So mushrooms are made of atoms...but then if a mushroom feeds an atom a proton, the atom grows into a bigger, stronger mushroom 🤔

Fair lol. IMO you kinda gotta be fucked in the head to like calculus. But I am fucked in the head, so it works for me 🤷

Personally, calculus is really where I fell in love with math. I had 0% interest in math at all until I took calculus. And also, I'm in one of the few positions where I actually use calculus all the time (PhD student in electrical engineering).

But also, I do music production as a hobby. And music production is, under the hood, real-time math. For example, audio equalizers are basically just doing real-time integration for you. You can absolutely do music production without calculus, in fact 99.9% of people do, but it's been so helpful for my creativity to actually understand at that level what filters (and other things) do. So to me, at least in my autistic brain, math, calculus in particular, is part of everything I do, even my hobbies and free time and dreams and everything.

Oh, and computers can do calculus now, even with symbols. If you install its symbolic toolbox, GNU Octave will do it for free on a potato. So even if you don't want to slog through the algebra, it's super easy to just fuck around with calculus and a computer.

IMO math is fun when you choose to study it.

Also, if you want some classical "beauty" results, look into complex numbers and complex analysis. E.g., Mandelbrot sets are absolutely gorgeous.

But personally, I'm more partial to stuff like Borwein integrals, i.e. when you make "weird stuff" happen with "not very weird" ingredients.

Basically, the above pattern "works" for exactly the first seven iterations, but then it "breaks" for some reason on the eighth!

Based

Strictly speaking, this image is grayscale, not black and white.

an ocean vessel flying around

I'm choosing to make this my reality now

Yeah my comment is more about the procedure than the effect. Like I don't think there's gonna be an official proclamation like "Elections are hereby cancelled", they're just gonna come up with enough ways to "cancel" undesirable ballots that it'll be like the election never happened. I.e., more of what has been done before, but done harder. IMO, going this route would be harder for people to call out because it's systemic and "quiet", and USians have zero systems thinking skills overall.

They're not gonna cancel elections. They're just gonna make it so only rich white people can vote and only fascists can run.

Yes, Democrats are largely warmongers too, but that they ran the table against his handpicked candidates shows a clear repudiation of his policies and governance.

The Republicans and Democrats are basically uniparty on foreign policy and regime change. People are opposed to the thousands of ways he's ruining our bags. Americans have not suddenly gained a conscience with respect to the atrocities our government commits outside our borders.

Donald's misadventures in Venezuela resulting in the deaths of Americans, on an American airliner, for no good reason, would have a profoundly negative effect on his intentions toward warmongering.

Maybe Donald's intentions for all of three seconds, but not the rest of the AmeriKKKan political apparatus. Life has no value in the US.

I mean I'm not sure how a collision would have stopped or even delayed regime change in Venezuela. The AmeriKKKan government barely even has to manufacture consent anymore for their atrocities.

Like this year started off with the deaths of 64 innocent people in AmeriKKKan airspace, mostly USian citizens, due to military incompetence, and we've basically forgotten about it. USians clearly don't care whenever the military is the cause. Or basically ever unless it fucks someone personally.

Bussy

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