One pronounces
12^2 “twelve squared” and
12^3 “twelve cubed” but
12^4 as “twelve to the fourth”.
The powers 2 and 3 are not cited as numbers but as geometric figures, for obvious reasons, but still, one doesn’t realize that one is not pronouncing the number itself.1/2 …
— Emanuel Derman. (@EmanuelDerman) February 19, 2021
I say “twelve tesseracted.”
The USA is a joke. pic.twitter.com/FvCFAMktXt
— Master Po (@OfWudan) February 27, 2021
And a very bad one, like a Dane Cook joke but worse, somehow.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
One of the strangest fixations of AWFL metaphysics is on a substance called 'trauma' that they believe is 'stored in the body' in small saclike organs where it constantly threatens to be 'triggered' and erupt out of its ducts. They assert life itself is about 'processing trauma'
— Zolbar Sakusun (@ZolbarSakusun) February 26, 2021
Yeah, that is weird. Fuck my trauma. I just deal and if I can’t, I just get more awesome.
Facebook doesn’t seem to mind that facial recognition glasses would endanger women.
Endanger women…and everyone. But no, Facebook doesn’t give a fuck about women, about this nation, any nation, anybody, anything, anyone, anywhere.
It can’t. It’s a fucking corporation, and a monopoly one at that. It’s a de facto sociopath, to put it in human terms. And it should be utterly destroyed, its execs prosecuted and all their wealth seized.
Amazing how much we’ve even fucked up the good.
Instead of balanced optimism since the launch of the vaccines, the public has been offered a lot of misguided fretting over new virus variants, subjected to misleading debates about the inferiority of certain vaccines, and presented with long lists of things vaccinated people still cannot do, while media outlets wonder whether the pandemic will ever end.
We need to invent new names for how hard liberals (mostly) fail at this. The word “failure” just isn’t encompassing or expressive enough.
One year after the WHO declared COVID-19 a potential pandemic, I am hearing far too many reports starting with “if we knew then what we know now.”
We did. https://t.co/eW3AI7VgFK
— Gregg Levine (@GreggJLevine) February 27, 2021
The “Who could have KNOWNNNNNN?” bullshit was always going to happen. It was completely inevitable. But we knew. Read my blog from a year ago. We fucking knew; we just failed.
I like the cut of this man's jib https://t.co/vIhAXVB5fL
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) February 26, 2021
I’d add a few, but same spirit here. Degrowth loserish faux-progressive ascetic bug-eating nonsense is just that. The only way to better is forward.
It’s conquer the fucking galaxy or extinction. All ya’ll think I am kidding about that.
I’m not.