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by sverona 4y ago
In fact functions are just infinite-dimensional vectors. Almost all of the theory goes through unchanged. This is the basic idea of functional analysis.
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by sverona 4y ago
I will just point out that "sex realist" reads to me as a dogwhistle constructed by analogy with "race realist" and take my leave.
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by sverona 4y ago
I got as far as the episode where downvotes lead to frontal lobotomies and gave up. It was less subtle than Q in Encounter at Farpoint .
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by sverona 4y ago
Citation needed.
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by sverona 4y ago
Vernacular Eloquence by Peter Elbow is my go-to.
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by sverona 4y ago
We have very different ideal worlds, it seems. Here are my takes on your points: 1. Very broadly speaking, trans people cannot procreate in the usual way --- our hormone treatments make us sterile. We primarily use sex and fetishism as vehi
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by sverona 4y ago
> What defines "bad" or "good" here? Bad = morally wrong, or "not okay" as you said. Specifically, you seem to be making the claim that all porn, even non-exploitative porn, is morally wrong in principle, th
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by sverona 4y ago
Slippery slope fallacy. (You mentioned something about murder in another comment --- same story.) The reprehensible exploitation of sex workers does not make sex work inherently bad. I have friends who do sex work on the side. They sell the
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by sverona 4y ago
I'm trans and sexually active. I was raised evangelical, amongst the Pokemon-promotes-evolution, Satan-left-bones-in-the-earth-to-trick-us variety. This gives me the willies. It reminds me of being six years old and questioning whether
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by sverona 4y ago
Speak for yourself.
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by sverona 4y ago
I'm sure this is good, like, really really good, but I'm struck by the feeling that it wants to baby talk me the same way Godel, Escher, Bach did. I mean, it reads like a Homestuck pesterlog.
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by sverona 4y ago
I don't eat meat because I once butterflied a turkey for dinner, cutting out the backbone and removing the giblets, and I became physically sick when it dawned on me what I was doing. My view is, if I can't butcher something, I pr
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by sverona 4y ago
Thank you for responding. I find Stoicism interesting, although I try to separate it from the Redditors that make it their whole identity. I've read Frankl. I'm not familiar with Haig. I'll put it on the list.
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by sverona 4y ago
Yes.
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by sverona 4y ago
I'd like to challenge your challenge, if I may. I'm clinically depressed. I've had suicidal ideation for about twelve years (half my life.) On the rare days when sunlight peeks through and I can see the sky, yeah, working out
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by sverona 5y ago
No questions. You're a pretty swell dude and I used a lot of your advice while writing my thesis. Love your work.
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by sverona 5y ago
The age-old joke is that trans girls want pickles (spironolactone gives you salt cravings) but can't open the jars. Also, even with regular weight training I've still lost about 20% of my pre-HRT strength.
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by sverona 5y ago
So there's a climate apocalypse coming. I spent a while being blackpilled on it until I tried to hurt myself because of the stress that put on me mentally. I view solarpunk as being the things that you mentioned (some of which I wasn&#
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by sverona 5y ago
What exactly is your criticism? Saying "more technology will solve it!" is not really the point of solarpunk. Most of the solarpunks I know, including myself, are also broadly described as anarchists. "A shift in how you view
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by sverona 5y ago
Guilty as charged. I mean, look at it.
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by sverona 5y ago
Die in the climate wars, probably.
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by sverona 5y ago
Prepend https://archive.is/ to the URL.
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by sverona 5y ago
> That is however the implicit claim of Critical Race Theorists. You have provided evidence that it is the implicit claim of exactly one critical race theorist. > which is why I'm challenging your support for it now. This is a st
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by sverona 5y ago
His views are valid, but it would be ridiculous to claim he's every black person or even most black people.
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by sverona 5y ago
These aren't the better sources I was looking for.
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by sverona 5y ago
> Shrooms take control while on LSD you're "the pilot." A counterargument that a friend told me once: a psilocybin trip is like a wagon ride that takes you to what you need to see. LSD is like a jet plane that takes you in
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by sverona 5y ago
In case anyone finds this, I should probably clarify that my beef is with DiAngelo specifically rather than with CRT in general. I think that what she puts forth leads to unhelpful, performative activism, and I think she characterizes Black
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by sverona 5y ago
> Robin DiAngelo I'm going to have to start asking for better sources on antiracism than a white woman who makes a career out of corporate "diversity training." Like, of course that's her entire thesis. White fragil
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by sverona 5y ago
You got the right idea. The sum vanishes once $k > \min{i, j}$, so WLOG if $i \geq j$ you've got $\sum_{k=0}^j \binom{i}{k}\binom{j}{j - k}$, which is equal to $\binom{i + j}{j}$ by Vandermonde's identity [0], which is well-kno
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by sverona 6y ago
New Model is severely underrated. His best, in my opinion.

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