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Ecco the dolphin

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I am a time-traveling dolphin. An entity made of giant balls gave me the ability to breathe underwater, but this ability was recently stolen from me by aliens.

Sometimes I turn into a bird.

  • What do you want to be when you grow up? USA vs UK vs China

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  • This poll annoyed me so much I googled it. It's just a really shitty poll. There is no reason to believe the 5 listed jobs is a subset of the answers. This is an infographic summarizing a single question from a survey that seems to be commissioned by LEGO.

    Article from the "Harris Poll"

    I couldn't find like, an academic paper describing the poll. There's no methodology for it I can find. It's just some corporate fluff piece, frankly.

    So I guess 3% if these are the only 3 countries included

    Yep, only 3 countries. This is just a trash poll.

  • What do you want to be when you grow up? USA vs UK vs China

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  • It says all the children were given an option to pick up to 3 answers.

    Mmhmm, I also noticed that, which is why it's the second sentence in my post.

    Given the small sample size

    It's a survey of 3,000? It's still possible that only one person was giving the survey to the Chinese students.

    But yeah, it does look like the Chinese students got different instructions or had them explained differently or something. Just a strange poll.

  • What do you want to be when you grow up? USA vs UK vs China

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  • 18+52+37+47+56=210 for China. Each child could pick up to 3 answers. The average number of jobs the Chinese children picked was 2.

    For USA/UK the average was about 1. Very few children selected more than one answer.

    That's weird. What a weird poll. Were there only 5 possible choices? I would have told you I wanted to be a veterinarian at that age, if I answered at all. (I did not become a vet, I became a failure lmao)

  • Selective rage

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  • She, famously, has no idea how humans live. She is culturally distinct from the Europeans on the coast.

    She has more in common with the fish that she speaks to. She's basically a magic dolphin.

    Meanwhile, the people in the OP image are humans (to my knowledge, I'm not a nerd). Humans who have lived in the human world with human pasts full of human culture which give context to their characterization. I'm sure their background stories matter to their fans.

    Nobody argues about what color the scales on Ariel's tail should be.

  • The impossibility of finding a Linux laptop that I like

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  • I bought a refirb Chromebook with an Intel CPU for $150 and put Debian on it.

    Its a piece of shit, but I feel like a technology racoon. Its also lightweight. I do my homework on it.

    Speakers don't work tho, but it's OK thats what headphones are for.

    You could just go cheap until u find something perfect.

  • The World's Ugliest Horse Statues Collection Part 5

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  • Don't Even Get Me Started On The Usefulness Of Learning How To Find The Area Of A Trapezoid

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    How dumb of an idea would it be to become a throuple?

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  • In a poly relationship with n members, there will be 2^n - n - 1 interpersonal relationships in play.

    This is the cardinality of the power set of n, minus the number of singleton sets and the empty set.

    Thought i would mention it, just in case you needed a quick way to calculate the number of relationships in ur polycule for ur therapist.

  • Am I the only person who notices the Autistic accent?

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  • How would you prove that you're from the future?

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  • I mean.... Ramanujan was the GOAT, but he was still able to do his proofs. That's more or less my point. He didn't suddenly convert a bunch of Oxford mathematicians to Hinduism because he was able to do incredible math proofs (i think they would have been similarly unconvinced he was a time traveller). The proof was in the pudding.... in the proofs.

    In order to do Wile's proof of Fermat's last theorem, you have to invent 100 years of math from memory, something Wiles himself would (almost certainly) struggle to do, but maybe he could pull it off. I remember reading an article about Wile's proof, and he was incredibly humble about it, and described it as a collaborative effort between himself and his peers IIRC. The proof itself wasn't complete without a correction from another math academic IIRC. This thread is like, kind of a misunderstanding of math academics.

    In 1875 you don't have ZFC set theory and Cantor's works are bleeding edge (I think Cantor's work is controversial and incomplete in this time... fuck it, maybe you should just work with Cantor himself if you can find him. Maybe he'd believe you. I didn't take math history IDK)

    I cannot find a source to link to it now but I remember reading through Godel's incompleteness theorem, a proof of Fermat's theorem isn't possible without the extensions of classical mathematics that were developed in the 20th century.

    You'll have to take my word for it on that last bit. I'm a time traveling dolphin, after all.

