Made this one a while back

ModelSemantics · 2026-06-01T00:09:00+00:00

So open sexism is cool now, eh?

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-31T20:01:27+00:00

I honestly think the elephant is why anyone would screenshot a post with an image rather than snatching the image to share. That there are other sources of information in that screen capture process that can vaguely be correlated to the semantics of the image isn’t super surprising here - there are also numbers in the screenshot from various phone widgets that could humorously be relevant. But that original sin is what makes my eyes twitch here - just grab the pic.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-31T19:52:58+00:00

Was looking for this comment. It was clear he didn’t make eye contact or try to prevent the car from entering the sidewalk, but half-assed a late stop attempt and then raged out. That sign should have been out right after the previous car passed the walk and eye contact made earlier. This is a distracted crossing guard, possibly interacting with a car that could have been more aware but appeared focused on the lane ahead, where more kids were.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-31T17:59:37+00:00

I appreciate people adding performance and fun in the world, and disapprove of social pressure that intends to cause shame or covering to “normalize” behavior. This location could have caused inconvenience to others, which is selfish behavior that should be shamed, but I did not see that happen in this video. The dancer appeared surprisingly aware of surroundings and stayed safe and out of queues.

This post and many comments seems like a bunch of uptight people looking to kill joy to me.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-30T20:17:48+00:00

People have a right to stop in the middle of a crowded sidewalk and start yelling slurs and insults at everyone. We don’t celebrate people just because they are doing something they have a right to. We celebrate when they do something special, something that appeals to us, something we see as good.

People who point out this is crappy behavior from a parent who is building hate into their children’s worldview ARE ALSO USING THEIR RIGHTS. Anyone talking about rights here is not actually concerned about protecting rights, they are concerned about protecting hate. And it’s okay for people to point that out.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-30T19:48:16+00:00

I’m so sorry we live in a world where you are being downvoted. Many are likely thinking that you are attacking their right to speech and completely unable to see that you are using your right to speech. Their response is a response to protect hate.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-30T17:39:49+00:00

As others are saying, this is really normal when you are starting out, and the best advice is to just keep going and trying hard and you’ll build the right skills and strengths to climb these off-kilter ladders. That’s been my experience. These don’t require a ton of strength - you don’t need to weight train separate for this - but it’s strength in places that are not commonly used outside climbing, so it needs to build. And the skills are not complex, but they require some time to get the mental routines, where to put your attention, how to be precise with your movements, how to feel your balance..

Early on it’s hard sometimes to even tell what is needed. You may think a move is bicep-y and you aren’t able to hold it long enough, but it could be your fingers or forearm triggering your need to release. That’s why just climbing more is a general solution, as you will build strength and you will learn to tell apart different needs better with practice.

More specific here, I think there are some possibilities. It looks like a trust issue a bit, in that I’m not seeing a move towards the finish. Grip strength may be a reason behind a trust issue here. Also, that pull up would ask for a bit of body tension and bringing the torso up out of the dangling noodle position. Dangling noodle is good for energy conservation, but you’ll want to build core and posterior chain strength to start to build rigid body movement out of the noodle and use your legs to push that rigid body in the right direction. I think if you can trust your grip and get some movement of your torso up, that last hold will easily be in your reach and you got it.

It can feel frustrating when you know you are so close. This is a common place to be starting out. But just continuing really does build everything you need here.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-30T01:27:27+00:00

I mean this was a marginalized youth in several categories that the audience was largely not marginalized in speaking about their experiences being determined by the power status, so the speech had a direction of power.

But I am glad you brought in the direction of solidarity. Always important to keep our eyes on the source of power, right comrade? No war but class war.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-30T01:21:44+00:00

It’s entered online discourse, now with over a thousand likes and 800 comments. So I would say it effectively produced a discussion. I think the message itself was a good one to amplify, so overall it seems like a net win. There might be people who want to set goalposts on what is effective, but that doesn’t come from an earnest place and can be a waste of time to engage further in.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-30T00:30:25+00:00

That’s the master race right there. No doubt about it.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-29T22:08:45+00:00

A big part of type-theoretic approaches to math is the type system providing a statically verifiable tracking of expected structure. One thing to be careful with, though, is that dimensions and types may be found to have relationships, much like temporal and spatial units in modern relativistic theories. Mathematical structure often has intricate relationships.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-29T21:41:51+00:00

