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Nerd Pride Radio The home of the Nerd Pride Radio podcast and other acts of nerdity. 2020-10-15T11:44:07-05:00 https://nerdprideradio.com/nerds/feed.php?mode=topics 2020-10-15T11:44:07-05:00 2020-10-15T11:44:07-05:00 https://nerdprideradio.com/nerds/viewtopic.php?t=3804&p=61806#p61806 <![CDATA[Nerd Babble • Math aka Fun Equations]]>
n*n - y*y = (n+y)*(n-y)
aka
6*6 -1 = 7*5
100*100 - 4 = 98*102
25*25 - 9 = 22*28

or like 17*3, its average is 10, their distance from the average is 7. so it's 100-49.


Got any favorite equations?

Or, ever figure out something with your brain that you find out later is common knowledge?

Statistics: Posted by poorpete — Thu Oct 15, 2020 11:44 am — Replies 0 — Views 1554

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Statistics: Posted by Kyle — Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:19 am — Replies 6 — Views 2800

]]> 2020-10-10T16:42:13-05:00 2020-10-10T16:42:13-05:00 https://nerdprideradio.com/nerds/viewtopic.php?t=3795&p=61710#p61710 <![CDATA[Nerd Talk • Gaslighting: What Is It?]]> I think of Gaslighting proper as the effort to drive a person nutty by giving them so much contradictory information about what is real that they no longer trust their own ability to discern what is true or real. In addition, this is done to harm the person, and not by accident or out of ignorance. It's deliberate.

In the political context, this might refer to disinformation efforts aimed at destabilizing any truth claims whatsoever, so that people no longer trust accurate information or accurate sources. Or it might involve insisting that reality is not at all what it seems, with an element of coercion in trying to get other people to accept this alternate, false reality. Like, my inauguration crowds were bigger than any other in history! Look, the hurricane path goes this way, where we have drawn it in with marker! Don't believe the actual photos of the event or the weather forecasters, and your own lying eyes - believe us, or else!

In the context of emotional abuse (Yes, I am trying to figure this out still), it might mean something like "you think I did this wrong thing, but that never happened - you're exaggerating, you're making things up, it was just a joke, or it probably didn't even occur". In other words, you are losing your mind if you think I am abusive - I am innocent and you are telling tales and over-reacting to nothing.

I would say this is gaslighting even if - or perhaps especially if - the gaslighter wants to argue that they never did anything wrong, whatsoever, and claims to genuinely believe it. The thing that makes it gaslighting is that a) the event really did happen, and b) the gaslighter ought to know that it did happen, even if they are denying it. In fact, the denial that an event really occurred is what makes it gaslighting!

But now - there is this OTHER layer on top, and I want to know what this is:
For example, suppose you say, "you embarrassed me in front of my friends when you did X". (I pick this example because during quarantine, there is no getting to see any friends, so it is utterly hypothetical and made-up.) The other person then says, "I did not do X at all, you're wrong, and even if I did, it didn't/wouldn't/shouldn't embarrass your friends, and what's more, YOU ARE THE ONE WHO DID X and in doing so, YOU embarrassed ME in front of MY friends. Now I shall punish you, or at least insist I am justified in doing so until you back off and stop complaining about me."
Is this merely lying, or is this specifically "gaslighting" deception? What is this higher level of gaslighting, where one doesn't simply dispute the truth about reality in order to disorient and confuse another person, but in fact all the tables are turned? YOU, the former plaintiff, are now the defendant, and probably deserve punishment for your wrongs.

This is what Trump does - maybe on an hourly basis, maybe on a constant basis - so I think of this as the projection-fantasy of a psychopathic narcissist. Not only does this person try to twist what is real to make you doubt yourself, but she or he will insist that anything you complain about is in fact caused BY YOU, and whatever you think the other person is guilty of, YOU are even more guilty of it yourself!

Anyway, I want to know if there is a specific name for this other than "gaslighting" and if so, what we call this. Also, I HATE IT.

Statistics: Posted by Phoebe — Sat Oct 10, 2020 4:42 pm — Replies 2 — Views 1367

]]> 2020-10-10T14:47:28-05:00 2020-10-10T14:47:28-05:00 https://nerdprideradio.com/nerds/viewtopic.php?t=3794&p=61704#p61704 <![CDATA[Nerd Talk • Ethics Dilemma: While You Were Sleeping]]>
In what way should people be accountable for things they do in their sleep, and how should they react when someone attempts to describe their actions and/or request some form of accountability?

Now, some people have sleep disorders, like the ones who unconsciously raid the fridge at night. All you can do is lock the fridge. And they might not believe you at first, but persuaded that this is happening, they would reasonably appreciate your efforts to lock the fridge.

Some people snore - I am one of them! If you find out you are snoring, both for your own health and for the health of others, you want to do something about it. You have an obligation to do this if you are affecting the sleep of other people. People are entitled to do things to you while you are sleeping, such as roll you over onto your side to prevent snoring, gently shove you awake or take other such limited physical measures as are needed to wake you. I.e. it would be excessive to be smacking people in the face to wake them, unless there was literally no other gentler measure possible. Normally it's enough to jostle people a bit and they wake, and if they're snoring, they shouldn't object to this treatment.

