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  • bestmiaou@lemmygrad.mltochapotraphouseTag yourself
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    4 days ago

    have you met many quants? a large number of them are like that, in much the same way that crypto currency people are (in fact, i think the crypto people are like that because they are poorly copying the quants).




  • here is a partial critique i read of whipping girl many years ago which has stuck with me Deconstructing Whipping Girl By b. binaohan

    these issues that you highlight seem strongly tied to Serano's bioessentialist understanding of gender, which (iirc) is whatever in-born tendencies that you have one way or another. once you start trying to find gender in biology, you quickly end up reproducing the biologization of gender that is the basis of modern era misogyny because gender was one of the driving ideologies that shaped the biological study in the first place.

    once you make that connection, it becomes more clear where the "binary-phobia" stuff comes from. it's literally just a reformulation of colonial era justification of eradicating native genders that the colonizers didn't like. and to get out ahead of the obvious misreading, white non-binary people in the US/europe are not colonized. capital would just generally prefer to be able to easily sort everyone into 2 easily distinguishable categories with pre-defined social positions.




  • the process, in brief, goes something like this:

    1. you write something (if this is the first time through this sequence for this work, it will definitely be bad. that's ok and expected)
    2. analyze that, which will reveal some significant flaws
    3. figure out some ways that may help with those flaws
    4. go back to step one with your improved understanding

    this can be very frustrating to begin with, but after a few tries you will start to see some improvement, and maybe even something you actually like.














  • bestmiaou@lemmygrad.mltochapotraphouseMothematician post
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    4 months ago

    so, start with:

    x = 0.999...

    now multiply each side by 10

    10x = 9.9999....

    now we subtract x from the left side, and 0.999... from the right, which is fine because they are equal:

    9x = 9

    and from there it should be fairly obvious that x is also equal to 1, which means 0.999... is also equal to 1