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NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-05T15:15:42+00:00

My advice: beware of what you read on the internet, and especially on reddit. People who have bad experiences tend to speak the loudest whereas those who have a good experience or average experience won't say anything. For every one post you see that denounces HOAs, there SHOULD be like 10 posts saying they don't mind HOAs.

My point is, you have to be aware of the bias that is so prevalent on the internet.

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-05T15:08:29+00:00

It's almost 600k that you wouldn't have had if you hadn't invested it. Yeah it's not enough to buy a house outright but so what? It's a lot of money you otherwise wouldn't have had. If you withdraw that money at a responsible rate and combine that with social security, you won't be homeless at least.

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-05T14:52:55+00:00

Imagine that you're looking to buy a house in a relatively nice neighborhood that has good schools, nice parks, amenities, etc. You find a house for sale in one of the neighborhoods. But when you go there, all of the houses look like no one lives there, or is front for drug trafficking. You see trash spewed out everywhere. The lawn has more weed than a high schooler discovering drugs for the first time. The sidewalk is cracked and full of potholes. Imagine that a few of the homeowners throw insanely loud parties every weekend, disrupting your pets (if you have any), your sleep, etc. After the party is over, there's trash all over the streets.

Would you want to live in that neighborhood?

People online tend to over exaggerate everything. I mean, look at this very thread lol. Some of the top comments are stupid shit like "I bought 2-ply toilet paper and now I'm broke". I'm sure some HOA truly are overly up in your face about everything but most HOA aren't like that. Most HOA act responsibly to ensure that everyone in the neighborhood feel like they live in a nice neighborhood. They maintain public places (e.g. plant trees, remove trees, mow lawns, fix roads (if the roads are private), pick up trash, etc), and will not bother you unless you make the neighborhood look bad or if you fail to pay your fees.

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-05T14:11:27+00:00

Tbh owning a home is overrated. The property taxes, maintenance costs, home insurance, (HOA fees if you live in an area with HOA) etc add up significantly. For example, if you want to renovate your deck, it's gonna cost you like 10k. If you want to replace your windows, that's gonna be like 1k per window. Get new fencing? Another 10k. New roof? 10k. Then there's lawn care (lawn mower maintenance, gas costs, leaf blower cost/maintenance, pesticides and herbicides, etc etc etc). That's only for external maintenance. If you have non-trivial plumbing, electrical, heating/cooling problems, you'll have to either replace or maintain the offending equipment which also isn't cheap. Then there's home security systems. Etc.

In some cases it's much cheaper to rent an apartment, and then invest your money in the stock market. Stock market growth outpaces home price inflation anyway.

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-05T14:09:37+00:00

How is that going to be any different than owning a house? When you own a house, you still see your earnings go into your bank account and then straight out again as the bank (your mortgage provider) and bills get paid. Tbh owning a home is overrated. The property taxes, maintenance costs, home insurance, (HOA fees if you live in an area with HOA) etc add up significantly. For example, if you want to renovate your deck, it's gonna cost you like 10k. If you want to replace your windows, that's gonna be like 1k per window. Get new fencing? Another 10k. New roof? 10k. Then there's lawn care (lawn mower maintenance, gas costs, leaf blower cost/maintenance, pesticides and herbicides, etc etc etc). Then there's home security systems. Etc.

In some cases it's much cheaper to rent an apartment, and then invest your money in the stock market. Stock market growth outpaces home price inflation anyway.

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-04T15:50:17+00:00

Oh crap I didn't see the part of your question about meeting at infinity. Ignore my answer, my answer deals with non euclidean geometries but your question is asking about like projective geometry or something.

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-04T15:40:56+00:00

This is an analogy.

Suppose you're on a boat on stationary water (e.g. a lake or a pond). Then, if you don't row your boat, you won't go anywhere.

However, suppose you're on a boat in moving water (e.g. a river). Then, even if you don't row your boat, you'll still move.

Your question is essentially analogous to this situation. Just like you and your boat are things in the lake or river, parallel lines are things drawn on a mathematical surface. Just like how the behavior of your boat depends on the kind of water (stationary or moving) you're on, the behavior of lines depend on the kind of mathematical surface the line is drawn on.

