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All of you are invited to my place to change my AC filters/care for my garden/fix the squealing noise on my car/etc/etc/
Yesterday I fixed a flickering light at the restaurant I work at. Not because it was my job, or because it annoyed me, and neither because it was annoying any guests, but because I overheard some of my co-workers saying that it wasn’t fixable without turning off all the other lights. At that point I said to them, “no, you can easily stop the flickering, give me a ladder and permission and I’ll fix it”. Am I on some sort of spectrum because of that? Yeah sure I fucking know it and so fucking be it lmao
Me with gardens. If I was given free reins, the entire city would turn into a lush jungle.
Can I come by and change all of the air filters in your cars and HVAC system? For some weird ass reason I find it very satisfying.
Ya know, while at work today I took a break from the computer stuff to sketch out some concepts for plumbing that I’m going to rework at home for one of my hobbies, a pond.
Maybe I would be the guy in the OP that goes around fixing pipes! Then once I’m in the door I’d offer to install Linux on any computers I see.
lemme look at your car it’s making a squealing noise and I can fix it gimme gimme, don’t make me go back to retail
I have been rewiring a historic house as part of a major restoration (I have an electrical background and know NEC like the back of my hand, don’t @ me) and I would 100% rewire all my neighbors’ houses for free if I didn’t need my day job at the cubicle farm for healthcare and not starving to death
I assume we all know that there would also be broken brains doom scrolling all day…
Hilarious how even in the context of jokes people still can’t come up with criticisms of socialism that aren’t already happening lmao.
I’m a socialist, just saying…
Quite literally almost everybody is whether they realize it or not. Even most “anarchists” argue for some form of socialism. Everybody wants roads and a fire department…
The ideological war is easy to win.
What socialism needs is competent people getting involved locally, creating organizations, networking.
It’s really not. 1/3 of people absolutely despise any form of socialism granted strictly to the people with no immediate benefit to an authority. The moderate 1/3 is just a constant roadblock to any form of progress, very receptive to regression and usually will side with the first 1/3 while complaining slightly about everything but only ever willing to condemn progressives and socialists. So we have, at best, 1/3 of people who are even willing to consider socialism enough to be able to define it.
That happens already, unfortunately.
Your furnace will receive preventative maintenance. This is a threat.
Yes exactly, in an anarchist society I wouldn’t stop doing control¹ theory, I would do even more control theory because I wouldn’t have to worry about publishing profitable results, because I’m autistic and for some reason, math makes me happy.
¹ Control of dynamical systems, e.g. steering the state of a differential equation, i.e. math, not authoritarian control 😁
I love helping and working on things. What kind of things? I dunno. Tell me what you’re doing. Now we’re doing it. I don’t even care if there’s a product or end in sight. I just like to do a something, and in the process, try to discover what this something is or what else it can do if we did it wrong.
I wouldn’t call myself a boot-licker, but I’d totally work to find out what angle and pressure is most effective for licking boots, and then try to find out if it can be applied to ice cream.
My point being that you sound like a very special person with a specialized focus and set of skills. But those who are worried about productivity would still have freaks like me. The ones who can find the bright side of a turd, and even roll it up a hill if you can let me find the mentally simulating aspects.
I love helping and working on things. What kind of things? I dunno. Tell me what you’re doing. Now we’re doing it.
Great attitude! You’re gonna have some great stories when you get older 😁.
Hey another anarchist engineer spotted in the wild!
And hey at least control theory tends to have practical applications. I keep wanting to write basically a whole dynamics and statics textbook but where the formulas are extended to non-Euclidean spaces. Not just to like hyperbolic and parabolic geometry but to even more exotic metric spaces that aren’t locally Euclidean or necessarily continuous.
Not much use for that kind of math whatsoever, but it’s fun
What part of control theory are you focused on?
I keep wanting to write basically a whole dynamics and statics textbook but where the formulas are extended to non-Euclidean spaces.
Check out the book Mathematical Control Theory: Deterministic Finite-Dimensional Systems by Eduardo Sontag. A lot of his results take place in general metric spaces. Make sure to read the Appendix first, because this dude is absolutely next-level with the math. You’ll see.
You might also want to check out Infinite-Dimensional Systems Theory by Curtain and Zwart for an account of linear systems theory developed for separable Hilbert spaces. And for nonsmooth control, check out Nonsmooth Analysis And Control by Francis Clarke.
So you might need to blend a couple existing ideas together. Give it a shot!
Not much use for that kind of math whatsoever, but it’s fun
Immediately, I think it would have uses in quantum computing (where the state space can be an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space) and fluid dynamics (which are governed by partial differential equations, which can be represented as abstract differential equations on suitable function spaces).
What part of control theory are you focused on?
PM me for more details since I don’t wanna doxx myself, but my interest is in nonlinear high-dimensional dynamical systems.
I have a control theory question unrelated to this post. Can I ask you in DMs?
Yup!
I feel genuinely called out - I thought everyone likes poking holes in clogs and watching standing water drain out. Especially people who walk or cycle a lot and don’t like being splashed by cars
In this case, we’re not so much calling you out as calling you in
sounds like a game development opportunity in the same vein as powerwash simulator.
I spent an hour today unclogging a drain my rain gutter goes to instead of trimming the bamboo bullshit like I was supposed to. It was awesome when the water went down. The bamboo got cut but that was shitty. More holes please.
Same. Sometimes when I go for walks in the rain I bring one of those little gardening fork things and clear out the drains. I imagine I look wild wandering the streets with a garden implement but it’s very satisfying and rewarding, especially knowing sometimes that water floods peoples houses.
We had a snowstorm followed by an ice storm recently and I wandered the streets cracking and clearing the ice with the blunt side of an axe and a shovel. Good way to get some exercise and I had a fun four hours.
Man I love going for hikes in the winter where there’s always a trickle of water along the trail, just asking for someone to scour a path off the trail with a boot or stick. Or a well placed handful of mud and gravel diverts the water
ngl I’d proudly photograph the standing water for a few different angles and the thought of unclogging it would never cross my mind
Would love to split my time between physics research and hobby botany/native plant restoration efforts. Would happily do both for free if I could. Damn capitalism
Right
honestly that’s me and my hommies at the ses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Emergency_Service
we got a cool truck, loads of rad tools… and ocd.
you got a leak? tree fall over? ☎132500
free time is a bit lacking for me though :(
That sounds like fun!
That’s so cool
my brain is broken to just absorb useless information… is there an opening for that?
Ever thought of librarianship?
There are entire youtube channels about unclogging culverts and storm drains. It’s genuinely a thing someone would just do, because people just do it.
A city I lived in had an “Adopt a storm drain” program, where you were supposed to check up on it and text them a photo after big storms. I took the one outside my house since it was available and did some cleanup a few times when it got clogged with branches and leaves. It was oddly satisfying.
I saw one where someone dragged a tire on a chain through a big one. Did a great job, and fast.
