Never cross a picket line!

The suffering is the means, the end is to cause fewer liberal voters than conservative to move in and cause some of the liberal voters there to move out.

This is about as accessible as it can get: https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/~jms/Papers/isama/eversions.pdf

The magic happens at the center-point of the surface where the three self-intersections meet. When you ply the surface apart, a tiny cube forms at the triple-point and begins to grow.

Morin’s surface is slightly less complex than splitting the boy’s surface apart, in that sphere eversion halfway model, a trapezoid forms instead of a cube. Inverting a trapezoid in this way is the minimum complexity required to turn a sphere inside out.

Videos I enjoy:

Outside in , which uses a technique different than those above (there’s also a parody out there where the narrators get snarky at eachother)

The optiverse , which uses Morin’s surface mentioned above, but is as ‘smooth’ as mathematically possible.

You haven’t lived till you comprehended this one! If you peel this entire surface into two surfaces like 2ply toilet paper, this is also a halfway point for one way of turning a sphere inside out, depending on which surface peels which way!

On the subject of video games:

• Try portal 1, it’s an exceptional puzzle game to many.
• Try portal 2, it’s even better than portal 1.
• If you crave more, portal stories: mel is a free fanmade mod of portal 2. It plays like an official spinoff. On advanced mode the puzzles are significantly more difficult.
• Try portal:reloaded if you haven’t, another free fanmade mod, it adds significant complexity to the portal gun in the best possible way.

this study hasn’t only not been peer-reviewed

https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/EVP

1. Open Access

Evolutionary Psychology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. Each article accepted by peer review is made freely available online immediately upon publication, is published under a Creative Commons license and will be hosted online in perpetuity

[…]

4.1 Peer review policy

Following a preliminary triage to eliminate submissions unsuitable for Evolutionary Psychology all papers are sent out for review.

From Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography:

I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue [(humility)], but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbid myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fix’d opinion, such as certainly, undoubtedly, etc., and I adopted, instead of them, I conceive, I apprehend, or I imagine a thing to be so or so; or it so appears to me at present. When another asserted something that I thought an error, I deny’d myself the pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing immediately some absurdity in his proposition; and in answering I began by observing that in certain cases or circumstances his opinion would be right, but in the present case there appear’d or seem’d to me some difference, etc. I soon found the advantage of this change in my manner; the conversations I engag’d in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I propos’d my opinions procur’d them a readier recep tion and less contradiction; I had less mortification when I was found to be in the wrong, and I more easily prevail’d with others to give up their mistakes and join with me when I happened to be in the right.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/Franklin/two.html

“You don’t have to elaborate… Please don’t elaborate, but we are going to need a doctor’s note.”

E: apparently in the US it’s only legal for a company to require a doctors note if three or more consecutive absence days are taken.

For a about ten seconds I was wondering how a watch could cause a medical seizure and why the watch company would be filing a lawsuit in that case.

David Cross: If You Care (Youtube, 1:45)

I heard that comedy bit years ago but never saw the logo till now.

I DO think that word means what you think it means!

If wild kangaroos existed in Greece we’d have completely different systems of philosophy.

Claiming someone is taking facts/statements out of context, without explaining what context is missing or how they think the context changes it, even when asked to.

‘A surprise to be sure, but a [fluffy] one!’

I’d like to thank the reddit admins for advertising for federated social media.

I did see that option, I expect it works as advertised.

Did so after using powerdeletesuite to replace all of my comments with a giant block of nonsense sentences, in order to make them detrimental to AI training.

Paraphrasing several controversial, shortsighted reddit comments yesterday: ‘I use the browser, why can’t everyone else? Reddit will still be here and you’ll be back, crybabies!’

I was on the leading edge of the Digg exodus and Reddit is there now.