Marcy n Xing Lan

GYAGSHDHDSDJ SHAMIMOMOOOOOO

theothin

most autistic magical girl

STOP THE WAY SHE HOLDS ONTO MOMO AAAAAAA

ANRI THE MVP WINGGIRL

So funny to think Shamiko either had to snatch the pictures from ryoko's photo collections for this or even better. She personally asked if Ryo could print pictures of Momo for her, only for Ryo to see this this scene dfglkfgh

THE MOMO FANCLUB YAAAAYYYYYYY

#i hate the US school terminology so fucking much #impossible to talk to someone from the USA about education #its not even easy to infer #like. some places say first year or ninth grade or even seventh form or something and like #you can figure it out even if you dont use it #but fucking softmore?#why the fuck is junior eleventh year???#even in the highschool bracket of four years its the third one???#^ had to google this stuff and how is it even less intuitive than i remembered #i thought it was judt incomprehensible #no. its actualy directly counterintuitive

soup-mother

don't even get me started on translating manga and using US school terminology as if that's supposed to be a universal and natural translation of the japanese terms

translating kouhai as "freshman" i hope you die (that one's not even accurate)

blergityblargh

The fate of the NDP in the Canadian election is such a clear example of where lesser-evilism gets you.

The NDP is the labour party equivalent in Canada. They had socialism in their constitution until about 15 years ago. The most successful federal election for them ever was in 2011 when people were sick to death of the Liberals and turned to the NDP as the most radical thing available.

Now they've lost so many seats that they've lost official party status. Because they tied themselves to the Liberals, they propped up Trudeau, they aligned themselves with the establishment. So in the election, anyone who wanted the Liberals voted for the Liberals, and anyone who was sick of the establishment voted Conservative.

The NDP lost the youth vote for the first time in forever. The NDP is the party founded by unions, and they lost the union vote. And they lost both demographics to the Conservatives! Because Poilievre was the one actually talking about the working class and the cost-of-living crisis. Now they don't have official party status anymore, which means they lose funding, and they don't get the same rights in Parliament.

Jagmeet Singh, the (now former) NDP leader, said about propping up the Liberals, that he could have brought them down and gained a lot of votes, but that he put the fate of the country ahead of the fate of his party. Insane thing to say. If you actually believe that your party has the right ideas then it's your duty to win the widest layer of the population over to them as possible. He fucked up deeply and destroyed his party for what?

Carney's agenda is virtually indistinguishable from Poilievre. He's going to do the same tax cuts. He's going to carry out the same attacks on social programs. He's already making major cuts to supports for Indigenous communities. He's been sending arms to Israel, while lying about it. He's going to be syphoning money off into the military. The literal only difference between them is that the ruling class is more comfortable with Carney because they know him, while Poilievre used anti-establishment rhetoric to get popular and they weren't a fan of that.

People always argue that lesser-evilism is about "choosing which enemy you'd rather fight." I've seen people say that they have an easier time fighting under the Liberals than the Conservatives. When a) there is so little daylight between the two. b) The Liberals are literally nicknamed "the ruling party of Canada". They've been in power most of the time. They're the preferred representatives of the ruling class and the main enemy.

And c) most importantly. Will the NDP have an easier time fighting after supporting the Liberals? No, they've totally undermined their ability to fight. They've dramatically lowered their capacity to get anything done. Because lesser-evilism is not about "choosing your enemy" it's about aligning with the enemy in the eyes of the people you're trying to win over. You're not better able to fight the establishment because the people who actually want to do that see you as part of the establishment. You've cratered any credibility you might have had as a fighter.

You've sold tomorrow for today, and not for a very good today either.

slur-hoarder

due to structural and institutional bigotries in our society, trans people of color face more discrimination and more barriers to transition than white trans people, and thus will require more support from the more privileged members of the community.

due to structural and institutional bigotries in our society, disabled trans people face more discrimination and more barriers to transition than able bodied trans people, and thus will require more support from the more privileged members of the community.

due to structural and institutional bigotries in our society, trans women face more discrimination and more barriers to transition than trans people who are not women, and thus will require more support from the more privileged members of the community.

if you agree with 2 of these statements but think the 3rd is infighting/playing oppression olympics, you either believe that misogyny is not a structural and instituional bigotry in our society, which makes you a misogynist; or you believe that trans women dont face misogyny, which makes you a terf.

do better.

forevergulag-deactivated2026013

no it fucking isnt. get a real understanding of the material basis behind the actions of the bourgeois state and imperialists and try again.

sermna

"I can't believe [media] was actually about _____ the whole time!!!"

[one possible interpretation, yep]

[literally the main theme??]

[worst take you've seen in your life]

alinethered

The fact that usamericans believe people are "forced" to join the US military to "escape" conditions that are pretty par for the course for any third world country (if not cushier) does make me believe that the moment the US living standard starts slipping at a faster rate due to empire decay the average usamerican will just start advocating for the liberal use of nuclear weapons or something. Maybe everyone will get a Hitler mustache.

black-sasuke

no ones forced to do it, and once u do it u have to know ur contributing to white supremacy, imperlism, brutualism no matter who u are as a person, but people we do have to acknowledge the military recruiting process does in fact prey on the poor, parentlees, teenagers, and middle to low income minorities? Like that does happen, ignoring it or not talking about it does not stop it from happening. The advocacy should be pushing for education on the militarys corruptness abroad and within with the youth but also just in general finding ways to meeting peoples needs so they dont turn to the imperial death machine

black-sasuke

alinethered

So, can we stop pretending that the US is the only place that has poor people and racial minorities, or are we just going to keep excusing the Murder And Rape Brown People Abroad Gang?

