You might need to elaborate. I’m confused at the Bell curve (which is a visual representation of the normal distribution) not having any value at all.

The Central Limit Theorem guarantees that the normal distribution will show up all over the place. To say that it has no value scientifically is simply false.

We have had the solution for hundreds of years. Most people, however, don’t want to hear it.

The very system you defend is everything but a neutral experience where everyone can live their lives. You don’t think capitalism actively holds people down? Look around.

Except that many of us, including myself, live reasonably comfortable lives under capitalism? It’s an extremely selfish position to be satisfied with a system that has done good things for you personally, but has ravaged the lives of countless others.

It’s not about free stuff. It has never been about free stuff. It’s about the fact that a society is bad if it allows a minority population to get richer, without first ensuring that everyone’s basic human needs are satisfied.

Heyo that’s dope! Definitely adding that video to my watch later. Thanks for explaining that.

And while I would say that’s based, sadly the law does not agree 😭.

How do reflections work? Aren’t changes in direction caused by acceleration? Also aren’t photons affected by the gravity of black holes? How does that work?

I hate that. I never noticed that. This is my first job where I’ve had to do these types of training. I’ve worked food service until now. How anyone could say this kind of crap and not realize they’re a bad person for doing so astounds me.

I understand where you’re coming from, but I’m also confused what you expect to happen in the comments of a post like that. Would you rather people be rooting for billionaires in the comments? Or just a couple "damn that’s crazy"s? In the former case, there’s quite a lot of capitalist apologetics on this platform already, and I honestly envy you if you don’t encounter it frequently. In the latter case, personally I would find that boring, though I suppose that’s a matter of opinion.

Yeah I getcha. In my mind, capitalism does do a lot of good things, but it always seems to be at the expense of human life. And to me, the good that capitalism brings isn’t a justification of the countless lives ravaged in order to make the lives of the privileged comfortable.

I totally agree with you that one has to make certain compromises in order to enjoy life with the cards we’ve been dealt. We can’t be doom and gloom all the time, that’s just miserable. However, not everyone has that luxury, as many people have had their lives irreparably destroyed by capitalism. I think it’s totally fine and healthy to personally compromise with capitalism, because that’s the only way someone has a chance at not living a horrible life. But I do stand by my previous statement that claiming that Nordic “socialism” is evil is not an unreasonable take. Capitalists do run amok in these countries, just not in the same ways as more traditionally capitalist countries.

a little too anti capitalist

Literally impossible for this to apply to somebody. Any amount of pro-capitalism is affording certain exploitative power to the exploiters. You don’t think the Nordic countries exploit the Global South? They’re better than living in places like the US but democratic socialism is anything but “capitalism but good.” Good for who?

Capitalism has proven itself to be an evil, evil system, both in theory and in practice. It’s not a reasonable take to compromise with something so vile.

The idea that people like me are somehow the unreasonable ones for wanting to eradicate exploitation instead of defining acceptable levels of systemic pain inflicted, is honestly extraordinarily frustrating.

Can unfortunately confirm

Yewler like math. Euler dope. Mispronunciation funny.

I always eat ice cream with a spoon. I can’t stand any other form of it.

It can’t be shown to be equivalent to -1/12. The sum definitely just simply goes to infinity. However, if you use some specific nonstandard definitions, you can squeeze out -1/12.

What I think is interesting is how many choices of nonstandard definitions you can use to “prove” this result. I can recall 3 just right off the top of my head. However, as these are nonstandard definitions, one can’t really say that the sum is -1/12 without specifying which logical system you are operating in, because the default system makes it simply untrue.

It’s like saying that 2+2=0. Sure, you can define the + sign to be some nonstandard function, but unless I describe that function to you, I can’t just simply tell you 2+2=0, because you’d just assume the standard definition of +, in which 2+2 definitely isn’t 0.

That’s a really great question. The answer is that mathematicians keep their statements general when trying to prove things. Another commenter gave a bunch of examples as to different techniques a mathematician might use, but I think giving an example of a very simple general proof might make things more clear.

Say we wanted to prove that an even number plus 1 is an odd number. This is a fact that we all intuitively know is true, but how do we know it’s true? We haven’t tested every single even number in existence to see that itself plus 1 is odd, so how do we know it is true for all even numbers in existence?

The answer lies in the definitions for what is an even number and what is an odd number. We say that a number is even if it can be written in the form 2n, where n is some integer, and we say that a number is odd if it can be written as 2n+1. For any number in existence, we can tell if it’s even or odd by coming back to these formulas.

So let’s say we have some even number. Because we know it’s even, we know we can write it as 2n, where n is an integer. Adding 1 to it gives 2n+1. This is, by definition, an odd number. Because we didn’t restrict at the beginning which even number we started with, we proved the fact for all even numbers, in one fell swoop.

Yeah I had a similar situation. My dad was a toxic person who thought it was wrong when I cried (which I did a lot; I was a very emotional kiddo) and my mom did everything she could to protect me from that. They eventually separated the year I went into high school, and guess which one I still talk to now in my adult life.

So I’m not an app developer, so I might be completely off base, but I don’t really understand a lot of the arguments against this.

Firstly, there’s an ad free one time cost that in my opinion seems very fair. Secondly, as I’m looking through the feature for Ultra, most of the features seem to be things that require an external server. I’m not sure how push notifications work so I can’t comment on it, but syncing settings across devices for example doesn’t happen at the instance level. That kind of thing could only be done through a server owned by the dev. However, it is very likely that the dev doesn’t own a server, and is instead renting on a VPS, which is a subscription for them. So in order to provide these particular services, the dev has to pay a subscription. So would it not make sense that those that enjoy the benefits of this subscription the dev pays, also have to pay a subscription? In my mind that simply seems fair, in order to support a dev that has clearly put a lot of time and effort into making a great app.

The user base for Lemmy is significantly smaller than Reddit. The dev needs a smaller number of people to be able to support the operating costs of the app (as well as the wellbeing of the dev) which means that necessarily a different (and steeper) pricing model would be necessary.

I do not think it’s fair to claim that Lemmy API access is free and therefore there are no operating costs, because there’s more to the app than API calls. It is indeed correct that API access is free, which seems to me to be the precise reason why there exists a free version of the app that you don’t have to pay for in the first place. All API calls within the app are free. There are no paywalled Lemmy API calls, at least from what I can tell. But again if I’m wrong I’ll admit it if someone can inform me.

Oh my gosh you’re hilarious

Yo China had a resonance cascade? First I’ve heard of it.