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Consider the set S of people living in the town of Newville. Which of the following correspondences specify a function? Explain.

(A) Each person in Newville (input) is paired with his or her mother (output).

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[Answer section:]

(A) This correspondence specifies a function; each person has exactly one mother.

@sinesalvatorem, saw this in my math textbook and thought of you.

(“But have you considered lesbians? Therefore, your argument is invalid.”)

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#I’m going to throw in a complaint while giving them a list of the typoes I’ve noticed in the first two chapters #apparently a bunch of errors snuck in during the ebook conversion process and they didn’t think to have it re-proofread afterward #they haven’t managed to get it proofread *properly* (i.e. by someone getting paid to comb through it carefully) #but they *did* fix the typoes in Appendix A I pointed out to them #so I’m going to keep them updated on the others I stumble across for the good of the class #(I’m not going to call them homophobic or anything) #(I’m going to say that the phrasing was ambiguous about whether to account for the possibility of lesbians and it confused me) #(which is true) #oh look an original post #adventures in University Land

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ilzolende:

nihil-descent:

ilzolende:

ozymandias271:

@ilzolende said: ew ew i have to share a gender with _cats_? ugh. i thought they were all supposed to be the same gender cat otherkin-as-gender people are or something
@nihil-descent said: can confirm, am cat and nb

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

@nihil-descent said:

a level 1 housecat beats a level 1 commoner every time

you’re a cat otherkin, you can totally claim to share a gender with cats

also you are a noncentral cat in that if i tell you to not touch me you will stop, you are not a vector for toxoplasma, and you probably aren’t a major threat to endangered bird species

on the other hand, tell me i share a gender with cats and i will be p offended

i don’t really have a response to this, i just find this whole conversation amusing

Thanks!

~follow for more amusing speciesism~

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #oddly enough it was the ~follow for more amusing speciesism~ that made me laugh #it’s meta-amusing I guess

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sinesalvatorem:

I know almost no Jews irl (family excepted). I know a lot of LW Tumblr people. LW Tumblr is disproportionately Jewish, but also selects strongly for other traits, so sometimes it’s easy to conflate them.

The other day, someone said Jews have boring sex lives, and I thought “But aren’t we all super kinky???”

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#Judaism #sexuality and lack thereof #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

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sinesalvatorem:

My college has a Christian youth group.

And black people are more religious than average.

So they keep going up to me and asking if I want to join, because I fit the profile of wants-to-join.

I could say I’m an atheist.

But I say “Sorry, I’m Jewish” and they get so confused.

I am proud of my life choices.

First thought: “Why is being black and Jewish confusing? When I first learned you were black and Jewish, I just assumed you were from the Ethiopian Jews. I mean, I gather that isn’t actually true in your case, but in general Beta Israel is a Thing.”

Second thought, addressing the first: “You know, just because we’ve heard of Beta Israel doesn’t mean it’s remotely common knowledge.”

Fair point.

(And while I had heard of the Ethiopian Jews, I was not aware until looking at the Wiki article while composing this that very few of them actually still live in Ethiopia. They’ve mostly moved to Israel, apparently.)

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#Judaism #reply via reblog

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comparativelysuperlative:

Since it’s today and all, have a link to the University of Leicester’s Department of Transtemporal Studies!

  • Recently published the proceedings of the International Symposium in Transtemporal Analysis from the 2020s
  • Can make exceptionally good guarantees of employment
  • Will achieve the peak flux capacitator design early next century
  • And offers a graduate degree in Black Death Studies. (Well, they don’t anymore. But under the circumstances, having previously offered it is just as good.)

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#time travel

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sinesalvatorem:

wizardshark:

copperbadge:

dukeofbookingham:

hanadoodles:

a song called ‘disco inferno’ just came up on my dash and i automatically registered it as “i learn by means of hell” before i realised the title was actually english and not latin

“I learn by means of hell,” forthcoming rap album from Doctor Faustus

When we figured out that’s what Disco Inferno meant (we translated it as “I learn through suffering”), it became the motto of our Latin class at college, and the unofficial motto of my undergrad. 

thats so fuckin awesome

GPOY

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#language

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Went to check my email and saw that Harper’s been ousted!

*cheers*

(I’m not sure I want to reveal my riding in a public post, so I’ll leave it at that.)

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#riding-specific version of reaction post available if I know you well enough #wi-ith gloooowing hearts #we seeee thee rise #the true north strong and free #from far and wide #o Canada #we stand on gua-ard for theeee #oh look an original post #our home and cherished land #it’s quite possible there’s already stuff on my dash about this #but I wrote this before catching up on Tumblr