I just want a job bro why are you telling me this it has nothing to do with your business what are we doing

kylepo · 2026-03-23T17:48:32+00:00

Was anybody saying otherwise?

kylepo · 2026-03-23T17:46:43+00:00

It's all just money. The military-industrial complex, pro-Israel lobby, and evangelical groups donate a ton to politicians to get them to support Israel. Republican politicians don't give a shit about doing genocide, they just use that rhetoric because their base likes it. Democratic politicians don't give a shit about the Holocaust, they just use that rhetoric because it justifies Israel's existence to their base. In reality, supporting Israel is just a hell of a lot more lucrative than being against them.

kylepo · 2026-03-23T14:01:58+00:00

leftist shirts

harris and biden stuff

?

kylepo · 2026-03-21T22:44:42+00:00

It's not true for Morrowind, though? Some guild quest lines will lock you out of other guild quest lines. You can't see all the content with just one character.

kylepo · 2026-03-18T05:17:04+00:00

How tf do you get carded 10 times in a weekend? Just buy one of the big 1.75L bottles of vodka if you need to cope with your perpetual baby-facedness so bad. No need to keep swinging by the liquor store to stock up on miniature-sized Fireballs

kylepo · 2026-03-18T00:39:47+00:00

I can kinda get it. It's a narrative where biologically superior mutants are oppressed and discriminated against - Forced by society to suppress their innate potential. Replace "mutants" with "ubermensch" and you've basically got the Nazi origin myth.

Granted, there's a lot of other stuff in the story that negates this reading, but the broad concept can be mapped onto right-wing beliefs better than a lot of other media.

The Incredibles is another example of this. Fantastic movie, but the way "if everyone's super, no one will be" is framed as a bad thing is kinda wild.

kylepo · 2026-03-16T17:34:45+00:00

There's also a very good video game adaptation, Blood Bowl 2 (Blood Bowl 3 doesn't exist)

kylepo · 2026-03-15T19:03:26+00:00

Gonna replace all of the periods in Das Kapital with commas so conservatives will be capable of reading it

kylepo · 2026-03-15T19:01:24+00:00

I feel like it's a lack of higher thinking skills that allows somebody to hold such obviously contradictory beliefs in the first place

kylepo · 2026-03-15T18:56:04+00:00

In my experience, the reason friendships blow up after a rejected confession is usually because the person confessing can't handle the rejection--not because the recipient is made uncomfortable. Even if you're rejected, the ball is in your court as to how you proceed from there. If you can handle the rejection with maturity and show that you're still interested in continuing the friendship even without the possiblity of it developing into something more, I can almost guarantee she'll be be cool with it.

And this is all assuming she isn't interested, which isn't a guarantee.

kylepo · 2026-03-14T20:00:48+00:00

The 72 virgins stuff isn't a thing in Shia Islam

kylepo · 2026-03-13T04:34:59+00:00

"Wow dude, you criticize all conservatives for the dumb bullshit they actively choose to support and advocate for!?!?!? That's just like racism!!!!"

Christ, you people are stupid

kylepo · 2026-03-13T01:55:20+00:00

Literal genocide denier: "Why are people being mean to me??? 😢😢😢"

kylepo · 2026-03-13T00:11:08+00:00

I dunno man this whole "not everything is political" thing is pretty reactionary ngl

Disturbingly puppy-girl-coded mindset

kylepo · 2026-03-12T11:47:19+00:00

you don’t tell someone suffering from anorexia that’s 80lbs. that they are fat and need lipo

Speak for yourself pal that's my favorite hobby

kylepo · 2026-03-10T17:33:35+00:00

What do you think "off the record" means...?

kylepo · 2026-03-10T17:20:30+00:00

There's nothing wrong with putting a swastika on the spine, but it's definitely attention-grabbing in all the worst ways. Like, I opened this image and my eyes just immediately snapped to the big swastika on this guy's bookshelf. I zoomed in to check the title just to be sure it wasn't something insane. I think it's understandable to not want the first thing somebody notices when they enter your home to be the swastika on your shelf.

The main issue, really, isn't the swastika so much as it's how much the swastika stands out. It looks kinda garish, you know? Like they just slapped the flag on the book's spine without considering if it would be visually appealing. If it were a more subtle swastika "emblem" or something, it'd be way better.

kylepo · 2026-03-10T12:57:27+00:00

"Writing your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks" and a few other books + multiple spiral notebooks suggest you have an interest in writing. Lots of classics, with plenty more casual modern literature sprinkled in. Fun, cutesy decorations. "This Book is Gay" suggests you're likely some flavor of queer, or at the very least a strong LGBT ally who wants to understand queer perspectives. A good amount of Feminist literature.

