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Eh, depends on the country. Stuff like Rawhide is just fine. Just about everything that's played on the radio for the last few decades, not so much. I'd actually put it below dubstep so far as personal enjoyment goes, ha.

Maybe it was a recommendation to throw someone into a well? To the well with them!

Eeeyyyuup. I basically mainlined headache medicine for a while when I was a kid until it was figured out I was nearsighted. Glasses fixed it right up. Which was very nice, because existence was basically pain by the end of the day without them.

Just saw what is apparently home depot's new logo. It was two wtfs in a row, because I first read it as "new generation of dong", and then realized that "new generation of doing" isn't much of an improvement.

They say they're a new generation, and then make their slogan effectively blatant innuendo. I can't tell if they're out of touch or too in touch for their own good.

And here we have the most obnoxious thing in the last dozen pages.

Eh, "discovery" in mathematics is a matter of analysis. It's not really finding something new as it is puzzling out the implications of what's already known. Which... makes it very unlike the normal usage of discovery, to the point it's frankly kinda' misleading, for all it's used fairly often. Very very different from something like physics. Physics you test, math you prove, or along those lines.

Know there's a better word for it vis a vis stuff like math, but I've forgotten what it is

1+1=2 has jack all to do with our universe's rules, though. Math derives itself from its axioms, which are things we invented, for all we largely tried to fit them with reality as we perceive(d) it. Its existential connection to the forces of reality amount entirely to the structure of how humans create and interpret concept systems. Everything else is, at base, functionally incidental. If you start from the same base, the results would be the same, basically. Everything besides the axioms themselves and their interrelation is irrelevant. If you wanted a different math, you'd have to use a different set of assumptions... and then it wouldn't be math, because those assumptions are fundamentally all math is.

It'd be like taking english, changing the alphabet, grammar, and vocabulary entirely, and then trying to say it's english again. It's still a means of communication, but a different one.

The only reason parts of it seem to adhere to what we consider real is because those are the parts where we use math as a way to describe what we see as reality. The math itself is as connected to what it describes as the language I'm using to communicate right now is a fundamental mechanic of existence (i.e. it isn't, to any direct extent).

Actually exists, apparently. At the very least it's the name of a character in something called Ninja High School. Which rings a bell for some reason I can't remember, but eh.