oh no this version of the Hannah Hillam Are you going to sleep? meme isโ€ฆ just, oh no
@c_reider as a former and occasional lisp programmer those unbalanced parens being more correct are killing me rn
@rbxbx @c_reider They're not more correct, they're just more palindromic! Palindromicness (palindromicity? palindromishness? palindromeity? palindromitude? none of these are good) is not a requirement for a Lisp form. So just think about it that way and be less killed rn.
@c_reider @oldskirt this palindrome fact is so unfair ๐Ÿ˜†โ€‹

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"Son I am able, " she said "though you scare me."
"Watch, " said I
"Beloved, " I said "watch me scare you though." said she,
"Able am I, Son."

They Might Be Giants - I Palindrome I

@c_reider
"()()" โ†’ ")()("
"())(" โ†’ "())("
๐Ÿคฏ
@hikinghack @c_reider because the individual characters are written in reverse order. the image of the word itself isn't flipped, so even though ()() looks more symmetrical, it's not actually a palindrome
@c_reider
when people say "forbidden fruit of knowledge", this is the sort of thing they're referring to. my life is worse for knowing this, and i will never recover
@c_reider o m g hahahaha these eyes.. exactly as I looked just now ๐Ÿ˜ณ
@c_reider please add content warning I have aibohphobia

@c_reider

()() => abab
)()( => baba

())( => abba
())( => abba

There, now I can sleep at night.

@c_reider The first is the same after RTL conversion though, while the second isn't.
@c_reider let us rename :
( โ€”> a
) โ€”> b
The statement becomes :
abab is not a palindrome
abba Is
and we can go back to sleep ๐Ÿ˜Š
@c_reider so this is doing numbers isn't it lol

@c_reider haha so great love it

No clue what it means

Leave me in my ignorance

@c_reider It took me so long to accept the truth of panel 3! I just gave my grandkids a card game called โ€œTacocat spelled backwardsโ€
@c_reider this feels very optical illusiony- something Daniel Kahneman might put it one of his fancy pop-psy books