Image Description: A digital meme divided into two main panels: a mathematical whiteboard explanation at the top and a reaction image at the bottom. Top Panel (The Whiteboard): Titled "P-ADIC FINANCE where p = profit." It explains a fictional financial system using real advanced mathematics. Left text: "In this metric, a number's size is how little profit divides it. The more profitable the crime, the closer its penalty sits to zero. String together ever-bigger crimes and the fines don't blow up, they converge." A sequence shows: "p, p^2, p^3, ... arrow pointing to 0." Right chart: A table titled "Crime, Profit, Fine, Fine Size in P-Adic Metric." It lists crimes: Outsource pollution: Profit = p, Fine = $1M, P-adic size = 1/p (small). Fake the numbers: Profit = p^2, Fine = $10M, P-adic size = 1/p^2 (smaller). Fix the market: Profit = p^3, Fine = $100M, P-adic size = 1/p^3 (tinier). Ruin a country: Profit = p^4, Fine = $1B, P-adic size = 1/p^4 (minuscule). Repeat infinitely: Profit = p^n, Fine = p^n (lol), P-adic size = 1/p^n which approaches 0. Below the chart: A number line showing 0 on the far left (labeled "Where your fines live") and numbers increasing to the right (labeled "Big in absolute world"). A final box states: "The true crime in a corporate environment is not choosing p." Bottom Panel (The Reaction): A sepia-toned photograph of a group of wealthy white men in suits, including former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, laughing uproariously together at a gathering. Edited comic speech bubbles are assigned to them: One asks, "Why'd we even need lawyers?" Another laughs, "We just changed the metric lmfao." A third says, "Fines are for poors." A man in the foreground laughs, "Infinite money glitch found boys." In the bottom right corner, a modern internet meme character (a crying, angry "Wojak" in a suit wearing a badge that reads "REGULATORS") has a thought bubble that reads: "They took us for absolute fools." Bottom Caption: Superimposed across the bottom in large, bold, white Impact font: "THEY TOOK US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS"—a pun on the word "absolute" referring to both being deeply tricked and the standard mathematical "absolute metric."

Image Description: A digital meme divided into two main panels: a mathematical whiteboard explanation at the top and a reaction image at the bottom. Top Panel (The Whiteboard): Titled "P-ADIC FINANCE where p = profit." It explains a fictional financial system using real advanced mathematics. Left text: "In this metric, a number's size is how little profit divides it. The more profitable the crime, the closer its penalty sits to zero. String together ever-bigger crimes and the fines don't blow up, they converge." A sequence shows: "p, p^2, p^3, ... arrow pointing to 0." Right chart: A table titled "Crime, Profit, Fine, Fine Size in P-Adic Metric." It lists crimes: Outsource pollution: Profit = p, Fine = $1M, P-adic size = 1/p (small). Fake the numbers: Profit = p^2, Fine = $10M, P-adic size = 1/p^2 (smaller). Fix the market: Profit = p^3, Fine = $100M, P-adic size = 1/p^3 (tinier). Ruin a country: Profit = p^4, Fine = $1B, P-adic size = 1/p^4 (minuscule). Repeat infinitely: Profit = p^n, Fine = p^n (lol), P-adic size = 1/p^n which approaches 0. Below the chart: A number line showing 0 on the far left (labeled "Where your fines live") and numbers increasing to the right (labeled "Big in absolute world"). A final box states: "The true crime in a corporate environment is not choosing p." Bottom Panel (The Reaction): A sepia-toned photograph of a group of wealthy white men in suits, including former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, laughing uproariously together at a gathering. Edited comic speech bubbles are assigned to them: One asks, "Why'd we even need lawyers?" Another laughs, "We just changed the metric lmfao." A third says, "Fines are for poors." A man in the foreground laughs, "Infinite money glitch found boys." In the bottom right corner, a modern internet meme character (a crying, angry "Wojak" in a suit wearing a badge that reads "REGULATORS") has a thought bubble that reads: "They took us for absolute fools." Bottom Caption: Superimposed across the bottom in large, bold, white Impact font: "THEY TOOK US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS"—a pun on the word "absolute" referring to both being deeply tricked and the standard mathematical "absolute metric."

Thought some of you might appreciate this gem.

I spent like 2 hours translating the lyrics because I didn’t like the existing translations (they’re missing a lot of the subtext, but feel free to check them out too)

Translation:

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He save sea turtles,

And kills “human animals”

That’s a cause,

And that’s a cause

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How to become a white angel,

With half a conscience:

Justify movements for liberalism,

Pulverise the ones for liberation

Distribute your empathy and compassion,

On the murdered based on nationality

But that’s a cause, and that’s a cause

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How to become a civilised human,

That meets all the requirements:

All your words must wear Kevlar vests,

And you must hug all the trees

You must call the doorman a guardian,

Whilst an army demolishes schools nearby

And if you catch yourself with blood on your clothes,

You must proclaim everyone a victim

But that’s a cause, and that’s a cause

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How do I believe this world,

When it talks about humanity?

When I see a mother mourning her son,

Who died from famine in a raid?

And he equates the murdered with the murderer,

With honour, impartiality and integrity

But that’s a cause, and that’s a cause

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How do I sleep with peace of mind,

And don my ear-plugs,

While the family buried under their home,

Are denied access for rescue?

As if the earth entombing them,

Is not part of this globe?

But that’s a cause, and that’s a cause

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How do you live in an expansive prison,

With cells made of brim and stone?

Yet you rise from under the rubble,

To grip the neck of your killer?

Then you gather your entrails and fight,

And show this hypocritical world,

How the law of the jungle applies,

And where the road to liberty is,

And how to take on a tank?

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It doesn’t matter if the world talks,

Die free and don’t live in subjugation

Inspire a generation and the next to learn

How to live and die for a cause

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What world are we crying out for,

To denounce and condemn?

Condemn all you want,

For any condemnation, for what’s happening in the slaughterhouse

Won’t lessen the gunpowder in the cannon shell

And won’t refund a daylight for him

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But that’s a cause,

And this is… a struggle

This is a struggle

Alt text: A line plot with 2 axis (confidence vs competence) referencing the Dunning-Kruger effect with various distro logos placed at different points on the line. Starts with mint/ubuntu near (0,0) and progressing through multiple distros to end up with opensuse/fedora at what it calls “the plateau of sustainability”

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/post/143587

Laziness prevails

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cannot express how long the trojan horse would've sat outside my city gates before i gathered the energy to go grab it. those greeks would've starved in in there