Yes! It could be like Assassin's Creed where most of the story takes place in Civilization, but then there are interludes that take place in the modern world.
I'm not sure there's an answer beyond "because sometimes 'は' is pronounced 'wa'."
Kindof like asking "why is 'c' sometimes pronounced like an 's' like in 'cistern.'"
"こんにちは" is another word in which "は" is pronounced "wa".
I'd imagine there are probably historical reasons, but I don't know them. I suspect the cases where "は" is pronounced "wa" are pretty rare and just have to be learned by wrote.
This actually provides we here in the Post-Industrial US immense cause for celebration. All of our lives(Regardless of gender)are so cushy, we have the luxury of devoting days and weeks to mulling over an extremely far fetched hypothetical, the likes of which no one who isn't living in rural Alaska will likely encounter
This community sends “All lives matter” vibes. I understand that there are issues with how men are treated and there is nothing wrong with talking about it, but it does seem a little bit like a distraction from feminism issues. Women are objectively under a lot bigger threat and talking about women rights more makes a lot...
Yeah, I get it. It’s a really difficult line to ride saying “men aren’t doing well” while also avoiding a) comparing the magnitude of men’s issues to the magnitude of womens’ issues b) minimizing women’s issues, c) blaming women, and d) generally coming off as a men’s rights douchebag.
I think it’s fair to say that as toxic and objectively horrible as the men’s rights movement is, there’s a need (in, almost exclusively, men) that it’s filling. And it’s a need that the left isn’t filling.
I think to the extent that this community puts men and everyone else on opposite sides, it needs improvement. But to the extent that its focus is men and everyone else against patriarchy (which oppresses everyone at the behest of the 0.1%), it fills a much-needed niche.
I can’t say I haven’t heard a thing or two here and there that made me cringe a bit and think there was a hint of “part of the problem” in the “part of the solution.” But “men’s liberation” is definitely a direct response to and in opposition to the men’s rights movement and in my mind an overall positive.
Plus, I think part of how the patriarchy is oppressing men in particular is by making/keeping it socially unacceptable for men to discuss their issues. And communities like this one are part of the solution to that issue in particular.
All that said, I haven’t been keeping up with this community quite as much lately as I have in the past. So if it’s taken a bad turn, I guess it may well be problematic.
The appeal of a grievance-based identity makes it hard to convince straight white boys that they in fact have plenty going for them, and that they have no reason to feel aggrieved.
Yeah, but they do have reason to feel aggrieved. Patriarchy is fucking boys and men over too.
If you are on call and you receive a call at say 3:45 am and you resolve the issue by 4:30 am. Is it then worth trying to go back to sleep to wake up for work the next day or should you just stay awake and power through it?...
Sorry to say I don’t have any good answers about this. When midnight on-call calls became a fairly regular occurrence for me, I quit my job to go somewhere it wouldn’t be any significant issue.
But if it helps, I’ve always gone back to bed after a call and laid there trying to fall asleep until either I fell asleep and got a little bit of extra sleep or my alarm went off and I had to work. I always felt like crap when I did, but I doubt I’d have felt any less bad had I stayed up instead. My theory was that even if staying up might be preferable at the time, going back to bed, even if I only got an hour of sleep, would be better for me (at least in terms of not shortening my lifespan as much) in the long run.
(Full disclosure, I’m a coder, not a sysadmin, but they were taking DevOps pretty seriously, so I was on call for the applications my team maintained.)
I didn’t intend for the “lifespan” bit to be an analogy. I meant that sleep deprivation will literally shorten one’s life. Especially if it’s a frequent occurrence. When it comes to things like 3:00am calls, I’ll prioritize my health over my usefulness to the business any day.
I recently watched Star Trek: The Next Generation and in Season 1 Episode 11 he gets offered a cigarette and takes it, for me indicating that he would smoke. Even though he coughs after pulling once. is it just to fit in to the character of dixon hill or the actor or is it picard as a character?
Jeffrey Combs better known as Weyoun, Brunt, Shran and many others - how do you say his surname? As in what you use to detangle your hair? Or more like Cooms?...
I am re-arranging the shelves in an old bookcase, and I’m having trouble removing a few broken shelf pins inside the holes I want to use. They don’t protrude enough for me to get any kind of grip with the needle-nose pliers that I used to take out the other pins....
My first thought is to try to narrow down where the issue could possibly be. Maybe disconnect all but the one furthest away from the spot on the floor. If it still beeps when you walk there, try disconnecting that one and connecting the second-furthest.
