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  • that's a lot of words. allow me to summarize your argument, and please correct me if i've misunderstood.

    A. humans are rational creatures
    B. rational creatures make rational choices, unless influenced by madness or sexual preference
    C. being otherkin is a choice D. choosing to be otherkin is an irrational choice E. otherkin are not mad ∴ otherkin choose to be otherkin due to a sexual preference

    your conclusion does seem to follow logically from your premises, though I don't think i agree with the truth of most of those premises.

  • For people who identify as other types, like other kin etc., that’s a sexual preference, and unrelated to gender and pronouns.

    i'm not sure how your understanding of otherkin has glitched badly enough to where you think it's a sexual preference. what do you think otherkin is?

  • i just figured using pi was an easy way to acquire a known irrational number, not trying to make any special point about it.

  • hell yeah. soon as its not way more expensive than normal meat, i'm down. your proposed technology also sounds like it should mean lab grown replacement organs with zero chance of rejection, which would be amazing.

  • no. it merely being infinitely non-repeating is insufficient to say that it contains any particular finite string.

    for instance, write out pi in base 2, and reinterpret as base 10.

     
            11.0010010000111111011010101000100010000101...
    
    
      

    it is infinitely non-repeating, but nowhere will you find a 2.

    i've often heard it said that pi, in particular, does contain any finite sequence of digits, but i haven't seen a proof of that myself, and if it did exist, it would have to depend on more than its irrationality.

  • my understanding is that the nominal voltage you get out of a cell is always dependent on the chemistry it's using. alkaline battery cells are always 1.5V until they run down. even a 9V battery is actually six little 1.5 V cells in series in its little rectangular box. NiMH cells are 1.2V. Lithium batteries are actually a variety of different chemistries, but i think all of them have upwards of 3V nominal voltage, so they wouldn't make a good drop in replacement either without some kind of voltage regulation circuitry.

  • i dunno, i don't think that track, or the album, is quite a sincere apology for party rocking.

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  • what you just wrote seems quite at odds with the definition you just posted two comments up. the google definition talks about belief in differing traits and capacity and a belief in racial superiority. your definition seems to only care about unequal treatment. it seems an equivocation meant to disparage those who might seek to counteract historical (google definition) racism with a bit of modern (your definition) racism. it strikes me as disingenuous in the extreme.

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  • today i learned that 'cretin' has ableist origins. just hearing the word, and being completely unaware of its origins, i assumed it had racist origins and was somehow related to the isle of crete.

    apparently 'cretinism' is an old-timey word for congenital iodine deficiency syndrome.

  • enlraged

  • slanted roof also gets the rain and snow off. there's a reason flat rooved architectural styles are more popular in warm, dry environments

  • huh. interesting. i wonder what number it's actually storing for false then?

  • is that thing in the upper right a slice of cabbage?

  • does javascript not allow you to interpret integers as booleans in a conditions directly? seems it'd be simpler to just do math.round(math.random()), which should still get you true (1) or false (0) in equal likelihood. or am i missing something?

  • everyone who isn't sad he died, really, is honouring his legacy. if you were sad he died, you might as well be pissing in his casket and shitting on his tombstone.

  • do you hold stock in straw men or something? this person claiming they want to kill anyone they dislike? i don't think they exist, and if they do, they're clearly not in this conversation, so idk why you keep feeling the need to address them.

  • what would be the alternative? to always execute if the condition is true, but sometimes execute it even when false, for funsies?

  • i think that perhaps they would have preferred to understand none of the joke, to persist in blissful ignorance.

  • that all makes sense to me. how would you want it to work?