#Can I do the math itself

[sometipsygnostalgic]

If Entrapta's character is like a feral shonen protagonist (Goku or Luffy) became a scientist instead of a fighter, then what is her opposite?

What character in fiction is like if a calculated mad scientist type (think Princess Bubblegum or Bulma) became a fighter instead?

#not just a tactical fighter like sasuke #im talking someone who does shonen battles as if they are a mad scientist #but they cant just be a scientist who also does battles they have to be all about fighting #its difficult because fighting can itself be a science such as with alchemy #maybe some of the characters from my hero academia or fullmetal alchemist can qualify #anyway the best direct example i can think of is the sherlock holmes DISCOMBOBULATE scene but it doesnt count #because sherlock holmes is also a scientist in that series #is... is usopp a scientist??? does he qualify as a scientist???? #usopp might be divorced enough from being an actual scientist to qualify #his calling was science and technology but he foolishly decided to be a warrior of the sea instead #hes not quite what im looking for though #i bet theres a lot of villains like this though because villains always do insane shit #like sepiroth using maths to pull a meteor to destroy the planet #see thats the kind of shit i want

[sometimes-sleeby-octopus]

I made a ninjago bracelet with clay beads

#ninjago #I would’ve added nia but I have a limited color palette #personally I’m a Zane Stan. I might make a bracelet themed on him next #and maybe one for Cole too #rant about math in next tags btw #also can I just say arithmetic is the one math thing I actually use in my life #Wish they taught me how to do that faster instead of all the other bullcrap #The unit circle? can go fuck itself /j #I have bad experiences with math lol #Also if I get told that I’m good at it one more time I will riot

[stardustedknuckles]

The thing about math and English analysis/essays is that they both have formulas, and people are taught their whole lives that math is predictable and safe and logical, whereas English is more exception than rule and you must work on vibes alone unless you become some kind of monk who can diagram sentences and I'm like. The fact that I can diagram a sentence is why I like grammar. Everything has a place and everything goes in its place. And tbh, algebra is about the only math that stays predictable and safe and even it's full of theorems and whatnot - just not as bad as other maths. I know the structure of an analytical essay as surely as I know the quadratic formula. I can solve for a thesis paragraph as well as I can for x. They are siblings to me, and there was a moment where I wanted to maybe be a math teacher until I realized the sheer level of actual theoretical guesswork I would have to absorb in order to just be left alone with my algebra.

Idk man, pattern recognition is a hell of an instinct. I've never really understood the divide between math and English (the subject, as it pertains to analysis and essays). Things that can be solved by formula are safe, and that's not just math. It's just that with English and writing/grammar, you learn the rules and formulas so that you can better make your point in an academic setting. It's a tool in order to execute a belief or a project. It's communication. It's purposefully setting up a trope and then turning it inside out just for fun because you know what everyone is expecting. You know the rules your readers have learned because you learned them too, and you've learned that individuality is stored in the nuances and exceptions you're most keen to explore.

#And I'm aware on some level that math builds on itself and becomes something you can mold a little too #It's just that the style of logic you have to internalize to get there is much more predetermined than I like #Math is like. It already exists and we're just learning how to name it #Which is so cool but not something I want to do the way I want to be understood #Academic writing in particular just feels so... Hackable #I know how to talk to be listened to #As an autistic person that feels like a superpower.

[hoonvrs]

isn’t it crazy that i miss doing maths

#⩇⩇:⩇⩇ #not stats tho #it can kill itself #but maths❤️ #pls take me back to year 11 so i can do pythagorean theorem💔 #because why have i forgotten it alr

[actual-changeling]

thursdays are my "hopefully i will write a lot" days cause i sit my ass down in a cafe after my advanced maths class and drink overpriced coffee for three hours while pouring angst into an empty document

#alex yells at the void #i am going to sleep because i have to get up in 6 hours for said 8 am maths class #did i mention it is three fucking hours long #yeah #thats the face i make too #and therapy really punched me in the face today cause my therapist is very good and i love her but also #i can actively feel my brain rewiring itself #anyway i plan on writing the fedra abuse story thats been bouncing around my head #unless i get inspired to do something else #gn people in my phone

[ilikedetectives]

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#i cannot believe a job I applied to exactly a month ago now wants to interview me last minute #the PAY and benefits are AMAZING and some travels involve #now i'm kicking myself but sadly nobody can predict these things... #once again that brand new gaming rig level pay though *CRIES* #I was insecure for a while because there were many rejections #but then when offers came there were like 4 and now another interview #I turned down 3 offers with 90%-almost complete remote job that pays 5% more for this one (two with dream organizations) #because the job itself is what I wanna do and I'll learn a lot #but man the pay and benefits and job security of the one that calls today though I wanna cry #I know interviewing doesn't guarantee a job but I have a 95% chance of success if I make it to the interview phase given my track records #personal #colin cries #update: I accepted the interview for tmr #because I can't say no to this it's a RARE chance #i took a 3-hr assessment including math to apply for this job I will see it through #i didn't solve (x7y2 + 6xy)(x3y3 - 2x7y4) for over half an hour to not go to the interview

[drzephyr]

it's funny how to be perceived as smart one just needs good enough memory.. it's not my fault I can't remember any numbers/dates/names passively, so I have to go through vigorous, directed studying T-T

#that's why I'm so into languages I guess #it forms clusters of meaning by itself with enough time #sure maths and other exact sciences also do this but I'm also too absent minded for the precision they require #I'm so jealous of my dad that can randomly whip out poetry he read years ago or wrote himself

[noriakicatkyoin]

if i make this fic be released chapter by chapter itll be the first time i wrote a fic with proper proper chapters in almost 4 years 1. fucking disgusting i was 15 almost 4 years ago. 2. this would in fact make it easier to write but my control freak self would not be able to make major retroactive edits and thus would have to trust myself and stop editing 14 million times. hideous task but a possible one

#the real problem is i write kakyoin and my internal view of him shifts a lot and then i worry im making him sound too much like me #and not enough like him #and i lose my mind in the particulars of it all #and then characterization itself is super abstract and kind of too abstract for me and not something i can like #solidly conceptualize #its not math its not art it doesnt have like a x character would not do x rule list I HAVE TO MAKE THE RULE LIST MYSELF #so im in a loop #the problem truly is that like i see myself in him . jotaro is easy as fuck to write #jotaro is a guy where im like ok i relate to the thought process but not the execution I UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS A SOLID CONCEPT #where do i start and where do i end. where does kakyoin start and where does he end. where do our paths cross #etc #also i keep making him sound like a pretentious little shit which yeah is a little in character but i want the text to be readable #sorry kakyoin i cant give you my stupid loopy brain thoughts what if the audience cant fucking read them #youve given me unnecessary feelings #i say all this now bc i have to work a... 6 hour shift in 6 hours hahahhahhhjhhahahha #i have to think my writing thoughts now before they evaporate #good fucking god i have forgotten to log my shifts for the past 2 weeks. guess ill do that now

[actualtoad]

this has been such a weird last couple weeks of school though

#like i feel like my mental illness really pushed itself to the front for the last while there #not that it’s gone like im still within that time period i think #i just feel like i had a pretty regular routine going for some months there #like. wake up get on bus sleep on bus struggle through classes go home sleep wake up repeat #so i guess i was already pretty mentally ill. but my routine has changed to like #wake up at 3:30 wake up again at 7 get on bus sleep a little struggle through first hour sleep through second hour skip third hour #don’t turn in my fourth hour assignments go to french and pretend to be happy go to raider time and be uncomfortably quiet and then #stay after school for as long as possible to avoid setting foot at home for as long as possible #and then add in a couple mental breakdowns per week about the only adult who’s ever been like. kind. to me. in this way #anyway my math class just started and it’s just going to be a straightforward work day #our college grades are finalized but for the high school grade we’re allowed to retake any tests we did badly on #so i might retake the chapter five test. im just worried that i might do worse this time around #but anyway for today that’s not what we’re doing that. that’s an option for next week. im just going to stay here #but yeah. idk. im still filled with a huge amount of fear just about the idea of not having somewhere to go #like. i can’t drive. if the school bus isn’t taking me to school every day i just don’t have the support system i have during the year #idk. tara and elanor both live within walking distance. i just. definitely don’t feel that comfortable talking to them about stuff #or asking them for help with anything that’s very important #hey i just found out the kid who ‘‘prefers to be called daddy’’ dropped this class. good for us #can i tell you how uncomfortable it is. as the only person in this class with a name different from the one on the roster #for this random kid to be out here making fun of the idea of that #and saying he prefers to be called DADDY. it was. an interesting thing #to be fair it’s kind of funny. it just made me uncomfortable and he’s for sure transphobic so #it just wasn’t a good look all in all. even if it was a little creative #anyway my playlist is playing twinkle lights by the sonder bombs now. i love this song too. im going to turn off tumblr though #just out of respect for my teacher. i guess. like i should be doing something important right now #he gave us a work day and i should probably work about it #me. my post. mine. #delete later

