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Cake day: August 21st, 2023

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  • This looks like it’d get contaminated right quick, take a lot to set up, and be damaged extremely easily. My recommendation would be to collect water from a nearby source and run it through a filter that lasts longer, it’s more reliable, and you get more water out of it.

    Filter options include charcoal/sand, wood, and vines. Charcoal and sand filters need a large vessel and a cloth bottom, and won’t get rid of microorganisms. The advantage is that you can hook up a rain collection outflow directly to it, and it’ll last for a while. You make it by first acquiring a vessel, such as a barrel, putting a hole or several in the bottom, and putting a few layers of cloth over the outflow. Then apply alternating layers of charcoal and sand. Charcoal can be made by several methods, if you want a video I recommend Primitive Technology on YouTube.

    Wood and vine filters will remove microbes, are able to easily be made in the wild, but will only be effective for as long as the tissues are alive. All you do is find a suitable plant, cut it, shape the cuttings if needed, then stick the end that draws water in the source and the end that releases water in the receptacle. Grape vines and Cyprus wood work best for this.

    Reminder that I’m a random person on the internet, and you shouldn’t believe everything you read online.



  • Biden would make a better candidate than Trump if he were on life support and we knew he’d be dead within the first week. The important part is not if he’s fit for office, the question is if he’s the best candidate to beat Donald Trump. As someone who’s not Trump, he has an advantage that any Democrat can bank on. As the incumbent, he has an advantage that no one else can replicate. Who is popular enough to have more of an advantage than being the incumbent? Bernie Sanders? AOC? Their policies are far better than Biden’s and they have celebrity, but the DNC will never nominate them, and I don’t know if they’d pull in more people, because anyone who’d vote for them with any common sense would vote for Biden against Trump.

    So who, exactly would he be replaced by? Understand that these pieces cause real damage to his chances if he isn’t replaced, so you’d best have even 1 person in mind.








  • It is my opinion that repeating decimals cannot

    Your opinion is incorrect as a question of definition.

    I have never disagreed with the math

    You had in the previous paragraph.

    Is it possible to have a coversation about math without either fully agreeing or calling the other stupid?

    Yes, however the problem is that you are speaking on matters that you are clearly ignorant. This isn’t a question of different axioms where we can show clearly how two models are incompatible but resolve that both are correct in their own contexts; this is a case where you are entirely, irredeemably wrong, and are simply refusing to correct yourself. I am an algebraist understanding how two systems differ and compare is my specialty. We know that infinite decimals are capable of representing real numbers because we do so all the time. There. You’re wrong and I’ve shown it via proof by demonstration. QED.

    They are just symbols we use to represent abstract concepts; the same way I can inscribe a “1” to represent 3-2={ {} } I can inscribe “.9~” to do the same. The fact that our convention is occasionally confusing is irrelevant to the question; we could have a system whereby each number gets its own unique glyph when it’s used and it’d still be a valid way to communicate the ideas. The level of weirdness you can do and still have a valid notational convention goes so far beyond the meager oddities you’ve been hung up on here. Don’t believe me? Look up lambda calculus.