mathemachristian

A lot of people do and it sounds like you have excellent reasons to hate her. Is psychotherapy an option for you? It would help unpack a lot of the stuff. The pitch to your mom could be that a therapist would see right through it if you are faking it, and she would get more time to herself.

Gotta work on your pitch though since it sounds like she might be averse to the idea.

I don't know the exact reasoning for it, I would guess it's because '.' is also used to delimit file types "A book on the.pdf" < "A book on the pdf.pdf" or "Book.pdf" < "Book sequel.pdf"

I guess your confusion has in part to do with reading digits as numbers, but within a string they are part of an alphabet, every character stands on its own and has no relation to the characters around it. There is no difference between "5 1", "5.1" and "511" you just pick an ordering of the alphabet and then sort each character accordingly.

Check the top: apparently "5" < "5.5" but "5 A" > "5.5 A". It's probably because a substring is lexicographically before the string containing it.

But when comparing 5 A with 5.5 A the second characters ' ' and '.' get compared and apparently '.' < ' '.

agree on your point though.

Idk, what broke me into leftism was "Wage Labour and Capital" and what sealed the deal was "Socialism: From Utopian to Scientific". It wasn't the freshness of the ideas that blew me away but how solid and rigorous the foundations are.

Before that I thought lefties just turn the "social programs" dial to 11 and the infighting was about how to best turn that dial and how social programs should work. To see such a rigorous approach to politics blew my socks off and broke with all my preconceived notions.

the beginning of the redemption arc? I hear every anarchist mention "The Conquest of Bread" by Kropotkin, it's gotta be good I just haven't gotten around to reading it.

oh also, not that I have read it, but I hear "The conquest of bread" by Peter Kropotkin is almost mandatory reading for any anarchist.

I'd be wary of ukranian anarchist spaces if you don't know anyone there. Some of the "anarchists" from the maidan went on to fight for Azov and OUN. Also I hope you are reasonably safe that your connection can't be snooped on as I'd think they are looking to draft lefty people first. Stay safe!

Due to the lack of a massive organization, the first anarchist and anti-fascist volunteers went to war individually as single fighters, military medics, and volunteers. They tried to form their own squad, but due to lack of knowledge and resources, this attempt was unsuccessful. Some people even joined the Azov battalion and the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists). The reasons were mundane: they joined the most accessible troops. Consequently, some people converted to right-wing politics.

https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/15/war-and-anarchists-anti-authoritarian-perspectives-in-ukraine

It's perdectly understandable which part trips you up?

terrible

What a joke, unless you stop shoving AI and it's mindboggling demands for energy into everything your not serious about carbon emissions

odd stuff should be taken care of by the admins though they gotta defederate instances that have poor spam control

Hmm I guess not I just saw that behaviour. It probably just blocks the posts on that instance no matter who posted it, but not the users who can be free to post somewhere else.

So if there is an instance about, for example, AI gen that you dont care for you can block that instance instead of every community on that instance individually, but the users of that instance might post about OSS or something on another instance which you then would see.

Out of curiosity what spam are you talking about?