vermetel [they/them]

Shorting Tesla stock is just like communism, both are cool and good.

Counterpoint: I'm going to start a PhD because "dr." is a gender neutral title.

it's gonna be a hexbear market.

wtf i hate 5 year plans now

Isn't it more "one attempted murder", where "attempted' means "you are up against an AI god whose battles with other AI gods last microseconds at most and also knows everything going on around it, good luck"?

My favourite one is "I do not respect fish".

Sounds like a good opportunity to link Well There's Your Problem: Las Vegas Loop

Diffie-Hellman:

• Assume Alice and Bob share a large prime p and a generator g for ℤ/pℤ.
• Alice chooses a randomly, sends A = g^a.
• Bob chooses b randomly, sends B = g^b.
• Alice computes B^a.
• Bob computes A^b.
• The outcomes are equal, and are the shared secret.

I thought he upgraded to a Stalin-adjacent hot air balloon?

You must be from Mexico City ;) I have some Mexican friends and they were poking fun at the chilangos saying things like "sopa seca" and "¿Quieres quesadilla con o sin queso?".

In the area of Philosophy of Mathematics, I have heard good things about Proofs and Refutations by Lakatos. (Pro-tip: if your local library doesn't have it available, archive.org is also a library for e-books!)

imagine accepting the law of excluded middle

why don't you just go and take your sword to go slay the dragon but you do not know whether your sword is good enough but you go anyway! while you're at it

Cool how everyone assumes there are only four genders: Male, Female, Trans (a.k.a bearded guy in a dress) and Non-Binary (a.k.a. woman with short hair).

The Angevin empire shall rise again!

The famous Frenchman with a British accent drinking tea all the time. He doesn't even wear a chain of onions around his neck!

My theory is that Picard is actually British, but has to pretend he's French due to still-ongoing Brexit negotiations.

Interestingly, my experience is that people in Mexico tend to use -e.