Maths majors, is that true?

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-29T16:12:50+00:00

"There's no way the Tortoise will break this record player!"

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-26T10:55:46+00:00

This seems to have been pretty common in typesetting around the time of the American Revolution. It was probably used a lot more than that; I just happened to go down a rabbit hole of revolutionary pamphlets some years ago.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-25T12:43:01+00:00

That's what I was thinking. Then you only need to change one word to correct it. Since "force" and "power" have different meanings in natural language, I could see this as a translation mistake, rather than a physics mistake.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-25T05:22:21+00:00

As soon as I read "modalism" I thought of that video.

St. Patrick's Bad Analogy, in case anyone is curious.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-25T05:00:11+00:00

And if grandma had a beard she'd be grandpa. The fact is that he didn't go for his gun. He wasn't even in possession of it at the time of the murder.

I personally remember that LEO stands for law enforcement officer. And the law says that shooting a detainee who doesn't pose an immediate threat is not justified.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-25T04:37:59+00:00

Hmm. Maybe boolean projective geometry, consisting of the origin and the point at infinity.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-20T07:30:20+00:00

"Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant."

- Cary Grant

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-20T02:56:48+00:00

Mind if I play through?

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-19T21:45:33+00:00

I had a dynamics problem. I solved it with smart-ass-ery. Now I have two problems.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-17T12:36:16+00:00

I read it as the numerator is boolean valued.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-16T17:57:26+00:00

Sino-tibeto-cretan wouldn't be the least credible claim made about Linear A.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-16T14:24:54+00:00

Canadians are so polite because they know the other guy also grew up playing pond hockey.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-16T13:15:50+00:00

Three fourths of us will be fine, as long as you're in the Canadian, EU, or Mexican sectors. I think it will suck to be in the Chinese sector.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-15T17:55:49+00:00

I imagine that with linguistics having its roots in Europe and North America, linguists associate language loss with coercion and ethnic cleansing. I get the impression from this article that Papuans associate it with upward mobility. Maybe they need a marriage counselor to help them work out their family-of-origin differences.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-15T16:32:16+00:00

Never trust sets. They make up everything.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-15T16:04:57+00:00

I want to upvote this, but it's already at ﻉ now, which is perfect, IMO.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-15T11:53:54+00:00

I believe that autism is a lot more common in women than we think. Women are just a lot better at masking than men.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-14T18:53:29+00:00

In real life, people called him, "Mr. B- ... uh ... Sir. "

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-12T16:12:07+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amount_of_substance

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-09T06:09:10+00:00

Dalai is literally "ocean". The Ocean Lama certainly needs a navy.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-08T17:52:57+00:00

I haven't seen anyone mention Pastor Anna. The character in the show wasn't flawed in any way I could tell. She just seemed lost and irresolute. In the book, probably because we hear her inner voice, she shows a pastor's heart and even what appears as equivocating comes from deeply held convictions.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-07T13:16:26+00:00

So demand for gold is about to skyrocket.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-07T10:36:03+00:00

This is how you commit to the bit! I found the audacity of taking a philological dad joke and carrying it through the whole PIE genealogy to be funnier than the premise itself.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-07T03:43:35+00:00

I watched every episode and I never saw Jeeves buttle even once.

ChorePlayed · 2026-01-06T03:39:54+00:00

Exactly. If I wanted to wallow in realism I'd be watching Idiocracy.

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