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@wallhackio i’m assuming that arguments like these are how @aescling consoles herself that clodsire is not a whale

@wallhackio let us suppose there exists a finite concept of a whale and clodsire participates in it and humpback whales also participate in it. let W1 be the concept which encompasses exactly just clodsire and humpback whales. surely this concept W1 also participates in the concept of a whale? but now let us consider a concept W2, which encompasses both clodsire, humpack whales, and our previous concept W1. this concept, too, surely participates in the concept of a whale? by extending this process, we can find that in fact there are an infinitely many things which participate in the concept of being a whale. how, then, can the concept of a whale have a finite definition? by contradiction, we cannot say there is a finite concept of a whale that both clodsire and humpback whales participate in. but if the concept of a whale is not finite, it cannot be knowable as knowledge is finite. furthermore, if a finite concept of a whale exists, it surely must include humpback whales. it follows that clodsire cannot be known to be a whale

@wallhackio correct, a rhubarb pie is a rhubarb pie, not a pie

@wallhackio if somebody asks for a whale, and i give them a humpback whale, they are satisfied. but if somebody asks for a clodsire, and i give them a humpback whale, i have not satisfied their request. therefore a clodsire must not be a whale

@coriander @wallhackio apparently delaware gas tax is like $0.23/gal which is honestly more than i expected but still way less than WA $0.5904/gal

@coriander @wallhackio tfw motherfucker lives in a state with sales tax

@aescling @wallhackio @vaporeon_ coffeescript is good and fun but you have to install node to use it so it’s impossible to say whether it is worthwhile or not

@aescling @wallhackio @vaporeon_ coffeescript allows a bare switch without a condition statement which effectively compiles to switch (true)

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ hey @aescling how do you feel about

switch (false) {
case !cond1:
// …
case !cond2:
// …
}

you hater of elif

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio @aescling wait until you learn about Python

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ @aescling really one should just not use switch statements unless you are writing Swift which actually does them well

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ @aescling reasonable but then if you add a variable declaration you have to reindent the whole block so

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ @aescling you should instead do

switch (gorp) {
case 'norp': {
console.log('norp')
break
}
// etc
}

@coriander you ever long for the days when people were writing thinkpieces explaining why millennials had too much debt and couldn’t afford houses or cars

@xsssm the conclusion of “Imagining Transgender” by David Valentine goes all in on critiquing gay men for manifesting this shift and anyway yeah i agree

@virtue @coriander “feels clunky for reasons i’m not sure of” is a good summary of the linguistic definition of “ungrammatical”

@coriander i am like… i see your point, but “which flowers is” is just wrong