Poems in true chronological order by post date
-> file: fediverse/3321 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── @user-1218 An image means nothing, for it is just an icon. like a picture of a floppy disk corresponding to writing memory from RAM into a hard disk platter, even tho those have three different tasks, so too does my icon gesture at something. On the other hand, art is necessarily divorced from it's meaning the moment it leaves the pen and is written to paper. So there cannot be a meaning in my flag, not one that I define of course. The observers of the artwork, of whom I am but one of, can possess their own ideas of what it means, of course. Here's mine, feel free to take your own: Sea, land, sky. The crimson of a fading light, and the bright beginnings of a new day. Man(kind), with our vivid red internals, stands astride the border of the ocean and the surface. We walk where we will, perhaps into the black depths of the cosmos beyond, but forever do we anchor ourselves and owe allegiance to our earth and our star. Sunlight casts crimson light upon our externals, as our hearts do beat through time. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/3322 ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────┐ ║ @user-246 │ ║ │ ║ yes, when defining with numbers it's easy because one is one and that's done. │ ║ │ ║ with concepts such as infinity or direction or cardinality, it's more difficult │ ║ because you need more than just a "magnitude from zero" to describe them. Rules │ ║ means more contradictions, which is totally okay! It just means you need more │ ║ than one definition of "infinity" for example, for different contexts. │ ║ │ ║ use a scalpel for surgery or art, when precision is needed, use a pocket-knife │ ║ like a leather~~man~~daddy for tougher tasks like whittling a spear or throwing │ ║ a spear or stabbing fascists with spears - where was I going with this? oh yes: │ ║ │ ║ when thinking of sets, to me infinity is more like... "too many numbers" like, │ ║ the meme with the guy who is having difficulty holding too many limes. They │ ║ overflow and spill out of your set-like-container, no matter how you define the │ ║ boundaries of the set. "does the set of all sets include itself or does it │ ║ overflow" kinda vibe. │ ║ │ ║ the idea of a chesspiece disagreeing with math lol! │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/3323 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursing-mentioned-banners-and-militias │ └────────────────────────────────────────────┘ in the modern era, no sufficiently advanced militia would use banners. They're sOoOoOoOo two thousand years ago. today, we just dress up in pup masks or wear a trans flag as a belt or wear solid black and red or whatever. That way all the normies can be like "hell yeah that badass is on our side - hell yeah we're pointing the right direction - hell yeah now I know whose flanks to cover" that kinda vibe. like woad warriors painting themselves with psychedelic toad venom (okay minus the psychedelics, trust me) the display of design heightens the absurdity and intensity of the moment. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/3324 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── @user-246 If I follow correctly, the reason it's not is because you're dividing zero by two? meaning the magnitude of infinity would be zero. ... chat, is infinity just... zero, viewed from a different perspective? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/3325 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── @user-246 so... if infinity is the inverse of zero, then when inverted would infinity also be zero? if so, it follows that the [spectrum/dimension/cardinality/direction] that the inversion is occurring upon might also have other steps inbetween. Unless it's a binary thing, like "top and bottom" or "present and absent". I wonder what those steps might look like? Clearly, since infinity minus infinity does not equal zero, the steps inbetween (if they exist) would not be numbers. If they were, then one single step from inverting infinity would be 1, but I don't believe that would be true. On the topic of rings, the axioms would be things like "a ring is a ring if you can trace a continuous line with a length of infinity across it's ring-like-surface"? I wonder what the inverse of a length is... Or perhaps you cannot invert a length, as to do so would give you a length of zero (in this particular ring-like-case) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/3326 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── @user-246 It's interesting to me that we can divide by infinity, but not zero. I feel like it's true that dividing by zero would equal infinity (or maybe zero too lol) but I don't know how to prove it T.T ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/3327 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────┐ │ CW: exclamation-marks │ └───────────────────────┘ @user-246 ❗ :ms_exclamation_exclamation: ‼️ :ms_red_exclamation_mark: :neocat_floof_owo_exclamation: ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ |