David

It's like Peter, Paul, and Mary sang: "Though they smile and tell us, 'All of us are brothers' / Never was it true this side of the DMCA of 1998."

This somehow called Lehrer to mind:

I have a friend with Minskybux
Who has a friend with Pinskybux
Whose friend with Omskoin
Has friend with Tomskoin
With friend with Akmolinskoin

So in addition to all the unmapped tile drainage in the corn belt, the ironing out of all the rivers has served to pull the water down away from roots. And so droughts hot harder.

Wikipedia illustration of a water table around a river.

Wikipedia has a nice illustration of the resulting sag.

Rivers are both the bottoms of watersheds and the bottoms of water tables, which is why when people straighten rivers and let them incise they drag the water table locally down with them.

KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web Simple API, no dependencies – yet super fast on all major browsers.

katex.org has a MathML render option, and by default renders a MathML copy of its target for screen readers to parse. Might be useful?

The box art for the Lego "6837 Cosmic Creeper" set.

A time-tested design principle.

Probably square of length come to think of it, since moment of inertia is quadratic in it.

I do think scaling would tend to select to minimize something like the product of limb length, mass towards limb end, and limb count, since otherwise swinging the limb takes more energy.

I think the biggest part of the answer is just that tetrapods made the leap to land and the body plan was conserved.

'Twas the author's chosen color palette.

An excerpt from Anil Nerode's old website where he describes Ray Smullyan as "very smart and very slow."

Possibly you would find Nerode's thoughts on Smullyan interesting.

The Tao that can be described as stealing math research jobs from hard working Americans is not the true Tao.

This too is ideonomy.

Me too. I can manage an undertone but can't really sing with it, and can only just barely hear the overtones I try to make.

A screenshot of a Terence Tao mathstodon post has been altered so that it reads: "I'm going to produce a constructive proof of the Joker theorem."

New reviewer 2ism just dropped.

Yes.

I'm imagining him saying grimly: "I'm going to prove the joker theorem."

Sounds pretty unjust for people called "justices."

He's a full time methane salesman and part time critic of the Space Launch System.

Of course losing an argument is not the same as failing to persuade, much to my disappointment.

I tend to think of people as having lost an argument the moment they try to replace it with a different one.

I only allow LLMs to write the references section of "my" Wikipedia contributions.

I am.

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I prefer the Hippocratic to the Messianic, the injunction to do no harm to the assurance I can do no wrong, the modesty of a relative utopia to the Caligulanism of an absolute one.

To postpone justice until the end of time is to sustain injustice for all of time, and to put off hope until the last day is to certify hopelessness for all the days before. Equipped with a singular why, some would ask us to live with any how. But I do not wish to live with any how.

We should not take seriously the gamblers who would hazard all the present and the indefinite future because they have a good feeling or a hot tip about what might happen thereafter. And we should find it implausible that indefinitely sustained badness will at the final moment produce perfection.

This way of thinking securely quarantines all of our obligations within an imagined future. If the question of how we ought to live is settled by facts outside our world then we can accept any consequences within it. This is precisely how the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Shall valve be shut by man, which to the beast
Could open? or will God incense his ire
For such a petty trespass, and not praise
Rather your dauntless humor, whom the pain
Of claws denounced, whatever thing claws scratch,