balderdash9

@balderdash9@lemmy.zip

I’m mostly half-serious.

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balderdash9,

That does sound interesting. I’ll check it out

balderdash9,

lawful evil

balderdash9,

Holy shit, I have now fallen down a rabbit hole

balderdash9,

Going through this exercise, I really like jazzy, hip hop, and, sometimes, heavy metal openings. (Still get chills from Attack on Titan’s “Rumbling” OP.) I’ve hyperlinked each song below for specificity (and nostalgia).

Going back 10+ years ago: Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, Cowboy Bebop, Gintama, YuYu Hakusho, and One Piece are the anime openings that come to mind.

More recently: Love is War, Attack on Titan, Jujutsu Kaisen, Samurai Champloo, One Punch Man, My Hero Aca, Black Clover are all top tier.

Didn’t make the list, but shoutout to Bleach for having one of the most memorable soundtracks in all of anime.

balderdash9,

I haven’t watched this show but the song sounds nostalgic already, if that makes sense.

balderdash9,

You can map 1000 one dollar bills to every single 100 dollar bill and never run out, even in the limit, and therefore conclude (equally incorrectly) that the infinite $1 bills are worth more, because infinity isn’t a number.

Yes, the mapping that you’re describing isn’t useful; but that doesn’t invalidate the simple test that we can do to prove that two infinite sets are the same. And the test is pretty intuitive in some cases. If for every fork there is a spoon, then they must be an equal number. And if for every positive whole number (e.g “2”) there is a negative whole number (e.g. “-2”), then the set of positive whole numbers and the set of negative whole numbers must be the same.

Another thing that seems unintuitive but might make the concept in general make more sense is that you cannot add or do any other arithmetic on infinity.

I agree with you that adding infinity to itself just gets you the same number. But now we’re starting to ask: just what is infinity? We could think of infinity as a collection of things or we could think of infinity like we do numbers (yes, I know infinity is not technically among the real numbers). In the latter sense we could have a negative infinity {-1…-2…-3…etc.} that is quantitatively “worth less” than a countable positive infinity. On the other hand, if we think of infinity as a collection of stuff, then you couldn’t have a negative infinity because you can’t have less than zero members in the set.

I’ll admit that I’m getting out of my depth here since I know this stuff from philosophical study rather than maths proper. As with anything, I’m happy to be proven wrong, but I’m quite sure about the 1-1 correspondence bit.

balderdash9, (edited )

~~I was thinking that, bill for bill, the $100 bill will always be greater value. But I can see the plausibility in your argument that, when we’re counting both the value of the members of each set, the value of the $100 bill pile can always be found somewhere in the series of $1 bills. The latter will always “catch up” so to speak. But, if this line of reasoning is true, it should apply to other countably infinite sets as well. Consider the following two examples.

First, the number of rational numbers between 0 and 1 is countably infinite. That is, we can establish a 1-1 correspondence between the infinite set of fractions between 0-1 and the infinite set of positive integers. So the number of numbers is the same. But clearly, if we add up all the infinite fractions between 0 and 1, they would add up to 1. Whereas, adding up the set of positive integers will get us infinity.

Second, there are equally many positive integers as there are negative integers. There is a 1-1 correspondence such that the number of numbers is the same. However, if we add up the positive integers we get positive infinity and if we add up all the negative integers we get negative infinity. Clearly, the positive is quantitatively greater than the negative.

In these two cases, we see that a distinction needs to be made between the infinite number of members in the set and the value of each member. The same arguably applies in the case of the dollar bills.~~

EDIT: I see now that I was mistaken.

balderdash9, (edited )

I meant to say that we can infinitely divide the numbers between 0 and 1 and then match each with an integer. But I realized that the former wouldn’t be rational numbers, they would be real numbers.

That aside, I see now that the original idea behind the meme was mistaken.

balderdash9,

I’m not even sure you know what my argument is. I haven’t articulated a full point so I think there’s some filling in the gaps going on. But what I wrote up above (without people reading into it) is factual.

balderdash9,

Family guy, Season 4 Episode 19: m.youtube.com/watch?v=jHFTATeWH5g

Lemmy: fails the vibe check (lemmy.zip)

Zero chill factor. Every post has to have a dissertation under it explaining how its problematic. Reddit/Twitter reposts that make you nod your head in agreement get mindlessly upvoted. Even communities that should be more off-color get relegated to the most normie shit possible. Lemmy feels homogenous as fuck. /rant

balderdash9,

This is really helpful feedback. Thanks for taking the time to write this out.

balderdash9,

I’m binge watching Frieren right now. Anime of the year for sure.

balderdash9,

I got that sloth gene in me

balderdash9,

Miss the days when everyone wore a suit/dress. Now it’s just pajamas and yoga pants.

balderdash9,

imgur.com/Cq7YJlF

balderdash9,

poorlymadecatmemes

balderdash9,

Rant incoming: I cannot tell you how many times I’ve tried to create a meme and the stock image has the logo all over it. Search for anything on google images (spaceship, boat, man smiling, etc) and you will get a ton of stock images with the stock image stamp of annoyance on it. /rant

balderdash9,

This is like an anti meme

balderdash9,

The weird thing about Lemmy is no matter how anodyne you think your post is, some people will downvote it. This post is a fine example

balderdash9,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/eede3dd8-e78b-4283-89f8-0a0be542aaec.webp

balderdash9,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/5d1a6830-929c-4f9e-8bd2-1081c36bd276.webp

(I feel you but I rarely get to use this)

balderdash9,

Family that doesn’t want to give you overtime pay, paternity leave, two-week notice before termination, etc., etc.

balderdash9,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/243281f2-fa1e-4b62-b9d1-440d72f757f4.webp

balderdash9,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/99a6ce49-1a5f-4b1e-bba9-c7490a9733f2.webp

balderdash9,

I don’t want to sound like an incel, and I like eating vag/salad as much as the next guy, but imagine this image with the genders reversed

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