A Nuclear Machine That Heats Space

[escuerzoresucitado]

[cloudmancy]

need to become a guy who exclusively does evil commissions. like this

WILL DRAW ✓ mecha ✓ gore ✓ furry ✓ nsfw

WILL NOT DRAW X ocs X fanart X simple backgrounds

[cloudmancy]

great question and I'm glad you asked. in this case I would only draw:

real people, places, or objects

art of media that neither of us are really a fan of

unoriginal characters

[nuclearspaceheater]

Source: MadProjectArts

[captain-price-returns]

Arrest everyone involved.

[captain-price-returns]

Money saved: maybe a couple million dollars.

People killed: around three quarters of a million.

[brazenautomaton]

Okay but no though. I finally said "fuck it" and looked it up.

Everyone quoting this number is quoting what certain people predicted would be the number after a year without aid. I have never seen anyone cite a number that was not a projection written beforehand, based on estimates of what would happen with no aid.

Except that isn't what happened.

The "dissolution" and "aid freeze" were constantly tied up in the courts instead of being implemented. Marco Rubio was put in charge of USAID, and despite being a Republican, he is an actual human being who would show activity on an EEG and not an arc node of Trumpism. He issued waivers to keep funding the "critical" lifesaving operations of USAID going during the funding freeze, regardless of the courts' decisions. His explicit intent was to dissolve USAID as he saw it as a wasteful and counterproducrive program, but incorporate the parts of USAID that actually were useful (like these programs) into the State Department. From other pages linked on the same site, he appears to have done that. Rubio's "America First Global Health Strategy" lays out an extremely reasonable argument for what he is doing and why. He even goes into specific detail about how great PEPFAR is and why so much of its budget is being wasted on buck-wild overhead costs and inefficiencies instead of integrating local services.

I think the initial rush of "everything is cancelled NO WAIT no it isn't" probably caused harmful disruption, but don't know if I buy the story that it forced tens of thousands of layoffs. Because that period lasted, like, a week and that's not enough time for them to have felt the effect yet. Still wasn't good! Most things Trump just stumbles into dick-first aren't! But everyone I can find claiming this body count is making it based on projections from the first moment that aid was cut, and didn't alter their predictions to account for the fact that the majority of that aid was resumed pretty quickly..

[samueldays]

The alleged kill count is wrong for two reasons.

The moral reason is that "refrained from rescuing" is not the same thing as "killed"; the equivalence is made up by people who will grab onto anything to Get Trump but they never apply the same standard for e.g. the Obama Presidential Library "killing" thousands of people by spending that money on something other than aid. (Except for like five Effective Altruists.)

The practical reason is that we don't have to lean on hypothetical "sophisticated modelling tools" any more now that we have data from countries that got their aid cut, and the data indicates the model was wrong, the projected deaths didn't happen.

[nuclearspaceheater]

I see your point in general, but if interference with duly apportioned spending resulted in deaths then that distinction wouldn't apply here because the charity was already made, and someone else came and messed with it.

[mathhombre]

Counting

Klyver Markus on FB.

[shieldfoss]

somebody who math, how come it isn't just {{{{}}}}?

[samueldays]

It's counting how many distinct elements are inside the (outmost) brackets. {{{{}}}} contains only one element: {{{}}}.

[shieldfoss]

ah

[daniel-r-h]

It’s standard to model the natural numbers such with 0 as the empty set and each other natural number being the set of all preceding ones. So here we see 4 as {0, 1, 2, 3}.

I don’t know why this is standard. It has the nice property that the cardinality of the set you use for a number is equal to that number, and I think it makes some things with infinities nicer, but I’m not sure if those are the actual historical reasons. Certainly your version, or “the successor of a number is its powerset”, or a bunch of other options, are all possible models.

Because multiple models work, I would say that isn’t 4. It’s just one way to represent it. Similarly, the word “bird” is not a bird.

[nuclearspaceheater]

To be precise and reiterate daniel-r-h's point, these constructions aren't really how the naturals are "defined". The naturals are defined up to isomorphism by whatever number axioms you're using, of which both the simple nesting sequence implied by Shieldfoss's question and the one in the OP are models. The simple nesting is the Zermelo numerals, and the more complex one is the von Neumann construction of the ordinals.