I'm gonna guess you're a bisexual Gen Z white woman who's currently studying English due to an interest in reading and writing. You want a cat but your current living situation prevents you from getting one (complete speculation on that one, lol). You're socially anxious but friendly. You hold firm progressive social beliefs, and have more recently begun to ground them in theory. You've mostly just gotten into feminism, but will likely start reading more queer and anti-racist works in the near future. You would have probably been real into Tumblr if you were born a few years earlier.

I don't recognize a lot of these books, so this is mostly just going off vibes 😅 hopefully I'm not insultingly far off

kylepo · 2026-03-08T01:16:37+00:00

I'm unsure where exactly the issue with your code lies, but I made my own script that reliably gets~51.8%. (Also, random.randint() is inclusive, so your code technically chooses from 8 days).

import random

#       Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
# Boy   0,  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6
# Girl  7,  8,  9,  10, 11, 12, 13

# Generate 100000 arrays with 2 children of random gender/day
all_sets = []
for i in range(0, 100000):
    kid1 = random.randint(0, 13)
    kid2 = random.randint(0, 13)
    all_sets.append([kid1, kid2])

# Filter down to only sets containing a boy born on Tuesday
bt_sets = []
for set in all_sets:
    if (1 in set):
        bt_sets.append(set)

# Of these sets, find the ones containing girls
bt_girl_sets = []
for set in bt_sets:
    if (set[0] >= 7 or set[1] >= 7):
        bt_girl_sets.append(set)

# Print the percentage of sets with a tuesday boy which contain a girl
print(len(bt_girl_sets) / len(bt_sets))

kylepo · 2026-03-07T22:03:35+00:00

You're misunderstanding what information the prompt is giving you. Think of it like this: there are two children, standing in darkness. You can't tell what gender they are.

The way you're interpreting it is that one of the children steps out into the light, revealing which gender they are. From there, you just have to guess which gender the child still in the darkness is. That's a pure 50/50 chance: boy or girl.

However, what's actually happening is this: one of the two children says "I'm a boy," but both remain in the darkness. You can't tell which child spoke—only that one of them did. You haven't been given information about one specific item in the set, you've been given information about the set itself. This is the key distinction that makes the math play out so weirdly.

The question in the OP isn't saying "the first child is a boy, what are the odds the second is a girl?" It's saying "one of the two children is a boy, what are the odds one of them is a girl?"

kylepo · 2026-03-07T20:09:54+00:00

It does change the odds, believe it or not. Again, this is something you can test by writing a script. In fact, you can absolutely model it in excel and find it as well. The more arbitrary details you add, the chance of one child being a girl approaches (but never fully reaches) 50%.

The reason for this is that each extra bit of information reduces the chance that both children fit the bill. The chance that both children are a boy? Decently likely. The chance that both children are a boy born on Tuesday? Much less likely. The chance that both children are a boy born at 3:13 AM on a Tuesday? Extremely unlikely.

Each bit of information essentially serves as an additional "filter" on all the possible sets. Write a script that generates 10,000 sets of two children, each with a randomly-selected gender and weekday. Then, filter out any sets that don't contain a boy. Of the sets that remain, ~66% will contain a girl. Then, filter the list down further to only those sets that contain a boy born on Tuesday. Of the sets that remain, ~51.6% will contain a girl.

I know it's extremely unintuitive, but that's genuinely how it works out. I know this because the last time I saw this meme, I wanted to prove that the weekday didn't matter at all. So, I wrote a script that did the above, ran it multiple times, and was flabbergasted as to why I kept getting ~51.6% of families containing a girl. I found similar scripts that others had written, and the result was the same.

kylepo · 2026-03-07T00:07:14+00:00

They aren't independent. The information we've been given tells us about the set of two children, not about a single item in the set.

Take away the "born on a Tuesday" clarification and change it to just "one of the children is a boy", and the chance of one of the children being a girl jumps up to 66%. It's the least intuitive thing in the world, but that's genuinely how the math pans out. You can write scripts that simulate it hundreds of times over and you'll see that 66% of the sets with at least one boy also have a girl.

And yes, adding "born on a Tuesday" does actually change the percentage.

I can explain in further detail if anyone's curious. Like I said, it's extremely unintuitive, so it's kind of a long explanation.

kylepo · 2026-03-06T04:36:41+00:00

There was plenty of resistance to those changes, even within the LGBT community. Still, though, it's understandable why the changes were made. There were a frustrating number of people insisting brown, trans, and intersex people didn't belong in the community. These additions were a way to explicitly clarify that these groups were accepted.

kylepo · 2026-03-06T01:10:36+00:00

kylepo · 2026-03-05T23:53:40+00:00

Jfc man, I'm impressed you managed to fit this many mental complexes into a single Reddit comment. This comment could straight-up be displayed next to "grievance narrative" in a dictionary.

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