Silence does not speak. Nature does not speak. Even God is silent, except perhaps in the voice that humans find in themselves in the presence of God's silence.
People will argue against this. They will insist that silence bears meaning, and they will tell you what it means. People will say that nature speaks constantly in terms perfectly compatible with contemporary conversations. People will even say that their words are the words of God.
They are all liars and you do not have to respect them
I love imagining the mathematical needs of whoever decided on the unicode math characters.
"Gosh, I'm just always needing notation for when two lines are sorta-but-not-completely perpendicular. I know! ⫡"
"What if something's not just bigger than or much bigger than but WAY FUCKING BIGGER THAN? Aha: ⫸"
"I'm doing so many specialized contour integrals and hate writing with words so much that I'm going to invent a specific symbol for line integration with rectangular path around a pole: ⨒"
"I don't know whether A is a subset of B or B is a subset of A, but at least one of those statements is true, so... A ⫓ B."
"Gosh, I have this element S of the Picard group of a symmetric monoidal category and I want to tensor M with the tensor-inverse of S but don't want to create notation for the tensor inverse. As such, consider M⨸S."
- List of things that have international days https://www.un.org/en/observances/list-days-weeks:
- Steelpans
- Philosophy
- Poetry
- Tourism resilience
- Friendship
- The moon
- The Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
- No-Tobacco
- Bicycles (not *that* bicycle day!)
- Migratory birds
- Jazz
- Chagas disease
- Support of Victims of Torture
- Parliamentarism
- Kiswahili
Tracking the genealogy of musicians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_students_by_teacher:_A_to_B
I operate by Crocker's rules[1].