    Anyway, that's more or less my point, you'd have to basically be an incredibly talented math professor (in theoretical mathematics, not applied) to demonstrate this proof to satisfaction to a bunch of professors in 1875. You'd also probably have to be white and male. It's just not something a casual lemmy poster can like, do, you know? There's a reason that Fermat's theorem wasn't proven for 350 years despite being accepted as true.

    (edit: I am tired so this is rambley)

  • How would you prove that you're from the future?

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  • You get into any university, ask to get the math/physics teachers together and present it to them, this certainly will start a chain reaction.

    The demonstration of the proof is actually incredibility complicated. You'd need to develop many new concepts of mathematics (all requiring proper proofs and getting your new contemporaries to agree with you) before you can preform it.

    All without the use of a electronic calculator and modern computer graphing and visualization techniques.

    I'm not convinced its actually feasible... You'd be recognized as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time from all the new concepts you've introduced, not just the proof for Fermat's last theorem. I'd pick something else. Like predicting an earthquake or something.

  • Scary words

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  • In the bottom right hand corner, you can see the words "tribute to a comic by BORS". The comic artist's website has this to say about this comic: "Tribute to that famous and cool comic by BORS".

    Its fine I guess? I think he should have linked to Matt Bors's website (which is easily found on google) but whatever. It is a low effort MS paint comic, after all.

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  • it allows you to make it cooler than just boring plain text

    Agree.

    People who find it annoying have grown old and boring, or are too young to have posted on a phpbb with a tacky signature.

    Tryin' to make a change :-\

  • If you had to ruin an entire app/website by integrating automatic logout, which app would you choose to achieve maximum damage?

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  • Do you not charge it when you sleep? I don't even have to charge mine every day because it's pretty new and I'm barely on it. And I use GrapheneOS so it's debloated.

  • If you had to ruin an entire app/website by integrating automatic logout, which app would you choose to achieve maximum damage?

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  • I have to sign in to 2-5 programs to complete service for customers

    I use shared terminals so I have to sign out when I am done

    Each task takes about 3-4 minutes of computer work, feels like most of my time spent is typing in a 15 character password in 2-5 programs. I do this all day, 8hr shift, graveyards.

    I just change a single digit number on this password when the 90 day rotation happens. Typing it in incorrectly 3 times gets me locked out, a call to IT. I work for tips, no time for that. My work environment is distracting, noisy and stressful, so even if I wanted to use "best practices" in choosing passwords, I really shouldn't.

    Management refuses to replace keyboards that aren't in good repair. Several have keys that stick.

    I type in a 15-char password probably 100+ times a day.

    my phone is dead for 2fa

    Lmao skill issue

  • Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material

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  • I had this problem with Pearson. I got around it by making sure my bowser (librewolf) reported windows as my user agent. This was last semester for an online intro level course, ymmv

    Edit: I see your other posts about how its not blocking access... Tbh I don't remember checking, I just remember checking my browser settings haha. Guess I didn't have to bother.

  • "You need to try Linux"

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  • The fediverse isn't ready for this level of sarcasm. Look at those downvotes, lmao.

  • Stalin the mysagonist

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  • I do believe that in order to achieve welfare/prosperity, not all the people have to work. And I do believe that there are more important things in life than working. I’d love to be a stay at home dad, but I can’t.

    Being a stay at home dad is work. Raising children is necessary work that capitalism requires, because it requires laborers. We have engineered a system in which this work is uncompensated, and if you gender this work, it causes gendered oppression.

    I will also point out that in America we have decided that unless you have a "job", society has decided that you pretty much don't deserve health care. Anyone who chooses a life of domestic labor in America puts themselves in a position where they are financially dependent on their spouse and their spouse's employment status. It doesn't have to be this way. We have forged these chains.

    Whether doubling the workforce is a good thing - that I’d keep up for a debate.

    If we had more workers, it could be that we wouldn't need those workers to work as long. Earlier retirement, shorter work weeks, whatever. The issue is not the size of the work force, the issue is what is chosen to be done with it.

  • Stalin the mysagonist

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  • Are you trying to imply doubling the available workforce is not good? Its usually a good thing. While their motivations are cynical, those leaders are doing good.

    ...or are you trying to imply that keeping women out of the traditional work force (by only allowing them to work unpaid in the home in domestic servitude, labor that capital does not value) increases the value of male labor through scarcity, which would be preferred?

    Sorry that second question kind of reads as an attack. A shitty coworker of mine said that to me unironically and tried to play it off as a joke when I pushed back.