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it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

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Why is Billie Joe Armstrong hot. Who am I and what have I done with me.

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there's something so romantic about powerlines and their towers. they spend their entire life watching the world go by, in front of them in the middle of nowhere as workers come and go over the years to service them and seasons change. but also all the world relies on them. and the ones carrying data wires as well see all the internet go by. conversations, breakups, blogs, papers. everything. and all the while the tower stand there and weather out every storm.

it makes me sad that they're not safe to climb. to see the world how the towers see it, even if just for a moment.

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my go-to phrase recently has been "not my monkeys not my circus".... but these are my monkeys and this is my circus goddammit

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My favorite example of girl math is when David Hilbert and Albert Einstein couldn't solve how energy conservation worked in general relativity, so Hilbert asked Emmy Noether about it and she solved it for them.

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I gotta ask, where is terrorism a good thing??

While I am trying quite hard to say jack on the Israel/Hamas war as I don't think I have anything of value to contribute, at some point my obligations to the Terrorism Tier List are going to demand an answer to the question "were the Hamas attacks terrorism?", which I am not yet sure about.

I am leaning towards 'no' - despite rhetorical uses of the word being commonplace right now, its primarily being used for its moral valence as opposed to any accuracy. Militaries targeting civilians to induce terror, break morale, or bait responses is a tale as old as time; I don't think we can include things like the bombing of Dresden as "terrorism". Terrorism is defined by the actors being, in some way, non-state actors who lack a conventional military and are using limited-but-focused applications of violence to win a political battle. There is a lot of parallels to what Hamas is trying to achieve, but fundamentally they are a state actor, with a military, waging a 'peer' conflict, with goals around the governance of their state.

Its definitely one of the most ambiguous cases though, and its not like states are never involved in terrorist attacks (far from it). Time will probably reveal more.

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I feel lied to. This is where the bugs bunny NO meme cokes from

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Be careful of Asexuals y'all, I heard they aren't fucking around

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"your body is a temple"

Yeah well I'm Martin Luther and I have some Suggestions.

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You are working the gate in the afterlife and for the first time ever, something the humans built has shown up to be processed. You’re not sure what to do, this… entity shouldn’t have a soul, but here it is in front of you, freshly dead and awaiting the next life.

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Dude, they're kidnapping and murdering civilians. When Russia does this to Ukraine, we call their army terrorists (or if you want to be semantic about it --- we just call them evil). And yet we don't call Hamas terrorists here? Hamas does not represent Palestine or Palestinians in general. They aren't a state actor.

And how does kidnapping and murdering civilians push their supposed goal of self-governance anyways?

While I am trying quite hard to say jack on the Israel/Hamas war as I don't think I have anything of value to contribute, at some point my obligations to the Terrorism Tier List are going to demand an answer to the question "were the Hamas attacks terrorism?", which I am not yet sure about.

I am leaning towards 'no' - despite rhetorical uses of the word being commonplace right now, its primarily being used for its moral valence as opposed to any accuracy. Militaries targeting civilians to induce terror, break morale, or bait responses is a tale as old as time; I don't think we can include things like the bombing of Dresden as "terrorism". Terrorism is defined by the actors being, in some way, non-state actors who lack a conventional military and are using limited-but-focused applications of violence to win a political battle. There is a lot of parallels to what Hamas is trying to achieve, but fundamentally they are a state actor, with a military, waging a 'peer' conflict, with goals around the governance of their state.

Its definitely one of the most ambiguous cases though, and its not like states are never involved in terrorist attacks (far from it). Time will probably reveal more.

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Emily Riehl!

It's so funny to me when people reblog math posts on this site and say shit like "this is homophobic" "this is an attack on queer people" like hello this is tumblr. OP is queer. Like we've got a HANDFUL of cishets here on mathblr but most of us are queer. Because it's tumblr. And everyone is queer on tumblr. If you see math on this site, a queer person probably put it there. Stfu about "gays can't do math" if it's on tumblr, gays can do it, that's why it's on tumblr.

And of course there is also a large and brilliant and beloved queer math community off of tumblr but I just think it's extra funny when people don't notice it ON TUMBLR.

Alan Turing didn't kick the Nazis' collective ass laying foundations for the field of computing and then go on to also lay foundations for the field of biomathematics, Leonardo Da Vinci didn't give us fundamental physical and mathematical diagrams used in engineering well beyond his time, Moon Duchin doesn't study the math of fair redistricting, Chad Topaz and Jude Higdon don't analyze criminal sentencing disparities, et cetera et cetera, for y'all to call math homophobic and an attack on the queer community.