#rationalizing

[tinywafflerat]

Okay am I stupid or is the undertale/deltarune hyperfixation just like. Half hibernating. Why did I watch a 2 hour long playthrough and a 30m video on leitmotifs

[jhai-writes]

…or maybe you’re just an asshole.

Have you considered that?

—J. Hai

[ismellvinegarandfries]

from now on every decision I'll be making will be determined by a coin flip

[liberatingreality]

I suppose it’s no surprise that we feel the need to dehumanize the people we hurt—before, during, or after the hurting occurs. But it always comes as a surprise. In psychology it’s known as cognitive dissonance. It’s the idea that it feels stressful and painful for us to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time (like the idea that we’re kind people and the idea that we’ve just destroyed someone). And so, to ease the pain, we create illusory ways to justify our contradictory behavior.

Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publically Shamed

[dancing-lex]

Thinking carefully about sending a concerned, caring message to a man like. To tell a guy that you care about them is surprisingly vulnerable, so much unlike telling a woman that you care. Men are much more likely to take that care and spit it back in your face in the form of a joke or cruelty or standoffishness. They're more likely to create more emotional distance in response. But I figure I have to be true to myself and try to show men care anyway, because they don't deserve it any less than women do

[pandannon]

Got tickets to see Twenty One Pilots in May 2025. I’ll be at school in Edinburgh so I’m going to see them in Glasgow!

There’s nothing I can do except wait but I am sort of anxious because the concert is on a Monday during final exams.

I’m calming myself down by rationalizing:

1) as a masters student I probably won’t have as many exams

2) there’s only a small chance that I’ll have an exam on that specific Monday

3) even if I have an exam on that Monday, it is likely that it will end by or before 5pm

4) Glasgow is ~45 minutes by train from Edinburgh

5) the concert starts at 6:30 and I’m ok with missing the openers if I literally have to come from an exam

6) the tickets were surprisingly not as expensive as I thought they were gonna be, so I am ok with paying for an Uber to get me to the show if needed

7) I have a whole year and two semesters to make friends (I got two tickets because I don’t want to go alone) and figure out a plan

8) I’ll be in Scotland so I will be living the dream regardless

*deep breath*

I feel much better

[drcyrus]

Rationalizing denominators

The process of multiplying an irrational denominator with another irrational denominator to make it rational is known as rationalizing the denominator.

When a surd of order two is squared, a rational product is obtained. For example: When we have a fraction with surds in the denominator,we can remove the surd in the denominator by multiplying it with a surd that will make the irrational denominator become rational. The process of multiplying an irrational denominator with another irrational denominator to make it rational is known as…

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