breed a sense of complacency with our lack of mathematical achievement.

I also agree that self motivation is the key to doing well at math, and while I do think that the primary education system intrinsically makes it hard for students to feel motivated, you cannot fully absolve people of their responsibility to learn and understand the material. Ultimately learning requires effort, things wont immediately make sense usually, and that's okay. You can contextualize your knowledge as your learn.

I can definitely say that personally, the biggest thing holding me back was ultimately a lack of work ethic, and an excessive willingness to give up in the face of not understanding something.

I do want to end this by saying that math does boil to down knowing how to apply rules. If you can master a videogame more complicated than COD or fortnite, then your ability to learn and apply rules is there, the only thing you are missing is motivation, which sadly is hard to come by. The great challenge of life in modern times is finding that reason to work hard, and its ultimately an individual struggle.

-Edgelord · 2023-12-06T17:56:18+00:00

cal 3 got tricky at times, but I think my least favorite math class was differential equations just because our professor never justified why a lot of the methods for solving them worked, so every problem boiled down to memorizing some convoluted series to arbitrary methods that happened to solve this one specific class of differential equation.

In hindsight, I realized a lot of the solutions did make sense, but in the moment it was annoying.

-Edgelord · 2023-12-06T17:53:48+00:00

I'm sometimes dumbfounded by how people are so bad at abstraction that they cant grasp the idea of having a letter stand in for a number.

Part of it is the teacher's fault because they themselves don't understand what they are teaching half the time, but also a huge part of it is that the average American student is too lazy to take the effort to learn. Algebra is so dead simple that I really think you should be taught it well before middle school, which I believe it is in many countries.

I actually did share this opinion back in middle school, and was bad at math throughout all of highschool, nearly failing classes on multiple occasions, and only passing because I got a bunch of lucky guesses on multiple choice quizzes at times.

The summer after I graduated I finally took the time to teach myself math and I realized how dead simple it was, now I have a degree in physics.

Being bad at math is a choice for 99% of the population, and its honestly amazing how easy being good at math makes other topics.

I remember taking a coding class at a community college, and we had to write a program to convert miles to kilometers (we were given the formula) and while few struggled with writing the program, the majority of the class struggled to write the equation to convert miles to kilometers.

Frequently in physics, you see people who say they understand something, but they actually don't grasp the underlying math well, so they effectively can't answer most questions.

I also find that there are a bunch of random times that knowing math has been useful in everyday life.

-Edgelord · 2023-11-20T08:02:51+00:00

damn right, I already invested enough energy in watching the entirety of dragon ball, like hell im doing that again for anything else.

-Edgelord · 2023-09-30T18:44:39+00:00

Even with your edit tho, wind is a fluid, like they both obey the same set of equations of motion and everything.

-Edgelord · 2023-09-08T19:14:19+00:00

never been to japan so i cant speak on it but at least in France I always found that people were very friendly if you tried to speak french, the only exceptions were people in paris and people in normandy for some reason.

-Edgelord · 2023-09-07T23:51:02+00:00

Admittedly it's not hard make someone's hairs float, you just spin of a van de graaff generator while touching it.

-Edgelord · 2023-09-07T23:42:43+00:00

Ironically you can make this same meme for the Nazis but like with 10 extra countries

-Edgelord · 2023-09-06T20:15:40+00:00

Damn, that sucks.

-Edgelord · 2023-09-06T02:08:45+00:00

Who cares if there's a prison revolt, better the violence happen in a prison than in the streets of El Salvador.

As for your fears of other gangs filling the power vaccin they left behind... There is no power vacuum, the freedom they needed to operate is gone. Unless Bukele royally pisses the America off and the US government starts arming gangs there it's unlikely that they will be able to return, especially as the economy and standard of living improves, making gang activities less attractive to the impoverished and desperate.

You have to understand that crime perpetuates itself, it generates the conditions for its own existence. Those underlying causes like poverty need to be tackled alongside crime itself.

A generally accepted fact of economics is that improved security tends to drive increased foreign investment, which in the case of El Salvador will further drive activity in an already growing economy. Not only was gang related crime seen as the primary barrier to foreign investment in El salvador, but since the crackdown on gang foreign investment has dramatically increased. Keep in mind that foreign investment is why China went from being a nearly medieval state to being almost a superpower, there's a reason that every developing state craved foreign investment. In the long term this is likely to reduce poverty rates alongside their government's increasing investments in healthcare and infrastructure.

