so, start with:

x = 0.999…

now multiply each side by 10

10x = 9.9999…

now we subtract x from the left side, and 0.999… from the right, which is fine because they are equal:

9x = 9

and from there it should be fairly obvious that x is also equal to 1, which means 0.999… is also equal to 1

Slim Shady

that’s an ergonomic nightmare. the keyboard is too high and the screen is too low. if you use that for more than a couple minutes at a time your shoulders will hate you.

i think this is the link to the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultraleft/comments/1dii2hl/leftoid_ethnostate/

i have a hard time reading the conversation as anything but pro-colonial

a “fun” game i like to play is when i encounter an anarchist writer i’m not familiar with is to search for the author plus age of consent/majority/adulthood/etc. this pretty reliably brings up a good reason to disregard their entire body of work.

youtube makes a lot of money off of nazi(-adjacent) content. it’s a core part of their business model at this point

our possessions tie us to our past, and it’s to our benefit to choose those ties carefully. how does having those big troves of things you will never look at again make you feel?

ah yes, the “i don’t want you to know how much this is astroturfed” protests, against the “we want to know how much astroturf is there” law.

“you can maybe criticize our ally, but only if you give an equal amount of time, or maybe a bit more, to criticizing their enemies”

i mean, the way the supreme court has operated historically (and especially in the last few years) means they can delete basically any law they don’t like, but you are correct that the decriminalisation of homosexuality is only based on a court verdict. many states never removed the relevant laws from their books, so they could in theory be enforced again if the court changes their precedent.

people who love keeping live fish in their house

i was almost following until i hit guyana

i know you probably know this, but in case anyone has not made the connection, 23andme (and related services) are trying to make real the link between ethnicity and biology which is the fundamental project of (psuedo-)scientific racism. once you have tied ethnicity to a certain set of DNA markers, it is much easier to argue that certain ethnicities are inherently certain traits, which is doing racists work for them.

ethnicity has always been a social and cultural construction with only incidental correlation with biology.

a vote for either candidate is a vote for genocide

fucking nazis

i’ve only been playing factorio lately. this is my current seablock map. trying to get the train based city blocks going. i’ve got basic resources going and about to start science blocks.

i don’t consider anti-communist NATO “leftists” to be on the left. if you are palling around with Vaush, it’s pretty clear what’s up.

you don’t get into his sort of situation if “enough” means anything to you. to them, there is only the need for more.

one of those “why i left the left” people. like, clearly was just riding the wave of popular sentiment from Bernie running, and now pushing some very reactionary shit

another example of how applying fanfic reasoning to real life events is inherently reactionary. like, in terms of story beats, some of those are interesting/funny ideas, but they ultimately assume that Trump is the main driver behind his movement, rather than someone skilled at riding already existing forces.

it takes 7 red lines to make an american flag. he’s trying to be patriotic