they are — but only for those in the know. There is such a thing as "numerology porn," but I won't help you find it.
davew On Thu, May 14, 2020, at 3:17 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I've never understood why 99 and 66 aren't equally salacious. > > n > > Nicholas Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > Clark University > [email protected] > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of u?l? ? > Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2020 3:00 PM > To: FriAM <[email protected]> > Subject: [FRIAM] Cringe > > We talk a lot about filosofy, culture, and politics on this list. And > we quote a lot of old white guys. Sporadically one of us will lament > about how difficult it is to keep up with tech or cultural concepts > like trolls. Well, I've posted at least 1 video from her before. But if > you ever want an excellent synthesis of many of these topics, Wynn is > fantastic. I got tired of Sanderson's understated sense of humor > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw> [†] the > other day and instead watched Natalie explain the modern evolution of > "cringe": > > https://youtu.be/vRBsaJPkt2Q?t=4607 > > I've given you the summary slide time link, there. But I highly > recommend the whole video. I could quote mine her for days: > > "You know I've met people who never cringe at themselves. And ... let's > just say ... they're not my kind of people." > > "If it's any consolation ... uh ... nothing matters." > > > [†] E.g. The other day he asked the audience to vote for their favorite > number ... they picked "69" and his justification went like: "... > which, I assume, is because if you take all of the natural numbers > between 1 and 9, and then you look at the divisors of each one of > those, you look at the numbers and list all of their divisors and you > add up the divisors, it adds up to 69. And adding up divisors like this > is a very fun and common thing in number theory so ..." > > Yeeeaaaahhhh. That's it. They picked 69 because it's fun to add up > divisors. >8^D > > -- > ☣ uǝlƃ > > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- > ... .... . ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- > ... .... . ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... .... . ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
