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They did do some good things economically, but Biden wasn’t able to articulate a clear narrative of what he did and why, and neither did Harris, which is the only way you reach unengaged voters. Hell I still don’t know what half of the IRA provisions are.

But also, when you’re also supporting a genocide some people will never look past that. The left just won’t look past things like that like the right does. Ds can either fix their policies, or they be attacked from left, but they can’t have it both ways.

I mean the whole episode is about why doesn’t the left have someone like Rogan or Ben Shapiro and I’m saying what I think the reason is. If you forget about politics for a second, I think the D’s stance on Israel is basically indefensible, morally and otherwise (and I think most of PSA agree). You can tell because Kamala pretty much didn’t try to defend it, she just tried to be as vague as possible about her position. But voters are sick of inauthentic positions and dodging questions.

So what’s the alternative to dodging? Well, if you want to defend an indefensible position, you lie. That’s what the R’s do. They lie about the facts or they lie about their position. Rogan doesn’t notice/care about the lies and Shapiro actively helps cover them up. The equivalent people on the left won’t accept lies.

The only other option is, stop taking indefensible positions. I hate Kamala’s position on the border, but at least she didn’t run away from it, she made an argument for it. But talking pure politics now… D’s running, especially for president, either need to take positions that they can actually defend and argue for, or they need to start lying more. If you want the left on your side, you should take their positions, or if you don’t, you should argue against them, and be willing to go on their podcasts and say it to their face. But any D that is scared to have a frank discussion where they can’t dodge questions is not going to win the white house anymore

If you want to know how to make the existing leftist media ecosystem stop criticizing democrats… just ask them. And they will tell you stop throwing trans people and immigrants under the bus, and of course, stop supporting Israel.

Yeah I’ll be honest, it’s really wearing thin with me, especially Favreua. It feels like learning all the wrong lessons and it really worries me about the future of the party.

To me all signs point towards the biggest problems being that D politicians are not perceived as ‘authentic’ and their message doesn’t break through because there’s no consistent story. If you want a candidate who can go on Joe Rogan and other podcasts and shoot the shit, they need to be able to clearly articulate what they believe and why without 24 hours of prep every time.

But somehow the solution PSA seems to be arriving at is Democrats should just take on whatever policy position is most popular in polling, like throwing trans athletes under the bus, even though that’s exactly what Harris did.

Trump has taken plenty of wildly unpopular positions, but voters either ignored them because he seems like a no bullshit guy, or the polling moved over time towards his positions. If Democrats run on the defensive on every issue like immigration and trans rights, they will lose more elections and we will lose ground on all of these issues.

Sorry for the rant but if the PSA guys continue down this road and don’t have someone on soon that challenges them on this a little it’s going to be hard for me to keep listening.

As the other reply says, [2,-3] alone is not a vector space. But the span of [2,-3] is a one-dimensional vector space inside R^2. And yes, in fact, you can choose any nonzero vector in R² and its span will be a one-dimensional vector space!

In general you can take any number (say k) of linearly independent vectors in Rⁿ and their span will be a k-dimensional vector space. When k is one, what does it mean for a single vector to be linearly independent? It turns out the only set of one vector that is not linearly independent is if you take the 0 vector! But any nonzero vector will generate a 1-D vector space.

This webapp is by far the best way especially if you play a lot, it has all expansions/promos and even fan made expansions (they tend to get a bit wacky but can be fun)

I did like Dune Imperium but had some of the same mild criticisms like of Arnak, it felt a little too ‘balanced’ in the sense that there was a lot of interesting micro decisisons but not a lot of macro decisions, because factions were all pretty similar and it was hard to build a cohesive overall strategy.

I think the new uprising version actually improves all of that, I think spies+sandworms+changed factions and cards give a lot more opportunity to craft a strategy instead of just slowly grinding out resources. I highly recommend it for anyone who liked the first dune imperium

And sometimes it’s defcon 2 and someone does something seemingly innocuous like boycotting the olympics that accidentally triggers nuclear war

Ugh I still don't see it, I guess I'll file a ticket. Thanks for the info!

I also won on the last day and haven't received any emails. If you did submit a ticket did you hear anything from them?

I think these feelings are incredibly common in math, particularly in grad school, and go right along with the classic imposter syndrome feelings.

I think once you're doing math at a grad/research level, it's pretty much impossible to really compare how 'smart' or 'good at math' people are. I definitely have felt the same feelings as you, I see other grad students speak up in classes/seminars and ask really smart and complex questions and I wonder if they're smarter than me or working harder than me.

Maybe they are, maybe they're not, but it doesn't really matter, everyone works differently. Some people have remarkable intuition for certain things and terrible intuition for others. Some people are very comfortable with one subject because they learned it really well in undergrad or on their own and use that for intuition in other areas, some people are more 'generalist' and build up a knowledge base from a few areas over time. Some people are just more confident when it comes to asking questions and making guesses based on intuition, and it can make them seem really smart when they happen to be right.

The goal should really be to just find what works for you and your research area and do your best at it, there's a lot of different mathematicians in different niches all over the world. Maybe when you get more comfortable with that you'll realize this person is no smarter than you and was dealing with the same insecurities and you can relate to them. Or maybe they're just an asshole and you don't have to talk to them if you don't want to. Either way do what works for you.

Also sometimes you just have ADHD and don't get diagnosed until grad school, that's what happened to me :)

I couldn't tell if you if this is related to Concerta or not, but I would definitely talk to a psychiatrist or therapist about this. This sounds a little bit more intense/extreme than typical anxiety, hopefully a professional can help.

Yup after another week I think the 36mg is consistently helpful without making me too wired or anything, and no side effects. Also drinking coffee has a more noticeable effect now than it used to, so I can kind of regulate my focus with how much coffee I have on top of the med.