(Of course, if they’re daisy-chained, you might not be able to connect them independently. But if you can, it could help.)
Any wiring that could possibly run through the area where the spot on the floor is, disconnect it and try the spot on the floor again.
Do that until you’ve got it narrowed down to “the connection between point A here and point B there.” Confirm that if the entire system is fully connected except for that wire, it doesn’t go off.
Then try disconnecting just one end. Then the other.
Then, disconnect both ends and break out your multimeter with a continuity detector. Connect two wires in that suspect cable that shoudln’t be connected and walk over the spot on the floor. (Go slow, because some continuity detectors take the better part of a second to detect and start beeping.)
Theoretically, that whole process should help you narrow down where exactly the problem is before you start tearing up floorboards or whatever.
Also, if you do narrow it down, you might be able to get away with tying a new replacement wire to the old wire and pulling it through, which would be a lot less invasive if you do manage to pull it off.
Though, if the issue is a nail through the wire or something, your best option might be to just open a hole in the floor right under “the spot” on the floor.
There are several ways of approaching that particular question. And none are simple, actually.
First, just to frame why 0/0 is so weird, consider 1/0. Asking “what’s 1/0” is like asking “what number when multiplied by 0 equals 1?” There’s no answer because any number multiplied by zero is zero and no number multiplied by zero is one.
So now on to 0/0. “What’s 0/0” is like asking “what number when multiplied by zero gives zero?” And the answer is “all of them.” 1 times 0 equals 0, so 1 is an answer. But also 2 times 0 is 0. And so is pi. And 8,675,309.
So, you could say that 0/0 doesn’t have a single answer, but rather an infinite number of answers. That’s one way to deal with 0/0.
Another way is with “limits”. They’re a concept usually first introduced in calculus. Speaking a bit vaguely (though it’s definitely worth learning about if you’re curious, and it seems you are), limits are about dealing with “holes” in equasions.
Consider the equasion y=x/x. With only one exception, x/x is always 1, right? (5/5=1, 1,000,000,000/1,000,000,000=1, 0.00001/0.00001=1, etc.) But of course 0/0 is a weird situation for the reasons above.
So limits were invented (by Isaac Newton and a guy named Leibniz) to ask the question “if we got x really close to zero but not exactly zero and kept getting closer and closer to zero, what number would we approach?” And the answer is 1. (The way we say that is “the limit as x approaches zero of x divided by x is one.”)
Sometimes there’s still weirdness, though. If we look at y=x/|x| (where “|x|” means “the absolute value of x” which basically means to remove any negative sign – so if x is -3, |x| is positive 3) when x is positive, x/|x| is positive 1. When x is negative, x/|x| is negative 1. When x is 0, x/|x| still simplifies to 0/0, so it’s still helpful to our original problem. But when we approach x=0 from the negative side, we get “the limit as x approaches 0 from the negative side of x/|x| is -1” and “the limit as x approaches 0 from the positive side is (positive) 1”. So what gives?
Well, the way mathematicians deal with that is just to acknowledge that math is complex and always keep in mind that limits can differ depending which direction you approach them from. They’ll generally consider for their particular application whether approaching from the left or right is more useful. (Or maybe it’s beneficial to keep track of how the equasion works out for both answers.)
I’m sure there are other ways of dealing with 0/0 that I’m not directly aware of and haven’t mentioned here.
So, to wrap up, there are some questions in mathematics (like “what’s 0/0?”) that don’t have a single simple answer. Mathematicians have come up with lots of clever ways to deal with a lot of these cases and which one helps you solve one particular problem may be different than which one helps you solve a different problem. And sometimes “there’s no right answer” is more helpful than using clever tricks. Sometimes the problem can also be restated or the solution worked out in a different way specifically to avoid running into a 0/0.
It’s definitely unfortunate that they don’t teach some of the weirdness of mathematics in school. But something I haven’t even mentioned yet is that all of what I’ve said above assumes a particular “formal system.” And the rules can be quite vastly different if you just tweak a rule here or there. There’s not technically a reason why you couldn’t work in a system which was just like Peano Arithmetic (conventional integer arithmetic) except that 0/0 was by definition (“axiomatically” – kindof “because I said so”) 1. (Or 42, or -10,000, or whatever.) That could have some weird implications for your formal system as a whole (and those implications might render that whole formal system in practice useless, maybe), or maybe not. Who knows! (Probably someone does, but I don’t.) (Edit: looks like howrar knows and it does indeed kindof fuck up the whole formal system. Good to know!)
