#radical function

[math-journal2]

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Unit 🍑 : Parent Functions

Note:

Approach asymptote:

Rational___ 1/x

1/x^2

Max or Min:

Parabola ___ x^2

Absolute value__ l x l

Radical __ sqr root(x)

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[trashogram]

I’m so tired of hearing men whining about wanting “a traditional woman” or a “traditional marriage” with lots of children who all have the man’s surname.

Can we stop calling it “traditional” and start calling it what it really is?

Patriarchal.

Because traditional sounds well-meaning and it’s fucking not. Patriarchal society is not well-meaning. It means subservient women and neglected children and emotionally stunted men that can wipe their entire family off the face of the Earth simply due to a Bad Day. It doesn’t fucking work.

[lord-squiggletits]

i know i’m late to the conversation—i just watched the movie this month—but i feel compelled to say this because i was genuinely shocked (still am) to see that the overwhelming takeaway for many viewers was the "d-16/megatron was right" bs. while it’s understandable to sympathize with his anger and grief, justifying his actions in the end or framing them as entirely right feels so deeply misguided. what surprised me even more was the tendency to shift the blame on orion/optimus, as though he was solely responsible for d-16’s downfall. it’s disheartening to see orion/optimus being villainized so much. his efforts to reason with d-16 came from a place of desperation and hope, as he tried to prevent the escalation of violence. at that point, d-16 had already begun to spiral into his unchecked rage, disregarding the safety of those around him. to see that nuance overlooked, with orion being faulted for a situation that was far beyond his control (the whole "don't be like sentinel" thing is often used to shit on op lol), is genuinely baffling.

while i love that the movie showed the tragedy of d-16’s arc and even empathize with his situation, painting his actions as justified—and vilifying orion/optimus in the process—feels like a misreading of the movie’s core message. sorry but i was so happy to see your post about the movie, it was tiring to see so many 'megatron was right about this and that' comments.

Oh man if you're new to this fandom, you really ought to know that this place is full of people who glorify terrorism and war in the name of "justified revolution" and it doesn't really matter what Dee/Megatron does or how horrible/over-the-top it is, he's oppressed or he's mentally ill or he's just plain upset which means that everything he does is justified and questioning him makes you evil.

It's so funny because I hoped for sure that a continuity where both OP and Megatron were working class individuals before the war would reduce this kind of shit take (compare to something like archivist/librarian OP and gladiator Megs in TFP or CBV, or cop OP and miner Megs in IDW1), but unfortunately this fandom literally still found a way to blame Orion for everything even though he suffered the exact same things Dee did..... and furthermore Orion literally was the rebel challenging the system compared to Dee who wanted to keep his head low and not cause trouble so honestly at this point I just think the fandom (and somehow new fans whose first exposure to TF is this movie) purely sides with Megatron on everything as either a knee-jerk reaction or some misguided attempt at being counterculture and intelligent.

People get sooooo mad when you tell them that unbridled rage and killing everyone who disagrees with you isn't a good social/political strategy, but then again this is a problem that is universal to humanity and not just the Transformers fandom. It's just a shame that so many people looked at a movie that blatantly spells out what the moral of the story is, and has all of the protagonists be working class oppressed people fighting against a tyrannical system, and their takeaway from it is still basically "fascism is okay if you're mad enough about it and if your friends try to stop you it's a sign that they're centrist liberals who think punching Nazis makes you as bad as a Nazi." It's childish black-and-white thinking masquerading as critical literary analysis.

And at this point people pretty much just don't give a shit about Orion/Optimus and will find a way to make him the villain no matter what the context is, no matter if he also has feelings or if he also deserves to be respected/listened to/validated as Megatron's long-time (possibly lifelong) friend. If ppl look at the way Dee treated Orion and their other friends and DON'T see what was concerning about that then there's really no saving them until they deradicalize a little and learn what usually happens when "kill all the bad people until society is a utopia" is implemented as a governing party's primary strategy.

[bookshelfpassageway]

i'm gonna be the one insufferable bastard on this earth that liked everhood 2, huh

[thornsent]

this is fucking insane and I'm Tired

as someone who is plural from trauma and severe abuse from an early age, """plurality""" isn't just having funny OCs in your head you can interact with. it's skill loss, time loss, amnesia, dissociation, night terrors, flashbacks, catatonia, I could go on and on. I really do not care if people want to explore nonstandard experiences of consciousness, but for the love of god stop pretending it's similar to the experience of those with DID/OSDD and stopppp using our terminology.

it is not the same, the approach is not the same, you are literally hurting people. I would literally respect 'endogenics' if they didn't use pseudoscientific terminology and didn't overwhelm spaces for extremely traumatized and vulnerable people with their shit. what y'all are doing is simply not the same, by very cause, as "plurality" caused by trauma.

