Been Thinking About Fantasy/scifi Rule Systems And Free Will

Hi, mathblr. Have you had any mind blowing realisations lately? Personally, I only realised this month that

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Ever since that day in grade 12 when I learned the formulas for the elementary functions primitives I have used them without thinking. Side by side with the knowledge of computing primitives for composite functions, without ever connecting the dots. I'm defending my phd in math at the beginning of next year, btw. Shame on the education system and shame on me.

I need to design a tarot spread for “well, now what?” I’ll call it the wtf do I do now spread.

Any of y’all got one handy?

my mom is buying me a dutch oven for my birthday :3

Someone I know not well enough to voice my opinion on the subject said something like why didn’t God make potatoes a low-calorie food so I am here to say: God made them like that because their nutrition density IS what makes them healthy. By God I mean Andean agricultural technicians. Potato is healthy BECAUSE potato holds calories and vitamins. Do not malign potato

another thought about "gen z and gen alpha don't know how to use computers, just phone apps" is that this is intentionally the direction tech companies have pushed things in, they don't want users to understand anything about the underlying system, they want you to just buy a subscription to a thing and if it doesn't do what you need it to, you just upgrade to the more expensive one. users who look at configuration files are their worst nightmare