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I love all cultures, white culture, dutch culture, french culture, vietnamese culture, indian culture, any culture you can imagine. I find them all so rich with lessons to learn from, delicious food to try, unique ways of looking at the world and morality.

It is why there is nothing that will send me running from a person faster than to hear them be hateful towards any culture. Those people have issues and while I hope one day they grow past them I dont need that shit in my life.

I dieted that one wednesday like 3 weeks ago when i passed out without eating dinner. How is it I'm still the same weight!

Russell's Paradox:

In a group of people who are shaved there is a single barber. The barber shaves all the people who do not shave themselves. Who shaves the barber?

It can't be the barber himself, because he only shaves people who do not shave themself, thus he can not shave himself. It also can't be anyone else as the barber shaves ALL people who do not shave themselves, so no one else could possibly shave another person.

Therefore it is impossible for all three properties to define a set at the same time:
* everyone is shaved
* The barber shaves people who don't shave themself
* The barber is the only person who can shave other people

This creates two sets one of the people who shave themselves and one shaved by the barber. Since the barber is not allowed to shave himself the sets must be disjoint, but since the barber must be shaved they must also intersect. Since both are not possible there is a contradiction and thus the paradox.

What this means is we can not say any arbitrary set of properties can be used to define a set, as some may give rise to a contradiction.

A more generalized example of the paradox is the idea of a set that contains "all possible sets that do not contain themselves as a set". This is called the universal set. So for example if we had set A defined as the numbers 1, 2 and 3 or A = {1,2,3}, however if set A was A = {A, 1, 2, 3} then it would be excluded. The problem arises when you consider if the universal set includes itself as an element by this definition. If it doesnt contain itself as an element then it qualifies for the rules of inclusion, and thus is included, but by including it it now DOES contain itself as an element thus can not be included. Reaching a paradox once again where the definition of the set as we defined it can not be satisfied. Another example that a set can not simply be defined by an arbitrary collection of properties. Some combinations of properties are invalid while others are not.

I kinda 😍 this JS syntax as it's really useful for default properties. But also kinda 😱 as I totally didn't get the `= {}` bit at first & I still find it unintuitive! 😄
simonsmith.io/destructuring-ob

Back when mama cat had a family in my garden. Luckily we have since found the kittens a home and managed to get mama spade. she still lives in a cat box I made for her in my back yard. Poor girl probably misses her babies, she was a good mother. But I'm sure this is better for all of them now. More food for her, more food for the kittehs, and no more babies.

Now if only I could wrangle up a few humans and get them spade I might be able to make a real difference.

I often find most married and committed couples dont know the first thing about what love is. When you get affection inreturn, perhaps even build eachother up its easy to mistake that for love. It may be healthy and good and enriching, but love is much more than that. True and proper love exists not for what you get in return, to love is all love wants, not to be loved in return, that is just infatuation.

I have this nagging desire to build a completely useless piece of archaic technology using modern tools. A memory delay line. I would love to use fiber optics but and electrical wire works too. Obviously it would have to be really long to fit any significant number of bits in it, and even then it would be on the order of hundreds or thousands of bits. But the idea of storing memory as signals moving near the speed of light just tickles me pink.

I have begun working on our peertube instance today. Had a bit of a stomach virus but I'm feeling good enough to get back to business.

I'm almost certain pats and genos are the exact same sandwich just with one being chopped steak and the other not chopped.

I never knew just how important LED's would be in future technology until I watched Star Trek... I think i need to invest in an LED company.

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