[starleska]

Just wanted to say that your whimsy and unironic enjoyment of things continues to be a passive inspiration for me: at one point today I thought "Damn I should really learn to calm down about this character. Shame I can never be as enthusiastic as I am about some of the characters I like because it's probably considered weird or cringe to like them." And immediately afterwards I went "No. Tumblr user Starleska doesn't live their life with 100% unrestrained enthusiasm and love for characters just for me to be a chicken." askdjhkjadkjdh

buddy!!!! you're going to make me cry, thank you so much 😭😭😭💖💖💖 i'm honoured to hear that!! y'know, over the past...ten? years or so, my goals in life have shifted a lot, as have the things i value. i realised at some point that i may never be able to achieve the kind of success most "gifted" (undiagnosed) kids envision for themselves...but i can always make things a little happier for myself and other people. being unapologetically enthusiastic about things is something i've always valued in other people, and it's a gift i want to pass on 🫡 my question for you is: what will you achieve by calming down about the things you love? the approval of some ignorant folks who equate enthusiasm with a lack of restraint, intelligence, or fake cool points? bro, who wants validation from people like that anyway 😂 and you never know when you yelling about the things you love might spark that same love in other people!! isn't that what fandom has always been about? 💖

[danekez]

Oh... Hmmm.

Okay so Generative AI cannot think. If you ask it a question, the answer will differ based on what information it has been fed. But the program itself is not taking information from multiple accounts, considering it's truthfulness and impact, and then making informed opinionated decisions. It is, to be reductionist, taking information and spitting it back out based on the likelihood that words do or do not go together.

To make a fair comparison, that's how I did a lot of my book reports and homework- I didn't always think critically because I was on a deadline and I didn't care. I just re-said what the book said and I changed the words enough to make it "my own".

That's not thinking. That's not thinking. I am capable of generating slough for the sake of getting through the day, but I have the ability to choose to slow down and contemplate my own opinions and come to my own conclusions- to create new ideas and new concepts and apply those to pre existing theories. Generative AI cannot do that.

So why do people regard AI as thinking, qualifid, and insightful? Maybe it's my tinfoil hat here but... I think it's related to the reduction of media literacy and critical thinking skills. It feels connected. Like people are being taught that thinking is the same as reciting, and that reciting is the only valuable action worth rewarding. That's how conservative policies thrive, after all- to do as you're told and the repeat that on your own. So... When a machine is doing that exact same thing, it feels natural. But to anyone with a developed skill in critical thinking and media literacy, it rings very hollow like a form of uncanny valley.

I dunno. I think AI is succeeding in trapping people because it matches the current narrative of how we are meant to communicate and succeed socially. Teach your kids how to sound out words and think about why something happens, not just that it does.

[captainjonnitkessler]

So many people insisting "the ends will justify the means" without ever asking whether the means have literally any chance of achieving the end in the first place

[doctorwhoisadhd]

to be clear if you think 12 is a girl live ur truth and have fun and etc etc i just personally do not because he was kind of integral to me discovering that Actually, I Am Anything BUT A Girl, at which point i also basically stole my gender directly from him. But thats just me

[daz4i]

one thing they don't tell you about radically changing your lifestyle is you'll still wanna kill yourself afterwards. but in new ways

[mystacoceti]

I've seen people here and there who want, like, a quick, full answer of how bad it's going to get, or a five-minute explanation or ABC plan of what to do now, now that it's getting bad. You can't look down on that sort of thing, you know? At some point we've all been that way and we asked questions like that at school or a job. But fuck — what a time to have to come grips with all that

[catwif3]

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[petrichorium]

I do appreciate the effort for more transparency from tumblr staff & I genuinely hope that this is just an odd transition period, and we’ll come out of it with a more functional & financially stable site. Do I have confidence that’ll be the case, well…. That’s a different question

[comradecowplant]

finally checking out the Snowpiercer series and so far my main take away is that a 90 minute film is just about the perfect amount of space for grappling with "apocalypse death train" as a serious grimdark dystopia concept, and more space than that gives the audience time to realize how silly "apocalypse death train" is when you think about it for too long.

[math-journal2]

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Unit 16: Radicals

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Shifts and Reflections

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[girltakovic]

went on a bit of an anthropological excursion today (saw a dni-archive post and fell down a rabbit hole) and i think it's safe to say that we had a good run on the internet but its time to call it and just unplug it all