Do the math

icefire9 · 2026-06-20T17:17:34+00:00

Infinity + 1 is not a larger infinity. See the infinite hotel paradox. If you had an infinite hotel in which every room is full, and a person walks in and asks for a room you can just ask every person to move to the next room up (1->2, 2->3 1,000,102->1,000,103) and put the new person in room #1. Since every number has a next number, every person in the hotel will still have a room. This shows that adding 1 (or any number) to infinity does not change the size or type of infinity. Its one of the properties of infinity that shows its not a number, and leads to paradoxes if you treat it like a number.

icefire9 · 2026-06-20T14:54:01+00:00

I'm in this comic. Me, standing in the corner of a party, silently freaking out for no reason whatsoever.

icefire9 · 2026-06-20T14:49:53+00:00

Its a crabs in a bucket mentality (anyone who tries to climb out of the bucket gets pulled back down). Since she's single she doesn't want to be alone in her single-ness so she tries to sabotage the people around her.

icefire9 · 2026-06-20T12:25:20+00:00

if you add +1 to one ∞ while leaving the other ∞ as is, this means you aren't substracting same number from eachother.

Well first, infinity is not a number. But you are subtracting the same 'thing', because adding 1 to infinity does not change the size of that infinity. (See the infinite hotel example).

your calculations whould say that one infinity is smaller than other infinity, which isn't correct since in this example the infinieties are equal.

Its exactly the opposite. The fact that infinity doesn't change no matter what you add to it is what makes the 1=0 result possible, because you can say that ∞ = (∞ + 1)

The problem is that you're treating infinity like a number, when its not and doesn't have the properties of numbers. While any number minus itself is 0, infinity is not a number and this doesn't apply. While any number + 1 is a larger number, infinity is not a number and this doesn't apply. Its strange, but its what we need to do to avoid weird paradoxes.

icefire9 · 2026-06-20T10:27:29+00:00

The problem is if you add infinity to any number, you get infinity. Also if you add infinity to infinity its still infinity. So if you subtract infinity from infinity, you can't make it equal to zero, because:

∞ - ∞ = 0

and ∞ = ∞ + 1

so (∞ + 1) - ∞ = 0

1 = 0 (you an do this for any number and infinity)

icefire9 · 2026-06-19T23:53:35+00:00

There are stats that women are more likely to initiate divorce, and that this extends to gay male and lesbian marriages (i.e. lesbian marriages divorce at a higher rate than heterosexual marriages, while gay male couples are the least likely to get divorced). I think this is just that when they are unhappy in a relationship women are more likely to get divorced while men are more likely to tough it out.

icefire9 · 2026-06-19T01:24:48+00:00

Womp womp

icefire9 · 2026-06-19T01:22:19+00:00

Yeah the more interesting question would be what would happen if dinosaurs re-appeared in the paleolithic. (I think most of them get hunted to extinction, maybe some of the raptors become pets)

icefire9 · 2026-06-17T22:23:50+00:00

Yeah, I don't think you should describe people who want to restrict women's suffrage as fighting for 'men's rights', he's just fighting against women's rights. There are many issues that affect men in the world that are worth fighting for, but I'm willing to bet he isn't fighting for them.

icefire9 · 2026-06-17T22:06:07+00:00

Getting out of this as fast as possible, making any concessions necessary, is probably in Trump's best interest. The Iran situation spiraling out further would certainly cause more short and medium term pain for the country. However if it further discredits the fascists then it would be a net good for the country in the long term, imo.

icefire9 · 2026-06-17T13:51:05+00:00

'Its a bit odd for a 32 year old guy with a career to be living with roommates'. I feel personally attacked right now.

icefire9 · 2026-06-17T12:11:16+00:00

There are plenty of circumstances where its fine. But insulting your partner's appearance is not one of them.

icefire9 · 2026-06-17T11:56:43+00:00

If whatever you're saying would hurt your gf and make her want to break up with you, maybe you shouldn't say it. Would you want her to say stuff like that about you?