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

asdfghjkl you sound so exhausted after that last ask; i take it p5 and pq2 really took it outta ya huh?

*lays down*

Huh didn't think I did. TT0TT

But yeah P5 and PQ2 def took a lot outta me.....(Futaba and cognition being the biggest issue for me).

orz

#i did only get like 5 hours of sleep last night I think so that could also be it orz #silly asks #silly answers #lord help me when we get to the Answer DLC and metis is compared to YOU KNOW WHO in P5 TT0TT #that's gonna be my 13th reason #wait did I say 13th? I meant 1313 orz #a good part of PQ2s issues would be if 1) everyone got PT outfits or 2) no one got pt outfits' #no persona game is perfect but.....oh god #p3 has math issues with it's lore #p4 is mostly unknown #P5 is over explained and then contradicts itself #PQ2 is just a bombshell of issues #P4 does it the best 'you want an explanation? well we do to" TT0TT #i can respect 'dumb. confused. and just rolling with it' p4 i can respect that

[xenopuslaevis]

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#omg these people take forever to respond #i swear i'd get a response quicker from god #they were like #can i have your name and course code and student number before i can better assist you #like you dumb mf #i added the course code into the goddamn title of the email #and i also listed the fucking assignment AND the unit AND the fucking question number along with the question itself #HOW MUCH MORE DO YOU NEED ??????? #just forward me to a math person for gods sake #i have 3 weeks to study and smash out these fucking exams #and i hope to god that these motherfuckers dont take 10 business days to grade them or else i will lose my progress and it wouldnt even be #my fault #good GOD #so goddamn frustrating

[rammingthestein]

just gasped audibly because i've noticed ANOTHER misspelling of oliver's last name for maybe the fifth time on MY OWN POST. this will be the end of me

#I spell it right in the tags each time but in the post itself??? not a chance #i can spell i promise! #i can't do math but by god i can spell! #mine;

[hoeterra]

I know this topic has been discussed to death on tungle but my favorite trend I've been seeing lately is coffee nerds saying things like "I hear Starbucks is charging an arm and a leg this season for a pumpkin spice latte so I'm gonna show you how to make it at home for around $1.37" and then pulling out $4k worth of espresso equipment

#unfortunately I am becoming a coffee nerd lately #but not like that #I haven't bought an espresso machine #yet... #personal #and to be fair! #some have pointed out that there are much cheaper options for equipment #and I've even seen people do the math to see how long it would take to pay for itself #so not all of them are that detached #I mean I guess you still need space for all the stuff #anyway there's more to it I know but if I put all these conditions in the post it wouldn't be nearly as pithy #also I don't even like pumpkin spice lattes #that said pumpkin cream cold brews are my everything #the only time I actually go out of my way to buy coffee and not use my aeropress to make a fake caramel “latte” #(it's not a real latte - I know that) #is when I can get pumpkin cream cold brew

[zooophagous]

So why do you hate the advertising industry?

Hokay so.

Let me preface this with some personal history. It's not relevant to the sins of the advertising industry perse but it illustrates how I started to grow to hate it.

I wanted to be a veterinarian growing up, but to be a vet you basically have to be good enough to get into medical school. I do not have the math chops or discipline to make it in medical school. I went into art instead, and in a desperate attempt to find some commercial viability that didn't involve moving to California, I went into graphic design.

I've been a graphic designer for about seven or eight years now and I've worn a lot of hats. One of them was working in a print shop. Now, the print shop had a lot of corporate customers who had various ad campaigns. One of them was Gate City Bank, which had a bigass stack of postcards ordered every couple months to mail to their customers.

