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extremely frustrating that you can't look up depictions of any mythical figure without getting bombarded by dogshit ai-gen images

loveridden1999

dailytentacletherapist

targetedknowledge

dogpuppy

sorrythathappened

sometimes i wonder if femboy culture (itself largely recycled from transfem culture) is a psyop to convince repressed trans women to not actualize themselves and instead embrace their patriarchal role as a non-person who can be used as a sexual object and discarded freely.

of course men can be feminine (and lots of them should try doing that more honestly) but the way people try so hard to erase every instance of trans women existing in favor of "just being a femboy" to the point of violence combined with the recycling... suggests a whole second thing is going on

krakenneko

let's be real that Is the true nature of "femboy" "culture", because the purpose of a system is what it does.

Oh yeah? If you know numbers so good, solve 3x+1 then

I tried 8 and it immediately went back down to 1 so I’m pretty sure it’s solved. You’re welcome, Pythagoras

chongoblog

OH BOY OH BOY I GET TO EXPLAIN 3X + 1

So just “3x +1″ is an expression, not an equation, however it’s also shorthand for an infamous mathematical problem known as the “Collatz Conjecture”. It’s a very, very, VERY simple question that still has mathematicians scratching their heads.

The premise goes like this:

Take a number (a positive integer) and call it “x”.

If that number is even, divide it by 2. If the number is odd, then multiply it by 3 and then add 1 (3x + 1). Repeat over and over again. (so you could go 3, 3(3) + 1 = 10, 10/2 = 5, 3(5) + 1 = 16, etc.)

The Collatz Conjecture (aka the 3x + 1 problem) states that eventually, this sequence will always lead you to the number 1 where it loops 1=>4=>2=>1=>4=>2=>1=>4=>2=>1 forever, regardless of which number you start this sequence with.

Now, there is no proof that this is true or false yet (hence the “conjecture” part).

If you want to disprove the 3x + 1 problem, all that you have to do is find a positive integer that does not ever make it to 1, either by finding a closed loop of numbers that ISNT 1=>4=>2=>1 or by finding a value that just has it keep increasing to infinity (7=>22=>11=>34=>17=>52=>27=>82=>41=>122…..while this sequence does end up coming back down to 1, people theorize there could be a starting point where it just keeps going up and up and up forever). If you can just find ONE, then you will have successfully solved 3x + 1.

But to this day, every single positive integer has been tested from 1 to 2^68 (or approx. 1-300,000,000,000,000,000,000 (300 quintillion). None of them have proven to be an exception.

But any Cookie Clicker veteran knows that 300 quintillion is child’s play. A number that makes an infinitesimal speck of dust look like a god damn multiverse in relation to infinity. And we don’t exist outside of time (yet) so we probably aren’t going to be able to test an infinite number of positive integers.

So if you want to prove the 3x + 1 problem, you gotta make a proof. If you’ve never done mathematical proofs before or don’t know what they are, remember back in school when your teacher gave you those “Solve for x:” questions and you had to move numbers and variables around until you got the right answer? Yeah, you gotta do that. A lot. And you MIIIIIGHT be able to get to the right answer. That triple dot thing from Beginner’s Guide shows up there although it’s upside down apologies I am very tired, and like the Beginner’s Guide, crying once or twice is completely normal and even expected.

But no one has been able to make a proof yet. So there 3x + 1 stands to this day. The most deceptively simple math question that has stumped mathematicians for decades. If you want a more in-depth talk about this problem, this video does a fantastic job going into the details.

Thanks for giving me the chance to talk about math!!!!!

chongoblog

Fun Fact: The Collatz Conjecture was found in 1937, which means we have 11 years before this problem is 100 years old.

16 years ago, an esteemed mathematician (to my knowledge) said that this problem is “an extraordinarily difficult problem, completely out of reach of present day mathematics”

innerchildabortionclinic

"why do you still bring up charlie kirk" because it's funny. his death is genuinely a running joke to me. you could say it's the greatest contribution he has made to society

bruntalism

we kill the bat man

touhouweed

bossbutch

paperandpencilsandskips

orphetoon

yeah so you remember when my old mentor told me that my path to revenge against the evil king would only leave me cold and empty? yeah it turns out that was a lie. yeah i actually feel really great now. the blood washed off my hands super easy

heedra

if i couldn't have any of the obvious first choice superpowers i would want my power to be the power of i can go anywhere and its not a problem. the way this power would work is that as long as im peaceful and respectful i can go anywhere and nobody will see it as weird or see me as a target for hostility. i can walk into a cool house to politely peep the decor or walk into a tall office building to politely peep the decor or walk around a city at night alone to politely peep the decor or walk into a strange facility to politely peep the decor or walk onto a plane and ride the plane to its destination and then walk around there to politely peep the decor and its fine as long as im chill. no need to make me faster or anything i can just walk at a normal pace. its good for the soul.

trix-the-artemis

For context,

Torment Nexus : "an idea that is so bad and dangerous in theory and practice that its indistinguishable from capitalist satire".

Luddite event : After the creation of textile machines (which produced fabric at a lower quality but faster rate while being dangerous to operate), textile mills fired a huge amount of their workforce leading to the remaining workers becoming overworked. A Luddite event thus in this context is "an innovation that is exaggerated to excuse mistreatment of the workforce".