Klear

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[–] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I always thought the tree falling in the forest thing was an inpenetrable koan from the depth of ancient philosophy, but it's actually a pretty simple tool to highlight the difference between sound as a physical thing and sound as perception, two related but different concepts for which we only use one word, hence the confusion.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

how the fuck did we go from throwing sharp sticks to utterly deranged sentences like that? More importantly why do utterly deranged sentences like that accurately describe our universe and what is the next ludicrous math concept we’re going to discover is integral to the function of the universe?

You need 3Blue1Brown in your life.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ever since I went down a particularly nasty rabbit hole and came out with a tenuous grasp on quaternions, imaginary numbers started feeling very simple, familiar and logical.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are they as real as real numbers though?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Is it a triangle if one of the sides is not straight though?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah. The "United" ones are pretty high up.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah, I work in an actual library, so that would get confusing.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I call all pirate websites Pirate Bay. It's easier.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yeet is cringe?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also I prefer the flowers to the pistol.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There used to be a shitton of silly viruses back in the day.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Whole\ ̲a̲s̲s̲ ̲ /milk

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