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I've developed mathematics for a non-human mind, for my comic "The book written by tiny paws"

Sapient distant descendants of rats, known as packers, living on Earth millions of years after the extinction of humans, began to develop mathematics using cognitive mechanisms never intended for such tasks. Due to an evolutionary quirk, multiplication came more naturally to them than addition, and their mathematics reflects this.

Packers write numbers as shapes, with each number having a corresponding number of corners.

And they write large numbers as nested shapes. The number inside is multiplied by the number outside.

Examples of some numbers:

Packers haven't invented 0 yet. They haven't even invented 1! In fact, they don’t need the concept of "one" much in their system. There's no need to say "I ate one fish" when they can simply say "I ate fish".

Packers can't yet write large prime numbers, like 101 or 10,501, because they would have to draw a huge shape to represent them! Even writing 17 or 19 would be quite difficult if they only used convex shapes.

So packers use non-convex shapes too!

Many years later, some packer noticed that large prime numbers look suspiciously symmetric.

So this packer improved the notation system and made it clearer.

Later, another packer simplified this system even more, deciding that there was no point in writing the same shapes twice.

This packer was the first in their culture to declare that "a dot isolated from a number" should also be considered a number. The packer called this dot "the wonderful number that's less than two".

Many years later, another packer made an important innovation: the "dot isolation" could be repeated multiple times as long as the result remained odd. When the result became even, it could undergo a "two isolation" (division by two). The final result will be a series of dots and twos.

This invention led to the creation of a binary system based on one and two, which had a significant impact on the technological advancement of packers.

The comic "the book written by tiny paws" talks about all of this in more detail. There will be mistakes, debates, the invention of rational, irrational, multivariate numbers, and some other stuff. Some stuff will be very much like human math, and some will be different. After all, math is still math, only the point of view has changed.

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I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

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this painting came to me in a dream

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Can I be controversial for a moment. I think the primary stance against AI being "what are you, fucking ret- I MEAN stupid? you can't even write an email? LMFAO do you need a robot to wipe your ass for you?" is fucking gross and really speaks to how so many of you care more about having an excuse to be Right and make fun of someone instead of the actual environmental, ethical, and workers' rights concerns around the generative ai boom

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One of the things that makes the family conflict in Lilo & Stitch work narratively is that Cobra is correct in that Lilo and Nani's current situation is non-sustainable. And yes, Nani is not prepared to handle everything by herself. But losing the custody is not the solution either, and to a degree Cobra seems to believe the same (he legit does not want that to happen), but if Nani can't solve the problem, then from his perspective it's the least harmful solution.

And the conflict is solved because what Lilo and Nani need (what they REALLY needed) is a support net. Someone, anyone to be there to take at least SOME of the burden from Nani and give her breathing room.

Which is why Jumba and Peakley joining the family alongside Stitch, and become a constant pressence who share the burden of the household, makes all the difference.

And this does not solve all the problems, because the movie is not about magically resolving those problems, it's about putting the characters in a situation in which they can move forward as a family. And for their desire to be a family and be together as a family, to be respected.

Anyway, someone told me what the remake did for the ending

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Agender bug dragon.

Happy pride!

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Hey what if bivalves evolved to fill the niche of whales in a zillion years

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Car Trunk vs Car Boot: A clear win for US English, trunk was already a thing in which you stored items, frequently for transport.

Crisps vs Chips: I gotta admit, the Brits have this one. They're thin slices of potato that have been made crispy. No chipping of any materials involved.

Car Park vs Parking Lot: Equally matched. What's a car park? A place to park cars. What's a parking lot? An otherwise empty lot where you can park.

Elevator vs Lift: Both equally fail to address that the damn thing also goes down.

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@elodieunderglass Massive continuity of...goslings?

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The circumstances could hardly be any darker but I can't help positively aknowledging the shift in Haaretz' reporting. Yes they still try to avoid the word "genocide" but the recent number of pieces revolving around the need of a fundamental reckogning for a society in the face of crimes against humanity is telling. To be clear, they were never unreflected zionists (by Israeli standards, and even compared to Western media in general), but they seem to have moved on somewhat from a tunnel vision vibe that this was some acute "political crisis" that could be fixed with one good election that "returns" the state of Israel to liberal humanist democracy. That the spiralling horror was all nothing but some sort of coup or conspiracy lead by one or two bad leaders, opposed by Israeli society at large and at odds with "Israel's true values". Even in leftist and liberal Israeli writing, you repeatedly sensed the pull of that essential wishful blindness, that you could erase another people with clean hands, have genocide without genocide - "We thought we could cheat History". At least most recent articles are (finally) much more fundamental in nature. Willing to look under the hood, look at the actual engine.

