but if cheesecake factory hired him and supported him to make this discovery, you would look at the menu differently.

Do you really don’t know why, or are you being sarcastic?

He said this: I have never done anything “useful”. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

That’s in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician’s_Apology, the summary of which matches what you said:

One of the main themes of the book is the beauty that mathematics possesses, which Hardy compares to painting and poetry.[5] For Hardy, the most beautiful mathematics was that which had no practical applications in the outside world (pure mathematics) and, in particular, his own special field of number theory. Hardy contends that if useful knowledge is defined as knowledge which is likely to contribute to the material comfort of mankind in the near future (if not right now), so that mere intellectual satisfaction is irrelevant, then the great bulk of higher mathematics is useless. He justifies the pursuit of pure mathematics with the argument that its very “uselessness” on the whole meant that it could not be misused to cause harm. On the other hand, Hardy denigrates much of the applied mathematics as either being “trivial”, “ugly”, or “dull”, and contrasts it with “real mathematics”, which is how he ranks the higher, pure mathematics.

As a manager, I would ask you to file a Jira ticket first.

ChatGPT suggested G.H.Hardy.

If I am on a 20 minutes drive I need the damn thing to keep playing music for 20 minutes, not just randomly stop playing halfway through a song. YTM does that. Spotify doesn’t. Nor does my other background players.

Music would randomly stop playing. I can just continue it, no error or warning. Spotify doesn’t do that, nor does other background media players.

Okay, it isn’t just me who find YTM buggy.

As a music player, could it please play music? Jesus.

This is just about efficiency. Postal (including UPS / FedEx) can plan the route ahead, stack parcels with as little space as possible, and deliver hundreds of packages in a day. UberEats doesn’t know when will order show up, doesnt know when will order be ready, it can deliver maybe 2 - 3 orders in a row, the route planning is just in time.

Tell me how is this only explainable by socialized system.

So there is 他／她, but only in writing so you can be very disrespectful and your conversation partner is none the wiser.

Care to elaborate? Sounds like an interesting story.

Yep, it is definitely a little weird. I mean you aren’t supposed to speak English. Translate everything to pinyin and you are complant.

Right, I happen to come from China so.

Without the vast resources of the US clandestine services, it is impossible to come to such a shocking yet true conclusion.

Your original point was that that people aren’t responsible for the bad ideas of their party, so lecturing on on how to change people’s minds is disingenuous in this context.

You seem to think the world run on responsibilities. How many people you see in your life take responsibilities for everything they do and say? And I am not saying responsibilities do not matter, but you can’t just interpret what I said based on your imaginary value system. I never said people aren’t responsible for their ideas and what they support. It just doesn’t matter in this conversation. You want it to matter? Then who are you to say “they are responsible”? Who are you to judge the consequences of policies? Who are you to call what exactly does a person believe in simply based on his party affiliation?

But if that same neighbour votes for a party that discriminates against you, while politely waving to you in the morning, you’re saying you shouldn’t hold him responsible because he’s probably a swell guy?

Well you missed the part of talking to your neighbor first. How he act alone doesn’t really matter that much. To understand what he believes in you gotta talk to him. Does he hate gays? Or does he just believe in small government and love guns?

If he hate gays, and you tell him you are homosexual, would he start throwing dog shit in your yard, or would he have a painful conversation with you? That’s the important part. You didn’t really get what I am trying to say.

I said we keep the conversation going, I never said treat everyone like your BFF. You talk, you don’t judge before you talk. You don’t brand a Republican as a Nazi before you talk to him.

“Bill, we’ve been neighbours for 10 years and I enjoy having you around for BBQ in the summer months, but the fact that you support the party that wants to see my way of life restricted in this way is really disappointing and upsets me” and I absolutely would not be OK if Bill argued that he’s not responsible for voting directly against my interests.

I am honestly not sure what are we arguing about. If you are fine with talking to your neighbor in a frank manner, what do you disagree with me on? Like, how do you know Bill is going to argue that way? How about he tells you “yeh I don’t really like that shit either but I don’t like how the liberals are doing things yada yada”? Wouldn’t you think if you talk long enough the latter response is more likely and probably a more interesting discussion to have?

Best I can say, don’t make it so absolute. No one is perfect. Everyone has their share of sin. You are not an exception.

I mean if you talked with your neighbor and you can’t have a beer over some heated discussions and your neighbor is throwing dog shit in your yard and calling you names, yeh, direct your protest and activisim towards them because they are an asshole.

Being a republican doesn’t automatically make them an asshole. Talk first, treat a person as a person, instead of his political affiliation.

Your activism should never start with targeting people. Target ideas. Ideas won’t change but people are probably amenable if you use the right approach.

So where are all the Republicans in the public sphere standing up for moderation?

You know even from liberal media that there is a moderate republican faction, and they are indeed getting hammered exactly by people just like you but from the right.

See, now, the 1920s and 1930s taught us that reasonable debate with fascists is impossible.

Where did you learn that? A reasonable debate with any extremism is impossible, it isn’t just fascism. Point is you can’t let an ideology slip into extremism to begin with. If you refuse to debate your position, that’s already a sign of extremism, and calling your counterpart fascist doesn’t really make yourself better.

So something being messed up doesn’t mean you can’t support it. Let’s not even talk about the party, you might believe this country is fucked up. Every country have people who believe their own country has a lot of problems. It doesn’t mean you don’t support it. You support it because, say, you rely on it to achieve your own ideal, or perhaps you just love what it used to be and you want it to be more successful, or whatever.

The platform isn’t a singular thing. I can totally see someone who’s in the party to support small government and having to endure the mess that is abortion and extreme gun rights.

It’s sad isn’t it, how predictable people are.