One spot where mathematicians have just invented new axioms to deal with weirdness is for square roots of negative numbers. The square root of 1 is 1 (or -1), but there’s no number you can multiply by itself to get -1.
…right?
Well, mathematicians just invented something and called it “i” (which stands for “imagionary”) and said “this ‘i’ thing is a thing that exists in our formal system and it’s the answer to ‘what’s the square root of negative one’ just because we say so and let’s see if this lets us solve problems we couldn’t solve before.” And it totally did. The invention(/discovery?) of imagionary numbers was a huge step forwards in mathematics with applications in lots of practical fields. Physics comes to mind in particular.
When Lower Decks first came out, I didn’t give it a fair shake. I was still salty from Discovery season 1 ruining Klingons again and felt like an animated Star Trek comedy just mocked Star Trek as a whole and rubbed salt in the wound. I’m glad I gave it another chance after Discovery redeemed itself. I still want them to eat a little bit of crow by putting some real Klingons on Discovery, though.
Any answer to this will be an oversimplification, but my short answer is increased poverty makes for more people with unfulfilled needs. With holes to fill as it were. Food fills that hole. Not perfectly, but enough that people use food in place of what actually fulfills. But food is only a substitute, so it doesn’t sate. There are many things people can substitute for what’s actually fulfilling, but sugar is the cheapest “drug” on the market. The same dynamic is a huge part of what underlies the opioid epidemic.
Feels like a shower thought, but I seriously want to know if there are any implications, because it seems like identical twins are able to sense, understand, and almost be extensions of each other - finish each other’s sentences/thoughts. Some even claim to be able to sense their twin when they’re separate. Hard to believe,...
This hits home really hard. I’ve watched it a couple of times now.
I do have a couple of quibbles. Speaking in mocking tones about homeless women at 15:33. (“There’s more homeless men than homeless women” definitely doesn’t make it ok to downplay the suffering of homeless women.) Also, I think he could have done a slightly better job talking about the “sex strike” at 7:15. (The incels probably have a propensity to mischaracterize all situations where a woman declines to have sex as “witholding sex to emotionally manipulate.” I definitely don’t think that’s what TheBurgerkrieg was saying nor that he thinks that way, but it could have been made clearer.)
Though the argument might could be made that it’s just scary as a member of a privileged class talking about privilege and I’m projecting in a way that is making me hypercritical.
But, more importantly, I wish more people talked about this issue and more generally that systemic bigoted hierarchies control and harm the privileged too. (While also being way too careful to be clear that they’re not trying to compare the suffering of the privileged to the suffering of the underprivileged. ;) )
The thing I hated about Enterprise was that they tried their hardest to distance the series from the “Star Trek” brand, later realized their mistake, and then shoehorned a lot of contrived Star Trek stuff back in.
The first season, they didn’t market it as “Star Trek: Enterprise.” They just called it “Enterprise.” On purpose. Specifically to distance it from Star Trek. Maybe part of their rationalle was that it was set before “Star Trek” was “Star Trek” or something?
Also, they got rid of holodecks, but then have a contrived holodeck episode. They got rid of borg and then “oh wait there were borg in tEarth’s arctic or some shit the whole time.”
Enterprise never felt very Star Trek to me on that basis.
But then again, I haven’t watched any Enterprise since it was new on UPN. I also disliked Lower Decks when I first started watching it. I gave it another chance later and now I love it. Maybe if I gave Enterprise another chance, I’d like it. Who knows.
Honestly, I don’t remember Enterprise being ok with slavery, but again I haven’t watched it since it was new. It’s possible I just don’t remember that. I definitely remember the over sexualized stuff (not that Voyager was all that light on that, but it did seem more blatant in Enterprise.)
Actually, when it was new, I quit watching it in the middle of the series. Which is saying something given how into Voyager I was before it ended. To this day, I think Enterprise is the only official series I haven’t seen all of at least once.
Edit: Oh, one thing I like about Enterprise is that it became the punching bag and took the heat off of Voyager, which is still my favorite series. Probably more for nostalgia reasons than objective quality I’d admit.
xkcd #2949: Network Configuration ( imgs.xkcd.com )
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Why は is pronounced as 'wa' when it is used as connecting word
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Is the actor of captain Jean-Luc Picard a smoker?
I recently watched Star Trek: The Next Generation and in Season 1 Episode 11 he gets offered a cigarette and takes it, for me indicating that he would smoke. Even though he coughs after pulling once. is it just to fit in to the character of dixon hill or the actor or is it picard as a character?
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When someone walks over a certain part of the loft floor, all the smoke alarms in the house beep
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Is zero divisible by zero?
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