
florence ⏹️
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florence ⏹️
@morallawwithin
kantian 🏳️🌈 / recovering hedonist / philosophy phd student / vegan / liberal / pause ai / alt @formofthegood / improper capitalization ⇒ joke




"I'm too scared to talk to this girl" What your ancestors did on a random Tuesday:

Proof of the irrationality of √2.

This Paradox Splits Smart People 50/50

There is no fucking way you’d ever guess whose Wikipedia page this is from.



Here’s a paper arguing that getting tattoos can be immoral. The author argues that altering your body in this way can violate duties you have to your future self.

Here’s a paper arguing that getting tattoos can be immoral. The author argues that altering your body in this way can violate duties you have to your future self.



In 1742, a mathematician named Christian Goldbach wrote a letter to the famous Leonhard Euler. In it, he made a surprisingly simple claim: "Every even number greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two prime numbers." For example: 18 = 13 + 5; 74 = 43 + 31 In 1938, Nils Pipping verified it by hand for every number up to 100,000 by hand. Mathematicians checked using computers millions, billions, even trillions of cases—and it never fails. But in mathematics, checking examples isn’t enough. You need a proof that works forever. No one has been able to prove that this rule works for all even numbers.




Hot take: if you hurt animals, nothing else about you can convince me you’re a good person.







