Maybe I’d add “and that others could see/touch/smell/hear/taste” - clarifying around vivid imagination, synesthesia, and that reality should be shared. It’s the things all reasonable folks can agree about (given sufficient time and access).

I like to imagine I see no comments because everyone is busy playing factorio.

As one of the few folks who have asked such questions, I obviously am against. I don’t think the dedicated pol communities are particularly good for honest questions about platforms/political figures; everything in those spaces feels like it’s being intentionally spun (even in discussions) in a way that this community does not. (Also, several of the communities you suggest as pol discussion places are… just not? Extremely few questions, most the posts are headlines, discussions don’t seem to happen much. Some feel closer to a curated feed of cringe.)

I do agree it could become an issue, and that would justify some division, perhaps tags? But I don’t think it is currently very unpleasant, and it will almost certainly get better in 2 months (at least short term).

I think the scary thing is if it takes the suppliers more than 3 days to figure that out. Companies oftentimes can last 3 days without food (and rarely fix things very quickly at any scale).

That one seems kinda scary - if inflation was 6% and something wasn’t sold at any profit, all stores would stop selling it. (This is true for most food.)

Agreed, that would be.

But the most they could have done is 308% instead of that 300%, and I think they managed to get lots and lots of small stores to do it at the same time.

What do the laws on the book look like?

I’ll note that grocers record profits are orders of magnitude less than the price increases. Maybe somebody is getting rich off of the price increases, but I’m pretty sure Walmart is not.

I’ll note that grocers seem to have made very little profit per American in the last few years; Walmart made ~$70 off each of us last year, which seems incompatible with the price increases I’ve been seeing…

Also my impression. Seems like it’s manufactured, encouragement not to engage with any of it?

I don’t understand the opposition to mobile zoos of reptiles/snakes. Are people just voting ‘ick’ factor, or is there something horrifying I’ve missed?

Note they merge ‘somewhat unacceptable’ and ‘unacceptable’ into the bars, which is… a choice.

Would you then be posting your conclusions? Like, if you’re gonna do that work on some of these posts anyway… may as well share.

Bravo for bringing the notes. On a first glance, some of these feel like they require subjectivity (like, do we really believe the political spectrum is 1d?), but I agree I could run the computation myself from this.

I’d probably provide a link to a 3d-print of the tile, and/or describe the vague shape without the precise measurements. Something like “the tile is shaped like an isometric view of a top-hat, with a bite taken out of the top left”. To be honest, I don’t think the diagrams are all that load-bearing for people who can see either - hard to parse, impossible to tell if they are honest, etc. That’s why there’s so many proofs. Finally, for the actual connections one could break it into an adjacency graph. Each tile a vertex, each flat face dual to an edge (labeled with which face), and specify them out.

All this said; I’m not an expert. Part of why I’m excited for the forum and wanted to share.

And there is no “the” way to accessibility, surely. It takes dozens of things, most small. I agree visual LLMs will/have been a nice tool.

It wont surprise you to hear that they don’t! And TikZ is one of the main packages not well supported by XML/HTML converters. You need the authors to add alt text; best method I’ve seen is to make the TikZ/PGF in a standalone file, import as a png/pdf with the graphicx package, and add alt text that way.

For the record - this is the argument against democracy. And it’s not so bad!

Democracy can do horrific things! It is prone to mistakes with things that can be fear-mongered, where there’s a lot of money invested in grifting, and when the real reasons are sufficiently complicated that they don’t fit on signs (or nobody is interested in doing the work to put them on signs).

Fortunately containers can get bigger =)

While we aren’t all the same, there’s a difference between things that require holding 8 complicated things in mind at once, and things that require a little language learning and the intelligence to solve a crossword. This is closer to the latter - like doing a crossword in Spanish. You need to know a bunch of little things, but learning them is basically all tedium and not brilliant insights. (Taking these puzzles, creating a dozen new variants, and solving all of those probably does require managing a lot of complexity. But to understand the work of others, is not so bad)

If it’s any consolation, you are almost certainly within ~3 years of understanding the solution and a dozen variants. It’s not a super deep area. Probably doesn’t really require calculus (you need continuous as in ‘the lion doesn’t teleport; that’s cheating’, but I think not much more).

I’m a little sad nobody with the relevant mathematics background has jumped in. These puzzles are considered; a simple version is the lion-hunting-man where both have the same speed and infinite turning speed (eg, this paper, where the arena they play in varies).