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  • Hey another anarchist engineer spotted in the wild!

    And hey at least control theory tends to have practical applications. I keep wanting to write basically a whole dynamics and statics textbook but where the formulas are extended to non-Euclidean spaces. Not just to like hyperbolic and parabolic geometry but to even more exotic metric spaces that aren’t locally Euclidean or necessarily continuous.

    Not much use for that kind of math whatsoever, but it’s fun

    What part of control theory are you focused on?



  • I think the most extreme and consistent bipolar weather I’ve seen was in Nevada where during the night it’d get down to 30°F (-1°C) and then almost as soon as the sun came up the frost would evaporate as daytime temperatures rose to 113°F (45°C)

    In terms of chaos, I’d say Utah takes the cake. Not just because it can go from snowing to 90°F weather and back repeatedly in a week, but because during those chaotic weeks you can drive less than an hour in any direction and find completely different weather.

    If violence in the chaos is desired, the southern Midwest probably wins. Tornadoes and golf ball sized hail will fuck up your day and then everything is unbearably sunny again. The east is a close second since it gets wrecked by hurricanes occasionally, but less frequently than tornadoes hit the midwest

    I doubt Californians think their state is bipolar. Same with other temperate states.


  • I was able to solve the first two layers of the cube when I was around 5 (I found it in the toy chest at my grandmother’s and spent the entire trip working on it)

    A long time later, in highschool, I bought one and tried to solve the whole thing myself. After a couple days I gave in and looked up how to do the last bit.

    Once you learn the steps it’s hard to forget them and it’s surprisingly easy to generalize them for other sizes/shapes of cubes.



  • There is life deep within the earth that will likely survive no matter what happens to the planet. The sun could fade, we could nuke the surface, have an asteroid completely resurface half the planet, and microbes will survive and eventually recolonize the entire world.

    Not that we’d want a mass extinction of so many unique and beautiful things, but it is a comforting thought to realize we can’t really do anything that would render earth entirely devoid of life. And even if everything we know was lost, life would rise again to reclaim the rubble.




  • Cum is a word for semen. When a human male ejaculates, semen discharges from the penis, often several times in succession.

    Due to the viscosity of semen and its high discharge velocity the “projectiles” often come out more as lines or “ropes” of fluid

    So “rope blasting” is one of the many different ways of saying “ejaculating semen”

    The characters are not fond of imagining a penis ejaculating semen everywhere every time the name of the gun comes up, so they react to it noticeably.

    I think the “joke” of this meme is mostly just like “guess what the gun is called.”

    I definitely needed the description to remember that even was a phrase, so this joke really only lands if you’re familiar with it being called that.

    Hope this helps lol