Makes sense though.

The complex Riemann-Zeta function (Zeta(x) = sum from 1 to infinity of 1/n^x) only converges for Re(x) > 1, else it is infinite. We can use analytic continuation - which I understand as extending the function such that it remains holomorphic (basically continuous but in the complex numbers and for some reason well-defined) and find the value of Zeta(-1) that way.

The value of Zeta(-1) when viewed this way is -1/12.

It’s not really saying the sum of all natural numbers is equal to -1/12. It’s really just a mathematical trick, just like: lim (x -> 0) x/x = 1 but this doesn’t mean 0/0 = 1.

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True. I should’ve added: “Without significant foreign support”.

Like no shit, if neighboring countries provides weapons, training and even manpower then it’s hardly considered an uprising, is it? More like a proxy war.

That covers Vietnam, Cambodia and Syria. The latter was literally just a gigantic proxy war. Like look at this shit, this is not a popular uprising:

Don’t know enough about Iraq, but in Afghanistan the military did jack shit against the Taliban and in Myanmar the military was the one rebelling.

Every single uprising hinged on:

• Who is supported by the country’s own military?
• Who is supported by foreign nation’s militaries and to which extent?

None of them depended on the popular opinion of civilians.

East Germany 1953, Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, China 1989.

It does not cause any long-lasting unrest. Crushing protests with tanks is extremely effective and has always worked if the military was called upon and willing.

Full control of everything? It would take at most around 1000 soldiers on the ground to siege a modern a city - shut down water, electricity and close the highways - and you’ll regain control. People don’t like to live without food and water.

Plus no country cares what you do to your own population beyond strongly worded letters and maybe some targeted sanctions against like 3 entities.

I consider Wikipedia more reliable than vast portions of primary sources. I have seen the awful quality of many papers - “publish or perish” is a thing in science.

And yes, obviously the label “narcissist” is an insult. Just like calling someone “stupid”. When using it as an insult however, it is clearly meant to say this person displays high amounts of narcissism and behaves like a self-centered asshole.

This is different to insults such as “autistic” because that is not a personality style but rather a clinical diagnosis. It would be akin to using the term “disabled” as an insult.

Narcissism is a negative trait if you have too much. That is why it’s an insult. If I say someone is “smelly” I am also insulting their body odor. Doesn’t mean people who struggle with body hygiene for whatever reason should also feel insulted by that.

They don’t need to kill the entire workforce. People generally don’t want to die, so you only need to kill a small fraction to terrorize the rest into submitting.

This has worked for pretty much every single uprising since WW2. Just send in the tanks. Only when the military refused were uprisings successful.

The military today is able to kill nearly the entire population within days. That’s pretty much it.

As long as the military is not on your side, you will lose badly. And as long as the soldiers don’t suffer, they will support the status quo because they have something to lose.

The term narcissist doesn’t just refer to someone with that personality disorder.

If you are a self-centered asshole, you are a narcissist regardless of an NPD diagnosis.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism

Narcissism is a self-centered personality style

Same with calling someone stupid. It doesn’t mean they have a learning disability.

Is it?

Just use Linux 6.12 with LTS until 2029 and Super LTS until 2036.

That’s not a fair example, I know what linear algebra is but can’t tell what’s going on.

Change of basis would be my guess, but that’s pretty basic.

You could’ve provided something far worse, like a manual construction of the Jordan normal form of a large matrix.

So does every number:

6.000000…

Quoting, parodies etc. is explicitly regulated and very tightly regulated. I can only speak for Germany here, other EU countries have different laws but I know they tend to be on the strict side as well.

For example, parodies must explicitly comment on the original work to be permitted. Modifying the lyrics in a funny way alone is not enough to be a parody.

Same with quotes: They are only permitted if they serve a scientific, informative or analytical purpose. Quotes for illustration purposes or entertainment are explicitly not permitted.

In 2021, “pastiches” were legalized which allows for some entertainment use of derivative copyrighted works but there is no legal precedent yet that defines their scope.

Fair use is a US-only concept. Western EU countries tend to have much stricter copyright laws.

Ah yes, Bundesdepublik Reutschland

Right?? I genuinely don’t understand this meme, I have never wanted to stack my coins and hold them. Do these people not have wallets?

If by “treating you right” you mean imprisoning you for speaking out against the referendum that only further strengthens the “President’s” power (like unilaterally dissolving the parliament and then being allowed to create laws at will, only being allowed to be replaced when sentenced of treason [but the President assigns the president of the constitutional court lol] and so on), then yes.

What about Maltese or Andorran politics?

To be fair, school lunches aren’t free in Germany.

Technically they could be considered free if you factor in monthly child benefits (currently at 259€ per child) or parents further qualify for social assistance.

Please provide an example that fits in the Red/Blue overlap.