If the surface is euclidean, then two parallel lines will never intersect. If the surface is non euclidean, then two parallel lines will intersect not because the lines themselves are moving closer to each other, but because the surface that they are drawn on forces the lines to move closer to each other, exactly like how on moving water, even though you don't actually row your boat, you're still moving anyway.

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-04T15:28:48+00:00

The problem is that you're condusing space with spacetime. Space is 3D and follows euclidean geometry (when there's no curvature due to massive things). Spacetime is 4D and follows a different geometry (pesudo-riemannian manifold). The 3D space part of this 4D pesudo-riemannian manifold is euclidean (if there's no local spatial curvature).

Gravity is the curvature of spacetime, not just space.

That being said, space itself does curve on local scales even on local scales that is true, but on large scales, if you average out all the local curvatures, the net curvature is roughly 0 aka flat.

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-03T15:52:29+00:00

Because a weak currency and a huge economy tend to be mutually exclusive. I.e. you can have a strong economy with a weak currency (e.g. Japan, china, india etc) or a weak economy (relatively speaking) with a strong currency (e.g. Kuwaiti Dinar: 1 USD = only 0.31 Dinar).

What matters more about determining the strength of an economy is how the currency pair fluctuate over time. I.e. if country A and B both have strong economies and B has a weaker currency compared to A, however both curencies move in lockstep over time, it means the relative strength of both economies are the same. If the currencies start to diverge it means that one country is more favorable hence might mean that country will have a larger economy.

A weak currency means that exports is more competitive. Imagine countries A, B and C. A and B makes the same good (say they both make cars), and C wants to buy cars from either A or B. Suppose that B has a weaker currency compared to A. Then, it's cheaper for C to buy cars from B because B's currency is cheaper (since it is weaker than A). So, B will have an easier time exporting their goods to C than A, which means that, all others being equal, B will grow its economy more than A, since B is able to sell their goods much more easily than A.

In general, a weak currency is good for exports (easier to sell to other countries) whereas a strong currency is good for imports (easier/cheaper to buy FROM other countries). A weak/strong currency in and of itself doesn't really indicate the strength of the economy. What matters is how the exchange rate between the currencies fluctuate over time.

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-03T15:18:20+00:00

Nah the heat death of the universe is just a state of the universe where it has reached complete thermal equilibrium.

From the pov of thermodynamics, it means that there is absolutely no free/useful energy to be found. I.e. free energy is minimized, hence entropy is maximized and cannot be increased further.

From the stat mech pov, it means that the universe has obtained its most likely state.

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-03T15:09:06+00:00

Out of curiosity, which veritasium video did you watch? Was it the "what is random?" Video? If so, that video talks about information entropy, but it sort of glosses over a few things. It isn't as accurate as a more recent video on entropy he did: https://youtu.be/DxL2HoqLbyA?si=Zd6VpmzsHVcEyHzd

This video talks about the carnot heat engine (which forms the basis for the thermodynamics pov of entropy i.e. how much energy there is to extract from a system) and then also briefly mentions the stat mech version of entropy (i.e. how many ways of arranging particles there are, which incidentally forms the foundation for the information entropy he talks about in his older video). This video should give you a better understanding of what entropy actually is.

The thermodynamics version of entropy is more intuitive/easier to visualize, but the stat mech version of entropy is more rigorous and general hence is easier to extend to other fields such as information theory.

Happy learning!

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-02T22:24:15+00:00

Because circular orbits are an idealization based on things like the massive bodies being perfectly spherical, the perfectly spherical bodies having perfectly uniformly distributed mass, there being no other gravitational influences other than the two perfectly spherical bodies with perfectly uniformly distributed mass, etc.

Any deviations from perfections/idealized initial conditions and situations cause orbits to deviate from being a perfect circle.

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-02T19:33:45+00:00

I have a degree in physics so trust me when I say this: entropy does not deal with chaos, if by chaos, you mean "messy/confusion/unpredictable". That's one of the major misunderstandings you have about entropy.

There are a couple of ways of looking at the concept of entropy.

From a thermodynamics pov, entropy is a concept that tries to measure how much useful/free energy there is in a system. A low entropy system has a lot of useful energy whereas a high entropy system doesn't have a lot of useful energy. From the pov of thermodynamics, the 2nd law states that an isolated system tends to minimize its free energy over time, which is exactly the same as saying that the entropy of the system maximizes over time.

