Math Dragon

Welcome! I speak English, German, more Russian than I will admit, a bit of BR-Portuguese, and am working on reading old Norse. I am currently too deeply involved in Norse literature, physics, languages, and capoeira. The Tags page above gives some common sorting tags in case you want to find something or blacklist it. nimblermortal is an anagram of Robert Millman, who is a deeply admirable side character in Diane Duane's Young Wizards series. Tim Pierce 6 ft 4 inch truther

[beemovieerotica]

someone on reddit shared texts of her and her husband's exclusive english dialect and it's beautiful

[beemovieerotica]

a linguist is analyzing it

[hexbugswallower]

I really enjoy the embryonic-stage xkcd comics from before randall munroe knew how to make them funny

[shitposting-hobbits-to-gallifrey]

I still think about this one on a regular basis

[seabassapologist]

never forget

[nimblermortal]

I'm very fond of when people refer to a grown ass-man.

[estavionpira]

No, yeah, it's really cool that you turned out to be the rightful holder of the Mandate of Heaven, that's fantastic, but you do know that you can only cash that in to become the emperor of China if you're within Chinese borders. That's the actual hard part. There have been like 30 known people with the Mandate of Heaven in the past 15 years, they just keep getting tracked down and executed by PLA hunter-killer teams before they make it over the border. There's naval mines all across the South China Sea to catch any rightful rulers trying to sail in under the radar too. Real tough stuff.

Would have been easier a few decades ago, but there's been, what, two, two and a half trillion yuan poured into reconnaissance and R&D since then. They can pinpoint the rightful ruler of China down to a 100-mile region anywhere on the world now. Spy satellites. Hope I didn't scare you too much. If it's worth anything, I think you've got a shot. You could get on a civilian flight to Beijing and see if they're willing to tank the diplomatic hit of shooting it down. That actually might work. Nah, I'm kidding ya. Seven of them tried that and got vaporized. You're fucked.

[syrren]

happy pride month, kip

[aestheticvh]

I want a room like this and this view.

[sophia-helix]

I did a reverse image search and this is apparently from one of Pablo Neruda’s homes in Chile

En Chile, Neruda dejó tres casas, La Sebastiana en Valparaíso, la de Isla Negra y La Chascona en Santiago. El poeta decía que su verdadera p

[kittydesade]

On the one hand, I really want a room like that. On the other hand I’ve heard enough stories about the earthquakes in Chile to be all No Thank You Please And Thank You No.

[nimblermortal]

@interestingmistakes by all means let us talk about the "mathematician fun pet project" to ""useful employed concept" pipeline. (Here in a bit, it's the wee hours of the morning here.)

Which part of my tags didn't sound right to you? It's entirely possible I'm wrong about specifics as well as generalities, but I thought imaginary numbers were a pretty good hedged bet on the grounds that it's a very simple concept with no practical applications except when you start playing with electricity.

[interestingmistakes]

I was just riffing on your tag about snorkel basis sets being useless and impractical, and was assuming that they aren't a real thing.

I'd love Conway's game of life become something with practical applications. I guess automata are a thing but idk what they're used for, if anything. I actually haven't studied all that much math to have any other favorite weird inapplicable concepts. Maybe the collatz conjecture

[nimblermortal]

Ah! Then we are working from the same axioms, but you are well ahead of me :)

I wasn't sure which part didn't sound quite right to you - I was just riffing on the fancy-idea-to-engineering-solution pipeline.

[nimblermortal]

Apparently Vivaldi wrote a lesbian opera?

I would like to see the lesbian opera.

It's Vivaldi, it's easy listening. It is called "Arsilda, regina di Ponto." I can't find any visual recordings :(

It sounds like Italian Twelfth Night - cross-dressing, impersonating twin brothers, probably a last minute save with the twin brother swapping in to marry just before the censors can reject it for publication a second time.

There's a music-only recording here.

[the-quasar-hero]

I was wondering what the fastest roller coaster in the world is so I looked it up and it’s beyond what I was expecting. The current fastest roller coaster is the Falcon’s Flight in Six Flags in Qiddaya City. Not only is it the fastest, it’s also the longest and highest roller coaster. It has its own class, an Exa coaster. It’s 4,250 m (13,943.6 ft) long, 158 m (518.4 ft) high, and goes 250 km/h (155.3 mph). It lasts like three and a half minutes.

Would you get on the Falcon’s Flight?

Yes, I love roller coasters!

Yes, I love marvels of engineering!

Yes, out of curiosity!

Maybe if I was with the right ppl

No, absolutely not

Remaining time: 4 days 20 hours

[miraclemaya]

living in one of those free use public sex kinda hentai but no one wants to have sex with me so i mostly just stay home and post. i look outside and sigh wistfully at the sight of a woman getting eaten out so hard she somehow cums twice in one moment and then close my blinds so i can focus on cookie clicker

[str8aura-no-not-that-one]

Charles guiteau

[communistrainbowdash]

The man who assassinated James Garfield??????

[str8aura-no-not-that-one]

[prime89]

I will always love how you can learn things that your history class failed to teach you from shitposts on this site. Never change.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

You don’t get knowledge delivered like this on other webbed sites and apps.

[nimblermortal]

The cited Wikipedia article

It's worth a read for the sheer "what a loser" repeatedly throughout the entire article, this man could not win from when he was 5 to when he was hanged and you'd feel sorry for him except it was all his fault.

[byjove]

if someone gets killed by a grizzly bear or a polar bear it’s like “Damn, that’s unfortunate. Luck of the draw.” but if someone gets killed by a black bear you’re like “What did they do to that bear to make it that angry?”

[byjove]

Grizzly bears? You’re usually fine if you’re minding your business but every once in a while one of them decides to go on a killing spree Sankebetsu brown bear incident style and that can’t be prevented in all circumstances. Polar bears? If it wants to kill you, it will decide to kill you and then do it, not your choice. But black bears? My uncle has been chasing the same bear around his property for years Looney Tunes style with no casualties on either end, what the fuck do you have to do to a black bear to make it want to kill you if chasing one with a broom after it was picking your apples does not provoke them to violence?

[nimblermortal]

@interestingmistakes by all means let us talk about the "mathematician fun pet project" to ""useful employed concept" pipeline. (Here in a bit, it's the wee hours of the morning here.)

Which part of my tags didn't sound right to you? It's entirely possible I'm wrong about specifics as well as generalities, but I thought imaginary numbers were a pretty good hedged bet on the grounds that it's a very simple concept with no practical applications except when you start playing with electricity.

[nimblermortal]

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.

[nimblermortal]

In a cruel twist of fate, I am now sick.

[plum-soup]

[aint-love-heavy]

Tag yourself I'm the fourth one

[somewhere-south-of-neutral]

They literally can't tag themselves. That's what the scientists are for

[nimblermortal]

Not the reaction I am supposed to have: whyyyyyy does our culture believe in burning down buildings after everyone is dead? Why is it always cover-up/pyre?

Burn! Them! Alive!

[seairis]

they're so fucking real for this

[nimblermortal]

She should take his name but misspell it so that she can describe herself as a divorcee ex-Cetra.

[demilypyro]

My first video essay is now on YouTube. It's about my experience with a "cozy" game called Wanderstop. Please check it out. Thank you.

[demilypyro]

rave reviews

[wovi]

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