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This is from the Jerusalem Post in June 2025 and I think i might be losing my mind

For context... no, actually, I don't want to spell out what the rest of their front page looks like

I'm not sure if this is some sort of twisted humor or the concepts of war, community, Israel and "fun", brutal reality and whimsical play, genuinely blend into one another for them

Organized Summer Fun indeed

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Sisters and Juggernauts

A broad and ancient clade, Juggernauts are some of the oldest and most diverse dagnyds found across the Jacantese world. From the well-rounded workhorse Appletop (pictured), to the highly specialized Funeralworm, from the gentle utility of the Waterbearer to the fearsome showmanship of the Antlerjaw, Juggernauts take many forms and are employed to many ends. As a clade, Juggernauts are unified by a strange species of symbiosis, and the modifications such entails. Without the ability to accept a Sister-pilot, a dagnyd cannot be rightly considered a Juggernaut.

The skull of a Juggernaut is heavily modified to accomodate the presence of a Sister-clade “Pilot”, to facilitate her comfort and safety, and to allow her direct access to the central nervous system, which she may control and modify at will. While a Juggernaut is, on its own, an intelligent, autonomous entity, the control of a Sister-pilot is necessary to realize full potential. Some say the intelligence of the Sister is required to supplement the dull-minded Juggernaut’s brawn, and give to it direction which need cross no gulf of ambiguity to be understood. They say Sisters are more pliable, more given to following direction, and by allowing the Sister to impart her will upon the Juggernaut, she transfers to it her own native docility. Some say it is an allusion made manifest, a living institution enshrining the parable of the cricket who learned to drive oxen with her song, who’s cleverness elevated her station beyond the fragility of her body. Whether any of these reasons explain the origins of the relationship, or simply seek to find some retroactive justification, is a topic of long debate. However it came to be, that it is entrenched is irrefutable.

In modern Juggernauts, the modifications which facilitate the housing of Sister-pilots are extensive and extreme. In lieu of a flexible neck, the massive, bulbous skull is attatched rigidly to the spine, supported by a muscular hump. Many, though not all, Juggernauts posses stalked eyes to compensate for a head which cannot be turned. Sisters enter the skull by way of the operculum, a mask-like plate situated beneath the eyestalks. The operculum can be retracted to prevent damage.

In Juggernauts, the nasal cavity forms a very large, hollow space, occasionally encorperating the eyesockets in cases when they are not otherwise necessary, where the Sister-pilot is secured for connection by a pocketlike rampart. Mucus remains an essential adaptation for the collection and removal of foreign matter, considering the ease with which dirt, dust and pollen may be introduced into the relatively open space.

The twin pairs of ‘antennae’ sported by Sisters serve very different roles than the structures for which they are named. While the ‘key-antennae’ do have some chemosensory function, they are primarily designed as a male component, slotting into a complementary pair of orifices. The unique shape of each Sister’s key-antennae comes to be recognized by the juggernaut during the initial process of imprinting, the ‘first ride’. Once established, the unique pressure-print established by the key-antennae is required to relax the muscular orifices which secure the basal apertures, through which the Sister-pilot connects her own nervous system to the Juggernaut’s cerebellum via her smaller pair of ‘lock-antennae”. While secured, the key antennae secrete hormones to be absorbed by the membranous tissue of the pressure-lock. In this way the Sister’s body is able to more effectively communicates her physical and psychological state through the induction of mirror responses.

To accommodate this mode of connection, the Juggernaut brain is often modified into strange shapes. In the Appletop, the brain is twisted upside down, with the cerebellum - the joining-point - lying on top, and the brainstem running down through the center.

Sister-pilots can, in theory, remain connected to their Juggernauts for several days at a time, but in practice control-sessions generally last several hours. A modified salivary gland provides coupled Sister-pilots with a temporary source of nutrition in the form of a thick, sweet fluid which is almost entirely sugar. What liquid waste is passed by Pilots while coupled is drained alongside excess or fouled mucus.

Both Sisters and Juggernauts are obligate herbivores.

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They sure act like folks who've been found

Found 2 aquatic mites today !!!

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hell yesssss thank youuuuu for the reminder micheal my man gonna splurge with this one boys I totally forgot about my cent #mycent

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you ever have a woman swallow you off?

idk what this means? like, eaten me out, yes. “swallow you off” ?? bro what does that even mean???

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The BioSweepers, Hazmad and Extermineater from mortasheen, a setting made by bogleech

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"I want him" not sexually not romantically but a secret third way (squeaky toy)