Post AtlajShV1p6CYBCGi8 by TobyBartels@mathstodon.xyz
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(DIR) Post #AtlMjNuhQbA4LSRLYe by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-04T21:34:24Z
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Who is most likely to be the most annoying?
(DIR) Post #AtlMqg4EKbM6fuNLAO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-04T21:35:42Z
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Somewhere there is a guy who says he did all four. I just... can feel it in my bones. You know how wizards can "detect magic" with a kind of sixth sense? Well this is the opposite of that ...
(DIR) Post #AtlMwLvu6Rqby1Bf3g by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2025-05-04T21:36:41Z
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@futurebird "I found some biblical place/thing"
(DIR) Post #AtlN1uYmmtLeoE1ZQG by spacegeck@astrodon.social
2025-05-04T21:37:41Z
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@futurebird I have to vote for the cold fusion one since it's the closest to my area of expertise. I'm pretty sure that these are all going to be directly related to how much you know that contradicts whatever they're saying. Like the heptagon thing I have no clue so it seems innocuous to me. 😂
(DIR) Post #AtlN32SqswC7c5motM by TerryHancock@realsocial.life
2025-05-04T21:37:50Z
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@futurebird The Cold Fusion is the one that is going to take me the longest read to find out for sure if it's bullshit. So I picked that one.I don't understand why heptagon is on here. Isn't that just a 7-sided polygon..? Why would that annoy me?
(DIR) Post #AtlNCa8n2vu2fIx9oO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-04T21:39:40Z
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@TerryHancock You can't make one with a compass and straight edge... but there is always a guy writing every math department saying he did it. Even poor community colleges get these letters. My mom used to have me read the crack letters to see if I could find the flaws when I was a kid. It was fun the first three times.
(DIR) Post #AtlNHykayWbIRHD46q by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-04T21:40:39Z
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@spacegeck It's the only one that's *impossible* so you don't really need to even bother to check if they did it.
(DIR) Post #AtlNTM4UboPnx8wPVA by TerryHancock@realsocial.life
2025-05-04T21:42:40Z
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@futurebird Oh, right. Okay. Like trisecting a line segment.
(DIR) Post #AtlNWkPgYy96JgTIgq by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-05-04T21:43:16Z
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@futurebird "I found the aliens" may intersect with all of those.Since I lately had a conspiracist spam me with the pretense that standing wave modes making polygons in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn was a message from aliens.
(DIR) Post #AtlNxq6HWiqpm0JWgi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-04T21:48:12Z
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... I ... feel a great source of disappointment ... a false beacon of hope of great power, yet with no substance ... a cold light with no warmth ... a black hole for the energy and time of countless people with better things to do.It's like a wrinkle in the fabric of the world, a fleck of dust in the eye... small but impossible to totally ignore.
(DIR) Post #AtlO1RJ5eMbE2J1P72 by darkling@mstdn.social
2025-05-04T21:48:46Z
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@futurebird There was a spate of "consistent, available and partition-tolerant data store" going around about 15 years ago.There's an actual theorem (the CAP theorem) that says you can't have all three, so in practice you have to choose either C or A, because going without P isn't really an option.
(DIR) Post #AtlOLSYwgtf9iqz5cW by dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-05-04T21:52:25Z
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@futurebirdIs the first one like a comical Italian character?
(DIR) Post #AtlOVQCeJp25IfJ0fQ by VaylLarkinPoet@disabled.social
2025-05-04T21:54:15Z
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@futurebird I'd argue for the arts-and-crafts skill implied with options 1, 2 and 4, but mysterious texts always seem to be either a) a language from a country they never bothered to learn about. b) runes they got wrong when they chiseled/painted/crayoned them before the cameras rolled, or, c) a bill of sale for grain, which is what most Real ancient writings seem to turn out to be.
(DIR) Post #AtlOjYL6reIuaa08TQ by alakest@mstdn.social
2025-05-04T21:56:47Z
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@futurebird Today I learned of a word: "neusis"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neusis_construction
(DIR) Post #AtlPBbf66aZl09j9Yu by TerryHancock@realsocial.life
2025-05-04T22:01:51Z
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@futurebird By far the most tragic mysterious text for me is:Rongorongohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RongorongoThe ability to read this language was permanently lost due to colonialist bullshit in the 19th century. The story is maddening.It is, or would have been, of extraordinary linguistic importance, as it appears to be a completely independent origin of writing.It's probably ideographic, and might not be true writing, but more like a mnemonic.But I guess we'll never know.
(DIR) Post #AtlUYHL4KcAAOyzOwy by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2025-05-04T23:01:58Z
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@futurebird My real answer is "I disproved Einstein".
(DIR) Post #AtlZnspBk41AmDL03U by not2b@sfba.social
2025-05-05T00:00:49Z
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@futurebird Heptagons can be constructed, but not with just a straightedge and compass. Add a marked straightedge or conic sections and it is doable.
(DIR) Post #AtlajShV1p6CYBCGi8 by TobyBartels@mathstodon.xyz
2025-05-05T00:11:15Z
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@futurebirdI voted for bringing back Ice Age creatures because there are real scientists trying to do thi, or even claiming to do it when they're not, and causing real harm thereby (see recent Trump administration comments on endangered species and dire wolves).