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In before conspiracy freaks start inventing conspiracy theories about everyone who tries to talk them down being a malicious AI.

You're asking a stranger in the internet to do a whole lot of work for you.

It's everywhere now.

Clearly they've never seen a hagfish.

Or at least more expensive.

I didn't enjoy it much, but I had a headache at the time, and the three other people with me had a blast, so I think it's probably not bad.

Everything about right wingers is unconscionable and always has been.

Not really. The left side comes from trying to evaluate the Reimann zeta function at a point outside its domain, and the right side comes from evaluating the analytic continuation of the zeta function at the same point. The deepest truth it reveals is that applying the definition of a function outside its domain can give you nonsense results.

It's one of those ideas like Scrödinger's cat or pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, where something that was intended to illustrate an absurdity is instead taken as representing some amazing and unintuitive truth.

It's not saying the proof is obvious, just that the result is plausible on its face.

Fun fact: a hoodoo is also a kind of rock formation.

This is the flip side of people trying to justify all kinds of obviously incorrect language by saying it's just the language evolving.

The fact that we're having this discussion at all kind of proves that either English is losing the distinction, or it was never as clear a distinction as people sometimes make it out to be. Either way I'm fine with it because it doesn't seem like a very useful distinction to make in everyday language, and you can sidestep it entirely by using a word like toxic instead.