Here is another premise necessary for the discussion: physical intervention that touches/affects another person's body while they sleep is all similar, insofar as you are doing something to them over which they have no control, that physically affects their body. So it doesn't really matter if you're tapping a finger on them, or blowing in their face, or trying to roll them over or throw their limbs off you in the night, because in all cases you are taking a physical action that affects the person's physical body. Agreed? These actions then differ in terms of their severity, aggressiveness, and effects - i.e. tapping someone gently on the shoulder might be less severe than spraying a water bottle in their face; flinging someone's limb back off your side of the bed and onto theirs is less aggressive than punching them in the arm, etc.

So: here is the scenario of the ethical dilemma, and it is up to you to judge what is appropriate.
Suppose that you are asleep, and you are wakened by someone elbowing you repeatedly in the head. It's another adult, not a kid or something that is easily endured until you can reposition them. It hurts, this being elbowed in the head.

PART ONE:
What is ethical for you to do, knowing that the person is asleep?
Should you simply remove yourself from your bed, and let the elbower lie?
Do you attempt to wake the person? If you fail, should you scream loudly enough to wake other people asleep in the house, on the theory that this will wake the person without further intervention? May you spritz the person with water? Physically shake them awake?
Are you permitted to attempt to push the elbow away? Here are some other physical interventions open to you: attempt to extract the arm such that it is repositioned in a harmless fashion. Place a pillow barrier between yourself and the offending elbow, so that it doesn't hurt to be elbowed. Slap the elbow in hopes of waking the offender. Physically roll the person over. Punch them in the arm in hopes of waking them. Etc?

PART TWO:
If you are awoken by any of the above methods of intervention, because you are elbowing someone, what sort of response is ethical? Should you roll over and go back to sleep? Should you threaten the person with similar or more intense violence than they have used to stop you from elbowing? Should you physically intervene to stop the person from stopping your elbowing? In what way would this be permitted?

PART THREE:
If you wake in the morning and are told about this scenario, and then told that you were elbowing someone during the night, what sort of response is appropriate? Should you deny the possibility of this occurring? Depending on what was done to stop you from elbowing, how much blame are you entitled to assign to the other party for physically intervening to stop you from elbowing them? None/a little/a lot - does it depend on what exactly they did to stop you? How angry should you be at the person who was elbowed, and why?

PART FOUR: If you are being elbowed in the night by a person who was asleep while they did it, and never woke despite your efforts to stop them from elbowing you, how should you respond to them once they are awake and aware of their actions? Should you hold them responsible in any way for their actions during sleep, or only what they do and say after they wake? If the person denies any responsibility for harming you in any way, should you accept this with no further ado? If the person becomes angry with you for attempting to stop them from elbowing you, how would you respond?

Statistics: Posted by Phoebe — Sat Oct 10, 2020 2:47 pm — Replies 2 — Views 1276

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Statistics: Posted by Kyle — Thu Oct 08, 2020 9:42 am — Replies 9 — Views 2788

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Example: The Dominican Republic has been occupied by multiple governments, but was last governed by Haiti. And this is all according to wikipedia, because if you know anything about the history of Dominican Republic in the 20th century, you would seriously doubt wikipedia's answer. Anyway, this would add one tally to Haiti.

I clumped together a few countries that were technically different countries but occupy about the same space/power center. Like Kyle's first guess.

Points = 11-answer. One guess per round.

1. UK / Great Britain (Kyle, 10pts)
2. France (Mike, 9pts)
3. Russia / Soviet Union (Darcs, 8pts)
4. Germany (Darcs, 7pts)
5. United States (Eliahad, 6pts)
6. Spain (Mike, 5 pts)
7. Portugal (Eliahad, 4pts)
8. Yugoslavia (stopped existing in the 20th century, Eastern European country, split into 5 smaller countries)
9. The Ottoman Empire (Mike, 2pts)
10. The Federal Republic of Central America (existed from 1823 to 1841, North American country, Split into 4 smaller countries)

Score:
Mike: 16
Darcs: 15
Eliahad: 10
Kyle: 10

Statistics: Posted by poorpete — Thu Oct 08, 2020 9:21 am — Replies 26 — Views 7709

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Statistics: Posted by Mike — Mon Oct 05, 2020 6:52 pm — Replies 7 — Views 4572

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During the week before school, the teachers watched a graduation speech from Denzel Washington about pursuing your dream. Things like that piss me off--I pursued my dream for almost 15 years, and it wrecked me. So why the hell should I tell someone else to pursue theirs?

Statistics: Posted by akiva — Mon Oct 05, 2020 10:06 am — Replies 2 — Views 1318

]]> 2020-10-05T09:10:55-05:00 2020-10-05T09:10:55-05:00 https://nerdprideradio.com/nerds/viewtopic.php?t=3775&p=61561#p61561 <![CDATA[Nerd Talk • I voted]]>
I don't think Nebraska will be a contentious region for mail-in voting, but I don't want to risk it either. And I don't want to wait til election day and then wind up in quarantine with COVID and miss my chance. I am lucky to have the mobility and job flexibility to vote early in person. So I took advantage of it.

It really was 5 minutes for me, too. No line. I signed an early voting request form (name, address, signature... no ID required). Got and completed my ballot. Done.

Share your own voting plans and experiences.

Statistics: Posted by Mike — Mon Oct 05, 2020 9:10 am — Replies 14 — Views 3928

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