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Thought dump blog

@ill-posed-problem

Barely finishing my pure math degree, I like set theory, logic and stupid memes. I only enjoy geometry if it comes with pretty pictures. Recently got into Scarlet Hollow. Realm of the Elderlings Enjoyer. Feel free to ask math questions, I like feeling useful.
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More stories from hell (retail) today I was ringing up this lady and she goes oh I want to do part of this on a gift card and the rest on normal card and I go ok and then she hands me a folded piece of paper. I think oh OK it must be folded around the gift card, right? Wrong. It is a folded sheet of 8×11 printer paper with "$40" written on the inside in ballpoint pen. I go what is this. She says a gift card. I say this is not a gift card. She says yes it is. I say this is a piece of paper with "$40" written on it. She says "well it's a gift card." I say it absolutely is not. I am grinding my teeth. She says well I want to use it. I say you physically cannot do that bc it is a piece of paper. I cannot scan or swipe it. I apologize, as if this is my fault, and not because she is completely insane. I hate it here

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It's been a hot second since the last time I cried tears of true rage but damn if I didn't come close today

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My coworkers were like wow how are you still in a good mood after that my brother in christ after that interaction I went to the break room and took an extra adderall

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was on the toilet imagining a political cartoon where the big hairy uncircumcised capitalist is hoarding money under his spacious foreskin from the trod-upon cut worker

Why is this post with 21 notes on my "for you" tab?

Also how did tumblr know it was in fact for me?

i am so worried about how the statisticians know what they know and whether they're making it all up. i don't need to worry about this for basically any other branch of science/math. like, the aerospace engineers are obviously not making it up, because my phone works, so somebody got a satellite up there. the civil engineers are obviously not making it up, because i crossed a bridge this morning and it went fine. the chemists are obviously not making it up, because there are roughly a kajillion types of steel that get used for different things. the particle physicists--okay, they might've been making up everything since the bomb, but it basically wouldn't matter, we know they were at minimum not making it up when the most destructive existing technology was invented. the biologists are allergic to making things up, they are pretty open about the fact that they're mostly poking around and telling us what they find and they refuse to extrapolate. i almost wish they would make more stuff up so i could be comforted by the belief that somebody somewhere understands the immune system but biologists are cruel realists like that. the economists *are* making stuff up bc they don't have vacuums in economics, but everyone knows that so it's fine and they just have to go ahead and try stuff anyway.

the statisticians??? what are they up to??? how would we know if the statisticians were making stuff up? if my study "really" needed 200 participants and the statisticians said 100, how would i ever figure that out? how do they decide these things?

the thing is, i'm worried about the practical application of statistics. the number theorists might be making stuff up, and i also would have no way of knowing, but even if they are, i think they're probably just having fun and we should let them.

Other scientists use statistics to be (almost) certain of the results they publish, so the fact that other sciences seem to work means statistics is (probably) good enough for practical applications.

Also, as a mathematician who hopes to go into set theory, I appreciate people letting me have my fun with stuff I hope won't ever be useful to anyone outside pure mathematicians.

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BLEASE explain your 'will this involve me sucking dick' metric gauge. what is the range on this, does it work like numbers

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i could put numbers to it! i haven’t before, it’s usually just intuitive, but I could. let’s try! (for the confused this is about this)

notes: i’m writing this from the perspective of a guy attracted to guys but it generalizes i’m sure. these are just examples. we could even call this Mark’s Scale of Hardness

1. Distant and unlikely chance of sucking dick. This is what I’d expect from pulling a night shift with a straight guy I’m not particularly attracted to.

2. A guy you’re sure isn’t into you is showing you how to do something. He’s looking over your shoulder, showing you how you should be holding your hands, and he’s paying close attention to you. This definitely isn’t a dicksucking thing. Right? He’s just teaching you how to play the ukelele.

3. Your best friend’s divorced dad needs you to hold a flashlight and he’s wearing really thin and really old cotton shorts. Where is your friend. Who knows.

4. Walking into a public restroom with a guy you’re attracted to and you both use the urinals. And it turns out no one else is in there. Watch his eyes!

5. You’re sharing a dorm with a guy for like, two nights max. This is a hostel or some kind of weird camp scenario. He’s thinking of joining the military and you have no idea what his opinions are on pajamas. He keeps scratching himself.

6. Someone is showing you their dick for reason(s) unrelated to sucking dick. But like. It’s out. And it’s definitely not flaccid flaccid.

7. This is the number I’d assign to ‘five-hour car trip with one other person’. You’re playing music to each other, there’s the dangerous and enticing possibility of road head, and there’s that weird frisson in the air of sharing an atmosphere. If you swap seats, you might feel the heat of his ass. God.

8. Hey, your ex is here. Huh.

9. Guy who you know is interested in dudes, who you have a crush on, is sleeping over and it seems like he’s gonna want to share your bed. The floor sucks, dude. You know he doesn’t ever wear underwear.

10. Straightforward Grindr hookup.

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ok guys im gonna go to sleep early tonight so i can finally get good rest gnight :)

ⓘ Fact check: This user intends to go to their room and take apart their old Yamaha EZ-200 keyboard in their underwear.

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Ok yeah i just have to fix it the middle D, D#, Db keys don't work. that's all. Just a quick repair.

ⓘ Fact check: Though the act was partially motivated by desire to repair, this user views it as having more of a sexual connotation.

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ok honestly fuck you for real

ⓘ Fact check: lmaoooooo suck itttttt. you wanna fuck the yamaha ez-200. you wanna fuck the keyboarrddddd

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usamericans think they are being clever and quirky making jokes about german communities in Brasil and Argentina all while in their own shitty contry they have nazi and white supremacist rallies and are at danger of being gunned down by a "proud boy" every day of their lives. Brother the call is coming from inside the house

The Us literally imported nazi scientists for their war efforts, Argentina got the useless ones.

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Tumblr is the kind of site where you could poll people about their favourite character, and regardless off the poll's theme, you could make one of the options a featureless metal cube and it would make it to at least the semi-finals.

I fucking love cubes

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"if you travelled back in time would you kill a baby hitler?" um. i would kill franz ferdinand and stop both world wars before they even happened LOL

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oh no

Neo-Wizards will just walk into an abandoned mine and say “have I just found my New Home

Neo-Wizards will try to tell you about their new inverted tower’’

“inverted tower’’ so pretentious

Shut up, it’s a fucking abandoned mine shaft

“inverted tower’’

Let’s see how well the ‘re-sell value’ actually holds up under the flood of adventurers and gnomes who can just waltz right in