Exactly! I’m always complaining about the illiterate. I like to write them letters because I know it makes them sad.

I will let myself bleed out in a Safeway parking lot before installing McDonald’s stupid fucking app to get a 1.99 boiling hot coffee to cauterize the wound with.

How do you feel about negotiating the price of a new car down?

Personally, I think it’s really cool that people without social skills are charged more. It’s like “take that! ya fuckin loser.”

I read the first bullet point and immediately had a prophetic, future-sight vision of the comments before even scrolling down. I’m so sorry, man, haha.

I know a few people who have become more anti green because of JSO,

And you let them? What kind of limp-dick shit is this.

Oh! This was an ad! Those cocky sons o bitches.

Is that the table?

What the fuck is this self-important bullshit.

Dude, if you want to kill her, fine, whatever, but we’re putting your ass in prison.

Oh, it’s no problem :p

I don’t think I’ve seen Etymonline before, so I should thank you for introducing me to it. I do really like etymology, actually.

Whoa, whoa, I’m not making this out to be like an imperialism thing. I’m not interested in what people ought to do.

The link I gave, a comment in there gives examples of papers where the term is being used to mean different things. So, this ambiguity is either something you just have to contend with (people using the term wrong), or you just don’t read from those people. It’s fine. Nobody is coming for you, I promise.

If I were in your class and you said “the whole numbers” but meant the negatives too, that’d probably give me pause (dumb American), but I have such herculean powers of intuition that I probably wouldn’t even ask you a question about it.

An English dictionary is not really going to tell you what mathematicians are doing. Like, its goal is to describe what the word “integer” means (in various contexts), it won’t tell you what the “integer series” is.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/138633/what-are-the-whole-numbers

The gist I see is that it’s kind of ambiguous whether the whole number series includes negatives or not, and in higher math you won’t see the term without a strict definition. It’s much more likely you’d see “non-negative integers” or the like.

That might be integers, but I have no idea.

To be fair, I think that’s what the part after the colon was for.

Well, a lot of these points are really more about readability than they are about reducing the abstraction. Smaller, labeled chunks of information are easier to process than larger ones with no anatomy.

But even so, abstractions, especially in programming, are often made because a pattern was noticed between concrete examples. Teaching the abstraction first or even alone does inherently skip a lot of context for why it was made in the first place. Sometimes, you need to know what problem a function is solving before you can truly know the function.

Oh, I know what you mean. I’m sick to death of this debate, haha.

I do think the things people say are funny, though.

Why do people “feel” 80, though

Well, they’re already doing it.

Unless you’re planning the coup tomorrow, I don’t know how this is supposed to help me.

And I suppose Roe v. Wade doesn’t factor into your goals then either?

My favorite thing about conspiracy theories is the all-at-once victory these events are supposed to be.

Like, dissenting opinions are so heavily discouraged that everything gets turned into some 5D mental chess gambit. So you get things like:

They were trying to kidnap scientists without anyone knowing

Okay. Kind of elaborate for that, but why not.

And they made a lot of money.

O… kay. I guess. Does that mean the money was important to the scientist kidnappi—

And there was a lot of evidence on that plane they needed gone, too.

Wow, popping this plane really was a golden egg, wasn’t it?

Subscription services still get worse. The arrogance Cable TV must have to show us ads—cable was the ad-free service back in its day. The same is happening with Netflix. The same will happen with Spotify. This thing is a snake eating it’s own fucking tail.

I want something without perverse incentives. Donations, maybe. Taxes, possibly. I get free roads, why not a free search index.