• Acute_Engles [he/him, any]
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    251 year ago

    Bringing up the fact that Pythagorean theorem doesn’t work when one of the known values is √2. Pythagoras really didn’t like this

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      141 year ago

      Pythagorean theorem works, I think you might be confusing this with the fact that the Pythagoreans rejected the notion of irrational numbers, but √2 is the length of the hypotoneuse of a right angle triangle where the other sides are unit length

      • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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        101 year ago

        John Lennon stopped beating his wife when the imaginary numbers patch dropped for Pythagorean Theorem™

    • ValpoYAFF [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      The Pythagorean relation ABSOLUTELY holds for a triangle whose legs are both 1 and whose hypotenuse is 2^(1/2). Pythagoras’ cult simply didn’t believe in irrational numbers, hence their trouble when the Pythagorean relation implied it. It is known there was even a proof at the time of the irrationality of the square root of two.

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        More specifically, I don’t know how advanced the details of mathematical philosphy were at the time. But a discussion point might be that just because irrational numbers are logically possible, doesn’t mean they’re “real” (in some sense). However, being constructible using basic geometric arguments (as a right angled isolese triangle is) would make arguing against their existence much more difficult.

  • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]
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    161 year ago

    okay so i think i figured out : EVIL

    If a Person lifes by Passive Income (Rent / Interest) he really lifes Parasitic from the ACTIVE INCOME of somebody else …

    So he has to somehow Justify that he llves Parasiticlly … that he does not LABOUR , and therefore does not (as we know ) CREATE VALUE …

    In reality the Clothes of the Landlord are not his! , his Tenant payed for it , his Tenant worked for it…

    How does one Justify that immense Patheticess to himself ?

    By Creating a Identity that is based around his “Deserving” of these Things , and his tennents NOT Deserving of these things.

    How does one does that ? There is literally nothing stopping your brain from hating those that demonstrate your own patheticness and the Tenent does that just by beeing tenent and working ! while the Landlord will does it as well , by beeing landlord and letting the Tennant work. He can simply not “Defie himself” as a Parasit … so he will define all else as “non Equal” instead ! with him beeing better … then he will try to find Musters in those “lesser Beeings” … and from there … well … darkness and Bitterness…

    • Kulmbacher Edelherb.
  • this is called a “punishment” and it’s what you get when you ask your parents to buy you booze. unless your parents are fucked up, then it’s like Mickey’s or Steel Reserve or Old Milwaukee.

    also, this kid needs to clean under his nails, because goddam.

  • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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    81 year ago

    scream about how much I hate “nerds” then go to the public library to beat them up only to realize that it’s been closed because it’s 10 PM on a thursday night