Thanks, interesting and brief read!

For fuck’s sake 😂

And here I was thinking I’d had all my chuckles already, over silly little punny names. Yours is excellent lmao, and just a single character needed too!

Completely agree about watching the privacy destruction ramp up significantly in recent years. The one silver lining is that deciding how much and what to allow for myself and my children is just a lot easier, and even in less abusive scenarios, less smartphone use is good for basically all of us.

To be fair, that’s a pretty recent phenomena. Used to be adults at least who understood the necessity of continuity and long-term thinking, and who didn’t think they were the literal embodiment of the entire government.

But no disagreement, the last 10 years or whatever must feel like serious whiplash. Can’t blame anyone for not trusting a single thing out of my country these days, I sure don’t.

Hell yeah! And another dope thing about the whole shebang, turns out the derivative < - > integral operation is wildly useful for describing…everything.

The simplest example, that I love the most, is just the very pedestrian (pun intended) relationship between a car’s position, velocity, and acceleration. It’s just enough “levels” (of diff < - > int) to have some instructional “meat”, and it’s a totally ubiquitous experience.

And then, when peered at more closely, that kind of relationship starts to crop up everywhere, suggests so much more!

Calculus is best maf

So, the heart of the issue is that each object’s path changes continuously, and the forces involved change in kind. Even worse, the objects interact with each other, again continuously - it’s not one-sided.

If you imagine trying to do it pre-Calculus, some kind of “just map it all out into a grid, etc.”, you can see the problems this continuous change imposes (exercise left for the reader).

By involving the Stravinsky Interpretation, it quickly becomes clear that the dimorphic superposition destabilizes. The clever reader might object “but what if you fold in all the noodly surfaces to recohere the manifold?”

And that clever reader would be right! But we didn’t know that until old Dr. Isaac “Zeke” Newton came along and made it that way.

Some say the devil himself taught him how it’s done, because no one else can read his notes! So keep your eye on old Zeke when you run into him.

You say complacent, I say complicit.

It’s all of them.

But which one that has been on magazines and had a phase where they infused the blood of the young? Idk, what you’re saying is just not very specific 🤷‍♂️

Unrelated but are you seeing these posts from Friendica? How are you liking it?

Your comments here always tag the poster or commenter your replying to, which stands out on Lemmy, that’s why I noticed and why I’m asking :)

I was legit waiting for the reveal, with a “that sad little man? <INSERT_TECH_OLIGARCH>”

Lol who is downvoting, it’s not THAT hot of a take!