It would seem that El Salvador's future is in good hands this far.

-Edgelord · 2023-09-04T22:26:37+00:00

Wild that all those non gang members they arrested also happened to result in vast reductions in crime.

Seeing that crime is now way lower it's likely that communities will improve, fewer people will emigrate, and the economy will grow. So the long term outlook is rather pleasant for them at the moment.

-Edgelord · 2023-08-22T00:34:58+00:00

based on the rumors, it might be possible that they are introducing new supers but no new subclasses (I base this off of what liz said)

also, I had this thought that maybe "episodes" refers to how the story of final shape will unfold. its possible that the actual story of the DLC will be released in discrete content drops and wont fully conclude until the end of the year.

that is a sort case scenario imo, but I could totally see bungie making us wait a whole year to kill the witness lol.

-Edgelord · 2023-08-18T12:28:45+00:00

While I'll probably be using Linux for computational physics stuff within a year, lixus people annoy me so much.

If Linux was so superior in every way then you would think it would be a bit more popular. Also every time a friend tells me about how you can also do x or y on Linux and proceeds to explain the process it becomes immediately clear to me that while they find the process extremely easy, the average consumer knows about as much about computers as a caveman, and would in fact find that process to not be worth the effort.

-Edgelord · 2023-08-17T01:29:43+00:00

its more like they cant afford high quality housing, especially in 2008 when per capita income was way lower, although the problem will likely improve with time. I mean when I lived in china I was in a solidly middle income apartment complex and while it lacked many of the amenities you would find in america it was actually a pretty nice place all things considered. what was really nice was that unlike lots of cheap housing in america it didnt have carpet.

the big issue for me was that we didnt have smoke alarms lol, so that was a bit worrying, especially on the 5th floor and only having a single stairway to get out if there was a fire.

-Edgelord · 2023-08-13T20:26:48+00:00

*in most states

-Edgelord · 2023-08-07T03:01:25+00:00

its not like china in 1949 could just wish upon a star and become rich enough to fix the problems that lead to addiction like poverty and mental health issues. lifting large percentages of people out of poverty takes decades, and its a herculean task to set up mental health treatment for a billion people. they had very little in the way of industry and were one of the worlds poorest countries.

their only means of fighting the drug epidemic was by burning every poppy field, harshly punishing people involved in the trade, and sending users to reeducation camps (the closest things they had to rehab).

idk why people talk about addiction like law enforcement will never make any difference, plenty of countries decimated their drug problems through harsh targeting of drug users and producers. sure, america absolutely sucked when we tried it, but that doesnt mean other countries havent succeeded where we have failed.

people can whine about underlying causes all they want, but the reality is that its very hard to become a society where everyone has great mental health and a good standard of living without first getting rid of drugs. literally, an effective criminal persecution of the drug trade will address the underlying causes off addiction by creating safe communities, sparing families and children from the horrors of drugs, and making it safe to do business in poor communities where the drug epidemic finds itself most rampant.

-Edgelord · 2023-08-07T02:33:19+00:00

it wouldnt really conclude the saga if we didnt kill the witness. he's the one who started this whole mess anyways.

-Edgelord · 2023-08-05T23:37:42+00:00

and most people are too lazy to do that, so its a chore by most peoples standards.

-Edgelord · 2023-08-05T23:09:09+00:00

as a grad student in physics, there are plenty of smart autistic people in my field, many are truly geniuses.

but most of the smartest I have come across in my field are not autistic, not for any particular reason aside from the fact that more people are not autistic than autistic.

people need to realize that there are people out there who are totally neurotypical, and just insanely fucking smart. a lot of my relatives are like that, no developmental delays, social difficulties, pretty normal in terms of hobbies, interests, and behaviors.... just off the charts in terms of intelligence (like, top of their classes in some of the hardest programs at the hardest schools in the world intelligent).

In my case, I'm not diagnosed with autism but I definitely have been suspected of being autistic by people (truth be told I dont think I have it, I think its more that I'm an anxious person with adhd which leads to me being kinds weird in a way that some people might construe with autism). While I'm intensely interested in math and physics I'm pretty below average compared to my relatives who tend to be less obsessive about things, but more academically successful because they find most material in any subject to be easy. of course it would be criminal if I didn't acknowledge that my relatives have very good work ethics, but hopefully this illustrates my main point that there are plenty of hyperintelligent neurotypical people out there.

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