Message from @ThePangburn
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Matt Inman of The Oatmeal prompted Sarah Donner to write his works a theme song, "The Fucking Pterodactyl". What kind of music might be fitting for Zach Weiner-Smith of SMBC, or Randall Munroe of xkcd?
@everyone My AMA while jamming on the piano.
https://youtu.be/eTdIrS-5XE8
a hint to one of the math thought teasers above: When does 2+2=0 ?
(2+2)*0=0
(hint 2: pre-calc/trig should make some of those easier, but they're answerable with a strong 4th grade number systems knowledge, unlike what bad schools often deliver.)
@LokiV the problem is solvable. You will be lead to a polynomial of degree 5, with 4 extraneous solutions and 1 real, positive solution
> @LokiV the problem is solvable. You will be lead to a polynomial of degree 5, with 4 extraneous solutions and 1 real, positive solution
@BobbyMack
Only if a grid alignment parameter is added, that's missing. And that's the composite of the 3 right triangles I mentioned, based on a city edge variable and partial/full hypotenuse elements, and the step offsets, stacked from a series of basic Pythagorean theorum elements.
What does a grid alignment parameter mean?
Oh I see what you're saying, it assumes that we are using the conventions of north, south, east and west, yes. I didn't think that had to be specified
@everyone YouTube has slapped me with a 1 month advertising ban.. I am fighting it. No specific explanation given... Social Extremism is staking its claim... we must resist cancel culture. It is moving the goalposts further.
Blame that on frauds in the US legal and political systems.
Scams like Facebook and Amazon have perpetrated enough criminal acts so they should just be summarily shut down. An Alphabet (Google parent) is so huge and prolific, it's overdue to subject it to the neutrality obligations of some mix of "public accommodation" and utility, with quasi-government civil rights mandates, not private business entitlements to operate arbitrarily. The editorial tampering policies of all of the above are used in ways that none should qualify for the DMCA "safe harbor" immunity all of those and more claim, absent lawyering frauds to pretend content based speech censorship isn't that, under dishonest "community guidelines" designed to reflect some mix of corporate profit plans, or management prejudices.
Those are big changes to some pretty powerful profit and power centers, in major institutions. They're even messier when absurdities of US law are extended globally.
That's not just Cancel Culture - it's far worse. How many US politicians do NOT use Facebook or other criminal channels for self-promotion? How about judges, or agency policy setters? Would Canada ban US corporations that conspire in genocide, fraud, or human rights violations from financial activities affecting its citizens, or crossing inside its borders, financially, or technically? Even if it did, what enforcement is possible?
As one of the other drivers making that worse, how about the use of universities to indoctrinate a warm and fuzzy marketing scam attitude towards largely female, Cancel Culture riddled MeToo snowflakes, in ways that illegally oppress the very speech such institutions exist to foster? Why did The FIRE sue hundreds of US universities for illegal discrimination or Federal funds misuse over related policies, and how do those schools socially normalizing such practices in the minds of students tamper with perceptions of civil and human rights, or free speech, for decades to come?
i played @Tiago Rodrigues in chess earlier today and we both enjoyed it, anyone else who wants to play on this discord let me know!
Speaking of Canada, is Rushton's university projects depository of race & IQ data still available openly? How much of Jordan Peterson's medical issues are from stress maliciously imposed on him by bad actors trying to squash intelligent speech? Prior to the Barry Diller empire then led by Sammy Yagan taking over Plenty of Fish into the IAC/I illegal monopoly overdue for prosecution as such, to how may people were Marcus' Canadian political prejudices obvious, versus the Haavaad/Stanford ones of OK Cupid at al?
Stepping back, is it more appropriate to approach ad funded speech content discrimination by trying to change the ad targets momentum in larger societies, or to restrict the mega-corp platforms from pandering to discriminatory prejudices, real or imagined, and regardless of how that may or may not impact the revenues when users are monetized, in what really aren't "free" platforms, but ones were a modern form of human slavery are the tokens in use? Or, if conditionally both, on what conditions or with what dividing lines?
@ThePangburn I just saw a video where you explain your idea of pleasure drive being more accurate than consciousness. There is some empirical support to the idea that pleasure influences perception but the extent of that doesn't seem to me to be enough to justify your claim. I'm probably not understanding what you mean.
> @ThePangburn I just saw a video where you explain your idea of pleasure drive being more accurate than consciousness. There is some empirical support to the idea that pleasure influences perception but the extent of that doesn't seem to me to be enough to justify your claim. I'm probably not understanding what you mean.
@Tiago Rodrigues the book will be out soon... 🤓
re: YouTube demonetizing under secret policies they won't reveal, or that reflect arbitrary and subjective judgment:
That reflects a lot more than Google, and raises the legal isse of "void for vagueness" that fundamentally invalidates laws or contracts, as well as adhesion or coercion contracts, that in theory are fundamentally illegal and void, but are commonly used and upheld every day. There are also legal standards that in cases of grossly unequal parties to such contracts, they're to be interpreted in the manner most favorable to the less equal party.
There may also be issues of criminal fraud, to the extend video content was produced and delivered on the promise of certain revenues and terms for same, and now the monster corp is trying to refuse payments. Google and its ilk are so huge, they scare off government prosecutors who lack resources for a legal battle, but criminal charges could obligate government to fund legal actions that civil process would not.
In effect, subject to figuring out how to enforce law, Google like many others, some far more biased, can demonstrably be shown to be acting in violation of civil and criminal law. But, what parts of it can be enforced, and how?
Of YouTube channels with philosophy content, Pangburn is one that has some serious intellectuals in quality content engagement, unlike so many that have a huge amount of noise and garbage. It could be a 5-10 year project litigating relevant issues, and appeals, with biased courts that often kowtow to corporate scams as if legal norms despite law stating otherwise. That could make it a more desirable party for civil or criminal litigation to challenge major problems in monetization of net users and contracts with terms that are secret or unknowable in advance.
@everyone , behold https://twitter.com/bigpodesta/status/1305688126761963520?s=20
What a fuck head lol
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha
The cringiest shit lol
Which text channel is associated with the voice channel?
the top one under the voice channels I think
I get a kick out of people who are physically unintimidating yelling at the camera as if they are ready for a fist fight. You messed with wrong guy bro!!! Ok buddy
lol
@everyone have a sneak peek at the rough cut for the new men's health segment. Let's hear some feedback! https://youtu.be/hwuU0pdcrPM
@ThePangburn I think it’d be interesting if you would go out with a sign that said “Black people look like monkeys” (or whatever the title of your video was) and see what the general consensus on that statement is and how it is taken. And if they’re offended try and get them to use skepticism to not be offended.
Fun
Guys jump into the voice chat! Topic is guns!! @everyone
@everyone can you open the youtube stream and mute it while you're in the chat?? It helps the channel
Drug laws force private security to the black market, and caused a doubling of homicides since Post-Rockefeller Commission drug laws.
The USA is a nation of, by, and for terrrorists, shooting at Redcoats from behind rocks and trees.
Our 2nd Amednment is about defense against all enemies, foreign and domestic, which means mostly dirty politicians. Self defense is a 9th Amendment right, that the framers of our Constitution never expected to become controversial.
Switzerland mandates military firearms in most homes, and culturally, has low criminal violence. That's actual assault riflers and sidearms, not semi's that look similar.
In urban industrial society, more "violence" to people's lives is done by economic systems, than arms.