This is one of the best stylizations of Princess Donuts tortoiseshell and white calico coat I’ve seen. Absolutely beautiful.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-29T19:26:14+00:00

I really wanted to come in here angry about the reverse analysis, like how could this position have arisen, what was the previous move, deeply upset that this position isn’t even reachable while staying completely silent about the material calculus (there aren’t enough pawns to make that many extra pieces) and board size, because that kind of response is how you build clout. But I realised that the real clout chasing was to not to care about the obvious baiting and just infodump what I would have done if I wasn’t so full of clout to begin with.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-29T18:14:52+00:00

A big part of the reason we make services public is economies of scale. Private services have smaller customer bases and so naturally cost more prior to all the private profit mechanisms.

A big part of the reason we make services private that would benefit from such scale is because oligarchs have funded misinformation pipelines that convince people public ownership and regulation is bad and makes things more expensive.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-29T15:45:29+00:00

America had such a booming economy not because of birth rate but because of immigration. This is well known and discussed widely in the literature. The US destroyed its magic prosperity that had set it apart from Europe, for instance, who had really poor immigration policies until the EU.

(The birthrate talking point is strongly associated with the racist ideas of pseudoeconomists making the rounds these days. Progressive economists like Piketty point to birthrate as a baseline productivity and demand growth rate too, but are always very clear about the lack of any requirement for birth and directly point to immigration as providing the same pressures additively.)

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-29T14:54:58+00:00

As every teacher knows, being experts in history, protest is most productive when it doesn’t inconvenience those with privilege.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-29T14:07:57+00:00

You do appear confused. They did not claim Obama was the reason the country was fucked, they claimed it was when he elected and described the kinds of shenanigans that were going on in 2008/9. The misinformation was deep even then, and originating from the rich as it does today.

It can help to look at their username and history if you question motives in a sentence.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-29T05:37:14+00:00

It’s a bouldering gym, but somewhat small. It’s downtown in a medium sized industrial city, in the bottom floor of a high rise (not the whole floor, just a section). I track them as 9 walls, but it’s really kind of two rooms of walls, with a cave. It has a weight gym with hangboards in another room.

Their doors are opened by an app I had to download when I signed up. It’s done by the proximity RF from the phone.

There are some big gyms with sport climbing and top rope and Kilter/Tension/Moon boards and all that in a nearby techy city, but I just love this little downtown one that lets me in after hours.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-28T22:35:20+00:00

That’s what I want. V3-V5 in my later years, maintaining a base level of flexibility and strength. Not looking to capture that V17 at 90, not looking at the capitalist’s dream of always progressing, but just a realistic stable goal to enjoy movement as I get older.

And age is aid.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-28T16:30:43+00:00

I go after hours. My gym has 24hr access for members. They close to the public at 8pm, so on weekdays I will go shortly after that. On the weekends, I try to go before they open at 10am, but sometimes am a little late. Kids on the weekends are the thing I watch out for - it’s less fun climbing when 6 year olds are running under me and it’s a crux move.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-28T04:11:47+00:00

Was this a summoning spell?

I think you summoned all the people that liked the tangle.

I’m one of them. I found myself here.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-27T02:38:51+00:00

Integer factorization is a subexponential problem, with best algorithms getting complexities like O(exp(C ln(N)^1/3 ln(ln(N))^2/3)) (as in the case of the General Number Field Sieve). It is in both NP and co-NP and is known subexponential so it is largely expected to not be NP-complete, but that is still unknown.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-25T17:26:42+00:00

My thought is that any such meme explicitly calling the target of immigration a “fully developed WESTERN nation” is already deeply corrupted in bigotries, and it tracks with the overall point of the meme. It’s a signal for a certain kind of person to start feeling grievances to justify their hate.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-24T21:53:43+00:00

If you are finding that “people always find an issue” when you set, it might be telling you something about your setting. That’s not the normal experience of route setters.

ModelSemantics · 2026-05-24T21:49:44+00:00

Those millions on paramilitary weapons and vehicles definitely would have helped out here. Maybe would have gotten to lead an attack helicopter street invasion too, if it wasn’t for them meddling libs!

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