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(disclaimer: I am a leftist and voting for Biden despite his policies)

It’s just the darndest coincidence.

It's not. Go talk to your coworkers, neighbors, or fellow students. It doesn't matter how they're going to vote, most of them are like "BOTH SIDES ARE BAD!!!! But I'm voting for [asdf] because [qwerty]" or they use it as an excuse as to why they aren't going to bother voting. It's very American.

Source: (Turd Sandwich / Giant douche)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7pfsneLSSM] episode of South Park aired in 2004 (FUCK! that's 20 years ago). I was there. Everyone was like "HAHA SAME. That's why I'm completely checked out. I'm so fucking smart."

Listen, I'm typing this up because this sort of absolutist rhetoric is just fostering online division and you've gotten a lot of upvotes for it. Yes there are Russian shills (especially on Lemmy). But this is a very common opinion, and pretending it's not isn't serving anyone or fixing a problem. Calling people you don't know and can't know Russian shills is just name calling.

Mexico attacked the US like Hamas attacked Israel

Bad comparison. Mexico is an independent nation recognized by the UN. No nation disputes it's sovereignty over it's lands.

Palestine is dependent on Israel. Israel controls the flow of people and goods from it's borders. Israel controls electrical power to Palestine. Israel geographically surrounds Palestine.

One actor holds all the cards here. One actor has the power to improve conditions in Gaza (people don't generally choose to support violent militants for no reason) and chooses to bomb it.

I'm not sure anyone has really provided a complete explanation of what is the difference between working with an absolute infinity and the way we do math normally in science and such.

Basically, no one has found the idea of using an absolute infinity to explain the world to be better than the way we deal with infinity in college courses. In college, you run across the idea that some infinite sets are larger than others (countable numbers vs uncountable). Edit - I think you could have the idea of different sized infinities and a final largest absolute infinity. It’s just that this concept isn’t useful. It would be like claiming God is purple. Nobody can prove you wrong and it doesn’t matter.

Of course, an infinite set makes sense in math, and has practical uses in the sciences, but nothing can truly be demonstrated to be unending. Another poster put it nicely - infinity is a direction, not a destination.

I recommend this video How to count past infinity by Vsauce (about 20 minutes long). It is closer to entertainment than a lecture but its pretty good. I'm only an undergrad math major but I haven't found any real problems with this video (though, he does start talking about ordinal numbers which aren't terribly useful to anyone that I know of, yet, except for some really complicated number theory stuff cryptographers might use, don't ask me. cryptographers are basically wizards imho).

“You don’t seem to understand. I’m not locked in with you, you’re locked in with me!”

[bonking noises]

The author of these paragraphs summarizes it very nicely. It takes a lot of talent to break things down like this, I wish more math textbooks were written this way.

I recommend this video as well:

The essence of calculus by threeblueonebrown

…that’s fine. Kind of boring though.

Think about it: do you really think Bethesda can expand this universe in a way that wouldn’t come off as stereotyping or downright racist in another nation? Could they make a story that’s interesting and authentic? Their writing has been pretty bad lately. They’re just not up to it.

It’s a poll ran by a university. Nate Silver found this institution reliable

Sometimes polls say different things. That’s why you do more than one. Sampling different populations in different ways gives different results. There isn’t anything nefarious happening here.

It’s a poll. Mentioning that these people exist is hardly propaganda. They exist. It’s hard to strategize how to reach voters who don’t agree with you if you bury your head in the sand.

The “Arabs” are American voters. Dearborn, MI is the largest population of Muslim people outside of a Muslim-majority nation.

(It’s in the article you didn’t read)

Nueters

Oh no

how do you pronounce this? Noiters? Nooters?

Edit: it’s very nice, neat idea

I agree with the other posters. Nothing about this article is critical of Biden (or Trump for that matter).

Unless of course you think that acknowledging that some people don’t like either candidate is an anti Biden opinion… seems like a logical leap; this article is very dry.

People are allowed to be biased, anyway, this is just an internet community. Nobody here is claiming to be an objective journalist or something.

It was years ago.

Easier said than done, anyway. I was just shocked he said that. I'm sure if I wanted his statement in writing he would have written something like "I don't recommend this for women who have not yet had children because there are plenty of other effective treatments like [etc]" and nobody would care.

Someone at my work was told something similar by a different doctor (in a different state!) that he wouldn't sterilize her because she wasn't married. She had 3 children already in her mid twenties.

Pushing back on this stuff is a battle that shouldn't have to take place on the personal level. We're going backwards in women's healthcare in America, too.