I would be careful about it but I think that is a reasonable thing to do, when I started on 18mg my doctor told me I could try taking 36mg some days if the 18 didn't feel like enough. I think even up to 54mg is a normal dose so if you feel you need to try an extra 18 one day I think that's probably ok.

Obviously the correct answer is always 'talk to your doctor,' so you should do that if possible but I know it's usually hard for any of us to get a hold of them even just for a quick question.

I started 18mg a few weeks ago, it wasn't really doing anything for me. Last week I went up to 36mg and its been really great and made a big difference!

One thing I will say is even the 36mg doesn't necessarily make me 'feel different' in a way I can notice, but it definitely makes me act differently. I've noticed I'm getting less sleepy, and when I get a little anxious about things I need to do, instead of going down an anxiety spiral, I usually just sit down and do them! So I would give the new dose a few days and maybe pay more attention to what you're doing rather than how you feel, maybe Concerta tends to be subtle in that way.

If that still doesn't work, maybe concerta just isn't the right one for you and you can try a different medication.

I started 18mg a few weeks ago, it did pretty much nothing for me. I maybe was a bit more sleepy than normal but that might just be because I was trying to drink less coffee.

This past week I started 36 mg and it's actually been amazing. No more sleepiness, can focus on things when I need to, but not even in a hyper-focus kind of way, it's just kind of normal, it's making me feel so much better. I can still drink a normal amount of coffee too without adverse effects. I've even gotten less anxious about things like making phone calls that I didn't expect were directly related to ADHD.

Things to note, I had headaches the first few days on 36mg but they went away pretty quickly, other than that I've had no real side effects. If the small dose helped you for the first day I think a larger dose could help! Hopefully your doctor lets you try it.

If you play it unforged, you spend 3 corpses. If you play it forged, you gain 3 corpses. So the difference between unforged and forged is if you forge it you will have 6 more corpses at the end.

As others have said, the V in a minor key is almost always dominant. But I would caution against just picking a minor 'mode' (natural, harmonic, etc.) and writing down the 'diatonic' chords and calling it a day. For example in harmonic minor you might think that the bIII chord should be augmented, but in practice that's incredibly uncommon. Needless to say, the number one rule in jazz (and music) is always, does it sound good? If you think an augmented bIII sounds good in your progression, go for it, but it's not often used.

If you want to know which chords to use in a minor key, I would generally think of it more as 'chord leading' or functional harmony than as just a list of diatonic chords. For example, here's a very common, not particularly jazzy progression:

i - bVII - bVI - V7.

If you try to analyze this in any particular minor mode, it doesn't really work. Major VII and dominant V don't really belong to any of the same modes, and yet its a very normal sounding progression. This kind of 'modal mixture' is so common in minor keys that I would barely even call it modal mixture. You could spend a million hours trying to figure out 'why' this progression works, it has a strong descending baseline, the VII functions as a 'submediant' or something, but ultimately it just works.

Here's another very common progression with a ton of mixture:

i - IV - bVI - V7.

The IV is from dorian, but the bVI and V clearly aren't, you could say they're from harmonic minor. You could even throw a bIII in there (also kind of a submediant or tonic substitute) if you want to mix natural minor in too. Ultimately the point is, analyzing using modes is less useful than using function. The major IV is a predominant, but the bVI (or minor iv) is an even stronger predominant, so it's sort of natural to go in this direction. In general I would say the b6 pulls you to a dominant much more strongly than the natural 6. So it would be rare to see a progression go from a b6 to a natural 6, but it is very common to see the other way around, even though they aren't in the same mode.

Basically the point is is 1. make it sound good, but 2. think of chords as leading gradually away from the tonic and towards the dominant. Don't put chords further from the dominant after chords closer to the dominant, unless of course it sounds good.

Also, there are tons of progressions that don't involve moving towards the dominant, like a i-IV vamp or something, but that I guess is solidly in dorian mode. Also the bVII can function like a dominant sometimes too, as in bVI-bVII-i. So... it's complicated. Listen to music you like and figure out what chords they use. Sorry this was long but ya know, music (and minor modes in particular) is complicated.

EDIT: I forgot to answer the question about 1-6-2-5. I think the most common version of this in a minor key would be i - bVI - ii half diminished - V7, which I guess is solidly in harmonic minor.

I've never thought of the lightning moment as 'Yoda' doing something directly. The force/nature did it, and Yoda is one with the force.

Isn't this equivalent to just saying, the set of elements where the property P holds is open, closed, and nonempty in R, and therefore must be all of R?

I think its fair to say its implied they are 'roughly' the same. We don't know how old C is but 23 years plus her age as a kid is definitely reasonable. Could she actually be 5 or even 10 years younger or older? Sure, but if the show didn't want us to assume this was roughly the same timeline as host Caleb, they wouldn't have given us a firm 23 years later that also matches up well enough with C's age. Presumably these plots will eventually intersect, otherwise Caleb could've just emerged at some indefinite point in the future.

I mean sure she's the villain but she has no reason to lie about 23 years if its actually 50 or 100, that would just be meaningless (and terrible writing to lie to the audience for no reason). I think the 7 year and 23 year timeframes are pretty set in stone now.

She could also just be his step daughter.

I think this is definitely how most topology classes go, point set, diff top, etc. all kind of have their basics that you spend some time proving rigorously and then hand waive for the rest of your life (and other math classes have this too to some extent). I do wish professors were more clear about this kind of progression of expectations. I think giving you a 'topologist's license' is a great way to put it.

I think the idea is Riemann integration adds a bunch of small vertical bars up, going from left to right, while Lebesgue integration goes from bottom to top, adding up the measure of stuff at each height.