Now, paper comes from Dakota Paper, and they make their paper the usual way. Somewhere far, far from our treeless plain there is a forest of tall trees. These trees are cut down and put on big fossil fuel burning trucks and hauled to a paper mill that turns them into pulp while spewing the most fowl odors imaginable over the neighboring town and loads the pulp up with bleach to give it a nice white color.

Then the paper is put on yet another big truck and hauled off to the local paper depot, then put on another big truck and delivered to my print shop, where I turned the paper into postcards telling people to go even deeper into debt to buy a boat because it's almost summer. The inks used are a type of nasty heat sensitive plastic that is melted to the surface of the paper with heat. Then the postcards are put on yet ANOTHER truck and sent to the bank, which puts them on ANOTHER truck and finally into the hands of their customers, who open their mail and take one look at the post card and immediately discard it.

Heaps and heaps and literal hundreds of pounds of literal garbage created at the whim of the marketing team several times a year. And thats just one bank in one city.

I came to realize very quickly that graphic design was the delicate art of turning trees into junk mail.

And wouldn't you know it there are a TON of companies that basically only do junk mail. Many of them operate under the guise of a "charity," sending you pictures of suffering children or animals and begging for handouts and when they get those handouts the executives take a nice fat cut, give some small token amount to whatever cause they pay lip service to, and then put the rest of the cash right back into making more mailers. "Direct mail marketing" they call it.

Oh but maybe it's not so bad, you can advertise online after all. Now that there's decent ad blocker out there and better anti-virus ads usually don't destroy your computer anymore just by existing.

Except now when I search for the exact business I want on Google it's buried under three or four different "promoted search items" tricking me into clicking on them only to shoot themselves in the foot because I searched for the specific result I wanted for a reason and couldn't use those other websites even if I felt like it.

And now we have advertising on YouTube and on every streaming service, forcing more and more eyes onto the ad for the brand new Buick Envision that parks itself because you're too stupid to do it on your own.

Oh thats ok maybe I'll get Spotify premium and go ad free and listen to some podcasts- SIKE we have the hosts of your show doing the song and dance now. Are you depressed and paranoid from listening to my true crime podcast about murdered and mutilated teenagers? That's ok, my sponsor Better Help can keep you sane enough to stay alive and spend more money.

It's gotten so terrible that now you have content farms, huge hubs of shell companies that crank out video after video to get more and more precious clicks. Which if the videos were innocuous maybe that wouldn't be so awful except now you have cooking hacks that can actually burn your house down and craft hacks that can electrocute you being flung into your eyes at the speed of mach fuck so some slimy internet clickbait jockey doesn't need to get a real job.

It of course goes without saying that animals are also relentlessly exploited by clickbait companies that will put them in compromising situations on purpose to create a fake fishing hack video or even just straight up killing them for sport by feeding small animals to a pufferfish that rips them apart for the camera.

And all of this, ALL of this doesn't even touch how adveritising is the death of art in general. Queer topics, any kind of interesting art, any kind of sex or substance use topics are scrubbed clean and hidden at the behest of advertisers.

Sex education, a nude statue, topics such as racism or sexism or bigotry in general have tags purged or hidden from search, even life saving information about SDTs or drug use, because if someone saw that and complained then Verizon might sell fewer tablets and we can't fucking have that.

Conservative talking heads often bitch and moan that they're being censored on social media. The stupid part is, they're right! They are being censored! But it's not by a woke mob, it's by ATT and Coca Cola not wanting their adspace sharing screen time with their stupid fucking opinions.

However, they won't ever figure that out, because the talking heads they get their marching orders from like Tucker and Jones ALSO rely on the sweet milk flowing from the sponsorship teat and they aren't about to turn on their meal ticket so they have to come up with even stupider shit to say for the train to continue rolling.

I managed to rant this far without even getting into the ads I see for the beauty industry. The other day a botox ad described wrinkles as "moderate to severe crows feet" as if wrinkles are a symptom of a fucking serious disease! Like having a flaw in your skin is a medical problem that you need thousands of dollars of literal botulism toxin to fix! I was incandescent with anger.

