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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

"Our dancers have infinite curves" is clearly hyperbole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I call BS unless their dancers demonstrate that they can at least pass a high school algebra test.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Believe it or not, mathematics majors who didn't put "engineer" on their resume. :(

(This is a joke not meant to insult anybody, aside from whomever is responsible for this "degree market value" idea.)

[–] [email protected] 46 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. First guy orders a beer. Every other guy orders half the amount of beer as the guy before him. The bartender, fed up, says just order two beers!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

[off topic]

"The Whore Of Mensa" A private eye goes up against a escort service that provides lonely men with intellectual conversations.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/12/16/the-whore-of-mensa

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

By Woody Allen?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Full-frontal or full-dorsal nudity, but never both.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Are you just gonna sit there like an undergrad and clumsily perform a naive mapping of my topological space, or are you gonna use your brain a bit, and exhaustively define a continuous homeomorphic equation to radically transform me into whatever shape you want?

If you can make the key, you can unlock me, and then I can map to whatever you want me to be >:D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Sorry babe but I can even remember how to do quadratic equations anymore

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Damn, that's poetry

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Disappointing, I expected nude Microsoft programmers.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago

Such a missed opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You have posted so many of my favourite memes on Lemmy. Absolutely top tier shitposting 😭

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

I had to look through their profile after you said that and GOD DAMN, they posted the ones I found most memorable!

We don't deserve you!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

One surface, one edge, one gender

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Different numbers of holes though, gotta take homeomorphism into account.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I don't think women have a different number holes topographically speaking.

The topologist can't tell his coffee cup from his doughnut.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Generally, biologically speaking:

Men have a urethra and an anus.

Women have a urethra, and anus, and a vagina.

Presumably, discounting mutations, birth defects, serious injuries, etc, most people have the same number of uh... head/face holes.

...

Allowing for rarer cases:

Also... intersex people exist... there have been at least a few recorded instances of duplicate and/or forking dongs...

And I guess we could also consider varying kinds of conjoined twins.

...

Also also, we could argue about whether milk producing mammaries constitute a topological 'hole'.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeomorphism

Vaginas, milk ducts, pores, etc in a topological sense, are not holes, just dents, like the recepticle part of a cup with a handle.

I mentioned noses and ears before deleting them, because the ENT region is really complicated for a non topologist/biologist to be able to tell if they can be interpreted as holes or not. Luckily for me in this discussion the system is identical for men and women.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Derp.

Looks like I need to complexify the manifolds of my own brain, haha!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I think their point was that the hole has to go all the way though for it to count topologically

The vagina ends at the uterus, and milk ducts don't go all the way through either

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Urethra doesn't go anywhere either except for bladder, then nephrons (kidneys)...

Something similar applies to ears, right? And nose... But,

Also, what about the pores in my skin? :O

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The problem is the nostrils.if it was just an indentation into the lungs, it's one hole: digestive tract.

The nostrils divide the breathing passage into two, then join up again. From the air to the lungs is an indentation, but does the tissue separating the nostrils create two separate complete topographic holes?

Same for the ears; where do they join in on this system? Idfk, I'm not a doctor or a topologist

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, you got me on the nostrils. Alright..

My point was that the discussion is silly/ absurd/ meaningless. Yet here I am... Caught in it.

So... Ears. Those have a membrane (so the air pressure inside transmits the sound to small bones)... I was considering that given a (healthy) membrane the hole is just a cavity. Bt then, the other side does have air. No idea how does it go in and out. But scuba or free divers do compensate the pressure on the other side of the membrane when descending... So the air in there goes in and out of the body in seconds. Might be connected to... Nostrils? Haha. My best guesstimate.

Fuck this game xD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Might be connected to… Nostrils? Haha.

I mean it's not might, it is connected to the nostrils. that's why for doctors it's ENT and the infections can spread between those areas.

https://chicagoent.com/ear-nose-throat/how-are-the-ear-nose-and-throat-connected/

The ears, nose, and throat are part of your upper respiratory system. These three are linked through several canals and tubes and share the same mucous membranes.
Because they’re all connected, the ears, nose, and throat can function as one system, with each part supporting the whole. That’s why when there’s a problem in one area, it may also affect the other two.
For example, when you get a cold, you may also have a cough, sore throat, ear pain, and stuffy nose. Even though the ears, nose, and throat have very different functions, they all work together to help you hear, breathe, and talk.
The throat connects your nose to your mouth and links to the esophagus and lungs. Your ears also drain into the throat.
The eustachian tube drains fluid from your ears into your throat via the nasopharynx. At the same time, the nasal passages connect to your ears.
Through these routes, a viral or bacterial infection in either your ears, nose, or throat can find its way into the others. For instance, the ENT system can be affected by the same problems, including infections, congestion, swelling, and post-nasal dripping.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Bro why you trippin'?

All my homies be constantly morphin' into better, more flexible and robust versions of themselves.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago

or rather, a half a one.