The names spoil why the von Neumann construction is preferred. Both model the naturals, but the von Neumann construction is really a model of the ordinals, of which the naturals are an initial segment. This is because while a Zermelo numeral is a set containing only its predecessor, a von Neumann ordinal is the set containing all of its predecessors. This gives the nice property that in this model < is ∈, and ≤ is ⊆. For example, 4 is the set {0, 1, 2, 3} (shown above), ω is the set ℕ, and ε₀ = ⋃(ω, ω^ω, ω^ω^ω, … ).

In contrast, the Zermelo numerals "stall at the first limit", and cannot be extended in this way. Since a Zermelo numeral contains only its immediate predecessor, it cannot express limit ordinals which have none.

[nuclearspaceheater]

"Bodysuit?" Uh, where else can you wear a suit?

[crazy-brazilian]

[intimate-mirror]

Do not take this to be a serious disagreement with OP, but I am laughing thinking about someone saying this after they die to an Act 1 Elite in Slay the Spire.

Vastly different contexts for games; for me, almost none of the games I play would be any good without replayability.

(Okay, Baba is You is an exception.)

[mother-sauces]

This, but unironically, is why Netrunner is a better game than Magic

[nuclearspaceheater]

Getting the Freedom ending of Stanley Parable first and then stopping there because it wasn't interesting enough to justify exploring side content.

[nuclearspaceheater]

"Senpai" Now In Oxford English Dictionary, Localizers Devastated

[inbabylontheywept]

my favorite comprehensible math fact is that 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + 1/32... all the way on, forever, equals exactly 2. and i love it because it sounds totally mystical and then you see the proof for it and its just like a little drawing that makes you go, oh, right, duh. like all you need is a square that you have decided has an area of 2, and then you just start coloring in.

[inbabylontheywept]

i see what you're referring to, but that "never get that final block in place" thing is what infinity is for. the infinity is kind of for the moment when you do the final thing in a never ending pattern. its the last number. there is no last number. its there. you can see it. you cannot get there. but what if you did? then you'd be at two. you are at two. you measure the corners of your house. its a little bigger on the inside than the out. hm.

uh oh.

[inbabylontheywept]

we dont talk about the ramanujan sum in this house. that is an incomprehensible math fact and the way that it repeatedly pops up in high level physics is proof that there is something wrong with our high level physics, or something wrong with the idea of addition itself. it scares me. genuinely.

[nuclearspaceheater]

The "the sum of naturals is -1/12" thing is just a lie; the correct thing its misleadingly gesturing towards is "the family of infinite sums of reciprocals of naturals to a complex power, interpreted as a complex function from the complex power to the sum's limit, if it exists, has a unique analytic continuation into the domain where the sum diverges, which is the Riemann Zeta function, and which outputs -1/12 for input -1."

That the Riemann Zeta function is -1/12 at -1 does have deep implications, but the disingenuous conflation of the analytic continuation with the family of infinite sums its derived from in a domain where the original sum diverges is how you get the "infinite sum of the naturals is -1/12", which is not true in some specific deep sense; it's just false.

[anarchopuppy]

isnt it maddening how one day ur 9 and u go to middle school and cub scouts and all the kids are cursing and making dirty jokes and drawing dicks and repeating offensive shit they got from watching south park and family guy on their bedroom tv after their parents have gone to bed (on the same channel that shows kids cartoons during the day) and playing horrifically violent games on newgrounds and a handful of the kids u know have straight up told u they do coke, then next thing u know ur an adult and the ppl around u expect u to act like even the slightest exposure to potentially objectionable content or depictions of the human body will instantly and irreversibly shatter any childs fragile innocent mind

and theyre like "prove to me this wont traumatize my children!" and even the ppl who agree w u go "well u see, in other cultures, and in the ancient past, and if u look at this study-" but like. my source is every child whos ever grown up at any point in human history. open ur eyes. we have never been able to stop kids from seeing and repeating adult stuff and we never will, and its always just been fine

[nuclearspaceheater]

I... guess there's a thematic connection there.