If you want to "educate people" and prevent recruitment inside the US, you do that, but stop expecting people from the third world and countries ravaged by the US military to coddle your poor widdle recruits who didn't know any better uwu. It doesn't matter if they're poor, black, gay or trans, a US soldier is a US soldier is a murderer for hire.

Also, stop pretending that the majority of US soldiers are just poor people who didn't know any better lmao, we have the numbers.

the majority of us solders come from middle class homes with tons of other opportunity’s. also the VAST majority are white. they’re choosing the killing people career, ususly because their dad was a vereran murderer and they want to follow the family business.

Deployed around the world, the armed forces are a pillar of U.S. power and influence abroad. But many civilians are unfamiliar with their co

Interactive U.S. map of troop representation levels Who serves in the active-duty ranks of the U.S. all-volunteer military? Conventional wis

im getting so much vicarious joy from being an annoying mathbrained middle schooler who loved explaining this kind of shit to my uncaring friends through your posting can you make a poll about why .9999 (repeating into infinity) is mathematically equal to one next that proof is my favorite

you know whats funny, .0999 repeating = 1 is one of those things i was in the camp of "well i believe you guys but i dont get it" and this ask inspired me to look into it more. and now i get it but not enough to explain it. anyways

0.99999 repeating is equal, exactly, to 1. Ok?

okay :)

no its not what the fuck. this is a prank

Voting ended onMay 1, 2025

theres a pretty good veritasium video that goes over it. i dont remember exactly which one and i dont think it was the focus, just a little side note while covering p-adics iirc

i dont CARE if u dont get it i CARE if u waltz confidently into a room and declare actually YOU get it better. than everyone else. that makes you fucking annoying and rude and i hate you. i will not back down on this

#the difference between going #i dont understand it really but i trust the people who figured it out and proved it #versus #i dont understand it so math has to be wrong because my gut feeling is always right and my special powers will tell me which door is right #same kind of person who will socialy murder minorities while claiming to be an ally because ‘they gave me a bad gut feeling’(hint:autism #or transgender #or PoC #or really any minority but those seem to be the most common to see it happen with

like genuinely and truly i think it says a lot about somebodys character how quickly they are to insist they know better than subject matter experts. plenty of people in my notes are expressing they just dont get it and im not bitching at any of those people am i! im making fun of the people who are confidently wrong and seem unaware of how loud their ignorance is

cross-entropy-dollthing-deactiv

Finding math challenging and frustrating does not make you stupid on its own, but asserting that mathematicians must all be wrong and that mathematics as a whole does not matter because you can't understand it does make you stupid. You can struggle with math without asserting that it's all pointless and wrong like a child

horsegirl-stalin

The idea of someone stealing your idea should be thrown away by the time you're in middle school, like it's fine when a kid gets upset about that, but if you're an adult who thinks ideas can be stolen you need help

the problem is that middle school (and onwards) teachers heavily reinforce the idea that that is a real and super terrible evil thing.

almost every thing assigned gets the added condition that if the proff thinks its vibes are too close to someone else’s work then you both get a fail.

the monty hall problem is something i find interesting and i wish there was also a term to describe the way people respond to the monty hall problem. like, "i don't understand this explanation of statistics (a thing i obviously know little about) so i'm going to assume you're just lying to me". the monty-hall-problem problem

do you "believe" the monty hall problem is correct?

yes, and i understand why

yes, but i don't get it

no, because it doesn't make sense in general

no, because i truly believe the people who did the math on this are wrong

Voting ended onApr 28, 2025

(the monty hall problem)

lookoutsea

ordinarily not a comment-adder but since this is something i care about a lot: people react this exact same way to the "bayes's theorem problem", for lack of a better word (let me know if there is one!); that is, in rough terms, the idea that if there's a test testing for something that has a low rate of false positives, but the thing it's testing for is relatively rare, a false positive can be much more likely than a true positive. i guess this is a specific way that the base rate fallacy presents itself (edit: yeah it is, it's even discussed on the wikipedia page)

people get similarly upset and similarly refuse to believe this, much like the monty hall problem. the problem here is that it crops up a lot more often - whereas the monty hall problem is kind of a puzzle or game, the false-positive paradox notably pops up in medicine and criminology in incredibly politicized ways. (wikipedia's telling me that another name for it is actually "the prosecutor's fallacy"!) so oftentimes, when people think "that seems counterintuitive, it must not be true, you're wrong or lying to me", it's also comporting with it either an actionable conclusion that will hurt someone, or trying to cling to an untrue belief.

willywideweb-deactivated2025052

please. im begging you. it does not become 50/50 odds. switching gives you a 2/3 chance of winning. please. Please

As someone who has taken a lot of weird math I agree that it should be 50/50. HOWEVER, that's only if we accept the current definitions and ways we define probability theory formally. The actual math says it SHOULD be 50/50, but the truth is switching gives you a 2/3rds chance of winning.

I get it we've already reinvented math at least once in the last 150 years. Doing it again because a game show proved us wrong feels dumb. The way probability theory is currently formulated does not accurately describe the outcome in this case.

what the fuck are you talking about. you can literally click that link right there and see the math proofs that have been done to prove the numbers. "the actual math" SAYS IT SHOULD BE 2/3. NOTHING HAS OR WILL EVER SAY ITS 50/50 EXCEPT YOUR TERRIBLE INTUITION