Advertising is a polluting, censoring, anti educational and anti art industry at it's very core. It destroys human connections, suppresses human thought and makes us hate our own bodies. It ads no value, actively detracts from value, and serves no real purpose and I believe it should be almost if not entirely banned.

[eelhound]

"The idea of reforming Omelas is a pleasant idea, to be sure, but it is one that Le Guin herself specifically tells us is not an option. No reform of Omelas is possible — at least, not without destroying Omelas itself:

If the child were brought up into the sunlight out of that vile place, if it were cleaned and fed and comforted, that would be a good thing, indeed; but if it were done, in that day and hour all the prosperity and beauty and delight of Omelas would wither and be destroyed. Those are the terms.

'Those are the terms', indeed. Le Guin’s original story is careful to cast the underlying evil of Omelas as un-addressable — not, as some have suggested, to 'cheat' or create a false dilemma, but as an intentionally insurmountable challenge to the reader. The premise of Omelas feels unfair because it is meant to be unfair. Instead of racing to find a clever solution ('Free the child! Replace it with a robot! Have everyone suffer a little bit instead of one person all at once!'), the reader is forced to consider how they might cope with moral injustice that is so foundational to their very way of life that it cannot be undone. Confronted with the choice to give up your entire way of life or allow someone else to suffer, what do you do? Do you stay and enjoy the fruits of their pain? Or do you reject this devil’s compromise at your own expense, even knowing that it may not even help? And through implication, we are then forced to consider whether we are — at this very moment! — already in exactly this situation. At what cost does our happiness come? And, even more significantly, at whose expense? And what, in fact, can be done? Can anything?

This is the essential and agonizing question that Le Guin poses, and we avoid it at our peril. It’s easy, but thoroughly besides the point, to say — as the narrator of 'The Ones Who Don’t Walk Away' does — that you would simply keep the nice things about Omelas, and work to address the bad. You might as well say that you would solve the trolley problem by putting rockets on the trolley and having it jump over the people tied to the tracks. Le Guin’s challenge is one that can only be resolved by introspection, because the challenge is one levied against the discomforting awareness of our own complicity; to 'reject the premise' is to reject this (all too real) discomfort in favor of empty wish fulfillment. A happy fairytale about the nobility of our imagined efforts against a hypothetical evil profits no one but ourselves (and I would argue that in the long run it robs us as well).

But in addition to being morally evasive, treating Omelas as a puzzle to be solved (or as a piece of straightforward didactic moralism) also flattens the depth of the original story. We are not really meant to understand Le Guin’s 'walking away' as a literal abandonment of a problem, nor as a self-satisfied 'Sounds bad, but I’m outta here', the way Vivier’s response piece or others of its ilk do; rather, it is framed as a rejection of complacency. This is why those who leave are shown not as triumphant heroes, but as harried and desperate fools; hopeless, troubled souls setting forth on a journey that may well be doomed from the start — because isn’t that the fate of most people who set out to fight the injustices they see, and that they cannot help but see once they have been made aware of it? The story is a metaphor, not a math problem, and 'walking away' might just as easily encompass any form of sincere and fully committed struggle against injustice: a lonely, often thankless journey, yet one which is no less essential for its difficulty."

- Kurt Schiller, from "Omelas, Je T'aime." Blood Knife, 8 July 2022.

#kurt schiller #ursula k. le guin #quote #quotations #the ones who walk away from omelas #trolley problem #activism #introspection #discomfort #reform #revolution #suffering #ethics #morality

[nosferatufaggot]

I started knitting this thing last year. For maybe about a month I worked on it and it looks like shit. Put it away in a cabinet for an entire year. Started working on it about four days ago. Already done more than I did in that month and it actually looks good. And by "looks good" I mean looks like I'm making a scarf and not whatever the fuck I was making before.

#I'm only posting about this cuz I'm so confused. #Like‚ I KNOW what I did wrong last time. So I know why it looks better now. But how am I so much faster at it? #The scarf is the Gerard scarf so I'm making it six feet long. Each colour is between four to four and a half inches long. #I'm not checking the science behind this I just remember doing the math last year and it's what I'm sticking with. #So even though what I did last year looks like shit‚ it's only gonna be a sixth of the scarf's length and can be hidden within itself. #So it's whatevs. #Sentiments of a vampire.