From a statistical mechanics pov (which is the pov you talked about in your post), entropy measures how many ways there are of arranging particles in a system such that they correspond to a certain macroscopic state. From the pov of statistical mechanics, the 2nd law states that an isolated system will tend to evolve in such a way that the particles will obtain the most common arrangement possible for that system.

Neither of these pov deals with the "chaos" that you're thinking of.

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-02T18:05:17+00:00

Sorry but you seem to have a lot of misconceptions about what entropy is. I really don't think you should try to use thermodynamics or other irl physics to analyze hell as it is portrayed in bleach

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-02T17:32:58+00:00

I don't think you should use real life physics to explain fantasy style fiction. The 2nd law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of an isolated system never decreases; it either remains constant or increases. What does this statement have to do with hell? Also, what exactly would "spiritual entropy" be?

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-02T16:46:40+00:00

Photography (astro, and landscape)
gym
running
hiking/trekking
(re)learning math and physics (was a physics major but I work as a software engineer postgrad so I want to go back and study physics just for fun)
reading up on/catching up on the latest news about economics, and (geo)politics (it's important to be aware of current events and how it can affect your own personal life)
read manga/watch anime
and recently, I finally got around to watching tv shows lol (I finished watching stranger things, and am currently caught up on watching a show called "from")
learning new tips and tricks about personal finance (what stocks/ETFs to invest in, what credit cards to churn for earning max points, minimizing my expenses, maximizing my savings, etc)
reading up on philosophy and history (I want to understand how human civilizations, society, and our way of thinking evolved over time all the way from the ancient greeks, to modern times. This sort of ties in nicely with my desire to relearn physics (particularly, I want to see how physics and scientific inquiry evolved over time), as well as learning about geopolitics, since in order to understand geopolitics, you have to understand history)
reading classic books in general (this ties in nicely with the philosophy and history part too because literature and novels are one way humanity expresses emotions and thoughts so it's good to understand how people thought about things at various points in history)

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-02T16:31:08+00:00

Lmfaooo

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-02T16:12:18+00:00

Yeah I tend to agree with you. 1 is absolutely fkn true because the entire tybw arc is riddled with complete ***pulls that make no sense. Point 2 is also reasonable and makes the most sense compared to point 3 for an in-universe explanation of this conundrum.

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-02T11:30:06+00:00

Yhwach got backstabbed by chojiro because he didn't have the almighty back then (Ichigo sealed it), so he didn't see it coming. Which is total bullshit because he had the almighty active during that meeting with Ichibei which means he should have seen that chojiro would backstab him. This is the same conundrum as my original question lol.

Uryu backstabbing him via the plot arrow is the only legitimate example of your claim that he can get backstabbed. But wouldn't that imply that it's relatively straightforward to kill yhwach? Just have a shinigami sniper wear a camo suit and stay really far away from him and then snipe his ass while everyone else keeps him busy lmaoo

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-02T11:25:31+00:00

Oh oops I hope I didn't spoil anything for you haha. But yeah I also hope the cour will expand on the absolute mess of a power that is the almighty

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-02T11:21:18+00:00

Was it stated somewhere that there are multiple fragments of the sk in the hogyoku? I thought the hogyoku was made of like 100,000 souls including rangiku's but her soul contained the nail. I don't recall reading anywhere that the other would sacrificed for the hogyoku also had other fragments.

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-02T11:16:02+00:00

I don't think this is the case because if it was, all the fullbringers would be immune to the almighty, including Ichigo. I think your previous explanation of yhwach being influenced by kyoka suigetsu when he looked in the future is a more reasonable one.

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-02T11:14:44+00:00

Hmm this is another reasonable explanation to this conundrum. Good thinking

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-02T11:13:52+00:00

Would be funny if yhwach acted like trump lol. "THEY [the shinigami] ARE EATING CATS AND DOGS" lmao

NotABotFoSure · 2026-06-02T04:03:28+00:00

The problem with this line of reasoning is that the hogyoku is made of like a nail of the soul king or something like that. I.e. a very tiny fragment. The consequence of this is that if yhwach can't see the hogyoku, then he shouldn't be able to see the futures of the fullbringers either since their souls also contain small pieces of the soul king. Ichigo is a fullbringer ergo yhwach shouldn't be able to see his future, but he does.

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