[afloweroutofstone]

Foods costs are expected to rise at some point in the coming months once the shipping industry fully runs out of fuel reserves and wholesalers run out of existing stocks, causing the full inflationary impact of the Iran War to emerge. Shortly after that, on October 1, a new set of SNAP food aid cuts from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 will automatically go into effect. I think there is a real chance that hunger will emerge as a political issue by the end of this year (and if it doesn’t, then it should.)

One explanation I’ve heard for why the stock market has been so nonchalant about the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is that they are fully convinced it will end before any of that happens. Someone (I think it was JP Morgan?) said in a recent release that the assumptions for their short-term inflation expectations are all based on the idea that Trump will pull back from the war at the exact right second and miraculously reopen the Strait in full. In their mind, Trump dragging the war out any longer than that would be committing economic suicide right before an election, and Trump as a rational actor would not allow that to happen. Buddy, do I got some news for you

[firebendinglemur]

JP Morgan sees Brent staying in low $100s even if Hormuz reopens in June

JP Morgan's revised framework assumes that ‌the pace ⁠of ⁠oil inventory depletion will ultimately force the Strait to reopen "one way or ano

JP Morgan expects Brent crude to remain in the low-$100s for much of 2026, even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens in June, as accelerating inventory draws and logistical bottlenecks keep the oil market tight, the bank said in a note. JP Morgan's revised framework assumes that ‌the pace ⁠of ⁠oil inventory depletion will ultimately force the Strait to reopen "one way or another," ​with the bank's base case anchored on a June 1 reopening following a ​credible announcement confirmed by both sides.

[nuclearspaceheater]

Well, looks like the market was right on this one.

...at least on the narrow question of ending the war and opening the strait. It's yet to be seen how quickly the entire rest of the production web downstream of the strait is restarted. Edit: He even had one of those Trump moments of blatant honesty where he just admits that this is the reason. "Also we run out of reserves in about 4 weeks."[1] [1] https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2067302034659807328

[daciancatamite]

"you couldnt make seinfeld today" you couldve made seinfeld in 45 B.C.

[daciancatamite]

kramer: *barges in* *crowd cheering* jerry! caesar just made himself dictator perpetuo!

[official-kircheis]

literally @ancient-rome-au

[nuclearspaceheater]

Kramerus bursts through the curtain, holding a live goose. Kramerus: I'm getting into augury. Iervius: You're not an augur. Kramerus: The birds don't know that.

[glisteringlord]

[samueldays]

99.99% odds this moment gets extinguished by any means necessary, but imagine how cool and prescient i'll look if it snowballs into an expulsion

95% if you ask me. Mathematically, imagine this sort of thing happening again and again, it'll break closer to the 20th time than the 10000th time. Politically, the British state is *waves hands vaguely* increasingly wordcel, with spokespeople blaming the riots on "disinformation".

[samueldays]

Oh boy another Yookay moment. (Prev post was riots after the Southport stabbing, this is riots after the Southampton stabbing and the Belfast stabbing.) Still 95% chance of it being extinguished, I figure, the rioters are an ineffective peasant revolt but the British state keeps rolling the dice and at this rate it's going to roll a natural 1 in my lifetime.

Elizabeth 'Liz' Kendall is a Member of Parliament and a Secretary of State in the United Kingdom. She's an example of what I vaguely called 'wordcel' last time: faced with riots over deeply unpopular policies and mediagenic stabbings with a side of police failure ("I don't think you have"), she plans to make foreigners stop talking about it. Perception management and simulacra.

I'm glad the world has the United States of America and Elon Musk who are resistant to complying with British censorship law, and we can watch Liz getting ratio'ed on X.

[cleaverqueer]

petition to change LGBT to DFTQ (Dykes Faggots Trannies and Queers, naturally)

[cleaverqueer]

AMENDED

[cleaverqueer]

happy pride everyone

[probablybadrpgideas]

Changing the "empathy" stat in cyberpunk with an "open source" stat that goes down the more cyberware with proprietary software you install. The higher the stat the more likely you are to have a stupid ux decision or dark pattern interrupt what you are doing.

You can try to jail break equipment to raise your score back up but if you fail you have to roll on a table of consequences, ranging from an annoying pop-up to full deactivation and repossession of the cyberware by the corporation via force.

If it gets too low you still go cyberpsyco, that hasn't changed.

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