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Comment on Canada Post strike update: Postal employees back to work in ~life
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Comment on Tildes Demographics Survey, year… uh, it’s 2024? in ~tildes
Moonchild Link Parentto clarify—by continuous/discontinuous i mean the distributions, not the actual ranges. so it's not relevant that a length measurement could be any real number (if we assume that's actually true)to clarify—by continuous/discontinuous i mean the distributions, not the actual ranges. so it's not relevant that a length measurement could be any real number (if we assume that's actually true)
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Comment on Tildes Demographics Survey, year… uh, it’s 2024? in ~tildes
Moonchild Link Parentthere is uncertainty to spatial measurements though. and supposing there weren't, there would be particular lengths with a nonzero probability of being measured, indicating discontinuity. (time...there is uncertainty to spatial measurements though. and supposing there weren't, there would be particular lengths with a nonzero probability of being measured, indicating discontinuity. (time measurements/distributions tend to be discretised but with uncertainty too; that also suffices)
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Comment on Tildes Demographics Survey, year… uh, it’s 2024? in ~tildes
Moonchild Link Parentbanker's rounding means round to nearest, and if you have a tie, then you round to the nearest even number. so 1.49 -> 1; 1.5 -> 2; 2.5 -> 2; 3.5 -> 4. so the difference between round to nearest...banker's rounding means round to nearest, and if you have a tie, then you round to the nearest even number. so 1.49 -> 1; 1.5 -> 2; 2.5 -> 2; 3.5 -> 4. so the difference between round to nearest (with unspecified tiebreaker) and banker's rounding only matters if you've been on tildes for exactly x.5 years, but it is impossible for anything in the real world to be exactly x.5 years, so there's no need to specify how ties should be broken, so specifying it is redundant
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Comment on Tildes Demographics Survey, year… uh, it’s 2024? in ~tildes
Moonchild Linkbuh—time is continuous so the tie cases have zero measure! i protest this redundancy!Use banker’s rounding to the nearest whole number
buh—time is continuous so the tie cases have zero measure! i protest this redundancy!
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Comment on What’s your “I didn’t know I needed that” item? in ~life
Moonchild Link Parenti would have assumed that if you didn't have a kettle you'd just use a pot?i would have assumed that if you didn't have a kettle you'd just use a pot?
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Comment on Canadian minister says Donald Trump was joking when he said Canada could become the 51st state in ~society
Moonchild Linkthe framing here is kinda icky but mostly whatever—the basic facts about the canada-us vs mexico-us border are true, and i can't really imagine a different tack that would produce a globally...the framing here is kinda icky but mostly whatever—the basic facts about the canada-us vs mexico-us border are true, and i can't really imagine a different tack that would produce a globally better outcome; this has a moderate chance of improving things moderately for canadians. but then ...
Canadian officials have said there are plans to put more helicopters, drones and law enforcement officers at the border.
why... i do hope this is just bluster
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Comment on What really happened after California raised its minimum wage to $20 for fast food workers in ~society
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Comment on Civil cases against Donald Trump for trying to interfere with the 2020 US election can continue while he is president - analysis in ~society
Moonchild Linki thought this might perhaps have been an analysis written by 161 authors and was excited to see that, but no; only two—scraper bug. (such high author counts are common in like physics and ai, and...i thought this might perhaps have been an analysis written by 161 authors and was excited to see that, but no; only two—scraper bug. (such high author counts are common in like physics and ai, and prospectively in mathematics, but i have no idea how that would work in law)
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Comment on The sham legacy of Richard Feynman in ~science
Moonchild Link Parentit's not just an argument. it's a story—all arguments are stories; and some stories take 3 hours to tellit's not just an argument. it's a story—all arguments are stories; and some stories take 3 hours to tell
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Comment on Looking to hear experiences about Laser Facial Hair Removal in ~lgbt
Moonchild (edited )Link Parentthis typically happens because the technician is not competent. either they have poor needle technique, or they remove hairs in a cluster, which focuses the trauma rather than spreading it out....I also know someone who got scarred from it (electrolysis)
this typically happens because the technician is not competent. either they have poor needle technique, or they remove hairs in a cluster, which focuses the trauma rather than spreading it out. permanent cosmetic procedures are not something to cheap out on!
touch-ups ... electrolysis ... permanent
electrolytic hair removal is no more permanent than laser; its effects are just differently distributed. optimum (cost, time, pain, results) in most cases is to do laser hair removal till diminishing returns and then switch to electrolysis
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Comment on Are we all capable of being slaveowners or nazis? in ~humanities
Moonchild Linkyou may find https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/on-john-woolman to be of interestyou may find https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/on-john-woolman to be of interest
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Comment on Slop economics in ~finance
Moonchild Link Parenti promise i don't mean this in a rude way but i really want to understand...what would possess you to do that?I had watched a summary of it on one of those YouTube channels where a text to speech voice explains the plots of movies to you
i promise i don't mean this in a rude way but i really want to understand...what would possess you to do that?
