As an introvert you can't teach me how to be an extrovert but I can learn to like being around people.
This is true, I concur. However, I won't last for however as long as extroverts being with other people continuously. Give me some time to breathe every once in a while, even if for short periods.
As an aside, this is also part of why I kept my smoking habit. I know it's frowned upon by people, and I've got to stay away from other people to do my thing. The nice side effect is that it gives me a good five minutes or so of alone time, which in social situations, can mean the difference of me suddenly spacing out, and being able to last the entire ordeal. I haven't really found a good replacement for this, unfortunately—of course, this might just be my addiction speaking.
My guess at that time is that it was an instance setting or something. That instances have a list of languages it supports. It makes sense given the admins have to be able to read and understand the posts in order to do their job responding to reports and whatnot.
But then again this was mid-June, there's a lot of things happening, and I didn't really explore the issue further, hoping that it'd be fixed eventually (once the more urgent issues got addressed).
I actually set-up my account to have a shortlist of languages to use (English, my native language, and a few languages I dabble on).
Come to think of it, I only see the language setting in the desktop/web interface. The mobile app that I am using doesn't have it.
A handful of months ago, I tried to actively use that post/comment language selector. However I ended up giving up because for some reason, only English is accepted. The other choices just resulted in the loading ring spinning forever and ever and my comment/post never being coming through.
Hah! Same with the IRL potty-mouth. People who I got to meet in person after having known me online expected someone really self-effacing and soft-spoken. Of course they were shocked at how salty my mouth can be.
I do keep my f-bombs precise though, for maximum impact.
I mostly communicate in English online. Even when I don't use English, my online communication still tend to use more English loanwords. It is also a bit formal and diplomatic, without much use of online abbreviations and other shortcuts.
IRL, it's my native tongue, with a smattering of English words and phrases. It tends to be more informal and direct as well. However, I don't think I use a lot of colloquialisms, slang and the like, even if my IRL speech gets really informal.
Got 29610 or top 0.2% apparently. I don't consider myself to be wide-read nor learned. Also, I mostly guessed my way on the tougher items.
Not a native English speaker at that. I just live in a country where a lot of the post-primary schooling is done in English.
It is possible to grasp (relatively) advanced math like in this discussion via self-study. I myself came from a different background (engineering) though I've been somehow interested in math since high school. I wish I can recommend some material for studying such fields of math from a non-math background (at least at the start) but maybe that should be saved for a separate thread. I do remember encountering such a thread in the other place, but it won't hurt much to ask for it here (if there isn't already such a thread here).
Thanks! I hope my reply has helped you somehow. I think that "point at infinity" concept from the real projective line (which I added as an edit) is the closest to a "solution" to your question. It's likely not an end-all-be-all solution to 1/0 though, since, as far as I understand it, it "collapses" -infinity and +infinity to just one point at infinity, which might not be a desired property in certain circumstances.
Like 6 can never be partitive of 14 in the whole number sense such that axiomatically 14/6 = undefined in some vague sense that I can be damned to elaborate or defend currently?
If I am understanding what you're trying to say, then yes, 14/6 does not have a solution in the sets of natural numbers, whole numbers (natural numbers and zero), and integers (whole numbers and the negative numbers). This is because 14 is not a multiple of 6.
However it does have a solution in the set of rational numbers and by extension, the real numbers. Thus, if we're talking about real numbers, 14/6 does have a solution: 2.3̅3 (two point three three repeating).
I recognize that I'm veering very closely, if not already have gone to explaining this in axiomatic terms. I apologize.
At any rate, if you're wondering if there is any similar extensions to the real numbers that can accommodate 1/0, as far as I understand, such extensions, if they do exist in the way you want them to behave, would still run into the same problems other replies to your post have described. Because of those difficulties (among others), in the two extensions I've looked at (hyperreals and the surreals), division by zero (and thus, 1/0) is still impossible in general, but are allowable in certain circumstances corresponding to the situations where y/x at the limit as x→0 exists or is +infinity or -infinity (but not both). However, as far as I understand it, in the real projective line, where there is a "point at infinity" added, you can define 1/0 as being that point at infinity.
EDIT: added some important clarification.
My bad. I'll be fixing it.
I wasn't really following nor aware this then popular series. It was shown on a cable channel that we were subscribed to through a cable subscription. I was used to having reruns shown most of the time, and I've got pretty much no concept of following an ongoing series on cable TV. So I was pretty surprised when I spoiled a group of friends to a climactic scene to the Game of Thrones S5.
