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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 08:13:31 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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   @LouisIngenthron

   > In none of those examples are you doing integer addition.
   The first two examples are collision, not addition. The third is procreation, not addition.

   I never said addition was collision. Addition is "the combination of two things into one".. 2 is not one and one seperately, it is only when you take one and **combine** it with another 1 that it becomes 2.

   The nature of how you "Combine" then is again open to definition. You can put them in the same basket or within some bounded space.

   In the case of antimatter I picked electrons because they are point-like when manifest, so two electrons can **never** collide. It is only when they are near proximity (within the same energy level and region) that they combine and annihilate.

   But again its all definitions. But it is important to note that addition is the combining of things, and is **not** the same as counting, which is an ordered set you are iterating through.

   As for integers, again just a play on definitions. If i am adding ducks, is a conjoined twin duck two ducks or one? What if it has two heads vs 4 legs and one head? Or do we count the atoms that make up a duck. Why is a glass of water some real number thing (the volume) and not a single integer "one blob of water".. afterall ducks can be of various sizes and configuration and made up of constituent parts, so why cant we treat water the same?

   Again the point here is all of this is you relying on arbitrary definitions to make any of this work. There is no "reality" to it and is very much a debatable "fact".

   But again if the fact that "1+1=2" is true or not isnt relevant. Because even if it is a concept thatis absolutely and objectively true, since we can (and are) disagreeing on that it is only your **opinion** that it is fact, it is my opinion it is not fact. One of us might be true but there is no way to prove which of us is true in an infallable way, ergo regardless of its underlying truth it is still an opinion that it is true.

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   phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 07:11:12 JST phiofx

   @cwebber what we really need is a set of inspired, powerful #RSS reader apps.

   Despite all efforts there is still a huge universe of rss emitting blogs out there. Waiting for a UI genius to create a compelling window for people to peek through.

   As a bonus such clients would be fairly straightforward to upgrade / integrate in #activitypub universe.