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No Stupid Questions

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The moderator told me questions like this aren't stupid and they're the point of this community.

I want an answer.

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Hello and warm greetings,

I represent Pinhead Construction Ltd. We specialize in pin heads to meet all your needs. You ask, "how many angels can dance" and I answer, "where do you want the DJ?" We have pin heads ranging from the size of a... well I can't think of an example of something small, but also all the way up to our "People Pleaser" model that can hold 3 Costcos.

AND, financing is available! To those who qualify.

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[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Please answer my question.

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

3 or 54 exactly, and nothing in between. Also, you are taking all of this waaay too seriously. Go touch some grass.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What species of grass do you think will produce the most acceptable results should I touch it? Do you think Kentucky bluegrass is the best?

I hear what you're saying, my point is invalid because I haven't touched grass, so I need you to answer this question.

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I need to know your location to know what grass is ecologically appropriate to grow there. Wouldn't want you growing an invasive species. Also need to know the layout of your water, soil, proximity to water, amount of shade, etc. Would be easiest for you to just provide your address so I can find the best grass location near you.

There is also the option to just not interact with things you don't like on the internet. You can just not respond. You can block people that say things you don't like. You can also make your own community that you moderate how you want to. Why are you demanding that someone else do work that you're unwilling to do yourself?

Or you can go touch grass. If you find google maps data collection too invasive to find a local park with you can also try duckduckgo.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 24 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

That depends on whether the angels in question are bosons or fermions—which in turn depends on how fast they’re spinning (so the dance they’re performing may also be relevant).

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

ooh quantum angels! i love it when two things i can't ever understand combine powers

[–] CII_RX@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

I hope you love eyes too! Because they heavily invested in eyes.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This is gonna turn into a dumb shitpost community, isn't it?

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world -3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It already is. That was the whole point of this post.

Yesterday a moderator told me that it was not a stupid question to ask if a ship can fit in a Klein bottle.

So I'm basically trolling. I'm leaving this community if the mods don't step up.

It's gotten totally out of hand.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I appreciate the troll. It's always bugged me that this community took the name from reddit without the actual theme. This place should be for "common sense" questions you feel stupid having to ask but instead it's mostly been ELI5, asklemmy, and a variety of loaded questions.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

The sub on Reddit only became more filled with "common sense" questions when it became basically the only sub one could ask a question of any kind without it automatically being removed due to the bigger question asking subs being so strictly controlled to where only 3 or 4 regular users could actually make a fuckin' post. The point was that anything you wanted an answer to could be asked, and what made it shit was all the assholes mocking those who dared to ask anything other than basic shit you could have learned in school. They were just supposed to be things that could be answered, and not open-eneded random discussion material like this one.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world -1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I was subscribed to it the first week it existed so I know that your story is completely fabricated. The origin is even in the subreddit wiki...

/r/NoStupidQuestions was founded in February 2013 for people to feel free to ask the questions they might be embarrassed or ashamed to ask elsewhere. Inspired by this thread and specifically this comment

Look at the questions in that thread. It was always about silly little questions

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Look at the questions in that thread. It was always about silly little questions

You are saying the same thing as me and proving my point... Did you not understand what I said? It was always about asking questions you might be embarrassed about; it wasn't always about asking simple questions that had to be based in reality the way it is moderated now and the way OP here thinks it should be.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world -1 points 11 hours ago

Silly little questions as in common sense stuff. "How often do I really need to wash a hoodie?"

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago

Right! "No stupid questions" isn't just a cute saying, the intention behind it was to remove the shame people would carry for asking a question that they "should" already know the answer to.

It was never meant to solicit opinions, or to ask pointless questions that cannot be answered.

It's time for this community to change, I'm not going to make a big poo poo about it, but I'm going to leave if something doesn't happen. I can sense other people have had it as well.

[–] FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 10 points 16 hours ago

All of them. None of them.

[–] BlitzFitz@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago

I'd say since angels are imaginary, √-1 angels would fit on a pin head.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

As many angels as actually exist.

[–] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago
[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 7 points 15 hours ago

zero or more

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It depends on how you define angel.

[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

And "dance", "on", "the head of", and "pin".

"Can" weirdly enough doesn't have sufficient variation to introduce uncertainty here.

[–] Clear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

4 to 7 depending how fast they can move their feet

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 1 points 7 hours ago

Wait what why

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I think the moderator is correct.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They are wrong.

They are lazy.

If they don't want to shape this into a community where people can actually ask questions that can produce a meaningul answers, it's just a pointless chat room.

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

pointless chat room.

that doesn't sound too bad

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

There's communities designed for that. For example Casual Conversation.

I'm not backing down.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 14 hours ago

How big is the pin?

[–] Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Can jesus microwave a burrito so hot that even he couldn't eat it?

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Precisely as many angels as there are whole numbers, or exactly as many as the quantity of numbers you can count between 0 and 1 (0.5, 0.2341, etc).

The original context of the question was more about if angels and the afterlife were physically manifest or intangible, and early thinking about how infintesimals work.

[–] nous@programming.dev 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

But there are more numbers between 0 and 1 then there are whole numbers. So are the countable many angles or uncountably many?

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

exactly as many as the quantity of numbers you can count between 0 and 1

I specified countable to keep them in the same class of infinity. :) not about to make that mistake when bringing pedantry to a silly fight. .

Since it's implied that they have names, I'm going to use that as my argument for there being a countably infinite number. If you want to argue that only certain special angels have names, like Michael or π, then I'd say they're uncountable.
If you wanted to argue that omnipotence means a deity could defy logical restrictions and allow contradictory truths to coexist, then I'd say I'm far too sleepy for that discussion but I love where you're heads at. :P

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

None, because they don't exist.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

I have many pins here, so try again.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 1 points 7 hours ago

What if the pins are imaginary too

[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago
[–] lakemalcom10@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 points 15 hours ago

Ah, there it is.

[–] CII_RX@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

What kind of Angel, would be a follow-up. There's different kinds.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 15 hours ago
[–] notarobot@lemm.ee 2 points 14 hours ago

The right amount

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago
[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

It's just the one goose.