Damn, why is the world like this? Or at least this country?

I mean, I know the answer is corruption, corporatism, neoliberalism, and capitalism. But, like, why are those things the way the world is? It didn’t have to be this way…

That sucks…

I mean, it’s a huge logistical feat. But it’s not like nothing’s been done on the same scale before. The people have roads, they have landline, I don’t see why they can’t have fiberoptics.

Well waddaya know…

No, sapphires are any color corundum besides red. Red corundum is called ruby. The molecular formula of corundum is Al₂O₃

If it’s not corundum, it’s not a sapphire. Topaz isn’t a sapphire. Emerald isn’t a sapphire. There are yellow sapphires and green sapphires, but not every yellow or green gemstone is a sapphire.

Panopticon.

I’ve been calling it out for years, but people thought that made me sus…

I think we’re in agreement. I basically said there’d be no point unless for some reason you wanted to describe radians as whole numbers.

Otherwise, base_π doesn’t make any sense, especially since there’s no unambiguous way to define a constant interval between irrational integers (a contraction of terms, I know).

My main point was that there’s no way to have a base_π numeral system, and even if you could it would have next to no practical value.

100 million is nearly a third of the US population. What he wants is lebensraum.

Confirming that he was considering a presidential run on Monday, Bovino wrote on social media: “My one and only priority is deporting the 106 million illegals who are here. That’s it.”

According to May data from the Center for Migration Studies, the number of undocumented immigrants actually in the United States was only about 14.6 million as of 2024, meaning that what Bovino is actually proposing is the mass expulsion of tens of millions of legal immigrants, as well as naturalized and US-born citizens.

David J. Bier, an immigration expert at the libertarian Cato Institute, testified about this plot by Bovino in front of the Senate Budget Committee in March, describing it as a plan for “ethnic cleansing"—and pushing back when one Republican senator dismissed the claim as “hyperbole.”

It’s not a hyperbole if that’s literally what it is, by definition.

Also, let’s not forget this gem:

The website describes a future President Bovino leading the US with a “warrior mindset," “quelling the foreign hordes that have subsumed our nation’s cities," and creating a “department of youth masculinity” to turn young men into “warriors for freedom,”

Hitler youth. He wants to build hitler youth.

His website also does not shy away from acknowledging his role in a conference in late May were he appeared alongside representatives of the global far-right. […]

“Weimar conditions require Weimar solutions,” argues Afonso Gonçalves, chief organizer of the event.

These people aren’t even hiding their nazi sympathies.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they make this retroactive to even apply to the people who bought their hardware.

When I was 18, I signed up for an internet service for the first time. They asked if I wanted to rent or purchase a modem/router, and because I did the math and saw that it would be more economical in the long run to purchase it, that’s what I chose. I paid extra up front so that the hardware would belong to me and I could take it with me later.

Fast forward to moving day, when I canceled my internet plan and boxed up my modem/router to take with me. A few months later, I got a call from the company. They said I never returned my hardware and that I owe them a fee to replace it. I told them I purchased the hardware up front; it’s mine, I already paid for it.

Their answer? “No you didn’t.”

The gaslighting commenced as they claimed to have no record of that. They continued to harass me for months, threatening legal action and debt collection and all that. Eventually I got fed up and just paid the fine. Essentially paid for it twice, but fuck me I guess. This is america where the consumer is always wrong.

Wasn’t Biden going to build out the broadband infrastructure to reach rural communities? What happened to that project? Did it get DOGEd?

That is 104.72% correct.

Australia, not having been colonized by the British until the early modern era, did not have the same dragon-slaying traditions as the British homeland; and furthermore, lacking an established craft of anti-dragonfire armor (as can be found on any British street corner), they were rendered helpless when the Emus attacked.

The Aboriginals of course understood how to coexist with Emus, and defend against them when necessary. The Anglo-Australians, however, being twats, did not listen to the Aboriginals, and were therefore slain mercilessly by the Emus.

That’s not how integers (or set theory) work.

Username checks out.

Let’s start here:

310^0 + 110^-1 + 410^-2 =
31 + 1*.1 + 4*.01 =
3.14

That’s uhh… not pi. The only way to do pi that way is to extend it infinitely.

Also, what you’re using is called scientific notation, but it’s still in decimal format, i.e. base₁₀

[Edit: just noticed you did say that was decimal notation; my bad).

Any base_X numeral system has X number of integers per digit.

• Base₁₀: {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}
• Base₂: {0,1}
• Base₃: {0,1,2}
• Base₁₆: {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f}
• Base₆₀: {[series of 60 sumerian numerals]}

A base_π numeral system would look like this: {0,1,2,[int(π-3)]}.

But that’s not how set theory works. Since integers are by definition whole numbers and their inverse counterparts, it’s impossible to have .141592654… of an integer. If you have {0,1,2,3}, that’s base₄; if you have {0,1,2,n}, that’s still base₄.

To put it another way, in any base_X system, (if it includes 0), X is the first two-digit number. That means π in base_π would be written as “10”.

• In base₂, two is written as “10”
• In base₃, three is written as “10”
• In base₁₀, ten is written as “10”
• In base₁₆, sixteen is written as “10”

That means, if you wanted to make a base_π numeral system, in order to have a consistent interval between integers (without which, integers become meaningless), each numeral would have to represent (π/3).

So in base_π:

• “0” = base₁₀(0)
• “1” ≈ base₁₀(1.047197551)
• “2” ≈ base₁₀(2.094395102)
• “10” ≈ base₁₀(3.141592654)

[Edit: aaand I just noticed you did say base_π(10) = base₁₀(π); my bad again. I guess you weren’t as wrong as I thought you were. Not bad for being too high for this…]

But that’s still technically base₃, it’s just a wonky base₃. And it would have no practical value. Also, the same thing can already be achieved in base₁₀ using radians.

• (0π) rad = 0°
• (π/3) rad = 60°
• (2π/3) rad = 120°
• π rad = 180°

I guess if you really wanted to express radians as whole numbers, you could use base_π, i.e.:

• base_π(0) rad = 0°
• base_π(1) rad = 60°
• base_π(2) rad = 120°
• base_π(10) rad = 180°

But again, that’s still technically base₃, and all it does is confuse people. Plus, if you want to express an angle as a whole number you can choose degrees or mills. The whole point of radians is to express it with reference to pi (as in, the arc corresponding to the length of the radius along the circumference)

How does one have .141592654 of an integer?

Damn, and here I was being 99.96% happy with 22/7…

Isn’t that just an emu?

I’ve heard of some people doing multiple CDs with a staggered start so that once they start maturing, one matures every 3 months or so.

It sounds like a good idea, and it’s more liquid than putting it all in one CD, but I’d still be concerned with an emergency hitting just after rolling over one of the CDs and not having three months to wait for the next one.

If you don’t mind the penalty for early withdrawal then I guess it’s fine, but I thought some make you forfeit the interest accrued?

Too bad capitalism says that’s not profitable.

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