I was surprised at everyone else's shocked reaction. One of them had the good sense to ask me when I saw the scene, and when I answered "yesterday afternoon, why?" everyone's mood shifted from shocked and angry to feeling sorry for me, but still annoyed nevertheless. This same person then explained to me why I've just spoiled the entire group.
Turned out that without knowing it, I watched a climactic scene of the then latest episode of that series. That I watched it on the early afternoon here locally was due to it being premiered at the same time as it was shown in the US. I apologetically explained that I was just shocked to see such a scene, and thought I'd bring it up.
Eh, I deserve some reward/treat after going through that!
Sure, sure. Whatever you say.
I suppose that the vitriol surrounding this topic is tied to the innate biological pressures towards procreation. Life is supposed to the ultimate good. People like us who have doubted this assertion are not only fighting against long-held societal norms, but also biological instincts. It also doesn't help that having a child (or not) is one of the most impactful personal decisions one can ever make. Having a child not only affects your life, your partner, but most especially, the child themself! It's something that will permanently change one's life, and those around them for better or for worse.
I'm not even against people who choose to have children (the so-called “breeders” in antinatalist communities). If their lives are enriched by having children and forming a family, more power to them! Even more so if they can provide the child with what they would need to thrive, or at least survive in this world.
Perhaps this trend of growing sentiment towards childfree lifestyles is yet one of those bio-sociological mechanisms driving us to having more quality children instead of just having more children. Children that would be able to live better, more fulfilling lives than I can ever hope for, and can thrive in the shitty world we've left for them.
I tried to give you an overview of how someone might be sympathetic to their views, but I should have known that you're not receptive to such.
And yeah, if you give me money for the expenses needed for that all-curing therapy, sure, why not? However, you might need that for yourself.
This one, right? https://micro-editor.github.io/
Reading about it, it's to Kate what is Nano is to... hm.. Notepad? 😅 Just looking at the screenshots, I could easily confuse it with something like VSCode.
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I must admit that I haven't really played a whole lot of Chrono Cross. Not even back when it was new. When I tried getting into it via an emulator, I was majorly put off by how pixelated it looked (especially when compared to the PS1 version of Chrono Trigger). The late 90's JRPG camera angles made traversing maps difficult too.
All that to say, I tried to love Chrono Cross, but sadly, it didn't age that well. Thus, I wholeheartedly agree with you about it needing an improvement. I didn't play it enough to say much about your complaint about it, but it sure hell could use a bit of a sprucing up in the graphics department.
On related side note, comparing FF7, FF8 and Chrono Cross, all of which were released within the same handful of years, I can't help but be amused to say that FF8's graphics fared the best of all three, though that's not to say anything about it looking like a work of art. There's just something about that era's graphics that didn't age well. Compare that to the late SNES era graphics (Chrono Trigger, FF5, FF6, to name a few exemplars) which is still pretty much an aesthetic.
I'm not exactly antinatalist, but I'm somewhat sympathetic to their position. The way I see it is this: humanity's effect on nature is on the average, harmful.
We've been very successful as a species, but at the cost of a lot of others that weren't able to cope with our success. Perhaps some species which are useful to us—sometimes just by being cute, have learned to live with us, or have learned to live despite us, have managed to thrive. But for one species that gained our protection, how many others have disappeared with no one caring?
If that's not bad enough, I don't think that the average individual human being is thriving. We've destroyed a lot only to build depressing cubicles for us to rot in.
I don't think it's worth it.
Having a child means condemning them into an ever worsening world. And I don't think I'll be able to properly equip my child to even have a smidge of a chance of being "well-off", healthy or even happy.
However, our innate instincts, as well as societal and other pressures pushes people to have children even when it's not going to end well for the children as well as their parents. Antinatalism is a counterbalance to this pressure.
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Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, and that one fan-made sequel, Chrono Trigger Crimson Echoes.
I had to look up what a "coffee pot" is, but I am still not sure if it meant what I thought it meant (a literal pot for coffee, perhaps a french press, coffee maker, or even an espresso machine if you're really deep into it), which, if my guess is indeed correct... I'm sorry to say, it's already a habit of mine to the point that I have to have my morning smoke with coffee.
But yeah, if you mean something else (based on the second word, it might be), it's illegal where I live, not even for medical purposes (but I've encountered people who use it recreationally). Indeed, it's said to be less addictive than tobacco.