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What's the main device to hammer in a nail? by hakase in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 weeks ago

According to my mathematician wife, "it's got the same problem most paradoxes do in that it's self-referential".

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Might be low hanging fruit, but I just got banned from memes.ml for saying what instance it's in. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by hakase@sh.itjust.works to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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The post in question, if interested:

Also, I don't know how to see which mod/admin banned me, so if you know how to in the modlog, definitely let me know.

Banned for 7 days, so I'm not super mad or anything - I just thought it was funny.

Honestly I don't blame them - I'd be embarrassed about people finding out my community was on .ml too.

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TIL it's against the rules to mention what instance it is (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by hakase@sh.itjust.works to c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

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The comment in question:

"To everyone arriving here from /all, remember that this is a .ml community when you attempt to engage in good faith."

Edit: Sorry for the double post - I just got back after being gone all day and didn't realize someone else had made a post about my comment! There's a bit of discussion here so I was going to leave it, but if the mods would rather delete it, feel free!

Am I entitled to compensation? by hakase in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yes, I'm aware of that, but being irrational alone is not sufficient. There are an infinite number of irrational base-10 numbers that only contain combinations of 0 and 1, for example, and none of them will contain my phone number, credit card, etc.

Not all irrational numbers are normal numbers, and only normal numbers are guaranteed to behave as described in the OP.

Am I entitled to compensation? by hakase in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 48 points 7 months ago

I thought pi hadn't been proven to be normal, only conjectured to. My phone number isn't in the digits of pi that we've discovered so far, for example: https://www.angio.net/pi/

Russia: Under a proposed new legislation, comments defending the decision not to have children could be fined by up to €50,000 by hakase in c/world@lemmy.world

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago

Can't wait to hear the tankie apologetics for this one.

63% of Gen Z Would Rather Play Video Games Than Watch a Movie — GamerBlurb by hakase in c/movies@lemmy.world

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 year ago

I'd still rather play video games than watch a movie, and I'm in my 40s.

Blood puddles, mold, tainted meat, bugs: Boar’s Head inspections are horrifying by hakase in c/news@lemmy.world

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

As Upton himself said: "I aimed for America's heart, but I hit it in its stomach."

TIL that in the work, An Instinct for Dragons, an anthropologist argues that the universality of dragons across human societies is due to evolutionary reasons, with common primate predators being merg by hakase in c/til@lemmy.world

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 74 points 1 year ago

I still have deep-seated, instinctual nightmares of the merg.

AAAAAAA.... This is so hard!!! by hakase in c/xkcd@lemmy.world

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

Well this would have been fun if the stupid title hadn't spoiled the whole thing.

(Re)bracketing by hakase in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The 'p' is only silent in English because English doesn't allow syllables to start with 'pt'. It was perfectly fine to do so in ancient Greek, where both the 'p' and the 't' would be pronounced, but when English borrowed the 'pt'-initial words, the 'p' gets deleted to make the word pronounceable.

But, it's perfectly fine in English for one syllable to end with 'p' and the next to start with 't', so English speakers have no problem saying 'cop-ter'.

Same with, for example, 'tsunami' vs. 'Mit-subishi' (which in Japanese is actually syllabified 'mi-tsu-bi-shi').

This gives me a headache. by hakase in c/badrealestate@feddit.uk

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 years ago

Is it bad that I would legitimately love to live there?

T-thank you, ma'am... 🥺 by hakase in c/memes@sopuli.xyz

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 years ago

Shoe's never been right wing, and she's steadily moved further left throughout her career.

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Great Wave of Kanagawa (imgur.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by hakase@sh.itjust.works to c/amoledbackgrounds@lemmy.world

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Great Wave of Kanagawa (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by hakase@sh.itjust.works to c/amoledbackgrounds@lemmy.world

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Once in a lifetime by hakase in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 years ago

Fun fact: while a much more often occurrence than once in a lifetime, "Thursday the 20th" is tied with "Saturday the 20th" as the least-likely combination of days of the week with the 20th day of the month, even though you'd think the chances would be exactly 1/7.

Here's the math about the Gregorian calendar that explains why. (Even though the post is about Friday the 13th, it straightforwardly can be applied to any other day/date combination as well.)