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Comment on "Americans get screwed because they can’t read" in ~society
Moonchild Link Parentcan you elaborate? i did not notice this in my agemates thencan you elaborate? i did not notice this in my agemates then
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Comment on The resistance is not coming to save you. It’s tuning out. in ~society
Moonchild Link Parentwha? nobody in power gives a fuck about trans people. it is a convenient rhetorical target. more prominence is if anything good for them; you need a problem to be (seen as) solvingThe reason the Republican party wants to make trans people miserable is to eradicate them from public life and ideally get them to kill themselves
wha? nobody in power gives a fuck about trans people. it is a convenient rhetorical target. more prominence is if anything good for them; you need a problem to be (seen as) solving
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Comment on As 4B takes the world by storm, South Korea is grappling with a backlash against feminism in ~life.women
Moonchild (edited )Link Parentfor clarity: i didn't mean to make any value judgments in either of my comments, and i don't think anything particular about the thing i linked; i just think it's interesting some value judgments...for clarity: i didn't mean to make any value judgments in either of my comments, and i don't think anything particular about the thing i linked; i just think it's interesting
some value judgments now. i think separatism is always bad. i think whether something is 'transphobic' or not is usually beside the point (i find words like this are frequently used as thick ethical concepts when they should be only ontological). more to the point: insofar as it is not separatist, i'm comparatively sympathetic to political lesbianism. why do you object to it? i guess—i am identifying political lesbianism as a particular woman's choice to avoid engaging in romance or sex with men as a political statement. it could also be a prescription that all women should engage in political lesbianism, which i do agree is bad, but that is just because it is unreasonably authoritarian. but either way, i don't see how political lesbianism can be more gender-essentialist than lesbianism or feminism
why do you think radical feminism is incompatible with trans people? when trans people do it, are they alienating themselves, or other trans people, or something else? (i recently had the displeasure of reading a trans woman who was spouting off mackinnon—gauche; unbearable!—but i didn't really get that from it.)
unless—are you equating sexism with transphobia? (valid imo but unusual)
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Comment on As 4B takes the world by storm, South Korea is grappling with a backlash against feminism in ~life.women
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Comment on As 4B takes the world by storm, South Korea is grappling with a backlash against feminism in ~life.women
Moonchild Link4b seems to me to be a relatively content-free meme—its popularity more a reflection of the zeitgeist than an actual instigator of action. i hear on tiktok lots of people are asking if they can...4b seems to me to be a relatively content-free meme—its popularity more a reflection of the zeitgeist than an actual instigator of action. i hear on tiktok lots of people are asking if they can still do 4b if they have boyfriends. and
most of my female friends are more focused on their careers than dating right now, but that’s not because of 4B, it’s just the reality of being a young professional in Korea
is the flip side of that
i've seen it compared to political lesbianism, which seems somewhat apt. but 1) most people are over 2nd-wave feminism by now, and 2) even insofar as they're not, 4b does not have enough substance to be a meaningful separatist movement with teeth or legs
i think it doesn't really mean anything and the comparison to metoo does not make much sense
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Comment on Where does your username come from? (Following up on last year's thread) in ~tildes
Moonchild LinkMoon Child, from the neverending story (a beloved book of mine). I more use the German 'Mondenkind' these days, though.Moon Child, from the neverending story (a beloved book of mine). I more use the German 'Mondenkind' these days, though.
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Comment on LGBTQ folks check-in thread - how're you all doing? in ~lgbt
Moonchild (edited )Link Parentlegal angle is a wash, since you can almost certainly get it domestically, so the chance of its getting discovered is essentially nil. leaving aside the chance of seeing legal consequences if it...legal angle is a wash, since you can almost certainly get it domestically, so the chance of its getting discovered is essentially nil. leaving aside the chance of seeing legal consequences if it does get discovered, which is also essentially nil. but don't let me decide your risk tolerance for you
how long till you can get pr? is the immigration process where you are (de, right?) as much of a pain as it is here in canada? :p
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