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A short mega today, since I just noticed one has not yet been posted.
Paul Erdos was an extraordinarily prolific mathematician, who produced contributions to mathematics that continue to astound today in terms of both quantity and quality.
I read this in his wikipedia bio, and thought it was interesting:
Possessions meant little to Erdős; most of his belongings would fit in a suitcase, as dictated by his itinerant lifestyle. Awards and other earnings were generally donated to people in need and various worthy causes. He spent most of his life traveling between scientific conferences, universities and the homes of colleagues all over the world. He earned enough in stipends from universities as a guest lecturer, and from various mathematical awards, to fund his travels and basic needs; money left over he used to fund cash prizes for proofs of "Erdős problems". He would typically show up at a colleague's doorstep and announce "my brain is open", staying long enough to collaborate on a few papers before moving on a few days later. In many cases, he would ask the current collaborator about whom to visit next.
Erdos is also believed to have been asexual and aromantic. :hexbear-aromantic:
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They've had much more practice than the US. America had one shitty bougie revolution, a bunch of slave revolts that white people suppressed, the civil war, the KKK insurgency, race riots, more race riots. Race riots but with different races this time, centuries of murderous wars and massacres against the Native Americans.
But what we've never had is any revolt or mass action that has meaningfully changed the system of government in the last like two hundred years and change. The oligarchs or bourgeoisie or whatever you want to call them have doggedly held on to power the entire time. We've never had a popular movement behead a president or break in to congress and execute them all. We're still on the same shitty obstructive power defending constitution from 1776.
Meanwhile France had like twenty major revolutions in just hte 1800s!
No wonder they're better at it than us.