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Cake day: January 7th, 2024

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  • Why are you dating if you’re that afraid? “Anxious people deserve to die alone at home” ass comment.

    Honestly, having a backup friend in a date, given that I’m getting a heads-up because surprises aren’t very nice, would be a plus, i can meet a person, and their trusted friend, which is also important to understand where a person comes from, even though they’re not likely to stay for long.



  • You’re correct, it says so in the article further down, It’s not a paradox in the “formal” sense, it’s only a paradox in the sense of what intuitively would be considered evidence, but in actuality isn’t, I’ll try to give an easier example to demonstrate use of actual basic logic.

    Claim: “all natural* numbers are even”.

    • Natural: whole number which is zero or greater. (Zero not always included, blame mathematicians)
    1. Notice that pointing at a natural number which doesn’t contradict the claim, isn’t evidence, and that exists infinitely many natural numbers who don’t contradict the claim (2, 4, …), yet 1 does, and is considered evidence to the contrary.

    2. Notice that pointing at a non-natural number, which doesn’t satisfy the claim, also isn’t evidence, also in this case there are infinitely many such numbers (-1, -3, ½,…).

    Also as a demonstration, let’s invert the claim formally, we swap “all” with “exists”, and invert predicates: “exists a natural number which isn’t even”, this inverse is useful because it can point to how to disprove the original claim, because there exists such a number (1), i can say that i proved the inverse of the original claim, this is equivalent to disproving it.

    Tldr: the paradox is a short exercise in how formal logic differs from naive intuition, there isn’t really a paradox.




  • i said maybe, not every Israeli is responsible for their fascist state, but shit, a lot of them are, even the liberals who always were just fascists and now have no problem with the genocide in Gaza.

    I would know, i have to interact with them every day.

    I never had any power or representation though, and was always against all of this even if I’m not really active, always concerned with survival and escape, so i don’t think a person like myself is responsible, I’m not gonna point a finger at any powerless person that has to look at this shit from the inside.

    So yeah, maybe, it depends.