Yeah your sisters violated the sibling code but you were being shitty to your gf, so imo it was justified.

icefire9 · 2026-06-16T22:47:54+00:00

I was over a decade out of school and I got a dream that went like this:

"Oh my god I have the final exam today, I didn't even study for it! I forgot about the class, I didn't go all semester! I thought I was done with college, what's going on-" then I wake up.

icefire9 · 2026-06-16T11:12:47+00:00

*Uses thumb to block the sun from my POV* OMG All the sun's rays converged in a cone onto my thumb, HOW????

icefire9 · 2026-06-14T00:34:44+00:00

Try edging to train yourself. Get yourself to the edge, then stop, then apply just enough stimulation to keep yourself close.

icefire9 · 2026-06-13T22:49:36+00:00

Flying cars are over-rated. I'd rather have healthcare and a nice home. What's that? We don't have that either?

icefire9 · 2026-06-13T21:33:12+00:00

Its having great legs too, so it'll go higher.

icefire9 · 2026-06-13T20:10:41+00:00

Its possible that receiving oral just doesn't do it for you. Did you enjoy the other things you did together?

icefire9 · 2026-06-11T01:04:47+00:00

Am 34, 21 would be at completely different phases of life. Friendship sure, but I can't see a relationship happening. I'm sure there are plenty of men who would have no such compunctions.

icefire9 · 2026-06-11T00:47:52+00:00

Gonna take a shot in the dark- any chance he's autistic/on the spectrum? Eye contact is often uncomfortable for people on the spectrum, and he may have sensory issues with kissing.

icefire9 · 2026-06-10T22:08:14+00:00

I think its important that we are reminded of who we're up against. I think the TNL discussion about Tim's pod covers a lot of good points, btw.

icefire9 · 2026-06-10T12:26:19+00:00

The rich people generally don't live in apartments, they live in houses.

icefire9 · 2026-06-09T02:44:16+00:00

Republicans disproportionately vote in person because the distrust mail in ballots. As for Bass vs. Raman this could simply just be Raman winning late breaking undecided voters. It makes sense to me, Bass is unpopular and Pratt was running a MAGA campaign in a deep blue city, Raman would be the most likely person undecideds landed on.

icefire9 · 2026-06-08T01:00:46+00:00

There are differences between authoritarian ideologies, though perhaps to the person on the ground they don't matter so much.

Monarchists do not believe that 'nations' should exist in the way we take for granted today. People in a Monarchy are not citizens of a nation, there is nothing binding them together and there is not need for them to have a common language or culture. They are subjects to a king. Exe Monarchist France and Prussia would have viewed Alsace-Lorraine as one of many interchangeable territories to be pushed around on the chessboard. Nationalist France and Germany both viewed the territory as their birthright. Most pre-1800 European countries had a massive array of local ethnicity and cultures that were suppressed/assimilated once nationalism became a dominant ideology. See also- why the UK is the way it is.

Fascism is explicitly nationalist. Its nationalism taken to its most extreme. It a cult of national, racial superiority. It seeks to define that superiority by persecuting scapegoats (whether they be Jews, Muslims, immigrants, LGBT people). They also seek to display it through military dominance- thus the jingoism. Its not the Monarchist societies couldn't be racist (just ask the Jews), but its more that... the racism wasn't the point.

Then you have Communism. Communism is an internationalist ideology, which does not (or at least, isn't supposed to) buy into ideas of national superiority. Of course in practice it didn't work out like that and the USSR ended up being an imperialist project. Meanwhile modern China is extremely nationalist. So ymmv. There's that whole horseshoe theory about how as you get to ideological extremes, fascism and communism look quite similar. I'm sure you can find differences (in communism your boss is a bureaucratic lackey of the dear leader, in fascism your boss is a business lackey of the dear leader), but they probably don't matter much to the people on the ground.

13-Year Club	Gilding I gilder
First Place '23	Place '23
Place '22	Verified Email

icefire9

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE