There are so many people bashing colonialism, but we need to have a balanced discussion. On the one hand, yes, people in the subjected parts of the world are made to suffer and/or are killed, but think of the enormous benefits to us privileged people in the global north.

This is a post about LLMs.

#colonialism #LLM #ai #explainingthejoke

@mjd Obviously the argument falls apart if one is looking at an English translation of Euclid because neither English nor Latin were popular languages then. (The oldest known Ancient Latin inscriptions predate Euclid's elements by a few hundred years.) Going down to the Bodleian we can read a Greek text copied in 888 AD where propositions end with the text (Prop 7 from Book I) ὅπερ ἔδει δεῖξαι corresponding to Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum) or (Prop 10) ὅπερ ἔδει ποιῆσαι which corresponds to Q.E.F. (quod erat faciendum) because Prop 10 is a construction.

https://www.claymath.org/library/historical/euclid/files/elem.1.10.html

#Euclid #Greek #Latin #ExplainingTheJoke #Overexplaining

elem.1.10

@quincy (Sorry going through posts on #strudel tag..)

I'm pretty sure it stands for general midi #explainingthejoke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_MIDI

General MIDI - Wikipedia

Trump: “I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems.”

Hilarious because most of the states that support him can’t take care of their own problems. #explainingthejoke

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/climate/trump-fema-states-disasters.html

Trump Says States Should Manage Disasters. Former FEMA Leaders Agree.

“I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems,” the president said. Federal emergency managers from both parties have made the same argument.

The New York Times
@chel ("lame" is a possible way of writing the second person imperative of the verb "to lick" in Spanish #ExplainingTheJoke )
Tay, Tay Tay, Tay, ta-tay t-tay ta Tay,Tay, take or leave us #costco #MelAndKim #soundsABitLike #ExplainingTheJoke